Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-04-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
An Epitome Of the Happenings
of Two Hemisphere.
What is Transpiring in the United
States Congress-Other Very
Interesting News.

Fort Randall, S. D., is to be aban-
doned.
Stanford's Palo Alto trotters have ar
rived at New York.
The fire in the Germania nine at Iron
wood, Mich, is extinguished.
Prairie fires are ravaging the eouth-
western portion of Taylor county, Tex.
A CITY of Mexico dispatch locates Eyr-
aud, the Paris stranger, in Lower Cali
fornia.
Ellis island in the New York harbor
is favored by the Congressional lmml-
grant Committee for landing depot.
A large portion of Tianguistengo, Mex
leo, including the town hall, containing
valuable old archives, has been burned.
Four lives were lost.
Numbers of Chinese have crossed De-
troit river into the United States by
means of organized smuggling. The au-
thorities are said to be on the alert.
The Oregon Transcontinental has COM
pleted arrangements Tor the retirement OF
$40. OO0, 900 of bonds May i. This re-
leases the Northern Pacific from its guar
antee.
The report of the Committee on Agri-
culture saws the compound lard trade, as
carried on, is a stupendous commercial
fraud, which it is the duty OF Congress
to suppress.
A company has been organized at CHI
cago which, its promoters say, VIII build
the largest plate-glass factory IN the
world at Ellwood, Ind. and prove an I'M
portant factor in competing with foreign
glass.
The Evangelical Conference at Iona
wanda, n. Y, has passed resolution
condemning the action OF the ministers
at Reading in Bishop Esher's case and
announcing determination to uphoio
the Bishop.
Electric express service between New
York and Philadelphia, operated at the
rate of sixty miles an hour, Will actnaily
be established in the near future, Frank
|. Sprague, an electric railway pioneer,
is quoted as saying.
Representative Springer ard the bal
aDce of the minority Of the House Com
mittee on Territories have united IN a re-
port in opposition to the bill reported by
the majority providing for the admission
of Wyoming as State.
Rev. George Gray, who caused sem
sation in Chicago by stating that negroes
were arming in the South, confirms his
speech by saving his information Is rell-
able, but refuses to partlcnarlze: lie
says rifles are being sent from Chicago.
The annual statement OF the American
Bell Telephone Company shows earnings
of 81 044, 7U4, against s., 500, llo IN 1888,
an increase Of net earnings OF $Z44, 534 J;
dividends, ST., go, $50, an increase OF Tl6,--
ga; surplus, ~, 15l oil, an increase OF
$22,976.
The Iron Trade Review. published a.
Cleveland, Ohio, says that 8n important
reduction in west bound freight on man
ufsctured iron from Pittsburg, Shenan 20
valley and Cleveland is pending, owing
to the late influx Of Southern iron into
the Northern territory.
The business portion of Ell Moro, in
Southern Colorado, has been consumed
by fire, including the Hunt BUILDING,
Commercial building, News building,
posoffice and contents and severa' other
small buildings. The loss is estimated
at $25, 600; no insurance.
The Louisiana lottery is considerably
! exercising the people of Louisiana. Cler-
gymen OF all denominations bitterly OPP
pose an extension OF the company s char
| ter, while the Republican and Democratic
leaders favor a continuance of the ran
cbise as a great source OF revenue to the
State.
The testimony so far given at the Mid
dleton investigation at Ottawa, Canada,
\ is direct in charging that General Middl =
! ton during the Riel rebellion had fuTs
which he had confiscated boxed and
marked in his name, and that he gave
some of the furs away to junior officers
as mementOes.
New York physicians, in retaliation
for the non-recognition by Berlin col
leges of diplomas held by graduates Of
American medical colleges, have decided
! that foreign diplomas should not be re-
garded as giving the right to practice
medicine in this country without an ex-
animation of the graduates.
South Dakota druggists don't like the
provisione of the Prohibition bill, espe-
/ cially those requiring petitions siGI ed ny
twenty women as necessary to secure a
| permit, the 81 900 bond clause and the
general features of the measure, and are
combining to secure an agreement TO
keep nc liquors after May l.
/ Judge ShackeIford, United States
Ind NJ / h4l hnp1dpH n
a town lot contest that the question Of
/ title does not arise, but occupants agree
| ing to pay rent to parties claiming prop
erty must carry out their terms of con-
tract or he elected from their premises.
This decision has caused excitement at
Guthrie.
/ Major Chrisman, Jacob Wissler end
Mr.. Price, representing the Farmers Al
lance OF the United States, have con-
cluded to establish alliance agricultural
I works at Iron Gate, Va. The works will
employ from 800 to 500 haUds, and the
products will go to every sub alliance in
the country, representing 4,000,0s0 mem
| bers.
j. B. Pogott, who is in the service OF
the British East African Company, has
recently made a journey further up the
Lana river than any previous exp l 'rer
had travelled. He had some difficulties
in procuring sufficient food and supplies
Forty-tive of his people deserted him.
He learned later that on their way back
to the coast, having no goods with which
to buy food, they were compelled TO sell
some of their number into slavery 10
supply the rest Of the party with provi-
slons. In this way they gave up seven