Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-09-27
EVENTS OF TIE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection Of Items Fren
the Two HsmisPheres Presented
in Condensed Form.

Colonel John Miley, inspector-gen-
eral of volunteers, is dead at Manila.
Hawaii will endeavor to secure set.
tiers from northern Italy and Sweden.
Mark Hanna says it would he more
than disgrace for VI to sell the Phillip
pines.
At a lumber yard fire in Los Angeles
three men were injured, two of them
fatally.
One battalion of the Thirtv-ffth will
,ail from Portland ON the Elder within
10 days.
Scheurer Kcstner, chief exponent OF
The cause OF Dreyfus, died on the day
the captain was pardoned.
A prominent Filipino has approached
General Macarthur in the matter OF
releasing the American prisoners.
The empress dowager of China is
faid to be seriously i'll and Earl Ii
Hung Chang has been recalled to
power.
President Kruger has been informed
that the will receive no help from Ger
many in Re event OF war with Great
Britain.
Labor unions have ordered all work
in connection with the Chicago fall fes-
tival stopped until an agreement is
reached.
After six veeks' siege Jules Guer.
in, the FrencA anti.Semitic agitator,
surrendered when the army was about
to attack his fort.
Mrs. Mary Brooks, who has been in
a Michigan prison for 23 years has been
pardoned. She Immediately married
the man who had her convicted.
Representative Dalzell, of Pennsyl-
vania, says that both the senate and
house will present bills in regard to
currency legislation at the next session
Of congress.
c. n. Peck, prominent farmer liv-
ing near Lexington, Morrow conaty,
Oregon, died from hemorrhage of the
lungs. The neighbors thought he had
smallpox, became frightened and re-
fused to bury him. and two physicians
performed the task unaided.
Over 5000 persons are dead and
missing as result of the recent ty-
phoons in the Orient. Much damage
to shipping is reported. The appalling
subsistence of tn eBesshi mine in the
island of Shikoku entailed the loss of
$50 lives. From some parts of the
south reports still come in of thousands
upon thousands OF houses destroyed,
while every prefecture counts by hum
dreds its dead. An interesting incl
dent in the Beshi mine catastrophe
was the final saving of Ave miners,
who had been imprisoned in the earth
for six days by the caving IN of the en-
trance.
Cuba is suffering from a long. con-
tinued drought.
The Nashville will not DO sent to
Venezuela till needed.
China has protested against General
Otis exclusion order.
Japan is being urged to secure rail-
way concessions from China.
James M. Nixon, a once famous
Snowman, is dead in New York.
The battleship Kentucky will have
her first run about the LIST of October.
The Indian hoppickers in Puyalluo
valley, Washington, are sun dancing.
Almost the entire business section
of Farnham, N. Y, was wiped out by
fire.
The sovereign grand lodge of Odd
Fellows met in Detroit, Mich, IN an
nual session.
The steamer Alpha has arrived from
Alaska with 200 passengers and half
ton ot gold.
The American ship George Stetson
was burned at Loochoo, China. No
loss of life resulted from the disaster.
Major Jones, who has been quarter.
master at Manila. has returned. He
thinks $4,000 men will be needed in
the islands for 10 years.
Hon. Daniel Ermentrout, congress,
man from the sixth cong essional dis.
triot OF Pennsylvania, 10 dead. He
was serving his sixth term.
Officials say that Admiral Sam pson
will not be suspended by Admiral
HOwison and that the newspapers are
making mountain out of a mole hill.
A boat containing the captain and
! men from the French steamer Dunra
is believed to have been lost near the
island Of Elba in the Mediterranean
sea.
Thirty transports are scheduled to
sail for the Philippines before Novem-
bre l, and it is predicted that the SOL
diers OF the new regiments will eat
Christmas dinner at Manila.
Frank H, Burford, a 15-year- old boy,
has been admitted to the bar in Guth.
rie, 0. T.
Two divinity students are working