Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-07-02
ITEMS FROM FARIAND NEAR
MINOR NEWS OF THE WORLD.
The Business PrOgress-Facts Tor
the CuriOus-AccIdents and crime
Notes of PersOns-Churches anu
Religious News.

Madrid papers continue to insist that
Spain does not desire peace.
A woman's idea Of making name
for herself is to marry WELL
A mass meeting he'd at ST. Louis by
French residents and a resolution adopt
ed favoring a demonstration to counter
act the antagonism against France be-
cause of her alleged opposition to the
United States.
The Venezuelan revolution ended by
the defeat and capture of Hernandez, It's
leader.
A patrol of the Spanish coast in CON
temptation by the United States govern
ment The extensivedr1ffic in contraband
will make this course necessary.
Tommy Ryan defeated Tommy West in
2O-round contest->.4s yracuse, N. Y, for
the welterweight'ss SiS'gionsAip of the
world
The largest granite plant in New En-
gland. situated at Barre, VT, burned;
loss 100000.
The Austrian reichsrath dissolved on
account of the disorders over the Ian
guage ordinance.
A band of eleven negroes made an I'M
successful attempt to wreck the Queen
and Crescent limited passenger train near
New Orleans, La, June IL.
Edward Montisi, who was arrested on
suspicion of being a Spanish spy as he
was about to board a steamer at New
York, has been released from confinement
on Governors island for lack of evidence.
The gunboat Wheeling has left Seattle
for Alaska withI government surveying
party on board.
Princeton University has conferred the
degree of LII. d. on Admiral Dewey.
Senator Aldrich has been reelected
United States senator from Rhode Island.
The naval repairship Vulcan has been
ordered to join Admiral Simpsons fleet.
England has acquired 200 additional
square miles of Chinese territory ad acent
TO Hong Kong
! Many relics of the war of the rebellion
have been found by the soldiers now i'll
camp at Chickamauga
/ Chicago has invited President Mckinley
and ex-President Harrison to make add
dresses in THAI city July 4.
! The value Of the corn crop in Mexico
in 1896 was $77,0OO,OOO, which is ten
/ times the value of the coffee crop of that
!. The Ciys-.fl atfI42s,H ---,---i--- or
manera, Cuba, fought well, going right up
to the Spanish lines without the slight
est fear
! Rats gnawing matches have caused no
less than forty fires in widely different
parts of the United States during the
past week
Japan has no desire to interfere in the
| Philippine matter, Formosa having fur
nished all the territorial difficulties now
desired.
1t is semi-oficially announced that Eng
land will send a large fleet to Manila if
Germany attempts naval demonstration
there.
1t is reported that number of Phila-
delphia coal dealers will be prosecuted
by the government for selling coal to the
spanish government.
A number of Georgia moonshiners have
had their sentences modified, so as to be
able to Join moonshne regiment now
organizing.
The Cuban junta will send a ship to
Cuba with supplies for the insurgent ar
my. The vessel will be commanded by
Capt. johnny O'Brien.
Over 5000 Spanish volunteers are re-
ported to have deserted to the insurgents
in Cuba since the beginning of SIMPSONS
blockade of Santiago.
Five hundred farms have been sold in
Center county, Pa, for unpaid taxes, the
majority going for just the amount
charged against them.
The senate committee on foreign affairs
reported favonbly and without amend
ment the Hawaiian annexation resolution
as passed by the house.
Hugh w. Williams, who was mysteri-
ously shot recently in San Francisco, Cal,
was an English baronet and fellow of
the Geographical society.
Nearly 400 Catholic men of Scranton,
Pa, have organized a Holy Name Society,
the object of which is to discourage the
use of profane language
As far as calculations can decide, the
temperature of comets is believed to be
1000 times fercer than that of red hot
iron.
Revised estimates on the losses of the
Letter wheat deal place the net sum at
S., 100000.
Dizziness in the -four trade in Milwau-
kee, Wis, has led to the closing of four
large mills.
The government internal revenue col