Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-11-16
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphie
News of the World.
rrRsr TICKS FROM THE WIRES
. ...t,nv Collection Of Items From
tho Two Hemispheres preserve"
In . Condensed Form

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In = Condensed Form.
The val.'i-y Of goveiTi~cne CONTRACTS
node BIZ SIS iudlcr Captain Curscr will
be tested.
The convention agreeing 20 hrh.sra'
t,o, ~ samoan clnilus was sigue1 at
Warrington.
influential San D;eeans Will tr:!l "
trauscontinental railroad VIA sals Lake
from their city.
Huntington denies that tl'e Pacific
Mail Steamship Company Aas nssoSoed
the New japan line.
The bicycle, automobile AMI rubber
trusts now propose one qreaU ccace5n
with capitalization OF S2oo,ooo.ooo.
Wisconsin lumber dealers have just
bought 200. 900 acres OF timNeT lani
on the Pacific coast. TAsy raid
6,0OO,0 900.
Owing to tho poor telegrsphsc ana
cable service from South africa the
London papers can get no news tof
their special editions.
The submarine torpedo.boat Hol.and
has been successfully tested by Uncle
Sam and purchase will probably sooa
be made by the navy department.
The battleship Oregon has sailed
from Hong Kong, supposedly for Cebu.
She sailed sooner than expected and
was seemingly unprepared for sea.
A boats crew of the British chip
Pathan, recently chartered for trans
port service, refused to accompany the
ship to the Philippines. Twenty
of them were placed in irons.
A st. Petersburg correspondent says
that Russia, France and Spain have de.
cided to intervene and suggest arbitra.
ton between England and the Beers It
Germany is willing to cooperate.
Otis cables that the Thirty fifth in.
fantry has reached Manila. This is the
regiment which was quartered at Van.
couver and embarked from Portland.
Private Cleary died on the voyage.
The Berlin correspondent of the Paris
Figaro says Emperor William is re-.
solved to occupy Tiger bay, south of
Angola, on the west coast OF South
Africa, II England occupies Delagoa
bay.
Russia wants us to define our policy
in the partitioning of China. She
seems anxious to know If we are in the
scramble for a port Of entry and q
sphere of influence. The impression is
that America will only insist upon an
open.door policy and protection of her
treaty rights. Great Britain and Japan
will support her in these demands.
The Indiana, with the Tennessee
volunteers on board, is overdue at San
Francisco.
The Tacoma News announces author.
itatively that the Seattle Post.lntelli.
gencer has been sold. The purchaser
name is withheld.
The officers Of the transport Ohio,
which has arrived at San Francisco,
report that there is scarcity of food
on the island of Guam.
President Samuel B. Donnellv, of
the International Typographical Union,
was accorded enthusiastic receptions
by the printers of Portland and Seattle
and Spokane.
An ungrateful Indian, who had been
furnished with food and lodging, muir.
dered Nevada white woman and her
infant son. Robbery was the motive
OF the assassin.
The Russian steamer Dolney Vastok,
which was to have entered the trans.
port service, arrived in San Francisco
too late, q British steamer having
taken her place.
War in the Transvaal has effected
he markets OF the East and specula.
i've, operations have ceased. The effect
ON prices, however. has not been 10
great as anticipated.
A divorce has been granted to Count
Won Moltke, the emperor of Germany's
aid.de.camp. The decree places the
entire guilt on the wife. The case has
caused a sensation in court circles foy
. year past.
Having learned that White is still
safe at Ladysmith, the British are Civ.
ing attention to General Joubert's plan
for the conquest of Natal. Such .
movement is regarded as more daring
that Sherman's march to the sea.
Judge schoAeld. OF Illinois, has ar.
rived in San Francisco from Samoa
and Hawaii. He says the natives OF
Samoa should be allowed to work out
their own salvation. He reports the
landgrabbers as doing rushing bust.
ness in Hawaiian islands.
Swindlers in Wall street, New
York, have been selling washed out,
cancelled revenue stamps, the traffic
having reached enormous proportions.
1t is estimated that 10 per cent of the
daily sales were fraudulent and that
the government has been losing IS, OO0
a day in the deal.
BOurke Cochran. the famous Nau