The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1895-05-16
Queen VIC. TO ABDICATE.
CfoVef'S GIFT to the Father Of TripIets
Named Frances, Ruth and Esther.
$4,000 VIRGINIA MINERS ON A STRIKE
News Notes From All Points Of the
Compass Beiied Down Tor ssThe
Heraid's" List OF Out OF Town
Readers.

Gov. Walton, of Delaware. will appoint
senator to succeed Senator Higgins.
Japan is negotiating, with Nicaragua
for transportation rights on the big canal.
The Adams Express Company has de-
clared quarterly dividend Of per cent.
payable June l..
Cyrus Waldegrave Eaton, ex-mayor and
one Of the most prominent men of Cedar
Rapids, Ia., is dead.
The jury trying Police Inspector Nc
Laughlin Of New York on charge of
extortion. has been discharged, having
failed to agree.
The preliminary examination OF John
7. Jones for robbing the mint, was con-
cluded at Carson, New. Jones was held
to the grand jury.
Claus A. Blixt plead guilty at Mime
apolis on Saturday to the murder Of Cath
crime Cling. He was sentenced to the
penitentiary for life.
The long expected death Of ex-President
r. Seeley. of Amherst college, at his
home in Amherst, Mass, occurred at 7 80
Sunday morning of palsy. He had been
Ill over q year.
A cyclone swept across portions Of Iowa
and Illinois on the 4th. At Aurora, ILL.,,
five persons were killed. A number of
people also lost their lives elsew here, and
In northwestern Iowa, where much dam
age was done in the vicinity of Sioux
City.
James Mabrinto, aged 20, unmarried,
and A. d. Mcdonald, aged AZ, with wife
and five children. were crushed to death
in the Rarus mine Sunday morning by
the falling of q cage. Mabrinto tainted
and knocked Mcdonald of. Both bodies
were torn to pieces.
A dispatch to the N. Y. Times from
Paris says that in the negotiations for the
Chinese loan Germany has formed a
powerful group which is inclined to issue
the loan on condition that the customs
and other receipts shall be controlled by
Europeans. 1t is agreed that it shall be
issued in equal shares by Germany, Rus
sia, France and England.
Fifteen thousand miners met at Key
stone, West Virginia, last Thursday to
attempt organizing to force the Virginia
miners to join them in "sympathetic"
strike, in furtherance OF that in the
West Virginia coal fields lying along the
line of the Norfolk & Western railroad.
The trouble comes from 20 per cent.
wage cut in that district.
All the bids for supplying the schools
of the state with series OF text books were
rejected by the board Of education, for
the reason that the books did not meet
the requirements of the law either in
quality or price. The board remained in
secret session all Saturday and until mid.
night, and it was not till Monday morn.
ing that the book men learned Of the
boards decision. New bids have been
called for, and will be received till
O'Clock, May 81.
The World has the following special ad-
vices from Toxic. via San Francisco
The last battle of the war between Japan
and China at Tienchwsngtai, on March
10. resulted in butchery equaling the
atrocities at Port Arthur. 1t demon
strates that soldiers of both Oriental races
are as bloodthirsty and brutal as the
American Indians. The wounded were
dispatched on the field in the American
Indian style. The town was sacked and
burned. Letters from eye-witnesses de-
scribe the butchery as horrible.
The report that the Oath Of May will be
made memorable by the abdication OF the
Queen has again come to surface, but this
time with a stronger coloring Of trust.
worthiness than ever before. On that
date 70 years ago Queen Victoria was
born, and, while her mental faculties are
not in any way impaired by the burden
OF years, the physical ailments have in
creased to such an extent as to make all
state duties well-nigh impossible. This
fact, too, was emphasized recently
by long conference between the mother
and the Prince OF Wales, in which two at
least of the members Of Lord Rosebery'.
cabinet took part.
A family in Indiana was recently glad
dened by the arrival of triplets-three
girls. The mother named them Frances
Ruth and Esther, and when the proud
father wrote to the Hon. Grover Cleve
land informing him Of the facts, the pres
ident returned the compliment by mail
ing him check for $500. We anticipat,
that the president will find that he has
set bad precedent. If these gold basis
times of his don't let up little pretty
soon, we can promise that there will be 8
triplet craze stalking over the land that
will snow the Trilby craze completely out
OF sight. He will then find it necessary
to write letter to the American public
protesting against this free coinage Of
triplets.