Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-04
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.

New York police are raiding Chinese
gambling houses.
A company has been formed at st.
Louis to build big distillery.
The Alabama Farmers Alliance is
cornering the cotton crop of that State.
The next convention of the Souvenir
Grand Lodge, l. o. o. F., will be held
in st. Louis.
Ocean freights are lower at Quebec
than tnev nave been for sixteen years,
especially on lumber.
Indians, about three hundred of them,
have been in Camp at Athens, Mich,
irving to get converted according to the
civilized way.
The increase of the earnings of the
Illinois Central the past year is 1885,
4O5. The increase in the net earning
was but sol ,76l.
General Grierson's insane son, who
made his escape from a private insane
asylum at Jacksonville, ILL.,, has been
found at st. Louis.
An agitation has been begun for the
formation of Western Cattle Owners
Association, to keep cattle off the mar
ket and raise prices.
The packing house companies at Ne
braska City have filled suit to prevent
souri, river at that city.
The Board of Education of St. Louis
has ordered that the American flag shall
be made to float over every school in the
city during class hours.
1t is said that under the new ballot
law the next election will rost New
York city $454, 473, or $4,000 moe
than last year under the old law.
Jersey City has law under which
fines of 800 each are to be imposed
upon persons detected drinking malt or
alcoholic liquors in her new parks.
Official figures published at Ottawa
show that while Canada in 1888 i'm
ported 2,134,764 tons of hard coal, the
imports during 1889 fell to 1,276,O86
tons.
Swedes, Canadians and Germans are
taking the places of the strikers in the
morocco trade at Lynn, Mass, and it is
reported that the workmen have little
chance of winning.
Colonel Livingston, the President of
the Farmers Alliance in Georgia, has,
it is said, withdrawn from the canvass
against Governor Gordon for the United
States Senatorship.
1t is estimated that during the past
four years the revenue of the saloons at
jefferson, Mo-, has been decreased one
third by the establishment of building
and loan associations.
Henry A. Brown. as ex-Treasurv De-
partment sugar expert, has sent letter
to the cOnferees on the tariff bill en-
bOdying VIGOROUS protest against the
proposed sugar schedule.
By the will Of the late Mrs. Frances
Brownell Holland of Hartford, Conn.,,
the sum of 100000 is devised to the
proposed Episcopal Cathedral of New
York City. Mrs. Holland was
daughter of Brownell.
Louisiana is greatly disappointed at
the result of the Federal census. Out
Sl'bS vi -NCh OIlCdAlo IllC luCIedSG Vi POP
ulation has been small in the past de-
cade. The population will not appar-
emily much exceed l, 100, 10000.
The total gross exchanges for the last
week, as shown by dispatches from the
leading clearing houses in the United
States and Canada, are 81 ,265, 969 ,623.
an increase of 21.5 per cent. as compared
with the corresponding week last year.
All the Western lines except the
Alton and Rock Island have resolved to
openly disobey the Interstate Commerce
Commissions order reducing grain rates
and to dispute it as illegal.
The State Veterinarian has officially
declared that he does not consider the
disease that is prevalent among cattle
IN Missouri the foot and mouth disease,
nor does he consider it contagious.
John Granahal has decided to resign
his membership in the City Council of
st. Louis for the reason that his sense
OF self-respect is shocked by the brib-
cry and corruption he sees in that BODY.
The men who were arrested for wreck
ing New York Central train have con-
fessed, and implicate Master Workman
Edward j. Lee of Troy, who, they say,
gave them money to do the work and to
leave the country.