Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-10-12
EASTERN ITEMS.
THE AMERICAN BAPTIST ASSOCIA-
TION.
Sam Small Offends the Prohibitionist-
The Atchison's Blanket Mortgage
Settled the Differences
With the Pistol.

Minister Thomas Ryan is in Washing
ton.
Peach trees are blooming all over Penn
sylvania.
An Italian at Chicago sold hic wife and
child for $l5.
The capital of the rubber trust is fixed
at 100000.
The Vermont day at Gettysburg will
occur October 8.
Edison ard family nave sailed from
Havre for home.
Negroes in Bibb county, Ala, refuse to
work for white people.
Rev. Sam Small is now stumping Ohio
for the Prohibitionists.
An outbreak of smallpox is reported
in Henderson county, Tenn.
The tax collector of Richmond, Va, is
reported short about 100000.
The new dry dock at Halifax was used
for the first time September 20.
A woman arrested as vagrant in
Montreal claims to be l0l years cid.
Diphtheria has closed the public school
at Fieldsboro, Burlington county, n. J.
The builders of the cruiser Baltimore
will receive nearly $l50,O00 in premiums.
Virginia and Maryland are getting into
a quarrel over the Potomac oyster beds.
Kansas Railroad Commissioners order
a 20 per cent reduction in rates to certain
cities.
The American National Baptist Asso-
citation advises colored people to leave the
South.
Mrs. James Blaine, Jr., will sue for a
illness.
The new diffusion process by which
sugar is made from sorghum is not yet a
success.
The gunboat Petrol, though deficient
in power, will be excepted by the Gov
eminent.
Oklahoma authorities are contending
against the illicit sale OF liquor i'll the
territory.
Ex-President Cleveland attended a
mammoth clam-bake at Naysack, N. Y,
last week.
Swindlers are said to be preparing to
float fraudulent bonds of counties il Kan
sas and Texas.
The Colorado Mining Exchapqn rTn- r,T
poses to contest the Act restricting the
coinage of silver.
Ben Butterworth received warm well
come on his return to Washington from
his European trip.
William P. Dale, Commissioner OF In
dian affairs under President Lincoln, is
dead, aged rs years.
The equestrian statue Of Gen. Robert
f. Lee will be unveiled at Richmond,
Va, on December 8.
There is movement in Arkansas to
require railroads to provide separate cars
for the eolored people.
The building of new 100000 "Op-
position" brewery in st. Louis is now
said to be an assured fact.
The delegates to the Three Americas
will visit New England to
inspect her manufactures.
St. Paul, Mimi, through its Chamber
of Commerce, has voted in favor OF Chl-
cago for the Worlds Fair.
Over 1900, 900 Of the $6,000,000 guar
aptee fund of the Worlds Fair at st.
Louis has been subscribed.
Charles H. Stoddard, a well-known
resident of Reno, New, died in Washing
ton, D. c., on the 3lst, OF paralysis.
The total potato crop for 1899 in the
limited States is estimated at 233,00O,OOO
bushels, against 2l7 100000 in 1888.
The son of Ex-Governor Alonzo B. Cor
nell, of New York, prOnounces the STORY
that his father is insane ''silly lie"
There is every prospect OF bitter fight
at the annual election of the Northern
Pacific Railroad, to be held in New York
ON October l6.
The story comes from Yankton, D. T.,
that Sam Small offended the Prohibition,
lists there so deeply that they cancelled
his engagement to lecture.
The permanent Interstate Deep Har-
Dor Committee met in Topeka on the
3lst, and began mapping out the WORK
of the coming convention.
Deputy Marshal Neagle is reported tc
be in Boston, his native town, visiting
his uncle. He makes use of the name OF
''JohD Jones, of New York"
Ex-Controller John J. Knox, in a
speech at Kansas City recently, opposed
coinage legislation at the present time as
detrimental to the interests OF the country
Intimations are heard in Wall street
that the Cotton Oil Company is likely
soon TO give up altogether its existence az
a trust and become an ordinary corpora
ton.
At Waterloo, Iowa, three county jai
prisoners beat the sheriff into insensl
bility and escaped. M. E. Billings, the
Waterloo lawyer, who had Just received
a life sentence, gave the alarm.
James J. West and Charles E. Graham
ex-editor and secretary Of the Chicago
Times, charged with ovNr-issuing the
stock of the Times Company, have beer
held in heavy bonds to appear before th'
grand jury.
1t looks as if proposition for
"blanket" mortgage, bearing 4 per cen
interest, to run fifty years, will be sub
mitted to the Atchison security holders
In all probability the limit will be made
5000, 100000.
Four men, after serving for five year,
in the Pennsylvania penltentlary, ar
found to be innocent OF the crimes charg
ed against them.