Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-03-26

his recent illness.
During the past two months. it is
said, s12, 100000 in gold has left Japan.
Henry Richardson, for many years
editor of the Atlanta Journal, and
widely known as a speaker, is dead.
Andrew Carnegie, with his wife and
daughter, have sailed for Cherbourg.
Mr.. Carnegie expects to be absent UNI
til next fall.
A prairie fire south of Hemingford.,
Neb., is burning fiercely and can be
seen for 20 miles moving northeast of
Alliance toward Lakeside.
Thomas Lawrence Forrest, pioneer
banker and the last of four brothers
who were identified with the CONNER,
cial life of Chicago, is dead, aged S5
years.
Ralph Rose, Michigan's freshman
shot putter, recently broke the world
record for the II pound shot by send
irg the ball distance of 56 feet three
inches.
Major Theodore Bingham, of the
United States engineer corps, was bad
ly injured recently while superintend-
ing the hosting of a launch in the
Buffalo. N. Y. harbor
Lieutenant Governor James II. Till
man, recently acquitted of murder for
the killing Of Editor N. G. Gonzales of
Columbia, S. c., has announced his can
didacy for congress.
Chauncey Dewey and his two cow
boys, Clyde Wilson and William j.
Mcbride, were acquitted Of the charge
Of numbering nurchard Berry, by
jury at norton. Kan.
One man was killed, several more or
less seriously injured and one white
woman wounded in fight between
negroes and deputy sheriffs about two
miles west of Bessemer. Ala.
Charged with embezzlement, Fran
els B. Wright, cashier Of the First Ma
tional bank OF Dundee, ILL.,, has been
indicted by the federal grand jury
lie is alleged to have embezzled $54,
600.
Administrators of the estate of the
late George Francis Gilman, the mil
.iOnaire merchant Of New York, have
fully settled the claim of Helen Potts
Hall for 100000 They paid her $50
200 in cash and $4,000 in securities
Robbers blow the First National
bank building at Firth, Neb., to pieces
IN an attempt to loot the safe. but
failed to secure the treasure They
we're scared away by citizens without
securing any booty.
Cashier Atkinson of the Miami bank
1t Atchison, Indiana, was shot in the
head by burglars and seriously wound
cd. The burglars had blown out the
front wall of the building when Chas.
Warren and Atkinson attacked them
and caused them to fee. The robbers
failed to obtain any of the $4,000 in
the banks vaults.
d. G. CorDin's offer to build a rail
road to connect Spokane directly with
the Canadian Pacific railroad is receiv-
ed fayorably by the financiers and bus
mess men Of Spokane and it's tribu-
tary districts, and many Of them have
expressed their willingness to aid in
procuring him the right of way and
terminals asked for within the city linn
it's.
British submarine boat No. Al was
run down and sunk off the Nab light
ship by a Donald Currie liner and II
persons were drowned, including Lieu
tenant Mansergh, the senior officer en-
gagged in the submarine work. The
liner passed on and reported that she
had struck torpedo. At the time she
was struck the submarine boat was off
the lightship engaged in the maneu
yers, and was lying in seven fathoms
Of water waiting the approach Of a
| battleship.