Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1903-02-28
WORLDS NEWS SUMMARY
.uLLED FROM ASSOCIATED
PRESS DISPATCHES.
= Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the past Week-National,
HISTORICAL, Political and Persona!
Events Tersely Told.

meets in London in June.
At Connellsville Mary Kohland, aged
IL years, met a horrible death.
Another six days go as you please
race has started in Philadelphia, Pa.
Near Tallahassee, Fla. three white
children and a negro were drowned re-
Gently.
Estimates of the immigration which
will pass through st. Paul this season
go as high as 100000.
By the burning of the residence OF
William Adams of Hillsdale, 1. T., dur
ing the night three of his children
were killed.
At Schenectady, N. Y, Mrs. George
Stave, aged So, and her daughter Mrs.
Lemuel Davis. aged q, are dead from
drinking wood alcohol
Lewis B. Eveland, for more than IS
years travelling passenger agent of the
Denver & Rio Grande railway, died
suddenly at Kansas City recently.
Mrs. A. c. Frontier, landlady at the
ralace hotel at Burke, W. Va, recent
Iy shot John Drownridge, local lum.
herman, who, on being ordered to leave
her inn, refused to do so.
1t is reported that the Macedonian
leader Boris Sarafoff has had organ
lied within the past fortnight several
bands of well-equipped Bulgarian ban
dts, consisting of about $50 men.
After holding nalf a hundred blue
coats at bay for several hours, during
which number of shots were ex-
changed, Lafayette Sims, a desperate
negro, was killed by the New Orleans
police.
In the report of the health depart
ment published recently it is estimated
that the present population of Greater
New York is 3,732,092, an increase
since the United States census of 1900
of 295,701.
Jacob Bassenella was recently hang
ed at Washington, N. D. for the MUIR
der of Anton Klinger He left a state
ment admitting the crime of murder
ing Alexander Anderson at Grand
Forks several years ago.
At Cedar Rapids, Iowa, fire recently
| destroyed the Clifton hotel, cremating
nine of the guests and causing injuries
to AZ other persons, who were scorch-
ed or forced to Jump to the frozen
street from the second and third story
windows.
Definite announcement has been
made that G. E. Hamilton of st. Paul
is acting on behalf of the Northern
Pacific Railway company in making
application to the Manitoba legislature
for permission to build an extensive
system of branch lines throughout the
province.
All the states in the Union have
their full quota of senators except Del
aware, which has none, and of the SO
senators all told, 81 of them are law
yers. or the rest, is a civil engineer,
are doctors, are journalists and the
others are bankers, miners, farmers,
business men and politicians.
Secretary Cortelyou has attended his
nrst cabinet meeting as the head OF the
new department or commerce and la
| Dor. He was given cordial welcome
Oy both the president and the other
members OF the cabinet and he was as
signed the seat at the foot of the cab
met that had been reserved for him.
AT Virginia, H., Mrs. Kate Walsh,
county charge, was found in a crit
| cal condition recently in the shanty in
which she lives. After she had been
| removed to the hospital the sum OF
in nq
ed in her skirt. A search of the shanty
revealed more than $12Oo in silver
money hidden away in an old coffee
pot
Mrs. p. T. Dickinson of Alameda,
Cal, has received letter from Paris,
which stated that before the effects of
Mrs. Ellen Gore, her niece, who was
shot and killed in the apartments of
the Russian singer, Rydzewski, on the
light of November 10, left the Ameri-
can consulate for New York, it was
discovered that jewels to the value of
over $4,000 had been stolen.
Peter Farrell, one of the leading New
| Orleans democratic politicians, was
shot and killed by his eldest son, Ed.
ward, recently. The family claim that
IN rage of ungovernable temper Far
rell endeavored to kill Edward and
George, the eldest boys, for miscon.
duct, and Edward took the pistol from
him and fired Inree shots into his
fathers heart The boys surrendered
A fast express on the Lackawanna
cut down a trolley car crowded with
school children at the Clifton avenue
crossing at Newark, N. j., recently.
Eight of the children were killed and
a score or more of others injured. The
mOtOrman. who stuck to his most I'M