Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1897 — WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON.

President McKinley has returned to Washington from the Berkshire hills. Zephaniali Joiles, an aged Washington contractor, was run down by a bicycle and killed. John R. McLean has retired as the free silver aspirant for the seat now held by Senator Hanna. Gen. A. J. Warner is announced as a candidate for the place, The power house of the Central Traction Company of Washington was destroyed by fire, the loss being about sl,000,000. Some of the Government buildings, including the White House, were threatened. An official announcement received at Washington of the departure of the Japanese cruiser Naniwa for Y’okohama, together with the statement that the immigration question between Japan and Hawaii is likely to be shortly settled, without arbitration, has thrown a peaceful aspect around American questions in the Pacific. This cheering news was communicated to the State Department by Minister Sewall, stationed at Honolulu, whose mail reports have just reached the .department.