Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-08-10
LATER NEWS.
bubonic plaluge has made ito rsor
pearance at Calcutta. "p

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Pearance at Calcutta.
GREAT Britain will increase ne, ,.r.
'isoh at Victoria quite materially.
The Mexican government il 10 s.;l
mas determined to exterminate ,bs
Iaqui Indians. '"'
me American and German tep,e.
sentatives of the Samoan comm;ss;o,
nave returned TO San Francisco.
Ofhcials at the Soldiers Home now
pelieve they have succeeded in effect.
"a'iy stamping out the yellow fever.
BY the collision of electric cars a.
Saunderstown, X. l., the motorman
NJ. W. Abbey. was killed and one lady
injured
fora! and Pareja. who were on trial
IN Madrid for having surrendered
santiago to the Americans, have been
acquitted.
Pension Examiner Benjamin Fl.
Smell brutally murered a lS-vear.olJ
girl with whom he had become infatu.
ated in Washington.
Captain Dreyfus is again facing his
accusers. lis retrial began at Rennes,
france. There was no demonstrations
The prisoner was firm but pallid
At Bridgeport. Conn, SO persons
were killed and large number in
Juied in street railway accident. A
trolley car dropped 40 feet into mill
pond.
Paris was visited by an electrical
storm and many buildings were slightly
injured and scores OF trees DESTROYED.
The lightning conductor of the Eiifel
tower was struck ten times.
A colored American citizen, black
smith. was mistaken for a Kaffir at Jo-
hannesburg, South Africa, and cruelty
maltreated by the police. The United
States consul has taken up the matter.
Hon. John Goodnow. consul. general
of the United States at Shanghai, has
rendered decision, as referee in the
consular court, that will result in cut
ting off Aguinaldo's supply of aims he
has been receiving from China.
A big river coal combine has been
completed at Pittsburg. Pa, and SO of
the log working coal mines along the
Monongahela river, together with a
large number of steamers and barges,
will be merged into one concern.
At Juyisy, a suburb of Paris, two
fast trains collided and II persons were
killed and % injured. The collision
occurred during thunder storm, and
it is supposed that the electrical cur
rent may have been responsible ion tie
defective signalling.
During the excitement attending the
arrival Of battleships at Bar Harbor,
Me-. a crowded gangplank gave way
and $50 persons were piecipitated into
the water. Seventeen We've drowned
and three died subsequently from i'll
juries.
The cotton duck trust is the latest;
capitalization. $23, 800. 900.
1t is said that Mexico's bad faith is
the cause of the Yaqui Indians out.
break.
North Mississippi valley corn and
wheat suffered from hail and wind
stolms.
The Charleston shelled the enemy on
the island of Cebu and compelled them
/ to retreat.
The Standard Oil Company has sue
ceeded IN purchasing the Interests OF
| its only competitor in Mexico.
Charles Franklin, Portland man,
has been appointed to an important pc.
sition in the Philippine postal service.
/ Zachert's remarkable story asserting
that the Alaska boundary is outlined
bv monuments is not credited at WASH
ington.
The hospital ship Relief has arrived
in San Francisco with 800 sick and
wounded soldiers on board. Two died
en- route.
Tie new bankrupt act is not popular
ir New York. Those taking advantage
of it have not reached near the expect
ed number.
While on a tryout the new Columbus
occurred she was a mile in the lead o!
the Deien Ter.
Dave Cornell was shot and probably
fatally wounded while trying to secure
miners in Colorado for the Occur
d'Alene country.
A tramp at Independence, Kan,
has confessed to killing two farmers
who had let him idle all day. lie
SAYS he secured but $50 in money
An American has cinch on coal IN
the straits OF Magellan, and patrIotica''
" charged the Oregon Sll ton lo'
supply when she made her long cruise
Rumor says that William Waldorf
Astor became British subject in ordei
70 marry Lady Randolph Churchill,
His children also became SUBJECTS "a
the queen.
The political situation at Port ap