Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-29
An Epitome of the Happenings Of
Two Hemisphere.
What is Transpiring at the Capital Of
the United States-0ther Very
Interesting News.

Mexico will soon adopt the metric sys-
TEN of weights and measures.
The Board of Underwriters at Kansas
City is threatened with disintegration.
Diphtheria at Lexington, H., has
caused the closing of the public schools.
Deserters from the British squadron
of the North Atlantic are thick in Hall
fax.
1t is estimated that fully $50 white
women live in the Chinatown OF New
York.
Striking statesmen at Pittsburg have
compelled employers to accede to their
requests.
The penitentiaries of Texas have con-
tributed S7l 900 to the State treasury the
past year.
A large company is going from Kansas
City to join the communistic colony at
Topolobampo.
The Indians who were with Buffalo
Bill say they were well treated and have
no complaint to make.
The Supreme Court of Illinois has de-
cded against the right of cities to tax
drummers and peddlers.
A project is on foot to construct a ship
railway which will give Chicago direct
communication with Europe.
Brazil starts out as a Republic under
peculiar conditions. Out of S00,0 900 reg
istered voters at the recent election only
100000 voted.
The lack of transportation facilities
by the Union Pacific is threatening a
coal famine along the line Of the road in
Nebraska and Wyoming.
Minnie Palmer refused to cease visit
ing her mother at the request OF her
husband, John B. Rogers, and it is stated
that separation has followed.
The School Board at Cherokee, Ia,
announces that hereafter every teacher
will be REQUIRED to sign a contract not to
get married during the school year.
The Commissioners of the District of
Columbia have decided that none but
citizens of the United States shall hold
licenses to sell liquors in the district.
The pressure of natural gas wells in
Indiana and Ohio is steadily diminish
ing, the diminution having already
amounted to between 30 and 40 per cent.
A new automatic machine used for
stamping in the New York postoffice will
cancel, postmark, count and stack letters
and postal cards at the rate of $4,000 per
hour.
The Seeger and Guernsey Company of
New York will shortly issue a Spanish
edition of the Encyclopedia of the Man
ufactures and Products of the United
States.
Rev. Oswald Burchell has forwarded
to Ottawa from England a request backed
by influential names for the surrender
of his brothers. body, which was buried
in Woodstock Jail yard, to Mrs. Burch
ell.
Stories of the arming of the Sioux In
dams are brought to points neighboring
on the reservation, and much excitement
and uneasiness are Occasioned. The war
authorities do not think there is any
danger.
The Kennebec lumbermen will operate
more extensively in the woods this win
ter than at any time for several wears
past 1t is estimated that the to'al cut
will exceed that of last winter by at least
100000 feet.
Every peace officer in Young county,
Tex, was in Jail one day last week, hay-
ing been indicted by the United States
grand jury for participating in the ia
nous mob which assaulted the jail to
hang three murderers.
Secretary Spaulding of the Treasury
Department has decided that all cattle
that have simply crossed the line into
Mexico can be brought back without the
payment of duty, but duty must be paid
on calves born in the interim on Mexican
soil.
A Hartford woman has left 100000
for the great Protestant Cathedral in
New York, and Miss Edison of that city
has bequeathed 5000 more and made
However, Miss Edson's will is being con-
tested.
The dreadful spotted fever that made
its appearance last March near Fountain
Head, about fifteen miles from Gallatin,
Tenn, killing about 80 per cent of the
victims, has reappeared. The doctors do
not know how to handle it.
Two diamond bracelets valued at $l2.-
900, which were supposed to have been
stolen from Mrs. Commodore Bateman
at New York by her French maid, were
found in the very room from which they
were thought to have been stolen.
The work of putting the wires under
ground in New York goes on steadily
and with considerable progress. The
electric-light and power companies have
many miles of cables in the subwavs
and are obtaining very fair results.
Secretary Proctor heartily commends
every intelligent effort to increase the
efficiency of the National Guard and ia
bring them into closer relations with the
War Department, and hopes that meas.
ures to that end may receive favorable
consideration of Congress.
Representative negroes of Chicago
will hold meeting to consider the cues.
tlon OF separate exhibit in the Worlds
lair for their race There have beer
many protests because President Harri
son did not recognize the race in hi.
Worlds Fair appointments.
A Cincinnati paper prints the sensa
tional story of an alleged attempt mad,
last May to assassinate the President
The crank was seized and confined in al
insane asylum near Richmond, Va. H,
was small storekeeper near Peters
burg, Va, and claimed to be an "Ok
!. Republican Soldier"