Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-11-02
EVENTS OF THE DAY
9. A Interesting Collection OF Items ro"
the Two Hemispheree Presented
in q Condensed Form.

the services o! IL. 900 natives.
Proclamation OF war beyond British
expectations is now said 70 De certain.
The navy department is to give Mar.
coni'= wireless teleyraphy a practical
test.
England will EXPECT the Beers 10
pay the cost OF war when the 81 J
comes.
The government. o; Venezuela ha:
been turned over to Castro, who seems
to he very popular.
United States army officers have
been sent 10 South Africa to watch the
progress oil the war.
A Chicago candyn.an has confessed
70 the police that he mas AZ wives in
different parts OF the world.
Fifteen sick men OF the Iowa regi.
ment are now in the general hospira.
ct the Preside, san Francisco.
Russia has at last agreed that tn
claim resulting from the seizure Of
seals in Behring sea shall be arbitrated.
Ilo lilo is stirred by the expectation
of important fighting. Nolleys are ts..
ing fired at the American outpost=
nightly.
Colonel John B. Yates, one OF Gen.
eral Sherman's main supports in the
famous march to the sea, is dead a.
Amesburg, Ont.
The battleships Texas and Indiana
are to 60 out of commission, as the
officers and men are needed in the
Philippines. Others may follow.
A Berlin dispatch says kilograms
from Brussels announce that in the
Transvaal legation circles it is stated
that France and Russia will not per.
mit the annexation OF the Transvaal
and Orange Free State to England.
At Atchison, Kan, two robbers shot
and killed one man and wounded an.
other in a store, which they later rob.
bed. They were pursued BY posse
and they shot and killed a policeman
and another man, both mem bers OF the
pursuers.
Canada has made new proposition
for permanent settlement OF the Alaska
dispute. She again asks for arhitra.
ton on terms similar to those imposed
by the United States and Great Britain
over Venezuela. Fifty years OF occu.
pancy is considered conclusive evi.
dence OF title. She is willing to give
mp Skagway and Dyea, but wants Pyra.
mid Harbor.
The revolution at Colombia is spread.
ing.
President Kruger is reported as in
favor of unconditional surrender.
Insurgents in Southern Luzon at.
tackled Calamha, but were driven of.
Eveleth, Mimi, is to be moved to
make room for mining operations on
the town site.
William H. Brown rode 900 miles
awheel in 81 hours, breaking the rec.
ord by seven hours.
William Wilkie, aged 10, was killed
by Charles Chelin in Chicago, as the
result OF prizetight.
The British losses in Natal in three
days fighting are said to have been
nearly 500 killed and wounded.
England's newspapers must here.
after look to the United States and
Canada for their paper pulp.
German carp found in the Columbia
and willamette rivers in great numbers
will be frozen for foreign shipment.
Thieves entered the postoffice at
Albany, Or, through tunnel and
robbed the vault, securing about $500.
The remains OF Lieutenant. Colonel
Miley, Skaters chief aide, were
brought home on the Senator. He fell
. victim to fever in the Philippines.
Changes in ranks of naval officers
have made it necessary to give Sampson
and Schley less advancement than
would have been given out last session
OF congress.
Montana was visited by disastrous
snow storm, the worst in 20 years.
The loss OF life will exceed 20 persons
In Teton county, and 10000 sheep per.
ished in the storm.
A scouting party of the Thirty sixth
volunteers encountered insurgents in
southwest Santa Arita, scattering them,
killing six and capturing eight, and 10
rifles. No casualties.
A cablegram has been received at the
state department from United States
Consul Gudger, at Panama. stating
that an instruction has broken out
there, and that martial law has been
declared.
Bates, Lawton and Funston have re.
ceived deserved appointments. Bates
has been made majors general OF volun.
teers, Lawton brigadier.general in regu.
lar army and Funston has been given
seappointment.
One hundred years ago it was consid.
cred wonderful achievement for ten
men to manufacture 5000 pins day.
Now three make 1900. 900 pins in the
same time.
1t is complained that the acksmiths