The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-04-06
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
- 'Culled From the Telegraph Columns.

Ecuador has decided to 90 to the gold
basis.
Immense damage to Texas crops by
frost is reported.
The maple sugar crop of Vermont
will be a total failure this year.
A presidential boom in behalf of
Richard Olney has been launched.
Five bodies were recovered in the
ruiEs of the Armour felt works, at Chi
cago.
Washington gossips are busy with
the name of General Macarthur as
presidential possibility.
Admiral Dewey is eaid to have
cabled to Washington requsition for
more men and more ships.
Plans are afoot to reorganize the
National Red Cross Society. with a
view to greatly increasing its scope.
Brigadier General d. A. Flagler.
chief OF ordnance. is dead at his home
at Old Point, Va.
Claude Holland, victim OF the
Santa Fee wreck, at Lang, Kan. In
1897. has just received $ll 500 in set
Element OF his claim against that com.
pany.
A positive statement to the effect
that the Philippine group was offered
10y the United States to England on
certain conditions has been published
in London.
Samuel Halter, 3S years old, a tick
etseller with Buffalo Bill's wild west
show, was shot and probably mortally
wounded by William II. Holland, at
New York.
Claus Spreckles has decided to es-
tablsh in San Francisco an electric
plant that will be without a rival in
the world, and which will furnish to
the people of that city light, heat and
power almost at cost.
The Oregon wounded will be brought
home as soon as possible from Manila.
They will come on the first ships desig-
mated for that purpose by the war de.
partment. The dead will also be
brought to this country for burial.
At Wednesdays session the army
beef court of inquiry had Eagan on the
stand. He explained his contracts
with the beefpackers, but his testi-
mony was in no way startling. He de-
clared that Senator Hanna had nothing
to do with the matter.
General Miller, now in the Philip
pines, having reached his cath year,
has retired.
President Mckinley has returned to
Washington after an outing Of two
weeks and day.
Stocks of the sugar companies in the
Hawaiian market are booming and
large advances are noted all through
the list.
A list prepared in the Office Of the
acknowledgement shows the casualties
in Manila since February to be l57
killed and S64 wounded.
A dispatch to the Daily Mail from
Vienna says there are 10000 cases Of
influenza in the city of Brunn. capital
of the province of Moravia. Austria,
and that the death rate is enormous.
The restoration of the wages of / 700
employees in the York cotton mills,
Saco, Me-, is announced to begin Mon
day, when a similar raise will affect
over 1900 hands in the Laoonia and
Pepperel cotton mills, of BiddefoId.
Harry Sanderson, the young farmer,
who attempted to murder his sweet.
heart, Myrtle Fleischer, near Mayetta,
Kan. but instead wounded Mrs. John
Fleischer, her aunt. SO that she died
later. was lynched by mob from
Mayetta.
Since General Macarthur made a
gallant advance north of Manila there
has been some talk that he should be
chosen as a brigadieI general of volun.
teers, his rank in the regular army be-
ing lieutenant colonel of the adjutant-
generals department.
A Washington dispatch says: Gen.
eral Thomas NJ. Anderson has been tor
some time past slated as brigader-
general in the regular army until he
retires next fall. He is to command
the department of the Columbia. with
headquarters at Vancouver.
The cruiser Chicago. which left
Hampton Roads March 10 under orders
to overtake the American liner Paris
and transfer from that ship ex-Secre.
tary of State John Sherman. who had
been taken seriously i'll, has arrived at
Newport News with the distinguished
invalid on beard.
Seniors Jose r. Villalon and A.
Hevia, who We're appointed by the Gu
ban assembly to present to the Wash.