Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1898-08-11

to peace AMI which Spain accepts Wlth-
out reservation, it points out that IN
order to avoid the detinitive negotla-
tons being in any way complicated ny
incidents Of the war, it is expedient 10
agree beforehand to suspension of hos
Utilities.
1t is reported that Duke Almodovar
de Rio, the minister OF foreign AFFAIRS,
and Mgr. Merry del Val, Spanish am
bassador to the Vatican, will be select
Ell TO represent Spain in the neegotla-
tions.
The newspapers make no comments
on the situation, owing to the strlctness
of the censorship.
Three were killed and mum Der OF
mail clerks severely injured at Canton.
junction, Mass, Monday by the ex-
press mail special, from New York to
Boston, jumping the track.
The Hawaiian commissioners, Sena-
tors Cullom and Morgan and Repre-
sentative Hit, have arrived in San
Francisco and will take passage for
Honolulu on the Mariposa.
Ex-Mayor Sutro, Of San Francisco,
died Monday. He was the largest in
dividual property owner in the hay
city. He superintended the construc-
ton Of the Sutio canal at Virginia
City, New
Blanco comes off his high horse.
He realizes that he must soon leave
Cuba. He pardona ali Cuban political
prisoners and assures the Spanish sol.
diers that they will he given safe trans.
port to their mother coutry.
A Washington special to the Herald
says: In connection with the probable
selection Of Secretary Day as one OF the
peace comm issioners, it is stated that
ne will at an early date retire from the
Office Of ecietary of state, and, after
concluding his iahors as a member Of
the commission, resume the practice
OF law at Canton. Although this is the
first public announcement that Day in
tends to retire from public life, it has
long been known to his intimate friends
that when he accepted the portfolio he
did go with the understanding that he
would resign Immediately after peace
was restored bewteen Spain and the
United Stats,
The government will make an i'm
mediate attempt to raise the C1istobal
Colon.
The Italian government intends to
,,varnSp tho apyst,i1pt inn nj civ nryupr n6
cruisers.
The transports Arizona and Scandal
will, when they reach Manila, be con-
verted into floating hospitals.
President Mckinley has decided to
assert our rights in the Pacific by es-
tablishing coaling station at Samoa
The next troops for Manila may 60
by way OF the SUez canal. 4 scarcity
of tarnsp ports Oh the Pacific coast is
the cause.
Aguinaldo has sent message to
Consul-General Wildman, saying the
United States should declare its iEten.
tions before asking the insurgents to
state theirs.
General Shaiter has received orders
to move his entire army North. This
will apply not only to the sick, but to
the we'll, as it is thought that the hard
ships through which the men have gone
must have taxed the vitality of even
the strongest
Well founded rumors are in circula-
tion that a concerted attempt will be
made next month by fleet OF Cana
dian sealers TO raid the rookeries on the
islands of St. Paul and St. George.
There is but one government vessel, the
gunboat Wheeling. to guard Behring
sea against pelagic sealers.
There is great uneasiness on all sides
says p London dispatch, in regard TIC
the Chinese situation, which is re-
garded as bringing an open conflict be-
tween Great Britain and Russia within
measurable distance, and it is univers-
ally felt that the Marquis of Salisbury,
in yielding to Russian aggressiveness, is
responsible for dangerous complied
ton which can only be overcome by a
prom pt and most finn intimation that
Russia's open opposition to British
commercial concessions must cease.
In this connection story is current
that the Princess of Wales hurried de-
parture IRON England was in response
to dispatch IRON her sister, the dow
ager empress OF Russia, bearing upon
Anglo Russian relations. 1t is we'll
known that the dowager empress is
strenuously working to conclude de-
finite understanding regarding Anglo
Russian interests in the Far East,
and it is said that great importance
attaches to the meeting OF the sisters
: at Copenhagen.
! Word has been received at San Fran
cisco that on the day the news of an
nexation was received at Honolulu an
expedition, authorized by the Hawaiian
republic, started on l 700 mile voyage
to annex two islands to the Hawaiian
group. The islands in question are
Dyer and Morell, about 100 miles apart.
The Hawaiian flag has never been raised
over these islands and Senator G. y.
Wilcox was sent on the steamer Windale
formally to annex them to the Republic
of Hawaii.