Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-04-26
NEWS Of THE ENTIRE WORLD
CULLED FROM DISPATCHES.
A Review OF Happenings I'm Both
Eastern and Western Hemispher-es
During the Past Week-Nafi"nnI'
Historical. Political and Personal
Events TerseIy Expounded.

nor observed to the letter in New
York City Sunday.
At Kansas City, Mo-, the highest
temperature was 81 degrees Sunday.
A furious wind blew.
Sunday was the hottest April day In
10 years at Omaha, Neb. The Their
mometer at p. m. reached 95, the
highest previous record being 81.
A post on the outskirts of New
Chwang, garrisoned by 40 Russians,
has been attacked by Chinese bandits.
One Russian officer and four privates
were killed.
At Dallas, Tex, two persons were
fatally injured and a property loss of
$350,000 caused by several fires which
occurred shortly after o'clock Sun
day morning.
Mereli, the pedler whose remains
were discovered in Lake Washington,
near Seattle, was shot through the
back Several Afghans, East Indians
and Hindoos are under arrest
A dry, hot wind has swept over Kan
sas since Sunday morning, doing much
damage to vegetation of all kinds.
Those interested say the wind has
done incalculable harm to crops.
General Chaffee has forwarded to
General Bell the congratulations sent
the latter by President Roosevelt upon
the recent campaign in Batangas and
Laguna provinces conducted by Gen
eral Bell
At st. Joseph, Mo-, the mercury be-
gan to climb about o'clock this morn
ing and at noon registered as high as
S2 degrees, a change of more than 40
degrees in six hours. A high south
wind blew all day.
Passengers on the royal mail steam.
er Trent, which arrived at Kingston
Jamaica, from Colon, Colombia. say
heavy fighting was proceeding in the
neighborhood of Panama and Bocas
del Toro last Friday The officers of
the Trent declare the situation on the
isthmus shows no improvement.
The United States Philippine com.
mission has passed a law authorizing
municipalities to appropriate funds
Tor combating epidemic diseases. The
cholera situation shows no improve
ment There has been a total of 3S8
eases and 800 deaths in Manila, and
SOS cases and 65a deaths in the prov.
inces
AT Managua, Nicaragua, severe
explosion occurred on the night of
April 16. A large two story barrack
near the lake front and in the center
OF the city was blown to fragments.
Between 100 and 200 officers and sol.
diers are reported to have been killed,
and many soldiers and other persons
are reported injured
A destructive fire visited the south.
western part of Kansas City Sunday.
laying to waste a section of dwelling
houses almost quarter of a mile long
and a block wide, and doing damage
TO the amount of $4,000. John Slime
of Quincy, ILL.,, spectator, was seri-
ously injured by falling piece of iron
and Edward Bennett, fireman, was
overcome by heat.
The spirit of Saltese. the renowned and
well loved chief of the Occur d'Alene red
men, has given up its struggle against
severe attack of pneumonia. After sew
eral days Of illness, Saltese. who was ut
DeSmet mission, IL miles east of Tekoa,
died at @ Sunday evening. He will be
buried at DeSmet tomorrow morning at
10 o'clock.
Colonel Charles Marshall. military
secretary to General Robert e. Lee
during the civil war, and for many
years one of the leaders of the Balti-
more bar, died of apoplexy at his home
In Baltimore, aged 70. He was the
only member of Lees staff who &C
companied him at the surrender at
Appomattox and the terms of the sur
render were drafted by him.
The earthquake last week covered
a large extent of territory and reached
down into Central America The low.
er section of the Pacific coast of this
country felt the shock severely and at
Tapachula. an important town in the
state of Chiahias, near the Guatema-
Ian frontier. the damage done to prop
lerty is estimated at fully a million
dollars. One wealthy man estimates
his loss at $500 900.
At a general council of the labor
party held in Brussels it was resolved
that work by the strikers in all Sec
tons should be resumed. The council
issued a manifesto to the workingmen
to this effect this afternoon. The an
tcipated announcement by the crown
or the dissolution of parliament has
not yet been made. The papers con
tain vivid descriptions of the riots
which occurred at Louvain, near Brus
sells. last Friday.
Consult with Burghers.