Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-12-20
WORLDS NEWS SUMMARY
cULLED FROM ASSOCIATED
PRESS DISPATCHES.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemspheres
During the Past Week-Nationai
Historical, Political and Personal
Events TerseIy Expounded.

Inc CoWn VI ventura, Iowa, was
nearly wiped out by fire recently.
General Tasker Bliss has left Ha.
vana for Washington.
The Boer generals, Botha and De-
larey, have sailed from London for
South Africa
The annual Oxford and Cambridge
football match resulted in tie, both
sides scoring a goal and a touchdown.
The secretary of the treasury has
reappointed the present government
board of tea experts for the next cal
endar year.
An explosion occurred recently at
the Mortified powder works at Nan
aimo, b. G. One man was killed and
several injured.
One man is known to be dead and
several others were injured in a col
lision on the Northern Pacific railroad
near Fridley, seven miles from Mime
polls.
1t is officially announced that Herr
Hengelmuller Won Hengervan, the
Austro-Hungarian minister at Wash
ington, has been raised to the rank of
ambassador.
The state of New York from north
to south is covered with snow, and in
many sections blizzard weather per
walls, adding to the discomfort occa-
stoned by the shortage of coal
William Chapman, who was dis
patched from England in 1912 by Sir
John Francis to prospect for ST. tie and
discovered the now famous slate belt
in Pennsylvania, died recently of pneu-
monia, aged 81 years.
The st. Petersburg police have ar
rested 40 accomplices and persons who
have been attempting to introduce
revolutionary proclamations into Rus
STA. Among the persons taken into
custody are several influential Nj
hilists.
The bodies of Cooley and Martin,
drowned short time ago while cross
ing the Tumwater canyon in a boat
during preliminary survey for
power plant for Wenatchee, have been
found in a canyon near their upturned
boat.
At Lexington, KY, Earl Whitney,
aged II, and Claude OBrien, aged Is,
young burglars, who on October 10
murdered A. B. Chinn, merchant.
in his bed, have been sentenced to be
hanged February 10. Motions for new
trials were overruled.
A special from Mortified, B. c.,
says: The Hamilton powder works
separator station blew up recently.
The building is an entire wreck, and
James Cloan, the man in charge, was
blown to pieces. How the explosion
occurred is a mystery that the coro
ner will endeavor to solve.
Judge John w. Henry died at his
home in Kansas City recently, after
long illness, aged II years. Judge
Henry was formerly chief justice of
the state supreme court, and at time
of his death was judge CT division No.
2 of the circuit court at Kansas City.
He was one Of the most widely known
jurists in the west.
The Associated Press learns that
Queen Alexandra intends to mark her
sympathy for the sufferers in the re-
cent South African war by giving
Christmas dinner to all the widows
and children now in London of those
who fell in the war. The dinner will
be given on December q at the Alex
andra Trust restaurant, of which the
queen is president, and which was
founded in March, 1900, by Sir Thomas
Upton for the benefit of the poor.
Sir Thmas Upton has charge of all
the arrangements for the dinner.
Leander won the final sprint in
the six dy bicycle race in New York,
from jacobson, thus giving first money
to the Leander- Floyd Krebs team
and second money to Jacobson-New-
kirk.
President Roosevelt formerly accept
ed the invitation of the citizens COM
mittee of San Francisco to attend the
dedication of the navy monument to
commemorate the battle of Manila.
The monument is now nearing COM
pletion.
:Diamondfeld Jack" Davis has
been pardoned from the Idaho Peni-
Tertiary.
Henry Lemons, well known young
farmer, was almost instantly killed
in a runaway accident at Bozeman,
Mont.
The body of a man, believed to be
a;thar Earl or Andrew Bittle OF Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, was recently found near
Mountain Home, Idaho
]. Reiff, the American jockey, has
been awarded $500 damages against
a French paper. arising from the pa
per's charges that the jockey pulled