Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1898-09-29
DOINCS OF THE WEEK
What Has Happened In the
Civilized World.
GIVEN IN THE PRESS DISPATCHES
A Complete Reviow Of tho News Of the
Past Seven Gays In This and
Ali Foreign Lands.


Gomez has issued general order to
the army under his command to the
effect that Spaniards must have con-
sideration shown them, and American
orders Oboyed-
The navy department has ordered
400 sailors to be- sent to Admiral
Dewey's squadron at Manila to take the
place of sailors whose terms of service
have expired.
General Blanco has issued an order
authorizing the soldiers OF the Cuban
army to travel unarmed on railway
trains in the provinces OF Pinar del Rio
and Havana.
AS far as new discoveries went. the
expedition sent out by the university of
Pennsylvania to. study North Alaska
from scientific standpoint has been "a
failure. Three men of the party re-
turned to Seattle on the Excelsior.
Nearly 1000 specimens, weighing
IL = tons, were brought back.
The report that the last Spanish gar
risOn in the island Of Luzon had sur
rendered is premature. The Spaniards
still hold seven seaports in Albay prov
ince. the principal hemp district.
The distur Dances have already resulted
in the diminution of the output of AL
bay hemp by 100000 bales, as COM
pared with last years figures.
Adviccs from the Orient state that
China and Japan have been visited by
thunder storms and destructive floods,
in which many hundreds OF people have
lost their lives. The region north OF
the Anshang mountains has been inun-
dated for hundreds Of miles By the yell
low river. Several hundred thousand
persons have been plunged into the
deepest distress. and many into abso-
lutte perjury, which local authorities
are unable to alleviate.
News received at San Francisco re-
ports the loss of the schooner G. G.
Funk, on Flanders island, on July 81,
with 10 of her crew. Only two seanlen
were saved. and but one body has been
recovered. The list of the drowned is
as follows: Captain and Mrs. Nesson
and two children, aged and years,
respectively; A. Hansen, chief mate;
J. Stump, second mate; Charles Olsen,
Peter Nelson, Charles Joahansen and
Peter Anton, able seamen. The vessel
was driven ashore by gale and went
to pieces in the surf
The cabinet council has reappointed
General Zurlinden. ex-minister Of war,
military governor of Paris.
James Wyland, living near Climax.
Or, committed suicide by shooting
himself in the head with a rife.
A threshing engine on the Collins
farm, near Vancouver, Wash, ex.
ploded, seriously injuring four en-
ployes.
Calixto Garcia has arrived at Jiguani
on his way to Santiago. He will prob
ably visit the United States, where
his daughter is i'll.
Ell Provence, a Santiago paper, de-
clares that the fruits of victory shall
not be snatched from the grasp of the
Cubans after they have fought and bled
for 80 years to obtain them.
The coalminer's strike in the third
pool at Monongahela, Pa. is over and
work has been resumed in all the pits
pending a settlement OF the differences
by arbitration. Two thousand miners
are affected.
The wreck of the American ship
Emily W. Whitney is reported from
Shanghai, and number of the crew
lost. She was lost in typhoon, which
caused the abandonment of the Ger.
man ship Trinidad.
Pittsburg conductors and brakemen
are on the eve of a strike. They de-
mand that their wages be increased
sufficiently to place them on an equal
ity Of the pay received by their brethren
in other parts of the country.
According to the report current it is
believed at Samoa that if her majesty's
ship Ringdove had not been at Apia,
the Germans would have hoisted the
German flag there on Malietoas death,
and proclaimed the annexation OF Sa.
Inoa.
General Lawton intends to receive
General Garcia as an honored guest.
AS he now holds no official position in
the Cuban army, he will be treated by
the American commander as a distin-
guished private citizen and great
soldier
The southern part of Spain has been
visited by terrible floods. At the viii
lage of Herrera, near Cadiz, so per-
sons were drowned, and great num-
Der Of cattle pe1shed. The olive harv-
est is lost. This is especially true in
the provinces of Seville and Grenada.
There have been many deaths in other
parts of the flooded country.
Minor News Items.
Russia's common soldier gets $2.25
year.
Our daily output of powder is 16, 900