Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-06-19
MISCELLANEOUS.
Portuguese Immigrants Begin to Arrive
in New York in Large Numbers.

Portuguese Immigrants DoSih W
in New York in Large Numbers.
A Mackav syndicate has bought the
Mobile and Ohio railroad.
Four thousand one hundred Italians
landed in New York in one day last week.
New Workers are happy because they
can walk over Brooklyn bridge and not
pay.
Jewish immigrants are arriving at the
port OF New York at the rate of 10000
annually.
The school children of Texas will help
to raise funds for the State exhibit at
the Worlds Fair.
The condition of winter wheat through
out Pennsylvania is more promising than
in any year since 1880.
A Jewish colony has just been estab-
lished among the Yankees OF Connecticut
in the town of M0ntville.
1t is stated that the Louisiana planters
will ask for bounties under the McKin-
ley bill aggregating $l0,0O0,0)0.
A theater for colored actors will prob
ably soon be erected in Philadelphia. 1t
will be the only playhouse of the kind
in America.
Portuguese immigrants have begun to
arrive in considerable numbers, many of
them bound for the wine-growing dis
tricts of California.
Steps have been taken to have for
feited the bond of $250,000 of the New
York Electrical Subway Company for
noncompliance with its contract.
An agent of the Standard Oil Com
pany is reported to be in Springfield
urging the Senate to reconsider the vote
by which the antitrust bill was passed.
Work begins in September on the
bridge over the Hudson river between
New York and the Jersey shore. The
work is to be completed in two years and
half.
The vote of the pupils in New York
citv's public schools for a estate flower"
shows a majority of about II 900 for the
golden rod over the rose in a total poll of
144,562.
The Presidents of the various gas COM
panies in Brooklyn a few days ago
decided to reduce the price of gas tenn
porarily from $3.50 per 600 cubic feet
to 1925.
The statistics show that about 5000
Americans sail every week for Europe.
The American tourists were never thicker
all over the Continent than they will be
this year.
Railroads are being rapidly pushed
forward in Costa Rica, and commerce is
developing. More than One-third of the
foreign trade of the country is with the
United States.
Land companies are budding out along
the Palisades of the Hudson. the ulti-
mate prosperity of which depends upon
the long promised railway from Wee
hawken becoming reality.
The agent of Russian emigration So
ciety has, it IS said, bought 10000 acres
of land in North Carolina, eighty miles
| east OF Asheville, on which 900 Jewish
families are to be colonized.
The victory Of the single trolley svs-
tenn in the Ohio Supreme Court was
based on the ground that the telephone
companies have no exclusive right 10 the
earth for return circuit purposes.
Under the act of the last Legislature
Philadelphia is to elect one Councilman
for each 1000 registered voters instead
of one for each 1000 as heretofore. The
present Council has 1I5 members.
The Florida orange crop during the
| season Just closed was about | 1000, 900
| boxes heavier than was estimated. The
yield was figured at 900, 900 boxes,
whereas it was fully 100000 boxes.
A worlds fair in commemoration of
the 40)th anniversary of the discovery
OF America, will be opened at Rio de
! Ja 6 ~
lillian government in November, 1892.
The Washington government has no.
| tilted all its agents at the seal islands bv
the steamer Rush to stop the killing Of
seals by the North American CONNER
cial Company when it has taken $500.
A tremendous impulse was given to
the pearl button industry in this coun-
try by the Mckinley bill. European
manufacturers are now attempting to
evade the law by a subterfuge which is
likely to be checked.
1t is estimated that at least $50. COO 600
OF the governments paper money sup
posed to be in circulation has been lost
or destroyed. By the sinking of a vessel
on the Atlantic Coast some years ago
$l,OOO,O 900 in greenbacks were lost.
The Michigan Legislature passed a bill
appropriating $4,000 for the entertain
ment OF the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie, which Governor Winans vetoed on
the ground that it is unjust to tax the
people OF the State for the pleasure of
individuals
The general belief is that the Reformed
Pres byterians will sustain the action of
the Pittsburg Presbytery and a number
OF bright, liberal-minded young ministers
will be expelled. There seems no doubt
either that the expulsion will be followed
by split in the church.
The President has replied to the letter
OF Mayor Stuart of Philadelphia in ref
eerence to the Keystone Bank. He saws
he will facilitate a thorough inyestioa.
ton OF the affairs of the bank to the fnIl
extent OF his power and will see that anv
othcer OF the government found guilty
OF wrong doing in that connection Is
held to strict accountability for his ac.
tons. az