Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1906-10-20
SHORT TELEGRAPH ITEMS FROM
ALL PARTS OF The GLOBE.
A Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

Der 16 to Miss Marie Wing Gordon.
The American armored cruisers,
Maryland and Pennsylvania, have en-
tered the Suez canal bound south
ward.
Gustaf Roscher, age g. and his wife,
10 years younger, were found dead in
bed recently at Chicago with the gas
turned on.
Mary Bowan, accused of embez-
cling $1,000 from the money order de-
partment of the Oakland, Cal, post
office, was found not guilty. The de-
tense was insanity.
By an explosion of a converter in
the plant of the Illinois Steel COM
pany at South Chicago about 20 work
men were badly burned, two of them
so seriously that it is believed they
will die.
The new million dollar beet sugar
factory Of the United States Sugar &
Land company at Garden City, Kan,
is now in operation.
Chanting hymns until the entire Jail
re-echoed with his powerful voice,
Daniel Francis, the negro evangelist,
convicted of the murder of his wife,
and the family friend Mrs. Dora
Scroggs, was led to the scaffold in
Chicago.
President Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor has taken the
| the purpose Of opposing anti-labor
Congressional nominees and urging
! the union men to support their oppo-
nents.
The attorney general has prepared
an opinion holding that the general
eight-hour law applies to work in con-
nection with the irrigation reclama-
ton service.
George Anderson, a workman en-
gagged in clearing land at Central park
near Vancouver, B. c., was killed by
a blast recently.
The bad men" are getting so bad
at San Francisco that vigilance COM
mittee is in charge of matters.
A cigar stump left in the window of
an opera house started fire Saturday
which destroyed the business section
of Bristol, Iowa.
Secretary Hitchcock says that as
soon as the renegade Uintah Ute Ind
ians, who are now in Wyoming, reach
the Crow Indian reservation the de-
partment of the interior will see that
they return to their reservation in
Utah, even if troops have to accom-
pany them.
The Pope received Saturday at the
vatican and declares he is in better
health.
G. w. Campbell cut his wifes throat
from ear to ear and committed suicide
in the same way at a hotel in Tuelpo,
Miss.
The Southern California Veterinary
association has declared war on be-
whiskered dairymen. If it has its way,
caretakers, mixers and milk deliver
ers in this country will have to go
clean shaven.
Hendrickson and Thornton, the es-
capped desperadoes, of the Tanana dis
trict, Alaska, were captured near Ma
ton City, below Eagle, not far from
where they escaped from the steamer
Lavelle Young, while en- route to Sc
attic.
Dissatisfied with the exciting condi-
lions in their country, GautemalaR
| political refugees have applied to Pres
ident Roosevelt to bring about annex
alton of that republic to the United
! States
The Salvation Army has rented John
Alexander Dowie's Custom road taber-
nacle in London, for years his Euro
pean headquarters, and will convert it
into a salvation hall.
Owing, 1t Is alleged, to unpromising
investments, the Ontario bank in To-
ronto, Ont, is in difficulties, and ar
raHgements have been made whereby
its assets and good will have been
taken over by the Bank of Montreal.
The strike at Lodz, Russia, still con-
tlnues and the police are unable to
check the disturbances which are &C.
curing hourly. Street riotingSis con-
stantly being waged.
Omaha Count John A. Creighton.
one of the founders of Creighton mil
versity has decided to that institution
two buildings in the wholesale district
worth about $500, 900. They are leased
for long term of years, and will paw
the university about per cent net on
the investment.
1t is reported that James A. Dale.
keeper of a boarding house at Carmi
b. c.. has killed two men and wound
ed third.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow OF the
president of the confederate states. ia
dying of pneumonia at the Hotel Ma
jestic in New York city.
Mrs. Davis is dead, according to n
later report.
: The struggle now on between capital
and labor in Oakland, Cal. is the most
serious that city has ever known.
, Plans for IL story building for
/, August Paulsen, the wealthy mining
, man of Wallace, Idaho, to be erected
/. at the southeast corner of Riverside