Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-19
JEWS OF THE WEEK.
n Epitome of the Happenings Of
!. Two Hemisphere.
hat is Transpiring in the Congress of
the United StateS-0ther Very
Interesting News.

The Park National bank at Chicago
ill not resume business.
! The official census figures at Chatta-
I ooga show population OF 1880.
Judge Tully of Chicago has written a
otter strongly condemning that city's
j olice.
!, News from Mexico says the editor of
he Voz de Mexico has been thrown into
rison.
! The Latter-dav Saints or Mormons have
pened church in Baldwins, Cecil coun-
~, Md.
2 The French press at Montreal demands
that the successor of Sir Frederick Mid
',leton shall be Canadian.
Il, A fire in the Columbus and Hooking
Valley coal dock at Ashland, Wis, caused
loss of $4,000. One fireman was
,;illed and three wounded.
4 The White Star line of Atlantic steam
RS has issued orders reducing the speed
lr,t the vessels. The voyage will be
enlightened about two hours.
Z A picked team of famous football play
I!r.rs of Scotland will reach New York city
! ,a,ly in August, and on Labor day will
Mneet the champions of America.
An English syndicate in Guerrero,
eMexico, has contracted to bring 1900
:5Chinese to work on the large landed
+ property which the syndicate has pur-
Y .hased.
6 Tho Nonotruot;on opd C4aoDo Ero;roar
, ng Bureau is at work on the plans of the
new coast-defense ram, and contractors
L will probably soon be invited 10 send in
heir bids.
Indiana has law closing saloons on
i lays on which elections are held, and the
Indiana Supreme Court has decided that
the law is applicable to days on which
;eprimaries are held.
The new bridge authorized by Congress
o to be built across the Hudson river be-
, tween New York and Jersey City will be
NJ, 1000 feet long and have one central span
~ $50 feet in length.
q Ell Universal at the City of Mexico
says Menendez, President of San Saliva
!, dor, died riddled with bullets. The Off
;, cial report says he twas killed while de-
!. Tending the Presidency"
G The United States, Great Britain and
Portugal have agreed to ask the Swiss
a Government to appoint three jnrists to
$ fix the amount due by Portugal for the
!. cancellation of the Lorenzo Marquee con-
tract.
e Senator Stewart says the Western SEN
-, a. 10 oil \
!, sacrifice the tariff bill. He does not like
t the appointment of Senator Sherman as
i Chairman of the Conference Committee
on Silver.
i A new Atlantic seaport is to be estab-
L lished by Boston capitalists at the east
7 end of the straits of Canso, Nova Scotia,
TO be called Terminal City. 1t is said
/ steamers time between it and Liverpool
Il will be four days.
An English and Holland syndicate is
reported TO have purchased through
:, agents in Texas between 100000 and
1 100000 acres of land in Tamaulipas,
/, Mexico, and $1,000 head of cattle. The
price is not publicly known.
), The total gross exchanges for the last
e week, as shown by dispatches from the
leading clearing houses of the United
!, States and Canada, are $1,13S, III ,085, a
! decrease of IA per cent. as compared
with the corresponding week of last year
Beverly Tucker, a nephew of John
Randolph of Roanoke, Consul to Liver
4 pool under Buchanan and special mission
TO England from the Confederate States
during the war, died at Richmond the
: other day. He was born at Winchester,
? Va in 1920.
The silent partner in the wel-known
BOARD of Trade firm of T. M Baxter Il
Co. at Chicago is Mrs. Jennie NJ. Jewell.
! She is the " company" and wants re-
! ceiver appointed, net having obtained
| anything on her investment, when it is
known the profits of the firm were large.
The steamship Professor Morse after
, ten days detention atquarantine arrived
: at New Orleans one day last week, hav-
ing on board $50 half-starved and sick
lab rers, mostly Italians, who had b en-
working on a plantation in Honduras
since April with little food and made
quate shelter.
The report that Connecticut was likely
to lose Congressman by the new emu
meration according to a Hartford dis
patch ia no. sustained by the present ap-
pearance of the returns Towns having
In 1880 about one-6fth of the population
OF the State have been reported for 1890,
and show an increase from 130,4l7 M tn
l72, l99.
ALONG THE COAST.