The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1893-09-21
NATTER FOX THE MASSES
Interesting Information Relating to
Current Events.
POLITICAL. RELIGIOUS AND GENERAL.
Condemned News From she Hurry
ing world About Us-Prepared for
Those Whs Read AZ They Hun
miscellanesus Matter.

misceilaneeus Matter.
The Worlds fair will close October 81.
Minnesota has 81 ,e75 900 in the state
treasury.
Grasshoppers are doing great damage
to crops in Iowa.
Another destructive food in China de-
stroys thousands Of lives.
Mitchell and Corbett will fight at
Consy Island early in December.
Shicago socialists are to have full
ticket In the field at the fall election.
About 1900 men who were idle in
Pittsburg two weeks ago are at work
again.
Treasurer Isense, of Whatcom, has been
arrested for embezzling $4,000 of the
city's funds.
An incendiary fire in Snohomish on
Saturday night destroy I'd So, e0V of prop
erty and the city records.
Frick, the Carnegie manager at Pitts
burg, has had his salary Of $4,000 4
year reduced to 5000.
r. D. Kathrens, secretary Of large oil
company, says that the supply OF petro-
ieum in Wyoming is inexhaustibe.
Railroad commissioners OF Kansas
have not yet been able to secure seed
4 wheat for the western part of the state.
There is an organized kick all over
Kansas about the celebrity with which the
state board Of pardons is letting out Grim
inals.
An interesting exhibition at the
Worlds fair is a display Of clocks show
ing the time at all the principal cities Of
the world.
Judge Hanfor rs sentences to men who
sell whiskey to the Indians range from
seven to fourteen months. He sent up
seven last Saturday.
in. Bolles, Tennessee farmer, was
tortured by having his toenails torn out
by robbers to compel him to reveal the
hiding place Of his money.
Mr.. Jordan, Of Salem, Mass, NAV
thank silver dollar, which diverted the
course Of bullet, that he isn't on the
other side OF his own name.
The New York Sun has been making a
study OF the debts Of the various states,
and finds that In the last ten years there
has been total decrease Of $4,000, 900.
Active hostilities have begun in Ger.
man East Africa with the natives. The
German forces stormed and captured the
fortified camp Of the sultan at Klliman-
jaro.
The French government has agreed to
call conference OF members Of the Latin
union In Paris to decide the question Of
the naturalization OF fractional silver
currency.
Joe Young, the gambler who used his
wife in an effort to blackmail Police Com
missioner Relic at Seattle some time ago,
has been sentenced to the penitentiary
for ten years.
Because OF the financial stringency and
the fact that some $500, 900 state funds
are tied up in suspended banks, Mime.
sofa is having great difficulty in paying
salaries promptly.
State Bank Commissioner Breidenthal,
Of Kansas, says the banks in his state do
not owe New York one dollar. They are
doing business on their own account OF
on Kansas money.
Gladstone viii make his great speech,
in which he will appeal to the electors,
score the house Of lords, and refer to the
future Of the liberal party, at Edinburg,
on September 9th.
A Chinaman in this city, who was ac-
cused Of being in the country unlawfully,
proved that be had 100 cousins here. II
is hard to keep pace with these Chinese
cozeners.- Philadelphia Record.
Jack Dempsey, the pugilist, is said to
be all right again. A benefit given him
In New York about two weeks ago cleared
him nearly $4,000. An epidemic of in
sanity among pug's is now anticipated.
OF the one hundred and ffty-four col
iapsed national banks up to date sixty
one have resumed, iftxtsight are in the
hands OF receivers, thifty-four in the
hands OF examiners and one has gone into
liquidation.
sentence OF six months on the county
chain gang has been passed upon Mrs
Fannie E. Denham, widow of Terreoa
Ca, for, disfguring the face o; Mrs. Franz
Hughes, by an appli alton Of vitriol. Jeal
ousy was the cause.
Secretary Hoke Smith says he ceased
to control the opinion Of the Atlanta
Journal when he entered the cabinet, and
the utterances of that journal today dc
not reflect bis views so far as to attach
them with official significance.
Montreal papers say that over 6,OOC
Of the Canadians resident in the New
England states nave returned to Canada
within the last few weeks on account Of
the closing Of the mills and factories in
which they were employed.
Terrific forest fires in Wisconsin are
destroying millions of dollars worth Of
property and hundreds Of lives. Whole
towns have been literally wiped from the
face Of the earth and as many as fifty per
sons have persisted in single community
The Dalles has gone into partnership
with Wasco county in the purchase Of q
rock crusher for improving the streets anC
public roads convenient to the citv. Tn,
pondersus machine arrived about weel
ago, and has been tested with gratifyin,
results.
Christopher A. Buckley, the blind ex
boss OF San Francisco, who, about thre,