Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-08-21
MISCELLANEOUS.
Gypsies Kidnap Two Boys in Washing
ton County, n. Y.

ton County, \. Y.
A new railroad between Chicago and
St. Louis is talked of.
Week before last $500 Italians sailed
from Genoa TO the United States.
Business has been resumed on the old
Virginia.
1t is said the Alliance circulars sent
from St. Paul are having some effect on
the market.
A New York inventor makes serious
charges against the management of the
patent Office.
The postoffice in Chicago does larger
registered business than any other
in the country.
Each of the members OF the famous
Economic community in Pennsylvania
is worth 81 ,000, 002.
Great preparations are being made for
the holding of 1.-The German Day" in
New York on October /.
A man has been stealing hogs near
Havana, H., by first chloroforming them,
so they would not squeal.
Hon. Bayliss Hanna, Minister to the
Argentine Republic during the Cleve-
land administration, is dead.
The Treasury Department has shipped
recently to the West for use in moving
the crops $1,000, 900 in small notes.
A treasure of 500, 00O,O00 in gold is
supposed to be buried near Warrensburg
Mo-, and parties are searching for it.
The Indiana Farmers Alliance has
declared boycott on farmer who will
not join the order, and his wheat stands
unthreshed
The historic and romantic Fort Lara
ME in Wyoming is now nothing more
substantial than mass of ruins hal
hidden by ivy.
Mississippi Valley lumbermen have
obtained 900, coo acres of land granted
to the Central Military Land Company
by the State of Oregon
The total receipts from customs dur.
ing the month of July were $23, 953, 1856
or IS, 485, 232 less than the receipts dur
ing the same month of last year.
Careful New York tinanciers are sale
to be taking gold loans ut much lower
figure than they will accept currency
! loans on account Of the iree-silver agita
| ton.
A new scheme has been put in opera
ton, by which it is expected that agri
cultural specimens from every county il
the country will be shown at the Worlds
Fair.
The Chicago Drainage Commission has
fixed upon route for the canal between
| Chicago and the Summit, and has de
cided to issue s. 100000 of ) per cent
! bonds.
1t is reported from Boston that a kin
ding trust has been formed there
and the product of all the factories il
Boston and vicinity will be handled by
one firm.
The redemption of Az per cent. bond.
will not begin until September 2, thu
date of their maturity. Up to date
about $ll 10000 of these bonds hav,
been continued at per cent.
John NJ. Samuels of Kentuckyis prom
inently spoken of for chief of the Horti
cultural Department of the Worlds Fair
but the Inter-Ocedn says Mr.. ShOrb o
California still has good chance.
Gypsies kidnapped two boys in Wash
ington county, n. Y, the other day, bu
were overtaken by mob of citizens anC
compelled to release the lads. The of
tenders narrowly escaped lynching.
The emigration from Germany t,
[ America during the first five months 0
the present year amounted to 50, 567, o
nearly 10000 more than the largest tota
during any five months of the last fiv
years.
The Sugar Trading and Finance Com
pany of Central America--capital, $25,
600, 000-has been organized. The com
pany will buy and sell sugar and othe
products, and will establish agencies il
the West Indies for that purpose.
The cattle baron has passed away il
Texas, and his immense pastures are be
ing cut up into farms. A 20,000-acr
pasture was cut up into farms a few
weeks ago, and it realized at auction al
average of between 81 and s. an acre.
Land Commissioner Carter thinks tn,
only relief the Kaweah colonists have il
through Congress. He thinks the,
should be compensated for improvement
made; but there is but one course I,
pursue now, and that is to enforce tn,
law
The drought in Connecticut is startling
and the heat is intense. The rivers
ponds and mill streams are lower thai
for years. Many mills have been com
PEELED to stop. The loss to crops anC
wages, if rain does not fall soon, will b.
great.
c.. P. Huntington and associates O
New York have purchased the Texas
Trunk railroad, extending from Dalla
to Cedar in Kaufman county, Tex,
distance of fifty-two miles, and will, i
is said, Immediately commence buildin;
in the direction of New Orleans.
1t is proposed to hold a convention il
September next at one of the cities OF
the Tennessee river to consider the bes
means for securing an appropriation
from Congress for a canal around COLDER
Shoals. an obstruction in the river below
Sheffield, Ala. The cost of the work i
estimated at 80 I'm OO0