Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-10-11
WORLDS NEWS SUMMARY
CHILLED FROM ASSOCIATED
PRESS DISPATCHES.
..peview of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Westean Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National
historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Expounded.


!. II is reported that the business por-
zion of Gervais, Ore. was destroyed by
fire recently.
The seth annual encampment of the
a A. r. begun at Washington, d. G.
last Monday. 1t will last week.
A cargo of raw silk valued at ST.
ZOO 900 arrived at Vancouver, B. G.
the other day.
w r. Hearst of the New York
Journal. has been nominated for con-
oress from the eleventh district by the
democrats.
Beginning October G., stopping of
ample shipments enroute to Fargo, N.
D.. will be discontinued by the north
transcontinental lines.
Judge Brooks of Minneapolis has
sentenced former Superintendent of
Police f. w. Ames to six years and a
half in the penitentiary for accepting
bride.
A committee of Boer sympathizers
of New York welcomed Francis Will
lam Reitz, recently. He was formeraly
secretary of state of the Orange Free
State.
The rumor started some months ago
that the Chicago, milwaukee & st.
Paul was seriously contemplating the
extension of its system to the north
Pacific coast as again been revived.
General Chaffee and Vice Governor
Wright have sailed from Manila on the
transport Sumner. They were accord
ed a general and popular farewell
demonstration.
The total gross earnings of the
Northern Pacific last year were SAL
S7S, 1880; net, $2O,098, 1866; surplus,
$1,547, 286 (increase, 1914, 667.) The
total surplus now is $5,O54, 700.
The city reservoir at Camden, N. j.,
broke recently and about 5000, 900
gallons of water escaped and flowed
down the streets, flooding the cellars
of many houses and doing other damage.
The Saimese government has just
issued large quantity of paper money
with the assistance of the Hong Kong
& Shanghai bank. Siamese credit is
thus placed under the control of Great
Britain.
Sheriff Robinson Of Cripple Creek,
COL, levied on pullman car for taxes
amounting to 1868 which the pullman
company neglected to pay and in order
to prevent the removal of the car, he
chained it to the track.
The river steamer Hassalo and the
British ship Cypromene were in a col
lision recently on the Columbia river
at Coffin Rock, two miles below Kala-
ma. The total damage will be about
$4,000.
At 8 O'Clock Monday morning the
gates OF the ninth anuanl Spokane In
terstate Fair was thrown open and at
9oclock the in evening the Masonic
Fair were opened. 1t is believed the
TWO big events will send to Spokane a
record breaking crowd.
According to the report of the pay
master general, army expenses decreased
curing the past year $918,819, as COM
pared with the preceding year, partly
oWlhg to the decrease in the pay of the
army and in part to the reduction of
claims for extra pay to volunteers.
The total expenditures made by Pay
master General Bates were $52, 1884,
479.
Utah Mormons are greatly incensed
over the insinuation that the crime of
Wllcham Hooper Young, alleged muir
uerer, is in accordance with the "blood
aeonement" teachings of the mormon
Church, of which his grandfather,
brigham Young, was the great profit.
The Kansas supreme court has grant
gu stay of execution in the case of
oessle Morrison, now in the peniten-
uary Tor the murder of Clara Wiley
Tas1le' The case will be heard in
January. Miss Morrison's appeal bond
Will be fixed at $4,000. AS soon as
.,iis Is given she will be released until
s,o ume of her trial. She was sentence
W " 10 years in the penitentiary.
william Nelson Cromwell, general
UJunsel for the new Panama company,
S ano mas returned from Paris, says he
poiiYered to Attorney General Knox in
oou is every conveyance, decree, con-
w. s'ion or other document relating to
80 properties of the new Panama
a puai company and its unquestionable
Over Over 10 convey the canal, the plant,
T IaVesslons and other property to the
Ean 'eu states, free and clear of all
''ens or claims of any kind.
o.. .ne feature of the naval estimatesl
a. IVA which have been made public
si;. e navy department, is the iber-
.y OF the recommendations for each
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