Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1905-03-18
SHORT TELEGRAPH NOTES FROM
ALL POINTS OF HEMISPHERE.
a Review of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.


Uruguay have signed an extradition
treaty between the two countries.
The battle on the right flank and
around Mukden appears to be the
greatest of the war, except Port Ar
thur.
w J. Clark of independence, Kan,
was found dead in bed at his rooms in
San Francisco. Gas was issuing from
two burners.
George w. Wakefield, Judge of the
district court and ex-president of the
Iowa State Bar association, is dead.
aged IS years.
Robbers entered the Bank of Rem
frow, Oklahoma, recently, at an early
hour, blew open the safe and escaped
with $1,000 in cash.
All the diamond settlers and polish.
ers in one of the trade centers in New
York are on strike for a 10 per cent
increase and shorter hours.
A magnificent living specimen of the
California condor has been shipped to
the Central Park zoo in New York. 1t
measures II feet from tip to tip.
Mrs. Mamie Nye Jackson, widow Of
Frederick Wolcott Jackson, formerly
general superintendent of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad in New Jersey, is dead
Henry Norcross Mum, editor of The
Scientific American, is dead at his
home in New York. He was a member
of the firm which published that paper
Dowager Empress Margerla Feodo-
rava, the cars mother, will soon leave
St Petersburg for Denmark at the ur-
gent request of King Christian, her
father.
Vice President Fairbanks has ap-
pointed as his private secretary Fred
G. Fairbanks, his son. He was gradu-
ated from Princeton in the class Of
1903.
Santo Domingos debts total the sum
of $24, 643 1857 according to date com
piled by Senator Morgan. The amount
is owed by the little republic in big
Jumps.
Thomas j. Ryan has been informed
by the president that he is to be con-
tinued as assistant secretary of the in.
terror Mr., Ryan has held the office
nearly eight years.
The British steamer Saxon Prince.
bound for Vladivostock with a cargo
OF steel rails, has been seized by the
Japanese in the Tsu straits and taken
to Sasebo for trial.
Count Tolstoi is against the strikes
in Russia. He says the people take the
wrong course. Religious and moral
| perfection of the individual is the prop
er course to pursue
1t is now announced that 90 lives
have been lost as result of the ex-
plosion which occurred recently in the
Cambrian colliery at Clydachyale, in
the Rhonda valley, Wales.
o. E. Snyder, the OIin Oowa) bank
er, who assigned last December, has
disappeared. A warrant for his arrest
has been issued. Snyder's liabilities
amount to $145000, mostly bank de
posits.
President William r. Harper of the
University of Chicago has so far re-
covered from the effects of his recent
surgical operation for cancer that he
feels equal to taking journey to Eu-
rope.
EbeneZer Buckingham Converse. a
well known lawyer, practicing in New
York, is dead at his home in Engle-
wood, N. j. He was a son of the late
Charles c. Converse judge of the SUI
preme court of Ohio.
Water from Minnehaha Falls will be
used in christening the battleship Min
nesota. announces Governor johnson.
Miss Rose Marie SchaIler, the uniyer-
sity student, is to christen the battle
ship.
Saturday is payday at the Cranky
and the Montreal & Boston mines. at
Phoenix, b. c., and the amount to be
distributed being about $4,000 or with
the amount also paid out at the com
panies' respective smelters, about $75,-
900.
An explosion in the Yough mine near
Irwin, Pa, caused by miner igniting
a blast started fierce fire in the shaft
and endangered the lives of 10 men
who were at work. All escaped in
jury, however Efforts to smother the
flames have been unsuccessful.
The funeral services of William Bate
of Tennessee were held in the senate
chamber Saturday. The president,
members of his cabinet, the chief jus
tice and associate justices of the SUI
preme court, the diplomatic corps,
members of the house of representa-
tives, who are in the city, and repre-
sentatives of the army were present
and occupied seats in the chamber.