The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-11-04
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SUDDEN DEATH OF HENRY GEORGE
Results of Elections In New York
ana seven other states-Cuba Un-
der Command OF n New General
The Union Pacific sold.
FRIDAY.

GroVer Cleveland has a son and heir.
W.. j. Bryan speaks to 10000 people at
Mount Vernon, o.
William Carr, of Kansas City, Mo-, de-
| liberately brownies one OF his children
because he had too many.
The San Francisco board of health re-
ports the discovery OF the bacilli Of tu-
berculosis in Chinese-made cigars.
Gen. Weyler is commanded to remain
in Havana until the arrival OF his sue
cessor, Gen. Blanco. He wanted to leave
two days before this.
A young married couple are discov-
cred in the Northern Pacific freight ware
house in piano box that was just being
trucked into car. They had slowed
away for trip east.
Henry George, one of the candidates
for mayor of New York. dies OF appo-
plexy. lie arrived at his hotel exhaust
ed at | a. m, after attending several po-
ltical meetings, and died at 4 AS q. m.
There has been a conflict OF authority
at Everett between the sheriff and mar
shall. The former took charge for q while
and stopped all gambling and ran out the
| vags, but later the marshal took COM
mand and Everett is wide open town
| again.
SPANS reply to the United States re-
gardlng Cuban matters processes warm
friendship for this country, agrees to con-
slider any proposition that may be sub
mitted for cooperation, and lays much
stress on the subject of tiilibustering ex-
| petitions.
SATURDAY.
Spanish atrocities continue in Cuba.
W.. Bryan speaks to large audiences
at Newark and Shawnee. Ohio.
Eight whaling vessels with 300 men
are reported ice-locked in the Artic. The
men may die.
John Bell, of Oakland, CAL, claims q
share in the large estate of Mrs. Z. C.
Bailey, who lives near Chelsea, Mass.
According to the terms of George NJ.
Pullman's will, his body is imbedded
in solid masonry bound in steel, to pre-
vent body snatching.
The steamer Portland arrives on her
last trip from st. Michaels. She brought
no miners and no gold dust, because the
miners could not get down the Yukon to
| st. Michaels.
Much doubt is expressed regarding the
| probability Of the autonomists in Cuba
! m 10 huk
Liberal ministry, which provides for self
government under the eye Of q governor
appointed by Spain.
A New York company is sending men
to klondke for $40. That is, 90 men are
required to contribute $40 each, and then
one OF them is selected by lot to repre-.
sent the others, and is sent in by the
company, if the company does as it says
it will.
SUNDAY.
The president designates Thursday,
November %, as Thanksgiving day.
| Millions mourn the death OF Henry
| George. He is pronounced the most re-
markable among modern reformers.
An investigation of the accounts of the
| old county commissioners in King county
shows that they got s57S5.75 more than
the law allowed them.
Another strike has been made near
Dawson City, which caused 400 claims to
be- staked out on & side hill in Skookum
| guch in twenty-iour hours. Ia half
day two men with rocker got $685.
within one foot Of the surface.
Dispatches from Port Townsend state
that several head of horses and one head
OF cattle on the bark Colorado, which left
| Seattle yesterday for Skaguay, Alaska,
in tow OF the tug Pioneer, suffocated be.
fore reaching Port Townsend, and that
when that point was reached portion OF
the horses and cattle were unloaded and
will be taken north on the City of Seat
tie instead of on the Colorado. This is
the relief expedition that took its horses
and many OF its men from North Yak.
ina.
MONDAY.
England and France both send forces
to disputed territory in Africa.
W. I. Ford, who was convicted of Sc
duction in Seattle, asks for new trial.
At Everett Miss Ruth Nelson, a menu
Der Of the ''Side Tracked" company, has
her clothing set on fire by a lamp in a