Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-07-06
EASTERN ITEMS.
DEATH OF EX-SENATOR SIMON
CAMERON.
A Pottery Trust-Odd Fellows IN Ses-
sio, Governor HIPS V,toe-The
Johnstown R lief Commit
tee-A Roaboat Upset

Leading pottery houses are organizing
trust.
Connecticut has adopted the Secret
Ballot law.
The Supreme lodge, A. 0. U. W, will
meet in Boston next year.
The Suliyan-Kilrain fight will come
off next week in Louisiana.
Chicago talks OF selling the entire lake
front within the city limits.
Over s., ,400,0 900 in gold was shipped
from New York to Europe on the 22d.
The official vote in Pennsylvania gives
a majority against Prohibition OF lS9, ,020.
Sidney G.. Harrison has been appointed
postmaster at Fossil, Gilman county, Or.
A very popular wedding present now
at Hutchinson, Kan, is barrel Of salt.
Boone county, Iowa, has paid 5000
bounty on $4,000 gopher scalps this sea
son.
Up to this date Philadelphia has raised
nearly 5000 900 for The sufferers by the
food.
A convention oi deaf mutes OF the
United States was held in Washington on
the 26th.
Some New York papers have started u
crusade to stop tipping on the ocean
steamers.
Rostonians are lamenting because re
cent heavy rains have seriously hurt the
bean crop.
A second installment of canal con-
structors left New York on the 24th for
Nicarauga.
The New Haven and Hartford Railroad
has been fined $500 for having stoves in
its sleepers.
4 peach-grower at Orlando, Fla, has
been receiving ST, $l2 and SIG per bushel
for his early fruit.
Captain Howard r. Hetrick, we'll
known journalist, died at st. Joseph,
Mo, on the 22d inst.
Teller J. A. Houck OF the Traders Ma
tional Bank OF Baltimore, blew out his
brains on the I'D inst.
Wallace, Kan, has voted $4,000 in
bonds to aid in the establishment OF
sugar plant at that place.
The grape crop promises to be very
heavy along the Lake Erie shore. The
late frost did but little damage.
The yaSI Nayesink Was spoken at Val
encia on the oath She left Boston on
the 10Th OF May bound for Havre.
The Anachists OF Cincinnati have de-
cided to defy the law which provides ior
the closing oil saloons on Sunday.
There is suspicion in New York that
the cry OF water famine is started Tor the
benefit OF a water meter company.
An English syndicate, it is said, mas
made an offer to buy the Elgin, ILL.,,
watch factory for about $l0,OOO,OO0
Alfredo Deoro, formerly oil Cuba, de
ieated Charles Manning at New York IN
a continuous l5-ball pool match Tor $500.
Governor Hill has vetoed the bill
passed by the New YORK Legislature con-
cerning the grading and mixing oil gram.
Count Alfred Seckendorf," from Rus
sia, took morphine when asked to pay
his board bill at hotel at Chattanooga.
Fourteen infants under one year old
died in Wilmington, Del, IN one week,
recently, out OF total OF twenty-five
deaths.
The Canadian Odd Fellows, in session
at Toronto, have voted down motion
for the admission OF colOred men TO MEM
bershlp.
Tunis Iabee was hanged at Paterson,
n. j., on the 9th for the murder OF ~
vear-old woman whom he had lived with
as his wife.
The latest rumor about the coal prop
critics is that they are to be consolidated
into vast trust, having capital OF
$500, 100000.
When the new pumping works are IN
place Chicago will have water supply
OF 225, ,OO0, 900 gallons daily, the greatest
of any city in the world.
Mormons are leaving Utah in such
large numbers that the ~ders OF the
Mormon church have taken alarm and
are trying to stay the exodus.
The Comptroller of the currency has
authorized the Washington National
Bank at Seattle, W. t., to commence
business with 100000 capital.
A boy OF twelve years has succeeded IN
passing a considerable number OF TlO
notes of the late Southern Conlederacy
upon confiding grOcers in the city OF ne"
! York.
A rowboat with two men and two ladies
was swept over the water work s tall IN
the Schuykill river at Philadelphia, on
the 24th, and the whole party were
drowned.
Ex-senator Simon Cameron, of PEN
nsylvania, died on the 10Th inst at Lam
caster, Penn, aged 80 years. senator
Cameron has served in public lie Tor
many years.
A combination, headed by Red Cloud,
is said to have been formed sometime
ago to defeat the object OF the Ccmmls-
sioners, but signs OF disintegranon are
said to be apparent.
George Plummer is charged with as
sassinating his brother John, iarmer
living about ten miles from Hadley, Neb.
They had quarreled and bad blood had
existed between them for sometime.
Harry H. Flamm, bookkeePer OF the
Marine National Bank OF Pittsburg, was
arrested upon the oati. OF the cashier and
other officials, who charge him with the
embezzelment OF 10000 belong TO the
bank.
Managers of the leading clearing houses