Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1898-01-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Interesting Collection Of Curr.n.
In Condensed Form From
Both Continents.

S"nuchseu FORM From
Both Continents.
United States Consul Powell. at
seoul, Corea, has cabled the state do.
partment that the emperor died Mon.
day. ~ --'''
The Spanish minister of finance has
abandoned the idea Of floating a loan
on the guarantee OF the Almaden ouick.
silver mines.
The members Of the family and tho
immediate friends of Secretary Alger
are seriously disturbed about his i'll.
ness. His physicians now fear that
he has typhoid fever. General Alger
has been confined to his bed for more
than three weeks.
The mule spinners of Lowell and
New Bedford, Mass. were given per
mission to strike by the mule spinners'
union. and an assessment of % cents
per week was levied on the members
OF the union. Delegates representing
every mill center in New England were
present.
A dispatch to the London Mail from
Hong Kong says it is reported there
that England, Japan and Russia have
arrived at an agreement pectins
Corea. The details of the treement
are not known to the COZ spondent,
but the dispatch says the British feet
is returning to Hong Kong.
The Creek council. in spite of the
message of Secretary Bliss, through In
dian Agent Wisdom, warning them not
to do so. has passed an act appropria-
ting $4,000 to be used in employing
attorneys to fight the consttutionality
OF the act Of congress giving the United
States courts full jurisdiction after
January l.
Francis D. Newton, a prosperous
farmer OF Brookfield, Mass. his wife
Sarah, and their l0-year-old adopted
daughter, Ethel, We're found murdered
in their beds. The crime was dscov-
cred by neighbors, whose curiosity was
aroused by the believing of unied cat
tie. The three had been killed with
an ak. A hired man named Paul i
missing.
John Lincoln, OF Bolshow, Mo has
applied to the Marysvlle board of ex-
animation for pension. Lincoln and
his sister, Mrs Washington Hoshor, OF
Marysville, were second cousins OF
Abraham Lincoln. John Lincoln en-.
listed early in the '6O's in the Fourth
Missouri and served in that regiment
for three years. He then enlisted in
the 18th Missouri cavalry. and served
to the end of the war. Before he was
finally mustered out he fought Indians
on the plains for some time.
Fred Lewis, prisoner in the Seattle
city Jail, committed suicide in his cell
by hanging himself with pocket hand
kerchief, which was fastened to hook
used in suspending hammock. Lewis,
who was waiter in hotel, had fight
on New Years day with Joseph kurtz
the head cook, in which he struck
kurtz on the head with an icepick.
inhicting a wound from the effects OF
which Kurtz died. Lewis was arrested,
but no formal charge had yet been made
against him, pending the result OF
Kurtz' wounds. When the news of
Kurtz' death was conveyed to Lewis,
he showed great agitation. and short
time afterward took his own life.
A line OF steamers is to be estab-
lished between Valparaiso and San
Francisco.
Five shots fired by an unknown per.
son into a saloon at Picton, Col. killed
Robert Mandolin, the proprietor and
Dave Evans, and carried away a portion
of the chin of Dick Owens.
Vladimer Bourtzeff, editor OF the
Narodnaya Voltz, and Wieizbecki,
printer OF that paper, have been COM
mitted for trial in London for publish
ing articles melting persons to assas-
sinate the car.
The trustees appointed by Mrs.
Phoebe Hearst to obtain architectural
plans of the buildings and grounds for
the University of California have COM
pleted the plan of an international COM
petition which is to be issued imneli-
ately.
Colorado will not join the combina-
ton proposed among certain Western
states to biennially inspect the books
OF large Eastern life insurance com.
panies as a condition precedent to per-
hitting them to do business in those
states.
Morris Mueller and Victor Goldstein
attempted to drag William Smith. a
passer-by, into secondhand store in
st. Louis. Smith drew a pistol and
fired several shots. Mueller is in the
hospital dying, Col lstein has some
bullet holes IN his arm, and Smith is in
Jail.
The building trades council of San
Francisco has Endorsed the action of
Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald in urg-
ing the annexation OF Hawaii, advocat-
ing the eight-hour labor law and the
anti-immigration law, and striving to
have clause inserted in the specfica-
tion for the new postoffice requiring all
stone to be dressed in San Francisco.
E. G. Triplett, president OF the
Algorn agricultural and medical college
for coored people, near Rodney, Miss.
was shot and fatally wounded by some
unknown assassin.
James w. Miller, of Pittsburg, has
closed contract to deliver 1000, 600
tons OF GA per cent Messaba iron ore
on the douks at Cardiff, for the Cardiff
Iron Founders Company. This is the
largest ore deal ever consummated. the
amount involved being $50, 900, 600, on
which Miller gets a commission OF
$500, 600.
The boats OF the Thompson line
..o,,.,o. 4 o,n,, u,S lost off Saal