Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-06-08
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome Of the Telegraphic
News Of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection of Items From
the Two IIemi-pheres Presented
in IA Condensed Form.

! WASH, was crushed to death by tree
falling on him.
Major Marchand was welcomed with
enthusiasm bv the French on his al
rival at Toulon.
At Pmis ex-Prcsident Harrison de-
livered the Memorial day Grafton at
the tomb OF La Fayette.
The United States cruiser Brooklyn
was damaged by striking hidden OBJ
srtuCtion in New York harbor-
Frank Bouts, a brutal parent, was
/ killed while he slel t by his two young
children, whom lac had almost starved
to satisfy his own wants.
A tramp assaulted the l2-year old
/ daughter of f. w. Mespelt, near Scio
Or, as she was returning from school.
The giil broke away and escaped.
The winter wheat crop OF Southern
Russia has been completely destroyed
10y Il protiacted drought. The spring
wheat crop is also i'll jeopardy from the
same cause.
AS a result of the tests made at the
Chicago stockyards by the livestock
commissioners and health officials. it
has been discovered that all of 23 cows
examined were suffering from tubercu
losis.
NJ. de Beaupre created deep sensa-
tion in the French court Of assizes by
solemnly declaring that he had become
convinced that the bordereau was writ
ten by Major Count Ferdinand Walsin
Esteihazy.
Reform in the navy is being talked
OF in Washington. A plan for ieor-
ganization OF that department is on
foot. Dewey, it is said, may be placed
at the head of board to pass on bu-
reau matters.
A dispatch from Manila says that
the men from the hospital ship Relief
captured by the insurgents off Para
naque were the third engineer, another
officer and boats crew. They were
sailing in a catboat, and natives from
the shore set out in boats and took
them.
Abraham and Oscar Juntti, brothers,
are the first Columbia river fishermen
reported drowned this season. Theil
boat was capsized on Peacock spit, and
they sank before the lifesaving crew
could reach them. Another fishing
boat containing two men was carried
over the bar. The Point Adams life
saving crew went out after them. but
was unable to pick them up and re-
TUNED. What became OF the men is
not known.
The run Of salmon in the lower Co.
lumhia is increasing.
The total number of plague cases re-
ported at Alexandria is eight. Two
have died and two recovered.
A Paris dispatch says Dreyfus will
certainly be acquitted at his second
trial. All his accusers are dead, or
have fled the country.
Two score scientists of note, con-
stitutng the Hartman exploring ex-
petition to Alaska. have arrived in
Portland. They will embark from
Seattle on the steamer Elder.
DdlOU NOl huiCIldUStil Cllci Dtls -
hruder won the race for the grand
prize OF Hamburg, valued at 100, 600
marks. The baron married Miss Net
tie Crosby, OF Chicago, some years ago.
President Mckinley has issued the
long-expected amendment to the civil
service rules which he has had under
consideration for about year. 1t re-
leases from the operations of civil serv-
ice rules about / 900 offices.
An order has been issued at Manila
re-establishing the Philippine courts,
which have been closed since the
American occupation. 1t revives all
the Spanish system not conflicting
with the sovereignty OF the United
States.
Secretary Alger has received cable
gram from General Otis in response
to his inquiry, announcing that a ma
jority of the Oregon regiment of volun-
teers at Manila have decided to return
by steamer directly to Portland. The
Washington regiment decided to come
first to san Francisco.
Within one week the states OF Ne
hraska, South Dakota, Iowa, Wiscon-
sin, Minnesota and Northern Illinois
have experienced seven OF the most vio-
lent storms known in years, resulting
in the loss of nearly dozen lives and
doing damage to property and crops
that will run into the hundreds of
thousands.
The steamer China, from Hong Kong
and Yokohama, via Honolulu, brings
news to san Francisco of the murder of
an American soldier named George
Ryan, near Malolus. His frightfullv
mutilated body was found on April IL.
The body was dashed to a raft floating
in the river, the skull crushed ard both
arms had been cut off at the elbows.
Minor News Items.
Roosevelt's rough riders will hold
their first annual reunion on June
"a in New Mexico.
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