Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-02-27
TELEGRAPH NEWS SUMMARY
cULLED FROM DISPATCHES OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.
Emperor William starts for the Med
Iterranean on Monday, March s.
About 81 800 worth of jewelry and
$50 in cash have been stolen from
he hotel apartments of Postmaster
| General Payne at Washington.
The federal assembly, by vote of
20 to is. demanded that Porto Rico
De admitted to statehood or that the
sland be granted independence.
An explosion at the Latin & Rand
podwer mills at Wayne, seven miles
from Paterson, N. j., caused the death
If three men. The mills were wreck
ed
The investigation of the right of
senator Smoot to sit in the United
states senate promises to be the in
Jeresting sideshow of congress this
session.
A Pennsylvania passenger train
was wrecked at Hobart, Ind, in a
neadend collision with a freight train.
Charles Strayer, baggageman, was
killed
General Jesse M. Lee is to succeed
General Fred Grant in Texas. Gen.
eral Lee was under General Chaffee
With the allied troops on their march
TO Pekin during the boxer troubles.
II was thought not a life was lost
in the fire at Baltimore, but a charred
body has been found in the water at
Bowler's wharf. The body is SO bad
ly burned as to be unrecognizable.
Samuel G. Hazard alias Hargreave,
the West Pointer and former army Of
deer, convicted of bigamy at Mime
apolis, Mimi, has been sentenced to
TWO years in the state penitentiary.
The French ambassador, M. Cam
bon, has left London for a week end
visit to Paris, as he frequently does.
The German ambassador, Count Won
Metternich, is also absent on a week
end visit.
Corporal Aylara, ringleader among
the cOnstabulary, who recently revolt
ed at Luzon, has been captured. He
mas since been tried, convicted and
sentenced by the court at Vigan to be
hanged.
Another battle has occurred between
the insurgent Albanians in north AL
0ania and the Turkish troops. The AL
banians were beaten, losing 500 men
killed or wounded. The Turks also
ost heavily.
Fourteen employees of a celluloid
comb factory at the Boulevard Sebas-
topol and the Rue Etienne Mariel,
Paris. lost their lives recently in a
fire, which started by an explosion OF
gas. Twenty others were injured.
Wheat for May delivery at Chicago
sold at $1.07 a bushel last Saturday.
rhe market was extremely active, and
the volume of trading was of enor
nous proportions. The phenomenal
rise in wheat is regarded as showing
that international complications may
be pending.
The house committee on postoffices
and poastrOads today completed the
postoffice appropriation bill, which car
ries S169,997, 5SS. The total appro-
2riation for rural free delivery service
is S21 100000. The salaries of rural
free delivery carriers are increased
from 5000 to $720.
Racine, Wis.-All that remains of
The Racine county insane asylum is
Smoldering ruins, the loss aggregat-
ing $4,000, All of the 1873 patients
escaped, though rescue in many cases
was accomplished with difficulty, as
some of the inmates fought their res
cuers and tried to plunge back into
the burning building.
A blazing Larimer avenue electric
car, with all brakes off and with 20
| passengers aboard, raced down Fifth
avenue from Grant almost to Market
street, Pittsburg. For Is minutes at
ter the car came to a stop it blazed
like furnace. Four of the passen-
gers were seriously hurt and Dorothy
Greenup, who was internally injured,
may die.
A Brooklyn milk dealer has secured
a verdict of $4,000 against the city
after undergoing a remarkable test be-
fore the jury. Hot irons were applied
to one arm and leg and the flesh was
| pierced with surgical instruments to
prove that the plaintiff had suffered
injury as claimed. The milkman, IL
driving through the street, fell into an