Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-01-25
WORLDS NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD
CULLED FROM DISPATCHES.
A AeView of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western HemIspheres
svistoricnI, Political and Personal
Events TerseIy ExpOunded.
The pope is again said to be dying


Joseph Gleason, formerly of Spokane,
was recently drowned at Cocolalla, Idaho.
The house has passed the house APP
preparation pension bill. No amendments
were adopted.
Hope for the safety of the British war
ship Condor is all but abandoned. Naval
men are convinced she went to the bot
tom of the sea.
Two men were killed and three injured
in an explosion three miles west of
Mackay, Idaho. The killed are Beno
HinterholDr and James Person.
Frank McDonough died at Spokane
from injuries received while switching
ears about at Wilson Creek. McDonough
was brakeman on the Great Northern.
Joseph II. Choate, ambassador of the
United States to Great Britain who has
been home on a vacation, mas sailed for
the British capital to resume his official
duties. He has been here since October.
The appointment of Whitelaw Reid as
special ambassador to represent the UNI
ted States at the coronation of King Ed
ward has been received with much salts
faction in official and unofficial circles in
London.
At South Bend, Ind, Lem Yu. the
Chinaman who was convicted of the muir
der of Oscar Bloom, and who was to have
been hanged on January 81, escaped from
the jail, and no clue has yet been OBJ
tanned as to his whereabouts.
The Sound steamer Farhaven, operat-
5ng between Seattle, Laconner and way
ports, struck a rock or reef a short dis
tance from Utsalady early this morning
during fog and soon after sank in 10
feet of water. The passengers and crew
all succeeded in reaching the lifeboats in
safety.
Lord Kitchener has confirmed the
death sentence passed upon the Boer
commandant Sheepers, who was cap
tured last October. He will be shot
next Saturday.
Boer delegates recently met in Brus-
sells at some mysterious rendezvous,
and peace rumors are in the air. 1t IS
believed some movement is afoot be-
tween British and the Transvaal exiles.
A Spanish village near Manresa was
the scene of disastrous explosion.
Mill hands and families were crushed
TO death under flying timbers and de-
bris. Sixty dead and 100 injured.
Work of extracting victims was diff
cult.
l. Solomon, a Syrian, living at Keo-
kuk, Iowa, was held up and robbed Of
money belt containing $500. Solo.
mon had sold out his business in Keo-
kuk and was looking for a location.
Two fellow countrymen have been ar
rested charged with the robbery. Solo
mon says one of them held him while
the other cut the belt from his waist.
The money has not been recovered.
An attempt on the part of the Terre
Haute, Ind, Electric company to run
its cars on the city lines after a boy
colt was declared by the Central La
Dor Union resulted Sunday in several
small riots in the business center.
Frederick Krainnardt, a Catholic
priest, residing at Josephsville. Mo-,
committed suicide Sunday by hanging
himself with bedspread. Rev. Krain.
hardt was 81 years of age and had Of
nciated in a clerical capacity at Jo-
sephsville for 30 years.
Mother Joseph of the order of the
Sisters of Charity of the House of
Providence and founder of the mother
house of that order in the northwest,
located in Vancouver, Wn., died Sun
day at the convent which she erected,
aged 80 years.
William Slaughter and Ralph John
son, colored musicians, were shot and
killed, and Powell Galloway, white. was
mortally wounded recently by Lillian
Williams at dance at Morris Creek,
w Va. in the mining regions. She de-
manded ragtime and didn't get it, so
she shot them.
At Ducktown, Tenn, another iniunc.
ton has been granted against the sui
phur and copper companies on account
OF sulphur smoke and fumes emitted
from their plants. The president of
the Tennessee Copper company has
issued notice that when the injunc-
tlon is served on him the manager is
10 close down the entire works and
mines and pay off and discharge every
man.
AT Cincinnati, Ohio, William Whit
taker, prominent attorney, and wife,
went visiting Sunday and left their
only child, year old boy, with Annie
Lage, who has been with the family
only short time. When they returned
the child was found dead, hanging to
gaspipe in the cellar, and the servant
unconscious from asphyxiation. She
will die
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