Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-02-02
LATER NEWS.

One billion feet of Oregon timber,
on Abiqua creek. was sold to Wisoon-
sin parties few DAYS ago.
The thermometer ranged from 35 to
40 degrees below zero at different
points in Wisconsin the first Of the
week.
! Ore assaying from $40. 200 to $780,
600 gold per ton is reported to have
been struck in the Isabella mine at
Cripple Creek, Colo
On the 18th ballot taken in the joint
session OF the Montana legislature Sat-
urday, Hon. VIM. A. Clark was elected
| United States senator.
In the lower house of congress a
joint resolution has been adopted grant
ing to Venezuela the privilege of send
ing cadet to West Point.
Charges affecting the integrity Of
District Judge Scott, of Omaha, and
seeking his impeachment by the egis-
lature have been presented to that
body.
Ex-senator Slater, prominent figure
in Oregon politics for number of
years. died at his home in La Grands
on the 2Sth. He came to Oregon in
1850.
The Montauk Club, of Brooklyn, ten
dered banquet on the 2Sth to Admiral
William L. Sampson, and principal
among the other guests was Secretary
of the Navy joni ID. Long.
A big celebration was held in Havana
in honor of the memory of the first Gu
ban president, Jose Mart. Four thou
sand people were present, and there
was no disorder OF any kind.
The body of Captain Sturtevant,
pilot of the Paul Jones, has been found.
From the clothing of the body it is be-
lieved he was off duty and asleep when
the disaster was caused by the boiler
exploding.
General Eagan, tried by court-mar-
tal on charges of conduct unbecoming
an officer and gentleman, was found
guilty and sentenced to dismissal from
the army. The president has the
power to mitigate or entirely set aside
the findings.
The district attorney at PHILADELPHIA
has notified counsel for Senator Quay,
his son, Richard, and ex-State Treas
urer Haywood, that he had fixed Mon
day, February 20, as the date for trial
of the three defendants on the charge
of conspiracy in the misuse of the
money Of the state on deposit in the
Peoples bank.
Private advices received at Seattle
state that the government will send
three attachments of soldiers into the
Copper river district OF Alaska next
spring to lay out a mail route to the
Yukon river and establish ports. The
purpose is to establish an all-American
route to the Yukon. 1t will extend
from the mouth of Copper river to
Eagle City. 60 miles below Dawson.
The New York Evening World prints
all interview with John Sherman, in
which the latter forcibly expresses him
self against expansion.
According to figures published at
Madrid. $4,000 Spanish soldiers per-
ished, chiefly through sickness, during
the last campaign in Cuba.
1t is reported in Havana that Gen.
eral Rabi, with 1900 Cuban insur-
gents, has taken to the hills in Santa
Clara, in defiance of American author.
tiles.
A battle has taken place at San An
Gamma, Ecuador, between government
troops and insurgents. Four hundred
men were killed and 300 wounded, and
400 insurgents were taken prisoners.
The premier. Senior Sagasta, has an.
nounced that the government had de-
cided to couveke'the cortes during the
second half of; February, whether the
United States senate ratifies the peace
treaty or not. '-'' . 81
A bicycle saddle combine is to be or
gained and capitalized at $1,000, 900 =
preferred and $75O.O0o common stock.
Those already in line are said to pro-
duce 80 per cent OF all the saddles used
/. IN North America and fair percentage
of those used abroad.
Considerable alarm is felt in admin.
stration circles over the possibility
that Spain and Germany may recognize
the Philippine republic - Germany
from interested motives and Spain to
free the 5000 or 10000 Spanish troops
held as prisoners by Aguinaldo.
|, The strike which has been in prog
ress at Colon, Colombia, for nearly a
fortnight among the dock aborers, has
extended to Panama, partly owing to
the fact that the CHILEAN line of steam
ers has increased the wages of its en-
ployes. thereby accentuating the dead
lock.
John f. Kennedy, who attained no.
toriety in connection with the numer-
GUS train-robberies and other crimes in
the vicinity of Kansas City has been
held without bail at Mansfield, Mo-,
for hearing before the grand jury Of
Wright county on a charge of train
robbery.
The Planters bank, at Kansas CITY,