Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-09-14
LATER NEWS.
Texas is suffering from drought.

Dreyfus manifested itself in New York
by the burning in enigy OF General
MERCER.
1t is said by prominent railroad men
+ that the Hartman syndicate is quietly
working for sea-tO-sea railroad ar
rangement.
Peary and his arctic expedition have
been heard from. They are coming
home after getting much geographical
information.
The government will soon have its
plant for the manufacture of smokeless
powder in operation. The location Is
on the Potomac near Indian Head.
An east bound Southern Pacific train
was held up and robbed near Wilcox,
Ariz., by four men who hired ont AS hay
cutters near there for several days.
Two hundred feet of trestle over
Broad river. near Columbus. 5. g.,
gave way un Ter trainload OF granite
and four of the train crew were killed.
Meridian, Miss. has quarantined
y
fever. At Key West and Jacksonville
the situation is reported to be growing
worse.
The Dreyius verdict has aroused
widespread Indignation outside OF
France and there is much talk TIN ough.
ont Europe Of boyco;ting the Paris ex.
position.
None Of the prisoners in the Ward
ner bull pen are to be tried at the pres
ent term Of court in that county.
Their cases will 60 over until the Janu.
airy term.
Although the aspect OF affairs is
more peaceable, the special dispatches
from Johannesburg report the greatest
anxiety there, and people are still leav'
ing the town by hundreds.
Jealous OF the United States, Euro
America in opposing a pan American
unity. They say the great republic
seeks to dominate all America.
A Washington correspondent Gays
Canada by tentative boundary agree
ment, and in return the United States
will gain additional privilege for New
England fishermen.
A force OF $50 rebels, with one can.
non, attacked Santa Rita and stimuli.
taneously Guagua and San Antonio
were attacked 10y bodies of rebels
numbering about 600 men. All the
insurgents were repulsed without loss
to the Americans.
According to the statement just
made public by the war department
our colonial trade for the first seven
months of 1899 beats all records.
Trade movements affecting the United
States Gere never SO uniform and
natural as this year.
A Seattle dispatch says: After
spending several hundred dollars in
assisting destitute Klondikers to theil
Eastern homes, the county commission.
ers have called "A halt. The chamber
of commerce has taken similar ac-
ton.
Puget sound guns will be tested by
the government soon.
Chicago has just passed through the
longest dry spell since the time of the
great fire in 1871.
The Porto Rican relief committee
will appeal for aid to all the churches
and banks IN this country.
The Tennessee Coal & Iron Company
is believed to have corner on the
coal product of Tennessee.
Walker Hill, of St. Louis, has been
chosen as the next president of the
American Bankers Association.
Railway surveyors are at work in
Eastern Oregon and it is rumored that
they are in the employ of the Burling-
ton.
At the Empire City Trotting park,
New York city, Joe Patchen defeated
Star Pointer. John II. Gentry and
Searchlight.
Samuel B. Bishop and Henry Hawk
were blown to pieces bv an accidental
! >NP'C1'oi VA s'oht HoNhCI III Ing May
flower mine at Nevada, Cal.
An open switch on the Erie road
near Meadville, Pa, caused collision
between a freight and passenger train.
Three were killed and three injured.
Texas, Chicago and New York capi.
talsts have bought 5000. 600 acres OF
timber and range land in Mexico. and
will build up an industrial and com.
mercial center.
A freight train near Williamson, W.
Va, broke in two and the two sections
came together in tunnel, resulting in
the killing of three OF the train crew
and four tramps.
American apples are in such great
demand in Germany this year that
shipments have commenced one month
earlier than usual. Last year 22,S5l
barrels were sent abroad. This wear
it is expected the shipments will reach
d ion O00 borrols