The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1898-10-20
LATER NEWS.


Jerusalem Is crowded with Germans
awaiting the arrival Of KasieI Wilhelm.
A new president and a cabinet will
be elected in Cuba the latter part OF
the present month.
The immediate establishment OF
fever hospital at Havana is urged by
surgeons in charge there.
The transport Pennsylvania arrived
at San Francisco from Manila and Hon.
olulu, with 80 sick soldiers.
The war investigation board has left
Washington for the Southern army
camps on a tour of inspection.
Naval Constructor Hobson expresses
himself as confident that the wrecked
Spanish cruiser Cristobal Colon can be
saved.
The departure for camps of the South
Of troops now in the East has been post.
poned, owing to the prevalence of vel.
low fever
A cash balance in bank exceeding
$500, 600 now stands to the credit of
the Trans-Mississippi exposition. The
attendance is also increasing.
Illinois manufacturers have urged
President Mckinley to establish open
ports in the new American possessions.
The presidents reply was encouraging.
Insurgents at Lagaspi, Philippine
islands have refused to allow the Ameri-
can steamer Hermossa TO land there. on
the ground that there were Spaniards
aboard.
Eight hundred soldiers have sailed
from San Frsncco for the Philippines.
The expedition included the Oregon
recruits and the Washington volun-
teers.
The United States is now formally in
possession of the island OF Porto Rico
as sovereign. American flags have
been raised on the public buildings and
forts in the city, and saluted with
national salutes.
Advices form the North say Ameri.
can doctors and American lawyers are
forbidden to practice in Dawson. In
the meantime the hospitals are crowd.
ed with patients, and typhoid fever has
been epidemic. The discrimination
will cost many lives in the Klondike.
The O. Il. 81 N. steamer, T. j. Potter
ran into and sunk the G. w. Shaver on
the lower Colum bia. The accident
occurred off Deer Island, five miles
from Kaama. The Shaver was struck
in the middle and in a short time was
resting at the bottom OF the river. The
night was dark and heavy log pre-.
vailed.
The Oregon legislature adjourned sine
die Saturday.
A genuine blizzard visited the Middle
Western states, doing considerable
damage.
A Polish priest has sued the Catholic
church for $50, 900 for excommuncat.
ing him.
1t is said in London that the French
must either withdraw from Fashoda OF
go to war with England.
The German government has now
decided to appoint permanently naval
attache at Washington, who will reach
his post in January.
The British ship Blengfelt. from New
York, burned off Margat, England,
early Monday morning. Eleven OF til,
crew, besides the captains wife and
children, persisted.
Seven barges, containing 800, 200
pools of naphtha have been burned at
the petroleum port Of Astiakhan, Rus.
STA. Three persons were killed in the
conhagration, and several others in
jured.
The war department has received
detailed description of the fortified.
tions of Havana. Besides old guns,
there are 43 new guns. These guns are
principally OF the Hontoria and Ordone2
pattern, but there are few Krupps
among them.
In a head-end collision between two
freight rains near Great Falls, Mont.
due to a misunderstanding of orders,
Engineer Charles Goddard and Brake
man Robert 7. June were killed, and
Fireman A. L. Richie was probably
fatally injured.
The government will undertake the
transportation of Christmas boxes for
soldiers at Manila. A steamer will
start from San Francisco early in No
vember. SO packages must be forwarded
soon. Only small quantities of sweet
things will be accepted.
1t is announced that Montreal and