Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-12-17
ITEMS FROM ALL AROUND
TERsE TRICKS FROM THE WIRE
A Complete Review of the Events Tor
the Past Week I'm This and Foreign
Lands-Summarized From the Latest
Dispatches.
The Florida legislature is UNANIMOUSLY

1900 is to be held in Chicago
Troops first sent to Cuba will be COM
posed largely of regulars.
Gen. Merritt expects to leave Paris tor
the United States December 10.
An active volcano has Just been discov-
cred fifty miles from Atlin City, Alaska.
Agricultural help is obtainable in Mex
! leo at from 25c to SOC day (silver), ac-
cording to locality.
! It is said that 10000 soldiers will be
, needed to put down the rebellion in the
Philippines.
Last weeks snow storm in Colorado
was the severest experienced in that state
for many years.
In 1901 Detroit will celebrate the 200th
anniversary of the founding of the city
by Pere Marquette.
Marshal Blanco, former Captain General
of Cuba, and suite sailed from Havana for
Spain last Wednesday.
Gen. Buterfeld and Capt. Mahan favor
a military system of government for
Puerto Rico and the Philippines.
Official notice of the dissolution Of the
Omitted States of Central America" has
been received at Washington.
The cruiser Chicago reconstructed and
capable of much greater speed than when
she was taken out of commission over two
years ago was placed in commission at
the Brooklyn navy yard.
1t is understood that the United States
of Central America, consisting of Mica
ragua, Salvador and Honduras, having
failed, another effort will be made to form
republic, to include also Costa Rica and
Guatemala.
The war department is maturing plans
for the muster out of as many volunteers
now in service as possible, as nearly all of
them want to go home
Germany, it is said, is ready to buy the
Caroline islands from Spain, but does not
wish to prejudice her relations with either
the United States or England.
The ship Shenandoah, which was report
ed captured by the Spanards during the
war, has arrived from Baltimore at San
Francisco, having been out l3l days.
John Wallace, after a years imprison-
ment at Sing Sing, n. Y, under a ten
years sentence on a charge of robbery, of
which he was innocent, has been released.
All indications lead to the conclusion
that the steamer Portland foundered in
deep water at High Head, Mass, and that
she was not driven ashore and beaten to
pieces. as was at first supposed.
The heavy snowfall in New York City
last week proved to be too much for the
street cleaning department, which was to-
tally unable to cope with it. Many streets
were blockaded for several days.
After a litigation lasting fourteen years
the will disposing of San Francisco cs-
tate once worth $4,000 has just been sus-
tanned and litigation suspended, because
the estate has been exhausted in paying
legal fees.
Hazing at Princeton is now officially
dead.
The transport Pennsylvania has arrived
at Manila from San Francisco.
The government has purchased at pri-
vate sale the Lookout property at Chata-
noOga
The Spanish transport Forgas has sailed
from Havana for Spain with 1900 troops.
The transport Berlin, with the First
Kentucky regiment, has arrived at New
port News.
There was held meeting of traffic of
! fcials of Western roads at Chicago Tues
day to restore freight rates.
The fire in the works Of the Standard
Oil Company at Los Angeles, Cal, has
burned itself out. The loss is $250000.
The Daughters of the American Revo-
luton OF Virginia have $4l 900 towards
the building proposed for Washington,
d. C.
The next regiment to start for Manila
will embark at New York about New
Years and will go through the Suez canal.
Henry Mortimer Platt, who established
the first gold and silver refinery in the
United States, is dead at his home in New
York City.
The shortage in the wine crop of 1898
and the fairly good demand during the
past year has resulted in advancing prices
in California.
The Spanish steamer Buenos Ayres,
from Manila, has arrived at Barcelona.
Sixty deaths among the troops occurred
during the trip,
Another body was taken from the ruins
of the Baldwin Hotel fire in San Francis
co. There was nothing to identity the
corpse
DIR. J. j. Walter, pastor of the Century
Methodist Church, of Portland, Or, has
been appointed missionary in charge of all
the Methodist work in Alaska.
The Russian minister, De Giers, has pre-
sented his credentials to the Chinese en-
peror at Picking. He refused to present
them to the dowager empress.
Private j. c. Moore, of the Fifth Maine
artillery, was fined $500 by a Savannah