The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1898-09-15
LATER NEWS.

The Madrid senate has definitely
adopted the Hispano- American proto-
col. .t'
General Brooke reports that about IS
per cent of his command are sick at
Porto Rico.
Forty out Of every 100 OF the Fifth
| regulars at Santiago are reported sick.
Five deaths have occurred among the
immunes from malaria.
A 3O.houIs' rain in Texarkana, Tex,
caused considerable property loss. A
train on the Texas g. Pacific. road ran
into a washout and one man was killed
and six were injured. h
Aside from the loss of her colonies
and the ships destroyed in battle, tho,
war has cost SPAIN about 1884, 800, 900.
Information tdiths;effeet has been re.
ceived at the navy department from
the naval attaches Of this government
| abroad.
The Cubans are out in a. new mani.
!: festo, and the necessity for organiza-
| zion Of new party is set forth. The
document appeals to all Cubans having
| the progress and welfare of the infant
republic at heart to join with, the
nationalists in putting the government
on stable basis.
The Spaniards appear to be in no
great rush to leave Cuba, and the gov
eminent has been urged to take vigor-
Gus measures to accelerate their move
ments. The charge is made in certain
quarters that the evacuation is being
delayed SO that the Spanish govern
ment may continue to collect Cuban
revenues for time.s
The cutter Bear, with the govern.
vment relief expedition, is back from the
North with the crews of the whalers
which were crushed in the ice. Three
ships were wrecked. The Orca and
Freeman were lost last fall and the
Rosario last spring. All the crews
were saved. Some of the men We're
rescued by the Bear when on the very
| verge Of starvation. The Bear had a
narrow escape from destruction in the
ice off Point Barrow.
The navy department has arrived at
what it regards as fair and satisfac.
tory settlement of the question Of
awarding the contracts for the con.
struction of the three battleships. The
Cramps, the Newport News and the
Union iron works, of San Francisco.
will each secure big fighting ma
chine. The latter two companies will
be asked to amend their bids to conform
to the speed requirements OF Is knots,
as set forth in Cramps plans.
Fearing a yellow fever epidemic.
half the population of Jackson Miss.
have fed from the town.
The bitter passenger rate war is ter
minated. All western roads have agreed
to restoration of passenger rates, to
| be effective September 81.
Captain James G. Blaine, assistant
adjutant-general. U. S. ", has been
discharged from the army for his recent
fragrant escapades at San Francisco and
| Honolulu.
Spain has lost another Pacific possess
sion. Native forces captured the gar.
rison of Ponape and took full posses
sion OF the Carolines, which this coun-
try had contemplated Selling had the
war been prolonged.
Governor Lord, of Oregon, has COM
| pleted his investigation Of the condition
Of the $50 recruits of the Second Ore
gon volunteers encamped at San Fan
cisco, and has telegraphed to the secre-
tary of wal that he has found every.
| thing satisfactory.
General Rios, governor of the vi
sayas islands, and ad interim governor
general of the Spanish territory in the
Philippines, has wired the Madrid gov
eminent that he has arrived at IAN
understanding with the American
authorities respecting Luzon island. Z"
There is reason to believe that the
navy department has selected the Texas
as the future flagship Of the Asatic
station. The understanding is that
she will replace the protected cruiser
Olympia. which is to be ordered to the
United States as soon as her relief ar
Iives on the Asiatic station.
A Madrid dispatch says Spain is
ready to concede our every demand,
and the impossbility of resuming the
struggle is fully recognized. The gov
eminent is evidently of the opinion that
with strong navy there might have
been different story to tell of the out
come Of the war with the United
States, and deplores the fact that she
has but few ships left.
A Cuban patriot writes that misery
among the Cubans is on the increase,
and that conditions in Havana City