Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-09-24

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Gov. Johnston OF Alabama has removed
the state yellow fever quarantine against
New Orleans.
Mrs. Mary Mazique, who died recently
in Little Rock, Ark, at one time weighed
over 700 pounds.
The first snow storm of the season was
reported from Denver, in the eastern pat
of Colorado, Saturday.
The National w. c. T. L. has asked
Miss Letter of Chicago to christen the
battleship Illinois with water.
Capt. Jewell, of the cruiser Minneapolis,
has been presented with a handsome
sword by the members of his crew.
Ii Hung Changes dismissal from the
Chinese foreign Office does not diyest him
entirely of his official powers.
While giving a performance at Chicago
Edward NJ. Fash, tight-rope walker,
fell 60 feet and was fatally injured
1t is understood that Spain will ask
the peace conference for the privilege Of
retaining a part of the Philippines.
Senator Thurston of Nebraska in
speech at Cincinnati, warmly opposed the
annexation of Cuba and the Philippines.
SO far 275,0OO bushels of peaches have
been shipped from Madison, Ind, this
season, for which the shippers received
100000
A perfect model of the battleship
Maine, cut from block of anthracite
coal, by patriotic miner, is on eXhi-
bition at Hazleton, Pa.
Gen. Gomez, in letter to Senior Palma,
says that the Americans have been cold
and dry" but that they are the bene-
factors of Cuba.
The daughter of President Faure, of
France, recently expressed herself pub
licly in favor of revision of the Dreyfus
court-martial.
Contracts are to be given out by the
government within a week for the con-
struction of % torpedo boats for the
navy.
The memorial monument to Lafayette
to be erected by Americans at the Paris
exposition will be unveiled on United
States day, July 4.
A delegation of prominent Philippine
natives, appointed by Aguinaldo, is on its
way to Washington to confer with Presi-
dent Mckinley.
No new legislation will be required to
authorize the payment of pensions to the
soldiers who were disabled i'll the war
with Spain, and the widows and minor
children of those who died from wounds
or disease.
A Washington dispatch says $4,000
volunteers will be needed in Cuba, Porto
Rico and the Philippines, with the nee
essary reserve regiments in this country.
October ID about 10000 troops will be
sent to Cuba.
Miss Rebecca Moore of Monroe valley,
the oldest person in Lebanon county, Pa,
is dead, aged 80 years and months. In
her long lifetime she is said to have as
sisted in preparing over 700 bodies for
burial.
Brig Gen John X. Miner, United
States army, retired, died suddenly in
Washington of heart disease.
The Cuban evacuation commission
holds daily sessions i'll Havana, and seems
to be making good progress.
The dynastic parties in Spain have
united against the movement of General
Poavieia to form a new third party.
An undertaken went to Camp Black,
J.. L.. to remove the body of a soldier, and
found the supposed corpse alive and WELL
-Four hundred Cubans at Guantanamo,
near Santiago, have laid down their
arms and gone to work on the planta-
tiOns.
The pledging or pawning of pension
certificates is growing evil which the
pension bureau is trying to suppress.
\ Stickeen Indian youth was put to
death as witch, and a young girl who
was condemned for the same reason was
rescued.
Nearly all of the recent rich strikes in
the Klondike have beeen made in Ameri-
can territory, but little has been said
about them.
1t has cost Spain nearly S400,000,00O to
get whipped by Uncle Sam. This does
not include the loss of her fleets and her
colonies.
The grand jury which meets in Column
bus, Ohio, next Monday, will consider the
charges OF bribery i'll the election of Sen
ator Hanna.
The ship Iroquois, which has just ar
rived at New York from Hawaii, got
news of the Americans Spanish war from
passing vessels.
The ignorant masses of the Philippine
revolutionists demand absolute independ-
ence, though utterly incapable of self
government.
American miners along the Yukon have
asked the government to establish an as