Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-06-01
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Under new regulations for the cadets
| in the United States military academy
annual physical examinations will be
| held
Eastman, Ga.-Miss Sallie Feeney,
widow charged with the murder of
w. P. Hargill, was found guilty. The
jury making plea for mercy.
Evansville, Ind.-The streetcar
strike, which has been on In this city
for 10 days, has been settled.
St Petersburg lower house
Of parliament has appropriated $780,
900 for a famine relief fund.
John Bell, the Brooklyn trolley car
conductor accused of the murder of
DR.. Charles w. Townsend, a prominent
! physician of Staten Island, who had at
tended Bells wife in childbirth, in
'7tich she died, was convicted Of MUIR
der in the first degree and sentenced
to be electrocuted on July l.
Five workmen were killed recently
by an explosion of amOnia in Armour
& Co.'s packing plant at Chicago.
The national conference of Dunkards
at Los Angeles has passed a resolu-
ton cOndemning the wearing of neck
ties.
Walter O'Neill, II year old son of
prominent resident of Superior, Wis,
was found dead recently in a boxcar
at that place.
Theodore Tilton, the American edit
or and author. who has been i'll in
Paris for several days past of pneu-
monia, is dead.
No actors name will be among
those inscribed in the hall of fame at
New York university this week
Binghamton, N. Y.--James O'Con-
nell, president of the international
Association of Machinists has called
out the entire force of union ma
chinists upon the Erie railroad, about
5000 men.
The Columbia river is now 80 feet
above low water mark.
Captain H. l.. Bennett of Spokane
was elected colonel of the Uniform
Rank of the Knights of Pythias, re-
Gently held in Tacoma
III al III uIhGn uSuI Oll Ill6 ANlSQudIiy
reservation, about four miles from
Roy, Ed Jackson was dubbed to death
by Paul Leschi. 4
1t is understood steel has been or
dered by the o. r. & n. to lay 115
miles of it's Washington division with
75-pound rails before July /. 1t also
intended to reballast this section of
thio TJa II In
the best of condition.
The Edwall horse show which was
held last week was great success.
The wheat crop at Quincy is looking
fine.
Pullman is to have a connection be-
tween the Oregon Railroad & Naviga-
ton and Northern Pacific railroads.
Fred H. CASTOR, city editor Of the
Spokesman-Review, has been selected
by the board of managers Of the Spo-
kane 10000 club as secretary of the
club, to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Rem H. Rice, the new
chief of police.
What is rated as the largest audito-
rum in Spokane was opened to the
public Sunday. 1t is declared to be
the finest Methodist church on the Pa
cifc coast.
w. H. Fouts is credited with being
the Oldest school teacher in the state.
He resides at Bellingham, is 81 years
of age and recently took the state ex-
animation for teachers, receiving a
certificate.
Chesaw was visited by a $4,000 fire
recently.
The ministers of Everett are making
warm fight against the gambling fra
ternity.
The bodies of Miss Edith Vogt, Jo-
seph F. Goshorn and Glen Jaquith, the
three college students who were
drowned in Lake Washington Sun
day, were recovered.
The grain bag shortage promises to
be a serious menace to the grain grow
ers this fall.
Two hundred single mills in Sno-
homish, Slagit and Whatcom counties
are shut down to remain closed
until July 10.
The things you don't say cause you
less grief in this life than almost
anything else.
The ferry across the Columbia at
Trinidad was swept down the river
recently.
The Cheney Commercial club is ar
ranging to take a census OF that place.
Wilbur Virgins of Cotton, who was
accidentally shot in the hand a short
time ago, is dead from lockjaw
Veterans Of the Civil war and their
defendants and of the Spanish Amer
lean war at Spokane have organized
a regiment of the Union Veterans
union.
Spokane retail grocers and meat
dealers will hereafter close at p. m.
Saturday evenings.
All brands of -four manufactured in