Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-04-20
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection Of Items From
the Two Hemi.fheres Presented
In u Condensed Form.

Inc international League OF Press
Clubs is in convention IN Baltimore.
The American Smelling s. Refining
Company organized in New York by
electing directors.
The Cuban railway strike has ended.
Trainmen, afraid to lose their jobs,
surrendered without condition.
President Barrows, of Oberlin col.
lege. announced the anonymous gift of
$50. 900 for building and equipping a
chemical laboratory.
At Bridgeport, Conn, DR.. Nancy A.
Guilford pleaded guilty to man
slaughter. and was sentenced to TO-
years. imprisonment.
The notifications Of the peace treaty
have been exchanged. Bellamv Storer,
now minister to Belgium. will be the
new minister to Spain.
The Victoria trades and labor council
protests against the importation of 20
men from Pennsylvania to work on a
steamer at Lake Bennett.
In a scuffie for possession Of rifle,
Albert Pemberton. a private Of the
Twenty-fifth infantry, was killed at
Fort Logan by comrade, Peter Horn.
John E. O'Brien. chief of the Santa
Fe fire department, was instantly
killed by the California limited train
as it was passing through the yards in
Topeka.
Ex-Secretary Whitney has organized
a trust in New York to control electric
transportation. 1t is said the trust
will in time extend its operations to
the Western cities.
Two thousand miners who went out
at Danville. H., last week, have de.
cided to lay the matter before the state
arbitration board, and will resume
operations.
Five children Of Ole Peterson. of
Viborg, Turner county. South Dakota.
were poisoned by eating wild parsnips.
Two are dead, one dangerously i'll, and
two will recover.
John D. Sims and Leonard Hale
were drowned at Shorebar, CAL. on
the north side of Feather river. They
attempted to GLOSS the stream in cam
vas boat, which upset.
The private bank of l.. P. Hunsner
and McKinzie. at Alma, Wis.,, has been
closed by order OF the state bank ex.
aminer. The bank owes depositors
$50, 900, and mas very little cash on
hand.
The Crook has arrived at Ponce,
where she will receive the remainder
of the dead soldiers in Porto Rico.
The congress of universal brother.
hood will convene for seven days SEES.
sion at San Diego.
The San Francisco Examiner states
there is probability Of combine
among the redwood lumbermen of this
coast.
Wheeling, w. Va, street cars are
still tied up by the strike. Street.car
strikers at Bay City, Mich, drove of
non-union men.
Two cowboys at A Alamo Gordo, N. NJ,
held up the Office of the Alamo Gordo
Lumber Company and secured $50, 900
worth OF scrip.
The overflow of the Yellowstone
river caused by the gorging Of the ice
is practically over. Twelve were
drowned at Glendive.
At North Enid. o. T., Postmaster
W. Fl. Day was cut with Ratchet and
killed and the Office robbed. There is
no clew to the murderer.
The Twenty infantry has left
Plattsburg for Manila. The soldiers
carried silk flag presented by Mrs.
Mckinley two years ago.
Biologists of the university of Chi
cago are planning to spend a part Of
the summer in Arizona, to study the
formation of that territory and New
Mexico.
At Bridgeton, n. j., 1000 glass
workers struck for union wages and
recognition of the union. All the EN-
ployes of the Star glass works, at Med
ford, also struck.
Oriental advices state that sensa-
tion has been caused at Picking by an
edict issued by the empress dowager, ac-
cusing Lii Hung Chang and Chang
Jumel. governor of Shang Tung, with
gross extravaganza.
Hon. II. A. W. Tabor. postmaster of
Denver, and ex-United States senator,
died at his home in that city Of appen-
dicitis, after a three days. illness. He
was born in Orleans county, Vermont,
November 26, 1880.
Advices at Lima in regard to the
revolution in Bolivia say the situation
at Oruro, where President Alonzo has.
established base of operations, is des-
perate. The iederalists. or insurgents,
are pushing their operations.
Minor News Items.
The Tennessee legislature has passed
a bill making all contracts entered into
in the state payable in any legal ten.
der.
A popular actress, Lolo Banzolla.