Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-10-12
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Admiral Dewey VIII receive Ti'o"o
watch from the municipality OF Boston.
The city will spend $l2.5oO giving
the admiral welcome.
The Marquette Club, OF Chicago, en-
tersained President Mckinley at a
banquet in the Auditorium saturday
night. Thirty-iive hundred guests were
present.
According to the Sebastopol corre'
spondent of the Daily Graphic, the
Russian naval credit for 1900 amounts
to the erroneous total Of 67,50O.OOO
rubles.
The Paris correspondent of the Daily
Mail says: learn that Germany is
about to hand over documents which
will lead to the quashing OF the Drey'
fus verdict.
The Thirteenth Minnesota regiment,
returning home from the Philippines,
was royalty entertained in Portland.
The regiment remained over night and
attended the exposition.
The Spanish government has sold
the Havana floating dock for $780, 900
to a syndicate OF Vera Cruz merchants.
Several New York firms have been
asked for terms for conveying the dock
to Vera Cruz.
Admiral Dewey has chosen j. w.
Crawford as his official secretary. Mr..
Crawford is an employe in the office
of the Acknowledgement OF the
navy. He will hold the rank Of lieu.
tenant in the navy.
Near Chicago five persons were in.
jured in = collision bewteen Haw.
thorne race track train on the Illinois
Central, and a freight engine which
stood upon a siding, the switch OF
which had been left open.
Don Emanuel Aspiroz, Mexican am.
bassador to the United States, and the
first OF the distinguished guests whom
Chicago has arranged to entertain dur
ing the fall festival, has arrived in the
windy city from Washington.
The third attempt to sail the first
race beteen the Columbia and sham.
rock, which took place Saturday,
proved a failure, the wind giving out
when the yachts were five miles from the
finish. When the race was abandoned
the Columbia was slightly in tine lead.
4 petition to President Mckinley,
ur.in. the friendly services of the Uni.
tel states in mediation between Great
Britain and the republics OF the Trans.
vaal and the Orange Free State. has
received the signatures of more than
400 representative men, including 50
odd presidents OF colleges. so church
dignataries, governors OF states, may.
ors OF cities, justices OF the United
States and state courts, senators, con.
gressmen, editors and others conspicu.
Gus in public matters, the professions
and commerce.
The Thirty.ffth infantry has sailed
from Portland direct for Manila.
A Chicago rat.catcher is reputed to
make 5000 a year at the business.
Admiral Dewey at his own request
has been formally destached from the
Olympia.
The United States revenue cutter
McCulloch, formerly dispatch boat OF
Dewey's feet has arrived in Portland,
Oregon.
President Andrade is said to have
given up the struggle in Venezuela and
to lave engaged passage on steamer
sailing for New York.
Agents of the British government are
now in this country picking up horses
and mules by the hundred, and arrang.
ing for speedy shipment.
Shipping men fear that disaster has
befallen the Cyrus Wakefield, month
overdue at San Francisco. Five pei
cent reinsurance has been paid on her.
General Otis reports progress OF the
war in the Philippines. A robber
band operating in the western portion
OF the island of Negros has been exter.
minated.
Western roads are considering prop.
osition to discontinue the practice Of
granting reduced rates to officers OF
volunteer regiments returning from the
Philippines.
The Pacific Biscuit Company, other.
wise known as the cracker trust, has
been fully organized and is now doing
the bulk of the cracker and candy bust.
ness of this coast.
The president is said to favor de.
partment of industry and commerce to
be represented in the cabinet. 1t is
being urged by the Business Mems
League, of Chicago.
The big ship Edward Sewall, with a
carrying capacity of 10000 tons has
been launched at Bath, Me. She will
engage in the grain trade between San
Francisco and Liverpool.
A Pretoria dispatch quotes loom
Paul" Kruger as saying: "Bullets
came by thousands at the time OF the
Jameson raid, but the burghers were
untouched. Over Que hundred were
killed on the other side, showing that
the Lord directed our bullets. The
Lord rules the world"
The patent issned n James F Tnw