The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1898-10-13
LATER NEWS.
A Pittsburg bank was blown up ant
$40. stolen.

Thirty-six deaths and 40 cases Of
yellow fever are reported in Mississippi
| to date.
Cuban sugar planters reinse to resume
| operations unless guaranteed proper
protection.
The Oregon and Washington recruits
| who have been encamped in san Fan
cisco for some time are TO be sent to
! Manila
! All the terloughed soldiers of the
| Washington battalion and battery A,
Oregon volunteers, have reported for
! duty, and will be mustered out.
The health OF the United States
troops now in the province of Santiago
has considerably improSed, not more
than To- per cent now being on the sick
| list.
An association, to be. known as the
Lumber Manufacturers, of the Pacific
| Coast has been formed, and has adj.
vancel the price of lumber from SO sc
to 80 to Sll per thousand, cargo de.
/ liverel.
Proposals for the cession of Pore
| Rico and Guam islands to the United
States and providing for the independ-
ence of Cuba will be discussed by the
peace commission in Paris at its next
session.
The American commissioners have
notified the Spanish authorities in
/ Havana that the United States will
assme entire control, military and gov
ernmental of Cuba December /. The
| same control will be exercised in Porto
| Rico October IS,
A meeting of importance, it is said,
| will be held in few days in some
! Havana province, of all the command
els of the Cuban army. Gen. Maxine
Gomez will preside. The meeting will
| have significance. as deciding the
future policy of the Cuban army on the
island
The great strike at Paris may be ex-
tended, and pressure is being put on
unions not affected to join IA the move.
ment. Forty thousand men are now
out. Violence has already been resort
ed to in few cases to cause men still
working to come out. The streets of
Paris are taking on the appearance of
a military camp. The soldiers sympa.
tbize with the strikers.
The annual report of the commits
sioner Of Indian affairs, William |.
| Jones, shows a general advancement in
the condition OF the nations wards .
! Education, the greatest factor in solY-
| ing the status of the Indians, is being
pushed forward in the service, and now
there are l47 well-equirfed boarding
schools and an equal number of day
schools engaged il the education OF 49,.
957 pupils.
Kansas negro soldiers stationed at
Santiago will be allowed to vote in the
state election.
Colonel Tyson, with a detachment of
! no men and 3S officers. has left Brook.
| Ign for San Juan de Porto Rico.
An attempt to compromise the Leech
lake trouble resulted in failure. as the
| Indians refused TO join in the confer
| ence.
Secretary Day says the Paris negota.
tons will soon be ended, and the peace
commission will finish its work before
| congress meets.
The yellow fever epidemic in Louis-
ana is said to be of mild type, and
the state board of health has decided
to name it "yellowoid. "
Secretary Alger has sent an answer
]
| to the war investigating committee,
which, in the words OF one OF the COM
missioners, does not answer"
a Madrid dispatch says evacuation
will be rushed, ani Spaniards will be
out Of Porto Rico by next week, and
out of Cuba by the end of Novembe
President Mckinley and party have
/ gone to Omaha, where they will he
guests of the Trans Mississippi EXPOSE
tion and participate in the peace Jubi-
! lee.
Thomas Greenwald, a private in bat
terry |, OF the Seventh artillery, was
shot and instantly killed while trying
to escape from Fort Slocum, near New
Rochelle, y. Y.
The members OF the United States
evacuation commission gave an elab-
/ crate luncheon to the members of the
! Spanish evacuation commission at the
| Hotel Trocha, Havana.
The French government is preparing
for an emergency and has issued special
orders TO the garrisons of numerous
towns near the capital to send immedi-
!
News has been received OF the find.