Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-04-23
ITEMS FROM ALL AROUND
CONDENSED NEWS OF WORLD
and Casualties in All Lands
Paragraphs About prominent
Persons-Busine Conditions In
Rrief-PecuIiRr Incidents Re-
oorded by Many Observers.

RAND work is going on to transform
the vessels at the Brooklyn navy yard in
10 auxiliary cruisers
At Commercial, KY, the 3-year- old-son
of Nat Corbin, while playing about fire
IN the ward, was burned to death.
The Uncompahgre and Ute Indians are
said to be ugly over the dilatory tactics
of the land allotment commissioners
Diphtheria at Waverly, Mo-, has put
sion to all church and social gatherings.
Everything is being done to check the
contagion.
The total output of coal in the United
States in 1897 approximated l98,250,000
short tons, with an aggregate value OF
Sl9S, 100000
Postal Clerk Hart, arrested in Chicago
on a charge of theft, gave as an excuse for
the crime that he could not live on $l2
week.
Fire in Toxic, Japan, destroyed over
100 houses and rendered 900 people
homeless.
man in Wabash, Ind, has built up a
saving business in rabbit breeding, hav-
ing secured a kind that are edible in sum-
mer as we'll as winter
Captain J. e. Bernier of Quebec is en-
deavorng to induce the Canadian gov
eminent to give him financial aid for his
proposed expedition to the north pole.
A system of improvement of the public
highways has been inaugurated IN Pettls
county, Missouri. The county court has
ordered an election on Tuesday, April 26,
70 to q
six-mle road district with Sedalia as
the center.
After a pretty tight contest, in which
the Canadian Pacific railway lobbied with
great persistence and effect, the COrbin
railway bill was defeated in the house Of
commons at ottawa by Al to "a. The
French Canadian members from Quebec
opposed the bill almost unanimously.
Great excitement prevails in the Ha-
waiian islands about the threatened erup-
ton of the great volcano Muna Loa. The
cooled lava has dropped down the mount
ain side 1000 feet, the great volumes OF
smoke are issuing from the crater There
mad been constant earthquakes and heavy
rainfall for two weeks previous to the
sailing of the Alameda, which brought
the news to San Francisco last Thursday.
The American squadron at Hong Kong,
China, has completed arrangements Tor
quitting to sea.
Thomas Fl. Tongue was renominated
iw congress by the republicans OF the
First congressional district of Oregon.
The Cincinnati chamber of commerce
B has passed a resolution in favor of re-
eiprocity with Canada and Newfoundland.
The number of lives lost in the snow
slideat Chilkoot Pass, Klondike, will
reach 100. Sixtynine bodies have been
found.
The postoffice department has prepared
information for the postotiice employees
and postmasters who enlist. Their places
will be reserved for them.
Having been surprised by the police
a burglar at Montreal Canada, jumped
10 feet from a window into a snow bank
and escaped, apparently uninjured.
\ cableg1am from London says that Mr.
Gladstone may not survive longer than
sixty days. That is the opinion of his
physician after having carefully dag
nosed his condition.
III 1911 fAlcOn lSlauu, III the EilcHuly
group, began as a smoking shoal Ten
Years later it was volcanic island 300
feet high and over one and a half miles
long. Now it is disappearing.
dispatch from Pittsburg, Pa, says
that the Carnegie Steel Company has re-
ceiVed an order for the steel plates and
material for 100 torpedo boats from the
government. The work can be done in
two weeks.
The governor of Michigan has sent to
the legislature Il message recommending
authorization of a war loan of S5OO,0OO
scene of enthusiasm followed the read
ing OF the message, and the bill was
passed within half an hour.
company has been chartered at To
peka, Kan, with capital stock of 49,
wo'Ooo, to colonize land grant of 4,OOO,-
wo acres in the central part of Mexico
with $4,000 Indians of the five civilized
ulbes who are dissatisfied with the Dawes
treaty.
Inc lllionis butterine law has been de-
Dafed unconstitutional by the state su-
p'eme court. The judges decided that
%@huiaeturers have constitutional
/ 'lgnt to color butterine or oleomargarine
Z 3enow or imitation, which was prohib-
eo under the terms of the law.
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