Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-10-30
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Business Circles and General
News of the Week.

The Bank of England is short of gold.
and during the past week nearly $4,000
600 worth of the yellow metal has been
called in.
A dispatch to the New York Herald
from Lima, Peru, says it is predicted the
senate will pass the gold standard, which
was recently approved by the chamber Of
deputies.
The sixth congressional district of Chi
cago democratic convention has nominal
ed Vincent H. Perkins to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Congressman
Cook.
George Westerman of New Madrid,
Mo-. aged so, shot his stepdaughter and
blew out his brains. He was suspected
of criminal intimacy with the girl, who
is about to become a mother
Mrs. Virginia B. Todd of New London,
Mo, has been found guilty of murder in
the second degree, she having killed her
l7-year-old daughter in 1895 while in a
fit of insane jealousy.
More than 600 horses have been entered
for the Chicago horse show, and it is ex-
pected the number will reach 1000 when
all entries have been heard from, many
coming in by mail.
State auditor Mathew, exAuditOr Hip
pie and Clerk Anderson of South Dakota
have been arrested on the charge of EN-
beZzlement and taken before Il commit
ting magistrate
The New York silk house of w. G..
Hitchcock & Co. has assigned to w. j.
Curtis, the liabilities exceeding a million,
and no cause being given. The firm was
the largest of the kind in New York.
The Robbers Roost gang of central and
southern Utah, composed of 40 or 80 muir
derers and desperadoes, has broken out
again, driven off horses in Wayne county
and taken refuge in the Henry mountains,
where the settlers dare not follow them.
1t will be unsafe to turn stock loose on
the winter ranges.
Theodore Krytka the handwriting ex-
pert of San Francisco, has received a re-
volver from Bergman, the Bavarian me-
chanic, that by pulling the trigger once
will shoot six shots in two seconds, throw
ing 32-calibre steel bullet with sufficient
velocity to pierce a siXinch hardwood
plank at 300 yards.
The exports of specie from the port of
New York for the week were $9l6,703 in
silver and $4,000 irAsold. The imports for
the week were Gold, $4,562, 84l; silver,
$96,236; dry goods and merchandise, 49,
5O3Ol7.
Three hundred and seventyfour out of
1872 private and state banks of Kansas
have made their report to Bank Commits
sioner j. w. Breidenthal and they have
verified his prophecy that the increase in
deposits would amount to 81 100000. This
is an increase over last year of 10 per
cent.
Preliminary steps have been taken t
form colossal combine of sewer pipe and
terra Gotta ware manufacturers of the
United States with capital of $ll ,0O0,-
600, to be controlled by eastern capital
lists.
The exact amount cleared by the Spo-
kane fruit fair was $l624.40, according to
a statement of the receipts and disburse-
ments made by Manager Bolster at a
meeting of the board of control. The fair
has also on hand lumber, hardware, bunt-
ing and supplies valued at about $500.
This property will be stored, to be made
use of for the 1898 fair.
j. Il. Cornforth, representing Denver
syndicate, is en- route to southeastern
Alaska, where, from some point, probably
Fort Wrangel, he proposes to establish a
daily express to Dawson City. The plan
likewise involves mail carrying, provided
the cooperation of both governments can
be secured.
The peace commissioners have adopted
eight articles of the permanent treaty
of peace between Greece and Turkey, but
difficulties have arisen in regard to the ar
ticle providing for special arrangements
to guard against abuse of consular anne
mites in cases where they would interfere
with the regular course OF justice.
Henry Georges canvass continues to be
the spectacular feature of the most re-
markable campaign New York has ever
witnessed. His army of speakers hold
hundreds of meetings in all parts of New
York every night, but Mr.. George is the
most effective advocate of his cause
preaching the crusade against poverty
with the zeal of Peter the Hermit.
Sixteen thousand rifles from Hong
Kong and Shanghai have been received
by the Philippine rebels on the west coast
of Luzon.
There were 1886 banks, having an ag-
gregate of 3O3,OH,5l4 yen, in Japan
at the end of September, an increase OF
"a banks and 4,474OO0 yen capital over
August.
There have been 60,537 sufferers from
dysentery throughout Japan since Sep
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