The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-07-27
LATER NEWS.


Completion Of recruiting new regi-
ments for Otis is expected within
fortnight.
A mine explosion near Brownsville.
Pa, killed six and entombed 20 min.
ers. who later escaped.
Admiral Dewey has wired his accept
ance to become the city's guest upon
his arrival in New York.
A little boy was shot and killed by
a non-union conductor at Cleveland.
Eight hundred troops are now on guard.
An American lady millionaire, was
arrested in Paris for shopliiting. She
was released after paying for the stolen
goods.
The reciprocity treaty with France
be made as a condition of Cam bon's
signing the convention.
Sir Wifred Lanrier refuses to quail
fy his statements in regard to the
boundary dispute. and asserts that he
meant just what he said.
A small boy has testified at Chicago
that he witnessed Mrs. George kill
George ID. Saxton brother.in-law of
President l-cKinley, at Canton, last
October.
Nez Perez Indians may make trouble
The young bucks have threatened to
murder Northern Pacific extension
graders, because the line crosses their
reservation.
Sir Wilfred Laurier. prime minister
of Canada. is to he presented by his
friends with 100000. His salary of
s., 900 year is considered insufficient
for his wants.
During a thunder storm at Berlin,
Germany, 40 persons leaning against a
wire railing at Charlottenburg Cycle
Park track were struck by lightning.
Three were killed and 20 sevefly in
Jured.
The New York Herald's Washington
correspondent says Root will be only
nominal head of the war del artment.
The colonial secIetaryship is the re-
sponsibility for which he is really
slated.
Hoke Smith favois discontinuance of
the war. He contends that such is the
sentiment all over the South. He
does not want the flag to Iun, but
would have the Filipinos promised
complete Independence.
The greatest statesman in this
country should be made governor-gen-
eral of the Philippine islands. and the
military authorities in the islands sub
Ordinated to him. saws Brigadier- GEN
eral Thomas NJ. Anderson.
Forty additional surgeons are needed
in the Philippines.
tered on the Koyukuk and other
branches of the Yukon.
Elihu Root. a New York lawyer, has
accepted the portfolio of war.
People with money are coming into
the Northwest in great numbers.
A big elevator burned at To'edo, O..
with a property loss of 81 900, 900.
President Mckinley and MIS-. Nc
will take an outing at Lake Cham.
plain.
OregOn's hop crop will probaly reach
$4,000 bales, according to latest esti-
mates.
! At Cleveland the militia reso,ted to
a bayonet charge to clear the streets of
/ riotous strikers.
| The battleship Iowa, recently over
/ hauled at Port Orchard drydock, is now
| at san Francisco.
/ About 2, 800 clothing workers are on
/ a strike in New York. and 1t is said this
number will be swelled to %. coo with
/ in two weeks.
Two rapidly moving electric cars
crashed into each other at Los Angeles.
| The cans were crowded, but no one was
seriously injured.
/ Governor Tanner. of Illinois, killed
deer while in Colorado. and the state
game warden is after his scalp for
shooting game ont of season.
President Diaz, of Mexico, and his
cabinet will be formally invited To
attend the ceremonies OF the laying of
the corner stone of the new federal
building in Chicago on October 9.
The Dominion government telegraph
line is now completed to Five Fingers,
and is progressing so rapidly that mes
sages may be sent over it from Skag.
way to Dawson in less than two months.
There are not far from 1870, 900, 600
Mussulmans under British power. max
ing Great Britain the greatest Moham-
medan power on earth. About 50, 600, =