Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-10-02
MISCELLANEOUS.
Insects Have Done Great Damage to the
Cereal Crops of Canada.

insects nave DOnt ~ thS
Cereal Crops of Canada.
Large sums of money are being sent
West to move the crops.
Michigan's wheat harvest Yields ,0OO,-
00J or more bushels above the estimate.
The damage to the cereal crops in
Canada bv insects has been estimated at
$ S,O0O,00).
The sugar-beet fever is breaking out
in Southwestern Missouri, and seems
likely to become epidemic.
During August the receipts in Chicago
amounted to 100000 bushels Of wheat,
against ,995 GOO bushels in 1890.
A Russian immigrant astonished the
barge-oflice people in New York by show
ing them bag containing $4,000 in
gold.
Jay Gould is said to have authorized
the expenditure of IL 900, coo for Mis-
souri, Pacific display at the Worlds
Fair.
st. Paul and Minneapolis, it is re-
ported, have no street ears run by horses.
Gable and electric lines are rapidly COM
ing into use.
A county in Iowa which pays a bounty
on wolf scalps has been swindled out of
5000 by rascals who manufactured scalps
out of wolf hides.
A Missouri physician, just returned
from Europe, estimates that there are
100000 Americans now sightseeing
across the ocean.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
at Chicago is investigating the charges
of discrimination made by lumbermen
against the railroads.
Hundreds of cattle are dying in In
dian Territory from the effects of poison
thrown into the river by Indians for the
purpose OF catching fish.
Between ZOO and %, 900 Jewish fam
lilies, newly arrived from Europe, have
sett ed below Tenth street in New York
during the past five years.
The new Gillian tariff law, which re-
peals the customs law of May 5, provides
for the gradual substitution of paper
currency by specie dollars for duties.
The anchor alleged to have been used
by Columbus when he landed at San
Salvador has been opportunity found by
Commissioner Ober on the coast OF
Hayti.
The number of laisureIy citizens in
this country is quite large. 1t has been
estimated that the permanent tramp
population of the United States numbers
10000.
A prominent lumberman of Galveston,
Tex, has in contemplation, it is said, a
unique project, nothing less than ship
ping huge raft OF logs from Galveston
to London.
The Remington Paper Company of
WATERFOWL, y. Y, has brought suit for
100000 against William R. Hearst of
the San Francisco Examiner for breach
of contract.
The Catholic Archbishop at Boston
has instituted suit to force the high
school authorities to recognize certificates
OF graduates III parochial schools in the
examinations.
Poker-pIaying on the suburban trains
entering and leaving Chicago has ac-
CURED such proportions that the atten-
ton OF the authorities has been called to
this craze for gambling.
Governor Jones has sent twenty mem
us " lIIC - lINOA SdNdiIg Company OF
Camden to Furmen, Ala, to assist the
Sheriff there to protect five nero pris-
oners in danger of being lynched by a
mob.
Scarlet fever has broken out among
the children in the Wisconsin State
School at Sparta. There are fifty cases
OF illness. The schoolhOuse has been
turned into q hospital, and the teachers
have become nurses.
A large proportion Of the traders and
mechanics in the Brazilian cities are
Germans, and the number of them there
Is steadily increasing. Within the pres
ent year Brazil has received about 10, 900
German immigrants.
President Ignatius Donnellv Of the
Minnesota Alliance wishes it understood
that that organization has nothing to do
with the wheat circulars sent out from
st. Paul, urging farmers to hold their
grain for the highest prices.
Alfred Koebele has sailed for Australia
as the agent of the Department of Agri-
culture in search OF parasite which will
destroy the grasshopper pest OF the West
ern States. He will visit New Zealand.
Australia, the South Sea Islands. and, if
possible, will make investigations in
China and Japan.