Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-09-14
WORLDS NENSBR|EFLYT TOLD
CULLED FROM DISPATCHES
Complete Review of Happenings In
Both Eastern and Western Hemis-
phercs for the Past Week--Nation-
sal, historical, Political and Per-
sonaI Events TerseIy Expounded.


fend the Americas cup.
At HALEY, Idaho, recently, Miss Bes
sic Beard committed suicide by drown
sng in a slough about 800 yards below
the Beard dwelling.
Under oders from Thomas w. Law
son, workmen have begun breaking up
the yacht Independence, at the Com
monwealth dock, South Boston.
The commander of the German fleet
maneuvering in the Baltic has tele-
graphed from Sassnitz, island of Ru-
gen, that the third class cruiser Wacht
has been sunk off Arizona, after having
been in collision with the battleship
Sachsen. 1t is not known whether
there was any loss of life.
Terms Of peace in the steel strike
were discussed at length Tuesday at a
secret conference at which sat officials
of the United States Steel Corporation,
leaders of union labor and representa-
tives of civic organizations who have
interviewed. Unusual safeguards of Sc
crecy were restorted to il order to pre-
serve s.he privacy of the proceedings,
but it was evident that no conclusion
was reached and that the decision eth
er to arbitrate or continue the strike
must be made by the strikers
Dispatches received by the life saw
ang service Indicate that a very seri-
GUS storm ragged on Lake Huron These |
dispatches report a number of disasters
80 lake craft, and show that all told |
fffty-seven seamen were rescued at diff |
ferent life saving stations on the lake
Plans for the yacht Constitution
have been changed, it being announced
that she will be taken to Bristol, where
her spars will be taken out and the
yacht will then be towed to New Lon
don. Thirty of her crew have been
discharged.
An Indignation meeting, attended by
about 500 Poles, of whom it is esti-
mated there are $4,000 in New York
City, was held Sunday at the Church
OF st. Stanislaus, and bitter words of
denunciation of Czolgosz and his crime
were uttered, while the expression or
sympathy for the president and those
belonging to him was warm and uni
versal.
The dead body of Timm PAIL was
found near Pendleton, Ore, recently in
a position to indicate a peculiar method !
of suicide. PAIL had tied window
cord around his neck and threw the
other end over the limb of a cotton
wood tree, standing on the top of a
stone levee a quarter mile below town.
He then pumped off the top of the le-
wee, so that as he fel Ito the base the
rope frightened, causing death by stran-
gulation.
At jamestown, N D., five men were
killed and six others seriously injured,
two of whom have since died, in a col
iision. A mixed train on the Northern
Pacific came in from Cakes, carrying
seventeen men on a flatcar AS the
train passed the station a road engine
was struck and the force of the col.
lision caused the flatcar to collapse.
The names of the dead and injured
could not be learned. They were har-
vest hands who had boarded the car at
Lamoure
Colonel Myron T. Herrick, one of the
presidents most intimate friends, says:
In view of the general feeling aroused
among the people of the country
against anarchists, as a result of the
shooting of President Mckinley, it
seems to me that the time is most OPP
perfume to demand a change in the
laws so that any attempt on the life of
the chief executive may be punished by
death. There is strong sentiment in
favor of congress taking action during
the coming session in reference to the
matter
What is supposed to have been a de-
liberate attempt to murder an entire
family occurred in the Lilly hopyard
at Corballis, Ore. Sunday Mrs. Wish
notske, with her son, aged 10, and
daughter, aged Is, were encamped near
the drier. Shortly after midnight a
terrible explosion aroused the neigh
borhood, the report being heard miles
away. 1t was caused by dynamite, a
stick Of which had been fired in the
tent near the head of the two beds oc-
cupied by the mother and her children.
The tent was wrecked and big hole
torn in the ground by the dynamite.
nut strange to say, the family escaped
with only temporary shock from the
heavy conclusion.
Inc eighth annual Spokane Interstate
iair Is open TO the world.
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work in China has pleased the state de-
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