Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-06-08
LATER NEWS.

the hills and are being pursued to the
( sea.
Canada has asked for arbitration in
| the settlement OF the Alaskan bound
airy.
/ England having objected, British
Columbia must revoke anti-Japanese
legislation.
AT Uniontown, Pa, blind man
murdered the mother Of the woman he
was counting.
The French court OF cessation has
rendered verdict in favor of revision
/ Of the Dleyfus case.
Germany has declined to intervene
in the Transvaal dispute, and also
wishes to see the proposed reforms in
troduced.
The administration has decided to
reduce the American armies OF occupa-
ton in Cuba and Porto Rico in order
to send additional troops to General
Otis, in the Philippines.
There are now 345 prisoners in the
/ stockade at Wardner, Idaho. Several
new buildings connected with the ison
are undei construction. A ii the i'm.
provements indicate permanency.
The current fiscal year will break all
records in our foreign trade, which now
averages 800, 600. 600 a month. There
is an unprecedented demand in the
worlds markets for goods OF American
manufacture.
The business distinct Of the town Of
Republic. WASH, has been destroyed
by fire. The loss is estimated at $780,
600. The conhagration started from
the explosion OF "a gasoline stove in the
Siegel building.
The steamer Danube brings stories of
death and disaster to prospecto1s on the
Inflated Edmonton trail. At least so
boats, they say, capslzed on Great
Slave lake since last summer. Many
prospectors wer, drowned.
Representative David b. Hender-
son, of Iowa, has received enough
pledges by telegraph and mail to give
him l02 votes in the Republican eau
Gus for speaker of the national house.
This will insure his election, it is said.
Germany has purchased from Spain
the Carolines, Pelew and Marianne
islands. The price is about $1,000
600. Spain retains three coaling sta
tions, and Germany will defend these
stations in case of war The transfer
meets the approval Of the United
States.
While visiting Anteui, suburb of
Paris, President Loubet was struck
with a cane by Count Christiana, the
blow landing on the presidents hat
without injury. Eggs were thrown at
the president by the populace. The
demonstration was planned by the
League of Patriots and the Ants Sem.
ties, who were angered because they
were not permitted to receive Major
Ma1chand in triumph.
San Francisco won three games from
Seattle in Geographic chess.
Texas has quarantined against New
Orleans. The Southern Pacific is tied
up.
William Bashnel and Otis Dodd
were killed in Ohio by train running
into a hand car.
Signor Chinaglia was elected presi-
dent of the Italian chamber OF depu.
ties.
Confederate dead's graves were deco
rated by Union veterans at Phiiadel.
phia.
The queen of Spain has appointed
Martinez Campos to presidency of the
senate.
In Lower California miners are said
to be getting as high as two ounces of
gold to the pan of dirt.
Canada has an eye on Skaeway, if
given the slightest encouragement to
hope for the concession OF port.
Canadians claim they have discovered
a document which obvates further
question of owners ship to Deadman's
island.
The German am bassador at WASH
ington has protested against the Unit
ed States sending another warship tO
Samoa.
The state department has made pub.
lie an official abstract of the report OF
the Nicaragua canal commissio Ii
estimates the cost at Sis, l13, 100.
Duke de ARGOS, the new Spanish
minister, has arrived. lie says this
country is SO powerful, the Philippine
insurgents will soon he compelled to
surrender.
Robert Creighton, quartermastet'
cleik on the transport Sheridan, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself
through the temple with revolver
in San Francisco. He recently arrived
here from Manila. Dependency
caused by i'll health is the supposed
cause OF his act.
-Four thousand of the volunteers now
in the Philippines are reported to have
signed a petition to the president and
secretary of war, paying that they re.
ceive their DISCHARGES in Manila. in