The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-10-12
Comprehensive Review Of the Import
ant Happenings Of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.

A Chicago rat-catcher is reputed to
make So, 600 year at the business.
Admiral Dewey at his own request
has been formally destached from the
Olympia.
The United States revenue cutter
McCulloch, formerly dispatch boat of
Dewey's fleet has arrived in Portland,
Oregon.
President Andrade is said to have
given up the struggle in Venezuela anG
to have engaged passage ON a steamer
sailing for New York.
Agents of the British government are
now in this country picking up horses
and mules by the hundred, and arrang.
ing for speedy shipment.
Shipping men fear that disaster ha.
befallen the Cyrus Wakefield, a month
overdue at San Francisco. Five pei
cent reinsurance has been paid on her.
General Otis reports progress of the
war in the Philippines. A robber
band operating in the western portion
of the island OF Negros has been exter.
minated.
Western roads are considering prop.
osition to discontinue the practice OF
granting reduced rates to officers OF
volunteer regiments returning from the
Philippines.
The Pacific Biscuit Company, other.
wise known as the cracker trust, has
been fully organized and is now doing
the bulk of the cracker and candy bust.
ness of this coast.
The president is said to favor de.
partment OF industry and commerce to
be represented in the cabinet. 1t is
being urged by the Business Mems
League, of Chicago.
The big ship Edward Sewall, with a
carrying capacity of 10000 tons has
been launched at Bath, Me. She will
engage in the grain trade between San
Francisco and Liverpool.
A Pretoria dispatch quotes loon.
Paul" Kruger as saying: 'Bullete
came by thousands at the time of the
Jameson raid, but the burghers were
untouched. Over Que hundred were
the Lord directed our bullets. The
Lord rules the world"
The patent issued to James f. Lo~
for certain kind of crown and bridge
work in dentistry has been held valid
by the United states circuit court for
the southern district of New York.
This patent has been the cause OF an
immense amount OF litigation, and it
is said that nearly every dentist in the
country has used the crown and bridge
work.
st. Paul plumbers are on a strike.
Emperor Francis Joseph has ap
proved the new Austrian cabinet.
William Waldorf Astor paid his
taxes in New York, amounting to nearly
half million.
Brigadier-General Eagan has decided
to appeal his case to congress ant
hopes to secure vindication.
The British government has placed a
large order for canned meat and timed
fruit with one of Chicago's packing
concerns.
A party of American soldiers wer.
ambushed by Filipinos. A signal SER
geant was killed and two other Ameri.
cans were wounded.
Joseph Kirk, the town marshal OF
1nez, Ky, was shot by desperate.
A posse have gone to the mountains af-
ter the murderer.
As the result of severe electrical
storm on North beach, Washington,
the house of the life-saving crew was
damaged by a thunderbolt.
Two masked men stopped the Shelf
fels stage near Ouray, Colo, and took
the mail, but overlooked box con-
tanning $50, 900 in gold.
Indianapolis is carrying back to the
South the Confederate flag, which her
soldiers captured from the Ferry, Tex,
rangers during the civil war.
A writ of habeas corpus has been
granted to Captain Parker, found guilty
of misappropriating funds, and who
had been sentenced to Imprisonment.
The Venezuela boundary award is a
compromise. Some OF Great Britain's
claims are disallowed. Her frontier
will start Mt the Waini river. The
award was unanimous.
The first race of the America cup
series resulted in fiasco. Time limit
was five hours and neither boat finish.
ed in this time. Excursion boats in
terfered badly with the racers
The sword awarded by congress was