Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-12-21
EASTERN ITEMS.
DEATH OF JEFFERSON DAvIS-HIS
LAST WORDS.
A Number Of Bills Introduced by Dolph
President Appoints a Supreme
Judge-Fifteen Round Con-
test at Boston.

The senate has chosen ingalls, presi-
dent pro tempore.
jeff Davis death was painless and
came during Inconsistencies.
A large amount of pension legislation
is being introduced in congress.
A crazy stranger at Troy, New YORK,
was carrying $4,000 in his pockets.
Senator Dolph's Pacific coast for tifca-
ton bill appropriates $126,377 300.
Handsome Harry" Carlton was hung
in New York for shooting a.policeman
dead.
The Farmers and Laborers' Union
held its annual session at st. Louis last
week.
Blaine has recovered from his recent
attack of lumbago ard resumed his
duties.
McAuliffe and Mike DAILY fought if
teen rounds to a draw at Boston. Jack
had the best of it.
Jay Gould's eldest son George lost to
his brother Eddy $125, 900 in stock specu-
latIOnS on wall street.
Several funerals a day were had in
Minneapolis for sometime after the great
fire in the Tribune building.
The attorney general says he will re-
quire 81 ,000,0 900 to prosecute offenders in
1890, against 100000 in 1889.
It is not Thought that measure can
Io vNY,ohnI thrnIrnh Iof.
ing money for the Worlds fair.
The Miner house, East Tawas, Mich.
burned. Two corpses we're found in the
ruins. Five men were injured.
The boiler of Calhoun's gin, at Colfax,
Alabama, exploded, killing six men and
two women, and wOunding many others.
All were negroes.
The president has appointed Justice
David J. Brewer, OF Kentucky, to the
position on the supreme bench vacated
by Stanley Matthews.
Attorney A. H. Pope was killed and
two other men wounded in a shooting
ARRAY which was precipitated in open
ccurt at Dallas, Texas.
Inc p16Slu6uI IlhS stilI Ill Il DdlCu Vi
several hundred nominations for various
places in the departments of state, JUS
tice, war, navy and interior.
Louis hamburger, of Baltimore, pos
s6sses a magnetic power in mis- hands
sufficient to raise sx-pound weight.
He is quite an object of curiosity to the
scientists.
BY the breaking of the rope in cage
in coal mine near Stunbenyille, Ohio,
two boys, named Robert Davis and John
Devinny were precipitated seventy-fve
feet and killed.
In a fight of drunken negroes at Lum-
horton, Robenson county. South Caro-
lima, Jack Hunt, Tom Collier and Julius
Fmbra were killed and half a dozen
others injured. -.
luhok Ingio, the Japanese sailor
VINO murdered Muro Conf Contari, a
ellow-countryman, in New York,
November 10, was convicted of murder
in the first degree.
DR.. Lewis Musbuger, of Buffalo, pro-
vided in mis- will for funeral feast of
and oysters. 1t was cele
brated after his death, while his body
was being cremated.
The total defalcations of the defaultlng
cashier of the house of representatives
foots up $75, 200. 1t is thoug ht the gov
eminent will provide 80 that the mem
bers will not lose their salaries.
United States Marshal Willis and City
Marshal Morgan, of Butler, Mo-, met
each other on the street, and shot each
other to death. The quarrel is said to
have grown out OF an old feud of long
The last words OF JEFF Davis were,
"Pray, excuse me-" when medicine was
offered him. After death the face of the
though emaciated, showed no
trace of suffering, resembling that OF q
peaceful sleeper.
Justice D. J. Brewer, OF Kentucky,
who has been appointed by the presi-
dent for the supreme court, is nephew
OF Justice Stephen Field. Two OF
Brewers classmates at Yale were candi-
dates for the same appointment.
An English syndicate has purchased
for s., 100000 all the coal mines, nine in
number, on the line of the Hannibal &
St. Joseph, in Mason county, Mo. A
$25, O0O, 900 banking institution, OF Eng
lish capitalists, is also projected at Phila-
delphla.
ingalls, has introduced bill for tie
commemoration of the 400th anniversary
Of the discovery of America in 1892, APP
propriating for the purchase Of ground,
s.. 900, 900; for grading and clearing,
81 100000; for buildings of the United
St9tes, 100000; for incidental expenses,
81 900, 900; total, $8,0OO,0O0.
The coroner's jury in the inquest on
the bodies of victims of the Minneapolis
Tribune building fire brought in a yer
dict which declares the owners of the
Tribune building, if not legally RESPONSE
BILE, are morally culpable for the loss of
life. Blame attaches for inadequte fire
escapes, and for the arrangement of the
electric light wires.
The Monongehela hotel at Pittsburg,
was damaged by fire to the extent OF
800 900. The house was one of the
oldest and largest hotels in the city, &C.
cupying an entire block, seven stories
! high. Two hundred guests were in the
house at the time, several of whom had
marrow escape. Most of them lost
nearly all their. personal effects.
Senator Henderson has introduced a
bill to increase the efficiency of the in
fantry of the army. Each regiment
shall be composed of twelve companies,
with one colonel, one lieutenant colonel,
three majors, one adjutant and one quar-
termaster The bill also provides that