Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-07-10
MISCELLANEOUS.
Cardinal Gibbons Refutes the Statements
Made to the Holy See.


Boston is to build hotel for colored
people.
A new grain-elevator law has gone
into effect in Nebraska.
The anti-cigarette law has become in
operative in New York city.
The hay crop of New England is one
third less than that of last year, it is
thought.
The colored people of Georgia are
forming Law and order leagues to control
their own race.
Much to the regret of graduates, the
old academic buildings at West Point are
to be torn down at once.
Separate street cars for whites and
blacks will be recommended by the Gov
ernor of Virginia to the Legislature.
The hay crop alone of Kansas this
season, if all cut, cured and marketed,
would payof the entire Indebtedness Of
the State.
Minister Frederick Douglass is on his
way home from Hayti, and it is said that
he will probably not return to his post
in that country.
Petroleum has been found at Gaspe,
Quebec, at a depth of 1890 feet. 1t is
said to be equal in quality to the best
| Pennsylvania oil.
Reports from all parts of Kansas prove
| that the infected chinch bugs have ex-
terminated the other bugs wherever the
former were planted,
| Applications for licenses to produce
maple sugar under the bounty act are
now pouring in upon the revenue offices
in Vermont at a lively rate.
| Florida is to have new capital
0cala, in the center OF the orange belt,
being the fortunate city. Tallahassee
| will become town Of "reminiscences.
| Minister Robert T. Lincoln has in
formed the Knights Templar at Albany,
n. Y, that they may wear their side
arms during their European tour.
As a result of the recent examinations
at West Point ninety-nine out of total
of l46 applicants have been admitted tc
the United States Military Academy to
form new class.
The report as to crop conditions of the
two Dakotas show that the yield for al
products will be much larger than fol-
the last five years. Wheat and corn are
in especially good condition.
The reconstruction of the East Boston
dry dock has just been completed at {
cost of $200,0 1t is stated that it il
now as long and perfect in equipment a!
any dock in the United States.
| Workingmen in Springfield, Mass.
have formed cooperative plan to Sc
cure the best medical attendance anC
sanitary inspection. Chicago has sucl
an. association, which, it is said, works
well.
All those who have passed the civil
service examination for clerks for tn,
Chicago postoffice now have places il
that office. This is something that ha
not occurred before in the history of tn,
civil service.
|, Wayne McVeagh, who successfully de
, Tended the Pullman Car Company in the
suit against it of the Central Transpor
tation Company in a case involving mill
ions OF dollars, is reported to have beer
rewarded with 100000 fee,
The American syndicate that pur
, chased the Jamaica railway is pushing
the work of extending the lines, which
are intended eventually to encircle the
island, as rapidly as the unfavorable
conditions of climate and labor permit.
The famous old frigate Brooklyn,
known as Constitution No. 2, made his
toric by Admiral Farragut, whose flag
ship she was in the stormy days before
New Orleans and Mobile, has been sold
to Boston junk firm, and will be
burned at once.
1t appears from the report showing
the exports of American manufactures
for the ten months ending April 80 last
that during that period there was sent
Eabroad $9,74l 900 worth of colored and
uncolored cotton cloths, as against &c.
$4,000 for the ten months ending April
30, 1890.
1t is said that several of the lake and
rail lines have announced a rate of Is
cents to New York and 20 cents to Bos-
ton on sixth-class freight, which in
Guides grain and other Western prod
ucts. This is reduction of cents per
100 pounds from the previous lake and
rail rates, and is 10 cents below the all
rail rate.
A storage battery for the running of
street cars is being experimental with
in Sioux City, and if successful, com
pany with 100000 capital will be
formed. The storage-battery system is
said to be a saving one to the street-car
companies, and besides in the use of
this system the network OF wires is done
away with.
The committee appointed to investi-
gate the charges of conspiracy preferred
against the brotherhood of Railway
Trainmen by the switchmen's organiza-
ton in connection with the recent lock-
out of the latter in the employ of the
Northwestern road reported to the Su-
preme Council of Federation, finding
the Brotherhood guilty.
Cardinal Gibbons at Baltimore has re-
| futed the statements made to the HOLY
See that the spiritual condition and
needs of the foreign-speaking Catholics
in the United States were not properly
provided for. He stated that the hier-
archy of no country in the world are
paying more attention to the spiritual
wants of foreign born Catholic people
than are the prelates OF the United
States.
SPORTING NOTES.