Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-10-23
EASTERN ITEMS.
KioWa Wants Its Female
Mayor to Resign.
ARKANSAS C0L0RED PEOPLE
Emigrating to 0klahoma-The Case
Against Detective 0'Malley
at New Orleans.
ARKANSAS COLORED PEOPLE


established in every county in Kansas.
The New York Central railroad will
| help to enforce the alien contract labor
law.
The Buffalo Board of Health has de-
clared the Barber asphalt works nui-
sance.
At Davenport, Ia, the water in the
Mississippi river is lower than it has
been since 1864.
Saratoga, n. Y, and Hartford, Dan
bury and Norwalk, Conn, are in great
danger of a water famine.
Southern cities are running themselves
into debt head over heels to get improve
ments in the way of water, gas and cleo
trio lights.
King Bird, a negro convict in the
Frankfort penitentiary, deliberately am
putated his arm in order that he might
escape hard work.
The Boston Park Commissioners are
being urged to take steps to preserve
what is left of the earthwork foItifca-
ton on Bunker Hill.
A $1,OOO,O00 building is to ! e erected
in Chicago on the southeast corner OF
Washington and State streets to the
memory of Columbus.
An English syndicate, Which paid
100000 tor Baltimore beer brewery
$780, 900 in CASH has offered to sell it
back for $3.50 cash.
| A Pullman sleeping car conductor has
been arrested at Shreveport, La, for vi
olating the law by permitting a colored
passenger to ride on his car.
Several hundred Pittsburg people stood
in line for hours, jostling and pushing,
for the singular honor of tuying the first
stamp sold in the new postoffice.
Negroes are leaving Arkansas by the
| carload for the newly-opened lands in
Oklahoma, and farmers expect trouble
getting help to handle their crops.
The cotton worm is creating great de-
vastation in many counties in Missis-
sippi. One field of twenty-five acres
has been entirely stripped of its leaves.
Another claimant to the estate of A.
I. Stewart, the dry goods millionaire of
New York, bobs up in Australia. His
name is Hunter, and he claims to be
first cousin.
Dallas, Tex, is organizing a scheme
for supply plant which will furnish the
5000 members of the association with
all the beef, live and dressed, that they
may require.
Prof. Lee Of the Bowdoin College ex-
petition to Labrador says that the du-
| plicates of the valuable relics secured by
| the explorers will be sent to the Worlds
Fair at Chicago.
The Mexican government has just
granted a concession for a standard
gauge railway about 500 miles from the
| City of Mexico to a town on the Pacific
Coast at PaIizada Bay.
The Canadian government has notified
the steamship companies that it Will
hold them responsible for the mainte-
nance of any destitute Russian Jews
who may land in Canada.
The examination of President Dill of
the defunct Clearfield and Houtzdale
| (Pa.) Savings Banks is now in progress,
and facts showing he is guilty of embez-
zllng large sums are coming to light.
Members of the Boston Fruit and Pro-
duce EXCHANGE will leave Boston in Feb
ruary for trip to the Pacific Coast. The
party will be gone a month, and will be
taken charge of by Raymond & Whit
comb.
During the past week about forty men
have been discharged from the employ
of the Wagner Palace Car Company at
East Buffalo, N. Y, because they we're
members of an organization of An
archists.
At New Orleans the case against De-
tective O'Malley has been nolle pressed
lOMalley was indicted on a charge of
bribing the jury which acquitted the
Italians accused of assassinating Chief
OF Police Hennessy.
As matter of general convenience
the Secretary Of the Treasury has de-
clded that employees Of the Treasury De-
partment may receive their salaries in
weekly installments, instead of only
semi-monthly as at present.
G. A. Spreckels, Rudolph Spreckels
j. Uhler, Charles Watson, William O
Hampstead and Louis Spreckels will
make application at PHILADELPHIA next
month for charter for a corporation to
be known as the Spreckels Steamship
Company.
The total school enrolment for the
United States on July |, this wear. was
about Il, 220, 900. The total pubIic-schoo
enrolment, including about ga, 900 in
universities, etc, was 1878 900; in pri-
private and parochial schools not far
from 100000 each.
DR.. Dorchester, the Superintendent Of
Indian Schools, in giving his estimate of
the progress in outstanding the In
dams in the DakOtas saws from the
church authorities he learns that the
Roman Catholic Church Indian popula-
ton IN those States is 4,74O, while
from 10000 to II 900 are of other denom-
nations.
All the sisters who belong to the COM
munity at New York known as the Fran
cIscan Sisters OF st. Mary in Archbishop
Corrlgan's diocese have laid aside their
wells and habit, which many of them
had worn for six years, and resumed the
ordinary dress of womankind. 1t is not
generally known why the organization
disbanded.
A confidence man has lust been ar
rested at Madison, Wis. He was travel
ing under the name of Miller, but he
mas aliases of George w. Post, George
w. Stone, George w. Hill, w. ii. Baker
and w. &. Baker. He is charged at AL
hany, n. Y, with robbing millionaire
named Peck of $4,000 by confidence
methods short time ago.
The people of Kiowa, Kan, who chose
woman for Mayor last spring, now
want her to resign. A petition ASKING
her to do SO has beer signed by every
man in town, her husbands name head
ing the list. is said the husband has
not been home since he put his name to
the petition.
An old cannon, which was used by the
cit zens OF San Domingo $50 years AGO to
keen Don Diego Colon the son Of O.