Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-07-17
MISCELLANEOUS.
Pittsburg Carpenters Propose to with
draw From the Federation of Labor.

Pittsburg Carpenters Propose to With
draw From the Federation of Labor.
The Dominion Commons has refused
to put binding Irvine on the free list.
The CITY Treasurer Of Boston dis
bursed more than $l,8J0,000 on July l.
Washington authorities have ordered
the work of renovating the Boston navy
yard begun.
China absolutely refuses to accept eX-
Senator Blair as Minister from the
United States.
There is apprehension at Ottawa that
the sealing agreement will cause destltu-
ton among the Indian seal hunters.
1t is stated that the Canadian Pacific
Directors are to be put in the Grand
Trunk directory at the next meeting.
Twenty-one nations thus far have ac-
cepted invitations to come to the Worlds
Fair at Chicago and show themselves.
E. T. Jordan, natural gas inspector for
Indiana, predicts the failure of the gas
supply OF Findlay, o., within two years.
| The wheat yield in fifty counties in
Kansas along the line of the Rock Island
road is estimated at 24,60O, 900 bushels.
1t has been estimated that the Yer
mont maple-suEar crop for the season is
| II 900, 900 pounds. About 40 per cent.
is syrup.
That gold will command a premium
in New York before many months seems
to be the conclusion of an English finan-
cial writer.
1t is thought at Washington that the
| Charleston will be ordered to Samoa. as
trouble is likely to arise between Malta
toa and Mataafa.
The Treasury Department has made a
revised decision on the importation oil
! lottery tickets through the mails to the
effect that it is illegal.
The anti-pool-room law passed by the
Missouri Legislature last winter has gone
into effect, and all but one room in st.
Louis have closed their doors.
The London and Colonial Financial
| Corporation has bought the Chicago Cold
Storage Exchange Company's building
and plant, paying $4,5l0,000 for them.
The Illinois Central railroad has begun
the wholesale discharge of passenger
and freight conductors No cause is as
signed. 1t is supposed to be the work OF
spoilers.
Fifty ex- Union and fifty ex-Confeder-
ate soldiers, uniformed in blue and gray
respectively, will organize into a com
pany at Kansas City and visit the Chi
cago Fair.
A successful raid has been made on
illicit distileries in the mountains of
Virginia and West Virginia Several
notorious violators of the revenue laws
have been brought in.
Assistant Secretary Nettleton has de-
cided that a carpenter cannot core from
Canada, engage work, and upon his re-
turn with his tools enter upon such work
| without violating the contract-labor law.
The carpenters of Pittsburg propose
to withdraw from the Federation of La
Dor and organize themselves into a
Knights of Labor Assembly. There is a
strong fight against Gompers at Pitts
burg.
In order to protect the body Of Sir
John Macdonald from ghouls two detect
ives live near the cemetery, and an ex-
cavatiOn has been made around the
grave and filled with cement and cut
wire.
A telegram has been received at Wash
lngton from Iquique, Chill, by Senior
MOntt, which says that the steamer Ma
ipo arrived at that place with complete
cargo of arms for the Congressional
party.
Bank Commissioner Drew has been
notified by Secretary Foster that his
services are no longer required by the
government. He had had some connec-
ton with the Keystone Bank of Phila-
! delphia.
For the protection of public health
the Ohio State Board of Health has Or
dered quarantine of forty DAYS against
smallpox, diphtheria and scarlet fever
and twenty days against measles and
whooping cough.
The verdict in the New York "Jack
the Ripper " case was guilty of murder
III the second degree This was because
no Fermentation to murder was shown.
The spectators and the public were as
| tonished at the verdict.
Chicago man has invented a new
gas generator. By his process a ton of
coal makes ,000,00 feet at cost of 2la
NNiiUS P'l ,oOV lCCG. IL Is W he IuInlSIeO
to the public at Is cents per 900 feet.
This is important if true.
decision has been rendered against
the New York Central and Hudson River
railroad in their claim to the water front
on the Hudson river from Albany to
Spuyten Dnyvil. The value of the prop
erty involved is estimated at about S.
100000.
The pollution OF the Ohio river is be-
ing investigated hy the State Board of
Health. DIR. Probst says that his report
will be very unfavorable as to the use of
Ohio-river water for drinking purposes
An interstate agreement would be neces-
sary to prevent further pollution.
A "robbers' roost" has been unearthed
at Chicago. 1t was fitted up with under
ground passages in various directions TO
facilitate the escape of the robbers in
case Of police raid. The neighbors had
been so terrorized by the gang that no
one dared to inform the police of the
doings in the vicinity.