Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1905-05-13
AROUND THE WORLD
TELEGRAPH SHORT NOTES FROM
ALL POINTS OF The GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-Natlonal
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

The executive committee of the
isthmian canal commission has adopt-
ed plans to make the zone more at.
tractiye to young Americans.
The supreme court of Kansas has
decided that the Kansas Natural Gas
company can build it's pipe lines along
the public highways, so long as it does
not obstruct the highways.
Springfield Ill.-The board of trade
bill, to put an end to bucket shops.
was killed in the house by a vote of
76 ayes to SO nays.
Calcutta.-India is about to become
the center of a very lively religious
war The leading Hindu thinkers are
organizing for the purpose of driving
theosOphy from the stronghold it has
begun to obtain in Hindustan.
London.-A cure of cancer by means
of radium is claimed by physicians
connected with the hospital for dis
eases of the skin. The patient, a wo-
man, is now enjoying good health.
There is no more unhappy wretch
In all this wide world than Nicholas
H.. car and "autocrat of all the Rus.
sias,' as he grandiloquently calls him
self, writes A. Maurice Low. There is
no man for whom one must entertain
more profound pity, or more profound
contempt.
Further details of the cyclone which
nearly wiped out the little town of
Owl, |. T., place the number of per-
sons seriously injured at seven, one
fatally.
The April statement of the London
board of trade shows an increase of
$9,494,500 in imports, and increase of
$3,726,000 in exports.
The Oregon Lumber Manufacturers
association has been organized by lum-
bermen representing a daily output of
fully 100000 feet of lumber. The
organization included mills in coun-
ties of the states of Oregon and
Washington along the Columbia river
and it's tributaries.
| Muskogee, l. T.-Wewoka, the Sem
mole capital, says the Seminole coun-
Gil has impeached Acting Governor
| Harrison and elected Ex-Governor j.
NJ Brown unanimously to succeed him.
Brown will serve until 1906, when the
tribal form of government termin-
ates.
London.--William A. H. Bass, the
purchased c. d. Roses stallion CYL
lene for $150,OOO. Cyllene is the sire
of a Derby favorite, Cycero.
The Illinois senate has passed a
bill previously adopted by the house
giving the city of Chicago. the right
to fix maximum rates for gas and
electric lights.
Tokio.-The complete tabulation
shows that the fifth internal loan of
$50 100000 was oversubscrbed more
than four times. The rate of issue
was smaller than the early indica-
tons promised.
The worst of the Chicago strike APP
pears to be over, although in troubles
of this kind it is impossible to tell
when a new flame may flare up and
into how large a conflagration it will
develop.
franchise has been asked for a
new electric line, which, the promo
ters say, will extend south as far as
Portland and north as far as Seattle.
There is already an interurban line
between Seattle and Tacoma, with a
contemplated extension to Olympia
and possibly to Portland, Ore.
London.-Charles Arnold, the actor,
died suddenly at the Savage club Sat
urday night while sitting at a piano
singing comic song.
Admiral Dewey says he arises at 5
In the morning to read the war news.
Attorney General Moody's opinion
on the power of the government to
regulate the operation of railroads
and to fix rates for transportation is
one of the clearest and most infor-
native legal opinions that has ever
been rendered on this subject.
One of the largest real estate deals
made in the Boundary, B. c., was
completed Saturday when u. McLen-
nan and e. Miller acquired the well
known Johnson ranch, consisting of
400 acres, about two miles east of
Grand Forks. The price paid was
about $4,000.
John F. Eastman, aged 90, died Sun
day morning at Spokane of general
debility and old age.
Sunday afternoon Joseph Palmer
fell from wood fume near Orc Dell,
about one mile west from La Grande,
and received injuries that may result
in his death. How the accident oc-
Cured Is not definitely known.
Reuben We'll, proprietor of large