Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-06-11
TELEGRAPH NEWS SUMMARY
cULLEp PROM DISPATCHER OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
A Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events TerseIy Told.

Mrs Bertha Calhoun is supposed to
have persisted in a fire which destroy
ed her home in Berkeley, Cal.
T. b. Hall, provincial assessor al
Victoria, Il. c., has been arrested toI
alleged shortage of $4,000 in depart
mental accounts.
Albert Johnson, year old child OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Johnson, has
been accidentally hanged in his grand
fathers barn near Tooele, Utah.
Stanley Waterloo, widely known as
newspaper writer, was knocked
down by a mail wagon in Chicago,
He is believed to have sustained a
fracture of the skull and his recovery
is said to be doubtful
The University of Michigan won the
intercollegiate Athletic association
meet held on Marshall field, Chicago,
securing 80 points. Chicago was sec
ond with 20 points and Wisconsin
third with a total of 2.
Contempt proceedings of Federal
Judge Purnell against Editor JOsephus
Daniels of the News and Observer at
Raleigh, n c.. who has been in Gus
tody since Monday for refusing to pay
81 900 fne have been dismissed.
Cincinnati and New York broke even
in the series with a tie ball game
Saturday which was witnessed by
probably the largest number of spec
Ia, l.; ,f hog he
official count of the attendance was
1928.
The purchase by the United States
government of the Kahauika military
site, near Honolulu, has been com
pleted, the federal government paying
the leaseholders $4,000. The tract
includes 1900 acres. Forts, barracks
and camps will be erected upon it.
c. =. Elliott, formerly a theatrical
manager in Chicago, killed himself at
st. Cloud, Mimi, in the dressing room
of a theatre. Elliott's business part
ner declares that the reason for the
suicide was that Elliott had an unfor-
tunate love affair, over which he
brooded until he became respondent.
Frank T. Young, known on the turf
as Caesar Young, bookmaker, horse
owner and stockh rlder in Pacific coast
race tracks, was shot and killed in a
hanson cab recently at New York. He
was on his way to the White Star
line pier to join his wife, with whom
he was to have sailed for Europe.
Complying with request of the
house committee on civil service re-
form, the civil service commission has
prepared a statement showing that the
total number of former soldiers and
former sailors of the civil war en-
ployed in the executive departments
at Washington, is 2175, and she wild
ows of the veterans SO employed $685.
The official count of the vote of the
international Typographical union for
officers has been completed at head
quarters. For trustees of the union
printers home Thomas McCaffery of
Colorado Springs. receiving 1887
votes and Thomas f. Crowley of Gin
cinnati, with 1887 votes, were elect
ed. James +. Lynch was reelected
president by large majority.
John Slmms, a prominent white
planter of Trail Lake, Miss, and Will
liam Cato, his manager, were killed
by two negroes, Samuel Clark and
Van Horn. in dispute over trivial
matter. The negroes escaped but
Horn was captured and taken to Lee
land, where he was lynched. Clark
returned to Trail Lake, where he was
shot and killed. The posse shot and
killed another negro named Mayfield,
thinking he was Clark
An explosion of the gelatin house of
the Hercules Powder works at Pinole
Cal, caused the death of three men
The building and its contents. valued
at about $4,000, were DESTROYED. The
men killed were Alexander McCul
Tough, John Smith and All Young. a
Chinese. Three others were injured
but not seriously.