Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-08-17
EASTERN ITEMS.
AN ENGLISH SYNDICATE WANTS
THE ALTON ROAD.
The Governments Expenses-Dted From
Delirium Tremens-Beat the Cop
per Trust-Figh hting the
Jute Baggtng Trust.

Joaquin Miller is in Chicago.
Buffalo is to have "men only" hotel.
Gold has been found near Arrow Rock,
Mo.
St. Louis wants the Worlds Fair in
1892
salina, Kan, lawyers have gymna-
stun.
East St. Louis is to have an electric
railway.
Chattanooga, Tenn, is to have electric
street cars.
Squash fried in bread crumbs is a new
summer dish.
A movement is on foot to form an
Orange Trust.
A case of yellow fever is reported at
Brunswick, Ga.
Secretary Tracy is quite i'll from an at
tack Of dysentary.
Gold is said to have been found in Cler-
mont county, Ohio
Thirty protective tariffclubs have been
! formed in Alabama.
The average taxation in New Hamp-
shire is $l.64 per 500.
A wolf-hunting association is to be in
corporated at Salem, Ill.
Montana's Convention will declare
strongly against the Chinese.
Boston wants the big show of 1892 held
at Washington, not New York.
/ Alabama farmers are fighting hard to
break up the jute bagging trust.
A dispute over the payment of % cents
has led to law suit in Pittsburg.
The stream sent by Hartford fire en-
CINE beats the world, going 348 feet.
A Chicago dime museum is trying to
get hold of Geronimo and Sitting Bull.
North Dakota is expected to house
about 1O,OOO, 900 bushels OF wheat to sell.
The Scott Elevated Railroad bill passed
the Missouri House OF Delegates on
the I'd.
The Special Senate Committee on Arid
Lands held session at St. Paul On the
lst inst.
Murat Halstead has annouced that he
is a candidate for United States Senator
| from Ohio.
Editor John Arkins, who was brutally
assaulted at Denver by blackleg, IS
improving.
The Constitution of South Dakota is
longer and stronger than that OF the
United States.
It is contended that Black Bart had
something to do with the train robbery
near Kansas City.
A man named j. D. Sullivan from San
Francisco, died from delirium tremens at
Denver, on the Sd.
Suits are pending against fourteen ex-
| County Treasurers in Arkansas why are
I short in their accounts.
! Kilrain is about to leave Virginia fol
parts unknown. He says he has no idea
I of surrendering himself.
/ C.P. Huntington will head syndicate,
/ il is stated, to purchase the ship-bulld-
/ ing works OF Roach & Sons.
Burke, the Cronin suspect, is safely
harbored in Jail at chicago, and 1t ls re-
/ ported that he made a confession.
The governments expenditure in July
exceeded the receipts by $l,Ol7,3l1.5l,
owing to the large pension payments
Hansen, the Minneapolis man bitten
hv a cat. is to be sent to Pasteur, who
has offered to treat him free OF charge.
lightning struck an electric car at
LYNN. Mass, the other day. A big scare
and fortunate escapes for many passen-
gers.
A bona fide offer of $40,00O,00O has
been made for the Alton Road by an En-
glish syndicate to General Counsel Beck
with.
Chicago is incorporating Worlds Fair
Association with capital OF $5,OOO, ,OOO:
A strong effort is being made to smut out
! New York.
The order of parade of the knights
Templar at the Triennial Conclave to be
held i'm October at Washington, has been
announced.
The Standing Rock Indians will sign
the treaty and it is safe to predict that
II ,OOO, 900 acres of land will be opened
for settlement.
Mayor Grant of New York has received
nlans for tower which shall exceed the
EifFel Tower in height for the Columbus
Exposition in 1892.
Judge Field of the Circuit Court OF
Kansas City has declared the statute al
lowing religious associations to be moor
norated unconstitutional.
The Nicaragua Canal Company expects
70 have the lake open to the world i'll
two and one-half years and the whole
canal in about five years.
Ex-Attorney-GeneralG Garland has been
snnointed resident attorney OF the North
ern Pacific Railroad, at salary, 1t is
said, of $25, 900 per year.
The National Bureau of Engraving at
Philadelphia, one of the most extensive
lithographing establishment IN the couh
trv. is in financial distress.
Prof 7. w. Howell, well-known edu-
cetor of Rutledge, Tenn, is dying OF hy-
Jronhohia. He was bitten thirteen years
400 bv black-and-tan terrier.
lanes B. Haggin sailed for Europe on
the Sd. He won the suit against the
French Copper Trust for $2OO,OOO, and
has gone to collect the money.
Twin children belonging to one OF the
locked-out miners at Spring Valley, III,
died on the I'd, the mother having too
little food to provide nourtshment 1or the
children.
1t is reported that the Nicaragua Qanal 3aan
/ c-...-.rr Ia Gn11rinp on line OF Lnr66