Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-01-19
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
A Brief Mention of Matters of Gen raj
Interest.-Notes CAT cred from
Home and Abroad.


Last year 1856 people died of de
lirium tremens in England.
The Paris pylice will search the
houses of all known anarchists.
The Sultan is one of the most en-
thusiastic chess players in Europe.
In Russia last year $4,000 dram
shops were done away with by law.
Lord Coleridge has collected $35, 5,OOC
for the widow and daughters of Mat.
thew Arnold.
The British government states that
successor to SackI lille West will
shortly be appointed.
Final preparations have been made
for the official trial of the 15-inch
pneumatic dynamite gun.
Another valuable coal deposit has
lust been discovered in Dakota, three
miles north OF Centerville.
The italian railway system is un-
dergoing radical reform to facilitate
the mobilization of troops.
The largest organ in the world is
now being built in London for Sgd
ney. 1t will cost about $75 900.
France appears to be somewhat dis
pleased over the debate in the U. S.
Senate on the Panama cal project.
Eugene Wetherill, husband of EN-
ma Abbott, the noted ptima donna,
died suddenly at Denver last week.
Mrs. Sheridan has accepted the de-
sign Of Samuel H. Kittson, OF New
York, for the monument to General
Sheridan.
President Carnot of France received
nearly a thousand Christmas presents
from his admiring fellow-citizens oi
the Republic.
Mrs. Parnell has decided to her son.
Charles Stewart Parnell, the ironsides
homestead and other property at
Bordentown, NJ.
Though nearly a million Lebel
rifles have been turned out in France
the government workshops are still
turning out 5000 day more.
King Leopold, of Belgium, has in
strucled the bishops OF his little realm
to have prayers offered constantly iol
the safety OF Stanley and Emin Pasha
A celebrated team of bull-dghters
from Seville, Spain, performed before
10000 excited people at the City OF
Mexico recently. -Four bulls were
killed.
Articles have been signed by Sulli,
van and Kilrain for fight near New
Orleans for purse of $4,000 and the
diamond championship belt now held
by the latter.
The most prominent brigand in
China, Ho Ta Lao-hu, has been cap
tured and killed. He was a giant
being 7 feet 2 inches in height and
broad in proportion.
Five negro murderers were drowned
in Broad river, S. c., few days ago,
while struggling for the possession Of
money they had just taken from the
body of one whom they had murdered
Empress Frederick is understood to
have made friends with her eldest son,
the Emperor, but she failed to receive
the customary Christmas present
from him. 1t is given out that she
requested him not to send it.
James L. Wright, R. n. Keen, R. G.
McArley and Joseph S. Kennedy, the
four original members of the Knights
of Labor, have issued circulars to the
knights which are expected to over
throw the Powderly administration in
the order.
The Czar is said to have become
recOnciled to Prince Alexander of Bat
tenberg, owing to the kindly efforts of
a mo herly Grand Duchess who takes
interest in the Princess Victoria of
Prussia, and wants to see the young
couple happy and married.
Deputy Sheriff Moore, of Dallas,
Texas, twice rescued burglar from
the hands of a mob last week, and
each time tt 6 culprlt was hanging
from a tree. The second time the res
cue was made the deputy fired upon
the lvnchers and injured several.
The city council of Cheyenne, Wy.
T.. has closed the deal with the Union
Pacific and workshops will be imme'
diarelv established. The citizens of
CHEYENNE are overjoyed, a boom has
set in. and land in the neighborhood
has increased in value wonderfully
within the last few weeks.
M. Lucien Gaulard, who had SC
large a share in the introduction OF
the transformer system of electric
lighting. died recently in lunatic
asylum in France. His friends at
tribute his mental failure to the legal
troubles he had experienced in con
nection with his various patents.
When Will Bright, son of John
Bright, wanted to reprove his f4thel
for the latter's severity for comment
ing on his sons adherence to home
rule principles, the young men wrote
~My dear father. these are not the
kind of letters that should be ad
dressed by one statesman to another.
It is expected that not more thar
one million pounds of tobacco will bt
raised in Egypt this year, although
three million pounds have been pro
duced in former seasons. The de