Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1890-07-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK
An Epitome of the Happenings Of
Two Hemisphere.
What is Transporting in the Congress o
the United StateS-0ther Very
Interesting News.

1t lS expected IIaC new i OK CITY
taxes will be reduced this year.
Wheat is quoted at New York at fig
ure higher than at any time since 1884
Patsy Duffy, Haggin's famous jockey,
was arrested at st. Louis for vsgrancy
Drink has brought him to this condition.
A syndicate OF English and Dutch cap
italists have purchased five million
acres of land and 10000 head of cattle in
Texas.
The supreme court of Michigan has
decided that woman is a person, and
can legally fill the position OF deputy
county clerk.
Mexican troops have secured the en-
tire frontier line along the Rio Grande,
and have discovered no revolutionists or
bandits.
One hundred and twenty-five suits are
pending against the Electric Car Com
pany of Boston, asking for $4,000
damages by accident.
The whole number OF postofiires in ep-
Grafton July / 1890, was ~ 400, against
5S,9 in 1899, 81 ,376 in 1888, 55, l67 in
1887 and 40, OBJ in 1880.
The Secretary of War has granted Mrs.
Stanford permission to erect statue to
Father Junipero Sierra on the military
reservation at Monterey.
It is stated at Washington that on As
sistant Postmaster General Clarkson's
return the site for the postoffiCe of San
Francisco will be determined.
The total exports of crude and refined
petroleum from the Atlantic ports from
January LIST to date have been 3S7 1885,
600 gallons, decrease Of 10, 1l9,C00.
A bill has been introduced in the
house of representatives having for its
object the establishment of industrial
training schools and to provide land for
negroes.
Standard Oil Company engineers have
been surveying in Franklin, York and
Adams counties for pipe line to run
from the West Virginia oil fields to New
York city.
The violations of the Indiana liquor
laws by the notorious Sim Coy have
been called to the attention of the In
dianapolis grand jury, and an investiga-
ton is in progress.
The Marquis de Leuville is not to
marry Mrs. Frank Leslie. She is OF her
way to America on the City of Rome.
De Leuville's prosecutions have caused
her to leave London.
A monument in memory of the jean
cite crew, purchased with funds raised
from subscription among the officers
and men of the navy, will soon occupy a
conspicuous place in the Naval Academy
cemetery.
Not one OF the Central American
states has recognized the Ezetas govern
ment of San Salvador, and if he does
not agree to centralized government,
Guatemala and Honduras will make war
upon him.
General A. B. Netteton, of Mime
sofa, has been selected assistant secre-
tary of the treasury, under a provision
of the legislative, judicial and executive
appropriation bill, increasing the num-
Der to three.
The decree approved by the pope is
absolutely sweeping in its denunciations
of DR.. Burtsell He must submit and
: write an apology. This will be prec-
dent for all similar reyolts against supe.
rior authority.
Ex-Governor Crittenden, OF Missouri,
in letter to the Kansas City Times,
states that none of the Southern States
!, will represent themselves at the Worlds
Fair if the North passes the Lodge Fed
81 eral election bill.
The total gross exchanges for last week,
y as shown by dispatches from thu leading
2 clearing houses of the United States and
!" Canada, were $l,G97 $685. 1893, decrease
III of % per cent. as compared with the
o. corresponding week of last year.
X Census Supervisor Murray, of New
le Yo k city, say s the women engaged as
= census enumerators did splendid work,
an and he regrets that he did not appoint
in all women. Some of the men resigned
{ because of fatigue and intense heat, but
to no woman made such complaint.
sd
IN In the tennis tournament at New York
o 1he playing was probably the best ever
we seen on a ground in this country.
: Knapp and Huntington were opposed to
an each other, and after playing four hours
/. snelther had scored an advantage, and
1T The game had 10 go over again.
entr
ALI 1t is stated prominent chemist of San
on francisco, now in Superior, Wis, has
lo devised an apparatus by means of which
water can be utilized as fuel. 1t is to be
ON 3esolved into its elements OF oxygen and
Idle hydrogen. These gases are to be burned
5. by means of an oxo-hydrogen machine
on producing intense heat.
ma
nd Rear Admiral Belknap, commanding
Aroi lhe naval forces on the Asiatic station
9. has informed the Navy Department tina
~ here is no truth in the report he tool
ma possession OF the kings palace at Seoul
sls turing the recent trouble in Corea
tor TROOPS were stationed at the Amerit al
delegation, but were withdrawn wher
Pnvlaatters assumed their usual shape.
er 4.
= Judge Foster IN the United States Dis
n sI.ict Court at Topeka, Kan, has just rem
d o. sered an important decision on the orig
,teralal package question. Frank McGu r,
iaiT Lyons, Kan, received wooden DO,
{ Containing fifty bottles OF whisky, eact
n =. :. ipttle being in pasteboard box, ant
1aS Did a number OF these bottles. Judg,
Is .oster now holds that in opening tn
S5f iooden box he broke the original pack
1 ,sn e,
i. ,Senors Murua and Munoz, constituting
,fsa special committee from the Spanish
'sed ,3vernment, have visited Washington
tpF0 dc past few days. 1t has been discov
Il. ted that the mission OF the strangers il
quasi-diplomatic one to ascertain tn,
.eling both on the part of the govern
r ent of the United States and of tn,
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