Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-06-25
ITEMS FROM FAR and NEAR
MINOR NEWS OF THE WORLD.
The business ProEress-Facts Tor
the administrations ana crime
Notes of PersOns-Churches ana
Religious News.

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news concerning movements OF American
vessels or American troops VIII De per
mitted to be sent to foreign countries.
Mrs. Mary Spooner of New Bedford,
Mass, is lO4 years old, and Mrs. Mary
Dow Plavey, of South Boston, Mass Is
l03 years old. The formers birthday Is
February and the latter's May IT.. Both
are in good health,
Queen Victoria has made public her
intention to direct the erection OF mon
ument to the late William E. Gladstone
in Westminster Abbey.
James 4. Watkins, member OF the
editorial staff of the New York Sun, and
an old associate of Bret Harte in editing
the Overland Monthly, is dead.
Rear Admiral Sampson has officially
declared that the purpose of the bonn
bardments of the Notifications OF SantI-
ago was to clear the way for troops.
Mrs. Cleveland and her children will 60
from their home at Princeton, \. j., to
their summer residence at Gray Gables,
Buzzard's Bay, Mass, about June 20,
Santiago de Cuba is said to be on the
verge of starvation. All the food has
been seized for the army and navy, and
the troops and sailors are on half ratIon9.
Kansas republicans have nominated
w f. Stanley, lawyer of Wichita, for
governor
Admiral Dewey has been elected an
honorary member of the New York His
torical Society.
In New York City an aged man of
misery disposition, said to be worth
about $4,000, was found dead in a filthy
room.
Congressman William S. Cowherd has
been unanimously renominated by the
republicans of the Fifth Missouri dis
trict.
Governor Bradley of Kentucky receiv-
ed in single day last week 500 letters
from persons who wanted to be generals,
colonies, captains or lieutenants in the
regiments, now being formed.
A suit for 100000 damages for libel
has been brought by w. r. Hearst of
the New York Journal against the New
York World.
Korea has 100000 inhabitants, though
it is no larger than Minnesota.
Signals used by ships at sea date from
1865. They were invented by the duke
of York. afterward James IL.
"Llanfair pNHgwyngyll" is the name
of a village in Wales that enjoys the
privilege of being counted as one word iii
kilograms.
Antwerp has Just been the scene of an
important art sale, the pictures in the
Kums museum having been sold for
] 100000 francs about $270,000.
The island of Key West is of coral for
nation. contains about 200O acres and
has population of some 25.000-Amer-
leans Cubans, negroes and Chinese,
\ cabinetmaker at Frankenberg, IN
SaXony, now 81 years OF age, boasts that
he helped build Goethe's coffin in 1892,
and saw the poets body laid away in it.
In Palestine the swallows are allowed
the freedom not only of the houses and
living rooms, but of the mosques and
tombs, where they build their nests and
rear their young.
The common soldier in Russia receives
three rubles per annum-about S2.23. The
day rations consist of two pounds of such
airy. which is a very coarse kind OF bread
made of cracked rye, baked hard at first
then cut into small pieces and further
dried in heated oven: Il small quantity
of salt and some soup.
\ centrifugal gun, discharging 10000
bullets a minute, has been invented by
an English engineer. The bullets are
poured into a case from a hopper and
guided into a disk, three feet in diam
eter, revolving in the case at the rate Of
$4,000 revolutions a minute. They are
discharged from the edge of the disk.
DR.. Chan, a Chinese physician of Cleve-
land, Ohio, offers to organize in this
country a regiment of Cinnamon and 20
convert the Chinese of the Philippines in
to allies of the United States
The value of agricultural products eX-
ported from the United States for the
year ending with this month is larger
than for any previous year in the history
of the country. 1t amounts to over
$500 900 900.
The president has authorized canned
salmon to be added as one of the army
rations Fresh beef will be issued to the
troops six days in ten, salt meats three
days in ten, and canned salmon one day
in ten.
The miners of Colorado are changing
the names of many of their mines to those
of famous men of the present war. One
of the best-paying copper mines is called
Sigsbee. 1t is claimed that it never paid
until now