Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-04-27
NEWS MISCELLANY.
PARNELI'S ACTION IN THE IRISH
COURTS.
The Steam Wisconsin Missing Sails
bury to Visit Bismarck-The
Danmark's Passengers
Heard From.
Mary Anderson, the actress, is i'll.


Mackay.
1t is rumored that Salisbury will pay a
visit to Bismarck after Easter.
Parnells action in the Irish courts
against the Times will be abandoned.
One hundred and forty-six men lost
their lives during the recent storm at
Samoa.
Kossuth is rapidly sinking. His sons
have been summoned to his bedside at
Vienna.
The new Compton d'Escompte OF Paris,
will be constructed on the lines of the old
concern.
Eight sets of twins and five of triplets
were recently born in Pike county, Ga,
within two days.
Georgia peach trees have blossomed so
heavily this spring that it has been ne
cessary to thin them out.
Philadelphia is the only city in the
country where the tOboggan slide has
paid expenses the past winter.
The steamer Wisconsin Of the Cunard
line, which sailed from Liverpool last
week for New York, is reported missing
John Albert Bright was chosen to fill
the vacancy in the British parliament
created by the death OF his father, John
Bright
The Iowa cattle quarantine has been
revoked, except as against New York,
Connecticut, New Jersey, Delaware and
Maryland.
''The Kansas farmer, who wants to 90
to Oklahoma" says a local paper, sis the
man who uses his 5000 harvester for a
| henrOOst."
Two toads found imbedded in coal at
Thomas G.. Henn's premises, in Tioga
county, Penn, a few days since, were
alive, but stone blind.
The Minnesota legislature is consider
ing the convict labor problem and bill
| has been introduced for the adoption OF
| the State Account system.
Bismarck offers to cede Damaraland to
England. 1t is entirely reasonable to in
fer from this that Damaraland is not
worth the first syllable Of its name.
A committee of 100 has been appointed
to arrange for the celebration at Lancas-
ter, Penn, on July 4th, Of the Tooth an
niversary OF the signing oil the first Tariff
law.
All the dogs in Pittsburg have grown
fat on the garbage, which can not be
burned now that natural gas is the only
| fuel used in most OF the houses OF the
city.
The safes Of the wrecked men-of-war,
Trenton and Vandalia, containing large
amounts of money, have been recovered,
together with number of other valuable
articles.
Postmaster-General Wanamaker has
established an inviolable rule that no
postotfice shall be kept in saloon, or in
any room from which a saloon may be
entered.
Patrick Molloy, the perjured witness
for the London Times before the Parnell
commission, was convicted last week and
sentenced to six months imprisonment
at hard labor.
! Sixty-fve Indian boys at the govern
ment school at Carlisle have been dis
tributed among Pennsylvania farmers for
summer work. The boys represent half
a dozen tribes.
1t is reported that Mr.. Parnell talks of
coming over to America this summer. If
he comes and can stand the racket, he
will have one of the biggest times ever
granted to a foreigner.
At Ruatan last month the Rev. Henry
Hobson, his wife and a young lady, all
natives of Jamaica, were murdered by
Joseph Bures while they were asleep.
Robbery was the object.
At caucus held in Detroit recently,
the burden of all the speeches was that
the best man should be voted for. After
the ballot it was discovered that every
man had voted for himself.
In Madisonville, KY, the authorities
have passed an ordinance fOrbidding
brass bands from meeting ''fOr the pur-
pose of learning new pieces OF music with
in 300 feet of a dwellinghOuse."
Alexandria, Va, has a population of
%. 600. vet during the thirty days consti-
tuting the month of March, not we'd
ding occurred in the place, and not a
marriage license was issued by the clerk
of the court.
Charles Hodges and Evan Madden,
while passing through an abandoned
working in the Grand Tunnel mine,
PENNSYLVANIA, one day last week, ignited
a large amount of accumulated gas and
both men were blown to pieces.
The thief who distinguished himself
several DAYS ago by forcing Denver
bank president to turn over $21 900 at
the point of revolver, will thunder
down the ages as the most daring rogue
that ever cracked a safe or forged note.
Consul-General Rathbone, at Paris,
saws that since the year 1884 the silk
cocoon product of France has been stead
iIv increased. The total production OF
fresh cocoons in 1888 was q ,053, ,899
mounds: cocoons put to seed by the pro-
! ducer. SIS, ,553 pounds; quantity OF seeds
obtained, 1891 ,57S pounds.
The Burlington Railroad Company has
been negotiating with the Union Pacific
for an arrangement whereby the latter
will allow the Burlington the use OF It's
track from Cheyenne to the Pacific Coast.
The new order of things will probably go
into effect May l, and will occasion a
general change in the running OF trains
westward from Cheyenne.
A telegram from Lisbon on the 21st to
the United States Steamship Company
announces the safety Of the crew and pas
ssngers of steamer Danmark, and some OF
them are now on their way to New York,
having been rescued from the sinking
vessel bv the steamer Missouri and landed
at the Azores. Only one life was lost.
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