The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-08-17
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Comprehensive Review Of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
CulIed From the Telegraph Columns.

Cleveland strikers blew up another
car with nitro-g lycerin. Nobody was
injured.
An English torpedo boat killed the
helmsman of French fisherman who
had come within the three-mile limit.
In the translation of words in the
secret dossier the French conrt was Of
ten puzzled. Dreyfus helped them out.
The San Dominican rebels are meet.
ing with success and the government 10
helpless. The rebel forces increase
daily.
The insurgents wrecked the steamer
Satnrnus flying the American flag.
They secured $1,000 900 in specie and a
cargo of general merchandise.
A barkeeper at Wallace, Idaho,
Knocked a woman down in a dancehall.
He was shot and killed by soldie,
who witnessed the mans brutality.
England will send more troops to the
Transvaal, and will not wait % years
for redress. Secretary Chamber Hair
says the present state of affairs cannot
he tolerated.
A letter received in Frisco from
Alaska asserts that the crew of the
Jessie were murdered and robbed by
Indians while they slept, and not
drowned as at first reported.
Two Cuban editors are on their way
to Washington to complain of the
wrongs they suffered by being confined
in Cuban prison and later required
to break stones on the streets OF Ha-
vana.
AT Canton, o., Mrs. Edward Eckin-
ger killed her husband and daughter
with a shotgun, and then put another
charge through her own heart. Do
mestc troubles ale supposed to have
been the cause OF the tragedy.
In spite of deniaIs on the subject, Ii
is said President Roca, of Argentine
republic, who is now in Rio Janeiro as
guest of Brazil, is DESTROYS of nego-
tiating an alliance between Argentina,
Brazil and Chile against the United
States.
A captain Of sailing vessel inst
from the Philippines has arrived in
Victoria. The captain severely critI.
cises the management Of the campa gn
and says "Otis is a silly old man with.
out knowledge OF the necessities or the
responsibilities of his position. without
ability to improve it, and the tiist ac-
ton of this government should be his
recall"
A movement is on foot to form an
opposing whisky trust.
Quiet has been restored in Cleveland,
but the strike is still on.
Thirty thousand Firms will form a
colony in Newfoundland.
Former Governor W. Y. Atkinson,
of Georgia, died at Newman.
A woman of noble birth died in a
hovel in Chicago. Up to the last she
refused all favors.
Cavalry horses for Manila will be
taken via the Aleutian islands and
Japan to allow rest.
Encouraged by the movement in 9th
er cities the messenger boys OF Buffalo.
N. l., are on strike.
A tank car loaded with naptha ex-
ploded in tunnel near Somerset. Ky,
wrecking a train of 20 cars.
A Washington special says Bitishers
are getting firm hold on Cuban trade
and American capital is slow.
Carlisle, Ky. was visited by a half
lnll ,l al 1
nearly the entire business portion.
A Chicago man has been taken with
fit OF laughing and is unable to check
it. He is unconscious. but continues
to giggle.
J. c. Hildebrand, an advertising co.
lcitor in the employ Of the Portland
Oregonian, fell from veranda and met
with instant death.
The coroner's jury has found that
the cause of the Bar Harbor catastro.
Dhe was due to insufficient construc-
tion of the ferry slip.
Ambassador Choate Gays there will
he no war over the Alaskan boundary
dispute. Negotiations are always slow
in such matters. but are progressing.
Aguinaldo has appealed to the pow
ers for recognition of Filipino inde-
pendence" in document dated Tar
lac. July %, and signed by Buencami.
bio.
The Santo Domingo rebels have
taken possession of Dajabon, driving
the garrison before them. The foreign
population and Haytian consul have
left the place.
A broken hange on a wheel caused a