Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-10-16
EASTERN ITEMS.
Eleetrocution Reported
to Be a Success.
NEGRO STRIKE EXTENDING.
Minnesota's Supreme Court Declares
Wheat Futures Are Illegal
and Contracts Void.
NEGRO STRIKE EXTENDING.

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There is a fine of $500 for practicing
hypnotism in Cincinnati.
The Arctic Ice Machine Company at
Cleveland, Ohio, has assigned.
A $4,000 union railway station has
just been opened in Louisville.
A syndicate has offered to buy the
Washington monument for a shot tower
Pennsylvania farmers, irrespective of
Alliance orders, are holding wheat for
$3.50 bushel.
Beacon Hill in Boston is to be ex-
plored by diamond drills in the interest
of rapid transit.
England and Germany have each ap-
piled for 200, 900 square feet of space at
the Columbian Fair.
Strong resolutions were adopted at
public meeting at Windsor, Canada. fav-
Oring commercial union with the United
States.
Cadets Griffith of Maryland and Kav-
anaugh of Nebraska at the Annapolis
Academy are to be court-martialed for
hazing.
Thomas Edison, the electric wizard,
has a new system of applying electricity
to cars that does away with the trolly or
the slot.
The Minnesota supreme court declares
wheat futures are illegal and operators
on the wrong side can repudiate their
contracts.
The Odd Fellows in the United States
can boast of membership ohnearly
| 700 900 and an annual revenue - more
than 100000.
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The official report on the executions
by electricity at New York show them
to have been a complete success, as was
designed by the law.
The Boston Herald has a dispatch say
ing that ex-Speaker Reed will give up
politics and enter large business cor
poration at New York.
1t is probable that the scheme of
transmitting mail in large cities by pneu-
matte tubes will be abandoned on ac-
| count of the great expense.
1t is estimated that the Western rail
roads have earned $250,000 the past year
from the transportation of Mormon mis-
sionaries and their proselytes.
New York will soon have a score or
more of practically free public baths,
unless the plans of the trustees of the
A'eblOI NtC IL lullu D1ISCdEGY.
The water is so low in the Erie canal
that boats are grounded all along the
line. The creeks and feeders have not
been so low as now in some years.
There will be more than an averageI
Weld of corn and buckwheat in Nef, /
York. A large tobacco crop has nearly
been secured in excellent condition
The excitement at Clearfeld. Penn.
over the suspension of the Clearfield
and Houtzdale bank still continues, and
the mobbing of the bank was feared.
The Mexican government is preparing
to meet all revolutionary forces that
cross the Rio Grand, and the prepare
tons indicate that the government is
much alarmed.
| All the Northwest railroad companies
are calling attention to the critical sitna-
| ton in the North Dakota wheat fields.
where the wheat is lying in stacks for
want Of threshers.
No rain worth mentioning has fallen
in Norwalk, Conn, since early in the
| spring. As a consequence her reservoirs
are empty, and arrangements are being
made to tap the mains of a neighboring
| town.
Developments in the Christman bank
failure at Paris, ILL.,, make the situation
more serious than at first supposed. 1t
is stated that the loss will not be less
| than $l50,000, and the assets NAV not
exceed $4,000.
| Typhoid fever in New York is said to
have been caused by foul drinking water
| brought in by the new and costly aque-
duct. Sewers, slaughter houses and
other denominations are pouring into the
source of supply.
Secretary Tracy believes that a plant
for the manufacture and assembling of
steel forgings should be constructed on
| the Pacific coast by the government as
soon as possible and Benicia seems to be
tie favored locality.
The Cheyenne and Arapahoe reserva-
tions, to be opened for settlement, are
four times larger than the lands recently
| opened in Oklahoma, aud the rush for
them, it is expected, will surpass any
| thing yet witnessed.
In consequence of the success of the
electric road between st. Paul and Min
neapolis the steam road between the two
cities has been unable to obtain its share
of the traffic, and has discontinued from
| fifteen to twenty trains daily.
Chairman Coppel of the board of
directors of the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad has issued circular announ-
cling the appointment of E. J. Jeffrey.
| formerly general manager of the Illinois
| Central, as president and general man
ager.
The Lee county, Ark, troubles are
probably at an end unless mob at
tempts to hang the negroes now in the
Mariana Jail. 1t appears that no less
than fifteen negroes were killed out of
gang of nineteen who commenced the
| trouble.
The wharf strike at Savannah, Ga. is
gradually extending to all branches of
colored labor. The business of the city
is at standstill. Money is tied up in
cotton, which is piled up in the yards
and sidetracked along the lines of the
railroads. The banks are unable to &C.
commodate their patrons. The strikers
are quiet and orderly.
The distillers at Peoria, H., the great
est whisky-producing city in the world.
have decided TO use the Takamine Japan
ese) process of making whisky. The
new plan CRAFTY reduces the cost OF
manufacture. A queer feature is that
species of bugs found on the rice is used
instead of yeast for the fermenting
process.
A stranger at Keosha, Wis, Pat Welsh,
lectured the other day in Theleen's Hall,
taking for his subject Why Left the
Roman Catholic Church" The crowd
frequently interrupted the speaker, and
! threatened his life. When he left the
hall he was followed by mob of $50 or
more Stones and clubs were thrown at
him, one of which struck him in the |
head. The entire police force were called
out to protect him.