Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-08-07
EASTERN ITEMS.
The Boston Nationalist
Issue an Address.
A BIG SURPLUS OF WHISKY.
Census Office Report Shows the United
States is the Largest Producer
of Copper in the World.

Chicago will erect a twenty-five story
building.
Texas negroes will exhibit at the
Worlds Fair.
Denver capitalists have secured the
principal tin mines in Colorado.
The Customs Collector at New York
has been ordered to cut down expenses
$50, $50.
There were $4,000 watermelons re-
ceived in Chicago from Georgia one day
last week.
Boston Nationalists have issued an
address calling on the city to run the
street cars.
The President has nominated Henry
f. Nichols to be a Commander in the
United States navy.
Prominent Haytians at New York say
revolution against Hyppolite is bound
to come at an early day.
The official investigation at Ottawa is
bringing to light an astounding amount
OF rascality in the public offices.
Chicago's postal recei pts last year were
$3,504, 1906 and expenses 81 ,2S5, OPS. 81,
leaving an income of s2,2l9, 702.32.
Mrs. Samuel Mather of Cleveland has
given $4,000 to the WOman's College of
Western Reserve University at that city.
Cleveland says he has not the slightest
intention to take the stump in Ohio this
fall, and he has never intimated he
would do so.
Princeton College intends sending an
expedition this month to "a region in
Montana never before explored" to
search for fossil remains.
By decision in the United States Cir
cult Court at New York the Brush Flee
trio Company has secured a monopoly of
the storage battery industry.
The testimony before the Privileges
and Elections Committee at Ottawa con-
tinues to show fraud and bribery in Sc
curing government contracts.
1t is gravely declared at Buzzard's Bay,
Mass, where Edwin Booth has been
lately, that the great actor is dying from
the effects of too much smoking.
Kentucky whiskymen are again wor-
ried over the big surplus of their com
w.
900 taxes will come due next fall.
The striking plush weavers at Dob
sons mills in Philadelphia after ten
weeks of idleness have agreed to return
to work. There are about 400 of them.
Bank Examiner Drew is endeavoring
to convince the Secretary of the Treas
urv that he did not neglect his duty in
the case of the Keystone bank at Phila-
delphia.
Senator Chandler OF New Hampshire
in a six-column article in a Concord
journal makes bitter attack upon Sen
ator Gallinger, whom he charges with
having sold himself to the railroads.
DR.. Henry T. Hembold, the famous
buchu man, who was credited with hay
ing piled up fortune of $4,000, 900 by
the sale of his patent medicines, is once
more in a madhOuse, chained at the
wrists and with shackles on his ankles.
There has just been cast at the armor-
plate mill of Carnegie, Phillips & Co at
Homestead, Pa, an armor ingot eighty
inches wide and twentv-three inches
thick, weighing 81, 900 pounds-the larg-
est armor-plate ingot rolled in this
country.
According to new law in Texas for
eigners are not permitted to own land in
fee simple; but it has been estimated
that the Texas farmers have borrowed
in foreign countries not less than S45,-
00O,0 which is Represented in mort
cages upon their lands.
The Bureau of American Republics is
| informed that an association called the
American Colored Mems Mexican Colo
nizatiOn Company is preparing to estab-
lished a colony OF negro farmers. coming
chiefly from Mississippi and Tennessee.
in the State of Sonora, Mexico.
During a trial at Findlay, O.. it was
brought out in evidence that Peter :.
Williams, widely known throughout
Northwestern Ohio as a big lumber
dealer, was reading dual life, and that
he was keeping up two establishments
one in Findlay and the other in Fostoria.
only fifteen miles away.
The Forest heavy ordnance twelve
inch rifle gun, designed for coast defense
and made in New York, was fired for the
first time the other day at Sandy Hook
with satisfactory results. With $50
pounds of powder it hurled 1000
pound shot five miles. The gun will use
440 pounds of powder and throw a 1000
pound shot twelve miles
In New York city the expert female
shOplifter wears trick skirt under her
gown, and can draw it up by means of a
string so as to make a sack large enough
TO hold half bushel of small articles
If fearful Of being caught in the act or
apprehensive OF search, she can step
into dark corner, drop the string and
unload her plumber safely.
The Missouri river is cutting its banks
at a point known as Belmont Bend. and
there are fears that the town of Elm
wood, opposite st. Joseph, and a terri
tory OF about six square miles of farming
country will be submerged and the
bridge and railroad tracks rendered use
less.
There seems to be much doubt among
Alliance leaders of the feasibility of the
plan to hold wheat for the purpose of
raising prices. The general manager OF
the Alliance and Reform Press Associa-
ton at New York says he es not be-
lieve intelligent farmers can be caught
with such chatf.
The East street reaper works at Spring
field, o., the largest agricultural imple-
nlcHt "OIhS III tlle "oIlu, covering 1OrtY-
six acres and ranking next in size to the
Krupp gun works in Prussia, has been
sold to a syndicate of prominent capital-
lists OF Cleveland, Chicago and New York
to be used for the manufacture of rail
way ears and supplies of all kinds. The
works cost 81, 500, 900, and were pur-
chased by the syndicate for 100000.
The census-office report shows the
United States to be the largest producer
of copper in the world, its product for
the year 1889 being 226, 055, 1862 pounds.
or ll3, 02S short tons. The total expend-
itures involved in this production were
900 oDI