Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-03-30
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

general of Missouri from 1872 to 1874,
is dead
The Chicago Orchestral association
has been given $4,000 by Mrs. Flor
ence Lathrop Page Of Washington,
d. G.
Edward A. Slack, receiver of the
land office, a well known newspaper
man and a pioneer of Wyoming, is
dead.
The navy department has ordered
the equipment of the United States
ship San Francisco as a mine laying
vessel.
George j. Woodruff of the forestry
service has been appointed assistant
attorney general to succeed Frank L.
Campbell.
Mrs. John COmeau and three chill
d-en were frozen to death in a snow
drift at St Simon, N. b., during the
recent blizzard.
The 18th annual meeting of the
Trans-Missssippi Commercial con-
gress will be held at Muskegee, l. r.,
November 10 to %.
Ward NJ Synder, son of a Pittsburg
millionaire, has been indicted at Sap
ulpa, |. T., by the grand jury on the
charge of bigamy.
Officials of the Pennsylvania rail.
road are satisfied that robbery was the
motive for Wrecking the Chicago linn
tied near Stewart, Pa.
A statement of the business of II
general land Office shows a material
Increase In the number of entries,
filings and selections made.
Fire at IrontOn, O., caused 100000
loss in two hours. The entire plant
OF the lrOnton Lumber company and
nine residences were destroyed.
The government will enter on a
thorough prosecution of all men i'll
Glcted for fraudulent dealings in coal
and agricultural lands in Nebraska.
The French committee on hygiene
has reported favorably on the prohi-
bition of the manufacture and sale
of absinthe, after one and two years
respectively.
James w. Van Cleave of st. Louis
is in Boston agitating the formation
of a gigantic employers organization
on the plan of the American Fedora
ton of Labor.
Secretary Taft has reconsidered his
decision OF an earlier date in regard
to the eight hour law, saying it does
not apply to cooks, captains, deck
hands and pilots.
The steamship Northwest, formerly
ha Of
Atlantic, lies a wreck on the south
end of La Touche island on the south
western coast of Alaska.
At North Baltimore, Ohio, Arthur
Bean killed his wife with an ak and
then committed suicide by shooting
himself. Bean had forbidden his wife
visiting her family
A fire which started in the boiler
room of the Bluff City Lumber COM
pany at Pine Bluff, Ark, destroyed
several residences and the plant. The
less will exceed 100000.
President Roosevelt has expressed
his disapproyal of the verdict of ac-
Quittal Of Captain Lewis NJ. Koehler,
OF the Fourth cavalry u. S. A., COM
mander at Jolo, Philippine islands.
According to the weather bureau
Friday was the hottest March day
ever experienced in Washington, d.
T., the thermometer registering 80 de-
grees at 4 O'Clock in the afternoon.
The rehearsal OF the closing ex-
ercises at a country school house west
OF Carmi, Ill. ended in a tragedy and
the arrest of a farmer for the MUIR
der of man who had been his friend
and neighbor for years.
Major G. w. Penrose of the Twenty
fifth infantry has been acquitted of the
charge of neglect of duty preferred
against him at the instance of Presi-
dent Roosevelt for alleged misconduct
in connection with the shooting up"
of Brownsville, Texas, by negro SOL
d!eIs of the Twenty-fifth infantry, last
August.
Sacramento, Cal.-Because his lit
tie granddaughter, Ellen Gum, re-
fused to sing a second song to him,
MOnicO Echeverria shot her in the
left side and then fired at his daught-
er, Mrs. Cato and Miss McKenna be.
fore sending a bullet into his own
brain. The granddaughter is not ex-
pected to live.
Secretary of War Taft has recon-
mended mitigation of sentence of Cap
tain Will Cochran, Twenty-fourth
infantry, who was convicted in the
Philippines of drunkenness and sen.
fenced to dismissal The secretary's
action is based on evidence of the Of
ftcer's splendid record. 1t is under
stood the president will approve the
| secretary's recommendations.
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