Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-09-22
ITEMS FROM ALL AROUND
rrRsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
oomplete Review of the Evenss for
an. Past Week I'm This and For
i'm Lands-summariHe TrOm the
Latest Dispatches.

bring the Wal W q SANNN'
lord Roberts reports from Machadodorp
nat General French was heavily engaged
.;,b the Beers in the hills west of Barber
con and that General Hutton had gone to
General French's support.
The Givernaud silk mill at Allenston,
Pa employing 450 hands, is idle. Three
h,ndred weavers struck against a decrease
:, IL per cent in wages. The superintend-
.n+ of the mill said the cut was only tenn
pOrary
The strike of the anthracite coal miners
II the Lackawana district is practically
certain, for every mine that is working
today is short handed, and some are en-
tirplv shut down Throughout the upper
ALLEY there was almost complete stoppage.
Eight hundred butchers employed in the
hacking houses of the Jacob bold Pack
mo company and klincks and Danhys
hacking houses at Buffalo, n. y, are on
strike OWN to the refusal of the Dold
company to discharge two men who refus-
ed to pay their dues to their union.
One OF Minister Congers dispatches was
in answer to a cabled inquiry from the de-
uartment as to the fate OF Missionaries
tourtland Van Rensselaer, Hodges and
wife. Elsie Campbell Hodges, who were
killed. The couple were natives Of PhA-
adelphia and belonged to the Presbyterian
mission.
Three attempts were made recently to
wreck Union Pacific trains west of Alb
iene, Kansas. lies were pulled on the
track in front of the local passenger train
and the flyer westbound, and heavy iron
on the track before the flyer eastbound.
The distractions were discovered and
trains stopped in time to prevent any dam
age.
From all parts of the United States
anu some portions of England many thou
sands Of dollars are pouring into Houston,
Texas, for the releief of Texas destitute
storm sufferers. Train loads of provisions
and clothing are also huTying toward
Houston and Galveston and the refugees
who have arrived here are being made as
comfortable as possible.
The general opinion is that spinners
around Manchester will stop univers-
ally during the first fortnight in Octo-
Der. Some producers are having re-
course to Egyptian and Peruvian cot
ton to complete their contracts.
Almost a record trip from the eastern
coast was made by the large steamer
Bosnia, which arrived in San Francis
co, AZ days and 10 hours from Philadel-
phia. She is chartered by the German
government to carry cavalry horses to
China.
Alice Maud Newlands, formerly of
Forrest, ILL.,, shot herself through the
heart at the Newlands residence at
Galesburg, having previously been ar
rested with her husband, DR.. Freder-
lex Newlands, charged with violating
the postal laws.
Rear Admiral Montgomery Sicard
died of apoplexy recently at his summer
home at Westernville. Rear Admiral
Slcard had been on the retired list
since September, 1898. At the break
Ing out of the Spanish-American war
he was in command of the North At
lantic station, but on account of his ill
health was relieved by Captain William
7. Sampson.
Acre after acre of what was beautiful
woodland last week is now stretch of
Dlackened, smoky ground over which
dense smoke hangs in clouds. The
brush fires which sprang into activity
with the recent gale have simply dev-
astated a great region of Plymouth
county, Mass.
According to the Lorenzo Marques
correspondent Mr.. Kruger is virtually
prisoner in the residence of the dis
trlct governor. This is at the instance
OF the British consul who protested
against Mr.. Kruger using Portuguese
territory as base for directing his eX-
ecutiVe affairs.
-4any vessels were recently wrecked
Oy the storm on the Alaskan coast
Hanna may 90 on the stump as he is
ABOUT to yield to tDe solicitation OF repub-
hcan leaders.
Kruger is not deserter. as the Boer
ENJOYS say he was authorized to leave
the Transvaal.
Mr. Kruger, the former president of
,ne South African republic, did not sail
ioi Europe on the German steamer Her
"S September p, as he originally intend
ed.
The ranks of the strikers in the Hazel
Ton district have considerably increased
recently by recruits from nearly every col
merry IN the region.
at Nlnnemucca, Ney., recently three
oiimasked men entered the First Nation
d oank and robbed it of a large sum of
known.