The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-06-08


up.
William Bashnell and Otis Dodd
were killed in Ohio by train running
into a hand car.
Signor Chinaglia was elected presi-
dent of the Italian chamber OF depu-
ties.
Confederate dead's graves were deco
rated by Union veterans at Philadel-
phia.
The queen of Spain has appointed
Martinez Campos to presidency of the
senate.
In Lower California miners are said
to be getting as high as two ounces of
gold to the pan Of dirt.
Canada has an eye on Skagway, if
given the slightest encouragement to
hope fol the concession OF port.
Canadians claim they have discovered
q document which obviates further
question of ownership to Deadman's
island.
The German ambassador at Wash
ington has protested against the Unit
ed States sending another warship to
Samoa.
The state department has made pub
lie an official abstract of the report of
the Nicaragua canal commission. 1t
estimates the cost at $llS, ll3, 100.
Duke de ARGOS, the new Spanish
minister, has arrived. He says this
country is so powerful, the Philippine
insurgents will soon be compelled to
surrender.
Robert Creighton, quartermaster'
clerk on the transport Sheridan, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself
through the temple with a revolver
in San Francisco. He recently arrived
here from Manila. Dependency
caused by i'll health is the supposed
cause Of his act.
Four thousand of the volunteers now
in the Philippines are reported to have
signed petition to the president and
secretary of war. praying that they re-
ceive their discharges in Manila, in
stead of at the places of enlistment.
1t was explained that they believed
that the Philippine islands Offered
rare opportunities for industrious and
enterprising Americans to make for
themselves homes"
E. r. Rollins, a rancher at Quilcene.
Wash, was crushed to death by tree
falling on him.
Major Marchand was welcomed with
enthusiasm by the French on his ar
rival at Toulon.
At Paris ex-President Harrison de-
livered the Memorial day Grafton at
the tomb of La Fayette.
Frank Bouts. a brutal parent, was
killed while he slept by his two young
children, whom he had almost starved
to satisfy his own wants.
A tramp assaulted the l2-year old
daughter of +. W. Mespclt, near Scio,
Or. as she was returning from school.
The girl broke away and escaped.
The winter wheat crop of Southern
Russia has been completely destroyed
by prOtracted drought. The spling
wheat crop is also in jeopardy from the
same cause.
As a result of the tests made at the
Chicago stockyards by the livestock
commissioners and health officials. it
has been discovered that all of 23 cows
examined were suffering from tubercu-
losis.
NJ. de Beaupre created deep sensa-
tion in the French court of assizes by
solemnly declaring that he had become
convinced that the bordereau was writ
ten by Major Count Ferdinand Walsin
Esterhazy.
Reform in the navy is being talked
of in Washington. A plan for a reor-
ganization of that department is on
foot. Dewey, it is said, may be placed
at the head of board to pass on bu-
reau matters.
A dispatch from Manila says that
the men from the hospital-ship Relief
captured by the insurgents off Para.
naque were the third engineer. another
officer and a boats crew. They were
sailing in catboat, and natives from
the shore set out in boats and took
them.
Abraham and Oscar Juntti. brothers,
are the first Columbia river fishermen
reported drowned this season. Their
boat was capsized on Peacock spit, and
they sank before the lifesaving crew
could reach them. Another fishing.
boat containing two men was carried
over the bar. The Point Adams life.
saving crew went out after them. but
was unable to pick them up and re.
turned. What became OF the men il