Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-04-13
OVER THE STATES.
A CIPHER DISPATCH RECEIVED
FROM BISMARCK.
The Cordial Relations Existing Between
Mexico and the United States
Election of the President by
the Popular Vote.

The Illinois House has passed the
Valued Policy Insurance bill.
The annual report OF the Silk Culture
Society has been submitted.
American lard will be admitted into
Mexico subject to inspection.
The Sunday closing issue was defeated
in the Denver election recently.
John McComb, millionaire of Della
ware, has sued his wife for divorce.
F. w. Wilkins killed his wife's para
mour near Marshall, Texas, Thursday.
The Democrats have elected their en-
tire ticket at Chicago by 5000 majority.
Mrs. StonewaIl Jackson is said to have
been offered the postoffice at Richmond,
Va.
The report that Billy Birch, the veteran
minstrel is dead, is now declared to be
false.
Senator Dolph has been mentioned as
a possible candidate for the vacant JUS
ticeship.
AIt6I uIlc AOllGSC Will IluNC
added to its Permanent Endowment
fund $250,000.
A banker at Geneva has committed
suicide. He suffered heavy losses in cop
per speculations.
Sir Julian Pauncefote, the English Min
lister to the United Ststes, will sail from
England on the 18th inst.
The New York Assembly has ordered
to third reading the bill repeating the
Saturday half-holiday law.
Steps have been taken by the Mexican
Government for the re-examinatiOn and
settlement of the La Abra and We'll
claims.
The will of the late Justice Stanley
Mathews has been filed for probate. All
his property is left to his widow and
children.
A negro burial ground at Camden, n
j., is in such a shocking condition that
stray dogs are said to feast on the bones
of corpses.
Miss Clara Soften has recovered $15,-
O0O from c. r. Reed, proprietor OF the
Hoffman House, New York, for breach
OF promise.
The Emperor and Empress OF Ger
many dined at the British Embassy re-
Gently. Representatives of other royal
families were present.
The steamer Wyanoke run down and
sunk the schooner Ruth Darling off Del
aware Cape. Two seamen were drowned.
The fog was very thick.
A banquet will be given at the Hotel
Metropole in London on May I'd, in
honor of Waller, the retiring United
States Counsel-General.
Eighteen thousand dollars have al
ready been subscribed to the Popular
fund to erect a building for permanent
Republican Headquarters at New York.
The President has been asked to issue
a proclamation requesting public worship
in the churches on the centennial annl-
versary of Washington's inauguration.
The Florida Legislature recently ex-
hibited strong feeling in favor of choos-
ing the President by popular vote and
doing away with the Electoral College.
The White House was scene OF beau
tv and brilliancy recently at the recep-
ton given to Prince and Princess Take
hito and the members Of the Japanese
party.
Three white men suspected OF cattle
stealing, who failed to leave the country,
were turned over by vigilance commit
tee of Springmud, Neb., to Dakota In
dians.
George Powell, who stole some jewelry
while dressed in the garb of priest, at
Toronto, Canada, confessed, and was
sent to Kingston penitentiary for five
years.
The Lower House OF the Pennsylvania
Legislature has passed a resolution de-
cIaring Major Armes, who pulled the nose
of Governor Beaver the other day. "a
cowardly poltroon.
Sir George Baden Powell, who has just
returned to Montreal from visit to Brit
ish Columbia, reports the urgent neces-
sity of properly fortifying the British Co
lumbia Coast.
The Mexican Congress opened Monday.
DiaZ. in his message, reviews the foreign
policy of Mexico, and congratulates the
country on its excellent relations with
the United State.
Sir John Macdonald does not think the
Behring Sea proclamation was intended
to affect Canadian interests that 1t was
done to warn Americans. Perhaps he
will become better informed by and by.
The change in the Office of Treasury
and Assistant Treasury in New York Will
necessitate the count of all the moneys
and securities in both offices. This is a
work of great magnitude and will take at
least four weeks to accomplish.
The German Minister at Washington
received a cipher dispatch from Blsmarck
which, it is stated, called for information
concerning the American vessels sent tc
Samoa and of the condition OF the Amer
lean feet including the cruisers building
The Mexican Government has decided
that citizens of the United States can en-
ter Mexican territory free OF restriction
but subject to custom regulations as tc
the inspection of baggage and goods
This leaves the way to Lower Californla
open.
The recent hurricane in the South Pa
cific swept over 1900 geographical miles
embracing in its track the Hervey and
Society Islands. The American SHIP
Red Cross, bound from New South Wales
to San Francisco, was driven ashore al
Raratonga and wrecked. The crew was
saved. The American ship Ada, Owen
master. was wrecked at Quara. The
crew was saved. The wreckage form the