Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-05-04
HOME AND ABROAD.
Hundreds Of Boomers to the Oklahoma
District Reurning-Heavy Hail
storm in Georgia-Notes.

anti-dressed beef bill.
The old board of directors of the Union
Pacific has been reelected.
Four murderers escaped from the
Wichita, Kan, jail, last week.
Hundreds of disappointed Oklahoma
boomers are on the back track.
The sleeping car interests are to be
united in one enormous concern.
Jackson, Miss, after being dry nearly
two and half years, is again wet town.
For the fourth time in English history
the title of the Duke of Buckingham has
become extinct.
The monastry of Melk, in Austria. has
Just celebrated the S00th anniversary Of
its foundation.
Signs of effort to establish Whisky
Trust have become manifest in the
United Kingdom.
The City of Mexico proposes to follow
New York's example and clear the streets
OF wires and poles.
Otto Fake has started in small boat
from Bangor to New Orleans. The trip
is made on a wager.
The heaviest hail and rainstorm ever
known in that section OF country, fell in
Atlanta, Ga, on the 24th.
The fellows who crowd the White
House to keep certain other fellows from
getting office are called "spikers." :"
Claim-iumpers in Oklahoma are Great
ing considerable trouble, and several OF
them have been killed in consequence.
The Russian Czar is suffering from ex-
treme nervousness and excitement, being
in constant dread of attempts on his life.
A Swedish laborer who landed in New
York a few days ago, was shipped back
to Sweden under the contract Labor law.
A remonstrance from leading property
owners against an elevated road in BOs-
ton, is published in the papers OF that
city.
Lord Brownlow denies that he has ac-
cepted the viceroyship of Ireland. He
SAYS that he has never been offered the
post.
C. Smith has been appointed general
manager of the Oregon Railway u Navi-
cation Company, with headquarters at
Portland.
1t is officially announced that Prince
Ferdinand, nephew Of King Charles, has
been selected rs heir to the throne OF
ROuman!2.
The Farmers Alliance of Miss; ;ssippi
has obtained room in the penitentiary
building to operate a bagging factory OF a
capacity of 5000 yards day.
A bill is pressed in the legislature OF
Michigan to establish the business OF
twine manufacturing in the state prisons.
These movements are hostile to trusts.
Boulanger says he fed from Paris be-
cause the government had formed a plot
to assassinate him, and failing in that, to
sentence him to death by one-sided
court-martlal.
The French Ambassador at Rome has
lust discovered there famous portrait Of
Voltaire that has been missing for more
than half century. 1t represents him
in his youth.
Topeka, Kan, has the largest electric
railway system in the world. There are
sixteen and a half miles of track in oper-
alton, and speed of fifteen miles an hour
can be attained.
The Mammoth hotel at Rockaway
beach, which was built by the Rockaway
Beach Improvement Company in 1879,
has been sold for $4,000. The building
will be torn down.
There were more than 1900 saloons
in Ohio. Under the policy OF taxation by
regulation this number has been reduced
one-half and the revenue amounts to
s., 800, 900 year to the state.
The debtor who does not pay in Siam
must become the slave of his creditor,
who charges him from 10 to 80 per cent a
year, puts him in chains and takes his
work as the interest of his debt.
Applicants for country postofices are
now sending their photographs to Wash
ington to be filed with their papers of in
dorsement. 1t is noticed that nearly all
photos represent very good looking men.
The Connecticut State Board of Chari-
ties has investigated charges made
against officers of the state prison of
Weathersfeld, and a shameful state OF
immortality and lack OF discipline was
shown.
The Texas Spring Palace at Fort Worth,
Texas, will be opened on the 29th OF May.
Its object is to exhibit Texas to the peo-
pie from other states, and to induce men
and women to see the South for them
selves.
Grand Old Man Gladstone is to be hon
ored with great natural monument.
The highest peak of the Finisterre range
in New Guinea is to be christened Mount
Gladstone. 1t is said no white man has
yet reached its summit.
Count Papenheim, formerly adjutant
to the late King Ludwig of Bavaria, is
reported to have absconded to America
with the funds he obtained by the sale OF
estates, leaving large number OF credl-
tors to bewail his flight.
Governor Taylor, OF Tennessee, has
vetoed the bill providing for the removal
of the state penitentiary. The measure
was regarded as the first step toward the
abolition OF the convict lease system and
the governor has raised storm OF popu-
lar indignation.
Observations upon the sway of tall
chimneys during high winds show that
one of lis feet in height and four feet in
total diameter, at the top waved twenty
inches during heavy gale, and another
164 feet high, but with a six and hall
feet diameter of fiue, moved through an
arc of only six and half inches.
The Department of Agriculture at
Washington has decided to send an ex-
pert to Southern California to investigate
| thn new vine disease having been un.