Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-11-20
ELECTRIC SPARKS.
What the World has been Doing dur
ing the Past Week.
Important Dispatches, both Domestic
and Foreign, Boiled Down.

Exports of wheat, including -four,
from the United States ports during the
week, reported to Bradstreet's, equal 4,
100000 bushels, about twice the quantity
sent abroad in corresponding weeks in
the four preceding years. For twenty
weeks the reports Of wheat and -four
from United States ports reported equal
nearly 82,000,000 bushels as against
37,398, 900 the United States and Canada
in the corresponding period of 1890.
1t is reported from China that the U.
S, warship Charleston has left for Homo
lulu with instructions to sieze the
Hawaiian Islands should certain events
occur In case these unknown events
should occur the Hawaiian Isles may
soon form part of the United States of
America
The treasury depa .tment is advised
that the Northern Pacific has discharged
SIX telegraph operators along the Cana
dian border who lived in Canada and
worked in the United States in violation
of the alien contract law.
Orders were sent from the navy de-
partment, to New York for the Q. S.
steamer Concord to sail at the earliest
practicable day for the West Indies to
join the Philadelphia and Kearsarge.
The number of deaths caused bv the
railroad accident at Nagpur, India, now
amounts to twelve, as three more OF the
Indian soldiers died during the past
night.
VIM. Hutchins and Dick Joy were lit
orally torn into pieces in mine at
Kingston, n. NJ, by premature ex-
pio ion of twenty five pounds of powder
The porte has refused Russia's request
to allow monument to be erected at
San Stefano to the memory Of the Rus
sian soldiers who died there in 1878.
S. N, Straube, of Fresno, Cal, in
terested in raising fine horses, has failed.
HIS liabilities may reach $150,00O, with
assets probably 100000.
Police raided house in the City road,
London, and captured ten burglars and
an immense amount of stolen property.
The jury in the case Of e1-Treasurer
Woodruff, on trial at Little Rock, Ark,
disagreed and were discharged.
Negotiations between the Rothschilds
and the Bank of Spain for a new Spanish
loan have been broken off.
The owner Of the Jacobs sugar factory
of Potsdam, have asked for an extension
OF credit.
Saturday, Noe. II.
The British bark Sarah is wrecked in
violent storm near Victoria, B. G. A
part Of the crew are rescued by Indians
In canoes. The rescued mariners tell
a frightful tale of suffering. During
the storm ten of the crew mutiny and
basely desert The ill-starred bark. They
steal the whale and life-boats and leave
Ren, women and children on board the
sinking ship to perish by water, cold
thirst and starvation. Great indlgna-
tion exists against the cowardly mutt
neers who are picked up short distance
from the scene of the wreck.
John Bull declares the Mckinley bill
is running England. This is the cause
OF his growls: The value of declared ex-
ports from the United Kingdom to the
United States for the three months
ended June 30, last, as compared with
the same period in 1890 The total
figures for these three months of this
year were $44,625,S4l; last year, S53,-
329,066, thus showing falling off of
nearly 100000. Only six towns out
of twenty-four towns exporting to the
United States show an increase.
Famine and influenza are raging in
different parts of Russia A large num-
ber Of German colonists located along
the Volga river are discontented with
the condition prevailing in Russia, and
many have determined to give up their
holdings and leave the country, many
going to the United States The smi-
grants are thrifty and industrious and a
majority of them are fairly well to do
Hundreds of persons are diving daily
from influenza in the famine-stricker
districts in the large towns of South
Russia.
The Knights of Labor General Assem-
bly, at Toledo, O., after a discussion Of
the question of objections to certain
principles of the order, decided that al