Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-01-05
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
A Brief Mention of Matters of General
Interest.-Notes Gathered from
Home and Abroad.

The steamer Silver Star was sunk
near Portsmouth, Maine, last week.
A conference of wool-growers will
be held in Washington on January lO
Sunday trips of tho Fifth avenue
New York, stages have been abolished
New York and Washington were
surprised Tuesday with pleasant wea'
ther.
Pittsburg has the walking mania
A Y hour match was in progress last
week.
Canada prohibits the importation ol
improper literature from the United
States.
The secret service of the Missouri
Pacific road will cease to exist after
January l.
The Butchers Protective associa
tion at Cincinnati, has declared boy
colt on Chicago dressed beef.
A heavy fall of snow in Michigan
has enabled the lumbermen to begin
the winter logging operations.
Two thousand people witnessed s
game of baseball at Philadelphia last
Sunday, played indoors at the state
lair building.
Mrs. John Priestly and her grand
49, rro,o 1auf SATURDAY. Qn6
then burned in an incendiary fire al
Forest City, Penn.
The French-Eversoll actions ii
Kentucky are heavily armed and pre-
pairing for a fight The French party
has 35 men, heavily armed.
Francis Murphy has made 20GO to
tai abstinence men in indianapolis
His methods appear to lie more efec
tive than the prohibition vote.
There have been three heavy snow
slides on the Canadian Pacific rail
road in the mountains during the last
few weeks, all at or near Field.
The owners of the released steamer
Hartian Republic, demand damages
from Hayti amounting to 100000
and the ships crew $4,000.
Bogardus was defeated in pigon-
shooting match at Cincinnati by Al
Bandle. The latter killed all his
birds, 100; Bogardus killed 95.
-Four woman had an S-hour bicycle
race at New York Tuesday night. Lot,
tie Stanley made so miles and secured
$500 and the diamond medal.
c. ]. Kershaw, who failed for two
millions IN the Cincinnati wheat cor
ner, has arranged to pay nearly "
cents ON the dollar on all the claims
Foster, Dixey's advance agent
Jumped from a swift moving train
while 80 miles from Cheyenne, Tues
day. He was not killed, but badly
bruised.
Since 1885, and including the one
last week, nine explosions have oc
CURED at the powder works in WinG
ham. Maine. Altogether 33 lives have
been lost.
Indictments have been found il
Jefferson county, Ind, against every
pilot who took out Sunday excur
sion from that locality during the
past summer.
Lincoln, Neb., has a ,itizer named
John McAllister, worth $3O,OOO, who
lives alone in small room in state
of ahject squalor. He is a monoma
MAC on "logic."
The football team at Durham, N
c., has had powerful electric lights
suspended over its grounds and pro
pose to play The game during the
evening hereafter.
Fount Horner, aged 30, while crazy
drunk, ran through the streets O
Charleston, w. Va, Tuesday with
club, hitting everybody he met. HI
struck Edward Ames, who stabbed
him to death.
General David Stanley was arrested
recer tly by order Of the mayor OF Aus
tin, Tex, but the jailor refused to in
carcerate him. The general Was exc
cutting an order of ejectment issued by
the war department..
The model of the monument which
is to he erected in Haymarket square
Chicago, in memory of the policemel
who fell in the encounter with the an
archists, has been finished, and vii
be sent to New York for casting.
The St. Louis Post Dispatch Christ
mas fund reach,d $4,000. The sub
scriptlons started at 10 cents. Full.
$1,000 poor children received pres
ents Tuesday, and for hours the vicin
ity of the exposition building wa
packed.
A riot broke out afresh at Bevter
No, the scene of the recent min'
troubles, last week. The negroes wer
the aggressors, and not only did the.
grow boisterous, but attempted intimi
dation by the free use of firearms. Th
militia acted promptly, and Tuesda,
night five of the leaders were in tn
guard-house.
Arkansas has received the honor
able mention of showing the creates
number and best varieties OF seedlin!
apples before the Illinois Horticulture
Society. That state won the sam
award at New Orleans, Boston ant
RIVERSIDE.
An odd present was received b.
Gen. Harrison Christmas from Port