Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-09-03
TELEGRAPH NEWS SUMMARY
cULLED FROM DISPATCHES OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
A Review Of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past Week-Natlonal,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events TerseIy Told.

Twelve persons were injured, two
seriously, in a street car accident at
| ST. Louis.
Peter Sells, the veteran circusman,
who was stricken with paralysis, is
rarely able to recognize the family.
Judge S. H. Wright, for 20 years
district judge of the second district of
Nevada, died of heart disease recently
in Salifornia.
The sawmill of White & Wheeless
at Alden's bridge, on the Cotton Belt
railroad, was destroyed by fire recent
ly. Loss 100000
Two men were killed and two fatal
ly injured recently by the falling of
an elevator at the Babbitt soap fac
tory, in New York.
1t is now confirmed that the Para
guayan revolutionists have seized a
train carrying stores and a number of
government officials.
The Canadian Pacific railway has
called a special meeting for October
next to authorize an increase of the
capital stock by $5,000,000.
1t is understood that a stringent or
der will be issued by the war depart
ment shortly, prohibiting the rapidly
growing custom of making gifts to
army officers.
Announcement is made at the navy
department that Surgeon P. A. Liver
ing has been ordered to the naval med
ical school at Washington to assume
the new chair of tropical diseases.
Mrs. Hannah Clapsy, so years old,
has been burned to death in her bed
at her son in laws home at Harlem,
as result of her fondness for smok-
ing a pipe while in bed.
Four persons were severely injured
in a collision between a Texas & Pa
cifc railroad fast passenger train and
several freight cars at Exeter street
bridge, one mile outside of FIT. Worth,
Texas
The secretary of war has assigned
First Lieutenant j. Decamp Hall, of
the Twenty-six\h infantry, as aid de
camp on the staf of Brigadier General
Constant WillisfHs, Vancouver bar
racks, Washington.
At Pasadena, Cal, an autopsy was
held on the body of Mrs. Harriet Ger
trude McVicker widow of the late j.
G. McVicker of Chicago, who died
recently, and finding that death was
from natural causes.
rTho 90 c+ot, hoo
ed that this government could not in
terfere with the confiscation of Amer
lean goods, decided by Russia or Jap
an as contraband, if carried in other
| than American ships.
Governor Mickie has named Miss
Mann Mickie to christen the battle
ship Nebraska, which will be launch.
ed at Seattle October Z. Miss Mickie
is % years of age and is the COVER
nOr's second daughter.
Japan has addressed a note to the
powers informing them that unless
Russia forthwith disarms her warships
in Shanghai, Japan will be forced tC
take whatever steps she deems neces
sary to protect her interests.
The state health department OF
Texas has been notified of the break
ing out of yellow fever in the govern
ment military post at Brownsville
Texas. One death has occurred anC
several cases are reported to be in ex
istence there.
1t is reported that Samsonoff, the
assassin of Won Plehve, has been sen
fenced to death, and that the sen
tence is now before the emperor. The
reports which have been circulated
about Samsonoff having escaped anC
also that he was dead, are declared t.
be false.
Major T. E. Merritt, U. S. A, re
tired. who entered the army during
the civil war as private in the Thir
teenth New York volunteer infantry
and served in the regular army unit
, 1879. is dead in New York city, Major
= Merritt served many years with the
, Eleventh, Twenty-fourth and Twenty
ninth infantry, and participated in nu
merous Indian campaigns.
Shoots His stepdaughter.