Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-10-09
EASTERN ITEMS.
The Coal Product of the
United States.
GEORGIA TO TAX BACHELORS
Arrangements Complete for the Poly
teehnie Excursion to the
Worlds Fair.
GEORGIA TO TAX BACHELORS

CluD has assigned.
1t is said Canada intends to reimpose
an export duty on logs.
Ohio this year produces the largest to-
bacco crop in her history.
A cooking school is part of the pub
lic-school system OF Milwaukee.
The validity Of the convict lease sys-
tenn in Tennessee is to be decided bv the
courts.
Turkeys flag has been the first to be
unfurled on the Chicago Worlds Fair
grounds.
The waters of Lake Erie are to be
piped to Cincinnati, taking in many
other cities Ell route.
Most Of the fires in Wisconsin were
confined to districts burned over last
spring. The rains have checked them.
A factory is to be built at Minneapolis
by parties who claim to be able to tenn
per copper so that it can be made hard
| as steel.
The MilliOnaires' Club OF New York
will erect q $3.50, 900 house. The proposed
site is on the corner of Fifth avenue AMI
Sixtieth street.
The people in Emmons county, n. D.
who lost their property by prairie fires
are said to be in deplorabie condition
without food or shelter.
Since the passage of the American
copyright law it is said that one New
York song publisher has paid $4,000 in
London for manuscripts.
France, it is believed, will next month
rescind the pork prohi bition laws Italy
promises to rescind her prohibitory reg
ulations after France acts.
1t is stated that the government has
realized IS ZOO, 600 from the sale of lands
in that part of Kansas which is beyond
the line of certain rainfall
In the Bed River Valley, n. D farm
labor is very scarce, and the railroads in
that section carry men free to various
points where they are needed.
The large yield and high price of wheat
will, it is estimated and expected, make
this seasons Dakota crop equal in value
to those of the five preceding years.
A railroad surveying party that went
up the Big Horn Canyon in Colorado
nearly two months ago has not been
heard from, and there are fears that the
lIiClIl DCiS have DGt1ll lOSL.
Vessel agents and mariners on the
Great Lakes are urging the establish
ment of a branch photographic office on
the lakes to look out for the vast mari
time interests centered there.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge, |. O. 0.
F., has voted down the proposition that
members could become eligible to the
degree of Patriarchs Militant without
going through the encampment.
Georgia is going to tax bachelors. A
bill for that purpose has been brought
into the Georgia Legislature, and the
House Committee on Hygiene and SAM
tation has reported it favorably.
An extra session of the Pennsylvania
Legislature has been called with view
to remove the Auditor General and State
Treasurer, whose connection with the
financial scandals has been charged
openly.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge OF Odd
Fellows has voted against the eighteen
year limit to eligibility to join the order
The vote was l07 to So. The question
regarding liquor sellers was postponed
until next year.
In a drunken fight on train from
Mount Vernon to Carmi, ILL.,, William
Robertson stabbed Sheriff Williams
slightly, and man named Stanley, who
went to Williams assistance, was badly
cut and will die.
The conductors, switchmen and brake
men on the Southern Pacific Atlantic
system have demanded an increase in
wages, and strike at an early day is
possible, as the company refuses to ac-
cede to the demands.
Florida's Secretary OF State, Mr.. Craw-
ford, refuses to attest the commission of
eN-Congressman Davidson, appointed by
Ex-Governor Fleming to succeed Senator
Call. Mandamus proceedings will be
taken by the Governor.
A secret organization is terrorizing the
people in the neighb0rhood Of TelIville,
Ark. 1t is composed of "mOral regu-
| iators," but they are brutal in their
treatment Of those who come under the
ban Of their disp, easure.
A. committee of physicians at Louis
! vile is examining the case of Mrs. Stuck
enburg, who, it has been widely pub
/ ilshed, on Fridays goes into a trance,
when the stigmata or bleeding wounds
similar to those of the Savior when on
the cross are said to appear. 80.
| Internal Revenue Commissioner Mason
having found that more inaccuracies oc-
cur from gauging than from weighing
whisky, 1t is probable that the latter
method will be used by the bureau. The
result would be a large reduction in the
force of gaugers and the consequent saw
ing OF great expense.
The arrest at Durango, Col, of Baron
Nordenskjold for removing relics from
ancient cliff dwellings is liable to assume
international proportions, as the acting
Secretary of the United States. Mr..
Wharton, has telegraphed the Mavor of
Durango to write him the facts concern
ne the Baron's arrest.
Arrangements are now complete for
the polytechnic excursion to the Worlds
Fair at Chicago. The party. which will
include about $50 men and women
mostly mechanics, clerks and hoard
school teachers, will 90 straight to New
\ ork from London, and all noted places
In the vicinity viii be visited.
The coal product of the United State
reached total of al ,239 ,513 short ion.
IN the census year, and was valued at
the mines before any expenses for shin
ment at $l6O, 900, 1913. The product +" IL 7
cluded 45, 600, 437 short tons of Pennsvi-
vania and other anthracite, worth AK
S79,5l4, and 795 ,639,0I6 short TONS of
bltumlnous and Ignite, valued al S94
BAG, 800. 90 F'7'
At the Gravesend race track at New
otk an ingenious trick, by means Of
when the oookmakers got news of the
races, was discovered. A coachman .
MIViI org nat was arrested in the field
,oI cal llages, and 1t was found a battery
the mans body, while in the rear of J tba
carriage was an operator who sent m one
sages dictated nv tha snnr,osed -