Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-02-02
MISCELLANEOUS.
OLD LIBBY PRISON TO BE REMOVED
INTACT TO CHICAGO.
An Ohio Murderess too Depraved fol
the Gallows-A Remarkable " ell
Near Pittsburg-Fruit ofthe
Dime Novel In Boston

Volunteer.
The wife OF the Gear Of Russia has
become insane.
A threshing machine in England is
run by electricity.
Teams crossed over the Mississippi
on the ice last week.
All the American war ships will
soon be ready for sea.
A portion OF the imperial palace al
Peking has been burned.
The Mormon settlers in Minnesota
are selling out and going to Utah.
Oranges are now being moved IN
Florida in bulk, the same as potatoes
The Nah lis followers are said tC
have made saint of General Gordon
Three murders similar to those o.
the Whitechapel fend have been per
petrated in Jamaica.
Three hundred houses were de,
by an earthquake IN the Saba,
ret valley, Asia Minor.
The house in which Lord Byron was
born in London will be demolished, tC
enlarge a draper's shop.
The cotton crop this oear will be
the largest ever made. and will ap'
proximate Z 100000 bales.
A Paris letter states that the whole
of DeLesseps' fortune disappeared IN
the Panama canal scheme.
The Kansas house has passed the
senate resolution favoring the opening
of Oklahoma for settlement.
1t cost Nebraska county nearly
$4,000 to run the poor farm last yeal
There were but two paupers.
The St. Lawrence river rose thir
teen feet in four hours, last week, and
the wharves Of Montreal
There is apprehension of trouble
during the centennial celebration oi
the French revolution next summer.
During the past two months Mrs
James G. Blaine, jr., has been study
ing hard for her debut on the profes-
sional stage.
A young physician of Fall River
Mass, is laid up with a disease of the
tongue, attributed to excessive clga-
rette smoking.
On December l, three strong earth
quakes were felt in IquiQue, Peru
with an intermission of only from tive
to nine seconds.
DR.. J. Mile Jenkin, who correctly
locate d the bullet in G rfeld's body.
dropped dead at Wilkesbare, Penn, OF
last week.
A dispatch from Sydney, N. S. w.
says the German gunboat Olga has
taken MalietOa, x king OF Samoa, tc
the Marshall islands.
William Pierce, probably the oldest
convict in New York in point Of
continual penal servitude, has been
discharged from the asylum for in
sane criminals.
A rocking stone in New Mari,
borough, Mass, is so nicely balanced
that, Notwithstanding it weighs many
tons, the pressure of single finger is
sufficient to move it about an inch.
The Canadian Knights of Labor are
seeking to secure the exclusion Of for.
eign labor from the Dominion, and de
mand that the government pay nc
more money to secure immigration.
Joaquin Miller has finished the
novel he was to write, as his contri'
button to the literary syndicate. II
is entitled "The Buried River" He
was engaged but six days in its com
position.
A remarkable we'll has just been
struck at Pittsburg, Penn. 1t pro
duces at one and the same time pure.
cold water, salt water and flow oI
gas that when ignited illumines the
entire surroundings.
The Empress of Germany cannot
use the imperial crown on her coat ot
arms, but must be content with the in
sigma of the Queen of Prussia. This
is the latest token of the tilial atfec-
lion of her eldest boy.
The prise fight between Frank
Shepley, of Helena, and John Cronin
of New York, which took place al
Missoula Friday, was remarkably
brutal affair. Cronin was knocked In
sible and seriously injured.
At Boston Sunday George Gretzen
gar, aged twenty, held up his father
with a pistol and secured $40. After
ward he attempted to hold up hii
mother but she called the police. He
shot two policemen before he sur
rendred.
Libby prison is to go to Chicago
The work of taking apart the ole
structure is now going on in Rich
mond, Va, and as the bricks anc
beams are displaced they are rum
bered so that the building can be put
together again just as it stood in Vir
ginia. The interior of the old prison
is to be used as a sort of war museum
The colored washerwomen of AL
bany, Ca, have served notice upor
Chung Lee, a Chinese laundrymar
who arrived there recently, that he
must leave the city at once. A yeal
ago they drove a couple of Chinamer
out of the city by force. The China
man says he will go.
Phillip O'Brien, of San Francisco
committed suicide last Saturday, by
taking poison. Phillip, his son, shot
and fatally wounded one Barney
Rosengrave in 1887, for which he wa;