The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1898-01-20
ALL AROUND THE WORLD
News Of What Is Going on 10 our Own
and Other Countries.
EVERYDAY DolEGS In 4 NUTSHELL
selected Items OF Interest From
Press Dispatches OF enc Pest
Week Boiled Down for Busy
Readers.
FRIDAY.

| FRIDAY.
Preliminary arrangements are made
for taking the next federal census. 49,.
Fully 1000 men and women attended tho
mass meeting last night Of the union and
non-union weavers Of the city of New
Bedford, Mass. The action OF the union
in voting to strike against the wage re-
duction was Endorsed by q hearty aye.
The union and non-union card and pick
ers operatives held mass meeting. The
vote to resist the cut down was unani-
nous ..... Chairman Jones, OF the Dem.
ocratic National committee, Chairman
Butler, Popuist National committee, and
Towne, Of the Silver Republican Nation
al committee, will issue joint manifesto
in the early part Of next week with .
view to securing common action by the
three organizations in the political con-
test of 1898.
SATURDAY.
England prepares to force the gold
standard on India. :. The grand Jury
Of the Sangamon circuit court, of SPRING
field, ILL.,, indicted 10 of the companies
forming the alleged Springfield coal trust.
They are charged with conspiring to de-
fraud. The companies formed the Spring
field Coal Association and advanced the
price OF coal 80 cents per ton, claiming
they were compelled to advance the price
to consumers because they had advanced
the wages of their employees. The adj
vance in wages to their employees was ~
cents per ton. .... The Ontario legisla-
ture passes bill providing that no per-
sons shall be employed in the construc-
ton of subsidized railways in Ontario
who are subjects to any country which
has an alien labor law which practically
excludes Canadians from employment on
public or other works therein. This
means that Americans need not expect
employment on Canadian railways.
SUNDAY.
q. NJ. Oliver, a convict in the Deer
Lodge penitsntiary in Montana, falls heir
to $l50.000 by the death of an uncle,
which occurred in Bridgeport, Conn.,,
over a year ago. 49,. VIM. X. Vanderbilt
is consolidating the West Shore and New
York Central roads. This arrangement
will increase their net earnings nearly
half q million dollars per annum. 49,.
The North Atlantic squadron, which has
been gathering at Hampton Roads, 10
ordered to sail southwark. The navy de-
partment says the squadron's movements
have no relation to Cuba. go. The COM
missioners Of Spokane county take pre-
liminary steps toward establishing .
county laundry in order to give work to
destitute families. go. The George M.
Pullman estate is inv3ntoried at 10000
900 The Tippecanoe Club, of Cieve-
land, Ohio, adopts resolutions asking
the members who were active in oppos-
ing the candidacy of Senator Hanna, to
resign. Mayor McKsson made speech
in which he refused to resign. The direc-
tors will be asked to expe them. $3.50.
Hon. Benjamin Butterworth, United
States commissioner of patents, died at
3 :l5 this afternoon at Townsville Ga.
MONDAY.
The launching Of the Japanese warship
Kasagi, which was built at Cramps ship
yard, will take place on Thursday at
| noon. The Kasagi is the most important
ship ever built in the United States for
| foreign account. President Dole, OF
Hawaii, arrives in San Francisco enroute
to Washington b. G ..One Of the
most notable grand juries ever drawn In
| the United States district court OF New
Jersey will be sworn in on Tuesday. The
panel will include several millionaires.
an ex-United States senator and four
mayors 49, A second daily train will be
put on between Spokane and Portland
beginning the 23d inst. =. Two thought
less boys cause great mischief by apply
ing match to spray Of coal oil issuing
from small aperture in the Standard
Oil Company's pipe line from sistervllle
and Warrington to Morgsnton in West
Virginia. The pressure at the point was
strong. Soon the burning spray melted
the lead in the joints OF the pipe which
was six inches In diameter. Fifty acres
of forest and field were soon ablaze. Two
small bridges and two barns were burned
/ ALI the oil in 10 miles OF the scene was
consumed. The engineer ut Elkbank dis
covered something wrong and stopped
pumping, else the damage would have
been .grss,sr.