Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-11-02
EASTERN ITEMS.
A WOMAN STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
FOUR TIMES.
Roasted Alive-The Treasury Robbed
The International Congress-The
War Against the Jute Trust
"A Dividend Declared

Eight thousand cigarmakers are locked
out at Key West.
There were 1874 deaths in Boston in the
week ending October 18th.
The State forces have been withdrawn
! from the work at Johnstown.
A giraffe was born at the Cincinnati
| Geological Gardens on the 10Th.
Subscriptions to monument to Cap
tain Eads have begun in st. Louis.
There is an epidemic of typhoid fever
at Grandin, n. D., and great alarm is felt.
There is no longer any reasonable
doubt that this is to be cheap food year.
A company has been formed to build a
coffin factory in st. Louis to fight the
trust.
An attempt was made to wreck Rock
Island train, near Mcfarland, Kan, on
the 10Th.
The Pullman Palace Car Company has
declared its usual quarterly 81 per share
dividend.
An experiment OF using steel ties is
now being made by the Chicago q Wes-
tern Indiana
West Virginians want one OF the new
cruisers named the Wheeling, after the
city of that name.
Anthony Hamilton, the colored jocky,
rides for August Belmont next season at
a salary of OF $4,000.
Eight citizen of New York have been
killed by badly insulated electric wires
within eighteen months.
A syndicate is examining the cable
railway system a: Kansas City, with
view to purchasing the same.
T.. Babbtt, the famous soap manu-
facturer, died in New York on the Goth
He was aged an even 80 years.
The delegates to the International Con-
gress are 10 be given a possum barbecue
when they visit Nashville, Tenn.
A legal flaw has been discovered in
nearly all the mC99,a ~ NJ held by loan
companies on Ka,ean[d drnfts 80 Sa2ads.
P,odstreet,sf that has been dis -circrlar
STATS Ia Sn Board Of AgricultuEo
are sVreiis s'ii0 1ppointment OF Direo:a
Tara,oiab AK after the Los Angek srk
in the GeologidalIfornia wanted a perso =,
has H. beer nromofsste State.
mas OeoA- that Mrs. Ferry
The R. B. St(large sum of money! OF
Chicago has mtedited, owing to the. The
assets are $36,OOnot made the robDO.
The death = -1artranft
necessitates the Gego Grand 5of new
member of the Cherokee Commission.
A test will shortly be made at Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, of the newly patented pro-
cess for making steel direct from coke
pig.
Maggie Mitchell, it is said, has mar
ried Charles Abbott, the leading man OF
the company in which the actress is a
star.
A PENNSYLVANIA woman who has been
struck by lightning four times has sus-
tained no injury beyond losing conscious
ness.
The Boston Chamber of Commerce
proposes to build $500, 900 building
Site, corner of India street and Central
wharf.
Rev. DR.. A. Judson Barrett OF the
L.ake-avenue Baptist Church at Roches-
ter, N. Y, dropped dead on the street on
the Goth.
The Texas Pacific round-house at Long
View. Texas, with seven new engines,
has been destroyed by fire. The loss ls
$l55, 900.
Bill Nation, the oldest moonshiner in
Southwestern Texas, has be0n captured.
Officers have been hunting him Tor
twenty five years.
HID. Brooge of Topeka, Kansas, has
lust been declared to have forfeited SooOO
because he loaned that sum at interest
above the legal rate.
Governor Melette of Dakota has for
warded the Constitutions OF North ana
South Dakota and the official election
returns to the President.
Rev John Mcdowell Leavitt of New
YORK of the Protestant Episcopal Church,
has withdrawn to become g. Reformed
Episcopal Church minister.
The Ordnance Department OF the
United States Army is looking into the
subject of smokeless powder, and tests
are to be made at an early day.
George Hazleton, formerly Republican
Congressman from Wisconsin, has oeen
appointed Attorney tor the DistrlcC oi
! Columbia, to succeed Mr.. Riddle.
At Greenville, Ala, negro poured
gasoline over a white man and brother
negro touched the fluid with name.
The whiteman was literally roasted allve'
The Treasury at the City of Mexico has
hann robbed of negotiable interior debt
bonds to the amount of $2,5OO,OOO. Sew
eraI arrests have followed and more are
expected.
The sheriff at Denver was charged with
favoring a defendant in obeyiGg venlre,
and at the request of the States Attorney
the selection OF jurymeD was placed IN
other hands.
The Rowan county, KY, fued Is be-
Iieved to have ended by the marriage ol
Frank Tolliver and grace Martin, brother
and sister of the leaders OF the opposing
bloody factions.
David P. Winnie, manufacturing agent
for twines and cordage in New York. has
assigned. His liabilities are $32 ,OO0
He formerly had a large trade and branch
at San Francisco.
Montgomery, Ala, will have next yea
what is intended to be the best exposl
ton ever held IN that State. 1t IS to D'
distinctly Southern exposition, display