Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1905-01-28
WORLDS LATE NEWS NOTES.
cULLED FROM DISPATCHES 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.

The New Ulm, MINI, jury in the
case of DR.. G.. H. Koch, charged with
the murder of DR.. L. A. Gebhardt, ON
November /, disagreed.
Delegate Randall of Wyoming, who
charged President Mitchell with hav-
ing sold out the Colorado miners, has
been expelled from the United Nine
workers union.
1t has been proposed to dam Port
Arthur harbor at the entrance and
pump out the water preparatory to
salving the Russian warshlps.
Hay and Minister Grip of Sweden
and Norway have signed an arbitration
treaty between this country and Nor
way and Sweden. 1t is patterned after
the French treaty now before the sem
ate.
John Kenneth Mackenzie, a mining
engineer, and DR.. Robert G. Coy,
dentist both of Chicago, were killed
recently by Indians, So miles from Her.
mosillo, Sonora, Mexico, according to
report.
R. l.. Borden, leader of the Canad-
ian conservative party, who was de.
feated in the general election last Nov
ember, has been provided with a seat
in parliament by the resignation of
Edward Kidd, M. p, of Carleton, Ont.
General Stoessel and the large num-
hp, - 1oI off l. 81 Il,
hal for Marseilles.
George Gerber, a Laramie, Wyo.
merchant, was found dead in his store
with his skull crushed and his throat
cut. Robbery was the motive.
Charles Chaffin, son of a we'll known
cement contractor, committed suicide
at Redlands, Calf, by taking strych-
nine, while respondent over love
affair.
Diplomatic negotiations have been
broken off between Minister Bowen at
Caracas and President Castro by the
departure of Senior Castro from the
capital. Mr.. Bowen notified the state
department that he had rejected Cas-
tro's proposition to refer the asphalt
dispute to court of arbitration,
whereupon Castro left Caracas.
The plant of the Terre Haute, Ind. :,
Traction and Light company was dam
aged by fire recently to the extent of
$780, 900.
The odium. that long has rested on
South Dakota as an "easy" divorce
state is likely to be lifted. A reform
bill soon will be presented in the legis-
lature to abate the evil.
James Samuel McCue, a former
mayor of Charlottesville, Va, was
hanged in the county Jail recently for
the murder of his wife.
Governor Lafollette of Wisconsin
was chosen Monday night by the Joint
session republican caucus as senator to
succeed Quarles.
A high official at Pekin of the Chin
ese foreign office said in an interview
recently that the neutrality of China
was assured now as hitherto.
1t is stated that there are IS, 500 sick
and wounded Russian prisoners at Port
Arthur, of these, 367 are connected
with the navy.
1t is proposed that the Minnesota
educational exhibit, which won the
grand prize at the ST. Louis fair, be
sent to the Lewis and Clark exposition
at Portland, Oregon.
A number of persons were injured,
four seriously, by the wrecking of the
Sunrise express on the Boston & Maine
railroad near Durham, N. Fl.
John Martin Speyer, circus per-
former, formerly of New Orleans, who
killed his young son while showing in
Kansas city two years ago, was found
guilty of murder in the first degree.
The grand jury, which has for two
months been investigating the election
frauds in Pueblo county, Colorado, has
reported to the court and then dis
charged. One hundred new indict-
ments were returned.
At Wilson, Kansas, recently, City
Marshal Tillman shot and killed Sam
Hutchinson, the postmaster and editor
of a paper, and then committed sui
eide. Several days ago Tillman whip
ped Hutchinson boy and the latter
scored the marshal in his paper.
Most of the business men of Spokane |
look to the Canadian Pacific connec-
ton with Spokane, through ID. G. Cor
bins proposed Spokane International
railroad, as the solution of the freight |
rate problem for the Inland Empire.
The senate has passed bill appro-
priating 500, 900 for the state exhibit
at the Lewis and Clark fair and Great
ing fair commission to spend the the
money and arrange the exhibit.
In the annual report for 1904 of the
Spokane postal division, including Spo-
kane, Seattle, Tacoma, Portland,
Butte and Helena, Spokane shows the
heaviest percentage increase in bust