Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-03-09

THE RESULT OF CLAYTON'S MUIR
DER IN ARKANSAS.
A White Woman Weds Brawny Buck
Excitement Over the Discovery of
Old Placers-Terrible Death
in a Squib Factory.

The smallpox at Carson, New, has
died out.
Colorado held its first mardi gras last
week.
Strawberry plants are blooming in
Georgia.
A burglar in jailin Kentucky has fallen
heir to 100000
Delaware has repealed her tax against
commercial travellers.
Both Ohio and Indiana are being bled
by school-book trusts.
Whiskey in Iowa is shipped as axle
grease" " and hardware"
George Q. Cannon has been released
from the Utah penitentiary.
1t is the belief that natural gas in the
Pittsburg district will not last.
d. Edgar Grouse, OF Syracuse, n. Y,
has Just built 100000 stable.
Numerous farms in Berks county,
Penn, are being sold by the sheriff.
The White Caps have ordered the Sal
walton army to leave Champaign, III.
The trial of Governor Larabee, OF Iowa,
for libel, has resulted in Lis acquittal.
A Washington correspondent states
that but one senator smokes cigarettes.
A railroad will be built from Chatta-
nooga to the battlefield OF Chicamauga.
Confederate veterans have organized a
relief association in Fayette county, Ky.
Mrs. Cleveland will receive $l20,000 as
her share OF the Folsom estate at Omaha.
A white woman was married to a full
blooded Indian at Gankton, Dakota, last
week.
There is much excitement over the dis
coverv of number OF old placer mines
near Purcell, 1T, which were worked in
past ages.
A cowboys band, dressed in the regu-
lation costume, was featurei OF the IN
augural pageant.
1t cost at the rate OF 81 apiece to lay
brick in the ceiling OF the New York as
sembly chamber.
Edison will build 100000 candle
power electric lamp to exhibit at the
Paris exposition.
A bill has been introduced in the Wis
consn legislature abolishing the use OF
stoves in passenger cars.
Eleven girls and one man We're killed
bv the explosion of a squib factory at
Plymouth, Pa, Monday.
A great transcontincntal trunk line, to
run diagonallv, with Charleston, 5. c.
as the Eastern terminus, is projected.
"White cap" outrages in Indiana will
hereafter be punished by fine OF Sl@OJ
or less, and ten years in the penitentlHry.
Masked men seized several Mormon
missionaries in Indiana last week and
gave them fifty lashes on the bare back.
Mrs. Frank Leslie has sold the Eng
lish and German editions OF . Frank Les
lies Illustrated Newspaper for 100000.
The dirty and offensive habit OF spit
ting tobacco juice has received recognl-
ton as an illegal ofi,ense by Philadel-
phia grand jury
Bishop Whitaker, Of Philadelphia,
who has Just returned from visit to Gu
ba, saws that the Cubans would be glad
to enter the Union.
The Oregon Improvement Company
it is said, will hereafter purchase or build
its own steamers, instead OF charterlng
vessels as heretofore.
A bill has been introduced into the
Michigan legislature to prohibit the
transportation of dead Cinnamon or their
bones through the State.
The New Jersey legislature is consider
ing bill making it unlawful for employ
ers to demand OF employees pledge not
to Join labor organizations.
Two thousand employees at the fur
naces of the Tennessee Coal and Iron
company struck Friday morning in con-
sequence of reduction IN wages.
Mrs. Lizzie McCaulley, who shot and
killed her husband last December at
Chicago. murdered her two children and
then committed suicide, Saturday.
The murder of John NJ. Clayton for
political reasons has had the effect OF par
alvzing business and demoralizing the
whole of Conway county, Arkansas.
Party feeling ran so high in the In
diana legislature last week that one irate
solon struck another in the face, black
ing his eve and otherwise distigurlng his
erudite physiogonomy.
! Mrs. Emma Althouse, the Attica, n.
Y, famous sleeper, is on the brink OF
death. She has slept 40 days and nights
in one wear and half, with nourishment
to last healthy person but few days.
Robert Sigel. son and confidential
clerk of General Franz Sigel, agent OF the
nension office at New York City, was ar
rested Friday on three charges Of for
qerv in connection with pension claims.
The sale of trotters at Lexington, KY,
Saturday. was phenomenal. Sixty-one
head were sold. bringing total Of $l42,
$40. The price paid for Bell Boy is the
HIGHEST ever paid for a horse in America,
$51 900.
The growing scarcity Of United States
, bonds and other first-class securities has
: forced the savings banks of New York tc
appeal to the legislature for an enlarge
, ment of the list in which they may In
! vest their trust funds.
Henry Fish, OF st. Cloud, Mimi, SOLD
ont everything and started with his wife
and daughter for Oregon, last week, Civ
: inc his daughter possession OF his money
! Tie girl became crazy through anxiety
: over the trust and jumped from the train
) She was picked up injured and insane
: and no one knows where the money IS
, The mother died Of grief over her mis-
fortunes,