Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-07-27
iNNARY TELEGRAPH news
.,sus OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
.,ete Review of the Events of
past WeelS--In This and FOr-
Lnnds--Taken From the
,.,est Dispatches.

r. nF1
n S. A., retired, formerly COM
lps, general of subsistence, is dead.
c.n+air1 Charles Botha, son of Philip
'.na and Field Comets Human and
o D,rsr have been killed in the Orange
River Colony
n Groy, a switchman for the
.,srtbern Pacific was killed recently
!. Tacoma by falling from the gravity
u,nters to the deck of collier.
rarl Russell, arraigned at the bar of
,se house of lords for trial on the
Norge of bigamy, pleaded guilty after
,orgthy arguments against the juris-
Il alction of the court.
I Major James O'Neil, one of the old
~ nioneers of the Pacific northwest
and for many years deputy clerk of
.he United States circuit and district
courts died at Spokane Sunday.
agt is officially reported in Shang-
hal" SAYS the Shanghai correspondent
n the London Standard, that serious
disturbances have broken out in the
Hsing-hwa district of the province of
Fokien."
The war in Cape Colony is hurting
the United States trade, according to-
report received at the state depart
ment from Consul General Stowe, dat
cd shortly before he submitted his res
ignation to the department.
The religious enthusiasm aroused by
the International convention of the Ep-
worth League reached its elimination
at the meeting held Sunday afternoon
at Mechanics pavilion. About 10000
persons were present and not a seat
was vacated.
A bulletin recently issued by the CEN
sus office shows there mas been a de-
crease Of the Chinese population in the
United States since 1900 of 1866, the
number now being $4,000. The Japan
ese increased during the past 10 years
from 2,O39 to 24,300.
Seven women, headed by Mrs H. H.
Grover, president of the Eldorado Kas.,
W. C. T. u, entered joint run by a
man named Bush in tent IN the CEN
ter of town and demolished a tubful
Of bottled beer. They took samples of
the liquor to the sheriff, who later or
dered the joints to quit business.
The total number of casualties to per-
sons on account Of railway accidents
during the year ending June 80, 1900,
was 5S,1S5. The aggregate number of
persons killed in consequence of rail
way accidents during the year was
1855, and the number injured was So
800. OF railway employees 1850 were
killed and 39,643 were injured.
Adolph Strecker, a barber of San
Francisco, at recent shooting of the
third National Bunderfest completed
score which has never been equaled
in the United States on the King target
and which will doubtless give Strecker
the King prize" Out of possible 200
he has made the record score of 1916
points, breaking the highest score of
King" Hayes, made three years ago,
by % points. F. c. Ross, the first
bundles king, made 81 six years ago.
Donald j. Beaton, editor of the Nelson
Daily Miner, was thrown from streetcar
Sunday and died the same eN ening at the
residence Of John Horton on Stanley street,
where he was removed at the time of the
accident.
Because he went bathing in the Touchet
alone when he could not swim, Henry Hig-
bee OF Tekoa met an untimely death. Hig-
bee had but recently gone to Waits
burg, Wash, from Tekoa to labor in the
harvest fields.
Twenty-Five machinists in the employ of
the Pacific Coast company in Seattle, who
lett their positions when the machinists'
union ordered a strike last May, have
returned to work. An agreement was
reached between the men and President
Farrell.
At Topeka, Kan, Mrs. Carrie Nation was
lined 500 and given a 80 days jail sem
tence by Judge Hazen in the district court
Tor disturbing the peace and dignity OF the
city by Sunday joint raid last March.
There is no appeal and the noted woman
must serve her time in prison.
The third national Bundesfest shooting
festival will crown Aldoph Strecker of San
Francisco king shooter of America His
score OF 1914 for POO shots on the point tar
get will stand as the mark OF national
klngship for at least three years, and there
Is no telling how many festivals after that.
The government has determined to make
vast improvements in the fortifications
around the harbor of San Francisco.
The announcement is authoratively made
IN theatrical circles that Sir Henry Irving
and Miss Ellen Terry viii make a p
weeks tour of this country during the
coming season.
DIR. George w. Cue, one of the best
known Methodist ministers in the north
west, dropped dead in Portland Wednesday