Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-01-12
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
A Brief Mention of Matters of Gen raj
Interest.-Notes Gathered from
Home and Abroad.

Gladstone reached his 10th birthday
recently.
A rebellion has broken out in Up,
per India.
The King of Wurtemberg is in
feeble health.
The opera-house of Tyler, Tex, was
burned last week.
The Pope last week celebrated the
close Of his jubilee year.
Minister Phelps will return from
England in few weeks.
Germany does not propose to in
crease its artillery strength.
The Bulgarian sobranje has granted
amnesty to political refugees.
The wife of Major General Schofeld
died suddenly recently of heart dis
ease.
Collector Hager suggests that the
duty on opium be reduced to 20 a
pound.
The date for the GwedOre evictions
in Ireland was set and carried into ef-
feet on January I'd.
DR.. Carver attempted to break CO.
900 glass balls in SIX days at Mime
apolis, last week, but failed to accom-
plish the feat.
Princess Adelbert, OF Bavaria, was
seized with Mysteries in the Berlin OPP
era house last week. 1t is believed
that she is insane.
The badly mutilated body of Ger
man was found in Fairmount park,
Philadelphia, Sunday. Much excite
ment was created.
1t is stated that further papers re-
lating to the Sackville affair are about
to be given out for publication by the
British government.
An escaped Soudanese has offered
to bring in General Gordon's sword,
clothes and papers, which are said to
be hidden near Berber.
At the close of a sparring exhihi-
ton at Brooklyn, N. Y, last week, a
panic occurred and a score or more
Of persons were injured.
A large gathering at Liege, Bel
gium, recently, adopted resolutions
favoring the restoration OF the tenn
poral power of the Pope.
The daughter of Lawrence Barrett,
the actor, and Joseph Anderson, a
brother of Mary Anderson, the actress,
were married in Boston January Sd.
Johnston Hatfield, the worst OF the
whole Hatfield gang, in West Vir-
ginia, and ferocious desperate, died
last week in Lawrence county, Ken
lucky.
Slaven, of the American Dredging
it is stated, assures DeLes-
seps that he can finish the second sec
ton of the Panama canal in twelve
months.
F. w. Smith played Santa Claus at
his home at Danville, Illinois, Christ
mas, and enveloped himself in cotton
batting, which caught fire and he was
fatally burned.
Robert Bonner's famous stallion
Startle, the sire of many celebrated
trotters, including Maj0lica, with a
record of 2 Is, died in New York last
week, aged 2I years.
Governor Marble, of Maine, has ap
pointed James G. Blaine among the
other commissioners to attend the Cen
tennial celebration of Washington's
in New York, April goth.
A Christmas gathering at East
Prospect, Penn, was thrown from the
second to the first floor of the build
ing which had suddenly collapsed.
Numbers were bruised and cut, but
none seriously.
The London pslice believe that they
are on the right clew to the author OF
the Whitechapel murders. They have
succeeded in locating him in the vi
cinity of Drury Lane, by tracing let
ters written by him.
Ira Payne, the American gun ex-
pert, now in Paris, asserts that he has
discovered a process for the manufact-
ure of gold from an alloy of silver and
copper, and is trying to raise funds to
start the proper works.
The Ottawa board of trade has pc
titioned the Dominion government to
grant subsidy to fast line OF steam
ers from Quebec to Liverpool. The
desire is compete with the New York
and Liverpool steamers.
Pierre Beauron who was supposed
to be dead and whose sisters had been
appointed to administer his estate,
turned up at Shohola, Penn, the other
day and secared orders revoking the
letters of administration.
An explosion of gas caused great
damage in Boston, recently. Two men
were blown 20 feet in the e-air and Fort
Hill square and adjacent buildings re-
ceived terrible wrenching. The ex-
plosion tore the street up.
The unofficial list of representatives
elect, recently published, shows that
20 Republicans were elected from the
following Southern States: Kentucky,
2; Louisiana, l Maryland, 2; Mis-
souri,, 4; North Carolina, B; Tennes-
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