The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1897-12-16
ALL AROUND THE WORLD
The Weeks Press Dispatches Boiled
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EVERYDAY THINGS in A NUT SHELL
what the wires are Ticking-Teie.
graphic Topics TOId-The Day -
Doings Every thing of Inieres,
Dumped IN Hreviiy's basket.
EVERYDAY THINGS IN A NUT SHELL
FRIDAY.

| A resolution is introduced in the Senate
declaring 1t TO be the sense of the Senate
that the United States should recognize
the political Independence of Cuba
One ship clearing from New York carries
5000 money orders amounting to So, 900,
being mostly Christmas presents sent to
Norway and Sweden. 49,. For a bonus
amounting to $780, 900 capitalists offer to
put IN beet sugar factory at La Grande,
Oregon, with capacity OF 800 tons per
day and have it ready for the 1898 crop.
Only $4,000 OF the required amount re-
mains to be secured.
SATURDAY.
The general unrest among the Moslems
IN Russia threatens serious outbreak
similar to that in India .AIl swords
and Dayonets In the possession of the
regular troops in Ireland have been or
dered sharpened. This order is unpre.
cedented and perfect mystery to both
officers and men .. The House passes
the pension appropriation bill without
amendment and adjourns till Monday
| The amendments offered by Democrats
to correct alleged existing abuses were
all ruled out on the point of order that
they were new legislation. As passed
the bill carries $l4l ,263, $50. $50. Prosper
lty reaches the Northern Pacific Railway
Company and one per cent dividend is
declared .....A New York biscuit com.
bine is organized to control the cracker
and biscuit trade in the United States.
.... Boston gas ombination is formed
by few large firms, who buy out all the
little ones. The amount paid is $4,000
600 49,. A Seattle man sells his claim in
Eldorado, klondlke, for 100000.
SUNDAY.
W. j. Bryan visits Mexico and receives
warm welcome .. An election officer
in Philadelphia, who made false return
on the vote, is sentenced to pay fine of
5000, imprisonment for nine months, dis
reimbursement for four years, and dis
qualification for holding office for seven
wears Germany is after the Standard
Oil Company. She increases the tariff
on American petroleum and reduces the
freight rates on the Russian product
man is murdered on the line of the
| Chicago q Alton road by being nailed to
the track and run over by tram.
Mrs. Nancy Allison Mckinley, mother of
President Mckinley, passes away sur
rounded by all her children.
MONDAY.
Mark Hanna Is recovering from an at
tack OF influenza, but his physicians say
| lac IS not out of danger "A bill is
being prepared providing for the COM
| plete determination OF the seal herd of
Bering Sea. The author claims it would
tend toward making peace among nations
and be an economy for the United States.
1
tue largest and best equipped force ever
assembled in India has failed. About
| 400 men and officers have been either
! killed or wounded, 5000 900 rupees spent
in loss and British prestige weakened.
\ convention is called to meet in New
| York to consider primary election re-
| forms Another batch of forged Che.
halls county warrants, amounting to
1898, comes to light .....An under.
standing is reached whereby England will
not oppose Germany in her plan of grab
! blng kiao Chan .....A leading Russian
paper declares that the partition of China
has actually begun and will proceed
quickly ... Nearly three inches of rain
tails in Seattle in Il hours 80. 1t is Just
| discovered that the Kansas Legislature
/ which met last winter committed a mis-
! take. hich cuts off the salaries of all the
| probate judges in that state ~ A burg.
lar is shot bv policemsn's wife in Sac
ramento, Cal .... Rev. Gibson, who was
! Eurrants pastor, refuses to see the con-
| demned mans mother, who calls with a
message from her son asking the preacher
to tell all he knows about the murder in
Emanuel Church.
TUESDAY.
Chicago aldermen raise their own sal
aries from S. per week to $500 per year.
The sale of the Kansas Pacific is post.
poned 90 days General Weyler ar
rives in Madrid, but his arrival creates no
no enthusiasm .... The Oil Producers
Trust in California advances the price of
petroleum, owing to shortage of that
article .... Three thousand compositors
in New York City strike for nine hour
day ......A poll of Congress indicates
that the Presidents ideas will be opposed
at every point. The Hawaiian treaty
cannot pass the Senate. More than a