Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-09-03
THE WORLDS NEWS IN BRIEF s.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS.
Curious and Peculiar Happenings
Discoveries In Nature and Science
The business Progress of the
wOrId-News of Crime and Acci-
dent.

parts of Connecticut that it is offered
for sale at 81 a ton.
Hail has ruined the tobacco crop in the
vicinity of Lancaster, Pa.
The city council has dispensed with the
police force at Waxahachie, Tex, owing
to the decision OF the state court of Grim
inal appeals that municipalities have no
! jurisdiction.
The China (Cal.) sugar factory has be-
gun operations with a force of 260 men.
The beet supply available will keep the
factory in operation three months. The
crop is estimated at 81 900 tons.
Windholm Siehold, the last of the
group of men who founded Gunterville,
Ala, died in that city Friday. He was
70 years old and a native of Germany.
This year is the centenary of the bat
tie of the Nile and of Napoleon's landing
in Egypt.
Two thousand makers OF childrens
clothing won their strike and returned TO
work in New York.
The longest canal in the world is in
Russia. 1t extends from st. Petersburg
to the frontier of China, and measures
near $500 miles.
Many deaths from heat have occurred
in Germany, and a number of destructive
forest fires have broken out on account
of drouth.
The last battle of Manila was fought
during fierce thunder storm, the rain
at times obscuring the view of the ships
from the shore.
The PRESIDENT lit is believed,will recon-
mend revival of the grade of vice add
miral, which will be conferred upon Ad-
miral Dewey.
Millions of men in India live, marry
and rear apparently healthy children up
Oh Is I'd a week, and sometimes it falls
below that.
If pair OF herrings could be left 10
breed and multiply unulsturbed for a
period of twenty years, they would yield
an amount of fish equal i'll bulk to the
globe on which we live.
Spanish commercial classes and prop
erty owners of Havana favor the annex
alton of Cuba to the United States rather
than the setting up of an independent
government under the Cubans
AS this country consumes practically
! half the worlds production of coffee, the
annexation of Hawaii and Porto Rico,
and control of the Philippines will be OF
great benefit to the public.
Tho commercial Cable COMPANY, at
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wv ~" Yi', 80, al no,nnorc;ol code and
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'e'''''''9 so,,, ,,o,rs aoo another son
go sh,t and l.;IIod IN mistake for
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TLa h,rn of potor Fov fen miles north
3 ns e Iowa was struck bv
1;a,4.,iad last "Wednesday nioht and five
90 80 80 A.. Eo,, tho oldest beino rs. who
7O'i' .,oa,;n,e :, tho hav NOV. were
,.,,.,,o1 80 10Th
ph;I;n,,;ro possessions will Of
g., ao,,,o s+,o,oe and Interesting exper-
iencas to Americans visiting the islands
for tho frst time One of them will be the
bntI;ke chow shops in which stewed grass
honno,s GRO sold
Tbo general association of colored Bap
+;sts of Kentucky. in session at Frank
fort adonted resolutions favoring the
sending Of colored missionaries to Cuba,
pnprto Rico. the Philippines and Hawaii,
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