Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1898-09-15
DOINCS OF THE WEEK
What Has Happened in the
Civilized World.
GIVEN IN THE PRESS DISPATCHES
A Complete Review of tho News of tn ,
Past Seven Days In This and
All Foreign Lnnds-

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Thomas II. Wheeler. son Of General
aph Wheeler, and Second Lieuten- !
,n.Newton ID. Kifkpatrlck, First cav {
"' ere drowned while bathing near =
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q, scrren advices announce the death
" ".7 ,Ormond Fletcher, of the
,,,na lie 'on volunteer engineer
yn1n, oi Nule formerly county sur s
.,,', nah county, Oregon.
that n conmi,teMg Kong announces
appointed by Agui three fihpp'hos'
Kong to confer with'o, has LETT Hong
lev upon the future resident McKin-
Several salmon, aver
In weight, have recentlyg - po"'us
in the Sacramento river co, 0""e"'
fact that the adiposc fin hit rom '''o
moved from each they We're 'oo''
as marked fish liberated from IT,
cries on the Clackamas river, it'Von'
Ion, in 1897.
The president Of the Cretan execue
committee has notified the foreign al
mirals that in view of the massacre at
Gambia it is impossible to continue the
effort to organize the administration
until the Turkish functionaries and
troops are withdrawn. He demands
the convocation of the Crctan assembly.
and proposes to place a force of Cretans
at the disposal OF the international adj
ministration.
Joseph Chamberlain says an Anglo
German understanding has been per-
fected, and a treaty has been signed.
England is to support the Kaiser pre-
tensions in Egypt. Chamberlain also
gave it out officially that England
favors American retention Of the Phil
ippines One thing the Continental
powers most fear is that the United
States and Great Britain may enter
into an international understanding.
A report is published in London of a
daring plot to assassinate the car at
Moscow last week. The plan OF the
conspirators was to allow gas to escape
into house on the route Of the cars
procession until the atmosphere in every
room was saturated. One OF their
number was to remain in the house
and strike light when the car was
passing in the expectation that the
house would be blown to pieces and
the car killed. The conspirator
would perish himself as sacrifice to
the cause. The explosion was mis-
timed and staff officer and his wife
were killed, together with the conspr-
ator. Thirty people were injured,
In large fire at Madaloni, near
Casera, Italy. seven men, two women
and two children We're killed.
The international encampment of
the Grand Army met in Cincinnati, O.
Every section OF the Union was repre-
sented.
1t has been decided that the govern
ment vessels which won fame in the
war will not be sold. The Gloucester,
formerly Morgan's yacht Corsair, one
of the Auxiliaries, will be retained,
because OF her prominent part In the
destruction Of Cervera's feet.
Aic oiliCidl IeCof'I oI tile war depart
ment, as completed, shows that there
We're 33 officers and 23l enlisted men
of the army, 264 in all, killed in battle
during the war with Spain. These
casualties include all the lives lost NV
the army in the battles in the Philip
pines. as well as those in Cuba and
Porto Rico.
General Miles and part OF his com.
mand have reached home. The general
confirms sensational reports regarding
and Alger, and refers TO two
pointed snubs. The war department
refused the requests of Miles that his
forces be allowed to parade in New
York, and that the Wisconsin regiment
be allowed few days in New York
before returning to its home state.
A riot occurred in. the Colorado
Springs opera-house between 30 men
State Chairman Blood and
the Teller faction of the Silver Repub-
lican party, and Sheriff Boynton and
Chief of Police Gastright, with about
IS men representing the Wocott-Ste.
vens faction. Charles Harris, of Den.
yer, was killed, and an unknown man
WAS seriously injured. The opera.
house was then taken possession of bv
the police. deputy sheritfs and support
ers of ex-Chairman Broad.
At Cincinnati, O., the mddle-of-the.
road Populists reorganzed the Peoples
party, renewed its former declaration
Of principles, and nominated its nation.
al ticket two years and two months in
advance of the date OF election. The
object of this early action was to head
off any such fusion as that of 1895.
The Western and Southern delegates
Wharton Barker and Iyna.
thus Donnelly for president and vice.
president, and declared the principles
IF the re-organized party. The Eastern
states were not represented.
Minor News Items.
When the trans.Siberian railroad
5 completed it will be easy for per-
'on to go from London TO Japan in 10
lays.
AT a meeting of the executive COM
nittee OF Tamnany Hall it was de-