Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1888-12-29
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
A Brief Mention of Matters of General
Interest.-Notes Gathered from
Home and Abroad.

Mrs. Grover Cleveland is in Phila-
delphia.
The baseball team at Sydney, Aus
tralia, is being lionized.
Jersey City will not permit sparring
exhibitions by noted pugilists.
Mrs. Diss Debar, OF spirit-pictures"
fame, has been released from prison.
Warner, N. H, with a population
OF l 500, has not had death in five
months.
Natural gas has been struck by the
drillers at Thorold and St. Charles,
Canada.
Senator Beck does not get any bet
ter, and he may never be able 10 re-
turn to the senate.
James G. Morford, aged 90 years,
the last member of the Association OF
Old Defenders, is dead.
The recent cold weather damaged
the tobacco and coffee crops in the
state of Vera Cruz, Mexico.
Bakers in Chicago are now required
by law to stamp the weight and their
names on every loaf Of bread.
But one session Of the public schools
was held one day last week in Boston,
owing to a severe snow storm.
F. w. Scott, vice president of the
Pratt county, Kansas, bank, is charged
with robbing the bank OF $4OO.
George Beechman accepts the chal-
lenge of Balton, OF the Pacific Coast,
to skate for the roller championship.
A Joint resolution proposing an
anti-polygamy amendment to the Con-
stitution was introduced in the house.
Lawler, of Illinois, introduced bill
in the house last week pensiOning
veterans when they reach the age OF
so.
A report to the forestry congress
discloses the fact that .arbor day is
now observed in 81 states and terri
tories.
General Charles G. Dahlgren, who
took a prominent part in the confed-
crate army, is dying at his home in
Brooklyn.
The town OF Three Rivers, Mich, is
in a fearful coddition. 1t has over
5000 bushels OF onions piled up and
no sale for them.
The switchmen on the Burlington
road who have been on strike have
resolved to continue to try and en-
barrass the road.
DR.. Jeffrey, of the First Baptist
church at Indianapolis, preached a
sermon recently indicating a disbelief
in the orthodox hell.
Miss Harris, an ex-clerk in one OF
the departments at Washington, is re-
ported from indianapolis to have gone
insane through political excitement.
A gigantic cattle-stealing scheme
has been discovered at Rawlings, Wy.
T., through the stock-growers' com
mission, in which Il gang Of butchers
are thought to be implicated.
About 100 of Denver's leading bust
ness men have arranged to attend the
inaugural ceremonies in regulation
cowboy costume, and accompanied by
q genuine cowboy band.
A fellow calling himself "Jack, the
Ripper, "has been arrested at Montreal.
He is evidently lunatic. He had a
bright knife and was running after
screaming woman. His name is John
Langhorn.
General Russell A. Alger, OF Miohi'
gan, has just paid a visit to Mr..
Blaine. While politicians believe
the visit was in reference to cabinet
position, General Alger states that 1t
had no political character.
The Maine Pathological society is
making a collection Of choice apples
for exhibition at the Worlds exposi-
ton, which opens in Paris next May.
The apples are to be placed Iii pre-
serving liquid before being shipped.
1t is said that there is good pros
pect of carrying out the scheme OF
connecting California by cable with
Honolulu. There is no doubt that the
scheme is one that promises many adj
vantages to the growing commerce OF
the Pacific coast.
The damage inflicted on the South
by the yellow fever pestilence is now
felt in the loss Of hotel patronage, and
the coming season will be trying
one with the grand Florida establish
ments, as we'll as with northern capl-
talists who have investments there.
The official count of the vote OF
Montana shows a total OF 4O,Ol4,
which is well up to the vote OF Wash
ington, the latter being 45i467. Mon
tana's vote, by the usual calculation,
would indicate a population OF not far
from 100000, but it is probably nearer
10000.
The employees of the New York city
library recently discovered an ancient
document between the wall and the
shelving in the librarians rooms. 1t
was an eAgrossed copy of the declara.
ton Of independence on vsllum bound
in folio form and attested August 2,
1926, by the then only surviving
signer, Charles Carroll, of Carollton.
A call for convention was pub
lished at Aberdeen, D. T., Monday, to