Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-08-03
EASTERN ITEMS.
A WOMAN LYNCHED FOR CATTLE
STEALING IN WYOMING.
a Newfoundland Dog Ouer Horseshoe
Falls-Chinese in Transit-Blaine
Not Satisfied With the Sa-
moan Treaty-Notes.

Mrs. Mackay has sailed for the United
States.
Ex-Governor Nelson Dewey, Of Wis
consin, is dead
The Prohibitionists OF Ohio has nomi
mated State ticket.
There is decided check in Italian inn
migration to this country.
New York capitalists have bought 49,
900, 900 of Indiana State bonds.
The Sunday law at Kansas City had
but three open viOlators on the 2lst.
Three cars of California fruit was re-
ceived and sold in Chicago on the 25th.
The Cincinnati Club has offered s10,-
900 for Comiskey, the st. Louis first base
man.
Charlemagus Tower, the Philadelphia
millionaire, died on the 25th, aged 81
years.
The city OF Dover, N. H., recently bor-
rowed in Boston $35, 900 at 34 per cent
interest.
Heavy shipments OF cattle are now be-
ing made from New York for the English
markets.
The Belgian blocks that are now bel ng
laid by Philadelphia came all the way
from Maine.
A bill to enjoin the construction OF the
LaKe-street Elevated Railroad at Chicago,
has been filed.
Word has been received at Washington
that the Charleston will be ready for trial
in about seven weeks.
The Vanderbilt people want the Ken
lucky Central Railroad, and have made
Huntington an offer for it.
It is expected that over 10000 Knights
Templar will be in Washington at the
coming Triennial Conclave.
Colored Republicans express the opin-
ion that the Republican party will elect
the next Mayor OF Baltimore.
A livery stable was burned in New
York on the 20th inst, in which 120
horses were roasted to death.
There is talk of the consolidation OF
Ohio and Indiana natural gas companies
and the formation of a big trust.
JAY Gould is credited with having late
lv borrowed large sums of money, the
estimate being put at $8,OO5,OOO.
Farmers in the Schuylkin Valley,
Penn, have been doing their work by
moonlight to escape the midday heat.
Chinese in transit for foreign ports are
permitted, by decision of the Treasury
Department, to pass through the United
States.
A New Haven man has been held for
murder in the second degree for acciden-
tally shooting boy while celebrating the
Fourth.
Many people are left HON eless by the
recent flood in West Virginia, and unless
assistance is given very soon the setter
ing will be great.
Two hundred and fifty applications have
been filed for the vacancy in the Corps OF
Chaplains in the army. 1t is a preslden-
tial appointment.
The wife of Dave Wambold of the old
San Francisco Minstrels has applied for
a divorce and has been granted a separa-
ton and alimony.
A complete Constitution has been pre-
sented to the convention of North Dakota,
prepared bv some Of the ablest lawyers
in the United States.
Creghan and Richardson, the two at
tendants at the Chicago Insane Asylum,
charged with the murder OF Burns, an in
mate, have been acquitted.
The students at Macalister College at
MINNEAPOLIS, a Presbyterian institution,
are in revolt at the dismissal of DR.. Kirk
wood one of the professors.
In the first land claim contest in Okla
/ homa, the Register and Receiver OF the
/ land Office have decided that neither OF
contestants was entitled to the land.
A barrel containing a Newfoundland
dog was sent over Horseshoe Falls at
/ Niagara on the 21st. Pieces of the barrel
were found, but the dog was not seen.
Cattle Kate alias Kate Maxwell, the
notorious cattle rustler Of Wyoming Ter
ritory, was lynched, along with AverIll,
her paramour, on the 20th, near Rawllns,
Wyo.
Colonel r. J. Page, a prominent law
yer and editor of the Times-Reglster at
Marion. n. c., was shot and killed on the
22d at Ashyille, n. c., while allghtlng
from the midnight train.
The owners Of the American schooner
Matte Winship, which was seized of
Nova Scotia for illegal fishing, have been
ordered by the Canadian government to
pay a fine of $1,000 and costs.
The contract for the furnishing OF 42s
tons of steel plates for the armored bat
tie ship Maine, has been awarded by the
Department to the Linden Steel Com
pany, of Plttsburg, for $34,753.
The law firm in New York which
Grover Cleveland entered after leaving
the presidency, has not, it is reported,
secured anv unusual increase OF business
on account OF the distinguished accession
Senator Wade Hampton has just re,
turned from a long visit to Canada, ano
states that the question OF annexing Can
ado IN the United States is being ser
iouslv considered by the Canadian au'
thorities.
John L. Sullivan has received the $40,
600 stake in the Kilrain fight, also RIch
ard K. Fox belt, representing the world
championship. Sullivan Will retain only
4lO, 600, the remainder going to REM
burse his hackers.
Robert Marvel, the Pike, Ind, town
shin octogenarian, still continues his won
derful fast, and is rapidly approaching
his fortieth day Of abstainment from fooe
and drink. Marvel is IS years old. Ht
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