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 Hemlspheres
During the Past Week-NationaI.
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

| 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 its pipe lines along
the public highways, so long as 1t 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 vote of
76 ayes to SO nays.
Calcutta.-lndia 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, |. r., 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
| So 494 500 in imports, and increase of
| S3,726,000 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. A
Muskogee, /. T.--Wewoka, the =
mole capital, says the SemiHole
ell has impeached Actingj Gs
Harrison and elected ex-Govd
M. Brown unanimously to succeed 1
Brown will serve until 1906, WI
tribal form of government
ates. l
William A. II. Bias
nephew and heir of Lord Burto
purchased c. d. Roses stallion En-
Iene for $4,000 Cyllene is the M
Of Derby favorite, Cycero.
The Illinois senate has passd
bill previously adopted by the h
giving the city of Chicago the Il
to fix maximum rates for gas
electric lights.
TokiO.-The complete tabulatiol
shows that the fifth internal loan
| $50,000000 was oversubscribed mS
than four times. The rate Of III
was smaller than the early inJ
tons promised.
The worst of the Chicago strik
pears to be over, although in trJ
Of this kind it is impossible
when a new flame may fare u
into how large a conflagration
develop
franchise has been asked
new electric line, which, the ri
ters say, will extend south as Il
Portland and north as far as Sea,
There is already an interurban
between Seattle and Tacoma, With
contemplated extension to Olympia y
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 a comic song.
Admiral Dewey says he arises at
in the morning to read the war news
Attorney General Moodys 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
complete 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 go, died Sun
day morning at Spokane of general
debility and old age.
ounudy dlUeInoOn Joseph fAImeT
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
department store at Spokane, died
Saturday night in San Francisco. from
heart failure. aggravated by asthma
and overwork.