Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-04-20
OVER THE STATES.
NATURAL GAS DISCOVERED IN
KENTUCKY.
The Wife Of Theodore Thomas Dead
An Attempt to Assassinate the
Gear of Russia-General
Boulanger Refugee.

land.
Denver has organized law and order
league.
General Boulanger is refugee from
France.
Natural gas has been discovered in
Kentucky.
Onions are one cent bushel in Can
astoga, N. Y.
The Eifel tower in Paris will be 1000
feet in height.
Gladstone presided at the Parnell ban
quet on the 1lth.
A heavy snow-storm ragged throughout
Old Virginia last week.
The wife of Theodore Thomas died at
New York Wednesday.
The town OF Smithfeld, N. c., was de-
stroyed by fire last week.
A panic prevailed at Percyville, Ia,
last week, over mad dogs.
Henry George has made a number of
speeches in England recently.
-Four marbled polecats " are the lat
est arrivals at the London ZOO.
An attempt was made to assassinate
the Gar of Russia last week.
Governor Wolfley was hanged in effigy
at Flagstaff, Ariz., Thursday.
The Lincoln monument at Springfield.
Ill, is rapidly falling to pieces.
The Michigan legislature has made it a
criminal offense to sell cigarette.
The Smithsonian institute has re-
ceived three elk from Buffalo Bill.
The German man-of-war Olga, recently
beached at Samoa, has been t1oated.
The recent losses by fire in Savannah,
Georgia, is estimated to be 81 100000.
The report of the English admiralty is
that the navy of that country is inefficient.
The effort to declare the present Chi
cago city government invalid, fell through.
The worlds conference of Latter Day
saints was held at St. Joseph, Mo-, last
week.
Canada is in favor of partial but not
an entire reciprocity with the United
! States.
Lewis Conklin, of Port Jervis, L. l.,
was Drained by his wife with an ak,
Tuesday.
The Oklahoma boomers encamped
around Caldwell, Kan, Wednesday, num-
bered 1000.
A negro at Clinton, Wis, broke his
neck while trying to pull his own tooth
Wednesday.
Thieves steal horses and buggies at
Chicago and ship them to Denver where
they are sold.
Snow as black and dirty as if it had
been trampled under foot, fell at Aitken,
Mimi, last week.
Mosella White, music teacher, was
arrested at Susquehana, Pa, Wednesday,
for stealing $4,000.
Sandy Carty, negro desperate, killed
Police Captain John r. Miller at Besse-
mer, Ala, Sunday.
The U. S. steamer Pensacola, which
went down in storm last week at Nor
folk, has been raised.
The Sultan of Turkey has discovered a
plot to depose him and to place his
brothers heir on the throne.
The ACKNOWLEDGMENT baseballists
were entertained in sumptuOus style on
their arrival in New York last week.
Major Armes has made an abiect apol-
ogy to General Beaver for pulling the
latter's nose at Washington recently.
Lee Sing, wealthy merchant of Den
yer, was arrested in Chicago Tuesday for
clipping with another Chinaman's wife.
Russell Harrison was arrested in New
| York Friday, on a charge of criminal Ii
bel against Ex-Governor Crosby OF Mon
tana.
There are said to be only three of the
war governors now living-Blair of Mich
igan, Curtin of Pennsylvania, and Kirk
wood of Iowa.
The Emperor Of Brazil is about to is
sue an edict prohibiting Brazilian girls
from marrying until they arrive at the
age OF ten years.
Ellison Hatfield, one of the Hatfield
Mccoy gang of Kentucky desperadoes,
now in Jail, confesses to three cold
blooded murders.
Maillard, the chocolate confectioner of
New York, has sent to the Paris expo
sition two statues OF Venus in solid
chocolate, weighing 900 pounds each.
1t is proposed to have monster demon
strations all over the country on July
4th, in support of the movement to in
augurate an 8-hour system on May l.,
1890.
Meredith Stanley, of Cincinnati, the
athlete, leaped from the iron bridge over
the Kentucky river, distance Of 285
feet. and was taken from the water un-
injured.
Kilrain and Sullivan have agreed to
fight for a wager of $4,000. 1t is earnest
" hoped by a long suffering public that
# will be a IA Kilkenny in every sense
of the word.
The prohibition state of Iowa has had
five murder trials so far this year within
its borders, in each of which intoxica-
tion was urged by the defense as miti-
eating circumstance of the crime.
Andrew Carnegie, in speech in the
Pennsvlvania house OF representatives
Tuesday. declared that the Pennsylva-
mia Central railroad was injuring the
value OF property in large sections OF the
state.
It is said that lack OF coal at Pago Pa
90 harboT, Samoa, was the cause of the
recent disaster to shipping. The absence
of coal prevented the German and
American war-ships maintaining steam,
hence they were at the mercy of the
storm.