Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1901-02-23
The TELEGRAPH SUMMARY
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
4 Complete Review of the Events of
the Past Week-In This and For
eign Lands-Taken From the
--latest Dispatches.

Severe weather prevails throughout
France.
All Europe is experiencing a return
of winter weather.
Slight earthquake shocks were felt
recently in Vienna.
Marshall S. Pike, poet, singer and ac-
tor, is dead at his home in Chelsea.
Joseph A. Delaharpe, who was well
known as a scenic artist in the theatres
of this country, is dead.
At the cabinet council at Madrid the
ministers designations were drawn up
and handed to the queen regent.
The work of laying torpedoes and
mines about the entrance to the Port
orchard drydock is soon to begin.
Throughout Spain the weather is in
tensely cold, the temperature register
ing eight degrees below zero in Madrid
1t is insisted in Mexico City in gov
eminent circles that there is no plan
prepared for introducing a gold stand
ard
The house committee on naval affairs
lao lCpOl lCd law AMY lhS OGDdI6 JOIuI
resolution giving bronze medals to the
officers and men of the North Atlantic
squadron participating in the battle
of Santiago bay.
Jim Jeffries and Gus Rubin may
fight for the heavyweight champion
ship in San Francisco within a month
or two.
Secret service officials are confident
they have captured three of the men
who robbed the internal revenue Office
at Peoria of $4,000 in stamps last Jan
uary.
The asphalt controversy has been
temporarily adjusted by the diplomacy
of the United States minister, Francis
LOOMS, and the matter will doubtless
go to the courts.
Jerome Catlin, a pioneer business
man, dropped dead Sunday morning at
his home in Seattle. He was stricken
with apoplexy while dressing. He was
sc years of age and was for many years
a hop dealer in Chicago.
"The Danish government" says the
Copenhagen correspondent of the Daily
Mail, ''has suddenly broken off all deal
ings with the United States regarding
the West (Danish) Indies.
The east-bound limited express,
from San Francisco Sunday, was
wrecked at Mills City, New. The fire.
man and three passengers were killed.
The conductor, engineer, one brake
man, two postal clerks and one passen-
ger were injured.
At New York the top price for a
membership in the stock exchange has
been paid by Charles I. Gates, son of
John w. Gates, who is the dominant
factor in the American Steel & Wire
company. The price paid for his seat
was $1,000.
Delegate Wilcox of Hawaii has scor-
ed distinct triumph in securing a
unanimous vote of the house commit
tee on elections confirming his right to
seat in the house of representatives
and holding that the charges filed
against him were not sufficient to war
rant his removed
George w. Brientnall who died re-
Gently at Lancaster, Pa, was one of the
famous soldiers of the rebellion. When
scarcely more than Is years old he en-
listed as a drummer boy. At the battle
of Shiloh he displayed remarkable cool
ness and bravery and was afterwards
known by the sobriquet "The Drummer
of Shiloh"
According to mail advices from the
Philippines, Captain Novice, the insur-
gent officer who commanded the band
which captured Lieutenant Gilmore
and party, has been sentenced to i'm
prisonment at hard labor for life on
the charge of having permitted one of
Gilmore's party to be buried alive. The
victim was a sailor named Mcdonald.
Lord Kitchener having expressed a
desire for financial assistant in view
of the heavy expenditures proceeding
in South Africa, the secretary of state
for war has appointed Guy Douglas Ar
thur Fleetwood Wilson, under secre-
tary of state for war, to proceed to
South Africa and to act temporarily as
financial adviser to Lord Kitchener.
Mr.. Wilson will leave Saturday.
Suicides were epidemic in San Fran
cisco Sunday. Three men suffering
from dependency took their lives. A.
Lewis, shoemaker in ill health. end
ed his troubles by asphyxiation. Rob-
ert McEwart quarreled with his wife
and swallowed dose of arsenic. A.
Moeller, baker, grieving over the
death of son who was killed in the
terrible football accident last Thanks
giving in this city, took carbolic acid.
Orders issued from the navy depart
ment direct Rear Admiral Rogers to
hoist his flag on tho cruirnr. Nam Xo-1r