Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-12-07
Dill HRbxLBT SREASBIjRlIt3FLLY TODD
CULLED FROM DISPATCHES.
Complete Review of Happenings in
Both Eastern and Western Hemis-
al, Historical, Political and Per-
sOnnI Events TerseIy ExpOunded.

Two men suspected of having held
up saloon at Standpoint were caught
at Milan, Wash. One of them resisted
arrest and was fatally shot by Sol Ed
monson.
1t is reported at Mullan, Idaho, that
Thomas Ashcroft, a cook at the Hunter
mine, and Peter Dole, were killed to-
night in a shooting scrape at the COM
pany's boarding house.
During a recent fire at Omaha the
supply house of the Creamery Package
Manufacturing company at Eleventh
and Jones streets, three firemen were
injured and a loss of $50, 900 sustained.
The report of the manager of ath-
letics at Harvard university for the
past year shows that the receipts from
all branches of athletics amounted to
$117,317, and the expense to $78,23S.
The receipts from football were $55 ,S18, |
and expenses $4,000.
Four thousand Boer sympathizer at |
tended a meeting held at Detroit, Mich, |
Sunday, under the auspices Of the |
Transvaal league, and applauded the
antl-British sentiment of Commandment
Jan Krige, who served under Gen
Botha, and ex-Congressman J. J. Lentz,
of Ohio.
William Alexander Selkirk, Cali
fornia pioneer of 1850, and for nearly
half a century prominent figure in
the newspaper and political world of
the Pacific coast, died in Seattle re- -,
Gently after a lingering illness, aged 70
years. He had been an invalid for many O
months. i
A bill will be introduced in congress a
at the next session reducing the postage +
on letters to l cent. 1t is doubtful Ii :,
the bill becomes a law. One cent post
age has been demanded for a number of :,
years but so long as the receipts of the II
poStOtfice department are not equal to II
,he expenses, the officials are not likely o
% call strongly for cutting the present W
etter rate in two. a.
The Denver Post says Senator Will n
lam A. Clark, of Montana, and Thomas a
:. Walsh, of Colorado have, it is ru- ii
nored, Joined issues in railroad con- c.
truction, and will build practically a /
lew transcontinental railroad The ii
chicago, Rock Island & Pacific is said b
o belong to Senator Clark and lMr. Fl
Walsh.
Five persons, q mother and her four
hfldren, were burned to death at G,wyn
tation, three miles north of Altoona, l
"a The husband escaped with severe t
INJURIES. The dead are: Mrs. Mary C. t
Burke, AZ years old; Adam G. Burke, /
6; lark E. Burke, 10; Joanna Burke, {
i; Joseph Victor Burke, years; Carl t
". Burke, the husband, Is seriously I
burned about the back.
Mystery attends the shooting at Cas-
,ade Montana, of Fred Dawkins, who
S fatally wounded. Dawkins claims
hat he was shot from ambush by ]. B.
Mcbride. The officials have a theory
that Dawkins is a monomaniac on the
subject of the capture of Pat Grove.
and that while performing the self
imposed duty of effecting the capture
of man whom he suspected of being
Grove, he accidentally shot himself.
The military departments of North
ern and Southern Luzon have ceased to
exist. Major General James f. Wade,
formerly in command of the southern
division, will leave Manila tomorrow
to assume command of the American
forces on Cebu island and Major Gen
eral Lloyd Wheaton, formerly com.
mander of the northern division. will
take command of the department of the
Northern Philippines.