Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1898-12-29
LATER NEWS.

Judge Day, president of the Paris
peace commission, has arrived home.
A loaded lumber schooner is ashore
at Cannon beach, near Elk creek, Or.
The recently appointed register Of
the Nulato land Office in Alaska is
missing.
In trainwreck near Lexington. Ky,
nine trainmen We're injured, two prob.
ably fatally.
lmportatons of manufactures from
Great Britain into the United States
seem likely to show an unusually SMALL
total in the year 1898.
The United States troops have begun
regular patrol Of the city of Havana,
in order to guard against possible dis
orders. General Lee is arranging fog
the evacuation day parade.
Public men in Office, especially those
in congress, newspaper correspondents
and everybody who is supposed to have
influence in shaping legislation or with
the administration are being flooded
with literature from foreign countries
in relation to our changed condition Of
affairs az result OF the American.
Spanish war.
Fire destroyed the house occupied by
Senior Don Carlos Morla Vicuna, the
Chilean minister, at the corner Of Con.
necticut avenue and N street. WASH
ington. The roof and top story were
destroyed and the furniture of the
whole house was ruined by smoke and
water, entailing loss Of $40, 600. The
minister and his family barely es.
capped.
AT Drookline, Macs, by the sudden
breaking of the ice on Loverett pond, in
the park eystem, 30 young girls and
boys were thrown into eight feet of wa
ter, and though numerous spectators
and the police worked hard to rescue
the children. three were drowned before
help could reach them. They were J.
W. Clattenburg, jr., 10 years old; Ar
thur Collins, IL years old, and Emma
Miller. Id years old.
The cotton receipts at Houston. Tex,
since the beginning of the present sea.
son have been 100000 bales. q record
never equaled by an interic< town OF
port Of the United States, and which
will be celebrated by banquet to
which all the the prominent civic off,
cials and cotton men will be invited.
1t is estimated by Secretary Warner, Of
the cotton exchange, that 50O,0
balos will yet be received during the
remainder Of the season.
Senator Mcbride Of Oregon. has in
troduoed q bill making Astoria the ter.
minus of the trans~Paciilc cable.
According to q new time card of the
Great Northern to go into effect Janu-
airy !, the transcontinental schedule
will be reduced IL hours.
Congress has adjourned until Janu-
airy 4. After the holiday recess the
rights OF General Wheeler and others to
hold their seats will be inquired int
Among network of wires 20
above the ground, Roderick Chisl
Chicago electrician, was 81
burned TO death in sight Of Sc,
hundred spectators.
Colonel e. S. Barrett, national pres
ident of the Sons of the American Rev.
olution, was killed by falling from a
window Of his home at Concord, Mass.
He was 60 years of age.
In Louisville, KY, 1t is estimated by
the health department that there are
10000 cases Of grip. The ravages OF
the disease have been SO widespread
that in some cases business has been
seriously impeded.
Hereafter brooms will cost cents
more apiece. Members of the Broom
Manufact Association of the
United States met in Chicago and de.
cided to advance the price of brooms %
cents dozen.
A rear-end collision occurred on the
Phennsylvania railroad three miles
from Railway, N. j., which resulted in
the loss Of two lives and injury to many
persons. The killed are William 9.
Dewolf, railway clerk; and F. knight.
colored porter of the sleepingcar.
While examining state documents of
the 10th century in the Vatican library
recently, Able Cozzaluzzi, assistant
tIt UIiSIlldl ulaDu.
script OF a treatise by Gaileo on the
tides. The manuscript is all in Cali.
leo's handwriting, and ends with the
words written at Rome in the Medici
Gardens on January s, 1915.
The president has nominated Ethan
A. Hitchcock, of Missouri, to be secre.
tary Of the interior. M. Hitchcock ia
at present ambassador to Russia. He
was appointed minister more than q
year ago. and when the rank was raiYed
to an embassy, he was re-appointed.
He is a wealthy lawyer and business
man of St. Louis, and was fo1 some
time an extensive plate-glass manufac-
turer. He is q great-grandson of Ethan
Allen, of Revolutionary fame.
The table of proposed stations OF
United States trOous submitted bV