The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1898-02-24
News Of What is Going on In Our Own
and Other Countries.
EVERYDAY DOINGS IN 4 NUTSHELL
Selected Items OF Interest From
Press Dispatches Of the Past
Week Boiled Down For Busy
Headers.
FRIDAY, 18th.

FRIDAY, 18th.
A railroad rate war is on and tickets
are selling from the Pacific coast to Chi.
cago for $40, and through to New York
for $50. The two Spokane bankers
charged with receiving deposits after the
bank was insolvent are dismissed by
Judge Richardson OF Spokane. ~ The
sixth week of the cloth mills strike in
Massachusetts opens without any indi.
cation Of the opening of the mills on the
part of the manufacturers.
SATURDAY.
The Spanish warship Viscaya comes to
anchor outside the bar of New York har-
Dor. The police have provided the Span.
ish consul general in New York city with
a special guard. When the war vessel
makes her anchorage in the river cor
don of police boats will be placed around
her, and the docks in the vicinity will
be closely watched .. The interstate
commerce commission has suspended the
operation OF the long and short haul
clauses of the interstate commerce act in
| favor OF the railroad lines in the United
States. William n. Boggs, default
| ing paying teller of the First National
Bank of Dover, Del, was ed today
in " ilmington. Boggs is said to have
made away with over 100000. Four
prominent men of Kent county were al
SO arrested today, charged with aiding
Boggs in his stealngs.
SUNDAY.
| 1t is current news at Columbus, O.,
tonight that the senate bribery investi-
eating committee will make report find
ing Senator Hanna guilty of attempting
to bribe Representative Otis of Cincin-
natl Through his (Hanns's) duly auth
orized agents" Such report is now be-
ing prepared and will he signed by ma
jority of the committee. A dispatch
to the New York World from Havana
says: The divers have m ade only three
descents to the wreck OF the Maine.
Capt. Sigbee's state documents were res
cued from private drawer in the cabin.
The keys to the magazines were found
Just above the hook over the head of the
captains bed, the usual place. About
100 of the Names heroes are yet in the
wreck "A dispatch to the New York
Herald from Key West, Fla, says: 1t 10
learned from what may be considered a
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down on behalf Of the United States to
examine the wreck OF the battleship
Maine have made a preliminary report OF
the result of their work. Incredible as it
may seem, it is said that after partial
examination of the magazines of the
Maine, the divers report that the one in
which the explosion is supposed to have
occurred is intact. The sreport reaching
Key West has caused the membe OF the
court of inquiry to decide to proceed to
Havana and begin their investigation at
once instead of organizing their court
here.
MONDAY.
The Merritt & Chapman Derrick and
Wrecking Company. of New York. today
signed contract with the government to
raise the batteship Maine. Their most
powerful tug, Monarch, now at New
York, will proceed at once to Havana.
The Monarch will be followed by other
tugs, and work will begin as soon as pos
sible. Two expert divers, with all the
necessary appliances, will accompany the
Monarch. .. 1t is almost certain that
the bill which passed the senate today to
create two additional regiments of ar
tillery will pass the house without much
opposition if it is reported while the
house is in it's present temper.