Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-04-06
THE TELEGRAPH SUMMARY
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
Complete Review of the Events of
the Past week-In This and For
eiGn Lands-Taken From the
Latest Dispatches.

of big strike at Pelly.
Oxford snatched victory from Cam
bridge in the boat race.
General Funston is to be made briga-
der in the general army.
The retirement of Salisbury can not long
be delayed on account of his failing
health
James Stephens, the we'll known Fe-
MAN leader of the 1866 movement, is
dead in Dublin.
Of $4,000 bakers threatening to
strike in Manhattan and Brooklyn on
May 1, 5000 have already decided to
strike.
Active preparations are being made
for the holding of the Pacific States
floral congress in San Francisco during
May IA, Is and 16 next.
A terrific rain and hail storm passed
over northern Texas recently. Damage
at Dallas from water in cellars and
stores is estimated at 100000.
Joseph H. Willard of Omaha and Gov
ernor Charles H. Deidrich of Hastings,
tors respectively for the long and short
term by the joint session of the two
houses of the legislature in Nebraska.
The Jefferson hotel of Richmond,
Va, which was erected and furnished
by the late Louis Ginter, at cost of
$1,000,000, was destroyed by fire recent
ly.
The Northern Pacific gross earnings
for February were $2066,718, an in
crease of $210,999. The net February
earnings were $942,526, an increase Of
$28,690.
Joseph A. Conlin, the postoffice clerk
who was arrested recently in San Fran
cisco, charged with the robbery of $43,-
900 in registered mail last fall, plead
ed guilty.
At Frankfort, KY, the court of ap-
peals has granted new trials to Caleb
Powers and James Howard, under SEN
tence as having been connected with
the Goebel assassination.
At Buenos Ayres it Is estimated that
in the last year about 100000 sheep
persisted, including almost the whole
product of 1900. The loss in wool is es-
timated at 100000 kilos. Cattle also
suffered, but less than sheep.
Announcement is made that the
locomotive works have Sc
cured the patent right to build railroad
engines of the so-called prairie type.
In this same connection the Burlington
has given an order for so
engines at a cost of $750.000.
Steps have been taken to establish
a diocese of the Protestant Episcopal
church of America in the Philippine
islands, with a resident bishop and du-
ly appointed ministers.
A dispatch to the London Leader
from Kieff says that it is reported that
to assassinate the car. He fired at his
majesty, but missed. He then shot and
killed himself
Mrs. Emma Robinson, widow with
four children, living in Rochester, N.
Y, has received from a Washington
lawyer the information that her name
appears among the list of heirs to a
vast property situated in central Penn
sylvania, valued at nine millions
At Columbia, S. c., the Bank of Co
lumbia forwarded to the Bank of Com
MERGE of New York $4,000 in paper
money. When the package arrived at
its destination Saturday it was discov-
cred that the money had been removed
and brown paper substituted.
Money still piles up in the U. s.
treasury. The surplus if tied up, will
cripple business. Secretary Gage says
reduction of taxation will draw money
out, and he refuses to buy bonds. Nor
does he think it wise to increase gov
eminent deposits in the banks.
The steamer Amur from Skagway
brings the news from Dawson that dur
ing the recent stampede to Gold Run
and Eureka 80 men staked one claim
and made rush to record it, while at
the mouth of Gold Run 100 men made
a wild scramble for three claims.
Peter Karpovitch, the assassin of
Bogoliepoff, Russian minister of public
instruction, has been sentenced to 20
years penal servitude, with loss of
civil rights. The announcement that
he had been sentenced to life imprison-
ment in fortress was erroneous.
At Mobile, Ala, detective Morris and
Policeman Bressinger recently attempt
ed to arrest two negroes suspected of
the murder of marshal at Gulfport,
Miss. One negro named Davis resisted
and shot Morria and praseinoor proh
ably fatally. He in turn was killed.
The other negro was captured.
AS result of quarrel over the
right to Craze sheep on a strip of prac-
tically worthless ground near Cisco