Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-04-13

hitch in the negotiations for a settle
ment between China and the powers.
AT New York a fire which broke out
at different times did damage to the
extent of $4,000 to the stock of the
Sudhaus Paper Box Company and the
machinery belonging to the company.
as we'll as to the stock of Swetzer
Pembroke & Co., both firms occupying
the building at SO and 80 White street.
The horse abatoir at Linnton, Ore,
which was shut down last fall. has
started up again. AS conditions are
more favorable now for its successful
operation it is likely to be kept run.
ming indefinitely. About 500 cayuse
ponies have been sent in from the
ranges and it is probable that 10000
will be slaughtered this year.
BY the derailing of the engine and
number of empty freight cars being
brought into Kansas City on the Kan
sas City suburban belt line railroad,
four members of the crew were injured.
William Prime, brakeman, had his
skull broken and eyes scalded. He
will die. The engine was demolished
and 10 cars were reduced to kindling
wood.
Fifteen hundred pounds in dynamite
were used recently in blowing up the
forward superstructure of the sunken
United States collier Merrimac, which
has long impeded the entrance to the
harbor at Santiago de Cuba. The ex-
plosion was heard plainly in the city,
five miles away. Divers Immediately
| descended and found 40 feet of clear
water over the forward portion of the
wreck.
At Montreal Archbishop Bruchesi is
sued pastoral letter dealing with the
| judgment in the Delpit case, which de-
clared marriage of Catholics by non
| Catholics legal. 'All unions" says the
archbishop, contracted with invali-
| dating impediment for which compe-
tent authority has not been granted
dispensation, even though civil power
| looks upon such unions as valid and
legal must be considered as null and
invalid. This is point of doctrine
that cannot be denied. Without that
faith would be shipwrecked." The
archbishop concludes by pronouncing
sentence Of communication on all
those who disobey the laws of the
church concerning marriage, reserving
the right to himself and the vicar gen
eral to absolve those who become gull.
ty of such a fault.
General Botha has reopened negotiations
with the British for peace.
The condition of winter wheat April u
is Oh, against S2.l last year.
The excitement over the discovery OF
rich placers on Santa creek, tributary of
| st. Maries river, continues.
The state department has received a
cabegram from Consul Long at Cairo,
Egypt, announcing that plague has broken
out at Alexandria.
At Richmond, Va, the large retail store
of Julius Meyers Sons was destroyed by
fire recently. The stock and fixtures are
insured for about $lSO,000
Reports of an outbreak of fresh rebel
lion in China are not confirmed and are at,
tributed to Earl Lis disconsolate reflection
that everything will go wrong since his ad-
vice has not been needed.
The family of James Smith, consisting OF
the father and mother and four children.
were instantly killed in their home re-
Gently by the sliding of the huge dump of
the Granite mine, in Cripple Creek dis
trict.
The river Rhine has risen considerably
above the normal stage. 1t is announced
that at Cologne the river rose to Is feet
in one day. and that on the Swiss border
villages are flooded and the people have
fled from their houses
At Santa Cruz an explosion occurred at
the powder works whereby Chester Shep-
ard, aged about 20 years, was killed and
Phil Curtis severely burned. The building
caught fire and was destroyed The cause
of the accident is unknown.
/ Deputy United States Marshal Hans,
who is also special agent for the Fremont,
Elkhorn & Missouri Valley railroad, recent
ly shot and killed David o. Luse near
Ainsworth, Neb. while the latter was re-
sisting arrest. The railroad officials au-
thorized the statement that the mission of
Detective Hans to Ainsworth was to pre-
vent well planned train holdup. The man
killed is said to have been the terror of
Brown county.
/ The largest sale yet consummated in the
Beaumont, Texas, oil district was made
recently, when ST 100000 was paid for the
property of the Texas Western Oil COM
pany, formerly the Southwestern Oil COM
pany of Corsicana. The buyers got the
Beatty gusher, which has a producing Ca
pacity of 1000 barrels per day. The sale
was effected by Charles d. Pullen of New