Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-08-14
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Canadian Pacific AbandOns Its Van
derbiIt Alliance to New York.

The Canadian Pacific AbandOns Its Van
derbiIt Alliance to New York.
The American Consul is sick with yell
low fever at Vera Cruz.
The yellow fever at Vera Cruz is ex-
tending to the ships in the harbor.
The wheat crop of the Dominion OF
Canada is estimated at 80, 100, 900 BUSH
els.
NJ Eiff,l will make a proposition to
the World's Fair directory to build a
tower
The Western Union pays $25, 001 rental
ing in Philadelphia.
The Missouri river is cutting the banks
near Kansas City and endangering the
Missouri Pacific tracks.
The periodical report of threatened
uprising in Mexico against the Diaz gov
eminent is again in circulation.
The city of Vera Cruz, Mexico, has
negotiated a loan OF $l,0O0,0OO redeem
able in forty years at per cent.
All the New York papers that pub
lished an account of the recent execution
There is talk of a convention of all the
historical sociaties to decide where the
remains of Columbus are inferred.
Constant rains have caused a reap
pearance of the cotton worm III Ala
bama, and the entire crop is in danger.
According to Sherifs' reports to the
Acknowledgement no fewer than $50
murderers are roaming at large in Texas
All the records of the City Treasurer's
office at Philadelphia are missing, and
another official sensation is on the tapis.
An official in the Treasury Department
says the banks i'll California are in bet
ter condition than those in other States.
The window-glass manufacturers in
PENNSYLVANIA and their employers can
not agree on wages and a strike is prob
able.
A German syndicate is trying to rur-
chase large tracts of coffee and rubber
producing lands in the State OF Chiapas,
Mexico.
The Ford City Plate Glass Works at
| Pittsburg, which are the largest in tine
United States, will return to the use Of
coal as fuel.
The Sioux Indian Commission has Sc
cured the consent Of the Ogalas for the
withdrawal OF 800 Cheyennes from Pine
Ridge agency.
The dispute over the will Of Samuel j..
| Tilden, it is said, has been aulicably set
/ tied. Fifty per cenr. is to 90 to the city
and 80 per cent. TO the heirs.
Postmaster General Wanamaker is
] ~ 70 rrfr fnG OF I.rhf ly-
mail service between San Francisco and
Australia by way of New Zealand.
Never before at the West Point Mill
tary Academy has as much binding been
going on az this year. Twenty-eight
/ buildings, including a gymnasium, are
under way.
The st. Louis Mobe- Democrat, which
has made a thorough canvass of the cot
ton outlook in eight States, announces
that the present indications point to the
largest yield on record.
The Canadian Pacific has apparently
abandoned its Vanderbilt allia"ce tt
New YORK. 1t is now sending the most
of its traffic via the Ontario and West.
ern, its old connection.
Jay Gould and oher New York capt
talists, who say they have $25, 100000 t.
put into such scheme, it is stated, viii
build an elevated railroad in Chicago
connecting the west and south sides.
A protest has been made by delegate.
of the Musical Protective Union at New
York against the admission to this cOun
4 try Of a ballet troupe now about leavins
Europe uhd r the management of Wal
ter DImrosch.
The Dominion government has re-
leased seven American fishing vessels
captured 10y the Dream within the three
mile limit. There was heavy fog a
the time, and the law, it is believed, was
unwittingly infringed.
The New York Press gives currency t.
the report that Secretary Noble has
placed his resignation in the President,
hand, but has consented to remain il
office until Minister Lin, DIN retires
when he will 90 to the courtof st. James
The railroads are anxious to know
now it is the Pullman Company makes
so much money and they get so little
commission. A bill in equity las beer
filed in Chicago against the company by
the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul.
The State of Jalisco, Mexico, has beer
in great financial difficulties since the
accession OF General Calvin to the Gov.
ernorship He is said to be closing the
schools and favoring all kinds of gam
bling. The State is also Overrun by bri-
gands.
The St. Paul office OF the Great North.
ern has been gathering statistics of grain
grown alo' . the line Reports from 1861
points show that before January the
road will have to convey 45 900 900 BUSH
els OF wheat. The great Red river croE
is immense.
Miss Marguerite Hamm of Bar Uar-
Dor, who sent the famous dispatch to a
New York journal declaring Mr.. Blaine
to he in the last stages of disease has
Instituted suit for $4,000 against the
Boston HerdId, who called her an adyen-
turess, a prevaricator and consorter with
dlsreputahle characters.
Acting Secretary Chandler has re-
yersed the action of the Commissioner
OF the general land office in the case ol
the United States against the Puget
Sound Mill Company of Seattle. and d.
reefs that patent issue under section :
OF the act OF March 3, 1891. TIL action
practically decides forty-four similar
cases i'll the same district.
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