Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1904-08-13
TELEGRAPH NEWS SUMMARY
cuLLED FROM DISPATCHES OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
A Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-Nationai,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.

| HSShts Jersey Iolo'
The United States battleship low;
is at Gibraltar.
Alton B. Parker has ceased to b,
chief justice of the court of appeal!
or New York by handing in his resig
nation after two minutes session o
court, in which he and associate judge:
| disposed of sc cases remaining ON the
calendar.
Chicago bankers complain that The
packing house strike is having a mos
serious effect on the local money mar
ket.
An attempt was made recently or
the life of President Battle y Ordenez
of Uruguay. While driving with his
family along one of the principa
streets a burning torpedo was exploded
at the side of the carriage. No one
was injured.
The federal government is preparing
to take an active part in the stock
yards strike.
The British expedition into Tibet has
reached Lhassa with no further fight
ing than was reported in the last dis
patches.
NJ. w. O'Connell, former marshal of
Victor, Col, came to his death re-
Gently in Denver by falling from a
fourth story window in the rear of
the Markham hotel There is doubt
as to whether he met with an accident,
committed suicide or was murdered.
Ottawa, Ont.-The senate has passed
the anticombine bill. 1t now awaits
the royal assent. The bill is designed
to protect the Canadian tobacco man
ufacturers.
Mr. Griscom, the American minister
at Toxic, has notified the state de-
partment that the commander of the
Japanese forces in Manchuria deems
it necessary that foreign vessels should
not either enter Yinkow or anchor
there until order has been restored in
that region.
One workman was killed and another
fatally injured at the transformer sta
ton of the electric railway company
at Vancouver, B. c., recently. j. Bays
was killed and r. L. Green, in endeav-
oring to remove Bays body from the
wire, was badly burned and will not
recover.
The Pittsburg Post prints a story
that a new $20,000,000 coal combine
composed of % Independent companies
is in process of formation. The prin-
cipal objects of the new combine, it is
said, are to establish selling agencies
and maintain prices.
phia-Clara Nicholas, a
Young waitress, whose spinal cord was
pierced by bullet fired by a jealous
sweetheart as she was leaving her
place of employment in January, 1901,
and who it was believed would be a
helpless cripple as the result of her
injury, has shown such wonderful i'm
provement recently that it is thought
she will be in a short time recovered
completely.
The Chicago stockyardS strikers for
got their animOsity and troubles last
Saturday long enough to Join in a
peaceable demonstration, the first
since the strike was called nearly four
weeks ago. In street parade several
miles ling, fully $4,000 strikers and
their families encircled the stOckyards
district, marching to music from a doz
en- bands. The demonstration ended
with picnic at Oswald's grove, where
addresses were made by prominent la
Dor leaders.
Lack of demand for new cars has
compelled the Pullman company to le
go fully 1000 men from it's shops neal
chicago since July 1.
| Fire broke out in the basement Of
the Gait House in Louisville, one Of
the largest hostelries in the city, at al
early morning hour, and for a time
serious consequences were feared
| There were over three hundred guest!
in the hotel, all of whom were awak
ened and escaped to the street.
An Atchison, Topeka & Santa F.
passenger train from Chicago crashed
into troney car at Kansas City. One
person was killed and 10 injured, ont
seriously. The accident was caused
by the bars being up.
One of the most remarkable trip
in connection VIZ the exploitation o
the worlds fair was completed whel
the nev. p. S. Werner, Presbyterian
missionary, who brought eight pygmie
out of the African jungles, arrived il
st. Louis. His journey included 26,0O
miles, 500 miles of which was travers
ed on foot through the wilds and des
erts of central Africa. The trip laste'
eight months.
The postoffice department issued a.
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