Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-06-08
EASTERN ITEMS.
A MORMON COLONY TO BE FORMED
IN MEXICO.

The Life Of Martin Van Buren-Postal
Appointments California Raisins
in London-Brewery Sold
Secret Ballot Bill.
Milwaukee's treasTyis empty.
Evangelist Moody is in New York,
Money loans in Chicago at 4 to per
cent.
Severe frosts are injuring crops in Da-
Kota.
Rev. Sam Jones is shaking" up Dan
vile, Va.
Rochester, n. Y, is to be lighted with
natural gas.
President Diaz has officially received
Minister Ryan.
Malarial fever is playing havoc with
horses in Chicago.
4 feeling of uncertainty still pervades
the copper market.
A pension has been granted Peter
Withers, OF Idaho.
Eastern men have bought the biggest
brewry in Montana.
A $400,000 Cuban sugar grinding fac
tory has been burned
The Secret Ballot bill has passed the
Connecticut legislature.
Adjutant General Drum has been
placed on the retired list.
Rose Terry Cooke, the authoress, is
seriously i'll at Pittsburg.
California cherries at 81 a pound are
admired afar in Pittsburg.
Rails have been shipped for the road
from FL Paso to Chihuahua.
The Government printing office at
Washington is said to be unsafe.
The mother OF Jake Kilrain, aged IS
years, died at Baltimore on the 2Sth.
The popularity of lawn tennis is rapid
ly increasing in some Eastern cities.
The Connellsville, Penn, region is
pestered by band of colored tramps.
r. s. Simpson has been appointed
postmaster at Amity, Yamhill county, Or.
1t is rumored that Catholic Congress
will be held this summer in Washington.
The Sioux Indians are said to be will
ing to negotiate the sale OF their reserva-
tion.
A heavy consignment OF last years $. Cal
ifornia raisins has just been sold at Lon
don.
NJ. A. Robertson has been appointed
postmaster at independence, Polk county,
Oregon.
A. j. Florey has been appointed post
master at Eagle Point, Jackson county,
Oregon.
The New York Legislature authorized
the appointment Of six female factory in
spectors.
Benjamin Hoover, has been commits
stoned postmaster at Matoles, Crook
county, Or.
A committee has been formed in Lon
don to arrange for national memorial to
John Bright.
Duncan C. Ross nearly killed Pete
Laroyer in a broadsword contest, at Mon
treai, last week.
Denver, Col, has been seized with an
epidemic Of murders and suicides to an
alarming extent.
1t is claimed that there are defects in
the construction OF parts OF the postottite
building at Baltimore.
f. S. Brubaker has received his COM
mission as postmaster at Mount Tabor,
Multnomah county, Or.
A peculiar disease, resembling malarial
fever, is prevalent among horses in the
vicinity OF Indianapolis.
In the MAY parties held in Central
Park. New York, recently, there were no
less than II ,979 children.
A tremendous hail and rainstorm. re-
Gently, caused washouts between Kansas
City and Lawrence, Kan.
Idaho and Wyoming begin to feel lone
some as Territories. They want to come
into the sisterhood OF states.
Seventeen-year locusts have made their
appearance in countless numbers III the
central portion OF Tennessee.
Geerge Bancroft has recently completed
a life of Martin Van Buren,, to be pub
lished by the Harper Brothers.
The reward of $4,000 for the arrest of
Tascot, the murderer of Banker Smell at
Chicago, will hold good for sixty days.
The wheat crop in Sonora Mexico, is
immense. For the first time in the his
tory of Mexico there will be surplus.
The presidents family will spend the
summer at Deer Park, Md, where he
will be able to join them every Saturday.
The Galveston News says that more
cattle have been shipped from Texas to
the North this season than for many
years.
John w. Norton OF st. Louis, has been
granted divorce from Emma.S. Norton,
who eloped with Henry Moore less than
year ago.
A plot was unearthed last week for a
general delivery of convicts confined In
the Hudson County penitentiary, at
Snake Hill, n. J.
The Canadian Pacific has applied to
the Secretary OF the Treasury to be bond
ed as a common carrier between ports OF
the United States.
1t is proposed to make important
changes in the monitor Puritan. She
will be transferred into an armored yes
sci of modern type.
No one has yet been decided on to MI
the vacancy on the Supreme Bench, al
though there has been considerable spec
ulation on the subject.
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