The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1899-11-02
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.

Washington IL said to be the most
productive of the Tanning group of
islands.
1t is rumored that A. d. Clarke, an
Englishman, NAV try for the cup to get
even with Lord Dunraven
Colonel Frost says the stories of
American soldiers looting churches is
absolutely false. He praises Otis.
The university of Oregon will play
football against the university of Cali
fornia at Berkeley campus November l8.
st. Louis worlds fair is to be a
great one. The fund has already
reached $4,000, 900. The total amount
aimed at is So, 100000.
The White Star steamer Germanic
collided with barge near Liverpool
and was seriously injured. She will
not sail for New York this trip.
Reverend McKinnon asserts that
General Luna, the rebel chief killed by
Aguinaldos orderly, had killed his
wife and mother-in- law in Paris and
fed
interest i'll Kruger's people or their lit
tie republic, and will not interfere
Germany is said to be friendly to the
English.
A giant brass combine is being
formed which it is stated will comprise
all the plants in the Naugatuck valley,
Connecticut. The main Office will be
in New York city.
At Paris, Mo-, the grand jury re.
turned an Indictment for murder in the
first degree against Alexander Jester
on the charge of numbering Gilbert
Gates, son Of II Chicago millionaire, 2S
years ago.
The 10 Russian men-of-war in the
Pacific will shortly be reinforced by
six ships from the Eastern squadron
The Berlin Tageblatt sees in this a con.
nection with the rumors OF the Chino
Japanese alliance.
Secretary Long will make q recon.
mendation for but limited increase OF
the new navy in his forthcoming annual
report. He will devote most of his
energies to urging abolition of limit of
cost i'll the construction of battleships.
Herr Hopeff, ex-treasurer of the AL
bert Nerein, a charitable organization
under the patronage of the king and
queen of SaXony, was sentenced to i'm.
prisonment for four years and nine
months for misappropriating 250, 900
marks OF the society's funds.
The Burghers are said to have secured
the services of 1900 natives.
Prolongation of war beyond British
expectations is now said to be certain.
The navy department is to giS1 Mar
coni's wireless telegraphy practical
test.
England will expect the Beers to
pay the cost of war when the end
comes.
The government of Venezuela has
been turned over to Castro, who seems
to be very popular.
United States army officers have
been sent to South Africa to watch the
progress of the war.
Fifteen sick men of the Iowa regi-
ment are now in the general hospital
at the Preside, San Francisco.
Russia has at last agreed that the
claim resulting from the seizure of
seals in Behring sea shall be arbitrated.
lilo lilo is stirred by the expectation
of important fighting. Nolleys are be-
ing fired at the American outposts
nightly.
Colonel John B. Yates one of Cen
eral Sherman's main supports in the
famous march to the sea, is dead at
Amesburg, Ont.
The battleships Texas and Indiana
are to 60 out of commission, as the
officers and men are needed in the
Philippines. Others may follow.
A Berlin dispatch says kilograms
from Brussels announce that in the
Transvaal legation circles it is stated
that France and Russia will not per-
NIT the annexation of the Transvaal
and Orange Free State to England.
At Atchison, Kan, two robbers shot
and killed one man and wounded an
other i'll store, which they later rob.
bed. They We're pursued by posse
and they shot and killed policeman
and another man, both members of the
pursuers.
Canada has made new proposition
for permanent settlement of the Alaska
dispute. She again asks for arhitra-
ton on terms similar to those imposed
by the United States and Great Britain
over Venezuela. Fifty years of occu.
pancy is considered conclusive evi.
dence of title She il WILLING 10 Give