Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1898-12-15
LATER NEWS.

IEree people were burned to death
IN fire in Brooklyn fat.
President Mckinley will make
tour of Porto Rico and Cuba
Only two men were killed in the
Wardner (ldaho) mine disaster.
Ten deaths as result of suicide,
and accident is the record of one Sun
day i'll Greater New York.
Germany is now said to be seeking
an ally and wants the friendship of
Uncle Sam. German Ambassador Won
Ilolleben has been commissioned to
settle whatever differences exist.
An area of 20 blocks in the 2Sth
ward in Brooklyn was inundated by
raging waters, which washed out the
foundations of houses, tore down trolley
and telegraph poles, imprisoned people
in their homes.
Charles W. Miller. of Chicago, last
years siY-day champion. won the great
bicycle race at Madison Square Garden
again this year, beating the worlds
record (his OWN by "a miles. He made
2,007 miles, and rested but pa hours
in the l42.
Unprecedented secrecy obtains cs to
the conditions of the construction of
the Shamrock, the challenger for the
Americas cup. Not merely are the
most strict precautions taken to pre-
vent leakage of the details of her con-
struction, but even the place where she
is being built is kept secret.
The foreign exhibitors have been seri-
ously affected by the decision of the
Paris appeal court in rejecting the suit
OF Swiss embroiderer against French
manufacturer who copied his designs.
The effect of the decision is that de-
signs and patterns in the foreign ex-
hibits of 1900 may be copied with inn
pnnity by French manufacturers, I'M
lessthe exhibitors possess manu-
factory in France.
The battle ship Massachusetts struck
a reef or sunken obstruction near Da-
mond reef. off Castle William, Cover
nor's island, N. Y, while on her way
from the navy-yard to the naval an
chorage Off Tompkinsvile, S. |. The
damage wrought was considerably
greater than was at first supposed.
and it is believed fully 90 days will be
required to put the vessel in condition
to go to sea, even if t is not vitality
hurt.
The authorities are making an effort
to break up witchcraft in Alaska. 1t
is practiced among the Indians, who
are very superstitious. News from
Alaska says: Charles Watson, John
McCubin and John Halpin lost their
lives by the premature explosion of q
blast. They were working on the
grade OF the White Pass & Yukon rail-
road, between camps 0 and 10. They
were charging hole when the explo.
sion occurred. Their bodies were hor-
ribly mangled.
A big gale in San Francisco harbor
caused much damage to shipping.
The pottery trust has completed its
organization under the laws OF New
Jersey; capital, $50, 900, 600.
Steamer Roumania has SAILED from
Savannah for Havana with the first
regiment, North Carolina, to help gar
rison the turbulent city.
The Paris court of cessation has
granted a stay of proceedings in the
Picquart trial. and thereby invoked the
fury Of the anti-Dreyfus press.
A mining suit involving property
valued at *3,O00,0 900 has been entered
in the courts of California by Mon
tana syndicate against prominent Cali
fornia capitalists.
In a recent public address in Wash
ington Count Won Goetzen said that the
only good volunteers among the United
States troops during the late war were
the Rough Riders.
1t is now understood that Major-Gen-
eral James +. Wade, president of the
United States evacuation committee,
will be appointed by President McKin.
ley military governor OF western Cuba.
The supreme court of Nebraska has
decided that the bondsmen OF ex-State
Treasurer Barley will have to make
good that officials shortages and steal
lngs from the state, amounting in all
to about $700.0 900.
ID. II. Howard, a New Mexico cattle
dealer, with two detectives. is on the
trail of Gilett, the Kansas plunger, on
whom Howard is $40, 600 short. How
ard will ask the governor OF Kansas to
issue reouisitlon papers for his extradi-
tion to New Mexico.
The British Columbia mills are again
receiving lumber orders from Cape
Town, South Africa, after period of
two years, during which little or no
lumber was shipped to that district.
Two vessels are at present under way
to Victoria to receive caigoes for Africa,
Sam Smith, trainrobber. has been
sentenced to be hanged at Eldorado,
Kan, for tire murder OF citizen Bel
ford, who was one of posse that resist
ed Smith and his partner. Tom Wind.
Wind pleaded gully To second-degree
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