Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-03-08
NEWS OF THE WHOLE WORLD
CULLED FROM DISPATCHES
A Review of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
Historical. Political aud Personal
Events TerscIy EXpounded.


of the largest cannery plants in Brit
ish Columbia, is about completed
Abdul A2iz Ben Feysul, a descend
ant of the old Wahabi Ameer5, with
an army of 1000 men, has captured the
city OF E'Baid in Central Arabia.
At Harrisburg. Pa, two piers of the
famous old Comeback bridge on the
Harrisburg side We're washed away to-
day. The bridge was built in 1916
Frank Tyree and Lewis Schmidt,
prominent travelling men, were drown
ed in the Big Sand near Pikeville. Ky,
Cunday by the overturning of a boat
in which they were travelling down
stream.
Prince Henry went up Lookout
mountain Sunday and after viewing
the ground where the Union and Con-
federate armies met in conflict and
hearing afresh the story of the battles,
resumed his journey to the north and
west.
Sunday Wheeling w Va. was IN
the grasp Of the worst flood it has ex-
perienced since that Of 1884, with but
one exception. Scores of factories
have been entered by the waters fires
eXtinguished and 10000 men will be
forced into idleness for a day or two.
At Warren, O., Henry Bishop Perk-
ms. one of Ohio's most prominent and
phtlanthropic citizens, killed himself
by hanging recently in his office. H.
ness and suicide of a favorite son, a
Yale graduate, a year ago, is believed |
to have made Mr.. Perkins temporarily +
insane
The liberal forces under the com
mand of General Villa appeared at Rio
F'rio, in the district of Magdalena, Feb
ruary 81. After an engagement with
government troops from Barranquilla,
which lasted four hours, the rebels
were routed with so men killed or
wounded.
The high water in the streams trib-
utary to the upper Potomac in Mary
land, Virginia and West Virginia
caused the water to rise at Washing
ton to the height of two feet above
normal tide. The water was the high
est experienced here since the memoir
aole hood of 1889, but no damage of
Importance has boon done
Fully $4,000 people greeted Prince
Henry when he arrived in Indianapo-
lis, Ind. The run from Louisville was
made without special incident. The
prince dined at o'clock and his |
guests were Admiral Evans. Colonel |
Bingham, George w. Boyd. Carl Pol
lier, German consul at Cincinnati, and
Lieutenant Commander Won Egidy.
The 13-year-old adopted daughter of |
c. c. Morse, a prominent farmer of
Mckay creek, % miles south of Pen
dleton, Ore, died Saturday from the
effects of a dose of strychnine. The .
poison was taken Thursday and every
effort was made to save the girl but
to no avail There is no cause for the
rash deed. She was apparently happy
and there is no knowledge of her hav- |
ing had trouble with any one
Latin and Greek as taught in high /
schools OF the country came in for
condemnation at the last days session
OF the convention of the department
OF superintendent of the National Ed I
ucational association at Chicago. The /
languages were branded as baby Lat
in and Greek" and were described as
sanctitied relics. The critic was Stan
ley Hall, president of Clark University.
In one of the most remarkable OBJ
erations known to surgery, says Bal
tlmore special to the N. Y World, the /
brain of the Rev. William A. Stark,
pastor of the Broadway German Meth
odist church of this city, has been
actually lifted from it's bed and the |
roots of certain nerves that had caused .
the clergyman excessive neuralgia I
were extracted. The patient is said .
to have stood the operation well, and
few doubts of his recovery are enter.
tanned. The operation was performed +
at the Johns Hopkins hospital.
Following the precedent of Lord
Roberts, who announced Gen. Cronje's /
surrender at Paardeburg or. the ami
versary of the battle of Maiuba Hill. /.
February 27, 1881 Lord Kitchener APP
parently selected the same anniversary
TO achieve big success by a combined
movement lasting two days, against
the Boer forces within the Harrlsmith
and Van Keenan, line of blockhouses. /
The Boer losses aggregate GOO men
Killed or captured, and 2000 horses and /
ZS,0OO head of cattle fell into the hands /
OF the British troops. This news was
SO welcome to the British that it was
read out in the house of commons by
the war secretary, Mr.. Frederick.
Senator Burrows has presented the
resolution of censure upon Senators
Tillman and McLaurin. Following is
the full text of the resolution recon-
mended by the committee.