The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-08-31
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Cuiled From the Telegraph Columns.

Tanners Of the East and West Will
form an upper-leather combine.
At Seabright, N. j., three persons
were killed and three injured by being
run down by train.
Every train is brining recruits to
Cape Town, and each side seems to be
preparing for conflict.
Emperor William and the German
ambassador to France lunched together
in Berlin and discussed the Dreyfns
case.
In Holland mob by throwing stones
forced troops to fire upon them. One
of the rioters was killed and two were
wounded.
General Bates mission to tie Mmos
was successful. The sultan of Sulu
has agreed to recognize American soy.
ereignty.
The st. Paul Globe advocates the
nomination of Admiral Dewey for the
presidency by the next Democratic ma
tional convention.
Sir Wilfred Laurier and Minister of
Marine Davies will go to England to
talk with Chamberlain about the a Alas
kan boundary.
Reports from Southern Russia say
current belief OF the approaching end
of the world is causing a panic among
the uneducated classes.
The Greek government has been
granted the courtesy of having an en-
sign of the Greek navy signed TO duty
on the North Atlantic squadron.
John Lind, governor OF Minnesota,
has requested the war department to
allow the returning volunteers OF his
state to be landed in Portland, instead
of in San Francisco.
President Mellen, of the Northern
Pacific railway in al interview pub
lished in Wall street paper SAYS his
road spent but half its earnings for OPP
Grating expenses last year and the
road is now in Il prosperous condition.
The war burdens are beginning to
grow heavy and Secretary Gage is seek
ing some way to increase the stamp
tax. Slot machines and firearms il Is
may htlp W Dtdl lIic bNIIttls.
Another bond issue is also mentioned.
DIR. Gilbert Reed. promoter Of the
international Institute of China"
designed to instruct AM elevate the
better class of Chinese, says Dewey has
made China respect Uncle Sam, and
Americans are again encouraged to at
tempt education OF the heathens on an
elaborate scale.
The Pennsylvania regiment has left
San Francisco for home.
All the new regiments of volunteers
will be atoat for Manila by October.
At Passaic, n. j.. the Botany Worst
ell Mills Company is to erect six build.
ings.
Thirty-six volunteers from the Sec
ond Oregon have applied for pensions
for disability.
A South African mining engineer
made the trip from London to Dawson
City in II days.
At Appleton, Wis, mill boiler
exploded, killing two men and wound
ing eight others.
Dreyius' enemies are still after La
bori Two Internal machines loaded
with gun cotton were sent him.
Thomas Bracket Reed mas rendered
his resignation as congressman from
Maine. The governor has accepted it.
Typhus fever is following in the
wake of the storm in Porto Rico. The
stencil arising from the putrefying bod,
les is given as the cause.
Maj General Otis is himself acting
as censor of dispatches. He dictates
correspondents reports of engagements
and with formal official phrases, mag
Dfies American success.
1t is alleged in England that the
Transyaal is republic only in name and
that abuses are manifold. Even the
courts must agree with Dom Paul
Kruger, or off go official heads.
Near Marshalltown, Iowa, three
tramps. stealing a ride on Great
Western freight train shot, and killed
Brakeman Wilson and Conductor
Mathews and threw their bodies under
the train.
The present run OF sockeye salmon
on lower Puget sound is so phenomenal
as to make it almost certain that the
Puget sound salmon pack will be large
enough to compensate for the shortage
in the packs on the Fraser and Colum.
bia rivers.
While endeavoring to rescue one OF
their conn AIDES, arrested for drunken
ness, the soldiers from the Indiana had
fight with the police of Honolulu