Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-07-03
MISCELLANEOUS.
La Grippe RACES Along the Coast o
Nova Scotia and Newfoundland

The Pennsylvania railroad pays $780,
600 taxes in Ohio.
The floating population OF Chicago Is
estimated at fully 150, 1000.
An English syndicate has purchased
the South Boston iron works.
The Missouri exhibit at the Worlds
Fair has been favorably located.
Buffalo IN. W schools are closed on
account of malignant diphtheria.
The supposed coal fields of Iowa are
found to be only collection of pockets.
A syndicate of New Workers are nego-
tiating for the purchase of the Boston
Journal.
Ex-Governor Foraker of Ohio has just
realized $4,000 from a sale OF lands In
Arkansas.
Women crusaders at Mendoza, Mo-,
DESTROYED all the liquors i'll the village
drug store.
Kansas millers are seeking foreign
markets which are furnished them under
the reel procity act.
Farmers in Maine and Vermont are
planting their potatoes and corn over
again, the cold, damp weather having
killed the first crop.
After many years of envious rivalry a
movement has been started to unite
Minneapolis and st. Paul as one munic-
ipality under the name of Federal City.
Davenport, Ia, claims to be the
healthiest place in the world to live IN:
| During the last year the proportion OF
deaths to the population was only 1907
to every 1000.
An air-ship company has been char
tered in Burlington, Ia, with capital
of 100000, to build air ships and
watt passengers in them between that
city and New York.
Canada is arranging to secure an indie
pendent determination of her latitude
and longitude. Wishes to find out per-
haps how far she has slipped away from
the mother country.
The grip i raging with great fatality
along the coast of Nova Scotia and New
foundland. Whole families and whole
crews of vessels have been attacked. A
famine is imminent
The Secretary of the Interior has APP
proved the contract FOR repairing the
great Casa Grande prehistoric ruin near
the ella river in Arizona. The sum of
50, 900 was appropriated by the last Con-
gress.
The total capital invested in timbered
lands and standing timber according to
the reports of the timber establishments
in the respective States is as follows
Michigan, $40, $50, 47S; Wisconsin, $34,
003, 044; Minnesota, $5,7yl,9 4.
President Untermeyer of New York
and the Directors of the Honey Peak
Consolidated Tin Company have decided
Immediately to commence the erection
of a tin-concentrating plant of $500 in
gots daily capacity at Hill City, S. d.
The ballot-reform passed by the Hi
nois Legislature, as signed by the Gov
ernor, shows Section %. which provides
that no ticket peddler shall be allowed
within 100 feet of the polls on election
day, is missing entirely from the bill.
A fatal disease is destroying the peach
trees of Georgia, and the only means
known OF staying it's progress is the
burning of the affected trees, which is
recommended by DR.. Irwin Smith of the
Bureau of Agriculture at Washington.
One of the railway tunnels under the
Hudson connecting New York city with
the Jersey shore at Hoboken will be fin
ished in about six months. From end
to end it win be $4,000 or 14,000 feet
long. The motive power OF the trains
will probably be electricity.
The Federal expenditures so far dur
ing the present month have exceeded
the receipts by about $8,000,0O0, CORE
spending to the sum paid for pensions
: but the balance will now be rapidly
turned the other way, insuring a reason
able surplus at the end of the month.
George Bidwell, the famous Bank oil
England forger, lectured in Portland,
Me-, the other evening. 1t will be re-
membered that he was released from
Chatham prison, England, about six
years ago through the efforts of a num-
Der of prominent men, who believed
that he had thoroughly repented.
The sugar cane planters entitled tc
bounties have been heard from. They
number 800. The bounty is a matter Of
great Importance in Louisiana. One
large planter in that State has already
bonded for 5000, 900 pounds to be raised
during the next season. This bounty, il
paid to him, will be bonus of $1,000
The Swiss Minister at Washington has
written to the Governor of Virginia fol
information respecting the adaptability
Of the soil of the State for growing ce,
reals, saying that there is widespread
disposition on the part Of his country.
men to immigrate and settle in such a
State as was best recommended to them
Rev. DR.. Corradine, pastor of the Cen
tenary Methodist Episcopal Church al
St. Louis, preached sermon several
weeks ago against the wearing of Jew
elry, and called upon his flock to give W
their costly trinkets; and a large num-
Der of men and women deposited their
jewels to the value of over 81 900 in a
box at the altar to be melted, because to
sell them in their present form would be
tempting others.