The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-03-30
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From tho Telegraph Columns.

secretary Anger ana party nave lett
Washington on visit TO Havana.
The British, German and American
ministers at Picking have addressed
notes to the Tsung- i-yamen, demand
ing a settlement Of the Shanghai for
eign settlement extensions question.
Work in the ruins of the Hotel
Windsor, in New York, continues with
undated vigor. A great many charred
bones are being found, but cannot be
put together to form entire skeletons
The Erie Limited jumped the track
10 miles from Akron, o., the engine
and baggage car going into the ditch,
almost instantly killing the engineer,
and seriously injuring the fireman and
one passenger.
A rear-end collision between two
freight trains on the Flint q Pere Mar.
quette railroad near New Boston,
Mich. in heavy fog, killed the fire.
man and badly injured the engineer OF
the rear engine.
According to report from Seoul.
capital of Corea, the whole Corean
the ministers have been banished be-
cause OF wholesale changes made by
the cabinet in provincial offices.
Queen Victoria is likely to receive
an Unprecedented honor by the city of
New York On May pa. the queens
birthday, the national, state and city
flags will be flung to the breeze from
-,
York in honor of the queen.
General Porter, United States am
bassadOI at Paris, answering an in
quiry of correspondent, said he was
unable to discuss rumois to the effect
that he may succeed Alger as secretary
of war, as all information on the sub
ject ought to come from Washington.
The Spanish government has ordered
the prosecution of General Weyler's or
gan, Ell Macdonald, and of several re-
publican and Cailist newspapers for
publishing. with offensive comments,
report that the queen regent was
about to abdlcate and to marry An
Austrian aIchduke. The offending pa
pers have been seized
According to prisoner captured by
our troops. Aguinaldo has announced
that he will personally mass the re-
serves at Malolos and MAJ CHI on Manila
within 30 days, unless the Americans
withdraw in the meantime. The con-
centration of the rebel forces in the
vicinity Of Malabon gives color to the
statement Of the prisoner.
Five thousand homeseekers are on
their way from St. Paul to North Pa
ctic coast points.
A dispatch to the London Evening
News from Brussels revives the tumor
that Cardinal Gibbons may he the next
pope.
Another battle has occurred at Ito
llo, in which one American was killed
and Is wounded. The rebels lost 20
killed and 800 were wounded.
General Otis informs the war de.
partment that he cannot spare at pres
ent the volunteers now IN the Philip
pines, but hopes to be able to do go
soon.
During the absence of John Dian and
wife, of Greeniel. Manitoba, from their
farm, their residence caught fire, and
their five children were burned TO
death.
Severe weather continues throughout
Great Britain. Great loss has occurred
among livestock, and London has ex.
perienced the heaviest snow fall of this
winter.
The Argentine transport Villa Reina
has been wrecked in CameIones bay
between Cape Raso and Cape de Bahias.
Northern Patagonia. No loss of life 10
reported.
Ex.Secretary John Sherman, whose
death was reported on board the
steamship Paris while en- route home
from Kingston, Jamaica, is still alive
and hopes are entertained of his recov-
cry. He will be brought to the United
States on the cruiser Chicago.
According to advices from the ORR
ent, the emperor of Corea has created 4
sensation by appearing in full uni
form cut in American fashion. His
attendants have also been attiIed in
American style. The emperor, it 10
stated, has cut off his topknot or short
queue, which from time immemorial
has adorned the top of the Corean EN-.
perors' heads.
The Peking con- espondent of the
London Times says: The Deutsche
Zeitung publishes a long article show
ing how the United States is slowly
but surely obtaining commercial foot
ing in Turkey and the East generally.
The writer warns Austria and other
Enronaan at ates of the danpar of which