Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
An Epitome of the Happenings of
Two Hemisphere.
What is Transporting in the Congress of
the United StateS-0ther Very
Interesting News.

Chicago uses 100000, 900 pounds Of ice
daily.
The Georgia peach crop will be almost
a total failure.
The Greeley statue fund in New York
amounts to 81 ,4l4.95.
Canada is agitating the placing OF 6
representative at Washington.
A Tammany regiment is to be started
in the New York militia.
1t is thought in Washington that Con.
gress will not adjourn before September
Mr.. Goshorn of Philadelphia will like.
ly be chosen director-general of the
Worlds Fair.
Scandalous charges are brought against
the Superintendent of the South Dakota
Insane Asylum.
General Ayers order prohibiting car
riages in the Grand Army parade at
Boston in August has been revoked.
Senator Hoar has introduced bill for
monument in Washington to General
Israel Putnam of Revolutionary fame.
The capital stock of the Colorado
Mineral Palace, to be built at Pueblo, has
been increased, also the number of di-
rectors.
A strong effort will be made in the
Senate to secure full protection for the
development of tin interests in this
country.
The Excelsior Geyser in Yellowstone
Park is throwing hot water 300 feet into
the air. This is the first eruption in
two years.
Senator Stewart has introduced a bill
granting the public lands in Nevada, ex-
cepting mineral lands, to the State in
aid of irrigation.
1t is said that the deaths from small
pox at Saltillo, the capital of the State
of Coahuila, have averaged 400 in a
month for the last three months.
A hot controversy between General
Jubal A. Early and Major j. Horace
Lacy, both distinguished ex-Confederate
officers, threatens to terminate in per-
sonal encounter.
Official announcement is made of the
incorporation under the laws of New
Jersey of the Chicago Junction Railway
and Union Stock Yards Company, with
capital of $13,OO0,OOO.
St. Paul and Minneapolis are still
fighting over the census. Edward A.
Stevens of Minneapolis has been arrest
ed on the charge of padding returns,
and st. Paul detective was captured
while shadowing Minneapolis officials.
An amendment to the tariff bill is
proposed by Senator Pierce, giving the
President discriminating power to reim-
pose the duty on sugar if he finds any
nation or country disinclined to enter
into reciprocal relations with the United
States.
The Denver Supervisor of Census,
George L. Sorpis, announces the popu-
lation of Denver and suburbs as l26, 1856.
This shows an increase over his former
figures of 1000, which has been added
by a recanvass of the city by the Citi-
zens' Committee.
The Navy Department has issued or
ders allowing the sailors on the Pacific
Coast to participate in the celebration
at San Francisco on Admission day, and
similar order will be issued by the War
Department as soon as Secretary Proctor
returns to Washington.
As result of the Lake Pepin horror
last week, orders will probably be issued
within few weeks from the Treasury
Department for thorough inspection
throughout the country of all life pre-
servers used on excursion boats of all
kinds, as well as on lake steamers.
A Chicago Judge has decided that an
agreement for the consideration of 81 a
week, by which a man was prevented
from undertaking a certain kind OF
business for a stipulated time, was not
binding, because he mortgaged his lib
erty of action and, practically, his
means of earning a livelihood.
A serious condition on the borders Of
Kansas is reported, growing out of the
bringing of cattle, which are declared tc
be suffering from infectious diseases, in.
to the State. Secret organizations have
been formed and four stockmen have
been killed so far. There is veritable
reign of assassination, some of the
deaths being of cruel, bloodthirsty
character.