Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-02-25
EVENTS OF THE DAY
An Intere sting Collection of Items From
the Two Hemispheres Presented
In IA Condemned Form.

A mail train on the Pennsylvania
railroad crashed into a box car near
Ebensburg, Pa, and was badly wrecked.
Five persons were seriously hurt.
Charles +. Miller, a sailor, brutally
murdered his wife at Port Blakely,
Wash. Much excitement was occasion
ed. and lynching was prevented with
great difficulty.
stephen Ringhoffer, aged IA, the son
of Joseph Ringhoffer, of Walla Walla.
was shot and killed by Charles Woody
who is l6 years old. The boys were out
hunting when the accident occurred.
Peter L. Garvey, so years old, died
at the county hospital in Chicago. after
having undergone an operation for what
the attending physician pronunced as
lumpy jaw. Only one other case of
human being afflicted with this malady
is ON record.
White settlers at Warrington. in Ma
son valley, Nevada, have appealed for
help, fearing an outbreak of the Piute
Indians in that neighborhood. One OF
the Indians was killed in quarrel and
the Indians have begun gathering in
numbers. Governor Sadler has sent
Acknowledgement Galusha on special
train to investigate.
The Chesapeake & Ohio west-bound
passenger train encountered Il washout
opposite Portsmouth, 0. The engine.
baggage and express car, mail car and
one coach Were derailed. A. G. Stout,
supervisor of the c. q o., was killed.
The engineer, fireman, mail clerk and
express messenger were all injured. but
not seriously.
While making desperate effort to
avoid arrest for some trivial otfense.
Nicholas Mentgen lost his life under
the wheels OF a train in Chicago. Fol-
lowed by an excited crowd and patrol
wagon containing officers, Mentgen ran
to the tracks and did not see the train
approaching. The locomotive knocked
him thirty feet and the train passed
over him.
Charles kreiner was drowned in the
Willamette river at the Altonas' wharf
in Salem. He was cook on the steamer
Ramona that plies between Portland
and Independence. An effort was made
to save the man with a small boat,
without avail. The river was dragged
and dynamite used, but the body has
not been recovered. The unfortunate
man leaves widow and one child in
Portland.
Governor Bradley. of Kentucky, has
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cution of Jackson and Walling, the
murderers of Pearl Bryan.
: The Havana authorities, in view of
the scarcity of beef, have decided to re-
quest the government to allow the free
importation of cattle from the United
States and Mexico.
Frank CASTLE, stockman. stabbed
and killed John Beck at Cleveland,
Wash, in an alteration at a mas
querade ball. CASTLE surrendered him.
self to the sheriff and claims the act
was one OF self-defense,
DR.. Arthur Duestrow. the St. Louis
millionaire, who on February ID, 1894,
shot and killed his wife and child in a
fit of drunken rage, in that city. was
hanged in the courtyard of the county
Jail in Union. He broke down at the
last moment and confessed to the crime
Secession has entered the proceedings
of the convention of the League of
American Wheelmen. now being held
in Albany, y. Y. Colorado will take
the initiative and will probably be iol-
lowed by California and several other
states. Sunday racing is the bone of
contention.
Before the Legislative investigating
committee on trusts in New York John
+. Searles admitted that the average
margin Of profit between raw and re-
fined sugar during the five years before
the trust was formed was 1854 of
cent pound and during the subsequent
five years 90.
A letter received by an official in
Panama from La PaZ, Bolivia, states
that the Bolivian congress will declare
war upon Peru. The letter also states
that there is great activity in military
circles, the army is being placed on a
war footing. and recruiting has begun
throughout the republic.
A special train form Chicago to Den
yer, a distance Of 1,o26 miles, made the
run in Is hours % minutes. The jour-
ney goes into history as the greatest
railroad feat ever accomplished. The
train was special conveying Henry ].
Mayham. a mining broker of Chicago.
to the death bed of his son. He arrived
a few hours too late.
The battleship Oregon has returned
to San Francisco after her first long
cruise. She went as far as Acapulco.
Mexico, and has been absent five weeks
During her voyage she practiced with
her guns and has been tested as fight
ing machine and seagoing craft. The
vessel proved satisfactory in every re-
spect. She will soon proceed to Seattle
and enter the drydock.
The sale OF the Northern Pacific Rail-
road Company's property and transfer
to the Northern Pacific Railway Com
pany. the purchaser has been fully
completed Judge Jenkins. OF Mil
waukee. having entered an order in the
United Sattes court confirming the ac-
tion OF Master Carey in executing deeds
transferring the property and sanction
ing the disposition OF porceeds as made
by the master. This is the last act in
the disposition OF the property. but
years will elapse before the court is
done with litigation.
Four indictments have been found
against Sylvester Scovel correspond
ent of the New York World, recently