Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-08-28
Mexico Will Make a Big
Exhibit at Chicago.
1000, OOONEW VOTERSIN 1892
Arizona Will Ask to Be Admitted Into
the Union as State at Next
Session Of Congress.


souri, river.
Mexico will have a $4,000 900 exhibit
at the Worlds Fair.
There will he eighty-fve bufaloes in
the Worlds Fair ZOO.
Kansas papers speak of the corn crop
as practically assured.
There are to be 8S7 polling places in
New York city this year.
The agricultural building for the
Worlds Fair will cost $4,000.
A million young men will cast their
first vote for President next year.
At the next session of Congress Ari-
IONA will ask for admission as State.
Complete census returns give Iowa
population OF 1911 1896, gain of 2S7, 2Sl
since 1880.
The irrepressible George Francis Train
proposes tour around the world in forty
days by party of l 900 persons.
COnnellsville, Pa, will drop natural
gas and use coal for fuel. The gas is
nearly all exhausted, and rates are high.
1t is reported that 900 acres of land in
Cape May county, Md, have been pur-
chased on which to colonize Russian
Jews.
A German doctor, advertising in New
York an " Institution of European Staff
Physicians" has been prosecuted for
fraud.
Senator Warren thinks the United
Safes should cede the arid lands under
proper restrictions to the States and Ter
ritOries.
Bellew is furious about the report of
his alleged marriage to Mrs. Potter. He
says she cleared 100000 on her Austral-
ian tour.
An advance of Is cents per ton on an
thracite coal has been ordered from Sep
TENDER at New York by the producing
companies.
There are more boats now running on
the Missouri river than at any time dur
ing the last ten years, and every one of
them is making money.
More than 5000 clerks, salespeople,
Transfers, porters, janitors and other
wage earners are out of work because of
the recent big fire in Chicago.
The drought in the Lower Rio Grande
has put all the ranchmen in debt, and
the great scarcity of money is causing
the sacrifice Of cattle and sheep.
According to the recently published
statistics there is one pauper to every
643 inhabitants in this country and one
to every thirty-eight in England.
James Phelan of San Francisco has
sold the historic Stevens House, q to q
Broadway, New York, to w. II. Mairs of
Brooklyn for 81 ,0O0, 00O-partly in cash
and partly in Harlem property.
An estimate received by the Bureau of
American Republics places the value of
wool which will be available for ship
ment to Europe in October and Novem-
Der for the Argentine Republic at $780,
100000.
Charles S. Wolfe, who was elected
Executive Commissioner of the Worlds
Fair bv the PENNSYLVANIA State Commits
sioners, dropped dead within an hour
and half after his election from heart
| disease.
The new chinch- bug remedy by inocu-
lation discovered in Kansas has been
| tried with apparent success in Wisconsin,
some of the imported infected insects
causing the death of millions of the bugs
in wheat field.
|
| brew refugees sent out from New York
to homes in the country by the trustees
of the Baron Hirsch fund complain that
they are starving and have been swim
died and abused.
! The employees of the Union Pacific
having entered into a contract previous
to the passage of the eight-hour law in
Nebraska and the contract still being in
force, they are not taking part in the
struggle to enforce the law
There has been a great deal of exag
geration regarding the dismissal of vet
Grams from the New York Customs
house. Out of eighty-three employees
dismissed only sixteen were veterans,
and of these three have already been re-
instated.
Postotfice Inspector Stuart at Chicago
is in receipt of many letters which show
that the National Capital Savings, Build
ing and Loan Association was even a
greater swindle than at first supposed.
Victims are being heard from all over
the country.
Owen Murphy, former Tammanv Of
fetal, who stole $50, 900 Of the funds of
New York city and fled to Canada in
1877, turns up as one of the principals
in the corrEF' dealings that have been
brought to light by Legislative commit
tee at Ottawa.
Cardinal Manning in letter just made
public denounces the employment of lot
teries and raflles at bazars for wOrAs of
}charity or religion. "The Lord s works.
he says, ought to be done in the Lords
own way; Christians must not encourage
! lower motives
After an investigation there appears
to be no real cause of complaint by the
| Russian Jews who are colonized in New
Jersey. They thought Baron Hirsch had
provided for them life of ease and that
money would pour into their pockets
when they reached America.
Amos Howard Fiske of South Franz
ingham, Mass, has been appointed chief
engineer of the Leland Stanford, Jr..
University. Otto Willweber, late man
ager of the Southern Pacific restaurant
at Sacramento, has been appointed stew
ard of the boarding hall OF the univer-
sity.
An irrigating ditch to run between
Yreka and Little Shasta is to be con-
structed at cost of about $500 900. The
flume will be twenty feet wide bv four
deep, and will not only irrigate thou
sands of acres, but also float lumber
from the Upper Klamath mills to the
railroad.
The successful run across the Atlantic
of the new whale backed" steamer c..
w. Wetmore, with the statement that
she was found less susceptible to the ac-
ton of winds and waves, less pitching
and rolling, than the ordinary type OF
vessel, has stimulated the designing OF
such vessels for the passenger trade, and
1t is understood that g Western marine
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