Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-11-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK
An EpitOme of the Happenings of
Two Hemisphere.
What is Transporting at the Capital Of
the United States-0ther Very
Interesting News.

New York is going to have new hotel
ten stories high.
New York city has this year 245, l64
registered voters.
A New Jersey bishop has begun cru
SADIE against race tracks and pool rooms.
Over 700 head of cattle were shipped
from Baltimore to English ports last
week.
Lowell, Mass, is to have a new $780,
900 city hall and a new Sl50,000 public
library.
The New Jersey clergymen are max
ing appeals to the congregations to aid
Ireland.
The Ohio law compelling the payment
of wages every two weeks was declared
constitutional.
"Old Faithful" the famous Yellow
stone park geyser, is to be duplicated for
the Worlds Fair.
The general passenger agents of the
Southern roads are antici pating a heavy
business this fall and winter.
The Vanderbilts are said to have Sc
cured their interest in the Reading rail-
road at a cost of over S, 100000.
The Secretary of the Navy has ordered
the payment of the reserve fund on the
cruiser San Francisco, amounting to
1888, 1893.
Judge Caldwell, at Little Rock, holds
that the act of Congress and the laws of
the State in the original package case
are valid.
The $6,000,000 government building
in Chicago, having settled so much as
to become dangerous, is to be replaced
by another.
The Brotherhood of Telegraphers at
Chicago has surrendered its charter.
This will result in the reinstatement of
Western Union men.
Director of the Mint Leech says the
coinage for the past fiscal year was the
largest in the history of the mint, aggre-
eating ll2 ,693,071 pieces.
There are forty-eight saloons in King
fisher, Oklahoma, and the population is
composed almost exclusively of people
from prohibition Kansas
Currency is reported as being so scarce
in parts of Bolivia that citizens are cut
ting the notes into pieces and passing
them as fractional currency.
There is talk that ii Acknowledgement
Miller is appointed to succeed Justice
Miller, Solicitor General Taft will be
promoted to Attorney-General.
1t is proposed that part of Washing
toms exhibit at the Worlds Fair shall
be series of pictures illustrating the
city's progress during its 100 years.
The officers who were with Stanley in
Africa ask him TO tell the public all he
knows, so that the charges he has limited
at can be met by those whom he impli-
Gates.
New York is the first State in popula-
ton in the Union, and Nevada the last.
California is twenty-second, Oregon
thirty-eighth and Washington thirty
fourth.
The stockholders of the Colorado Mid
land railroad have elected a new Board
of Directors, including Thomas Barring,
George Magoun and George McCook of
the Santa Fe.
The Spanish Consul at Key West has
closed his Office, owing to assaults by
Cuban refugees. The Consulate will
not open until the United States guar
antees the privileges due it.
The product of gold from the mines
OF the United States during the calendar
year 1889 was SO, 100000 fine ounces, OF
the commercial value of SAG, 75J 900, and
coming value of SD, $40, 464.
Collector Erhart OF the port of New
York has been in Office eighteen months
and has been sued 1000 times. They
are friendly suits growing out of the
Interpretation of the tariff law
Reports from the Arbuckle and Wich-
tia foothills, in the Ch;ckasaw Nation.
of the finding of gold, silver and lead
are not exaggerated. A large territory
has been purchased by capitalists.
Miss Nellie Burn, a prepossessing
maiden, recently began a $4,000 action
against William Durham, proprietor of
the North-avenue hotel, Syracuse, n. Y.
for damages arising from blghted af-
feetions, and a jury has just given her
$1,000.
L. L. Polk, National President of the
Farmers Alliance, says alliances have
been organized in thirty-fve States,
numbering in all 80 900 lodges, embrace
ing membership of 1900, 900. He ex-
poets the membership to be increased by
900 within the next year
The Land Office Department holds
that an entry man who has submitted
final proof on desert-land entry before
the official survey was fixed should not
be required when the land is officially
surveyed to make new proof showing
the proper reclamation thereof.
The story is printed in Chicago to the
effect that negotiations are in progress
looking to an agr ement between the
Northern Pacific and the Baltimore and
Ohio, which, if consummated, will
will amount to practical consolidation
OF the two systems, thus forming a great
transcontinental route
An English diplomatist saws of Ward
McAllister's book in the New York Tri-
bune: 1T will be a work of much diff
ticulty II convince Europeans. after the
eX-cathedTa statements of McAIlister,
that this country is anything else than
the headquarters of the most appalling
snobbery and the most screaming vui.
garity."
There Is probability that the Pope
and the Italian government will have a
lawsuit over the property of wealthy
lady who died at Rome. 1t was known
That she had made a will leaving her
property to the Pope, but after her death
the document could not be found In
the absence OF will the property val.