Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-04-30
ITEMS FROM ALL AROUND
CONDENSED NEWS OF WORLD
Crimes and Casualties in All Lands
Paragraphs About PrOminan,
Persons-Business Conditions In
Brief-Peculinr Incidents H.
corded by Many Observers,

I POuhuo VI lNOly.
A naval reserve battalion of 100 mon
has been formed at the University Of
Michigan at Ann Arbor.
The insect population of single cberr,
tree infested with aphides was calculated
/ by prominent entomologist to be 10
/ 100000.
John Jacob Astor, president of the
Findlay Fort Wayne & Western railway
has offered to place his road at the free
disposal OF the state government of Ind.
ana for the movement of troops and sun.
plies
There are no orphan asylums in Aus.
tralia. Every child who is not supported
by parents becomes a ward of the GOV
eminent and is paid pension and placed
in a private family, where board and
clothing are provided.
1t is reported from Barboursville. XIV.
that five more murders have resulted
from the Baller-l1oWard feud, among the
victims being the wife and two children
of one of the participants. The murder
ers fled to the mountains.
Key West reports that the United
States government has established a cen
/
mission of code messages to or from Ha-
Vana.
Captain General Blanco has published
a decree confirming his previous decree,
and declaring Cuba to be in a state of war.
He also annuls his former similar DEGREES
granting pardon to insurgents, and places
under martial law all those who are
guilty of treason, espionage, crimes
against peace or against the independence
of the nation, seditOus revolts, attacks
against the government or against the
authorities and those who disturb public
order by means of printed matter.
California stockmen are guarding
against drouth by leasing swamp lands.
The United States military attaches at
st. Petersburg and Vienna have been
called home.
Edward Bellamy, author of Looking
Backward is dying of consumption at
Denver. Colo.
Paul Anton Kranke, in Philadelphia,
sued Mrs Weinstein for 5000 damages
for not providing him a wife, according
to agreement.
The oldest house in Pennsylvania, in
Chester, has been badly damaged by fire
1t was built in 1868 and was long used
as a tavern and later as a theater
Every staunch boat in New York har-
Dor that is over 100 feet long and capable
of carrying one or two rapid-fre guns
will be pressed into the naval service at
once.
The fleet of whalers. ice-bound off
Point Barrow, Alaska, have sent a spe-
cal courier overland for relief. Over $50
men are imprisoned by the ice.
The value of sermon has been fixed
by the Georgia legislature at $3. This
is the amount paid to the ministers who
preach at the state convict camps.
A dispatch from Singapore says that
Spanish officials and Well-tO-do Spanish
families are fleeing from Philippine ISL
ands, escaping from the rebellion which
is rapidly spreading there. They report
that Manila is panicstricken.
A dispatch from Berlin says that 1t
is learned from an authentic source that
Germany took the lead in pledging the
continental powers to maintain absolute
neutrality in case of war between the
United States and Spain,
A band of six female bull fighters is
now making a tour Of the principal cities
of Mexico The girls are pretty and all
in their teens; and their strength and
dexterity are really marvelous,an theeX-
hibitions they give draw large crowds.
In order to protect the Behring sea
sealing fleet and the steamers which are
expected to bring gold from the Klondike
during the summer, it is proposed to as
90, CT, foil nf
armed tugs and coast survey vessels Tor
duty in the North Pacific
At Linden, near Charlottesville Ind, IS
stacked up $4,000 tons of cornstalks, the
raw material for a cellulOse factory, when
is now i'll course Of erection there. Inc
farmers from the country have hauled
in the stalks when they could not do
other work, and were paid So ton for
them.
At Mississippi City, Miss, where the
sheriff is also tax collector, thieves prleo
open the window of the sheritf's bedroom
on the night of the day he made his tax
collections. and with a flshnet caugh'
his trousers, and, pulling them to the
window, rihed the pockets. The sherln
slept with a light in his room.
With one important exception thele
is general continental condemnation lor
the United States. The exception ema-
mates from Russia. The st. Petersburg
Viedomosti. speaking for Russia's atu-
tude towards the United States, says
"The friendship which has subsisted LOT
many years between the two states, eN
cludes every idea of unfriendly attitude
on the part of Russia at the present