Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-08-27
NEWS HOME and ABROAD.
ITEMS FROM EAST AND WEST
Facts and Occurrences From All
Observation-Disclosures Curious and
PecuIinr-Persons Talked About
Accidents and Crimes,

Mrs. Margaret Fallon, buried last
Thursday, at Kings Ferry, n. Y, was
sald to be III years old.
The Texas State Horticultural Society
enumerates and names 70 varieties of
plums raised in the Lore Star state
Violent storms and floods in the Island
of Formosa resulted in the loss of hun
dreds of lives and great damage to prop
erty.
Denmark has placed the seaport of Co
penhagen in state of military efficiency
in fear of a conflict between England and
Russia.
The list of postofIices in the United
States now includes Hobson, Va; Sigs-
bee, Ark; Dewey, n. c.; Sampson, Fla,
and Manila, Ky.
Prof. George F. Barker of the United
State geological survey will go to the
Philippines to examine the coal and pc
troleum deposits
Charles Pope, an electrician, while
working with street railway wires in New
York. received a shock of 1000 volts and
escaped serious INJURY.
Gold has been found between London
and Manchester, on the line between Clay
and Laurel counties, Ky. a sample has
been forwarded to New York for analysis.
Late advices from Sitka, Alaska, state
that large and extensive coal deposits
have been discovered at Whale bay, on
Baranoff islands, about forty miles from
Sitka.
The superintendent of the mint at San
Francisco estimates the gold output of
the Nlondke this season at not to exceed
Sc 600 900. Food riots are feared at Fort
Yukon.
Senator II. NJ Teller and wife of Colo
RADIO have been spending week in East
ern Washington and Northern Idaho,
making their headquarters at Spokane,
where on Saturday evening reception
was given for them by Senator and Mrs.
George Turner.
Emperor William of Germany has eX-
tended an invitation to representatives
of Evangelical churches in the United
States to attend the ceremony of ded-
icatine the Church of the Redeemer at
Jerusalem on October 81.
In view of the success which has at
tended the use of dynamite guns in Cuba,
the Russian minister of marine is arrang-
/ ing to mount such weapons on four Rus
sian warships. Their use will be extended
! if they turn out to be satisfactory.
The West Indian weather service was
practically inaugurated last Wednesday.
when reports were received at Washing
ton from the observation stations estab-
lished there The system is now III com
plete working order, and the signal service
department will be enabled to forecast
the terrible West Indian hurricanes that
for years have swept the Atlantic coast
without warning.
Sampson and Schley have been made
rear admirals; Captain Clark OF the Ore
con has been advanced more numbers
than any other captain and Wainwright
goes up higher than any other officer.
The war department has under consld-
Grafton the establishment OF army camps
as Lexington, Ky; Knoxville, Tenn; ami
Tryon, n. c., to which the troops now at
Chickamauga may soon be sent
Krupp is building 5-centimeter (2-inch)
paper field guns for the German infantry
They are so light that single soldier
can easily carry one, while the resistance
of the paper is greater than that OF steel
of the same caliber.
Col. w. f. Cody received the name of
buffalo Bill from the fact that he had
the contract to supply meat to the men
who were constructing the Kansas Pacllc
railroad, and that he almost always gave
them buffalo meat
Our war with Spain lasted three months
and twenty-five days.
A plague of reaches infests the northern
portion of West Philadelphia
The Piccadilly Club OF Cincinnati Will
present a loving cup to Admiral Dewey.
C. r. Clifford, a legless man, and who
only has one arm, was arrested at Au-
burn, Ind, charged with horse stealing.
Bannock Indians who have been slaugh-
tering elk near Jacksons Hole, Idaho,
will be driven back to their reservation.
Divers in Lake Huron have recovered
600 tons of copper from wreck 100 feet
deep. after it had lain there for 32 years.
While cutting tobacco near Lancaster,
Pa. Henry Barr stopped to pick up
stalk and gouged one of his eyes out with
his cutter.
Father Kozlowsk, recently excommu-
nicated, filed his threatened suit against
Archbishop Feehan at Chicago for $780,
900 damages.
A trolley car on the Nassau line of
Brooklyn jumped from the track in New
York city. Thirty persons are reported
to have been seriously injured.
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