Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-09-04
EASTERN ITEMS.
Camel Coal Struck at
Bath, Maine.
WYOMING TAXES BACHELORS
Ontario Confscates Short Weight
Bread and Gives 1t to Chart
table Institutions.
WYOMING TAXES BACHELORS

the census.
A vein of camel coal has been struck
at Bath, Me.
The Peoples party in Kansas invites
penny contributions.
Mr.. Blaine thinks of improving his
property at Bar Harbor.
The Mayor of Philadelphia cannot be
elected to a second term.
The owners Of apartment houses in
Boston propose to organize.
Separate cars for blacks and whites in
Texas have proven failure.
The assessed valuation of real estate
in Pennsylvania is 1872, 300,S72.
The Wyoming Legislature has passed
law taxing bachelors 50 year.
General Butler is having some grim
enjoyment in reading his obituaries.
The Alliance speakers who are to
stump Ohio will live on the farmers. -
In Ontario short weight bread is con-
fiscated and given to charitable institu-
tiOns.
Doodle charges are now made in con-
nection with the harbor works at To-
rOnto.
Mr.. Wanamaker is thinking of intro
ducing pneumatic postal service in st.
Louis.
The Upper Mississippi is rapidly get
ting into an unsatisfactory low-water
condition.
Guatemala will probably reproduce at
the Chicago Fair one of the old palaces
in antique.
The Francklyn cottage, where Presi-
dent Garfield died, has been bought by
the Trustees.
The farmers near Terre Haute, Ind,
want the $l05 900 stallion Axtell assessed
at that figure instead OF 5000.
Connecticut is overrun with skunks
they even peregrinate into the cities and
cause many unpleasant incidents.
A cotton trust is forming in the South
the object being to save the present large
crop from being sacrificed to low prices
Canadian authorities have prohibited
the circulation through the mails of that
country of sixteen papers printed in
this country.
A leading hotel at Asbury Park, n. J.,
has been fined 500 for serving oleomar-
garine to its guests, who did not detect
the imposition.
Following the suggestion of General
Booth in ENGLAND, the Salvation Army
in this country is proposing to 90 about
the streets on bicycles.
The Prohibitionists of Nebraska have
placed Mrs. Ida NJ. Bittenbender. fe-
male lawyer of Lincoln, in the field for
Supreme Judge of the State.
A new dry dock is proposed for the
Brooklyn navy ward, to be 900 feet long
and 1916 feet wide, to be of wood and
concrete and to cost 100000.
The New York Press announces that
the old John Roach ship yard has re-
ceived the contract for an S.000-tOn mail
steamer from the Pacific Mail Company.
Premier Abbott says the scandals I'M
earthed by the investigations at Ottawa
are very serious, but he adds the govern
ment proposes to punish the guilty par
| ties.
The citizens of Stevens county, Kan.
/ in which the county-seat question has
caused some bloodshed, want an investi-
cation of the finances by State author
tiles.
Boston has good evidence of the large
ness OF the peach crop. The TRANSCRIPT
/ says that already the Hub has received
more Of the fruit than it sometimes gets
iii an entire season.
A glut in the New York lemon market
has been brought on by immense impor-
tations. 4 week ago there were in port
three steamers with $1,000 boxes Oh
board, with no sale for any OF them.
More than 400 married women have
applied to the Bureau of Charities and
! Correction in New York since January |
for relief for themselves and children.
having been deserted by their husbands.
The POstotiice Department has decided
that postal cards, the edges of which
have been cut and the shape Of the card
materially changed for advertising pur-
/ poses, cannot be sent through the mails.
The Morgan line of steamers plying
| between Galveston and New York has
been taken off and business concentrated
at New Orleans. The commercial inter
ests OF Galveston will be somewhat in
! jured.
1t is estimated by the american 4qri-
culturist that the farm products in the
! United States this year will be worth
81 900, 100000 more than they brought
| during any of the recent seasons of de-
| preston.
General Russell A. Alger says he did
not state that Mr.. Blaine had told him
that he (Blaine) would be candidate
for the Presidency. The dispatch giving
General Alger credit for the statement
was untrue.
Judge Seagle Of Allegheny, Pa, de-
cides that, although navigable rivers are
in general the property Of the Federal
government, city lying along either
bank has police jurisdiction to the cen
ter OF the stream.
1t is said Claus Spreckels is to be pros
ecuted for engaging Austrians TO come "a
this country under contract to work in
his refineries. Two Of the men reached
New York last week, and are to be re-
turned to their country.
Indian lands in the Indian Territory
purchased during the past wear by the
government will be opened to settlement
by proclamation by the President Sen
tember 10. The knowledge of this fact
has attracted many boomers already.
A New Orleans dispatch saws. The
Texas Farmers Alliance is responsible
for the injury to the trade OF Galveston
The Texas Railroad Commission, which
has fixed cotton rates, and the Texas
alien land are both the work of the ALI
ance, and both are showing their hurtiul
effects.
The Kelley cure for drunkenness made
famous by, the publicity given it bv Ed
itor Medill OF Chicago is not an unmivad
blessing. 1t is claimed that bicbIorida
Of gold. which is the remedy, not only
removes the taste for liquor, but dn pil1a
the period OF active treatment paralvzes
the memory. Patients. thew say $3.50 nef
the names OF their friends and their own w.,