Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-07-23
TELEGRAPH NEWS SUMMARY
cuLLED FROM DISPATCHES OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
A Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemlspheres
During the Past Week-NationaI
Historical, Political and Personal
Events TerseIy Told.

Joseph Travish Walsh. formerly n
supreme court Judge of South Caro-.
lima, is dead.
The Chicago Daily News dispatch
boat Fawan has been seized by the
Russians and towed into Port Arthur.
Fire has partially destroyed the
plant of the Forest City Bedstead COM
pany at Cleveland, Ohio Loss, $1OO..
600.
The first payment of $500 900 on the
government loan of $4,600,000 to the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition COM
pany has been paid.
At Buffalo, N. T., Edgar r. Wash
burne shot and killed his wife and Is
year old daughter and then committed
suicide. He was insane
| 1t is reported from Cronstadt that a
French ship has left there for Port
! Arthur with a submarine boat and four
siege guns on board.
James Ward, a negro fisherman and
his partner, name unknown, were lost
in the gale in the gulf of Georgia. off
the mouth of the Fraser river, b. &.
At Chicago the Baltimore & Ohio
grain elevator, South Chicago. was
burned. A quantity of grain was in
the building and the loss is put at
$500, 600.
Orders have been issued for the
Asiatic fleet to conduct it's target prae-
tice in September in Manila bay in.
stead of Chefoo, as hitherto has been
the custom.
Edward ID. Bangs, superintendent OF
the Chicago lines for the Western
Union Telegraph company who is sup
posed to have been beaten by thugs,
is dead.
M. Ptchard, commissioner general
of the late Paris exposition, has been
appointed to replace NJ. LeGrave, as
commissioner of France at the st.
Louis exposition.
John A. Rossiter, who since he came
to this country in 1876 as an Irish
politician refugee has been prominent
in Irish and Catholic society, is dead
at his home in Newark, N. j.
A large freight shed and it's con-
+ tents, 10 freight cars and three tugs,
. were burned in the Duluth, Mimi, har-
Smith, a cook, was drowned.
Carlos Americe Loa. minister of
Mexico in Japan, has been appointed
minister to Pekin but will continue ac-
credited to Japan, and Maurice Will
helm will be charge d'affaires in China.
An American student named Nor
ward Shapleigh of West Lebanan, Me-,
a nephew of American Ambassador
Porter, committed suicide at Paris. he
was respondent because of i'll health.
Glenwood Springs, Col, July 10
The body of the Rio Grande train rob
Der, who committed suicide after be-
ing wounded by one of the posse
which was pursuing him, was Harvey
! Logan.
The academy of Science at Paris
has awarded prize of 1000 to Pro
fessor Alfred Norinex of the Univer-
sity of Louyain for the best critical
review of the judicial system of the
United States
d. G. Boyd and Robert O'Neill were
drowned recently in slough in the
railroad yards in ST. Louis. The men
were night telegraph operators and
were taking a midnight swim when
they lost their lives.
Although Chairman George B. Cor
telyou of the national republican COM
mittee will spend the greater part OF
his time at the headquarters in New
York, the campaign will be conducted
largely from Chicago.
So many thefts of boats and nets on
the Fraser river are reported that the
provincial police have established a
patrol on the river and gulf during the
salmon season. A fast steam tug will
patrol the fishing waters.
Three soldiers imprisoned on Cover
nor's Island, n. Y, for desertion, have
tried to escape in rowboat One or
them, Private Bostwick, was shot by
sentry The bullet passed through
his jaw, and he will probably die.
General Funston in an interview,
says the troops of the national guard
of Oregon, Idaho and Washington,
have acquitted themselves creditably
in the maneuvers, and in theft eff
cheney have surprised every officer OF
the army, including General MacAr-
thur
At a recent meeting of the privy
council in London, at which King Ed
ward presided, the request of the rela-
tives of the late Mr.. Kruger, former
president of the South African repub-
lie, for the interment of his remains