The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-09-21
LATER NEWS.

OTIS exclusion order.
Japan is being urged to secure rail-
way concessions from China.
James NJ. Nixon, once famous
Snowman, is dead in New York.
The battleship Kentucky will have
her first run about the LIST OF October.
The Indian hoppickers in Puyallup
valley, Washington, are sun dancing.
Almost the entire business section
of Farnham, n. Y, was wiped out by
fire.
The sovereign grand lodge of Odd
Fellows met in Detroit, Mich, IN an
nual session.
The steamer Alpha has arrived from
Alaska with 200 passengers and half
ton OF gold.
The American ship George Stetson
was burned at Loochoo. China. No
loss OF life resulted from the disaster.
A bill has been introduced by
Chickasaw lawmaker raising the price
of marriage license from $50 to 81 900.
Major Jones, who has been quarter
master at Manila, has returned. He
thinks 80, men will be needed in
the islands for 10 years.
Hon. Daniel Ermentrout, congress.
man from the sixth congressional dis.
triot of Pennsylvania, is dead. He
was serving his sixth term.
Officials say that Admiral Sampson
will not be suspended by Admiral
llowison and that the newspapers are
making mountain out of a mole hill.
Chief of Engineers Wilson will sub
init to congress a comprehensive scheme
for the defense of Porto Rico The
Spanish works will be utilized in part.
A boat containing the captain and
! l men from the French steamer Dunra
is believed to have been lost near the
island of Elba in the Mediterranean
sea.
Thirty transports are scheduled to
sail for the Philippines before Novem-
bre |, and it is predicted that the SOL
ders of the new regiments will eat
"
The time has not been extended and
sheep must be off the Rainier reserve
by the 25th of this month. Stockmen
say they will move to Montana or
Idaho unless favorable legislation is
secured.
Advices from Manila announce that
Aguinaldo is willing to release all sick
civilian and Spanish prisoners, but it
is added that General Otis refuses to
allow Spanish vessels to proceed to
Filipino ports to receive them.
Circle City, Alaska, now has a popu-
lation of but 100.
A big yield of wheat is reported in
the Walla Walla valley.
The Nevadas, Iowas and Tennessees
will soon be on their way home.
Six negroes were killed in a riot be.
tween white and colored miners at Car
terville. Ill.
G. A. Pillsbury, the great Touring
mill king of Minnesota, is dead at his
home in Minneapolis.
The Dreyfus meeting held in London
was a spiritless affair. Interest in the
subject seems to be tagging.
The plant of the American Fisheries
Company, Promised Land. l.. l.. was
destroyed by fire: loss, 100000.
The British admiralty has prepared
war map Of St. Johns. N. F.. as a
preliminary to fortifying the town.
An adobe house, FIVE miles from
Mora. N. NJ, collapsed and killed Man
uel Cordova, his wife and six children.
The memory Of the martyred presi.
dent, James A. Garfield. vas honored
in San Francisco with parade and
exercises at Golden Gate Park.
The Hungarian novelist, Mauris
Jokai, now in his 18th year, was mar.
lied at Vienna to the Hungarian act
ress, Aiabella Grossnagy, a girl of Is.
Tom Reed has published his farewell
to his friends of the first Maine dis
trict. He says public Office is mans
opportunity, not a ribbon to stick in
the coat.
The reply of the Transvaal is very
unsatisfactory to the British. and Mr..
Chamb erlain declares it will compel
the imperial government to consider
the situation afresh.
A Manila dispatch says the cruiser
Charleston bomarded the fort at Subig
bay. Little or no injury was done.
The Monterey and Concord were sent
to continue the bomardment.
A Washington dispatch says tie Tar
tar recently delayed in the Orient, was