Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1898-10-06
DOINCS OF THE WEEK
What Has Happened In the
Civilized World.
GIVEN IN THE PRESS DISPATCHES
4 Complete Review of the News of the
Past Seven Gays In This and
Ali Foreign Lands.

died at Copenhagen.
American and Spanish commission
era met and breakfasted together in
Paris Thursday.
In Colorado, forest and prairie fires
have done tremendous damage in Routt
county, along the Roaring Fork river.
and down in the San Juan region.
In addition to the troops already or.
dered to go to Cuba not later than o.
tober 20, there will follow four more
cavalry.
Secretary Alger has returned to
Washington, after his inspection of the
army camps. He says the troops did
not take care of themselves, which 49,
counts for their present condition.
A man has been arrested at Orsova
charged with completely in plot to
assassinate the king OF Roumania. The
police received timely warning and the
attempt was frustrated. A phial Of
weapons were found in the man g pos
/ session.
/ Striking union coalminers and i'm
/ ported negroes engaged in pitched
battle in the main street of Pana, III.
Several hundred shots were fired. No
one was wounded in the ranks OF the
union men The negroes, it is be-
/ leved, had several wounded men, and
one died after reaching the stockades.
An uprising has occurred on the coast
OF Jamaica, and the Maroons have
seized rich properties belonging to
English prospectors- A general revolt
is said to be imminent, and the resi-
dents of the threatened district are
fleeing for safety to Kingston. The
government is preparing to take vigor-
Gus measures to Quell the uprising in
its incipiency.
a dispatch to the New York Herald
from Panama, Colon bia, says 1t
may be stated with entire confidence
that Colombia has not deled Italy by
declining to pay the Cerruti claim.
The dispute with Italy is regarded as
settled so far as the award OF President
Cleveland in the case is concerned.
Sixty pounds sterling has already been
paid to Ernesto Ccrruti for personal
damages, and The payment OF the la
bilities of Cerruti & Co. has been guar
auteed.
The Dominion government has taken
steps to relieve the destitute prospectors
on Ashcroft trail.
The government at Madrid reconsid-
ers the matter of the repatriation of
Spaniards in Cuba and decides to give
them free passage home.
The sailing of the battleships Ore
gon and Iowa has been temporarily de-
layed, in order that the eightinch
guns of the latter may be tested.
The transport Massachusetts has ar
rived at New York from Santiago. On
board were Captain Mccoy, Second
United States volunteers, and num-
Der of clerks and stevedores.
DR.. Jose Congosta, one OF the Span
ish peace commissioners at Havana,
declares that the leconcentrad0es are
all dead. He bames Toral for having
surrendered Santiago de Cuba.
A total expenditure OF less tho
300, 600, 600 will be necessary, to bui
the Nicaragua canal, according toAe
figures of the eight government en-
gineers who have been engaged the
survey.
Judge Shovater, in the -nited
States circuit court at Chicag, upheld
the constitutionality of the rovision
in the war revenue act requi ing orok-
ers to file memorandum sales
The American peace cnmlssioners
have begun their sttings faris. eau
lois claims to have infmatlon that
the members are dividi on the ques-
tion of disposal OF the hillppines'
There has been a lstlnct breach OF
the protocol terms IN Cuba, The
Spaniards removed rapid-tire gun
from Havana, and the American COM
missioners promtly filed a protest
with the SPANS commission, to which
an unsatistactof reply was returned. .
The matter is ,ill open.
The New Yrk republican state CON
vention nomnated Theodore Roosevelt
for governo{ NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., lin. .
othy L. woodruff, controller, William
J. Morgan; secretary of state, John 7.
McDono,gh state treasurer John B.
Jaeckal state engineer, Edward i.
Bond; attorney general, John 7.
Daviei.
Arexplosion OF powder in ST. Louis
sponing goods store, set the place on
fire. caused its destruction, and re-
suited in injury to mum Der Of peo-
pie, several OF whom will die. The
fatally injured are: Kate Weldon,
Kate Gaul Pauline Bender and Flor
ence Higbee, employees OF the Mccain
Company. Those seriously hurt are:
Firemen Joe Deter. Frederick Bodily,
- Geley, Gus Jansen.
Minor News Items.