The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-05-11
LATER NEWS.

which swept over chambers county,
Georgia.
At fire in Massillon. O.. one ire
man was killed and a workman fatally
injured.
The president and Mrs. Mckinley
have gone to Hot Springs, Va, for a
10 days. vacation.
Fifteen cases of disease in Leclaire,
Ia, have been identified by officers of
the state board Of health as smallpox.
The Davenport council has declared
a quarantine against Leclaire.
The Topeka Capital has started a
popular subscription to purchase
sword for General Funston, the brave
kansan. Every county, town and city
in the state is asked to contribute.
George Olmstead, conductor of the
train the Wardner rioters stole, has
been arrested. He ran between Wal
lace and Burke for years. yet persists
he did not recognize any of the crowd.
At Doniphan, Kan, District Judge
Stuart refused to grant divorce to
Ellen Phillips from p. o. Phillips. be-
cause their marriage was brought about
by an advertisement in matrimonial
paper.
Major Marchand, leader of the
famous Marchand expedition. which
was returning from Fashoda, on the
Nile, to the Red sea, en- route to
France, is reported to have been killed
by band Of marauders.
The Missouri house has passed and
sent to the governor an important bill
requiring Missouri corporations to
keep their principal Office in the state,
and providing that at least three di-
rectors shall be residents of Missouri.
Governor Stanley, of Kansas, has
addressed to the governors of Western
states pressing invitations to attend
the annual convention of the trans
Mississippi commercial congress,
which will he held in Wichita, May
81 to June 3. inclusive.
Representatives of more than score
of the leading plow manufacturing con-
Germs of the United States met in Chi
cago, and virtually com pleted organza-
ton into which it is proposed ulti-
mately to take all manufacturers of
agricultural implements. The cap
italization of the new combination is
placed at over $G5, 900. 900.
AT Oshkosh, Wis, the engine room
OF the saw mill of the Paine Lumber
Company was wrecked by boiler ex-
plosion. The Waterman. Eugene Du.
bOis, and his wife and child, were the
only persons in the mill. The woman
was killed outright. The child died
an hour later, and Dubois may recover.
Cold water turned into hot boiler
caused the explosion.
At Cedar creek, in Cass county. Ne
braska. cloudburst occurred, causing
several thousand dollars damage.
Rudyard Kiplng has been offered
and has agreed to accept the degree OF
LII. d. from McGill university, Mon
treal, Canada.
The sheriff of Shoshone county, Ida
no, has been arrested by the federal
authorities, charged with bribing and
abetting the Wardner rioters, and
steps have been taken to GUST him
from office.
Cyrus Dolph. of Portland, Or. son
of the late United States Senator
Dolph, of Oregon, has been recon-
mended by the examining board at the
Preside fof second lieutenantcy in
the regular army.
Admiral Dewey's physician says lie
is in perfect health. He has not been
more than 20 miles away from Manila
since the first day OF last May. and he
has not felt the necessity of a physic-
ian's aid in that time.
British industry is being forced to
the rear. and growing American com
petition alarms England. We are tax
ing rich markets from her. Skill in
Engine building on this side is bring
ing in orders from abroad.
AT monster mass meeting held in
were endorsed. and the Philippine war
was declared to be just and holy. Sup
port was pledged to the boys who are
fighting for the flag 10, 900 miles from
home.
President Mckinley stated Sunday
that he believed the war in the Philip
pines would be at an end within AS
hours. This conclusion is based upon
highly gratifying cablegrams received
from Nh. Schurgan, president of the
peace commission.
1t is rumored that Mabini, president
of the cabinet and minister of foreign
affairs in the so-called Filipino govern
ment, who is a radical, is to be sue
ceeded by Patreno, the Trainer of the