Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1905-07-22
NEWS OF The WORLD.
SHORT TELEGRAPH ITEMS FROM
ALL POINTS OF THE GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-NationaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

The crop report does not support
the predictions that famine is COM
ing in Russia.
Private advices from Washington
say that Governor Carter of Honolulu
will reconsider his resignation.
St. Petersburg.-Ne for
the Russo-French commercial treaty
have been started at the ministry of
finance.
Reports of the existence of epidem-
les and contagious diseases among the
Russians continue to reach the Jap
anese army.
1t is stated that the management of
the Southern Pacific railroad has de.
cided to supplant Japanese section
hands with Greeks.
Lieutenant General Chaffee and par
ty of army officers who are to at
tend the French army maneuvers, will
sail from New York August 10.
The recent national convention of
the Young Peoples Christian union of
erick w. Perkins of Lynn, Mass, pres
ident
Three persons were killed and six
wounded by a volley fired by Cos
sacks during antigovernment demon
strations in Kami Lenna street, LODI,
recently.
In a head on collision between two
h. %
Nashville near Upton, Md, four per-
sons were killed and eight injured,
one fatally.
The boiler of Santa Fe freight en-
CINE exploded at Kingman, Ariz., re-
Gently killing Engineer Copeland and
the fireman, Bryant, and completely
wrecking the engine.
Gustav Heuter, a retired capitalist,
was shot and killed recently at his
home three miles from Alma. Cal. by
his young wife, who said the shoot
ing was done in self defense.
Dean Wright of the Yale academic
department. in report to President
Hadley, says one of the worst evils
in Yale is the segregation of rich stu
dents in expensive dornitories.
Frenzied by melancf. ~ and con-
tinued brooding over fencied injuries,
| Chares II. Davis slew his wife and
months old baby son and committed
suicide himself in his home at Spo-
kane.
At the request of the New York po-
lice Edward Park, an American charg
ed with being a diamond thief, was ar
rested on landing at Christiania from
the Scandinavian American line steam
er United States.
General Villjoen, formerly Of the
Boer army, was married in ST. Louis
last week to Mrs. Myrtle Dickerson
Lowden of Pittsfeld, Ill. General
Villjoen met his bride during the
worlds fair.
Despite the slightly lower tempera
ture and brisk northwest breeze,
the deaths from heat in New York city
last Saturday reached the highest
number Of the summer, for there were
% victims.
General Napoleon j. Dana, U. S. A,
retired. of Washington, was found
dead at Portsmouth, N. H.. at the
home of Mrs. George H. Joy, where he
was passing the summer. Death was
due to apopleXy.
A large four story building in course
of erection at Winnipeg was blown
down recently by gale, and in fall
ing one wall crushed two adjoining
houses. Four were killed and up
wards of dozen injured.
w. F. Patrick mining man well
known throughout the west and espe-
cially in California and Colorado, is
dead at Rhyolite, New. He was a
pioneer in the Bull Frog district, and
made a fortune in Goldfeld.
At the weekly prayer meeting of the
Euclid Baptist church John d. Rookie
Teller said that the Christian faith
demands that every man must do ac-
cording to which he hath or accord |
ing to that with which he hath been
blessed.
Louis Apgar, IS years old, married |
and a grandfather, killed himself in
Jersey City recently by shooting, as
a result of sensational disclosures that |
terminated in the granting of di- |
yorce to George NJ. Myers against
Clara E. Myers.
Chinese merchants of Victoria, B. |
c., are furthering the boycott to be
instituted in China against American
goods and have decided not to buy
American goods. The Chinese mer-
chants in interview say the boycott
will be carried out throughout China
Three men were killed on Holly
creek, near Lee City, KY, as the re-
suit, it is believed, of feud of long
standing. The dead are Frank Smith,
aged so, and his two sons, William