Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-09-04
MISCELLANEOUS.
Electric Railways Continue to Multiply
With Surprising Rapidity.

1D6r6 were $500 u6dJIS III DOSIOIl Clllo
year up to August l.
The opening of the new electrician
lines in Boston before snow flies is prom
Used.
Three of the Georgia train robbers
have been captured and all but 81 800 of
| the money recovered.
Prairie fires have been started by
homeseekers to drive off cattlemen and
herds on the Cherokee Strip.
The Patriotic Order of the Sons Of
America in session at Philadelphia are
wrestling with the color question.
Fully 100000 feet of lumber are re-
ported to have been stolen by Canadians
| from American forests in the last three
years.
Mrs. Jackson, widow of the famous
Confederate leader, asks for a pension
on account of her husbands services in
the Mexican war.
1t is announced that President MOffat
OF the Denver and Rio Grande railway
| has forwarded his resignation to the
Board of Directors at New York.
British Columbia sealers have sent
protest in the shape of memorial
against the prohibition OF seal-hunting
in the Behring Sea to the authorities at
! Ottawa.
Queen Victoria has telegraphed her
coincidence to the President on the death
of Mr.. Lowell, and this is said to be the
first time England has so conspicuously
recognized an American man of letters.
| Electric railways continue to multiply
with surprising rapidity. An estimate
published in the Rdil,rdy Age gives 400
| lines now in operation and under con
tract. representing $3.50 miles, with
| 5000 cars.
The Kansas State Board of Railroad
| Commissioners have addressed a letter
to the Manager of the Union Pacific
railroad, informing him that the entire
line of the Kansas Central railroad must
be rebuilt without delay with a new
! steel track.
! twenty-five locomotives on the Balti-
more and Ohio road have been equipped
with smoke consumers, an invention oil
the superintendent of the motive power
on the Baltimore and Ohio, which is said
to be showing excellent results so far as
it has been tested.
The Hudson River Tunnel Company
is reported to have notified railway com
panies having terminals in New York
that the first track of the tunnel will he
completed within few months, and the
tunnel company is ready to negotiate
with them for bringing trains to New
York.
The c'ttle disease which broke out in
and around Emmetts burg, Ia, about five
weeks ago still continues undated,
and veterinarians there are at a loss to
find either name, cause or remedy for
the malady. So far nearly 100 head have
died, and they are still dying at the rate
of four or five day.
Although cars have been generally dis
trbuted by the railroads in Illinois, but
very little wheat is flowing eastward
from that State. Alliance leaders at
tribute this to the circular sent out from
| Washington advising the farmers to hold
their grain. In the southern part of the
State, where the WELD was the greatest,
only enough wheat has been threshed
and sold to pay pressing debts. while the
bulk of it has been put in storehouses to
await higher prices.
At recent session of the National
Brewers Association held at St. Louis
the report of the committee on griev-
ances was to the effect that the mem bers
of the local unions of the Pacific Coast
should Join the National branches tof
of the order in San Francisco and Port
land without initiation fee, bnt paying
the pro-rata tax from the date of admis-
sion. The President Of the American
Federation of Labor and the Executive
| Committee of that body were censured
f failing to carry out the instructions
given at the meeting in Detroit in De-
cember last to settle the troubles be-
tween the Pacific Slope and the National
organization.
Francis Scott OF California and Charles
II. and Frank l.. Cranp, the ship bnild-
crs, have just returned from Europe,
where they have been inspecting. G.. H.
Cramp said: 81 do not think the new
subsidy bill will help American ship
builders to any great extent. 1t is too
narrow in its scope. The bill as Origi-
nally drawn might have assisted Ameri
can builders, but the bill as passed does
not mean much to benefit them. Ship
builders in England do not seem to think
the new subsidy bill worth their while
troubling about. Builders are rather
premature in talking about ships which
will cross the Atlantic from harbOr to
harbor in five days. do not think that
we can look for over twenty knots an
hour for the next ten years. The average
speed now is hardly nineteen. [ do not
think that the ocean express service, il
it ever comes, will mean large boats
This means simply question of crowd
ing all but frst-class passengers off these
fast vessels to make room for bigger en-
gines and more coal"