Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-08-07
PROGRESS OF EVENTS
ITEMS GATHERED FROM VARIOUS
PARTS OF TIE WORLD.
business Outlook, Personal Notes,
md tn News of Fires. Ac-
cidents, and So On.

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/ pounds and three ounces,
The last statement of the government
funds shows an available cash balance Of
j 1896, 500 ,5O4; gold reserve, $l43,3SO,9O3
The annual increase OF the German ma
ton during the last five years has been
more than five times as much as that OF
the French.
In a downtown barber shop in Phila-
lelphia is the sign in the shape of a
tombstone bearing the inscription;
"Whiskers dyed here"
The town hall of Ayr, Scotland, built
to accommodate 1000 persons, and con-
tanning large organ, was burned recent
ly, causing damage estimated at from
$4,000 to 10000 pounds
The United Kingdom has added to the
British Empire during these 60 years an
area of square miles of the land of the
earth equal to 81 times its own area.
A movement is on foot in Charleston,
to three years in the penitentiary by
the C. Y. X. r. station at Williamsport,
Md, to the Pittsburg market in three
days, ITO bushels of raspberries, weighing
10000 pounds. Mr.. Long employs 20
pickers.
The crops in a strip five miles wide and
30 long in Rock county, Mimi, have been
entirely destroyed by hail
Special Agent Morris of the general
land office has passed through Spokane
from Washington, d. c., for Okanogan
county, TO inspect the surveys of several
new townships that are about to be
thrown open for settlement.
Steamers were chartered Thursday to
load cargoes of grain at Philadelphia New
York, Baltimore and Newport News for
ports in the United Kingdom and Europe
making a days record, which it is claimed
has never been equalled. To fill these
vessels will require over 100000 bushels
of grain.
The British foreign office notified Am
bassador Hay this morning that Great
Britain accepted the proposition of the
United States for an international confer
ence ON the question of pelagaic sealing
in Boring sea, to be held in Washington
the coming autumn.
In an engagement at OAKLAND, South
Africa, the government troops defeated
the natives, the latter suffering a loss Of
300.
The Lakeview and Sunnyside Improve
ment Company of San Francisco has gone
into voluntary insolvency, with liabilities
SIS PAS assets, a plot in LakeyeW and an
interest in the dredger Atlas.
The bodies of George Tucker and w. T.
Harper, Arkansas young men, were found
near Seligman, Mo, the skulls of both
giving evidence that they were beaten to
death, the motive probably being robbery.
Two thousand pant makers in New
York, Brooklyn and Brownsville, L. l.,
have gone on a strike, believing they can
compel the factory owners to pay more
than $3.50 per week.
Sheriff O. c. Erickson of Crow Wing,
Mimi, took charge of Eugene Hutfsinger,
a Tillamook, Ore, rancher, indicted for
in Minnesota in 1896, lac
having killed a man in a fight
Claus Gustafson, an employee of the Red
Mountain railroad, was killed near
Northport by being thrown over cliff
200 feet, caused by the section car on
which he was riding jumping the track
1t was impossible to determine whether
deceased had any relatives or not, but lit
tie being known about him.
Clifford Porter, the we'll known turf
man, died at his farm near Lexington,
Ky.
The decree for the sale of the Union
Pacific railroad, as ordered by the United
States court, has been filed at Denver.
PhylloXera is ravaging the the vine
yard in Navarro province, Spain, and is
spreading throughout the central districts
of that country.
Mayor Strong of New York has an.
nounced the appointment of Colonel Geo.
Moore Smith of the SiXty-ninth regiment
TO succeed Colonel Fred Grant as police
commissioner
Edwin Flanagan, who has been on trial
at Atlanta, Ga, for the murder of Mrs
Allen and Miss Stack, has been found
guilty and sentenced to be hanged Aug
ust 5.
Dispatches from Berlin say the most
disastrous floods in centuries are occur
inc in Silipa 100 narsOns bniuo drov-nol
and the loss already amounting to many
millions OF marks.
\ hundred Cuban prisoners, recently
pardoned at Madrid, have arrived at
Gibraltar, en- route to New York. Span.
ish government organs believe the freed
will rejoin the injurgents.
AT meeting of the republican com.
mittee of Jasper county, Ga. resolutions
We're adopted denouncing the partialitv of