The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-04-20

Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings OF the Past Week
Cuiled From the Telegraph Columns.

WIN ZIG SICK oOluleTs,
One thousand United States militia.
men will take part in the queens birth
day celebration in Kingston. Ont.
The sixth annual convention Of the
Association of Railroad Air Brakemen
is in session in Detroit, with about 100
delegates present.
The British house of commons re-
Jected the bill providing for the com
pulsory reinstatement OF Irish tenants
evicted since 1879.
A miner has reached Dyea, Alaska,
who claims to be the survivor Of a
party of three, two of whom were muir.
derd by Chilkat Indians near the vii.
lage OF Klukwan. The men killed
we're Sidney Vance. an Englishman,
and Charles Erickson. a Swede.
In the battle between the revolution
lets under Pando and President Alon-
eos army, near Oruro, Bolivia, 200
were killed. General Pando occupied
Oruro without confusion. President
Alonzo, with a small body guard. is a
refugee at Antofagasta. bay of Moreno,
Chile.
Ensign Monaghan, who was brutality
Chewelah, Wash, in 1878. He was
educated in private schools Of San
Francisco and Portland, and in Con
zaga college. Jesuit institution Of
Spokane. His father is now resident
Of the latter city.
The Maryland Steel Company at
Sparrows Point. has received an order
for $4,000 tons OF 67-pound steel rails.
for the Chinese Eastern railroad. The
mills are working day and night on q
large order Of similar rails for the
trans-Siberian road. of which the
Chinese Eastern will be a contiunato on.
PTospectors who have arrived from
Alaska bring news that there are at
least 400 prospectors on the Edmonton
trail between Dease lake and the Hud.
sons Bay post on the Liaid river. most
OF whom are in destitute circum-
stances. Many of the men are said to
be suffering from scurvv and frost
bites. The sick cannot receive proper
medical attendance. and many are
dying.
The Cleveland carpenters strike was
settled by compromise.
The American Smelling & Refining
Company organized in New York by
electing directors.
The Cuban railway strike has ended.
Trainmen, afraid to lose their Jobs,
surrendered without condition.
President Barrows, of Oberlin col.
lege. announced the anonymous gift of
$50, 900 for building and equipping
chemical laboratory.
At Bridgeport, Conn. DR.. Nancy A.
Guiliord pleaded guilty to man
slaughter. and was sentenced to 10
years imprisonment.
The notifications Of the peace treaty
have been exchanged. Bellamv Storer,
now minister to Belgium. will be the
new minister to Spain.
The Victoria trades and labor council
protests against the importation of 90
men from Pennsylvania to work on
steamer at Lake Bennett
The president has appointed Law
renee Townsend, of Pennsylvania. to
succeed Belamy Storer AS United
States minister to Brussels.
In a scutfle for possession Of a rifle,
Albert Pemberton, n private of the
Twenty-tifth infantry, was killed at
Fort Logan by a comrade, Peter Horn.
John +. O'Brien. chief of the Santa
Fe fire department. was instantly
killed by the California limited train
as it was passing through the yards in
Topeka.
Secretary Whitney has organized
trust in New York to control electric
transportation 1t is said the trust
will in time extend its operations to
the Western cities.
Two thousand miners who went out
at Danville. H., last week, have de-
cided to lay the matter before the state
arbitration board, and will resume
operations.
Five children of Ole Peterson. of
Niborg, Turner county. South Dakota.
were poisoned by eating wild psrsnips.
Two are dead, one dangerously Ill, and
two will recover.
John d. Sims and Leonard Hale
were drowned at Shorebar. Cal. on
the north side of Feather river. They
attempted to Cross the stream in a can.
vas boat. which upset.
The private bank of l.. p. Hunsner
and Mckenzie. at Alma. Wis. has been
closed by order of the state bank ex-
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