Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-03-30
IHE TELEGRAPH SUMMARY
rrws OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
,,Icte Review of the Events OF
che past Weel<-In This and For
- Lnnds-TalSen From the
latest Dispatches.

poderewski, the pianist, while max
- tour of Spain recently, received
naws of the death of his only son.
A. Melbourne it is officially estimat-
!, tbat the wheat crop will yield H.,
sso 900 bushels, or an increase of over
. ono 600 bushels upon last years yield
The United States army transport
c.ont has sailed from Manila for San
Troncisco with the Twenty-ninth and
Tbirty-second regiments of volunteers.
General Fulton and $50 of his COM
,nond armed with rifles, have surren-
dored to Colonel Scott of the Thirty
ninth volunteer infantry at Antique,
island of Panay.
At Milwaukee fire destroyed the four
story piano establishment of William
poefng & Sons and wrought some des-
truction to adjoining property, entail
ing a loss of $35O,000.
As result of the cabinet meeting re-
GENTLY the postmaster general will issue
on order establishing the domestic
rate of postage between the United
states and Cuba the order to take effect
on April /.
There is evidence in st. Petersburg of
n1ots against the authorities. A cores
nondent asserts that sums of money are
being distributed to the factory hands
in St. Petersburg and vicinity to induce
them to join the disaffected students.
II has not been learned whence the
money comes, but indications point to
Oh hn ~
The first business failure has occur
red in New York's Chinatown. The
old grocery house of Wing Wo Hing
company has filed petition in bank
ruptcy, with liabilities of $7463 and
assets of $2913.
Ex-President Harrison left $4,000 in
life insurance. The appraisement of
the Harrison estate gives its total value
at s380000. This includes all real es-
tate railroad bonds, stock in the Union
Trust company, the law building at In
dianapolis and other securities.
The result of the combined movement
against General Fourie, near Thaban-
chu, was the capture of 200 Beers, 120,-
600 sheep, 5000 horses and a host of
cattle The Beers broke southwark to
the right and left.
Lord George Hamilton, secretary for
India in the house of commons in Lon
don, to a question from Sir Edward
Sassoon, unionist, said that the gold
reserve accumulated under the Indian
currency act amounted March 7, to f6,-
957 900. There was an additional $780,
900 not held under the act. 1t was all
in India and none of 1t in the Bank of
England
President Mellen of the Northern Pa
cific says: eve lost at least 100000
revenue in consequence of last seasons
shortage Of the grain crop in the north
west, but from the figures already at
hand it is apparent that the companys
new business will keep the gross earn
ings from falling below the previous
years record. If there is full grain
crop this year | look for an actual in
crease in the earnings of at least 49,
100000"
The bubonic plague continues to
spread at Cape Town. There is an av-
erage of six fresh cases officially re-
ported daily. Most of the victims are
colored persons.
The will of the late Henry Dubois
Van Wyck, formerly of New York, pro-
prietor of the Acadamy of Music at
Norfolk, Va, leaves sums of from $1,000
to $4,000 each to friends and faithful
employees.
Lorin Blodget, an eminent statisti-
clan and one of the foremost authori-
ties on the higher economics, died in
Philadelphia, aged rs years. He was
a graduate of the Geneva (now Ho-
, bart) college.
At Louisville, Eddie Hoffman, a
small boy was arrested charged with
numbering another boy named Charles
Callahan by beating him with his fists.
hoffman says Callahan made some re-
marks about Hoffman's sister when she
passed a crowd in which the boys were,
and I then just thumpeu him"
Nelson Jones, Is years old, of Shore
ham, Vt, is under arrest at Middle
burg, VT, charged with the murder of
Miss Ida Fosburgh, at Shoreham,
March y, by poisoning. The young
woman was engaged to be married to
Aldace Vondette, who was recently
charged with having caused her death
and who, after being held few days,
was released, the authorities being sat
lsied that he was not implicated in the
affair.
The foreign Office at London takes a
pessimestic view of the situation in the
east in spite of the settlement of the
Ilentsin question and entertains grave