The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1898-02-03
News Of What is Going on In our own
and Other Countries.
The TELLER RESOLUTION Is LOST
Selected Items OF Interest From
Press Dispatches OF she Pest
Week Boiled Down for Busy
Readers.
FRIDAY.

The Teller resolution passes the Senate
by a vote OF AZ to 80. 1t Is as follows:
That all the bonds OF the United States
issued, or authorized to be issued, under
the said acts of Congress hereinbefore
recited. are payable, principal and in
terest, at the option of the Government
of the United States in silver dollars.
of the coinage Of the United States con-
tanning 4l2a grains each of standard
silver, and that to restore to Its coinage
such silver coins as legal tender in pay
ment of said bonds, principal and inter
est is not in violation of the public
faith, nor in derogation Of the rights Of
the public credit. -. Representative
Otto Otis admits that he was paid $3.50
to vote for Hanna for U. s. Senator. .....
II. M. Kersey, of New York, is charged
with having attempted to kiss his cook
and because she prevented him he
slapped her face. She sues for sc, 1000
damages At Port Townsend q FIVE
year. old stowaway is discovered in ves-
sci bound for Alaska and sent back to
Seattle.
SATURDAY.
Word is received that the Corona, which
sailed from Seattle to Dyea last Tuesday.
struck rock near the mouth of the
Skeena River and at once commenced to
sink. The lifeboats were lowered and
the passengers were conveyed to the
beach Of the Skeena River. All passen-
gers and livestock were saved, but every
thing else went down with the ship. 800.
President Diaz, of Mexico, is preparing
to visit the United States The first
class armored cruiser Viscayia starts Tor
America. The rest of the Spanish squad
ron is preparing to sail for Havana.
Uncle Sam has sixteen floating fighting
machines off the extreme southerly coast
Of Florida .. The Dominion govern
ment lets contract for the completion
Of railroad from Stickeen to Lake Tes-
lin, to be completed by September l, and
to be wholly on Canadian soil .....A
number of former employees in the New
England cotton mills, who are on strike
against reduced wages, start for the West.
where they will seek new homes. ...
Senator Teller receives a number OF tele-
grams congrstulating him and the silver
forces in the Senate on the passage of his
resolution. Among the messages WAS
one from Hon. w. J. Bryan, which was
confined to an expression of satisfac-
ton over the result.
SUNDAY.
well dressed young man attacked
Ruby Waters, twelve years Of age, as
she was returning home from the Mar
quette school yesterday in Chicago and
deliberately pulled out one of the side
braids of her long hair by its roots ....
Railroad rates from the east to Seattle
are badly demoralized, tickets being sold
from Chicago as low as $3.50, which is
one cent per mile .... Two different
wives Of w. B. Gordon, who persisted in
the late Spokane fire, have been inqulr-
ing for him, only to discover that he had
with him in the building ..... When
next month the battleship Kentucky
gldes from the ways at Newport News
her PROV will not be bathed in cham
payne nor in good old whisky. The fair
sponsor, Miss Christine Bradley, will
uncork beautifully embellished silver
vessel of pure water, taken from spring
on the farm in Lawrie county where
Abraham Lincoln. IN bis boyhood, went
TO slake his thirst.
MONDAY.
The International Paper Company. of
Cornth, New York, organizes a trust and
files articles of incorporation, with a cap
ital of 81, 900 900 49,. The third week of
the strike begins to-day with no nearer
prospect of a settlement than was appar-
ent three weeks ago. Some of the col
iectors who have been at work in neigh