Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-07-17
The Total Coinage of the
Minis During June.
ILLINOIS MINES SHUT DOWN.
A United States Judge Renders De-
cision Adverse to the Cherokee
Title to the Strip.

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A pearl-button factory has begun ope-
ratiOns at Muscatine, la.
The total coinage of the minis during
June amounted to 81, 500, 1850.
Prof. lie Baron Russell Briggs has as
sumed his duties at Harvard College.
Illinois has passed law prohibiting
the employment Of children under 13.
Chicago talks of erecting a theater
into which only people in full dress can
go.
Sidewalk distractions promise to be
made the subject of vigorous fight at
Chicago.
A company to establish labvrinths as
a form of amusement is to be formed in
the East.
The constitutionality of Missouri's
new anti-pool-rOom law is to be tested at
st. Louis.
A new association in Kansas is ar
ranging to fight foreclosures of farm
mortgages.
Allotment of lands to the Iowa Indi-
ans in Oklahoma Territory has been
completed.
There is no truth in the rumor that
yellow fever has made its appearance at
Brunswick, Ga.
Chicago is to have another electric
railway, and one of its present suburban
lines is to be extended.
Railroad building for the first half of
1891 falls slightly short of that for the
corresponding period of 1896.
According to the last census Alabama
has taken Pennsylvania place as leader
! in the annual output of iron ore.
Hurrah for the new flag with forty
four stars, each star the symbol of peace,
prosperity and liberty among self-gov-
erning people.
The opposition papers in Canada say
that President Van Horne of the Cana
dian Pacific is practically the ruler OF
the Dominion.
The officials of the Worlds Fair have
given the Illinois Central railroad a mo-
nopoly of carrying people to the Expo
sition grounds.
BY a decision of the Supreme Court of
| Texas the State will recover title to over
| 100000 acres of land improperly pat
ented to railroad companies.
The gas company of Cincinnati has
constructed the second largest gas holdr
in the United States. 1t has a capacity
Of 100000 cubic feet Of gas.
The annual report of the Eastern Pen
| itentiary of Pennsylvania shows that
last year siXty-eight criminals sent to
that institution had relatives there.
Tie Consolidated coal fni1res in the
Collinsville coal district of Illinois have
closed down, and between 300 and 400
miners are thrown out of employment.
| The finding of a lump of metal sup
posed to be gold on the farm of John A.
Wright near huntsville, Ind, has caused
considerable excitement in the neigh Dor
! hood.
In Difference to the prohibitionists of
Maine the government has ordered that
liquor seized in the State for violation OF
the revenue laws shall be taken to Bos-
| ton for sale.
1t will cost $9,478,547 to run the CITY
of Brook yn during 1892 This is at the
rate Of $ll for every man, woman and
child i'll the city. The rate in San Fran
cisco is over $25.
Extensive deposits of onyx have been
discovered near Marion, Smyth county,
Va. Four openings are reported to have
been made so far. The stone is said to
be of excellent quality.
United States District Judge Seay has
rendered decision adverse to the Cher
okee title of the Strip, which, if eventu-
ally sustained, virtually extinguishes all
rights OF the CherOkees to those lands.
Negro exhibitors are to have 25,OOO
square feet of space at the Southern Ex-
position soon to open at Raleigh, n. c.,
in which to make manifest somewhat of
the races progress during the last TWEEN
ty-tive years.
1t is stated upon good authority, and
1t is currently believed in naval circles
at Washington, that Secretary Tracy
will soon apply civil-service rules also to
the mechanics; in short, to all persons
employed in the navy yards.
The big dam on the HousatOnic river
in Connecticut, which was swept away
by freshet in January last, is being re-
placed by new structure $50 feet long,
p feet high and slightly curved in plan.
The cost will be about 100000.
The Bank of Commerce of Sheffield,
Ala, has closed its doors, having as
signed. The failure was caused by that
of Moses Bros bank in Montgomery,
the two institutions being closely allied.
Assets and liabilities are unknown.
The bill passed by Congress provides
that the buildings erected at Chicago
for the Worlds Columbian Exposition
shall be formally dedicated October y,
1892, and that the exposition itself shall
be opened not later than May l, 1898.
The prohibitionists will be sorry to
learn that in Iowa, Notwithstanding the
strict prohibitOry law, the sales of beer
for the twelve months ended with April
80 amounted to 105, 943 barrels, gain of
1857 barrels over the previous twelve
months.
William Lane Booker, the Consul Gen
eral of Great Britain at the city of New
York, has submitted trade report to
his government. Mr.. Booker is enthusi-
astic over the general prosperity" of
manufacturers in America, and speaks
glowingly of the "great benefit" of the
influences of the new and higher duties.
A New York paper figures out that
the net result of naturalization in the
last decade has been to add los 900 ~
its voting population, made up of A.. AZ ,
Germans and German Poles, %, 266 Irish
1884 Russians and Austrians. 56N3
English and Scotch, 4,725 Italians tbo
balance being credited to other nations
than those mentioned.
w. E. Sims, Consul at Colon. saws ba
hopes the migration of laborers from
the United States to Central and South
America can be checked, as there is no
room for them and death alone awaits
them. The wages per day are so cents
in Columbian money (35 cents gold), and
Americans cannot live on it; beside, not
being acclimated, they cannot do the re-
quired labor.