The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-01-12
LATER NEWS.


may compel an extra session of con.
gre's.
A disastrous freight wreck occurred
on the Wabash, at Belleville, Mich.
The loes on rolling stock is estimated
at $50, 200, with $3, 900 loss on store
house.
Thirteen persons were killed and
from 80 to As injured in railway col
lision near Bound Brook, N. j. There
was a head-end collision between
local train and the Black Diamond ex-
press.
President Alonzo's advance guard is
within six leagues OF La Paz, capital
of the republic of Bolivia. 1t is likely
decisive battle will be fought soon
between the government troops and
the rebels who now hold the capital.
1t is proposed that memorial he
erected at Manila to the memory of all
Americans who fell in the capture or
died of disease during the campaign.
The proposal is that all Americans now
resident in the Far East, of whom
there Is very considerable number,
shout be invited to contribute toward
this object.
Filipino committees have made a
formal protest, and President McKin-
ley has been warned from Paris. Madrid
and London not to attempt to take
forcible possession Of 1lo lilo. The
ground is taken that the American
claim of sovereignty is premature,
and that the United States is not the
possessor of the Philippines until the
peace treaty is ratified. The Filipino
agent at Hong Kong says fight with
the Americans at Ilo Ito is unavoda-
bile. but little apparent uneasiness is
felt at Washington.
The Cincinnati Express Gazette has
collected data anent the operations of
trainrobbers during the past year. The
effect of federal jurisdiction upon train
robberies is evidenced in Mexico. Dur
ing the past year there was not even
an attempt at train robbery in the Sis
ter republic. The crime is punishable
there with instant death. The record
for 1898 is as follows: Number of
train hold-ups, 2S; number of stage
robberies, Z; number of passengers and
train men shot, H. number of robbers
killed, 8; number of robbers shot. &.
Captain r. Il. Shaw and the crew OF
the British bark Glen Huntley, long
given up for lost, are alive and we'll,
and on their way to Liverpool. They
abandoned the Glen Huntley in fierce
gale June 4, 1898. For l54 days the
! sailors lived on Tristan d 'Acunha
isle, more than 1900 miles south by
west OF the Cape of Good Hope. They
subsisted on penguin eggs and the flesh
of sea eagles. and shared with 72 white
inhabitants the scanty stock Of provi-
sons that the captain of a passing ves-
sci had given them.
AT fire which broke out in the Ho-
tel Richelieu, at Pittsburg, Pa, three
guests lost their lives and five people
were badly hurt.
Colonel Potter, special emissary OF
General Otis to lilo Ilo, reports that the
rebels threaten to burn the town If the
Americans lombard the place.
Governor Leedy. of Kansas. has COM
muted the sentence of J. K. Colean,
who, while cashier of the Safe bank, of
Fort Scott, in 1895, stole $50, 600 of it's
funds.
-Four dead, two injured. one of these
perhaps fatally, and the loss of proper
ty of the Southern railway to the
amount of about &25, 900, is the result
| of wreck which occurred at Knox
! vile, Tenn.
A heavy wind storm swept over the
remote section OF Scott county, Ark.
At Boles, a scloolhouse was blown
down and three pupils were killed, an
other was fatally wounded, and dozen
or more sustained more or less injuries.
A tremendous landslide occurred near
Spence's Bridge, on the Canadian Pa
cific railroad. A mountain which has
long been an object of curiosity to
travellers crashed into the Fraser river,
damming it completely, and sending
the water in torrents over the fertile
Nicola valley. The course of the liver
was changed completely.
According to late advices from Daw-
son, the United States government will
be called upon to relieve INDECENT min
ers in the Klondike. The Dawson
Nugget says there is a strong move
ment on foot at Dawson to send a rep
resentative to Washington for the pur-
pose of enlsting the United States
government in the cause of aiding in
remedying the great distress which
kon.