Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-01-26
LATER NEWS.

The Rome correspondent of the Lon.
don Times, referring to the rumor tina,
Italy is about to seize Il port in China,
says he believes it absolutely devoid OF
foundation.
Advices reaching New Orleans leave
no further doubt of the loss of the
Yacht Paul Jones. Parties are search.
ing for the bodies of the unfortunate
members of the pleasure party.
Henry NJ. IIoyt, assistant United
States attorney general, has been or.
dered by the department of justice to
go to Santiago and advise General
Leonard Wood on legal questions.
The strike of the dock laborers al
Colon, Colombia, is fast assuming d
serious aspect. A batch of 46 Panama
dockmen arrived last night, and stone:
and revolvers were fired at the train as
it neared Colon.
Sharkey. the pugilist, and his spar.
ring partner, Robert Armstrong, were
arranged in the municipal court al
Boston and fined $l5 each for partici-
pating in an exhibition which the pc,
lice maintained partook of the nature
OF prize fight.
A dispatch from London says: Arch.
bishop Ireland, after his visit to Rome
will come here to consult with the
French bishops on the subject of Heck
erism. The bishop of Orleans has in.
vited the distinguished American &c
clesiastc to preside over the fetes il
honor of Joan D'Aic.
A recent dispatch says: The rea
truth as to the situation in the Cong
State is being hidden. The Who'll
country is in ferment, and the rebel
lion is not being put down. The gov
eminent troops appear to fear the rel
els and the prestige of the whites hs
been much impaired.
The greatest gathering in the histor
of Alaska Indians is scheduled for Al
gust 10 next at Klawan. on the Chi
kat river. At this grand potlatch, TIL
tribal war of the Wrangel and Chilks
Indians. which has been raging fd
many years, will come to an end. I'll
Is estimated that over 1900 Indian.
will be present.
A race against time from Seattl
to Dawson for a purse of $4,000 bega
Sunday, when Richard Butler.
wealthy KIondiker, started for Dawso
on the steamer City of Seattle. j
Barrett, another wealthy Klondlke
bet Butler $4,000 that he could NAL
the trip from Seattle to Dawson in
days or less. and 81, 600 more that y
could not make it in less than 20 day
Chauncey NJ. Depew was elected
the United States senate from Ne
York.
Senator Lodge has been re-elect
from Massachusetts, and Senator DaV
from Minnesota.
Francis M. Cockrel was elected
the United States senate by the M
souri, legislature.
A fire broke ont in the Wheel
mine at Denver, Col, on the night
the 18th. All the miners escape
The fire in confined to one room.
A state funeral almost majestic in
impressiveness was given the late re-
resentative Dingley in the house of RI
resentatives.
A Madrid dispatch says the premig
Senior Sagasta, in an interview
cared that he only awaited the Unit
States senate's ratification of the pc:
treaty to convoke the cortes.
The secretary of the interior,
communication with the house CO
mittee on Indian affairs, said an
vestigation shows the reports of
threatened uprising of Indians of
Northern Cheyenne reservation are
founded.
Reports from Pnar del Rio, Gu
say that the province is being rava
by bandits, who have broken ay
from the insurgent forces. Thus far
great damage has been done, and
crimes committed are not of seri
nature, but the ranks of the outl3
are constantly increasing. and the ra
are becoming more daring.
AT the annual meeting of the b
ness Mems League at st. Louis,
hundred merchants and capitalists v
present A resolution was ador
heartily endorsing the action of
delegates from the states and terri
les comprised in the Louisiana
chose in deciding to commemorate
event of the purchase by holdin
worlds fair in St. Louis, and pled,
full support to the undertaking.
The congressional subcommissiol
agriculture and agricultural labo
the industrial commission has
public its syllabus of the topical
of inquiry on the condition of !
and capital employed in these purs
The plan is divided into three ger
heads, viz: Labor employed, cal
employed, and remedial legislaf
Under the general head of each
questions on which the subcommis
desires information. They embrat
in all, and thoroughly cover the
which the subcommission has in b
Witnesses making responses to