Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-10-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Interesting collection Of Current Events
In Condensed Form From
Both Continents.

In Condensed Form From
Both Continents.
The numbering town of Austin. Pa
was nearly wiped OF the map by FIRE.
Only five dwellings remain. Fully
500 persons are homeless.
The Hotel Lafayette, at Minnetonka,
MINI. the largest summer resort in the
West, was totally destroyed by fire.
1t was owned by the Great Northern
railway.
For the month OF September, the at.
tendance at the Nashville exposition
was 1853. 724, and the total attendance
since the opening up October amount.
ed to l,l96.6 s5.
The emperor OF China has forbidden
all sorts of banquets and junketing be.
cause an eclipse will occur on January
22, 1898. An eclipse of the sun is said
by the Chinese to be proof of the
wrath Of heaven at the lack of virtue
in . ruler.
*2,00O,000 power plant is TO be
established near Butte, Mont. While
the plant will furnish electricity for
Butte and power for general purposes,
it is being built chiefly to supply power
to several large copper mines, which
are located near Butte.
Five hundred thousand acres of fine
land along the Big Piney. Lebarge,
Fontanelle creeks and Green river.
which have recently been surveyed,
will be thrown open to settlement
under the United States land laws after
November /, when plats Of the land
will be filed in the local land Office.
The lands comprise eight townships. all
in Uintah county, Wyoming.
A vessel carrying supplies of medi-
cine, clothing, arms and ammunition
for the Cuban army has left Montreal
for Cuba. The scheme was not author.
lied by the Cuban junta in New York.
but was undertaken on behalf OF two
gentlemen. one Canadian, who de-
cided on running an expedition to the
coast of Cuba, and, ii successful. iden.
tifying themselves with the cause.
Neal Dow. the great temperance aCs
vocate. died at his home in Portland,
Me. 1t was through his efforts that in
1884 an amendment to the constitution
of Maine was adopted by popular vote
of nearly three TO one, in which it was
declared that the manufacture. sale and
keeping for sale of intoxicating bever
ages was forever forbidden, and com.
manding the legislature to enact suit
able laws for the enforcement of the
prohibition.
The topic Of the day in Paris has been
the refusal of NJ. Lozo, French ambasa.
ment rendered him as governor Algeria.
on the ground that he does not desire
to leave his aged parents. He declares
that he will remain in Vienna, but the
Marquis d'Reversau has already been
appointed to replace him. and the cab
met has decided that this appointment
must stand. NJ. Lozo. therefore, will
have to make an ignominious retreat.
The Orange-Judd Farmer. in its
final estimate of the years crop. says
that figures, based on actual threshing
returns, indicate total yield OF $780,.
900, 900 bushels of wheat. of which
S73.000,00 bushels in winter, and
els, 900 bushels in spring wheat.
The report says the corn crop is exceed.
ingly disappointing, and an outside es-
innate is 1850. 900, 600 bushels
Drought during the past two months
reduced the average condition from
S2.S a month ago to 7S.e on October /.
An average oats yield of 2S.1 bushels
per acre suggests a crop OF STA, 900, 900
bushels, 100000. 600 more than last
year.
Three persons were killed on the Bal.
timore & Ohio railroad tracks near
Chester, Pa, by passenger train
crashing into a wagon.
The Daily Mail laughs at the report
of the Canadian expedition in Hudson
bay hosting the British flag over
Baffin's Land, to get ahead OF the
Americans. and declares that the terri
DRY has long been British possession.
The first of the sealing fleet to re-
turn to Victoria was the Cascd
She brought ,064 skins, taken on HE
japanese coast and Copper Islands. She
reports that the Cxidtta. with 400
skins, aud RE Dtsdabs. With 1000
skins, aresclcsG 0ehind her.
Five - net ! horrible death from
: biao. damp. The after accumulation Of
q IRE In the Jermyn mine near Rend-
ham, Pa. The bodies were discovered
by a gang of men who went down into
the mine with supplies for combating
the fire. Noobdy knew Of their deaths
until the discovery of the lifeless bodies.
During the past month nearly S..
900, 600 worth of grain has left the Pa
citic ports for Europe. Besides this, IS
lumber vesses have sailed for foreign
ports with cargoes valued at over 5000.
900. As the month Of August nearly
eQualed September, the export Of grain
and flour alone for the two months
would easily run into the ten-million
figures.
Commissioner Evans estimates that
the payments for pensions for the fiscal
year will foot up $147, 500,00o The
appropriation was $l4l, 263,S The
high-wat mark for pensions was in
1898 when the payments amounted to
$l59. 1885, siSee which time they
have been kept down to the figures OF
this years appropriately The nay
ments for pensions this xear Will be
within $50. 900. 600 Of as muck as the
entire receipts OF the governmenStro from
customs last year. and more than eQesSl
TO the entire internal revenue tax.
Following up the agreement between