Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-04-20
THE TELEGRAPH SUMMARY
vrws OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
. complete Review of the Events of
.ne Past week-In This and For
-, Lands--Talxen From the
latest Dispatches.

president C. S. Mellen authorized the
.nouncement that the Northern Pa
ciac will this season expend $1o,250,OO0
on betterments.
A. Weatherford, o. T., Thomas H.
paroberton. aged 65 years, was killed.
CIV suspects were arrested and held
for investigation.
A letter received by an officer of Hall
az N s.. station from England, states
.hot General Butler will be offered the
command of the British troops in
North America, which command is now
vacant.
dispatch from General Kitchener,
cove General Monroe, mounted infan-
Nv after two hours of hard fighting,
oontured 80 prisoners, including Com
roandant Bresla, at Lietfindeyeue, near
Dewetsworp.
George @. Cannon of Salt Lake died
at Monterey, Cal, recently. The pa
font breathed his last without strug-
Gle The body was shipped to San
Francisco to be embalmed and reship-
ned to Salt Lake City, where interment
will take place.
huge avalanche, sweeping every
thing before it, came down Italian
mountain, in Taylor park, about 40
miles west of Buena Vista, Col, and
several lives were lost. On this noun
tain several mines have been in opera
tion all winter, employing about 800
men.
OF special interest to officers of the
navy is an order recently issued by
Secretary Long announcing their rela-
tive positions on the naval register.
Admiral Dewey, by the order, is the
ranking officer of the navy. John Ad-
/. ans Howell Is the senior rear admiral,
W. s. Schley is No. and William T.
Sampson is No. 7 on the list of senior
rear admirals. Frank Wilde Is the
ranking captain.
Secret service agents of New York
went to the headquarters of the coun-
terfeiters, John A. Skoog and Emil Mo-
bert. in Brooklyn. They found guam
tity of English and foreign money
which the men used as copies to make
counterfeits from. 1t was reported that
from $4,000 to $4,000 in good English
money was found, besides about $4,000
Of foreign notes. A lot of chemicals,
large camera, a lot of prepared pa
per with silk fibres running through
1t, and milling machine to make S.
Indian head bills were also found.
At Pittsburg Thomas d. Kahne, a
Mount Washington grocer, was shot
and killed in his own home by three
burglars while defending his wife, who
was being chloroformed. A few hours
later the rendezvous of the alleged fell
ons was discovered. In a desperate
fight which followed City Detective
Patrick E. Fitzgerald was instantly
killed and one of the supposed robbers,
who gave his name as Edward Wright,
and who fired the shots that killed
Fitzgerald, was badly wounded, being
shot three times. Two male and two
female members Of the alleged robber
gang were arrested and diamonds and
other booty worth from $4,000 to $4,000
recovered. The persons under arrest
are Edward Wright, wounded; Robert
Wilcox and his wife, Jennie; ]. B.
Wright, brother of the murderer, and
woman said to he his wife. All are
from Chicago.
Colonel John r. Musick, author, jour-
hallst and politician, died of heart fail
Ure at Omaha recently.
For the first time since they were or
ganlzed the principal trades in New
iork city decided to go into politics
and start an independent labor party.
On Cottonwood creek, in Umatilla
county, Oregon, about eight miles from
Walla Walla, the body of dead man
Ving face downward on the bank of
the stream was found.
according to a dispatch to the Lon
uon Daily Express from Amsterdam,
rapied to the Associated Press, the
dutch police recently got wind of con-
templated attempts on the life of Mr..
hruger 1t is quite likely the report
- winch LEstafette gives currency is
udceable to similar source
AT Walla Walla, Wash, Richard
,.orhe was stabbed while accompanying
r.s' christopher Long to her home at
ozu Cnase avenue. They were within
snort distance of the house when Mrs
lung suddenly confronted them. Rorke
immediately relinquished his compan-
.On arm and started to run. Long
ss'ertook him and drove the blade of
.vul-hch knife into his back. Long
Si'nureW the weapon and returned to
MS nome Rorke may die.
.on lne steamer Dalton, with crowd of
fuO eXcurSionictr on boord tool fro
Sunuay afternoon while returning to