The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-01-12
Comprehensive Review OF the Import
ant Happenings OF the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.

Dy tDe 4hdlne hepuDlICaHr.
Hon. Joseph II. Choate will be our
next ambassador to Great Britain.
DR.. II. Seward Webb, president of
the Wagner Palace Car Company. is
mentioned as successor to Senator Nor
fill as senator from Vermont.
The first formal state dinner of the
season took place at the White House
Thursday, when President and Mrs.
Mckinley entertained the mem bers of
the cabinet.
A sensation has been crNted in Ger
many by the publication in Cologne
paper of an alleged conversation had
with the late Prince bismarck. in
which he predicted the fall of the Aus
trian empire.
An American named Boynton, who
Is trying to travel around the earth
without money, met with terrible fall
into O chasm while entering France by
night through the PyIenees. He was
seriously injured.
Another disagreeable consequence of
the late war has been presented to the
government of claims from the cable
companies for damages sustained
through the suspension of their tusi-
ness by the United States military and
naval forces. The aggregate amount
of these claims cannot be foretold.
Representative Tongue, of Oregon.
has prepared an amendment to the bill
for codifCation OF the laws of Alaska,
now pending in the house, providing
for the licensing OF main business con-
Germs in the territory. and especially
the liquor business. Mr.. Tongue says
that the Treadwell mines does not pay
anything in the way of taxes to the sup
port of the territorial institutions, and
that from the region surrounding Ju-
neau about $4,000, 900 in gold is pro-
duced annually, and does not contribute
cent to the government.
The Havana afternoon papers sent
thrill through the city with a report
that n torture and execution chamber
had been found at the residence of the
Spanish military governor, adjoining
the palace. The papers declared that
there the Spanish officials questioned
and murdered political prisoners. Ac-
cording to their accounts, the floor of
the chamber was covered with dried
blood, and its walls were indented with
machete strokes. An excited crowd
soon gathered outside the house which
was last occupied by General Parade.
General Maxine Gomez, from his
camp, 900 miles westward, near Mar
ciso, has issued proclamation to the
Cuban army advising against disband-
ing until the proceedings at Washing
ton regarding the pay of the insurgent
troops have been completed.
By the purchase of large block of
stock of the Calbarien railway, in Cuba,
l.. Ruiz 81 Co., bankers, representing
English capitalists, have secured con-
trolling interest in that line. The
same men have also been large pur-
chasers of the stocks of Sagua and Glen
fuegos companies.
The monthly treasury statement of
the public debt shows that at the close
of business. December 81, the debt.
less cash in the treasury, amounted to
$l,129, l76, 2S6, an increase during the
month of Sl,702. 799. This increase
rs due to the delivery of per cent
bonds OF the new issue, previously paid
for.
At Evansville, Ind, Minor Garrett.
Edgar Gardner, Elijah Scott, Frank
Curl and William Morris, boys ranging
in age from 10 to l2 years, were given
a public whipping in the police court
for stealing some old wash boilers.
Their parents were given the option by
Judge Wnfrey of whipping the boys or
having them sent to the reform school.
Governor Roosevelt. Greater New
York's new exeuctive, has established
code of rules to govern his considera-
tion and determination OF applications
for pardons and communications of sem
tence. He will not exercise executive
clemency in behalf of a man who has
been convicted of numbering or abusing
his wife, nor will he pardon any hab-
itual criminal. His mercy will be
shown only to those whose sentence
seems to have been severe or whose
commission OF crime was the result
of influence.
A most arkable wedding has
taken place at the village of Trail, o.,
four brothers being married to four sis
tiers. The four knots were tied at the
home of the brides, who are the daugh-
tiers of a farmer named James Hoch-
stetter. Their ages range from Is to
%, and the ages of their respective
husbands vary only slightly. The
srooms are four sons of John Summers.
The ceremony of marrying the four
annnlns ncnnniah almost an hnnr the