The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-07-20
LATER NEWS.

Agulnaldo ~ said to be negotiating
with General Otis for peace.
Sacramento river steamers are tied
up on account of deck hands strike.
The new French cabinet wants to
end the Dfeyfus agitation and hush the
scandal.
Near London, Ky, as the result of
a feud. five men were killed in
pitched battle.
Senators and representatives are said
to have dictated appointments OF new
volunteer officers.
G. b. VIM, of Albany, has been APP
pointed census supervisor for the first
district of Oregon.
Americans have gained another vic
tory at The Hague in securing the
right OF revision of lbitral rewards.
Mckinley will recommend that con-
eress give Eighth army corps members,
including Oregon volunteers, special
bravery medals.
All OF the bodies of the dead in the
Second Oregon regiment will be
brought home for burial at the govern
mert's expense.
Dissolution OF the Q. Il. e. n. voting
trust means that hereafter the road
will serve Union Pacific and itself rath-
er than Northern roads.
The Colorado supreme court has de-
Cided the eight-hour law unconstitu-
tional. The smelters will resume
perations on the old schedule.
There are now at st. Michaels be-
tois. who do not know where their
next meal is coming from. The gov.
eminent station on the island is be-
sieged with piteous appeals for aid.
\ AttOrney-General Blackburn has
rendered an opinion at the request of
Newt Livingston, sheriff Of Grant
county, Or, in which lie expresses the
opinion that sheritfs are not entitled
to constructive mileage in serving pa
pers.
Newspaper correspondents in the
Philippines nave made a vigorous pro-
test against the close censorship of dis
patches, and say they are forced to in
dulge in Representations. Otis has
appointed new censor and promises
more liberal policy will be pursued
in the future.
A fruit Gamers combine, including
! corporations and % pants, has js,t
been formed in San Francisco. The
new combine includes almost every
important cannery in California, and
will cut prominent figure in the fruit
industry of the state, besides controll-
ing prices and debating terms to the
fruit-growers.
Two American ships are Guarantined
at japanese ports with the plague.
Near Birmingham, Ma, two negroes
were killed and one wounded by stlik-
ing miners.
Bleak winds and breed
ing fogs are threatening disease to Ore
CONS brave soldiers camped at the san
Francisco Preside.
To july !. 1899, the United States
government has paid in pensions 81
523, 42S.2l2. 81. Nearly double this
sum is yet to be paid.
The civic federation Of Chicago, that
will investigate trusts, has sent letters
to $50 trusts and combinations asking
90 pertinent questions.
Fifteen Austrian coal-miners. who
came to this country IN violation of
the contiact-labor law, are being de-
ported from Nebraska and Iowa.
The Indians of Oklahoma Territory
are largely engaged in dancing, in
spite of the efforts of the government
to prevent the practice and trouble is
feared.
Another trolley strike is on in Brok-
Ign, \. Y. SO far it has not been AS
effective as the strike of 1895, but there
is no telling how faI-reaching it may
become.
At Libertyville. H., following a
family quarrel, Mrs. George Treiter
shot and killed her mother, Mrs.
Christian Foss. wounded her husband
and killed herself.
The new treaty between Argentina
and the United States gives reduction
in duties on Argentina sugar, hides
and wool, and on American canned
goods, timber and certain foods.
Captain Andrews, 1.-THE lone navi.
gator" who left the Atlantic coast in
June for England in l2-foot boat.
has been picked up 700 miles from the
Irish coast in an exhausted condition.
Japan is now on new basis, and the
friction Of extra.teriitoriality is at an