Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1897-08-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Interesting Collection Of Current Events
In Condensed Form From
Both Continents.

In their next report to congress, naval
officials will recommend that several
large drydocks be built.
Frank Manninger, an aged painter.
i'll, penniless and proud, starved to
death in his room in West New York,
n. j.
Angiolillo, the Italian anarch-
ist who murdered Premier Canovas,
has been tried by court-martial and
sentenced to be garroted.
A Canadian Pacific train struck a
carriage containing five persons at a
crossing near st. Therese, Quebec, kill
ing two women and injuring three 9TH
erS.
A special from Rome says it is report
ed the pope will excommunicate Prince
Henry of Orleans and the Count of
Turin, as dueling is forbidden by the
Roman Catholic church.
1t is stated that President Mckinley
has expressed himself in favor of the
admission OF New Mexico to statehood.
A bill to that effect will be introduced
at the next session of congress.
A Southern Pacific freight train
struck burning stump that tumbled
down the mountain side in Cow creek
canyon in Southern Oregon, completely
demolishing the engine and four cars
and killing Fireman Robert McEwan
and an unknown tramp.
Secretary Sherman, Assistant Secre-
tary Howell, of the department. and
the French ambassador will join in
conference on the subject of reciprocal
tariff relations with France in the near
future, and it is fully expected that u
new and satisfactory agreement will be
reached.
Justice stephen J. Field, of the
United States supreme court, has es-
tablished the record for the longest
service on that bench. The service of
Chief Justice John Marshall had been
Il e longest in the history of the court,
covering 35 years. Justice Fields
service exceeds that Of Marshall. He
was appointed in 1868 by President
Lincoln, and is in his Slst year. He
has reached the age of retirement. but
he prefers to remain in active service
on the bench. and there is 10 present
indication that he will retire.
Thomas jefferson Sappington, an
old-time resident of st. Louis county,
Missouri, who saved General U S.
Grant from capture by Confederates,
died near Sappngton. suburb of St.
Louis. In 1864, when Grant came back
Oh, -; g.,
the latter city, Mr.. Sappington. who
was first lieutenant in the Second Mis-
souri, militia, learned that number of
the most radical sympathzers with the
South had planned to capture General
Grant and take him South prisoner.
Mr.. Sappington determined to thwart
the scheme. He hurried to st. Louis
and met General Grant just rs he was
starting out for his farm. The result
was a disappointment to the men who
We're lying in ambush for Grant.
Mrs. C. A. Shurte and her two chill
dren were sutfocated by smoke in their
home at Arlington, Or.
Word has been received in New York
from Calcutta that the Indian relief ex-
petition which left San Francisco last
June, has arrived safely. The cargo.
it is said, will be more acceptable even
than expected.
A wind, rain and hailstom which
passed over Northern Wisconsin did
more than 100000 damage to the to-
bacco farmers on Coon prairie, the
a. Oh
county. Fully four-tifths OF the crop
is destroyed.
A rich gold find is reported from the
Sparta district in Union county, Ore
gon. The find has caused no little ex-
element, and big amount OF quartz
has been boxed up for shipment direct
to the mint. 1t is estimated that it
will 90 at least $40, 900 to the ton.
For month or more people living
near Bald Knob, Ark, have been find
ing valuable pearls in lake near that
place. Hundreds of people have been
opening mussel shells in search of the
pearls, and some of the gems have been
found, some being sold for rs much rs
$500.
Either crazed by liquor or laboring
under delusion that he was being per.
secuted, John Thomas, prospector
lately from Fort Steele district, started
a fusilade with a revolver on the streets
of Spokane, which resulted in mortaliy
wounding two men and painful injuries
to another man and boy.
A special to the Toronto Globe from
Ottawa says that the Dominion govern
ment has received several important
decisions in regard to the Yukon coun-
try, and the working of the gold fields
there. 1t has been decided to appoint
an administrator for the district, who
will have entire charge of all the Can.
adian officials there and be the chief
executor for the government.
AS result of war between Atlantic
coast lines, freight is being carried
hundred weight.
According to dispatch from Copen-
hagen, received in London. Captain
Mortensen, of the bark Ansager, bound
from Dublin to Omega, at the mouth OF
the Omega river, on the White sea, re-
ports that on July ID, when about two
days sail east of North cape, the north
ernmost point of Europe, then being in
Attic waters, he saw collapsed bal
loon. which he believed to be Andree's.
Warning notices, evidently directed
against the Chinese Society for English
Education, have been posted on the
deadwalls of Chinatown, in San Fran