Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-09-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
An Epitome of the Happenings of
Two Hemisphere.
What is Transpiring in the Congress of
the United StateS-0ther Very
Interesting News.

IL is proposed 10 use CaStle Odruen
for military meetings and drills.
A special Grand Jury has been called
to investigate the crimes recently COM
mitted in Cincinnati.
The Johnstown Flood Commission has
appropriated s., 900 to continue the work
of searching for the dead.
An UNANIMOUSLY unsanitary state of af-
fairs has been unearthed on BlackwelPs
Island, New York City's prison.
A party of expert oil drillers has just
sailed from New York to India, where
they are wanted to search for oil.
The New York Produce Exchange has
unanimously adopted resolutions APP
proving Blaine's reciprocity policy.
Travellers returning from Europe COM
plain bitterly of the dearness of every
thing relating to the material living.
A large number of counterfeit $40 bills
of the Germania National Bank of New
Orleans are in circulation in Kansas
City.
For the first six months of this year
there were | ,103 foreclosures of farm
mortgages in 43 out of 106 counties in
Kansas.
1t is reported from Kansas City that
the Armours are packing the syndicate
organized some time ago to fight the
whisky trust.
The ladies of Wakeman, Ohio, have
organized a crusade against chop tea, ;"
which is steamed beer of about half the
usual strength
Philadelphia police are raiding Chin
csc gambling houses. Two hundred
and twenty-five players were captured
the other night.
The grape crop of New Jersey will be
a failure this year, owing to rot and the
rose bug. The loss to growers will be
more than 100000
The National Farmers Congress, at
its recent session in Council Bluffs, Iowa,
chose the golden rod as the national
flower by unanimous vote.
New York fiat renters are demanding |
a large reduction in their rent, and |
owing to the oversupply off flats are
likely to get what they ask for.
The gross earnings 9th us over "
road for thnr orst of to- the wabash
-. ,.ot ;.-4, wear ending June 50, 1890, |
4Her6 $13, 352,S72; operating expenses,
$9,673, 22l net earnings, $3,679,65l.
Contracts have been signed for the
construction of tunnel a mile and
half in length at Niagara Falls in fur
therance of big scheme to develop wa
ter power.
The Messrs. Colt, Hartford gun-mak-
ers, gave 81 100000 for the right to
make in the United States Gifford's
new carbonic acid gas gun, which kills
at 600 yards.
Vice President Byran of the Worlds
Fair Directory has resigned, owing to
the scandalous charges made concerning
his management, but which he denOun-
ces as untrue.
A new hotel is being erected at For
tress Monroe which will be second only
in cost and style to Mr. Flagler's hotel at
st. Augustine, Fla The new hotel Will
have eleven elevators.
The Board of Education in Columbus,
Ohio, has just decided that hereafter
there will be no difference in the salaries
paid to men and women who are teach
ers III the puDllc schools.
The older officers of the navy are said
to be giving way to younger men. owing
to their inability to adapt themselves to
the new conditions created by the build
ing of modern war ships.
The plan of obtaining water for Boston
from Lake Winnipiseogee in New Hamp-
shire has been suggested. Park Com
missioner Thomas L. Livermore figures
that this could be done for SIS, 4S5, 900.
The corn crop for this year is esti-
mated at 100000 bushels. In 1889
it was =, 1l3, 900 bushels-the largest
ever harvested The average crop for
five years past has been 1900, 00O, 900
bushels.
The assassin Eyraud has lately been
relieving the tedium of Imprisonment
by writing his memoirs, which one of
the Wardens, who is a good draughts-
man, has illustrated. Several sensational
incidents have thus been depicted.
At the Wilson-street crossing of the
New York, Chicago and St. Louis rail
road at Chicago a locomotive without
warning dashed into a motor car which
was filled with passengers. One Young
lady was killed and fifteen persons in
jured.
1t is announced that James Wilson.
who conducted a large banking business
at Streator, H., has made an assign
ment with liabilities at $4,000, assets
unknown. Unfortunate speculation in
California lands is the reason given for
the failure.
One of the incidents of the coming
celebration of the golden Jubilee
bilee of Bishop Loughlin of Brooklyn
will be grand parade of Catholics. 1t
is predicted that there will be $4,000
Catholics in line This parade will take
place on the night of October Il.
The customs officers at New York sci
zed $1,000 worth of jewelry brought
from Europe by w. X. Medhurst, the
Young Englishman who inherited $780,
600 from his uncle recently. The jew
elry had a monogram that did not cor
respond with Medhurst's initials.
A large vein of pure white sand, suit
able for making glass, has been found
near Pittsburg, Penn. The discovery
will save the glass manufacturers of that
city thousands of dollars annually, as
they have hitherto been obliged to send
across the Allegheny mountains for their
sand.
A bill introduced by ingalls, in the
Senate and Thompson of Ohio in the
House to amend the Act creating Civil
Government foT. laSka iS tn remedy a