Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
An Epitome of the Happenings of
Two Hemisphere.
What is Transporting at the Capital OF
the United StateS-0ther Very
Interesting News.

The COLORADO SJaUe treasurer HAS
been sued by New York bankers.
Rain reduced the condition of the
cotton crop nearly S per cent. during
September.
The New York Court of Appeals sus-
tains the constitutionality of the State
Civil Service law.
The population of the state of Penn
syIvania is 5,24S, 594, an increase of $685.
6S3, or % per cent.
The waters of Georgia have been
planted with about thirteen million
shad in the last two years.
The Kingfsher capital bill has passed
the Oklahoma Legislature, but it is be-
leved the Governor will veto it.
There is a mad dog scare in Reading,
Pa, many people having been bitten
by CANNES supposed to be rabid.
The New York Herald's Washington
correspondent believes Congress viii be
called in extra session in November.
Fay Templeton's jewels, which were
seized by the customs authorities at
New York are to be returned to her.
Secretary Window is busily engaged
in the preparation of his annual report
in Washington, writing at home in the
forenoon.
The Missouri penitentiary is paying
all expenses of the institution, includ
ing salaries of officers and guards, out
of the prison earnings.
The governments Yellowstone herd
of seventy buffaloes has strayed into
Wyoming, and hundreds of men are
hurrying to the roundup.
Three companies of the Twenty-sec-
ond Regiment, New York, have been
disbanded. This is the result of the
dissensions in the regiment.
The Superior Court in Iowa has de-
cided that the prohibitory law of the
State is null and void, so far as the sale
of original packages is concerned.
Louis during fair week have memorial
lied the United States Senate, protest
ing against the proposed tax on COM
pound lard.
The gunboats Concord and Benning-
ton, contracted for some three years
ago, are about completed. The first
named vessel will soon be ready for an
official trial trip.
The tobacco crop in Missouri this
year will not amount to over two thou
sand hogsheads. The acreage is less
than it has been for years, and the
drought made the crop light.
Original package houses at Yankton,
S. D., have been reopened on the
strength of the recent Kansas decisions.
City officials will probably pass an ordi-
nance licensing such houses.
The total gross exchange for last week
in leading clearing houses of the United
States and Canada is 81, 1927, 1867 ,317, an
increase of 3.5 per cent. as compared
with corresponding week last year.
The advance of 100 per cent. in duty
on pearl buttons has resurrected the
industry in this country, and there has
been an advance of Is to 20 per cent.
in the wages of the button-makers.
Canada is talking of imposing a tax of
cents per dozen on American eggs in
retaliation for the Mckinley import
duty. Canada imported last year 500
600 dozen eggs from the United States.
The will of the late James Collie of
Superior, Wis, did not prove satisfactory
to the heirs, and at the instance of his
widow and daughter, now Mrs. Joseph
f. McKenna, contest has been insti-
tuted.
Opium dens in Chinatown, New York,
were raided the other night. Many
white women who live with Cinnamon,
and whose antics caused complaint from
the tenants of the neighborhood, were
arrested.
The executive committee of the Ship
owners Federation is organizing a
scheme for simultaneous LAYING up of
their ships at all ports as final resort
against the exactions of the Seamen's
and Dock Laborer's unions
Rumors have been circulated among
the officers and general agents of Adams
and United States Express Companies
in the West that negotiations are pend
ing looking to the complete consolida-
ton of the two corporations.
c. p. Huntington, President of the
Southern Pacific company, in a recent
interview admitted that large shippers
receive low rates at the expense of
small shippers, but said consolidation
of the great railway systems would do
away with such discrimination.
Rev. James Thompson, Methodist
minister at Shelbourne, Ont, before a
ministerial commission, pleaded guilty
of having taught an Objectionable condi-
tional immortality and "Annihilation
of the Wicked" and was suspended
from the ministry, pending action by
the next annual conference.
1t is reported that Admiral Walkers
squadron will sail from New York in a
few weeks for cruise on the New Eng
land coast. The object of the cruise is
to obtain desirable recruits, which it is
believed can be recruited from the
sailors thrown out of employment bv
the close of the coasting season.
Rev. J. P. Hector of San Francisco.
colored Prohibition orator. who re-
Gently went to Pittsfeld, Mass, to ad-
dress the Prohibitionists of that CITY. in
company with his wife and little boy
and Mrs. Bayard, also colored. of Bos-
ton, were refused admission to two
hotels there on account, Hector claims,
of their color.
ALONG THE COAST.