Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-05-21
TELEGRAPH NEWS SUMMARY
-, LEO FROM DISPATCHES OF
-us ASSOCIATED PRESS.
a.,,,sw of Happenings in Both
eastern and Western Hem''pne'e'
-. +he Past Week-National,
u,.,orIcaI, PoIitlcaI and Personal
rysnts Tersely Told.

Tho last statement of the treasury
ns. Available cash balance, $l75,-
s s 14O; gold, $7S,5OO,5S7.
,cto entire business section and
av dwellings were destroyed by
n sreelyilie, Mo- The loss is esti-
mated at 100000.
rqro has destroyed 25 houses in the
"a. l4endi, Montreal, render
three families homeless and desti-
rite. Loss, $4,000.
A. recent auction in London
Holbein miniature of Frances How
ard duchess of Norfolk, realized the
rrnrecedented sum of $13,75O.
binding snow storm ragged
throughout the copper country of nor
tbern Michigan last Saturday. Three
inches of snow fell at Calumet
The hundred rulers and forwarders
in the so printing shops of the Chi
cago Typothetae have gone on strike
in sympathy with the bookbinders.
The United States squadron has
sailed for the Canary Islands, the
BROOKLYN and Castine for Teneriffe
and the Atlanta and Marietta for Las
Palmas.
It is officially announced that Vice
roy Alexieff has demanded that the
Chinese administration and the Tartar
general be compelled to leave Muk-
den.
At Pittsburg Fred Schuetz, son of
Henry Schuetz, shot and seriously in
iured Mrs. Minnie Mccormick and
then fatally shot himself. 1t was
love affair.
Rear Admiral Kennedy, retired, for
merly paymaster general of the navy,
it is stated at the navy department,
has been selected as treasurer Of the
Panama canal commission.
The president has signed the proc
lamation opening the Rosebud, N. D.,
reservation to settlement. The reser-
walton contains 416,0O0 acres and will
be opened at 8 a. m, August 8.
Miss Clara Barton has resigned the
presidency of the American Red Cross
and was succeeded by Mrs. General
John A. Logan, who has heretofore oc-
cupied the office of vice president
Samuel Enrich, a Denver, Col, de-
tectiye, mas been convicted of murder
in the second degree for the murder
of William Malone, a salOOnkeeper,
on the night of February %, 1904.
By order of the boot and shoe man
ufacturers' association, six San Fran
cisco shoe factories and one in Peta-
luna are closed locking out nearly
GOO employees. 1t is labor trouble.
Because of a strike of laborers, en-
gineers, firemen and Winchmen at the
Callao docks and the laborers on the
Central railway, which broke on May
6, traffic on the English railway has
stopped.
The shipping strike at Marseilles is
virtually over. The Captains, engi-
neers and other officers of the mer-
cnant marine have agreed to resume
their duties on the shipping company's
conditions
The long pending and bitter legal
fight between the Burns-Hicks and the
Hays factions of the hnignLs of La
Dor has been decided in favor of the
former by Justice Anderson of the
district equity court.
Damage exceeding $4,000 was done
when fire destroyed Haslam's saw and
single mills at Nanaimo, B. G. The
machinery was worth nearly 100000.
Insurance to the amount of $4,000
only was carried. The origin of the
nre is mystery.
The Chicago Great Western Rail
way company has adopted novel plan
Tor protecting its right of way from
drifting SHOWS which SO frequently
impede train operations. The com
pany has ordered several hundred
thousand evergreen trees. from an
iowa nursery, and will plant them
thlckly along the right of way on all
main tracks of the company.
According to Lord Dundonald's rec
concentrations, the Notifications Will
oe located on Point Grey and Point
atkinson, two prominent and opposite
polhts of land, which command the
entrance to Vancouver harbor, and
which would cover wide range of wa
Ter Lord Dundonald says that in the
event OF a war in India, Vancouver
would be an important base of sup
pies In transit to the orient.
captain Peary. U. S. N, the Arctic
explorer, is negotiating for the seal.
ing schooner Eagle, to convey him
ana a preliminary expedition to Lit