Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-05-04
THE TELEGRAPH SUMMARY
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
4 Complies Review of the Events of
the Past Week-In This and For
eign Lands--Taken From the
Latest Dispatches.

Callahan has been positively identi
fed as one of the abductors by young
Cudahy. He knew him by his brogue.
The Rev. Lyman H. Sherwood
founder of Lyon Music academy, is
dead at his home in New York, aged 79
years. He was ordained to the Episco-
pal ministry in 1850.
Chicago manufacturers of clothing
representing an aggregate capital of
100000 to $20,000,000 have decided
to form an association which will com
bine with similar bodies throughout
the United States.
LII Hung Chang sends word to the
Christian Herald that a serious fam
inc spreads over the whole province of
Han-si. Over II 100000 population af-
fected. Urgent rellef Is necessary. The
conditions warrant immediate appeal.
The heaviest rain on record fell at
Topeka recently, the precipitation in
one hour being 1.67 inches. Lightning
tore the German Evangelical church
and killed John G. Cooper, a gardener.
AT Anthony, so miles south, three inch
es of rain fell within two hours, and
congested the streams.
The fishing steamer New England
has established a new record. She ar
rived in Vancouver from the north end
of Vancouver island where in a single
day the catch aggregated 10000
pounds Of fish. On several occasions
the 100000 mark has been reached for
days fishing, but never before exceed.
ed.
Twenty lives are reported lost in
snowslide at Sunrise City, Alaska.
Many houses were caught in the ava
lanche.
Valdes, Alaska, is crowded with idle
men anxiously awaiting beginning of
work on the government line to the
interior.
AT Houston, Texas, in fire which
destroyed a livery stable and three resi-
| dences recently, five persons were
, burned to death and several others
were injured.
Carefully compiled statistics show
that the gold production of the Cripple
Creek district up to the close of the
present month makes a grand total of
over $100,000,000. Gold was first dis
covered in this camp in 1889.
Light life and air has broken in
onto the five entombed miners at Au-
rora, Ohio. Two were rescued alive,
one was fouId dead and the other two
are supposed to be lfeless. Grant
Shard was mangled by falling rocks
and and diod in OH
Thirty-one billion dollars is the ag-
gregate of national debts of the world
at the close of the nineteenth century.
| This is ten times as much as in the
closing years of the eighteenth CEN
tury, according to expert statisticians
of the treasury bureau devoted to this
work. This bureau has just issued a
statement on the subject, it apparently
being suggested by the recent an
| nouncement of the new British loan
of $500, 100000.
The Mechanics Savings Bank of
Westerly, R. l., is closed. This action
came as a great surprise to the town
and great excitement prevails among
small depositors. The estimated
| eNLAOuhI VI uCpOolGo 10 OOIuSInluS l0SS
! than $1,000,000, the securities on their
face values less than $1,100,000 The
number of depoSitors is about 200
Many of the securities are western in
vestments, which are understood to
have decreased in value year by year
George Cummins, aged %, a son of
D. w. Cummins, telegraph operator at
! ri he
turned from volunteer service in the
Philippines, and was employed in the
railroad yards as switchman, was
caught between two heavy ore cars
while making a coupling, and killed
almost instantly, living only a few
minutes. He called by name a favorite
sister May who lies very sick at home,
after which he gasped a few times and
expired.
At Cincinnati Mrs. Richard Crater,
the wife of a housepainter, on being
unable to keep her husband from a
saloon, went to the place with one of
his kalsomine buckets and a white
wash brush. She kalsomined him
from head to foot in the saloon. He
returned to the saloon after he had ac-
companied her home and changed his
clothing. She followed him again and
the next time kalsomined the saloon
keeper and his bar fixtures, and gave
notice that she would repeat the per-
Torrance to anyone selling liquor to
her husband.
c. F. Sayler of Iowa, the special
agent in charge of the beet sugar in
yestigation of the danartment of apri.