Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-02-23
OVER THE GLOBE.
PROMULGA rION OF THE NEW CON-
STITUTION OF JAPAN.
Meeting of Union and Confederate Vet
erans-No Change in the Status Of
the Samoan Question-Sans
Culottes of Rome

ton.
Gladstone has decided not to visit
Rome.
Prince Bismarck is threatened with
facial paralysis.
The steamer Haytian Republic has
arrived at Boston.
Less than 80 per cent of Chicago's
population is foreign.
Gray hair for women is now the
fashionable thing in Paris.
Within a weeks notice Italy can
place 100000 men in the field.
Thousands of emigrants are flock
ing into the Argentine Republic.
The official trial OF the gunboat
Yorktown was complete success.
The percentage of suicides in France
is greater than in any other country.
The members of the French minis
try, headed by Floquet, have resigned,
The Knights OF Labor will return to
absolute secrecy in all their proceed
ings.
Samuel J. Tilden's birth day was ex-
tensively celebrated throughout the
East last week.
1t is proposed to consolidate all the
express companies of the coun ry into
enc corporation.
This Ohio State prison was not only
self-supporting last year but yielded a
profit of $l5, 1873.
A man was sentenced to AIT days
Imprisonment at Rutland, VT, recent
ly, for getting drunk.
The value of the plunder secured
by the mob in the recent riot at Rome
is estimated at $l25,000.
Men are swarming through The gas
territory in Wabash county, Indiana,
taking oil leases from farmers.
The Pennsylvania Central railroad
will hereafter haul no freight on Sun
day except such as are classed perish
able.
A bill has been introduced in the
Delaware legislature exempting wo-
men from the punishment of the
whipping post.
Over five hundred women of Bangor
have signed a remonstrance sent to
the Maine legislature, protesting
against woman suffrage.
Professor d. Henzel was severely
beaten by three unknown parties at
st. Paul, Saturday. They mad pre-
viousIy warned him 10 leave town.
Emigration agents are draining
North Carolina of able-bodied negroes.
The tanners will be unable now to
handle their crops the coming season.
Mrs. McNulty, aged sixty, and Air
ME Mcclure, aged eleven years, were
frozen to death about 200 yards from
home, near Ottawa, Canada, in the
blizzard of last week.
1t is reported that affairs among the
laboring class on the Panama canal
are in a deplorable condition. The
canal project is hopeless failure, and
work viii soon cease altogether.
Another tragedy was enacted at
Lake Starnberg, Thursday, when two
persons drowned themselves. Since
the suicide of King Ludwig, eleven
persons have drowned in the lake.
The Indians on Battle River reser-
vation are suffering greatly from an
affection of the throat and neck,
which prevents them from swallowing
food. The complete determination OF
the tribe is feared.
The steamer Carondelet sailed from
New York Friday afternoon for Sa'
moa. She had on board 1873 cases of
rifles, shells and ammunition, which
were brought here by the steamer
Westernland last Wednesday.
The excursion of Canadian legisla-
tors through the United States, given
by American merchants with the view
of furthering the annexation scheme,
will be a grand affair. Itexpected that
fully 400 will visit the principal cities
OF the Union.
There is danger of an outbreak
among the hali-breed Indians in Bart
lett county, Dakota. The military at
st. Johns have been ordered out by
the sheriff, but the commanding Of
ficer saws that the sheriff has no au-
thority to do so. Serious trouble is
feared.
Alta meeting of the Union and Con-
federate veterans at Washington,
Thursday, the plan of preserving and
marking the field Of Chicamauga, un-
der the auspices of a joint memorial
corporation representing all the States
that had troops there, was cordially
approved.
The new constitution of Japan was
promulgated from the throne last
week. 1t establishes house of peers,
members of which are to be partly
hereditary, partly elective and partly
nominated by the mikadc, and a
house of commons of 300 members.
The right of suffrage is given to all
men Of the sge of twenty-five years
and over who pay taxes to the amount
of $25 yearly.
Late advices from Samoa say that
there has been no change in the stu
alton since the last report. There has
been no fighting, and Tamasese and
Mataafa remain in their strongholds.
The British consul has warned British
subjects not to supply the natives
with arms, and to maintain strict
neutrality. The British war ship Cal
lione has replaced the war ship Roy