Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-03-23
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection of Items From
the Two HemisPheres Presented
In n Condensed Form.

blow at the insurgents in the exeuCtiOE
OF his general scheme of fastening the
end OF the rebellion in Luzon before
the advent OF the rainy season.
The appellate court. at Chicago. has
unanimously sustained decision
rendered by Judge Tuley last summer,
that express companies are obliged tC
furnish war revenue stamps to all ship.
pers.
The sovereign camp Woodmsn OF the
World, the fifth largest fraternal and
beneficiary order in the United States
are in biennial session at Memphis,
Tenn. The session will last ten days
or two weeks.
Mrs. Minnie Adams has been arrest.
ed at her fathers home, in San Fran.
cisco, on suspicion of having murdered
her two-yearold ilegtimate child,
John Richard Gray, by administering .
dose of carbolic acid.
Senior Quesada, of the Cuban junta
in Washington, has received cable
gram form Santiago which says: THE
people OF Santiago disauthorize the as
sembly, sustain Gomez and are pre-
pairing public manifestation.
At the annual meeting of the Asso.
c:ated Chambers of Commerce in Lon.
don, resolution was passed urging
the British government to maintain the
''open door" in China and prior Brit.
ish rights in the Yang tse Kiang valley.
A contract has been concluded be.
tween the German government and
Cecil Rhodes, the British South Afri.
can magnate. for the construction Of
telegraph line in East Africa. A
contract for building railroad through
the same territory is upon the point
Of conclusion.
Rear-Admiral Hichborn. chief naval
constructor. in his statement of work
accomplished on the vessels now build
ing for the navy, shows that there are
now actually under construction. or al.
ready contracted for, 81 vessels of vari.
Gus types. ranging from battle-ships to
torpedo boats.
According to dispatch from Pinar
del Rio, five sisters OF the American
order Of Sacred Heart have been ordered
away from Cuba by Archbishop Cha.
pelle, papal representative. The nuns
are all daughters of Indian chiefs, and
the reason given is the "old hatred
against the Indian sisters
Three thousand insurgents moved
down to the towns of Pasig and Pateros
on the shore of Laguna de Bay, 'front.'
ing Wheaton's troops on the Pasig river
line. BY heavy fighting Wheaton dis
lodged and drove them back, taking
400 prisoners and intlicting heavy losses
in killed and wounded.
The torpedo-boat Fox, built at Port
land. has arrived at San Francisco.
She made the run from Astoria in As
hours
The navy department has abandoned
all hope of the recovery of the armored
cruiser Cristobal Colon. sunk in the
battle of July 3, at Santiago.
The navy department is informed by
Admiral Dewey that the supply ship
Nanshan has left Manila with supplies
for the new naval station at Guam.
A correspondent OF the state depart
ment, writing from Ponapi, Caroline
islands, says the inhabitants like every
thing that is American. They are hop.
ing and praying, he says, that the
Americans will take possession of all
OF the islands, and, if not all, at least
the island of Ponapi.
The differences between the Raisin.
Growers Association and the packers
of California, have been finally ad.
justed. The association will make the
sales and the packers will receive a
liberal commission. The packers will
form an Organization with a capital of
$500. 900, of which $40, 900 is to be in
cash.
Tho city of Pasig, east Of Manila,
has been captured by American troops
after an hours fight. The loss to the
Filipinos was 80 killed and Is prison.
ers. The Americans loss was ore man
killed. Six were wounded. The man
killed is Private G. +. Thorn, of the
Twentieth Kansas. The battle was
fought hy Wheaton's divisional brigade.
A search steamer which has returned
to Brisbane Queensland. from Cook
town. on the Endeavor river, this
colony. reports that three schooners and
80 luggers were lost and that 400 col.
ored persons and II whites were
drowned during the recent hurricane
that swept the northwest coast OF
Queensland.
There has been popular demonstra-
tion in Christiana, Norway. against
Crown Prince Gustaf, Duke of Worm
land, who was recently appointed re.
gent on account of the illness of his
father, King Oscar. The prince was
returning from the military club when
he met "a crowd of people. who hooted
him, Missed him and pelted him with
snow balls.
Minor News Items.