The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1898-10-27
tP|TOME OF THE DISPATCHES
Interesting Collection of Items From
Many Places Culled From the Press
Reports of the Current Week.

Yellow fever has been completely
stamped out at Guantanamo.
Charles Kugadt was hanged at Hous-
ton, Tex, for the murder OF his sister.
Fully 10000 people participated in
reception to General Shafter at Lima. o.
The independent battalion of Wash
ington volunteers has been mustered
out.
Ex-Governor Charles Sheldon, of
South Dakota, died at Deadwood OF
rheumatism.
Superintendent Lukens, of the Chi
cago-Virden Coal Company has been
released from custody on bonds.
The wireworkers' strike at Cleye-
land, o., has failed, and general re-
sumption of work will soon follow.
The Colorado supreme court has de-
cided the silver Republican factional
quarrel in favor of the anti-Tellertes,
who are given the right to the title and
emblem of the party.
Battery b. Oregon volunteers, has
been mustered out of service, and its
members returned to private life with
out having the much .sought-for chance
to battle for their country.
Agoncillo. envoy Of the Filipinos,
has reached Paris, In reply to Span
ish statement, the American peace COM
missioners have declared that the
United States refuses to assume
sovereignty over Cuba.
A Havana dispatch says: An agree
ment between the two commissions as
to the date of evacuation again seems
probable. The American ultimatum
fixes upon January /, and this date
will be finally accepted by the Span
iards.
: Lieutenant Peary's vessel is caught
In the ice, and there is little prospect
that it will get out this year. The
present position of the steamer is much
farther north than whaers usually go.
The vessel will return safely next
epring after the ice thaws.
A sensational story comes from Ha-
vana to the effect that Captain-G General
Blanco together with other prominent
Spaniards, had formed a plot to set up
republic in Cuba, and eventually turn
the island back to Spain. Their plans
were upset by the signing of the peace
protocol.
Rev. Chas. Heath, oolored, is dead at
his home in New York city, aged 1Ol
years. The first notable event in his
life was in 1899. when his mother car
ried him to the funeral of George
Washington, so that he could always
say that he had attended the burial OF
the first president of his country.
President Mckinley addressed
large body of railway employees before
leaving Chicago.
Advices from Porto Rico says all
high officials there have taken steps to
become naturalized Americans.
The British ship Blenfeld burned
at the mouth Of the Thames river, and
IA of those on board lost their lives.
The Spaniards at Havana are becom.
ing insolent, and dsregarding the
American demands. Blanco has auc-
toned off cannon which rightly be-
longed to the United States.
In the annual report of the third
assistant acknowledgement strong
recommendation is made that negotia-
tions be opened looking to the reduce
ton of the international rate to cents
half ounce or fraction thereof.
In q tenible typhoon off Formosa
hundreds of lives were lost. Among
the ships lost was the American bark
Comet. The crew was saved. Home
ward-bound passengers say they passed
numerous abandoned vessels. The loss
of life must have been enormous.
The coal-mining town of Yelling
ton, Vancouver island, has been the
scene of several subsidences, and there
is general alarm there owing to indica-
tions that another is likely to take
place. The whole town is under
mined, owing to the extensive opera
tions for coal mining.
A dispatch from Manila says: The
insurgent general, Pho Pillar, has agreed
to evacuate Paco Pace. the last suburb
Of Manila held by the Filipinos Tues.
day. This completes the American
conquest Of the city. The last rebel
has left Cavite and Manila, the rest of
the island of Luzon being in the hands
of the insurrectionist faction.
Disastrous typhoons. sandstorms and
foods have caused fearful loss of life
and property in the Orient In the
district watered by the river Feng, in
Japan, hundreds Of villages have been
swept away and 1900 people drowned.