Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-11-16
EASTERN ITEMS.
RANKER DRBXEL'S DAUGHTER
KATE. TAKES THE VEIL.
Murst Ha' stead To Be offered the Rus
sian Mission - Charges Against
Oarsman Teemer - New
York's Registration.

jaw Gould is trying to secure an indie
pendent outlet to Boston.
North Dakota's Legislature will as
semble on November 10Th.
Kansas expects to make two million
pounds o: sugar this year.
The whole village of Powelton, Center
county, Penn, is advertised for sale.
Philadelphia is to have a new million
dollar hotel, called the "Metropole."
Ex-Mayor Seth Low, of Brooklyn, has
accepted the Presidency OF Columbia
College.
The contest for the speakership OF the
next House is now centralized III WASH
ington.
Il is reported in Washington that the
Russian Mission is to be offered to Murat
Halstead.
The long session of the Brotherhood OF
Locomotive Engineers at Denver has
come to an end.
John Barry, son of policeman IN New
York, has been driven insane by the eX-
cessive use of cigarettes.
1t is reported that large amounts OF
counterfeit money are IN circulation III
the State of Puebla, Mexico.
The customs authorities are endeavor-
ing to stop the opium smuggling on the
Canadian Western frontier.
The official announcement has been
made that at last the White House has
been entirely cleared Of rats.
II is understood that Secretary Tracy
will recommend that the Boston Navy
Yard be fitted up to build modern ships.
Frank NJ. Smith, agent Of an aid socI-
ety ard building association at MIN
neapolis, has skipped and rewards are
offered for him.
The names of 2, ,O67 colored voters were
stricken from the lists in Lynchburg, va.
Otherwise they could have voted at the
recent election.
The Nebraska State Board of Trans
portation has issued an order requiring
the railroads to put in force the coal
tariff, recently prescribed by the Board,
within thirty days.
Complications have arisen in the
MARYLAND oyster business. A tight ior
Western trade has begun between the
Baltimore Exchange and the Peninsular
Packing ASS citation.
Experts say, according to the Pittsburg
DISPATCH. that with natural gas and other
advantages, steel rails can be turned out
near that citv for a less cost than they
can be made in England.
Five men were killed and three injured
by the breaking out OF molten IRON III
Coleman Furnace No. |, at Lebanon,
Penn. The men were overwhelmed by
the rush of molten iron.
In a bulletin issued by the Ohio State
Board of Health, diphtheria is shown to
be prevalent to au alarming extent IN
Cincinnati, Toledo, Springfield, Dayton,
Columbus and other places,
The New York Post returns the
Worlds Fair subscription books with the
notification that it will not only not re-
ceive subscriptions, but will oppose the
Fair if entral Park is chosen.
The National Maritime Exposition was
held at Boston. On all sides were
models of yachts, steamers, fe-boats,
berths and samples of everything per
tanning to ships and shipping.
The total registration in New York city
is 2I8 8,809, the lightest know in the city
since 1885. Last year, which was the
Presidential year, the res istratloh reached
286,57O. In 1887 it was 233, ,436
Burglars near Hume, Bates county,
Mo-, tortured Mr.. and Mrs. James, an
elderly couple, to force them to tell
where their money was hidden. Mrs.
James died from her injuries.
Jerry Cofey shot and mortally
wounded his wife at Leadville. The
murdered woman's maiden name was
Mary Gallagher, and she was brought
up at Virginia City and Pierce, New.
The Pres5ytery in special session at
New York has adopted the proposition
to revise the confession of faith by
vote of 80 to %. The extent OF the re-
vision of the confession is undetermined.
After Miss Kate Drexel, the Philadel-
phia bankers daughter, takes the veil,
She will 20 West to establish schools Tor
Indians, and South to place means OF
education within the reach OF the colored
people.
The Pittsburg, Penn, Window Glass
Manufacturers Association has decided
to advance the price of glass IS per cent,
making 10 per cent advance this tal!.
Other districts are expected TO take SINH
lar action.
A tvpe-written will has been declared
valid by the courts of Berks county,
Penn. This establishes the claim OF
! type-writer wolk to be called writing,
While the patent office has officially
classed it as printing.
Near Vergennes, Mich, Sunday,
| Hagga Westhrook fractured his "l1e
skull with a hamnar while she slept
and his three daughters while asleep
were assaulted in the same manner.
All were fatally injured.
The Duke of Northum berland recently
presented to the Astor Library four vol
umes of the annals of his ancestors, one
of whom, Lord Percy, served IN the at
tack on Bunker Hill and the stormlng
of Washington Heights.
The epidemic of typhoid fever at Que
| bee was caused by milkman washing
his cans in water from foul well,
| Nineteen out OF twenty-nine families
whom be supphed were stricken, among
which were eleven deaths.
Commander Francis Higgi lson has
had charges made against him Tor plac-
ing Guv Andrews, young apprentice,
in the hold of the New Hampshire, which
vessel had been declared filthy. An
drews was taken sick and died.
There seems to be a settled belief in
the Eastern States that the whole Bender