The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-08-03
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Cuilcd From, the Telegraph Columns.


Dreyfus is reported to be seriously i'll
with a fever.
American stocks now command con-
fdence throughout Europe.
Caroline islanders want to he an
nexed to the United States.
President IIeureaux, Of Santo Do
mineo, has been assa-sinated.
The body of the late Robert q. In.
gersoll was Cremated at Fresh Pond,
n. y.
The fight between the linseed oil
combinations has been amicably adj
Justed.
The messenger boys strike in Pitts,
burg has been settled, The boys claim
u victory.
At Hartford City, Ind, Ralph Shelby,
9.year-old boy, was thrashed to death
by his playmates.
Otis reports another engagement
with bandits in Cebu, in which Amer-
can forces were victorious.
A Chicago negress is alleged to haze
within an hour. She is now in jail.
Four liie-timers in the Coum bus,
o., penitentary were So unruly that
special steel cells Were built for their
incarceration.
Otis has been cabled to send volun.
teers home as soon as possible, it being
the desire OF the president to have no
delay in the matter
William II. Proctor, who went to
California in lS49, remained there 8
years and accumulated a fortune. is
dead in Brooklyn, aged 81 years,
1t has been decided to discontinue
the use OF coal as fuA on the New
York, New Haven and Hartford rail
road and to substitute coke for it on
all locomotives.
United States manufacturers will he
benefited Ivy our new treaty with
France. Farmers, however. will re-
ceive no help, as maximum duties will
stay on agricultural products.
The Illinois Central has n new com.
petitor on business from Chicago to
the gulf. The st. Louis Il Southwest
ern is building a connecting link to
Chicago and Eastern Illinois.
Rev. John Morrison, pastor of Cal
vary Pres byterian church, OF Portland.
died at Camt Wiley, near the Grand
Canyon hotel. in the Yellowstone Park.
where he had gone on a pleasure trip
1t is rumored in London that Sails
bury may resign.
Dewey will spend all of August at
Mediterranean ports.
Talk of wal with Great Britain does
not alarm Washington officials.
Jealousy caused the death of one ant
probably another at Long Beach. Cal.
The Catholic archbishop of Cleveland
has issued an appeal to the strikers to
respect the law.
Russia and Japan are reported to he
preparing with view to a possible
conflict in COrea.
The Transvaal it is said must COM
ply with Englanl's every demand or a
hot war will follow.
Freight handlers are on a strike in
New York. They ask for an increase
from II to 90 cents an hour.
The militia was ordered out to pro-
tect Georgia sheriff and Jail from a
mob, who threatened to lynch a negro
William T. Stead says the peace con-
ference has achieved great success,
and went beyond the expectations of
the delegates.
A wreck occurred on the Central Pa
cifc near Clark's station. Nevada.
Engineer Read was killed and his fire.
man badly hurt.
Dom Paul Kruger rendered ms resig-
nation as president OF the South Airi-
can republic. 1t was not accepted, and
lie later withdrew it.
Information from the lower Yaqui
river, at the south end of tie state Of
Sonora, in Mexico, conveys the iutell.
genCe that an outbreak has occurred
among the Yaqui Indians. In a fight
one white man and 20 Indians were
killed.
At Hattie-hulg Miss. Henry No
walls, a negro who attempted to assault
Rosaline Davis. Saturday evening, was
captured LeaI Bond City, Miss, and
later identified hy the Young lady. =
mob tied him to a tree and shot him to
death.
The steamer Bertha has arrived in
San Francisco from St. Michaels via