Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-19
NEWS THROUGH THE WEEK
NEWS AT HOME AND ABROAD.
items of Information Gathered From
= wide Area-PoIitical Happen
inga and Industrial NOtes-Crimes
and Accidents.

Delaware smelter ana conslderable
amount of railroad property at Deadwood,
:. u. Loss about Sl50000.
Governor Hastings has issued a procla
nation designating April and p to be
observed as Arbor days i'll Pennsylvania
New Zealand has - establishments for
freezing meat for European markets. They
can handle 100000 sheep year.
Governor Rogers has offered reward
of $500 for the arrest and conviction OF
the person or persons who murdered Chad
wick Marshall, confined in the county
Jail of Whitman county, on the Sth day
OF January last.
Thcr was great rejoicing on the prince
ol Wales estate at Sandringham on
Thursday. II was the 35th anniversary
Of his marriage to the Princess AleXan-
dlia. daughter of the king of Denmark,
and who has been described by writers
who feel the pulse of the English people
rs "thr best loved woman in England.
The New York Herald correspondent at
Rio Janeiro. Brazil. states that news from
Amazon has just been received i'll Rio
.Ianeiro giving the details of an invasion
of Brazilian territory on the Rio Branco
river by Engishmcn from British Guiana,
whose purpose it is to instigate Il revolu-
ton The Brazilian government will de-
mand satisfaction.
4 New York dispatch states that Anna
Corbm Borrowe. daughter of the late
Austin Corbin, and who is a legatee and
beneficiary in the will of her father, has
brought suit against her mother, Hanna
H. Corbin, George 5. Edgell, her brother
in-law. and Austin Corbin, Jr, both in
diyidually and as executors and trustees
OF her fathers estate, and against Isabella
c. Edgcll, her sister, and Austin Andre
Champolion, her nephew, for an account
ING OF the estate
\ special dispatch from Bombay says
riot broke out among low caste Hindoos
and Mohammedans against Europeans. 1t
had its origin in an attack upon a plague
search party Two soldiers, as these dis
patches were sent. had already been kill
ed, and the police had fired into the mob,
killing six persons and wounding many
Others, Other special dispatches from
Bombay say the plague Inspector and 81
men of the Shropshire regiment were
stoned to death.
Auandono, the young man who recent
ly asaassinated President Borda of Uru-
quay. is still in Jail at Colon, and the peo-
pile seem to be largely in his favor. The
women decorate his cell with flowers and
give him expensive food and many deli
cacic,.
\ St Petersburg correspondent says
that the Pmlowsky shell a Polish inven-
Gion. is composed of gelatinc filled with an
anacsthctic gas which is intended to put
every soldier in whose proximity it bursts
to sleep, who in time RECEIVERS from the
~tupor
\ Nebraska league of Maine avengers
has been formed in Lincoln, composed
largely OF veterans of the late war, al
though there is no restriction in mem
berohip. The motto of the league is:
He who insults the American flag must
apologize or fight When the member
ship list is complete it is proposed to send
it to President Mckinley.
\ London dispatch, commenting on the
enormous increase in the number of wo-
men smokers in England, quotes from the
London Telegraph rs follows "The great
middle class is smoking as unconstrained
~ as the aristocracy, and the working
woman is fast following. One we'll known
lady OF title is sometimes seen driving in
the Ripley road with a briarwood pipe in
her mouth"
Another phase of the cigarette smoking
evil is attracting the attention of Cincin-
natl physicians in the case of Joseph Saw
age. 10 years old, in one of the city hos
pitfalls, Through smoking 40 cigarettes
a day he contracted an ulcer which de-
stroyed the membrane behind the palate
in his throat, and he now exhales smoke
from his ears as we'll as from his nostrils
There isn't a saloon between Florence,
Ala, and Paducah, KY on the banks of
the Tennessee river, a distance of 300
miles.
1t is a curious fact that the roots and
branches of a tree are SO alike in their
nature that if a tree be uprooted and
turned upside down the underground
branches will take unto themselves the
functions of roots, and the exposed roots
will in time bud and become veritable
branches.
Nearly G0,000 acres have been reclaimed
IN Ireland during the past year from bog
and marsh lands.
In the Missouri Pacific hospital at Kan.
Nas City an operation was performed by
the hospital physicians recently on Leo
Seliried, a brakeman, whose skull was
crushed in an accident. A little more
than six square inches of skull were re-
moved, and several ounces of brain tissue
taken out. He is able to talk, but for.