Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-05-12
THE TELEGRAPH SUMMARY
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
4 Complete Review of the Events of
the Past Week-In This and For
eign Lands--Taken From the
Latest Dispatches.

move again from Puerto Rico,
The divorced wife of Deputy Customs
Collector E. L. Hatch of Alaska was found
dead at Forest Grove, Ore.
Lieutenant Colonel Eskridge has been
compelled to give up his command as he
was injured at San Juan.
Democrats of Iowa Endorsed the Chi
cago platform and declared for bimetal-
ism.
The belief is growing that Aquinaldo
was killed by the Ygorote tribesmen, as
they have no trace of him.
Dismissal from the service is the pun
ishment of Major kirkman for conduct
unbecoming an officer at Manila.
-Four Americans were killed and re-
connoitering party of the Twenty-sixth In
fantry surprised and surrounded by in
surgents.
one of the boilers of the Booth Kelly
Lumber company, at Saginaw, Ore, eX-
ploded at sawmill No. l, instantly kill
ing Otto Frederickson and seriously
Wuonding Otto Anlauf and II. Rudolph.
A notable event of the past week was
the capture by the Phoenix Bridge Com.
pany of the contract for the great bridge
over the st. Lawrence river, Canada,
which will require 27, 900 tons of steel.
This is one of the largest bridge contracts
ever placed.
1t is said Oh good authority that it
is William Rockefeller, and not John d.
Rockefeller, who is soon to enter the
board of directors of the Missouri Pacific
Railway company, of the stock of which
corporation the Rockefeller interests own
a large parcel.
The sealing schooner Teresa has return
ed to Victoria, B. c., with 500 sealskins
She reports the season a favorable one.
Sne reports considerable wreckage includ-
ing lumber, SAIL sealing boat and life
buoy marked Columbia, s. F." sighted
off Cape Flattery.
The North German Lloyd line has just
placed with the Vulcan ShipDuilding COM
pany of Stettin an order for a vessel which
knots an hour. In the contract it is fur
Their stipulated that this forthcoming fly
er shall have a length of 725 feet and
an engine power of 45OO0-horse power.
Word has been received by personal
friends of Charles A. Boutelle, represent
ing the Fourth Maine district, that he is
failing so rapidly in health that unless
there is a quick change for the better
it would be cruel to permit him to become
a candidate for reelection next fall. His
physics ms assert that he is in grave dam
ger of death.
1t has been learned by a representative
of the Associated Press that United States
Ambassador Choate has asked Lord Sails
bury for explanations as to alleged abuse
of international rights in the case of the
American ship Sea Witch which, accord
ing to the statement of her commander,
Captain Howe, was boarded by the Brit
ish warship Wasp within the three mile
limit of the Portuguese territory in East
Africa
Thomas Carson of Philadelphia has
! 100000 to wager that Bryan will be
nominated and elected.
Ten thousand children sang, and
each tiny hand waved flag in Dewey's
honor when he was in st. Louis, Mo.
Ben Shiveley of Indiana wants to
be Bryan's running mate. He has an
nounced his candidacy and it is said
his action has the stamp of Bryans
approval.
Joe Wolcott and Mysterious Billy"
Smith fought % rounds at catch
weights before the Broadway Athletic
club, and Walcott got the decision.
This was their fourth meeting.
Another Canadian city has gone up
in smoke. Sandon, the second mining
town in importance in the SLOGAN, has
been completely destroyed by fire and
nearly all it's 1900 people are home
less and many are ruined.
In accordance with General Otis re-
quest to be allowed to return to the
United States, the war department has
issued orders to relieve him, to take
effect the date fixed by General Otis
for his sailing. The orders designate
Major General Macarthur to succeed
General Otis in command of the divis-
ion of the Philippines. Brevet Major
General Wheaton is designated to sue
coed General Macarthur as commander
of the department of southern Luzon.
James A. Murray of Butte, Mont, says
he has no political desires.
Illinois republican delegates have been
instructed to cast their votes for McKin-
ley.
John Graham, laborer, was shot and
instantly killed in Butte, Mont, last
Tuesday.
The two-year-old son of j. A. Richards,
superintendent of the Vanderbilt ranch,
was accidentally drowned near Ellens.