Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-04-09
NEWS AT HOME AND ABROAD
Items of Information Gathered From
a wide Aren-POlitical Happen
inEs and Industrial NOtes-Crimes
and Accidents.

Officers VIII ne Oh IllG StCOllu utSNluN III
November, and a special election will have
to be held the first Tuesday, which is the
first day of November, TO pass on some
constitutional amendments submitted by
the last legislature, to be yoteo on this
year.
1t is understood that Frances demands
in China include the cession of Yang-ts e
valley.
The troops at Fort Sheridan, Chicago
are to join the troops at the New York
harbor defenses.
Five small children of Pottsville, Pa,
ate wild parsnips, and will probably die
from the poison.
Two government engineers have ar
rived at Portsmouth, n. H., to arrange
signal service on that coast to be used
in case of war with Spain.
j Anticipating that Chile will sell the
man of war Encalada to the United
States, Commander NJ. Symmonds, com.
handing the gunboat Marietta, has been
ordered to proceed at once from Callao
to Valparaiso, where he will hoist the
American flag on board the vessel.
The British government is massing a
powerful fleet i'll Chinese waters.
Jesse Il. Horton of sherman, Texas has
rendered Secretary of War Alger the
services Of 1900 men for active service
in defense of American honor and for the
freedom of Cuba. Thousands of these men
wore the blue and gray in the civil war
and come from oklahoma, Indian terri
tory and the plains of Texas. Adjutant
General Earl of Henrietta staff north
west Texas division United Confederate
Veterans, has also offered the president
his services in case of war with Spain.
The Russian government is construct
ing an ice clusher, said to be capable of
reaching the north pole.
The deaths from the black plague in
Bombay, India, now average 100 weekly
English tourists report a remarkable
demand for American goods in China and
Japan.
\ bill prohibiting a saloon to be opened
within 300 feet of amy church has been
enacted by the New Jersey legislature.
Judge Campbell Of San Francisco has
decided that cat is not "A domestic ami
NAL and can not therefore be claimed as
the property of any enc.
San Diego, Cal, will soon be safe from
attack. Forty thousand pounds of ammu-
milton have arrived there for the big guns
being mounted on the Notifications.
At Huntington, Pa, Robert *. Mills,
coored barber and veteran OF the late
war, has organized a colored mems mill
tary company for service in case of war
with Spain.
DIR. G. W. Evans, an ext soldier
and prominent physician of Richmond,
KY is raising a company of volunteers
for the war with Spain. Every man in his
company will be at least six feet i'll height,
In New Zealand the scheme for oldage
pensions is in advanced stage. a bill
has passed through all its stages in the
lower house. which sets aside 10000
pounds per annum of the ordinary public
revenue as a provision for the aged poor.
There is movement on foot to organ.
ize stock company in Houston, Tex, for
the purpose of making that place tobac-
co market, to serve as an outlet for the
'
acres will be planted in Harris and the
counties Immediately surrounding Hous-
ton.
The cattlemen of the lower and south
western districts of Texas are experiencing
much trouble and loss of stock by depre-
dations of mountain lions, wolves and
coyotes The loss in the mountain dis
10 ,i,-
will reach an average of % per cent.
Lambs. calves and colts fall a prey to
these volacious wild beasts.
The government is about to pay an un-
usual special pension claim to the widow
of Lieutenant Michael Moore, who, at the
time of his death in Brooklyn last year,
had served in the United States army con
tinuously for 50 years, thus holding the
worlds record for service of that charac-
! ter He enlisted as a drummer boy at the
outbreak of the war of 1872. His widow
is 81 years CID and when her husband
died they had been married CD years.
Two children living near Belleville, On
tario, were killed by wild pigs
General r. n. Phelps, commander of all
the eN-confederate camps, is dead at Dial
las Texas.
Mr.. Gladstone has been informed by his
physician, it is said that there is no
chance for his recovery
Fourteen-year-old Daisy Moore of Kan
sas City, poisoned herself because school
boy did not return her love.
New York state superintendent Of
schools favors curfew ordinance to
keep the children off the street at night.
John Clark of Mount Vernon, n. Y,
has asked for divorce on the ground