Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-11-12
NEWS FROM HOME AND AWAY
BRIEF ITEMS OF THE WORLD
TErnpcuings al All Kinds From All
CasuaIties-Criminn Occurrences
business Notes of Many Lands
General Events OF Interest.

Chicago's registration Of voters aggre-
gates 32G,74S names.
Lake Shore damage in Chicago by the
recent blizzard was over $4,000.
Deputy marshals have left Walker
Mimi, to round up renegade Indians.
The emperor and empress of Germany
have safely arrived in Palestine.
Admiral Dewey ha, released the Span
ish sailors whom he captured ut Manila
Repairs on the cruiser Chicago are near
" completed; She has been practically re-
built.
Many Spanish officers in Havana have
applied for positions in the United states
army.
The danger of further outbreaks Of tine
black plague in Vienna has been greatly
diminished.
The cattle outlook in southern Texas
and northern Montana Is better tins sea-
son than ever before
The United States has notified Spain
that the shipment OF guns from Cuba
must be stopped forthwith.
The much doomed Peace river country
of Alaska has brought nothing but hard
ships to prospectors.
American commissioners at Havana are
taking measures to hasten the Spanish
evacuation OF Cuba.
Governor Russell OF North Carolina has
issued 4 proclamation condemnn@ poiit- |
zeal outrages i'll that state,
New York police believe they have UNI /
.-,.b. "a II
life insurance companies,
Senator Hale OF Maine has been fined
$40 for violating the state game ii" by .
shipping game out OF the state.
The agricultural department, after two .
years Of experimenting, finds that the
swine plague can be easily and ineNpen-
svely exterminated.
Advices from Hawaii intimate that the
people OF the islands expect delegate IN
congress, with rights to debate and vote
on all measures.
During the blizzard last week SHOW
drifted in Chicago 50 that street car traI-
lie was obstructed in many parts OF the
city.
Postmaster General Smith Las directed
that Hawaiian stamps be recognized att
their face value on articles mailed in Ha-
wai.
A movement Is on foot in Buenos Ayres
TO divert the trade of Spanish American
countries to Spain as against the United
States.
The quarantine in Mississippi towns
against al points has been raised.
Halifax dock yards are very busy III
getting British warahips .eady for seq
vice
Captain j. b. Foraker, son OF the Ohio
senator is sick with yellow fever in H1-
yana.
\ Paris paper declares that the -ec''t
papers in the Dreyfus case we're burned
several days ago.
The whale catch in the Asc,ic this se1-
son was one OF the largest Oh record, rep
resenting about 81 ,00ooo0.
Chicago is making strenuous effort
to secure the next Methodist Episcopal
general conference, 10 be he'd i'll 1900.
France is terribly excited over the re-
port that England proposes 10 proclaim
protectorate over the whole OF Egypt
The president has received a petition,
signed by 100000 Cubans, asking for
SPANS immediate evacuation Of the isl
and.
Secretary Wilson has awarded to 4 New
York firm the government contract for
seeds at $70,97S for l4,23S,lG3 packets.
Independence Hall, Philadelphia, mas .
been restored to its colonial appearance,
and rededicated with appropriate cerc-
monies.
The Dawes commissions report on re
organization of the Indian Territory calls /
especially for provisions for education OF .
the people.
Two deaths from the black plague Of
India occurred ON the French bark Duch- /
ess Anne on her recent trip from HoHo- f.
lulu to San Francisco.
BY January ] the University OF Chicago
expects to raise - 100000, which makes
gift of same amount from John d. Rocke-
Teller available.
4 large number of negroes are tlockm"
into the indian Territory, and Agent Wis
dom fears serious trouble between then,
and the Indians.
Hannah West and Abraham Huffman
are under arrest at Washington Court
House, O., on the womans confession, for
having beheaded Louis Ball T. years ago
with a razor
The president has approved of the
court-martial sentence disnlis-ng from the
navy Chaplain Mcintyre, OF the battle
ship Oregon, who reflected on Admiral
Sampson in a lecture.
\ number OF vessels are stranded on
sandbars in the Yukon river and frozen
III.