Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1898-08-25
LATER NEWS.
The Manila cable is again workir

Porto Rico in few days.
The natives control the water supply
Of Mania, and refuse to allow the wa
ter to run except for few hours each
lay. They have demonstrated that
they are incapable OF self-government.
The president has promoted Captain
Charles ID. Sigsbee, L. ;. N, now com
handing the st. Paul, by advancing
him three numbers on the list OF cap
tains in the navy, for "eXtradordlnaiy
heroism.
Dave Speagle shot and killed Bot
Penx at Wilbur, Wash. Speagle is
said TO have been too intimate with
Penix's family. Penix started out to
kill Speagle, and the latter killed him
IN self-defense.
A tremendous explosion at the plant
of the CHATTANOOGA Powder Company.
ut Coltewah Station, killed two men.
Lucius B. Eagan and Harton Mortchke,
and injured seriously, if not fatally,
six Others. The plant was destroyed
by fire.
\ dispatch from Buda Pesth TO the
London News agency says that while
regiment of soldiers We're crossing
pontoon bridge over the river MOras,
near HomJ, tie bridge collapsed.
Three hundred EIen were immersed
and over SO were drowned.
Our warships may soon coal at
Pango-Pango The contract for the
building OF station there Is TO he let
Immediately. Work Will be carried
forward rapidly and completed next
veal. Naval officers declare the harbol
secured by the United States IS the
only land-locked port OF refuge II
Samoa.
The monitor Monadnock has arrived
in Manila. On the way over she
STOPPED at the Ladronc island OF Guam,
which had been seized by the first eX-
petition She found that Spaniard
had repudiated American rule, ana SCI,
up government on his own account.
Captain Whiting, 81 The MOnadnoch,
promptly upset this new government,
and made the usurper prisoner and
brought him to Manila.
The hospital-ship Relief has arrived
in New York from Porto Rico with
sick and wounded soldiers.
\ resort in Stockton, Call, known as
JAck-on's baths, covering almost a city
block, was destroyed by fire. Loss,
$40. 900.
Another detachment of Spaniaris are
of tor THEN native land, a steamer
carrying over 1000 OF them sailed from
Santiago saturday.
The victorious fleets OF Sampson arc
Schlev have arrived at New York.
They were accorded an enthusiastic
reception by the poYulace.
The Cubans are to disband. Order:
for the execution OF such a movement
have been sent TO the island emissaries
from the junta IN this country.
The hardest lighting at the battle o,
Manila was done by the Astor battery,
which led the advance. Brigadier-
General Macarthur, commanding the
brigade, complmented the men in the
highest terms night IN the midst of tbs
battle for their vaior ana success.
a cloudburst over a saw mill run ir
Pittsburg caused tidal wave in the
stream and endangored the lives OF a
dozen persons. Five children were
drowned. Tnev are: Irene LOTUS,
Regis Lotus, Geneyive Shaughnessv,
Margaret Shaue and Nellie SaUls.
There Is considerable work ahead Of
the new Cuban commission. The al.
ministration Of the affairs Of the Island
vii, be no easy task, and the Cunans
must he held in check after the Spanish
troops are withdrawn. The notorious
practices carried OF under spanish iule
are to be abolished ana the oo-upera.
tion of Cuban leaders must he sought.
Nathan Holenbeck, deputy pound.
master Of Oakland, Cal, was shot dead
by Quang Mon, Chinese gardener,
who was watching tor vegetable thieves.
Hollenbeck was passing through corn
patch, and was fred at four times by
the Chinese, one OF the shots proving
fatal. The murderer surrendered him.
self.
4 Madrid dispatch says the govern.
menth as resolved to insist that the
capitulatlon OF Manila, after the sign.
ing of the protocol, shall have no effec,
in the peace negotiations unfavorable
TO Spain. In any event the government
holds that capitulation, signed by the
commanders OF the two forces. does not
entail the surrender OF the whole Phil.
lppines.
A Ponce special says: Reports are
coming in from all directions OF out
RACES committed within the Spanish
lines. Doubtless many of these are ex.
aggerated, but rumors OF massacre at
GALES are confirmed. Some OF the ia.
tives took refuge in the beliry OF a
cathedral and fired on the Spanish
troops, but they We're overpowered and
macheted to the number Of So
New klondike Reported.
Seattle, Aug. 23.-The latest STAN.
pede from Dawson City is to the north
fork Of Forty Mile creek, on American
soil. This news was brought mere TO.
day by parties arriving from Dawson