Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-07-13
EASTERN ITEMS.
A BIG REAL ESTATE SWINDLE IN
ST. PAUL.
Geronimo Will Not be Sent Back to
Arizona-Win Test the Meat In
spection Law-Local Option
Cigarette Smoking.

Yale defeated Harvard in the college
regatta on the 2Sth.
A labor lyceum for women has been Or
ganized in st. Paul.
Denver's Fourth of July celebration ex-
tended over three days.
Missouri has set apart $1,000 for wolf
scalps for 1889 and 1890.
Some Chicago cable cars make from
10@ to IA miles an hour.
The Hudson Bay Company report
shows a net profit OF e68,000.
Philadelphia will presently have two
new cold-storage warehouses.
The electric cars continue to scare
horses in Boston and vicinity.
Fourth OF July was turned over to the
small boy in all towns and cities.
Two acres of land at Stockbridge,
Mass, have been sold for $4,000.
Mrs. NJ. L. Evans has been appointed
postmistress at Lake View, Oregon.
A Chicago enthusiast talks OF erecting
a tower in that city 2U0l feet in height.
Grape-growing promises to be profit
able business in some parts of Florida.
The Standard Oil Company has pur-
chased the great Derrick well at Oil City.
The Pittsburg policemen have sent
their old uniforms to the Johnstown
police.
s. c. Morgan, cashier Of the bank Of
Sidney, Neb., committed suicide on the
2Sth inst.
About one-half the adult males at the
Boule agency have signed the proposed
treaty.
Crop reports from abroad are worse
than last month in the Atlantic States
and Europe.
= Richard Broechk, who challenged Vii
lard to duel, has been sent to the in
sane asylum.
Colonel A. M. Saxton, st. Joseph
banker, and a prominent Missourian,
died on the 9th.
According to the new city directory,
Chicago has population OF over nine
hundred thousand.
A Cincinnati jury acquitted saloon
keeper who s9ld on Sunday Gust 10 give
the spies lesson"
Erie Canal is reducing rates on grain
from Buffalo to New York to compete
with the Lehigh Valley road.
Indiana's Supreme Court has decided
that shaving on sunday is not neces-
sity. Abraham never shaved.
The Knights and the Farmers Alliance
OF Alabama will work together in the
next election for the legislature.
The Locol Option bill in Michigan has
become a law. This means prohibition
in halt the counties of the State.
The figures of Just completed directories
make the population of st. Paul and Min
neapols close on to half a million.
A new Connecticut law prohibits cigar
cite smoking bv minors under Is and the
sale of tobacco in any form to such per
sons.
The Standard Oil Company are prepar-
ing to build an 8-inch Oil-pipe line from
Cygnet, Ohio, to Detroit, tor handling
fuel oil.
A New York estimate is that 10000
tourists more than the number who go
every summer will cross to Europe this
season.
John P. Hudson OF Smyrna, Del, a
leading peach-grower, places this sea-
sons weld Of the Peninsula at 100000
baskets.
1t is denied in Washington that any
such proposition as that OF sending Gero-
nimo back to Arizona has ever been con-
templated.
Michigan has passed law by which
one-ffth OF the voters in any county may
demand and secure vote on 4 local
option law for that county.
Knoxville has already raised $4,000 OF
a fund to erect monument TO the mem
ory of John Sewer. 1t is proposed to
erect 1000 monument.
The Chicago Tribune is receiving and
forwarding to the proper authorities con-
tributions for the relief OF the starving
coal miners OF Northern Illinois.
The shores of the Chesapeake Bay are
still strewn with timber and wreckage
carried into it by the great floods on the
Susquehanna and its tributaries.
George w. McCann, brother OF Com
nodore McCann, killed himself at Merl-
dian. Mics, by cutting his throat. Pow
elty and drinking was the cause.
The British steamer Haytian, supposed
10 have heen IN collision with the steam
er Victoria, off Nantucket, is at Quaran-
tine Station, below New Orleans.
A. S. Dunbar, living near Mcdonald,
Penn, has Il mare thirty-one years old
with colt four weeks old. The mare is
gray-headed and as sound as ever.
The local physicians Of Johnstown, al
ter carefully going over the returns OF the
neople rescued from the flood, still place
The estimated loss of life at 10000.
Judge Bradley OF the Supreme Court OF
the District of Columbia, has decided
that there is no cruelty in docking a
horse's tail. Thisis important, II true.
The Chicago will soon cross the At
lantic to Join the European Squadron,
and it is said she will convey the remains
Of inventor Ericsson to the shores OF MS
native land.
It is again publicly announce that Pres
ident Harrison will appoint Attorney
General Miller, his old law partner, &c
the Supreme Bench in the late Stanley
Mathews place.
A big real estate swindle has been un'
aarthed ut St. Paul. The scheme CON
sisted in sales made by persons person
ating the owners. Seven arrests nave
been made so lar.