The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-07-27
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Celumns.

The Union Pacifc's Ogden. Omaha
line will be double-tracked.
Secretary Alger has rendered his
resignation, to take effect in two weeks.
Prince Henry of Prussia is in Corea
looking out for the interest of Ger.
many.
The secretary of the Chicago school
board has confessed EN- bezlement of
$3i, 500.
Frances W. Healy, of Vancouver, has
been appointed lieutenant in the reg
ular army.
President Angus Cannon, Mormon
leader. has pleaded guilty to unlawful
cohabitation.
Spanish prisoners are to be ran
somed. the money to be placed in a
bank until the war ia over.
A fire, origin unknown. destroyed
more than $3.50, 900 worth Of property
on the Brooklyn water front.
The wIecker of the Perth Amboy
bank has been sentenced to six years
in the New Jersey penitentiary.
The Oregon volunteers think Otis is
incompetent and nearly all are of the
opinion that General Miles should be
in charge.
A Rome dispatch says there was an
eruption OF Mt. Etna, accompanied by
subteriaean noises and a number OF Sc
we're earthquake shocks.
New York troleymen have joined
the Brooklyn trolley men in their big
strike. In Brooklyn dynamite was
used to blow down the elevated struc-
ture.
The price of -four has dropped 20
cents a barrel and is now cheaper than
for sometime. The drop is said to be
due to the steady decrease in the price
OF wheat.
Abe Rothschild. known throughout
the country as crook and diamond
thief OF the first water, has been con.
victed in Texas and given three years
in the pehitentiary.
Friends of Major General Shafter are
endeavoring to have him continued in
his present position after his time of
retirement. 1t ia not thought, how
ever, that congress will accede to this.
The Petrol is cruising around Linga-
yam bay, about 200 miles from Manila.
The crew is unable to get any fresh
food or fruit from shore and is com
PEELED to subsist on the regular ship 6
rations.
A statement prepared at the war de-
partment shows that of So officers and
1876 men enlisted of the Second Ore
gon regiment. only 40 were killed in
battle or died of disease during the
campaign in the Philippines. percent.
age Of 1862.
Reports of foreign grain crops are
unfavorable.
A government assay office will be
established at Seattle.
Kansas has the biggest corn crop in
sight in the history OF the state.
Los Angeles will issue 81 900 900 in
bonds for purchase of waterworks.
Three tons of gold dust were deposit
ed in one day in the Seattle banks.
Admiral Dewey will be banqueted
by the Americans at Trieste, Austria
The battleshlp Iowa has received or
deIs at Seattle to sail for San Fran
cisco.
A reciprocal treaty between the Uni
ted States ana the West Indies has been
signed,
The Philippine commission reports
encouraging progress toward pacihca-
ton OF natives.
The Addison steel foundry at Gin
cinnati. employing 200 men, burned;
loss, $500, 900.
Prince of Wales yacht Britannia easily
beat her Is minutes.
Three were killed and three injured
in railroad wreck near Portsmouth.
o.. caused by heavy fog.
The administration will ignore the
Manila CORES pondents' "round robin, -
and await favorable news.
The royalties paid to the Canadian
government by klondike mine owners
will amount to over $500, 900 this sea.
son.
The Filipino junta will be moved
from Hong Kong to the island of La,
baum. British colony, six miles from
the northwest coast of BOIneo, as the
=. l.. At
mem bers of the junta SO closely at
Hong Kong that the latter have found
it impossible to supply the insurgents