Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-08-30
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.

White Caps have broken out anew at
Lancaster, Pa.
The census revision complete shows a
population of ACC, 229 for st. Louis.
Representative Mckinley says Con-
sress will not adjourn before the middle
of September.
The Dryers of New York will dissolve
racing partnership at the end OF the
present season.
The Worlds Fair Directors have not
yet been able to agree on location Tor
the Columbian exhibition.
The Pennsylvania State Board of
Health has issued circular treating OF
precautions against Asiatic cholera.
There are. about 200 enumeration
districts to hear from before the census
of the United States can be ascertalned.
The Treasury Department has issued
a circular providing for the immediate
redemption of $l5,0OO,O0O of AZ per
cent. bonds at $1.041a.
Acareful computation shows that over
10000 persons, or nearly one-third of
New York city's population, are at the
out-of-town summer resorts.
The biggest illicit distillery in Arkan-
sas, located in Pike county, has been de-
stroyed by United States officials. 1t
was in deep mountain gulch.
The police of Shanghai are to be COM
posed of natives instead of Englishmen
as at present. The service is to be pat
termed after that of New York.
Negotiations are in progress for carry
ing out Erastus Wiman's plan for rail-
road tunnel under New York bay between
Staten island and Bay Ridge.
The single-tax organizations of the
United States will hold conference at
New York the first week in September.
Henry George will be present.
The colored section of the Louisiana
Alliance of the Farmers Union has just
voted to cooperate with its white breth-
rem in efforts to suppress the lottery.
The first annual report of the New
Hampshire Commissioner of Agriculture
shows that of l ,342 abandoned farms in
the State year ago 301 are now occu-
pied.
1t was decided in the United States
Court the other day that in spite of the
interstate commerce law special railroad
rates were permissible to theatrical
troupes.
Boatmen complain that Lockport man
ufacturers take 30 much water from the
canal az to seriously lower it and at the
same time cause strong current against
boats bound west.
The city of Waterbury, Conn.,, has
brought thirty-five suits against rail
way company for 800 for damages in
violating the law with reference to whis-
ting in the city limits.
General Booth, Commander of the Sal
walton Army, has issued general order
denouncing the habit of smoking. He
plainly intimates that members who
smoke will smoke for it.
News from Lake Miranda, north of
Duluth, Mimi, tells of the positive find
ing of an immensely rich silver vein,
five feet thick, in the old Toltec work
ings near the shore of the lake.
The prospects are that the Farmers
Alliance will sweep Georgia and defeat
Gordon for the Senate by the election of
Livingston. The Alliance has opened a
mammoth literary bureau in Washing
ton.
The Scranton Board of Trade appro-
priated 500 to have recount of ones of
the wards made, and may have the
whole city gone over again on account of
dissatisfaction with the government CEN
sus.
The " original-package" men of Iowa
have come to general agreement to
close up business and not contest the
constitutionality of the new law of Con-
! gress. There were $1,000 of these sa-
looms in Iowa.
The total gross exchanges for the last
week, as shown by the dispatches from
the leading clearinghouse in the United
States and Canada, were 81, JIG, 1903, 09l,
an increase of 1872 per cent. as compared
with the corresponding week last year.
Boston has succeeded in making con-
tracts by which the electric lights, which
have cost IS cents a night, are secured
for 40 cents. This will be saving of
i, 1850 year, and the extra money will
be expended in increasing the number
of lights.
! The Commissioner of the General
J Land Office has suspended number of
Z timber-land entries in the San Francisco
land district for investigation and report
by a special agent as to whether such
I entries were made in the interest of per-
sons other than entrymen.
Mrs. Grant will refuse her consent to
the removal of the body of General
; Grant to Washington, only in case no
{ provision be made for her family resting
!, by his side. This condition she wishes
! to emphasize. She will be glad to see
, a monument begun, at least, which will
!. mark the last resting place of her hus-
n band.
j General Miles in his report on the de-
!; lenses of the Pacific Coast says that the
/, railroad system of British Columbia
could be occupied by American troops in
i ten DAYS, but not by way of Victoria, for
the reason that the Notifications there
made by the British government are al
! most impregnable, even when manned
|. by a small force. During those ten days
:. however, a British feet could destroy
every town on Puget Sound, all the rail
i road examinations there and occupy al
4, the outlets of that section of the coun
sry. British vessels could also sail W
the Columbia river and destroy the rail
II ,oad connections there.
axoNc THE COAST.
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