The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1898-01-27
News Of What is Going on 10 our own
and Other Countries.
CONGRESSMAN LEWIS Is HOEORED
Selected Items OF Interest From
Press Dispatches of the Past
Week Boiled Down for Busy
Readers.
FRIDAY.

At a meeting OF representative Demo-
Gratis held in Washington, ID. c., Hon.
James Hamilton Lewis, of Washington,
is offered the Craftsmanship Of the Demo-
cratic National Congressional Committee.
He said he would have to decline, for the
reason that it would require him to fight
a Populist in district where no Repub-
lican was running; that as he was q rep
resentative OF the Populist as well as of
the Democratic party, such a course
would be bad faith Forty. i've Klon-
dikers arrive in Seattle with $500, 600.
The bill introduced by the finance
minister of the council on January IA,
providing for an issue of currency notes
in India against gold, is adopted.
SATURDAY.
A dispatch from Paris says that the
minister OF commerce, NJ. Boucher, has
received depntation representing the
manufacturers and business men of sew
eral departments, who urged that pro-
tective duties be imposed on oils and oil
seeds, as America is swapping European
markets with cheap oil seed, thereby
causing big break in prices Mayor
McKisson, of Cleveland, is at Columbus
taking preliminary steps to contest the
seat OF Senator Hanna in the United
States Senate. He will rely on the test-
mony adduced at the investigation of the
bribery charges now being made, and
will hold that Hanna did not receive
enough legal votes to entitle him to this
place 49,. Portland makes preparation
to send ten carloads of provisions, under
the auspices OF the Red Cross Society of
New York, for the relief of suffering
Cubans.
SUNDAY.
There is not pound Of coal for sale in
San Francisco except at few OF the
small retail yards in the residence dis
tricts. Alaska business has so iAterfered
with coal transportation that a serious
coal famine seems inevitable 49,. John
MCGOWAN, a young teacher in Alexander
county, Ill, has died from injuries in
ilcted by two pupils, Henry and Scott
Jordan, 10 and 20 years old respectively.
The Jordan boys did not like an order
made by McGowan, and disobeyed. This
resulted in a whipping by the teacher.
Later the boys waylaid the teacher and
gave him fatal beating. ..... Russia is
about to present q note to Turkey, de-
manding payment Of the whole balance
of the indemnity of the Russo Turkish
war, amounting to ELS ,900. 900 ($l40,000
O00) with view to making the sultan
more docile in the settlement Of
the Cretan question.
MONDAY.
Part OF the old Statehouse in Philadel
phia is blown down in a windstorm. ...
The employees of the Wheeling steel plant
in Benwood, about 500 in number, are
notified of the second reduction in wages
within IL months. The present reduction
affects all employees of the company, and
runs from IL to % per cent. .....A char
liable restaurant has been opened in
Portland where meals can be had at one
cent per dish . "A grand jury is called
in King county to Investigate warrant
forgery cases " Cornelius Vanderbilt,
| jr., will take doctors degree Some
Dallas men discover hidden treasure IN
Oak Lawn. Tex, to the amount OF sl5,-
900.
TUESDAY.
! Rev. G. o. Brown. who was suspended
by the Bay Conference of San Francisco
two years ago for conduct unbecoming
minister, and who afterwards was pastor
of Chicago church, has confessed that
he was guilty of some OF the things OF
/ which he Was accused The battle