Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-01-17
VIEWS OF THE WEEK
An Epitome of the Happenings Of
Two Hemisphere.
What is Transporting at the Capital of
the United StateS-0ther Very
Interesting News.

Kansas reports her crops in a -four
shing condition.
Wheat in Central Kansas is said to be
good condition.
Floods are reported in the Upper Ohio
and tributary streams.
The New York Hebrew trades are
lighting prison labor.
C. 6. Houye, prominent citizen of
Amity City, La, was assassinated.
The Avenue Hotel at Corsicana, Tex,
was burned and four lives were lost.
La grippe is again prevalent at Pitts
burg, Penn, and threatens to become
an epidemic.
4 laborer lost himself in a sewer in
Minneapolis and wandered over three
miles before he could get out.
A strict quarantine is being held on
the border line with Mexico against
smallpox, which is raging there.
Eight Knox College students are I'M
NtI arrest tA NltltSbiIl =, III. lllS'N SlplC
and burned a stack of beer barrels.
President Morton has sold his
summer residence at Newport, r. |.
(Fairlawn), to Isaac Townsend Barden
of New York for $4,000.
An unknown conscience-stricken Phil
adelphia man, through the medium of
newspaper, pays over to the Register of
Wills the sum of 81 ,059.64.
During 1890 the Colorado mines pro-
duced $40, SSl 1884, divided as follows:
Silver, $40, 259, 906; gold, $4, 572, 1856; lead,
$4,749,S52 copper, $685. 4O.
Blind Tom, the cratic musical genius
OF Il decade ago, is driyeling away his
remaining months at private retreat
in st. Marks place, New York.
The schedule Of the Mckinley tariff
bill applying to cigars is said by New
York manufacturers to work to the BEN
eft of both maker and consumer.
Gold has been discovered nearDanville,
H., in the sands of the North Fork. 4
! company of Danville business men are
purchasing all the adjoining land.
The British Consul, Lyall, at Calves
ton, who got into controversy with the
State officials of Texas, has been ordered
by his government to vacate his Office.
A Justice and several constables have
been indicted at Des Moines, Iowa. for
conspiracy to defraud by arresting peo-
pie under the prohibitory laws for the
fees.
A deacon ola Lakewood, \. j., church
on a recent Sunday shot a coon that
! took possessession of a tree in his back
yard, and now the church wants to dis
cipline him.
Scott Thompson, a negro living near
Bay Brook, \. c., went to church, leav-
ing seven children at home. The house
in some manner took fire and the chill
dren were burned to death.
1t is rumored that the Treasury De
partment is preparing to augment the
revenue cutter fleet in Behring Sea for
the coming spring by seven vessels.
Each vessel will carry treble crew, so
that prizes can be manned.
Certain New York firms have been
trying good looking women as bill col
lectors. So far the scheme has been
unsuccessful. Three of the women mar
ried and four more are engaged.
DIR. Vance Of Cleveland indorses the
law that allows a railroad emplove to
sue for damages like passenger He
denounces the employment Of surgeons
for employees by railroad companies.
The drought still prevails in Central
illinois, The railroads run special
water-trains to supply their engines
The dry, freezing weather and the in
sects are destroying the wheat crop.
The Illinois Republican State Com
mittee will contest the right Of five
Democrats to sit in the Senate on account
of alleged ineligibility because of for
eign birth. TIE contest promises to be
very earnest.
Sampson Wallack has been convicted
at New York OF renting property for i'm
moral purposes, and sentenced to thirty
DAYS and fine of $500. This is the
work of the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children.
The family OF Benjamin Sours was
poisoned at Louray, Va, by eating
pumpkin pies, which are supposed to
have contained rat poison. Mr.. Sours
and one child have died, and the others
are dangerously i'll.
There was a riot at Catherine Station
on the Mobile 4 Birmingham Railroad
and it is reported that several people
were killed. The difficulty arose out of
factional fight. The colored postmas-
ter was ordered to leave town, which he
did.
Business failures occurring throuhout
the United States for 1890, as reported
by Dunn, are l0,907 in number, being
but TWENTY-FIVE greater than 1899. The
liabilities show a very large increase
over 1889, being $3.50 100000 as against
$14S, 000, 900, an increase of SAL 900, 900.
These are the largest liabilities since
1884, when they amounted to $226,
000,000.
A letter from Pine Ridge Agency de-
tails some hitherto unknown facts con-
corning the death of Captain Wallace at
Wounded Knee. He was found at the
entrance of an Indian lodge, with five
dead warriors lying near him, each
corpse showing bullet wound. Five of
the chambers of the Captains revolver
were empty, and it is presumed Wallace
killed five Indians before dying.
ALONG THE COAST.
Fresno proposes to have the saloons
close at IL O'Clock.