Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-06-15
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HEREWITH.

Charles Quigley, a laborer employed
In Golden Gate park, in San Francisco,
was killed by an automobile
After an existence of IL years ana
three days. the Chicago Chronicle sus-
nended publication last Friday.
The lid is on in st. Paul, Mimi, all
saloons having been ordered closeu
Sundays by board of police commits
sioners.
Rear Admiral Coghlan, retired, does
not believe Japan and the United
States will go to war in the near
future.
John E. Hasen, city editor of the
Desert Evening News of Salt Lake,
died from pneumonia, following an
operation for appendicitis.
Secretary of State Root will visit
Mexico in the near future. He Will go
to Mexico City and will, of course,
confer with President Diaz.
The steam dredge Seattle caught
fire in dry dock at Naples, Cal, from
an explosion of oil and was burned to
the water edge, with a loss of $l5O,0O0.
The Panama canal, as now planned,
will be 40 and a fraction miles long
and 40 feet deep, with a minimum
width of 200 feet. The estimated cost
is $145,000,000.
Engineer Temple and Fireman
Hardwick were killed recently when a
switch engine on the Houston g. Texas
Central rolled down an embankment
near Lamont, Texas.
Grief-stricken at the series of mis-
fortunes heaped upon him in the last
year, Thomas X. Melody, for Al years
an official in the Chicago postofIice,
lies at the point of death.
Geneya-Federai engineers and peas
ants are making a brave effort to save
the little tourist resort of Kienthal,
in the Overland, from being swept
away by the slowly advancing avail
anche.
Emperor Francis Joseph, in celebra-
ton of the 40th anniversary of his cor
onation as king of Hungary, June 8, |
1867, decreed a far-reaching amnesty, |
especially for persons sentenced for |
lese majesty.
The decision of the federal authori- |
ties not to institute criminal proceed
ings against Il. II. Hartman in connec-
ton with his railroad operations is
the principal subject of discussion on
Wall street.
The United States revenue cutter |
Rush broke down recently at Port |
Simpson, after towing the seized Vic
toria sealing schooner Carlotta c. |
Cox from Sitka to that port to turn
her over to the British authorities for
trial
The outbreak at Kaiseien, in the
province of Tzechuan, China in which |
the mission station there was destroy
ed, was due to the efforts of the gov
eminent to enforce the new law |
against the cultivation and sale of
opium.
1t has been learned that Miss Elsie |
Fox will nay Mrs Parrish. widow of |
the man who was killed in the acct |
dental collision with an automobile in |
London, which Miss Fox was driving, |
the sum of $500 Miss Fox is an
American.
Captain S. FRANKIE, who was master
OF the steamship Dakota when she
was lost in Japanese waters a few
months ago, has appealed to Supervis-
ing Inspector John Birmingham to mi
tigate the severity of the sentence i'm
posed on him by the United States in
spectors of hulls and boilers at Sc
attic.
One of the largest deals that has
ever been put through in fruit lands
In British Columbia has been consum-
mated in the sale of the Cold Springs
ranch, situated on the west arm of the
lake about 16 miles from Nelson.
which was disposed of to Messrs.
Francis Brothers and Gordon of Lon
don, England, for a sum closely ap-
proXimating 100000 the sellers be-
ing DR.. d. LaBau and S. A. Bridges.