Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-05-25


crime was committed in the lower end
of the city as the church bells were
ringing.
DR.. Eugene D. Andruss. prominent
Seattle dentist, was drowned Sunday
afternoon by the overturning of row.
boat on Lake Washington. He was on
fishing trip with his brother. The
body was recovered. The deceased was
a Union veteran of the Eleventh Iowa
/ volunteers and a native of Ohio. He
! was SO years old and leaves a widow
and six children.
Robert Gibbs, aged SO, superintend-
ent of an ironmolding works in Pitts
burg and a man of considerable wealth,
was found dead in his room in New
York recently, having been asphyxiated
by gas. The case was first reported
as one Of suicide but more thorough
investigation makes it apparent he was
victim of an accident.
Servia is on the verge of a revolu-
ton.
Attorney w. A. Lewis of Spokane,
charged with embezZling $500 from
Nettie Brauer Plat client, has been
captured in Seattle.
A legal fight will be made to pre-
vent the securing of railroad fran
chises in Cuba.
1t has been definitely decided that
the president and his party will leave
San Francisco Saturday. They will
go direct to Washington, and no
stops will be made except those made
necessary by railroad arrangements.
Alaska may have new governor
soon after President Mckinley re-
turns to Washington. Governor John
G. Brady's term expired this month,
and he is now holding Office through
that provision of the law which keeps
him till his successor is appointed
The president and Secretary of
State Hay have been in constant COM
munication with Washington during
all their journey west Dispatches
from our foreign embassies have been
continually arriving, and the Chi
nese situation has received special at
tention.
The greatest flood in the history of
Elizabethtown, Tenn, swept through
there recently, drowning three per-
sons and wiping out 62 dwellings. The
names Of the victims are: Mrs.
Gregg, Mrs. Filley and a negro named
Souchong. Others are missing and
are believed to have been drowned.
The cadets dismissed from the
result of the recent disturbances
there are Henry L. Bobby, Nebras-
ka; John A. Cleveland, Alabama;
Trangett F. Teller, New York; Ray
mond A. Lynton, Michigan; Birchie
o. Mahaffey. Texas. All these cadets
are of the second class.
The following cadets have been
suspended: Olan Caleshire, ILL
nois; Benjamin F. Mcclellan, Mississ-
ippi; James A Shannon, Minnesota;
Charles Telford, Utah, of the second
class; also Thomas N. Gimpering of
Ohio and Henry Hawley of New York,
of the third class. These cadets are
suspended without pay until April 1,
1902
Reports from Pekin are to the eff
feet that Marshal Won Waldersee has
informed the Chinese his troops will
not leave Pekin until the court re-
turns and he is himself received in
imperial audience. The French have
withdrawn from the Shan-si expedi-
ton and the English have refused to
take any part in it.
Captain Frederick J. Barrows, Thir-
teenth volunteer infantry, late depot
quartermaster of the department of
southern Luzon, who was charged with
embezzlement and selling government
property, to be dishonorably discharg-
ed and to undergo five years impris-
onment. Both Barrows and Boyer
will eventually be removed to Leav-
enworth prison, Kansas.
According to advices from Dawson
of May Is, by the steamer Cottage
City, the Yukon river at Daw-
son is clear of ice. On the af-
! ternoon of the 14th thousands of peo-
pie were attracted to the river front
by the cracking ice, which was heard
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spring and business of the Klondike
metropolis was suspended. Ice accu-
mulated in the river above the city
to considerable height and so great
became the pressure that the ice in
front of the city gave way. and with
a roar and rush it soon disappeared
and formed a large jam about a mile
below Dawson.