Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-02-16
LATER NEWS.


not to sell the Caroline islands.
The secretary of war has given orders
for the mastering out Of the Third regi-
ment of immunes now stationed al
Santiago and vicinity.
The Notifications appropriation bill,
as it will be recommended by the come
mittee, carries -, 744. 1913, as against
estimates of $l2, 15l, 1913.
1t is said the administration will
uphold Chief Justice Chambers, at
Apia, in his selection of Maietoa Tan
us as king of the Samoan islands.
The secretary of war reports that
sickness in some of the American regi-
ments in the Philippines is high as II
per cent, but the average is about 10
per cent.
The report of the war investigating.
commission is in the hands Of the pres.
ident, and the commission is dissolved.
During the investigation 500 witnesses
were examined.
Many accounts of deaths from freez-
ing are reported from the East. At
Bloomington, Ind, J. w. Hinkle, who
has served several terms as sheriff, was
frozen to death while going to his
home. Near Dayton, o., Martin Duffin-
ger suffered like fate while feeding
his hogs.
The Filipino junta at Hong Kong
has issued statement in which it is
claimed that the American soldiers
preciptated the recent battle at Ma
Mia, and that the bombardment of the
towns of Malate, Pace, Santa Ana and
Malabon caused the slaughter OF 1000
women and children.
A contract has been let for two 49,
000-ton steamships for the Pacific Mail
steamship Co. They will be the larg-
est so far built at an American ship.
yard, their dimensions being greater
than those of the American liners st.
Louis and st. Paul. They are to ply
between San Francisco and China.
The supreme military court, Of
Spain, which has had under considera-
ton the loss of the Spanish squadron
at Santiago de Cuba on July last. has
decided to prosecute, i'm connection
with the disaster, Admiral Cervera and
Com mandant Emilio Daz de Moreu.
ex-captan OF the destroyed cruiser
Crstobal Colon.
Chinese rebels are raiding Christian
churches and driving out missionaries.
AT Chang Yang and Liechuan the Ro.
man Catholic chapes have been burned
and the houses of the native church
members have been destroyed. Several
hundred children under the care of the
Roman Catholics, are said to have
been drowned by the raiders near
kueifu.
There seems to be an idea in Paris
that Japan will make trouble for the
United States by surreptitiously aiding
the Filipinos.
Many OF the recently disbanded Cali
fOrnia volunteers are enlisting in the
regular army. being DESTROYS OF going
to the Philippines.
The controller of the currency has is
sued a call for reports of the condition
of all national banks at the close of
business February 4.
1t is reported that the executive com.
mttee of the Cuban assembly will call
Gomez to account for accepting the
proposition from this government rela-
tive to disbanding the Cuban army.
A freight train on the O. r. & N.
was wrecked near Corbett, Or, by
running into landslide. The fire.
man and tramp were injured.
Fifteen cars were piled up in a heap.
Duke d'Arcos. formerly Spanish
minister to Mexico is likely to be legis.
lated by the Madrid government as its
minister to Washington to exchange
the notifications of the treaty of peace.
Stanley Brewer, single, aged 80, was
thrown under his wagon, loaded with
wood. near Eugene, Or, and killed al.
most instantly. He was found at mid.
night with wheel on his back between
the shoulders.
Wolff & Zwicker, the Portland ship.
builders. propose to build a floating
dry-dock capable of raising ., 000-ton
vessel, providing the state OF Oregon
or the city of Portland will guarantee
bonds to the amount of S250,0OO.
1t is reported from Washington tina.
the war investigating committee will
severely criticse General Miles on his
conduct during the late war with Spain.
The committee Will report that Miles
statement about chemically prepared
beef is not sustained by any evidence
before the committee.
-Four happy Dawsonites passed
through Skagway recently with cam
vas sack of Yukon gold that weighed
100 pounds dead weight, and which
came from French gulch diggings or
Eldorado creek. They are all Canadian
citizens and first came to Alaska DUR
ing the popular Klondike rush of De-
cember, 1897.
The steamer Moana Loa, which has
arrived at San Francisco, brings infor-
nation from Honolulu that it has been
definitely determined that the wreck