Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-07-14

Gro loss of Sl25,OOO was caused by the
uiq Tronklin McLeary, the Canadian
.sor died recently brain fever.
nv ~ the athletic tournament at London
.,a Americans captured the lions share
d the prizes
Twelve persons at Chicago succom-
n - 20 the excessive hot weather one
day last week.
uD conator Jones of Arkansas has been
.Iocted national chairman of the
aomocratic committee.
In New York city at noon last Satur-
aav the thermometer registered 80
Sogrees. the highest July record.
Pear Admiral Cotton has been as
,icned as commandant of the Norfolk
navy yard, vice Rear Admiral Barker.
Peter Maher knocked out Steven
0Donnell in the first round of what
was to have been a 25-round bout at
tbe Broadway Athletic club, N. Y.
Charles A. Towne, before the silver
,onublican convention, said he believed
4 his duty to support the ticket nomi-
mated by the democratic convention.
Charles Leroy said to be a promi-
nent citizen of Fullerton, Cal, commit
ted suicide in sleeper on the Santa
Fe train as it was arriving at Joliet.
A part of the local plant of the Nat.
ional Steel company at Columbus, Ohio,
has again been closed down, throwing
many men out of work. 1t is said the
shutdown is indefinite, the cause being
given as repairs and invoice.
Henry Wade Rogers, LII. D., late
president of Northwestern University,
has accepted an invitation from Yale
law school to take the place of E. L.
Phelps, deceased, as instructor in the
law department Of Yale University dur
ing the coming year.
Antonio $3.50 and Jose Vasquez, two
prominent Mexican cattle men, quar-
relied over a cattle brand in San Pedro
valley and both men were killed in
fight with guns. A feud between cow
boys employed by the two men killed
has arisen ana serious trouble is
feared.
The selling committee Of the Fall
River (Mass.) Manufacturers Associa-
ton estimates that on Monday 2,000,-
900 spindles will have Joined the move
ment to certain production for two
months beginning July II. This means
a loss of 100000 in wages to $4,000
operatives.
Adlai E. Stevenson, who was vice
president during the second term Of
President Cleveland, has again been
nominated for that Office, having been
selected by the democrats as their can
didate on the first ballot This COM
pleted the work of the convention,
which at 1921 adjourned sine die.
On the charge of having set fire to
the tenement in Hoboken, the destruc-
ton of which recently caused loss of
thirteen lives, Henry Vagt, a saloon
keeper, has been arraigned. Vagt de-
MED the charge against him. He was
held for the grand jury on a charge of
arson.
The bubonic plague quarantine
which Texas has enforced against San
francisco for two months has been
modified to some extent. DR.. Norton,
state quarantine officer, will issue per-
mlts for freight and express to enter
Iexas from San Francisco that has not
Oeen in the Chinese quarters of the
city. The quarantine against passen-
gers will remain in force.
The past weeks bank statement for
nVe days shows the following changes:
surplus reserve, decrease, $1,270,175;
loans, decrease, $5,57S,6OO; specie, de-
crease, $1,365,700; legal tenders, de-
crease, $1,5046OO; deposits, decrease,
So,4oO,3OO; circulation, increase, $751;
1oO. The banks now hold $15,589,200
IN excess of the requirements of the 20
per cent rule.
Samuel T. Paisley, the former super
lntendent Of the bureau of highways
and sewers of Pittsburg, against whom
there was a charge of embezzlement Of
over $4,000, is dead at Newport News,
va He was in the service of the city
ior 20 years. Last May he suddenly
lett the city, since which time no def
nlte information concerning him was
made public until the announcement
Vi MS death last night.
During fierce storm at Cleveland,
ohlo, recently, the yacht Idler was
capslzed and sunk six miles off that
port and six lives lost. Following are
me names of those drowned: Mrs.
James Corrigan, wife of the well-known
vessel YES owner; Miss Jane Corrigan, Mrs.
Cnarles Riley, all daughters of James
0orrlgan; Miss Eta Corrigan, daught-
CT Oh Captain John Corrigan; an infant