Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-10-08
cuLLEo FROM DISPATCHES OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
A Review of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Terseiy Told.

is elected in November.
The car that stands in the round
house at Plainyille, Mass, is the old
est railroad coach in the United
States.
1t is rumored that General Basilio
Munoz. leader of the Uruguayan revo-
lutionists, has been shot by his for
mer followers.
The transport Sheridan has sailed
from San Francisco for Honolulu
Guam and Manila, with a heavy pas
senger list, a cargo of supplies and a
consignment of newly minted pieces
for the Philippines
In a boarding house at st. Louis at
1862 Locust street shooting aroused the
neighborhood and the police found a
well dressed woman dead and a man
dying. 1t is not known whether the
man did the shooting or whether both
had been shot by third person.
Three times in a half year has the
hand of treachery been foiled in at
tempts to wreck the United States
battleship Connecticut, launched at
the New York navy yard last Thurs.
day.
A dispatch to a news agency in Lon
don from Sebastopol says that the
artillery and ammunition magazines
there are in flames, and it Is feared
there has been considerable loss of
life.
The creditors of the Humbert family
of Crawford will fame have received q
dividend of IL per cent
Foreign minister Delcasse has re-
turned to Paris and resumed his dip
lomatic receptions.
General Fred Grant has formally
assumed command of the department
of the east. with headquarters on Gov
ernor's island, N. Y.
Sir William Vernon Harcourt, 'the
finest political gladiator of his age"
died very suddenly near Oxford, Eng
land, the country seat which he re.
Gently inherited from his nephew.
The monthly financial statement of
the worlds fair issued recently shows
that during the month of August the
receipts from various sources amount.
ed, with balance left over from July,
to $2,476,S 1923.
The coinage in the United States
mint at San Francisco for September
is as follows: Double eagles, $14,-
100000; Philippine coinage, pesos,
$10S,000; 20 centavos, $68,000 in Pc
SOS. Total coinage for the month, $14,-
10000.
King George, who was i'll last week
at his family residence in Saxon court,
has recovered
Another semi-monthly payment OF
100000 on the $4,600,000 government
loan has been made by the manage
ment of the Louisiana exposition. The
total amount paid up to date is 49,
40S,149.
Judge Parker, presidential candi
date, and members OF his family re-
Gently attended the marriage of his
ward, Miss Katherine Lawton, and
Robert Livingston.
Major Henry E. Alvord, chief of the
dairy division of the United States
department of agriculture, is dead. He
was 70 years old, and a graduate Of
the civil war.
Marseilles.-The extensive and pro-
longed strike of workmen and others
engaged in the maritime interests is
practically closed by the signing of an
agreement.
Several warships will be launched
during the present month, including
the battleship Georgia at the Bath,
Me-, iron works on the 18th; the bat
tleship Nebraska at Moran Bros, at
Seattle, about the 10th instant, and
the training ship Intrepid at the Brook.
Ign navy yard the latter part of the
month.
Arthur DEM Piatt, American vice
consul, has been fined 10 shillings, &C
cording to an American dispatch from
Dublin, for furious riding on a motor
cycle within the city limits His case
was heard in police court.
Business of all kinds will be sus
pended at Worcester Mass, Monday
afternoon out of respect to the mem
DRY of the late Senator Hoar.
Tsang He Nun, who is charged b,
the empress dowager of China to make
an important inquiry into the system,
OF the governments of the world. il
order that any points beneficial to The
people of China may be introduced
has arrived in New York city.
George Kerr, famous a few year
ago as a cartoonist and illustrator. L