Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-06-19
EASTERN ITEMS.
Dr.. Brooks Appointment
as Bishop Confirmed.
CALL IS ELECTED SENATOR.
The Government VIII Cooperate With
the British Authorities in the
Behring Sea Matter.
CALL IS ELECTED SENATOR.

The Worlds Fair will have an electric
house.
Fifty Tennessee farmers will settle in
Nevada.
St. Paul women have begun an anti
Sunday theater crusade.
A new tunnel between Detroit and
Canada will be s, 433 feet long.
The Commercial Gable Company has
declared dividend of IA per cent.
The Councils of Kansas City say the
companies must reduce the price of light.
The election of Senator Call is consid-
cred a defeat of the Alliance men in
| Florida.
A New York Judge has decided in an
interesting suit at Utica that truth is
not libel.
The penny -the-slot weighing ma
chimes have been removed from Central
Park, New York.
Would-be settlers are picking out
choice spots in the Sac and Fox lands
soon to be opened.
The students of Harvard and Yale
were recently relieved Of $4,000 by a
pair of card sharks.
The New York Continent is to become
the Morning Adrertiser, and will be is
sued as a one-cent paper.
The Massachusetts House has rejected
the bill making eight hours days work
for State and city employees.
The Illinois Senate has voted q to q
to lay on the table the bill to extend
municipal suffrage to women.
A granite sarcophagus for the remains
of the late p. 7. Barnum is approaching
completion at West Concord, N. II.
A corps of wheelmen is to be organ
lied at Brooklyn, n. Y, as part of the
Thirteenth Regiment of State troops.
The strike on the Midland Ind. rail-
way is at an end, and the company has
paid all its back debts to the strikers.
The effort to make tobacco a staple
crop in Florida is being continued on
large acreage and with apparent sue
cess"
The late John T. Parish of New York
city left the liberal sum of $3.50, 900 to
various religious and charitable organi-
cations.
Acting Secretary of the Interior Chan
dler says, if the Kaweah colonists are to
be reimbursed, it must be by special
act of Congress.
Mad dogs are so numerous in Georgia
that the Legislature will be urgently
pressed to legislate concerning dogs at
the next session.
The American Nurserymen's Associa-
ton at Minneapolis has strongly pro-
tested against Maxwell's confirmation
as chief of the horticultural exhibits at
the Worlds Fair.
The Directors of the Union Theolog-
zeal Seminary have declined to accede to
the veto of the Presbyterian General
Assembly, and DR.. Briggs will continue
his work at the seminary.
A trade organization has been effected
among the Southern plaid mills to obtain
a uniform standard of production and
better representation of the Southern
plaids in the markets of the world.
Governor Pattison of Pennsylvania has
to consider 263 bills passed by the re-
Gently adjourned Legislature, which he
must approve, veto or allow to become
laws by failure either to approve or veto.
Augustus st. Gaudeus of New York,
Henry Mitchell of Boston and Charles
E. Barber of Philadelphia have been APP
pointed by the Secretary of the Treas
ury to select the designs for the new sill
yer coins.
The whisky trust has at last acquired
outright the only remaining important
antitrust establishment in the West
the great Chicago distilleries owned bv
Shufeldt & Co. and the Calumet Distill-
ing Company.
The new postal cards will be along
soon. There will be a size for ladies'
use and one for business men, the former
smaller and the latter larger than the
card now in vogue. Grants portrait
constitutes the stamp.
The Treasury Department has under a
recent decision of the Attorney General
converted the seignorage accruing from
the coinage of silver dollars into stand
ard dollars, and is now issuing silver
certificates against them.
The President has appointed Edward
P. Thompson postmaster at indianapolis,
Ind, vice Wallace deceased, and ex-Con-
gresham Owen of Indiana Superintend-
ent of Emigration, an office created at
the last session of Congress.
Major-General John NJ. Schofield, SEN
Tor officer of the United States army. it
is stated, is soon to be married to Miss
Georgia n. Kilbourne of Keokuk, La.
The young lady was a schoolmate of
General Schofed's daughter.
A bright old lady of New York has
suggested that the managers of the
Worlds Fair as matter of national
pride, as we'll as for the establishment of
foreign visitors, should make collection
of Americans over 100 years old.
The letter carriers of St. Louis propose
to fight the rule which prevents them
from holding picnic, because in doing
so they come under the order which for
bids them selling tickets for fairs. etc.
or to solicit money contributions.
According to the official report of the
New Hampshire Secretary Of Agricult-
ure, Mr.. Batchelder, more than half of
the l 300 farms which were reported a
year ago as abandoned in that State
have been disposed of to parties who will
use them as summer homes.
! 1t is alleged that a syndicate has been
| formed to break the Stewart will, and
that the syndicate has been selling stock
at the rate of 81 800 for every $50, 900
that may be recovered by the claimants
| if the will is broken-that is, for every
81 500 put up by the spectators $4,000
will come back to them if the will is
| broken.
1t is inferred at Washington that the
government will thoroughly cooperate
with the British authorities in the set
Element of the Behring Sea question.
Two officers are on their way to the Cor
win with instructions, and that vessel
will sail for the North on their arrival.
DIR. Phillips Brooks has had his APP
pointment as Bishop of Massachusetts
confirmed by majority OF the dioceses.
ALI that now remains to be done is for