Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-12-28
EASTERN ITEMS.
COLORED BRETHREN AT KANSAS
CITY CROSS RAzORS.
Clan.na-Gael Policemen Removed IN
Chtcago-Hanlan Challenges the
World Cigarmakers on
a Strike.

Minneapolis is excited over a smallpox
scare.
Whittier has just celebrated his SD
birthday.
The European influenza has appeared
in New York.
Hanlan has challenged the world for
sculling match.
A Buffalo elevator worth 100000
burned to the ground.
Chicago is removing the Clan-na-Gael
men from its police force.
General Malone has taken house at
! Washington for the winter.
The baseball pitchers box will be en-
larged next season to 6x4 feet.
A general readjustment OF Northern
! Pacific officials is on the tapls.
William S. Harrison, a nephew of the
president, has just died at Chicago.
George Guther, of St. Louis, was beaten
to death by his 17-year-old son, Emil.
Oliver L. Barbour, the eminent legal
authority, died at Syracuse, aged -.
The city clerk of Council Bluffs gambled
away $1,000 in city funds and resigned.
The more silver men study Secretary
WINDOWS new plan the less they like it..
Judge Thurman's wife is Frustrated on
account of grief at her daughters noto-
riety.
The Allen House burned at New Or
leans. Lodgers escaped in their night
| clothes.
Yale will hereafter row only against
Harvard. She is declining other chal-
| lenges.
! Governor Lowry has refused to allow
Kilrsin to pay his imprisonment penalty
by fine.
Robert Dalton, of Toledo, fell on cleo
trio light wires and was roasted to death
| by electricity.
The Keokuk, Iowa, grand jury has re-
turned forty-two indictments again st
saloon keepers.
Barrett has cancelled his engagements
and will probably be unable to go upon
the stage again.
DR.. Daniel Ayres, of Brooklyn, gives
| the Wesleyan University and endowment
fund of $250,O00.
Five prominent Mormon officials at
Salt Lake are under indictment for appro-
priating public moneys.
1t is said that the Northern Pacific has
decided upon a Canadian route from ST.
Paul to the Atlantic ocean.
A. Meyer, Wells Fargo's defaulting
agent at Phoenix, Arizona, was sentenced
to five years Imprisonment.
1t is now said that W. Scott Clifford,
who married Judge Thurman's daughter,
already has wife in the East.
Kilrain's sentence was 5000 fine and
two months imprisonment. He is out
on 5000 bail pending an appeal.
The commissioner of public works in
New York city is cutting down the poles
of the eleetriic light con7anies'
The destitution in North Dakota is not
so serious as feared, Help is coming in,
and the people are in better spirits.
A discharged drunken cook set fire to
the OklohOma House, at Kansas City,
and one lodger was burned to death.
As far as can be learned, no trace has
yet been found OF the present where
abouts Of absconding Cashier Silcott.
Key West cigarmakers are out on a
| strike. Shipments are only fifty cases
per month instead OF the cust0mary 1900
The Cherokee Indian commission failed
! to secure the willingness of the Indians
| to sell their land and have returned to
| Washington.
Owing to large sales OF land in Mime
sofa, the Northern Pacific road officially
announces that it will retire 10000 shares
OF preferred stock,
At the session of the Pan-American
conference President Blaine appointed
various committees, and the conference
adjourned until after the holidays.
The Rev. DR.. w. s. Rainsford, of ST.
Georges Protestant Episcopal church.
New York, has paid $27.75 for shooting a
Long Island quail out of season.
Mrs Richard A. Proctor, widow Of the
astronomer, who was carried off by vel
low fever, is gaining a livelihood by de-
livering her husbands lectures.
julius Hoffer leased Louise Epperson,
of BakersvilIe, Mo, until she was exas-
perated beyond endurance and she shot
hin in the head He died instantly.
The st. Louis Post-Dispatch prints the
names of several Missouri state senators
whom it charges with having been bribed
to vote against the dressed meat bill.
A farm hand named Gilmore. near
Grand Rapids, Mich, tried to persuade
the wife of his employer to elope with
| him. Failing in this, ne shot fatally both
the woman and himself.
Frank B. Gowen, a wealthy lawyer and
railroa man, and at one time president
of the Reading road, shot himself fatally
in Wormley's hotel, Washington, D. G.
No cause is yet known for the act.
George w. Evans, alias William Frank
lin, noted bank thief, was arrested at
New Orleans while trying, in company
with a confederate, to steal a $4,000
money package from an express office.
Sales of Chemical bank stock were
made last Saturday in New York at $4,000
per 500 share. 1t is said to be the high
est price for any bank share in the world.
Thomas Potter, well-known citizen,
died in Washington, aged 80. He was
one Of those who drew Lafa yette's car
rage into Washington from Baltimore in
1924.
The Hen Proctor Knott is said to be
making a strong campaign for the succec-
sion to Mr.. Blackburn as senator from
Kentucky. The election will occur next
month.
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