Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-09-24
WORLDS NEWS IN BRIEF
ITEMS FROM HOME AND AWAY
The Current Events of the Day, Both
Foreign and DOmestic-The Crop
Output in Various Lines-CrtmeS
and Casualties.


robber of Richland. Mich, who was ar
rested in Chicago Wednesday, is sad to
he the man wanted for the murder OF
AIoll Whitney, whose body was found IN
Eel river near Logansport, ind, III the
year 1884.
A triennial convention of weather bn-
reau meteorologists will be held at Oma-
ha in the middle of October. The CON
vention will be opened by Prot Wills
L. Moore, chief of the bureau. Secreta-
~ of Agriculture Wilson may attend
The meeting will last two days.
The Copper River Indians are reaplng
harvest by gathering the outfits aban-
doned by gold hunters in Alaska. 1T
cost the men l0c to zoe a pound to get
their food and clothing up the Copper
River valley. From 100 to 300, be-
coming discouraged with their vain at
tennis to find gold, finally dropped their
outfits anywhere and hurried back to
Naldes.
The highest mountain railway in Eu-
rope, leading to the top of the Corner
graf, in Switzerland, situated between
The Matterhorn and Monte Rosa, is about
completed. 1t was begun in 1896. a
train can take 10 passengers two miles
above sea level. The power is furnish
ed by the water which flows from
glacier, and is, therefore, most abundant
in summer, when most needed.
A Long Island historian calls atten-
ton to the fact that Sandy Hook was
once Cape Santiago. Its first name
was Cape de Santa Maria; changed IN
1886 to Cape Santiago; then, when the
Dutch took possession, it received It's
present name.
In the Chicago directory the name of
George Washington appears 10 times
John Adams. 10 times; Thomas Jet1er-
son only once; James monroe, seven;
John Quincy Adams, eight, and Andrew
jackson 10 times. There are SO named
Dewey, and not a person in Chicago
named Shafter.
Lava streams that have flowed out Il
Vesuvius during the past three years
have deposited l05,0OO,0O0 cubic meters
of lava on the sides of the mountain.
A cone of lava $50 feet high has been
formed, out of which fresh streams are
flowing The valleys on either sue OF
the observatory peak have been nned
up.
Joseph jefferson, the great actor, re-
Gently wrote a check for 81 on piece
of birch bark in the mountains because
he had no paper with him. The bank
which cashed the check now has 1t franz
ed and hanging on the wall.
W. S. Shredder, newspaper artist,
has been missing for three weeks IN the
northern part of Washington. He left
his camp to make sketches of Mount Ba-
ker and is supposed to have starved to
death in the wilderness.
A new society of "Dnd restorers" has
been organized in Boston for the pur-
pose of replacing native song birds IN
lneir former haunts. protecting and en-
couraging them in the breeding season
and planting colonies wherever praetl-
cable.
The war department in order to keep
the regular army up to the maximum
will have recruiting officers at all sta
tions where volunteers are mustered out
with view of giving the men an OPP
portunity to enlist i'll the regular ser
vice.
The steamer Miowera, arrived at Vie
toria, b. c., Friday night, reported that
FALCON island, in the Pacific. has disap-
peared, owing to volcanic action. Its
population consisted of about 20 native
fishermen, VINO have doubtless persisted.
At Patteston, Pa, Bert Geist laughed
so heartily at funny entertainment
that his lower jaw became unhinged
from its socket and he was unable TO
close his mouth. A doctor i'll the audi
ence came to his relief and started his
jaw in motion again.
Dora Cox, woman horse thief con-
fined in the county jail at hingfisher,
Okla, succeeded in making her escape
Monday night. She twisted the locks
on her cell all out of shape, and going
into the waiting room with case knife
took the locks off the outer door
The Dickson Manufacturing Company,
Scranton, Pa, is constructing for the
government two segmental pneumatic
guns, each 70 be 80 feet long, with bore
of Is inches, with energy to hurl dyna-
mite cartridge of 1000 pounds distance
of POO yards, and projectiles of 600
pounds four miles.
In view of the fact that three men have
been shot i'll the Adirondacks in mistake
Tor deer thus far this year, and that II
were shot last season. it has been pro
posed that the hunters shall wear cos
tunes of such color that the stupidest
amateur can make no mistake.
The Spanish prisoners at Seaveys ISL