Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-10-11
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.

Salvador, the great racer, has grown
very thin, and is unfit for hard work.
1t is reported that another trunk line
from New York to Chicago is to be built.
Ward McAllister finds it necessary to
DENY a rumor that he intends lecturlng.
The Rock Island road has distributed
1900 bushels of seed wheat in Okla
homa.
Large deposits of phosphates have
been discovered in Georgia near the
Florida boundary.
Carlos ]. Edgerly, the husband of
Rose Coghlan, has secured a divorce on
the ground of desertion.
New York wine importers, anticipat-
ing the increase from so to 70 cents
gallon, are laying in stock.
New York city veterans are moving
for the erection of G. A. r. memorial
hall on an extensive scale.
1t is stated that Professor Hirsh's
method of making aluminium from COM
mon clay is pronounced success
A new town in Oklahoma called Tohie
is creating quite boom, and it is
thought it will become the capital city.
The PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Company
has been sued for over 100000 on ac-
count of discrimination in oil shipments.
New York, taking its extra census,
will probably give the job to 500 police
men under charge of Inspector Byrnes.
I'M .1-..l 1000. of lo,1 have
been purchased near Minneapolis as the
basis of building scheme said to involve
$7,0O0,000.
The New York Central railroad has
decided to dispense with the services of
all employees who maintain allegiance to
the Knights of Labor.
An important meetingof the Standard
Oil Company and oil producers has been
held at Pittsburg, and some interesting
developments are expected.
Immigration into the United States in
the past ten years has been almost
2,5O0,000 greater than it was in the ten
years Immediately preceding.
Ex-Secretary Bayard denies that there
is anything similar in the Barrundia
case to that of Gomez, over whom there
was some trouble during Cleveland's ad
ministration.
The Cincinnati League Baseball Club
is about to be transferred to the Players
League, the price, it is claimed, being
the largest sum ever passed in base
ball transaction.
Colonel George R. Davis, Director
General of the Worlds Fair, has purged
himself of politics by resigning his posi-
ton as member of the Republican Ma
tional Committee.
The enforcement of the anti-lottery
bill, it is said, will reduce the business
of the New Orleans postoffice at least
one-third, and in some departments as
much as two-thirds.
The aggregate growth in population of
the country, according to the figures of
the Census Bureau, has been 2 per
cent smaller between 1880 and 1890 than
it was between 1870 and 1880.
The total gross exchanges for the last
week, as shown by dispatches from the
leading clearing houses of the United
States and Canada, is 81 IVA ,027 ,012, an
increase of Is per cent. as compared
with the corresponding week last year.
Jose F. Godfrey, editor of La Repub-
lica at the City of Mexico, formerly of
San Francisco, has been appointed by
President Diaz to represent him at San
Antonio, Texas, at the International
Exposition. He is an orator, and speaks
English like an American.
The appropriations made by the first
session of the Fifty-frst Congress were
1891, $40 ,503. The permanent annual APP
preparations for the years 1890 and 1891
amount to $10l ops, ASS, making grand
total for the yoar of $462, 039. 1856, an in
crease over the Fiftieth Congress of $40
413,613.
White caps in Calhoun county, Ala,
organized to rid the county of immoral
characters, attempted to take woman
to the woods to whip her. She broke
away, and, while running, was shot.
She was left where she fell and where
she was found the next day.
A Heraid's Washington dispatch saws ::
1t is reported in the best-informed Off
cial circles here that the President and
Secretary Blaine have settled upon the
course they will follow in disposing of
the Barrundia case by holding that
Miner has failed in diplomatic tact.
Judgment and discretion.
A dispatch from China says that the
recent destructive floods from the Vel
low river were caused by deliberate hui
man agency, people along the upper por-
ton of the river deliberately cutting ar
tificial entertainments in order to prev vent
the stream from backing up over their
fields.