The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-10-26
THE NEWS OF THE Week
Comprehensive Review Of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culied From tho Telegraph Columns.


Karl der Crosse, by DR.. Won Moncke-
berg. burgomaster of Hamburg.
The Beers, according to a special dis
patch from Pretoria, rcpulsed a small
force of Cape mounted police near
Berkeley, West Cape Colony, captur-
ing two.
The dwelling once occupied by eN.
president Martin Van Buren,, at 81
East Twenty-scventh street, New York,
has been sold, and it is announced that
business block.
COMMUNICATIONS Joubert has
arrived Mt Newcastle, Natal. He
found only 100 men there when he en-.
tered the town. The report current at
Delagoa bay that 5000 Beers have been
repulsed ut Newcastle is false.
An Ashcroft, B. C., report states that
there was biz robbery at the Cariboo
mine, near Quesnclle Forks. The big
safe in the Cariboo Hydraulic Com
pany's office was blown open, and part
of the amalgam, worth SOC, 900, stolen.
The Great Northern road has lately
bought 1000, 900 feet OF fir timber in
Washington, nearly all of it for the
roads proposed ore dock at Allouze
bay, on Lake Superior. Nearly half
this enormous order has been bought in
the past 10 days.
The transport Senator is expected to
fro, no
news of the terrible experience OF the
steamship Empress OF India causes no
alarm for the safety of the Senator
which is supposed to also have passed
through the typhoon.
A dispatch from Ladvsmith SAYS
that letter was brought to the Brit
ish pickets by Boer cyclists bearing a
white flag, signed by the Newcastle
magistrate and sent by permission of
Commandant-G General ,Ioubert, stating
that the British who remained in New
castle are well.
Three hundred recruits, under COM
mand OF Captain W. n. Hughes, Thir.
teenth infantry, and Lieutenants Will
son, Pascoe and Kinzie, have been as
signed to the transport Manuense at
San Francisco, with two companies of
the Thirty first, under command of
Lieutenant Colonel Hayes.
The postmaster-general has issued q
formal warning to all postmasters
against the levying of political assess
ments, and simultaneously the civil
service commission has called attention
to the law governing the subject, and
OF the commissions intention to en-
force it.
For week snow storm has been
raging in the mountains surrounding
Leadville, Col, something unprece-
denied at this time of the year
The powers are again wrangling over
Samoa, and there is talk of partition
ing the islands. England has offered
to purchase Germany's interest.
A band of 300 Mayo Indians have
Joined the Yaquis in their war with
Mexico. Heretofore the Mavos have
refused to aid the Yaqui tribe in its
rehellions.
klapper, editor OF the Deutsche
Agrai Correspondent, at Berlin, has
been sentenced to imprisonment in a
fortress for six months, on charge of
lese majestic, for criticizing Emperor
William.
An explosion of mine gas in col
liery near Pittshurg, Pa, resulted in
entombing 22 miners. Ten were re.
scued alive, but it is feared the others
are dead. The mine took fire and is
burning.
The Columbia won the second race
with the Shamrock. Soon after the
start the Shamrock's topmast was
broken and she returned. The Column
bia sailed over the course and was given
the race.
Surgeon General Sternberg has re.
fused to recommend the building of a
large military hospital at Vancouver,
Wash, saying that the post hospital at
that place is abundently able for the
present needs.
A dispatch from Nogales, Ariz. says:
A sheriff's posse has encountered Next
Aah bhh'lltS anu hilitti Out an u NtuIu-
ed another. American and Mexican
officers are now i'll pursuit of five 9TH
ers, who escaped.
The smallpox scare at Astoria, re.
sultant from the case of Beecher d.
Slorp. has about Sied out. The patient
is getting along nicely, and the attend.
ing physicians have no doubt as to his
speedy recovery.
The British steamship Knight Bache.