Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-03-02
NEWS MISCELLANY.
A RUSSIAN PRINCE INCARCERATED
FOR GRAND LARCENY.
Naptha the Latest Female V1ce-Illicit
Distin ries Discovered in Chicago
Insanity of Consicts in the
New York Prisons.

King Otto, of Bavaria, has been adj
judged insane.
De Freycinet has undertaken to form
the new French cabinet.
The Germans in Samoa are furious over
the escape of Klein from Samoa.
An effort will be made in Boston to
suppress prize fighting altogether.
A famine prevails in the southern por
ton of Corea and many people are starry
ing.
The U. S. war ship Hartford has been
ordered to HaYti, and the Nandaliato Sa-
mOa.
Governor Larabee, of Iowa, has been
indicted by the grand jury OF Polk county
for libel.
Prize-fghting in Montana is now re-
garded as one Of the TerrltOry's leading
industries.
1t is again rumored in Paris that STAN
ley has been murdered by natives near
Maugambia.
A bronze statue of Stonewall Jackson,
to cost 0,O00, will soon be unveiled at
Lexington, Va.
O'Brien has been sentenced to impris-
onment with hard labor for six months
under the crimes act.
The rumors concerning the uprising Of
the Indians in the Flathead country,
Montana, are grossly exaggerated.
A destructive cyclone passed over
portion of Alabama and Georgia, Satur-
day, killing and wounding many people.
A bill has passed the Colorado legisla-
ture to punish lawyers who advertise
their ability to obtain secret divorces"
The courts of London have rendered a
decision upholding the electric light
patents of Edison and Swan against other
patents.
The completion of the submarine cable
625 miles in length, between Coatzacval-
cos, Mexico, and Galveston, Texas, is
announced.
DIR. Tanner propose to take upon him
self a trance state and in this condition
be buried for four weeks. The idea is a
good one.
II Stdltltil VI lJIplOLllOilS 10 ttll
nOunced from the BOrdentown, n. j.,
female college All the students but
three have left for home.
The Indiana legislature is again in
volved in trouble. The Republican SEN
ators threaten to resign, thereby leaving
that body without quorum-
The revenue officers of Chicago are on
the scent of illicit whiskey manufacture
ing. said to be in the heart of the city and
engaged in by prominent men.
1t is said that the English parliament
will vote $500, ,000,0 900 for the cOnstruc-
ton of twenty men-of-war, fifty cruisers
and for increasing her torpedo service.
Three rabbit hunters near Cheyenne,
were pursued by herd Of cattle last Sat
urday and two of the number were
trampled into an unrecOgnizable mass.
By the explosion of a boiler in a Hart
ford, Conn, hotel last week, the building
was set on fire and between twenty-five
and fifty people were burned to death.
A silly rumor has gained currency that
President Cleveland is firm believer in
the doctrine of spiritualism. The New
York Sun is the author of the canard.
Six convicts have become insane in the
Clinton, N. Y, prison. Last week four
others were adjudged insane and sent to
the asylum. Their insanity IS attributed
to idleness.
Sam d. Ford, recently arrested on the
train at Tucson for forgery committed at
Kankakee, H., was married in jail last
Sunday to the woman with whom he had
been travelling.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
last week to wreck Louisville and Nash
vile passenger train. A carload of sill
yer was probably the inducement for the
dastardly crime.
An investigation Of the sensational re-
ports from the Wisconsin pineries con-
cerning dance houses and cruel treatment
of the women inmates, has shown the
stories to be highly exaggerated.
After an unp,tralled lengthy trial at
Minneapolis, Tim and Pete Garrett have
been sentenced to hang on the 22d OF
March for the unprovoked killing OF a
street-car driver over year ago.
While boring for gas at Litchield, ILL.,,
recently, the drill passed into tunnel
of the LitchfeId Coal company, and a
mule which was standing beneath the
drill was killed.
The internal machine discovered in
the rear of the Salvation army head
quarters, at Deer Lodge, Montana, turns
out TO be nothing more serious than a
huge fire-cracker.
Frank L. Silvers, well-known horse
breeder of Tecumseh, Mich, shot his
wife. his two young daughters and then
himself, thus wiping out OF existence the
entire family The victims were all shot
through the temple.
1t is said that Germany will demand of
the United States the arrest and punish
ment of Klein, the American correspond
ent of the New York World" on a
charge of leading the Samoans against
the Germans.
Naptha is the latest female vice. The
Girls emploved in the New York rubber
factories are addicted to the inhalation of
naptha fumes, and in consequence are
made drunk. Its effect on the system
is said to be terrible.
The marriage OF petite Miss Alice E.
Hagaboom, of Vermont, and dapper Al
fred S. Thompson, of New York, is an
nounced. The bride tips the hay scales
at $50 pounds. while the groom weighs
ten pounds short of hundred.
In the months of December and Jan
uarv several disastrous earthquakes oc-
cured at San Jose, Costa Rica, and many
nennle killed. To add to the horror of