The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-04-27
Comprehensive Review Of the Import
ant Happenings OF the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.

Ohio.
Cos imir, the Indian who murdered
Philip Walker. has been captured at
kamloops.
Fire destroyed the department store
of Ever 81 Co., at Newcastle, Pa. Loss,
100000; insurance, 500, 200.
President Mckinley has accepted an
invitation to attend the Ohio state en-
campment of the q, a. Il. in June.
The American Car IL Foundry Com
pany, at Jacksonville, Ind, increased
the wages Of its 1000 employees 10 per
cent.
At Sioux Falls, Judge Garland sen.
fenced Bad Elk to he hanged June l6
for killing a policeman who tried to
arrest him.
1t has been decided by the German
government to adopt the English
Thornycroft system of water-tube boil.
eis in all German men-of-war.
Reading railroad repair-shop me-
chanics and other employees will have
their wages advanced from to 10 per
cent. Two thousand men will be-
affected.
The new sternwheel revenue cutter
Nunivea had her trial trip at San Fran.
cisco. She is for use on the Yukon,
and will be towed to St. Michaels by
the Bear.
Gomez has determined to announce
to the people of Cuba his support of an
American protectorate until such time
as stable, independent government may
be formed.
Serious student riots have occurred at
the university of kietf Russia, the
rioters smashing windows with stones.
Troops dispersed the mob and arrested
400 students
The Major investigating committee
OF the Missouri state senate, which has
been turning over the affairs Of the
state and municipal offices in 1t. Louis
has made a report in which it finds
millions of dollars worth of property
in St. Louis has escaped taxation.
Speaker Reed has decided to become
member of the law firm of Simpson
ThaCher 81 Barnum. of New York. 1t
is understood that Reed will resign
his seat in congress and remove to New
York. The statement has been made
that Mr.. Reed is guaranteed yearly
income of $4,000.
Mail adyices from Australia give full
particulars OF the terrible hurricane
which swept the northeast coast of
Queensland early in March. and in
which II white and about 400 coored
men were drowned. Eighty luggcrs
AMI six schooners were wrecked. The
damage is estimated at f250, 900.
A. NJ. Larue. murderer. was taken
from Jail at Henderson, Tenn, and
lynChed by mob.
Fourteen men were killed hy
premature explosion in blasting opera
tions on the railway from Bilboa to
Santander, Spain.
Ed Hawthorne, charged with about
40 burglaries in various parts of the
country, mostly in San Francisco, is
under arrest in Denver.
James J. Hill is reported to have &C
guired control of the st. Paul Il Du.
lutIl I'dI, llluS SHOIltIlIlH MS Iillt
from Duluth to the Twin cities.
At Moontown, Mo, Frank Yeager
killed with an AK man named Powell,
shot MIS-. Yeager three times. and
then cut his own throat. Ieager was
jealous.
Governor Tanner has signed the bill
appropriating $3.50. 600 to pay the llli-
nois volunteers from the time they
were mustered into the service of the
United States.
Andrew Carnegie has promised to
give S1,75O, 900 to cover the cost of
the proposed addition to the art, Sci
ence and literary departments of the
Carnegie library at Pittsburg.
At Bedford, Ind, stone quarry
train was pushed over 40-foot EN-.
bankment by the helper. Charles
Meinser. engineer, and ID. J. Menough,
were killed. Three men were hurt.
Five thousand Indians. dissatisfied
with conditions in the reservation of
the Indian territory, left in a body for
Mexico to establish "a union reservation
on a large lot of land near GuadalajaIa.
In Chicago three people were
smothered to death by smoke in a
small two-story frame building. They
had been drinking together, and it is
thought one OF them upset kerosene
lamp.
Governor Stephens, of Missouri. has
signed the Farris insurance bill. This
measure makes the antitrust law apply