Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-06-01
LATER NEWS.

kosa BOnlleur, the famous amman
painter. is dead at London. England.
The North Atlantic squadron will
make Newport, X. l., its summer
quarters.
Cuban soldiers at Havana refused on
the first day to accept the SO allotted
them by the United States to surrender
their arms.
Secret service officers have un-
earthed the counterfeit face and back
plates of a $40 legal tender United
States note at Philadelphia.
From Hardeeville, s. c.. is reported
the burning to death of Jacob Solo
mon, his wife and seven children, in
an accidental fire which destroyed
their house.
Particulars received regarding the
famine in Russia confirm the previous
narrowing accounts. Some authorities
estimate that as many as 10000, 900
peasants are starving.
The Spanish troops have withdrawn
from Zamboanga after q battle with
the insurgents. The insursent loss
was severe. The Spanish loss was nine
killed and 81 wounded.
Harry and John Anderson, brothers,
went out sailing on Young's bay, near
Astoria, Or, in a small boat, and were
drowned by the capsizing of the boat
when they We're less than 80 yards
from shore.
Howard Il. Kretz. young man
about % years of age, an art student
of the Academy of Design OF New York,
n[de startling and successful jump
from the Brooklyn bridge, and came
out OF the river uninjured.
An Oakland, Gall miner. who has
just returned from Copper river, Alas
ka, says that he knows Of so prospec
tors il that section who are missing.
ii not already dead they will die in an
effort to reach civilization. Most Of
them went out in small parties, with
only provisions enough to last them
few months. Rescue parties have been
unable to get trace of them.
The London Times in an editorial
dealing with thu prospect that the re-
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permanent arbitration tribunal says:
"No government or people have devot-
ed themselves with greater ardor to the
study of the theory of arbitration than
the government and people OF the
United States. The Americans not
only possess great lawyers. but are
community in which knowledge of
legal principles is more widespread
than in any other"
A Manila dispatch says the approach
of the wet season finds the insumec-
ton seemingly taking a new lease of
life. All along the American lines
the rebels are showing more aggressive
activity in their guerrilla style than
at any time before or since the fall OF
Maolos. They keep the United States
troops in the trenches, sleeping in
their clothing. and constantly on the
alert against dashes on our outposts,
and then make life warm for the
American garrisons in the towns.
Colonel Summers, of the Second Or.
egon, has been promoted to brevet
brigadier-gen eral of volunteers, and
Captain Case to be major by brevet.
Queen Victoria's S0th birthday was
celebrated throughout the British en-
pire. Festivities were also held in the
leading capitals of America and Eu.
rope.
The co,oner's jury investigating the
train wreck at Exeter, on the Reading
railroad. found that the accident was
due to the negligence of employees Of
the company.
The Duke of ARGOS, Spanish minister
to the United States, and the duchess,
were among the passengers on board
the Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse, sailing
from Southampton.
The naavl orders posted at Washing.
ton, assign Captain J. b. Coghlan to
duty as commandant of the Puget sound
naval station. June 80, by which time
the Raleigh will be out of commission. {
AT Griffin, Ga, the flogging of four
colored operatives of the kincaid mills,
by whitecaps, has led to sensational
developments. The mayor has called
out the militia to protect the negroes. 4
| At Copenhagen, while some men
were engaged in filling shells at a mil
| itary laboratory, some of them exploded,
killing several men and severely iEjur-f
ing noncommissioned officer and two.
workmen. The laboratory was de.
stroyed.
Rain and hail has done much damage
to the crops and property in Central
Kansas. In Saline county, wheat and
other crops for miles were completely
destroyed, many buildings were dam
aged and thousands of window lights
were broken. Some cattle and many
chickens and birds were killed. I'll
Joohn Burkholder, of Martindale.
and L. w. Frank Howser, of Terrt
Hill, Pa, have been arrested on tho
charge of counterfeiting labels of thu
Cigarmakels' international Union.
is alleged they have been engaged ex
tensively in this business for years, an,
supplied large number of factories.