Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-11-26
THE WORLDS NEWS NOTES.
.uLLED FROM DISPATCHES OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
= Review of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past week-NationaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.

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IL, of Riverton, N. j. was killed Sat
urday in football game.
1t is officially announced that Italy
has agreed to take part in the new
| peace conference at The Hague.
Carl Buenz, the German consul gen
eral at New York port, is dangerously
i'll from a relapse of pneumonia.
A great storm ragged Saturday night
along the Pacific coast from British
Columbia to the California line.
San Diego, Cal.-Rev. r. B. Taylor,
pastor of First Presbyterian church,
was drowned in the bay Saturday.
The naval estimates for the fiscal
year ending June 3d. 1906, aggregate
S114 ,530,678, an increase of $17,372,-
448 over the last appropriation.
Six thousand garment workers be-
longing to the special order of the gar
ment workers union struck in 20 fac
tories of Chicago, following a walkout
of $50 cutters.
1t is asserted in official circles that
the reports which have reached the
United States of great distress in
Macedonia from cold and hunger are
without foundation.
While sorting mail in the postoffice
at New York city, clerk came across
new 81 bill, stamped and addressed
to Miss Althea Briggs of Kingston,
N. Y. Miss Briggs now has the bill.
At least II lives were lost in a fire
in Brooklyn tenement house Satur-
day. 1t is believed that the death list
will equal Is. Twelve persons were
injured, none, it is believed, fatally.
Twenty-Five gas tanks in the big rail
road gas charging station at Seventy
third street and South Chicago explod-
ed recently. Five employees were kill
ed and a score injured, two seriously.
Victoria, B. C.-The barkentine Max
aweli, Captain Nelson, lumber laden
from Tacoma to Mazatlan, Mexico has
foundered on the west coast of Van
couver island, at Clayoquot, all hands
perishing.
Through the arrest of George Mack,
Anna Held's chauffeur, the mystery
surrounding the finding of Jacob Glenn
Pelham Parkway, in New York city,
was cleared.
The fourth annual meeting of the
executive committee of the National
Civic Federation, at which president
to succeed the late President Hanna
will be elected, will be held in New
York city on December Is.
At Lafayette, Ind, the Foster Furni-
ture store was completely destroyed
by fire recently. Loss, 100000. Ben
jamin O'Connor, fireman, was fatally
injured by fall, and II other tiremen
were overcome by smoke.
A beam mill with a monthly capac-
| ity of 10000 to $4,000 tons of finished
! structural shapes is to be added to the
| Chicago plant of the Illinois Steel COM
pany, at a cost of $1,200,000. 1t is
said 500 persons will be employed.
A pumpkin pie five feet long and
three feet wide was presented to Sen
atOr Plat by republican friends in
Waverly. N. Y. The pie weighs 200
pounds and is to be at the buckwheat
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Rio Janeiro-A battalion of infantry
stationed at Bahia mutinied recently,
at the instigation of a sub-lieutenant
according to a telegram received here.
The commander tried to address the
men, but was shot dead by the ring
leader with a revolver
President Roosevelt has ordered the
department of commerce and labor to
thoroughly investigate the petroleum
industry of the United States. The OBJ
ject is to ascertain whether the Stan
dard Oil company is an illegal combi-
nation in restraint of trade.
All the pupils in "a" grade OF the
Norwood high school in Cincinnati, o.,
consisting of 16 sons and daughters of
the most prominent families in the
suburb, were Indefinitely suspended be-
cause they took down the American
flag from the school Flagstaff and sub
stituted the class colors.
Toronto, Ont.-A street car, with a
trailer attached, got beyond control
recently and crashed through the
guard gates at the Queen street cross
ing of the Grand Trunk railway. A
freight train struck the forward car
grinding it to splinters. Every pas
senger on the street cars was injured,
two dying soon after being taken from
the werckage and two at the hospital.
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