Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-09-13
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.

Papers from all counties in Iowa re-
port the price of farm products still on
the rise.
The whisky interest Of Ohio pays a
big revenue into the local and State
treasures. The sum total is 81 $50, 500.
General Vandever is trying to have
the Senate take up his bill establishing
a Sequoia National Park and pass it this
session.
The City Council of Oklahoma City
has passed an ordinance licensing sa-
looms at $500 year, similar to the Ne
braska law.
The headquarters of the Louisiana
Lottery Company in Washington City
has been raided by the authorities, and
books and tickets seized.
The Knoxville Southern railroad
from Knoxville, Tenn, to Atlanta, Ga,
220 miles, has been completed, and
trains are now running regularly.
An English syndicate, headed by c..
c. Morgan, it is stated, has secured an
option on all of the leading silver mines
near Aspen, Col, the figures being $27,-
100000.
In the coking districts of Pennsyl-
Vania Socialist emissaries are establish
ing secret societies, which promise in
the future tumultuous condition of al
fairs in that section.
Joseph WEIGH, whose section gang
caused the Old Colony disaster at
IL
slaughter. The total number of deaths
by the accident is twenty-five.
The shot tower companies of the
United States have formed a national
trust, to be known as the American
Shot Association. with capital of 49,
100000, incorporated under the laws of
Illinois.
Representative Dalzell has submitted
to the House, in behalf of the minority
of the House Committee on Pacific
Railways, a report in opposition to the
bill for refunding the debt of the Cen
trail and Union Pacific roads.
The total gross exchanges for the past
week, as shown by the dispatches from
the leading clearing houses of the
United States and Canada, is 81 ,033,-
97S, 067, an increase of 81 per cent. as
compared with the corresponding week
last year.
Petitions are to he circulated through
out North Dakota asking the Governor
to call special session of the Legisla-
ture to consider irrigation. The object
is to obtain the passage of a law that
will enable counties to bond for irriga-
ton purposes.
The other day at st Louis, Is, 900 peo-
pie gathered on the river-frOnt to wit
ness baptism service conducted by
Mrs. Woodwork, formerly of Oak
land, Cal. Over a hundred persons
we're baptized, and the scenes were of
the widest and most sensational char
acter.
Iron manufacturers in the Schuvlkill
valley, Penn, declare that unless the
railroads reduce freight rates Southern
competitors would force them to close
their works, and as a result the roads,
rather than lose such good customers,
have made concessions.
VI. Mohler. Secretary of the Kansas
State Board Of Agriculture, has issued a
circular in regard to the need Of West.
Central and Northwestern Kansas for
seed wheat He says their condition
is no fault of their own, they being hon
est, faithful and industrious, but they
are the victims of succession of crop
failures, the like of which has not been
known before and may never occur
again.