The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-03-30
LAT Err NEWS.

japan is considering project for the
naturalization OF railways.
A school of psychology will be held
at Chicago from April to s, inclusive.
The Twelfth New York volunteers
have arrived home for muster out.
Secretary of War Alger has arrived
at Havana on tour of inspection.
Two thousand men are idle as the re-
suit of the pantsmakers' strike at Phila.
delphia.
Half the business portion of Har-
rison Valley, Pa, was destroyed by
fire. Loss. 100000.
By a collision between freight trains
near Pittsburg two men were killed and
two fatally injured.
The funeral Of Ex-Governor Francis
Harrison Pierpont, of the Virginias.
was held at Pittsburg.
Denmark proposes to demand cession
Of treaty port in China, and will send
out cruiser tor the purpose.
Arrangements have been completed
for construction Of railroad from AL.
varado to San Andreas Tuxeto, Mexico.
War department officers express un.
qualified satisfaction with the work of
the volunteers before and around Ma.
Mia.
The search OF the Windsor hotel
ruins, at New York, for dead bodies
continues. Parts of human remains
were found.
Two carloads of Eastern oysters are
on their way to Willapa harbor for an
artificial propagation experiment by
oystermen.
The steamship Tacoma. which has ar.
rived at Tacoma from China and Japan,
brought 327 Japanese. most Of them Of
the iaboring class.
Rear.Admiral Sampson arrived at
Santiago de Cuba on board the cruiser
New York, and was given a royal vel.
come by the people.
Queen Victoria has been petitioned
to force President Kruger, of the Trans
vaal. to reform existing abuses, which
bear heavily on the Uitlanders.
The statistics of fire insurance buci-
ness transacted in the state of Wash.
ington for the year of 1898. shows risks
written amounting to 1888, 7lS.
In the victorious charges on the in
surgents at Polo, Sunday, General Irv-
ing Hale fell wounded--it is thought
seriously-while directing the advance.
Hon. William S. Mason, mayor of
Portland, Or. died his home in that
city after an illness of about six weeks.
Liver complications, superinduced by
an attack of the grip in February,
caused his death.
Lieutenant Colonel Alfred C. Cir
ard, chief surgeon. has been ordered to
Vancouver barracks. Wash, as chief
surgeon of that department. Acting
Assistant Surgeon 7. g. Holmes has
been ordered to new Fort Spokane,
Wash
The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Observer telegIaphs that a furious
fight occurred on the Boulevard St.
Michael between parties Of Dreyfus
and anti-Dreyfus students. Several
persons were injured and two cafes
were wrecked.
Fifteen hundred employees of the
Philadelphia clothing manufacturers
have struck for increase of waves. abo-
litiOn of sub-contractors and an agree
ment that the wages will not be re-
duced. Other operatives were thrown
out of work, making in all 5000 per-
sons out.
The American army. some 10000
strong. is advancing against the Fill
pinO insurgents, numbering $4,000.
The Americans are successfully driving
the rebels from their strongholds after
stubborn resistance. The American
loss is quite heavy, but not nearly 81
large as that of the insurgents.
In the storming of the rebel capital
the killed in the Second Oregon were:
Company b, Private II. B. Adams; D,
William W. Cook; l., Charles Herbert,
Guy Willard. Thirty eight were
wounded. The First Washington in
fantry had seven wounded, one NOR
tally, Captain Fortson, whose home is
near Seattle.
The Cuban military assembly has
decided that dissolution of the assem-
bly, at the present time would be preju-
dicial to the interests of the army.
The assembly has sent Senior Here
and Villallor to Washington to en-
deavor to obtain the presidents CO.
operation in its efforts to raise more
money for the Cuban troops.
Spanish officers at Madrid acquaint-
ed with the Phihnpine islands con.