Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-12-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK
interesting Collection Of Current Eve, ia
In Condensed Form From
Both Continents

ooth continents.
Sheepmen in Southern Colorado are
losing thousands of sheep by snow and
extremely cold weather.
The Northern Pacific Railway Com.
pany has reduced wages of car repairers
at Superior 20 cents day.
The schooner Ballora Loherman.
Captain Plummer, from South River.
N. D.. for Boston, foundered without
warning Sunday morning off Highland
Lights. No lives were lost
Charles W. Winkler, brakeman on
the Columbia & Puget Sound railway.
was run over by coal ear and killed
in the Seattle yards. Winkler form
erly lived in Butte City, CAL. where
he has relatives.
A bomb. made of gas pipe and filled
with powder, was exploded in the Ger
man theater, in Olatuez, Monrovia.
Little damage was done. but the incl
dent caused great excitement among
the German residents.
The Turkish government, replying to
the representations OF Greece, has ex-
planned that the firing upon the Greek
gunboat Actium by the Turks at Per-
vassa. on Saturday last. as the vessel
was leaving the gulf of mbracia. was
due to misunderstanding.
Aunt Judith Moore, the first colored
woman admitted to membership in
Henry Ward Beecher's church, is dead
at her home in Brooklyn, aged -. It
I is said that Mr.. Beecher in his will re-
quested that she be care for. She is
one of the original members of the
Christian Endeavor Society.
Jacob Sarigs, OF Ooramiah, Persia,
now in Cincinnati, giving talks on
Persia and Armenia, has Just received
letter from friends in mis- Persian
home, informing him that band of
raiders from koordestan had massAcred
all the inhabitants OF Persian Chris.
tan town, 500 souls, near Salinas.
Persia.
Peter French, a prominent cattle
man and landowner of Harvey county,
Oregon, was killed by man named
Oliver. 1t is reported that the deed
was cold-blooded murder. The vic.
tim was shot in the back of the head,
the bullet coming out between the eyes.
A land disputeis said to have been the
cause of the trouble.
The Overman Wheel Company, Of
Chicopee Falls, Mass, has made an as.
signment for the benefit OF its creditors.
Henry B. Bowman, president of the
Springfield National bank, has been
appointed trustee. Albert II. Over.
man is president OF the company. ana
the principal owner and has given out
statement showing that, on Novem-
Der 10. last, the assets were $l,3lS,000
and the Liabilities 1888, 600.
: Frank G. Farley was accidentally
shot and instantly killed by Ell. Alvord,
in Tekoa, Wash. Both men were ..
K. & n. conductors. At the coroner s
inquest, the evidence showed that AL
word was turning the cylinder OF re-
volver so the hammer would not rest on
a cartridge. The weapon was. dis
charged, and Farley fell and expired
without utteIing word. The july ex.
onerated Alvord.
The long-contiuued cold and heavy
snow OF the past month are beginning
10 have serious effect upon sheep in
Wyoming, and it is feared that, unless
there is break in the weather soon,
the losses will be heavy. Sheepmen
report that number have alrca iy
persisted.
Mr.. Coffin, the acting controller Of
the currency has called attention to the
fact that the retirement of national bank
notes during the first 20 days OF Deem
Der reached the sum of $4,000. 600
This is said to be the first time during
the last 10 years that the voluntary re.
tirement has reached this amount in
any one month.
p o After week of conference in Bos.
3 ton, Justices Putnam and King, the
commissioners for the United States
and Canada, respectively, in the arbi.
tration of the Behring sea claims, have
completed their work for the present,
and it is understood will soon begin
the preparation OF their reports TO thei,
respective governments.
The first meeting of the National
Building Trades Council was held al
St. Louis, aad was marked by scath
ing denunciation Of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor for having passed q
resolution at Nashville opposing the
formation of the national council. The
Federation of Labor opposed the new
organization as tending to create a fur.
Their division in the ranks of labor.
Erap,op Martin I Oakley was ki l.. 4
at fire in a five story tenement on
East Forty-fourth street, New York
city. Oakley was suffocated by smoke
and escaping gas. Assistant Fireman
Thomas Head, James Davis and Peter
Connolly, of the same company, were
rendered unconscious by inhaIing
smoke and gas, and were with diff.
Guilty revived. They are in hospitals,
and their condition is serious.
Secretary Alger has cabled to vii.
liam Akellman, chief government rein
deer herder. who is now in Norway, to
inform the war department Immediate
" how soon 600 reindeer can be shipped
to this country. These are wanted for
use as draft animals in getting supplies
to the miners in the klondike region.
They must be transferred at New York
to railroads, and in that manner car
ried across the continent, and again by
sea from the Pacific coast up TO Dyea,
or some other point that may be select
ed as base of operations.
An eight pound dynamite cartridge
exploded in the rear of the Arhuckle