The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1898-09-15
THE AMERICANS At LUZ0H
Overlooked by the Spaniards
in q New Division.
SITUATION At MANILA CRITICAL
sertions Of the spanish-EHpectipg
Aid From Germany. -. %"

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the,1iaval battle 4.tufEN2 On santiago,
have sailed front Jersey: CITY on the
steamer City Of &pnie for home. The
men had been held prisoners at Nor
folk, Va.
Illinois has secured the commander.
in-chief of the q. A. r., in Colonel
James A. Sexton, Of Chicago and
Pennsylvania has secured the location
of 33d annual encampment at Phila-
delphia next Year, '..
A dispatch from Manila says: The
attitude OF the Philippine insurgent
leaders is daily becoming more danger.
Gus. So open is their opposition to the
American authorities that the situation
is strained and reconciliation may be
difficult.
Texarkana, Ark, Is overrrun with
idle.negroes, who are said to have come
from the Northern districts of Texas,
whenceEthey were driven by white.
caps, who are alleged to have made
several murderous attacks on the
negroes.
At the Washington state convention
held at Ellensburg, Wash, the Demo.
Gratis renominated James Hamilton
Lewis for congress by reclamation,
and the silver Republican convention
Ienominated Congressman W. G. Jones
by reclamation.
IL is officially announced that Senator
George Gray, of Delaware. has been
selected as the fifth member OF the
Paris peace commission. This com.
pletes the personnel of the comm ssion,
which stands composed as follows Ex-
Secretary of State Day, Senators Frye
and Gray and Whitelaw Reid.
Two million dollars, for the purchase
Of the Center Star mine, in Rossland.
b. c., has been deposited with the
cashier OF the State Savings bank. in
Butte, Mont The purchasers are an
English syndicate, of which Sir Charles
Ross, now in New York, is the head.
The stockholders who sell out are prin.
cipally Butte people.
A dispatch to the New York Herald
from Ponce, Porto Rico. says that i'll.
ness among the United States troops is
increasing. There are now more than
25 per cent of the men unfit for duty
within a radius of a few miles of Ponce.
There are 1000 soldiers in the hos
pitfalls. In some commands there are
80 per cent of the men down with fever,
principally typhoid.
Thomas H. Wheeler. son of General
Joseph Wheeler, and Second Lieuten-
ant Newton d. kirkpatrick, First cav.
airy. were drowned while bathing near
the camp at Montauk Point.
Hawaiian advices announce the death
of Sergeant Ormond Fletcher, of the
Second Oregon volunteer engineer
corps. He was formerly county sur.
veyor of Multnomah county, Oregon.
A cable from Hong Kong announces
that committee of three Filippinos.
appointed by Aguinaldo, has left Hong
Kong to confer with President McKin.
ley upon the future of the Philippines.
Several salmon, averaging 20 pounds
in weight, have recently been caught
in the Sacramento river. From the
fact that the adipose fin had been re-
moved from each they were identified
as marked fish liberated from the hatch.
cries on the Clackamas river, in Ore
gon, in 1897.
The president of the Cretan executive
committee has notified the foreign adj
mirals that in view of the massacre at
Gambia it is impossible to continue the
effort to organize the administration
until the Turkish functionaries and
troops are withdrawn. He demands
the convocaton of the Cretan ssembly,
and proposes to place force of Cretans
at the disposal of the international adj
ministration.
Joseph Chamberlain says an Anglo
fected, and treaty has been signed.
England is to support the Kaiser's pre-
tensions in Egypt. Chamberlain also
gave it out officially that England
favors American retention of the Phil
ippines. One thing the Continental
powers most fear is that the United
States and Great Britain may enter
into an international understanding.
A report is published in London of
daring plot to assassinate the czar at
Moscow last week. The plan of the
conspirators was to allow gas to escape
into house on the route of the czar's
procession until the atmosphere in every
room was saturated. One of their
number was to remain in the house
and strike a light when the car was
passing in the expectation that the
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