The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1898-10-27
LATER NEWS.

The total registration Of voters in
New York was $50, 3S9. as against &c.,
1879 in 1897.
Fire broke out at pier No. 80, East
river, Brooklyn, and did damage to the
amount of $500. 900.
John II. Dialogue, head of the ship
building firm of that name, is dead at
his home at Camden, N, J.
A great improvement is reported in
the health of the Spanish troops at Ha-
vana during the past ten days.
A movement to restrict the town of
Pullman. ILL.,, to its charter limitations
has been approved by the supreme court
of that state.
Another demonstration has been
made in Havana by city officials who
have not received their salaries for
many months past.
The steamer Reina de Los Angeles
has returned to Santiago after carrying
the Garcia and Cespedes factions to
Santa Cruz del Sur to attend the Cuban
assembly.
American exports are increasing
more rapidly than those of any other
county. In 1870 we had Z q per cent
of the worlds commerce; now we have
IL per cent.
Naval Constructor Richmond P. Hob
son has arrived home again. lie be-
lieves the sunken Spanish warship Viz
caya can be saved, but it would cost
81 900, 900 to raise her.
Emperor william has designated a
large fountain which he proposes to
erect in Constantinope as gift to COM
memorate his visit and that of Empress
Victoria to the sultan's capital.
The steamship Victoria brings news
to Tacoma that two more battles have
been fought in Formosa between Japan
ese troops and the native savages, who
seem bent on exterminating all the
japanese on the island.
Aguinaldo is DESTROYS of going to
Paris for the purpose of appearing be-
fore the peace commissioners, says
Manila dispatch, but he is prevented
from so doing by the jealousies existing
between the insurgent leaders.
The principal fact brought out by the
newest British blue book is that nc
offer to negotiate on the matter Of pos.
session of Fashoda was ever made. The
French papers now seem hopeful of a
peaceful solution of the dispute.
The canal route survey has been
completed and there is an exodus of
civil engineers from Nicaragua. Louis
Wickman, who has just arrived at New
York from Greytown. thinks Zeaya's
opinion as to the time of the expiration
of the Maritime Canal Company's con-
cesson is faulty.
Time to the Yukon will be short
ened as the result of the discovery OF a
new channel for vessels. Steamers of
moderate draught may enter the mouth
of the river and ascend four or five
hundred miles before housekeeping.
Expansion of territory under the new
survey is important.
The last detachment of Spanish
troops have sailed from Porto Rico and
eNacuatloH is CONF lete.
The Utah troop of cavalry, which has
been doing guard duty in the Yosemite,
has been ordered to the Presidio.
Majors General Wesley Merritt, y.
S. A, was married privately in London
to Miss Laura Williams, of Chicago.
News has been received in Washing
of A nf 90 hn
cruiser Rio de la Plata, which is to be
presented to Spain by the Spanish resi-
dents of Argentina.
The joint traffic association has re-
ceiyed a death blow by the United
States supreme court, which has just
decided tnat its existence is unlawful,
and the antitrust law is being violated.
A Madrid dispatch to the New York
World says that leading men at Madrid
concede that America will not assume
the Cuban debt, that the Philippines
will probably be lost and that the
American commissioners demands in
all matters will be acceded to.
Secretary Long has taken the militia
tive steps to make San Juan de Porto
Rico the first naval station in the West
Indian waters. Congress will be asked
to appropriate money enough to make
it one of the best equipped naval sta
tions the United States has.
Serious trouble is brewing among the
Comanche, Kiowa and Apache Indians.
For 80 years, since the Medicine Lodge
treaty, the government has fed these
Indians, but that treaty expired July /.
They have commenced killing cattle he