Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-08-31
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection OF Items From
the Two HemisFheres Presented
In Condensed Form.

Will De aUoat lOf Malllla ny OCtopct.
At Passaic, N. j.. the Botany Worst
ed Mills Company is to erect six build
ings.
Thirty-six volunteers from the Sec
ond Oregon have applied for pensions
for disability.
A South African mining engineer
City in II days.
At Appleton, Wis, mill boiler
exploded, killing two men and wound
Ing eight others.
Dreyfus' enemies are still after La
bori Two Internal machines loaded
with gun cotton were sent him.
Thomas Bracket Reed has rendered
his resignation as congressman from
Maine. The governor has accepted it.
Ty phus fever is following in the
wake of the storm in Porto Rico. The
stencil arising from the putrefying bod.
les is given AS the cause.
Majcr-General Otis is himself acting
as censor of dispatches. He dictates
correspondents reports of engagements
and with formal official phrases. mag.
nifies American success.
1t is alleged in England that the
Transvaal is republic only in name and
that abuses are manifold. Even tho
courts must agree with Dom Paul
Kruger, or off go official heads.
T.,
tramps, stealing ride on Great
Western freight train shot, and killed
Brakeman Wilson and Conductor
Mathews and threw their bodies under
the train.
The present run of sockeye salmon
on lower Puget sound is so phenomenal
as to make it almost certain that the
Puget sound salmon pack will be large
enough to compensate for the shortage
in the packs on the Fraser and Column
bia rivers.
While endeavoring to rescue one Of
their comrades. arrested for drunken
ness, the soldiers from the Indiana had
fight with the police of Honolulu
which resulted in many heads being
broken, but the police finally landed
their man.
A Washington special says: Hope
full signs OF an approaching end OF the
Philippine instruction have been APP
parent since the organization of Is adj
ditional regiments and Secretary Roots
action calling out 10 more for the Phil.
ippine service. This action hae dem.
onstrated to the Filipino leaders that
resistance will he futile. and it is be.
lieved negotiations are now on foot
looking to termination of the war.
The Chilean ministry has resigned.
Quiet has been restored in the Blue
fields district, Nicaragua.
Lieutenant George +. Teller has been
appointed census supervisor for the
Second district of Oregon.
Dawson City saloon keepers have
formed a trust and will make whisky a
dollar drink this winter.
Gold is reported to be again flowing
Into the bank of England and British
tinanciers are feeling better.
Two 17-year-old boys were killed
while stealing watermelons in Ouray,
Colo. The murderer says he only shot
to scare the boys.
The hunt for gold on Kotzebue sound
brought fearful results. Seven per
cent of those who went into that in
lUspitable country lost their lives.
From the reports on the worlds
wheat crop there is little to indicate
failure in either Germany or Russia,
while En.land's crop is large.
Angered by the action of gambler
who assaulted one Of their number, the
Indians OF grading camp at Winslow,
Ariz., threaten to exterminate the
whites.
At Wetumpka. Ala, Peter Louin
from Jail and lynched by mob. They
were accused of shooting Hall jordan,
respectable citizen.
NJ. Labor appeared in court Tuesday
morning, and if his condition will per-
NIT, he will conduct the case for Drey.
lus uHlll II VeTulCt is TedCUcu. lie was
warmly greeted by the prisoner.
A seaman of the British ship Amphi-
trite was caught by tow line. drawn
overheard and drowned as the vessel
was entering tie Columbia river. An
other member of the crew was lost in
similar manner in Honolulu harbor.
A plot to escape from the guardhouse
was unearthed at Fort Sheridan. The
prisoners had the bars of the guard
house all sawed through and had oh.
tanned possession of the key to the
magazine. Knives, powder and cart
ridges were found in their possession.
Scarcity Of food is now worrying the
Filipino rebels. Otis has granted
them permission to purchase supplies
from the ships in the harbor.
The proposed public warehouse to
be operated by the Toledo banks seems
to be so, as a majority OF the banks
f1x hn