Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-03-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
An Epitome of the Happenings
of Two Hemispheres.
What Is Transpiring in the United
States Congress-0theP Very
Interesting Items.

The bill to permit racing in New Jer-
sey only thirty days in the year has been
passed by the legislature OF that Stale.
Reports from the great tobacco counties
of Western North Carolina st ow that at
least one third of the plants were Killed
by the cold weather.
About April an expedition will leave
New York for the purpose OF exploring
the country lying between the Copper
river and the Yukon in Central Alaska.
Asa Thomas, Secretary of the Marine
DEPARTMENT of the Board of Trade, one
of the British delegates to the recent In
ternat;onal Marine Convention In Wash
ington, is dead.
The Gar, according TO a recent stats
tician's calculation, is the largest prl-
vate owner of land in the world. The
total is about 50 000,000 acres, abo1t the
size of the whole Of France.
The passenger committe of the trunk
lines have decided to issue excursion
ii, kets to the reunion of the Grand Army
in Boston. next july, on the basis OF
single fare in trunk line territory.
Northern Pacific earnings the second
week in March were 1858, 7G0, an increase
Of $16,617. An official statement for the
seven months ending January 81 shows
gross earrings of $13 1882 ,676; net earn
ipgs, Sc, l58, US2; net increase, SAL, 1863
The Manitoba Legislature has raised
the Schools Act, aholishing the right o.
Catholics to have separate schools and
obliging al classes of the community to
patronize national secular schools. 1t
las been bitterly opposed by the Catho-
lies.
Fer some time past Will am Hunt.
prominent New York sculptor, has been
wandering about the country insane. He
was taken back TO New York. and Is now
at the home of friends in BROOKLYN. HIS
friends believe there is little hope OF his
recovery.
Miss Mary Augusta Davey, known to
the stage and the general public as MIN
ME Madden, has been married TO Har-
rison Gray Fiske editor of the New 4Olk
Dramatic Mirror Mrs. Fiske was re-
Gently divorced from her first husband,
LIE GrAnde White.
Secretary Window thinks more sate-
guards to shipping should be placed on
the Pacific Coast, owing to the lncrt ing
trade carried on by sailing vessels One
life-saving station, he thinks, ought to be
at Rogue river and enc at Port Oxford,
and lighthouse at New port, on Yaquina
bay,
Dan Burke, who was arrested at Pres
colt, A. T.. charged with manslaughter,
in that be failed to give waning to the
people along the Hassayampa so that
they could escape from tie flood occa-
stoned by the breaking OF tie dam re-
Gently, has been released and exOnela,ed
from all blame.
A rost Of the Grand Army OF the Re-
publi, is 10 be formed at Montreal. Dur
/ ing the war large number 0 Canadians
/ served on the Northern side, attrat t by
/ the generous boCniy offered. A meeting
1 W held and steps taken to form pest
There ere present thirty-twO men eli
/ gible for membership.
/ Engineers in surveying the line of The
Mexi an Pacific railway in the dist let of
/ Tcnala. State of Chiapa, have found two
]
of non ore, carrying 90 to "a per C Mt. Of
metallic iron. 1t is 'stin ated TO he well
adapted to making steel, being quite free
from sulphur and phosphorus.
/ A Chicago News Washington special
/ saws: he tngasem9nt of Miss ROsecrans,
/ daus liter o. General Ro3eCrtns, TO Gov
ernor Toole, of Montana, is announced.
/ Mss ROsetral is % or % Years Cd of
| fine figure end handsome fare, and has
cen a felle in Chicayo society. The
marriage will take place jmmed' ately
after Lent.
Emperor William wro'e a letter 10 the
Pope, informing him that Bishop Kopp
of Breslau had been appointed one Of the
/ German delegates TO the Labor Confer
ence and declaring that he relied upon
/ the suppC TT of the Catholic clergy III set
tling the social question. The Pope in
reply thanked his Males V fer the APP
pointment, and indicated that himself
ard tile church always had fepn inter
es'ed in the question, which, he said.
would be best solved by the appli"ation
OF Sunday rest and rel g'ous educate n.