Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-01-19
EVENTS OF TIE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection of Items From
the Two Iiemispheres Presented
in n Condensed Form.

The monthly statement OF the col
lections of internal revenue shows that
during November, 1898, the receipts
amounted to s22, 404. 405. against Sl3,-
$50, 1896 for Novem ber 1897.
The president has sent these nominal
tons to the senate: Charlemange
Tower, OF Pennsylvania, now minister
to Austria-Ilungary, to be ambassador
to Russia; Addison &. Harris, Of In
diana. minister to Austria Hungary.
At Hong Kong, the Filipino COM
mttee has broken off all relations with
United States Consul Wildman. The
committee has issued a writ in the su-
preme court to recover the sum Of S47.-
000 which the Filipinos claim to have
been deposited with Wildman as
treasurer of the Filipino independence
fund in June last.
The gnnboat Yorktown has sailed
from San Francisco for Manila, via
Honolulu. She will 60 all the way
under fall head of steam, and should
make the run in three weeks ii she is
not delayed at Honolulu. She is the
bearer of full instructions to Admiral
Dewey and General Otis in regard to
the situation in the Philippines.
The New Years honors include Lord
Dunraven being appointed piivy coun-
seor for Ireland, and Sir Edward
Chichester. L. NJ, being appointed
companion OF the Order OF St. Michael
and st. George in recognition of his
services as captain of the British first
class cruiser Immortal, which was sta
toned at Manila during the war.
Senator Mason, of Illinois, occupied
the attention of the senate for nearly
an hour and half Tuesday, with a
speech in support of his resolution de-
clarng that the United States will
never attempt to govern the people of
any country without their consent.
In many respects the speech was one
of the most notable utterances from
the senate thus far this session.
AT kokomo, Ind, there are IS
tramT. in the Howard county Jail
slowly sta'v:ng ia death. Two weeks
ago the hObos refused 70 work on the
stone pile, and Sheriff Iarnes put
them in iail on diet OF bread and
water, mostly water, until they signi-
fled Il willingness to work. AT the
close of the second week of the strike,
the jailer reduced the bread supply 20
two loaves a day for the entire gang.
They declare they will starve to death
in THEN cells rather than hammer stone.
Thirteen persons We're killed and
from 30 to 40 injured in a railway col
liaion near Bound Brook, N. J. There
was head-end collision between
local train and the Black Diamond ex-
press.
President Alonzo's advance guard is
within six leagues OF La Paz, capital
of the republic of Bolivia. 1t is likely
decisive battle will be fought soon
between the government troops and
the rebels who now hold the capital.
1t is proposed that a memorial be
c ected at Manila to the memory of all
Americans who fell in the capture or
died of disease during the campaign.
The proposal is that all Americans now
resident in the Far East, Of whom
there is a very considerable number,
Shout he invited to contribute toward
this object.
Filipino committees have made
formal protest, and President Mckin.
ley has been warned from Paris, Madrid
and London not to attempt to take
fOrcible possession of lilo lilo. The
ground is taken that the American
claim of sovereignty is premature,
and that the United States is not the
possessor of the Philippines until the
peace treaty is ratified. The Filipino
agent at Hong Kong says fight with
the Americans at lilo Ito is unavoida.
BILE, but little apparent uneasiness is
felt at Washington.
The Cincinnati Express Gazette has
collected data anent the operations of
trainrobbers during the past year. The
effect of federal jurisdiction upon train
robDeries is evidenced in Mexico. Dur.
ing the past year there WAS not even
an attempt at train robbery in the sis
ter republic. The crime is punishable
there with instant death. The record
for 1898 is as follows: Number of
train hold-ups, %; number of stage
robberies, Z; number of passengers and
train men shot, 4; number of robbers
killed, 5; number of robbers shot, 6.
Captain r. X. Shaw and the crew of
the British bark Glen Huntley, long
given up for lost, are alive and we'll,
and on their way to Liverpool. They
abandoned the Glen Huntley in fierce
gale June 4, 1898. For 154 days the
IL sailors lived on Tristan d'Acunha
isle, more than 1900 miles south by
west OF the Cape of Good Hope. They
subsisted on penguin eggs and the flesh
of sea eagles and shared with 70 white
inhabitants the scanty stock of provi.
sions that the captain of a passing yes.
sci had given them.
Minor News Items.
A lieutenant and 10 men OF the
French warship Sure We're killed in the