Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-12-14
EVENTS OF TIE DAY
En;tome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
rERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
Al r,,.r..tine Collection Of Items From
the Two Hemisphere preserve"
in Condensed Form.

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An ill;ci. oleomaryarine factory has
been uue .rthed at Chicago.
The Pavne.Hauna subsidy bill has
been introduced in the house.
Jeffr;es and Corbett are planning 70
f.ht at the Paris exposition and rance
is Mortified.
Ninety Boer prisoners are sai1 10
have been massacred at EIand's iaasto
tv British soldiers.
General Hughes is now occupying
90 Panav towns. His lines extend %
miles north OF 10 llo.
The United states supreme court mas
decided that the conductor OF freight
train is not vice-principal.
England is buying mules, horses,
canned goods, hay and rails in this
country for shipment TO South Africa.
An Astoria contractor wants to haul
the stranded lishtship overland from
Ocean beach 70 Bakers bay. He claims
it can be done.
A cableyram from Hong Kong says
that Ayuinado is now ready TO sur
render il Consul Wildman will receive
him. The junta at Hong Kong advised
him to take such action.
The industries Of Cuba are in de-.
plorable condition. In two provinces
the destruction OF sugar interests alone
is estimated at $3.50. 900, 900, and there
are no efforts at rebuilding.
HUNTINGTON has bought another big
block OF Southern Pacific stock and
there are said TO be others in on the
deal. Railroad men believe the Van.
derbilts are in some way concerned.
The Smelling OF the British camp at
Ladysmith has been far more effective
than previous reports have led people
TO believe. Hundreds were KIDD and
wounded from the Boer BON bardment.
Rapid telegraph system will revolu.
tionize all correspondence. Such low
rates will be made that merchants can
afford to use the system instead OF the
mails. 1t is to be placed in operation
at once.
To avoid an injunction a telephone
company laid its wires in the streets
of New York at midnight. The new
company will have long distance line
across the country and will fight the
Bell Company. Tolls will be only
one.half those at present.
The British transport 1smore was
driven ashore near Cape Town.
Private Merritt, OF Battery B, com.
mitred suicide at San Francisco.
Archbishop Chapelle will sail for
Manila on the transport Sherman.
Thirty-eight wheelmen started in a
six.days' bicycle race in New York.
General Methuen is believed to have
resumed the advance to Kim berelev.
-Four vessels from Brazil are quaran.
tined in New York for fear OF plague.
The schooner Eureka, on the beach
near Coquille river, will be total loss.
After 80 days the Glory OF the Seas
has arrived at Frisco from Puget
Sound.
The postmaster at Cape Nome reports
to Washington that the district is as
rich as is represented.
Mr.. Taylor, of Ohio, objected to the
swearing in of Roberts, OF Utah, as
soon as congress opened.
A big log boom gave away at Che.
halls and 1000, 900 feet OF logs are
afloat in Gray's harbor.
Appropriations for the three state
schools in Oregon are running short
and the schools may have to quit.
The United States supreme court has
declared that combination OF pipe
manufacturers is unconstitutional.
Eastern wooden mills have bought
1880, 900 pounds OF wool in st. Louis
at one sale. 1t is the biggest sale ever
made in the West.
The Lake Whatcom Single Com pany
has purchased block OF $500 acres
of fine timber, thought to contain 100, i.
10000 feet, all in Sksgit county.
The purchase price was $50, 1000, and .
railway will be built to the timber.
Among the river and harbor improve.
ments eestimatd for under continuous
contracts on which the sum asked for
is 100000 or more are the following:
Oakland, CAL, harbor, $3.50. 600; San
Francisco harbor $l7O,0o0; San Pedro
habor, $200,000; Everett, Wash, har.
Dor. $3.50, 900; Gray's harbor. Wash,
$345,000. Also the following river
and harobr improvements: Mouth Of
Brazos river, Tex, 1920. 900; lower
Willamette river below Portland, Or,
100000; Columbia river at the cas-.
cades, Oregon, $l25,oO0 waterway
connecting Lakes Union and Washing.
ton, 800. 900.
Chickamagua Is to have a confeder.
ate monument to cost sos, 900.
Baltimore claims the largest negro