Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1899-11-09
EVENTS OF THE DAY
A Interesting Collection of Items From
the Two Hemisphere Presented
in q Condensed Form.

the Two Hemispheres Presented
in Cordensed Form.
Captain Geary, who vas killed ct
Nalabon, October l6. was . native OF
Oregon.
Boer losses at Iadysmith are esti-
mated at between 900 and 1000 Killed
and wounded.
OREGON salmon eggs are being sent TO
Australian waters where they are ex.
pected to thrive.
England has called ont more reserves
and within 10 days men TO replace the
captured forces will sail Tor South
Africa.
The state will pay the Iowans' fares
home. Three special sleepinc.car
trains and subsistence will be fur.
nished them.
The Pullman.Wagner Company has
% pulled its strings that even indepen-
ient railway lines will turn their sleep.
Ing cars over to the mbine.
Gable advices to the war department
indicate that General Young's column
is pressing on toward San Jose, though
progress is difficult on account OF wet
weather.
The Washington regiment has been
mustered out. About 300 men, includ.
Ing the Seattle companies, left by
steamer for home. The others 60
north by rail.
Although all regiments have their
full quota, recruiting will be continued
for the Philippines. Men will be
needed each month to fill vacancies BY
casualties and discharges.
Colonel W'holley, of the Washington
volunteer infantry, has been appointed
major of the Forty.frst volunteer in.
fantry and has been ordered to join
that regiment for service in the Philip.
pines.
A party of students from the Cniver.
nty Of Chicago will 60 to the Ken.
lucky mountains, where the recent
feuds have occurred, to study simple
frontier life as retained by the noun.
tanners.
A Lima, Peru, dispatch says Du.
rand's revolutionary forces are being
closely pursued by the government
troops, and according to official dis.
patches, the situation of the leader Of
Peru's latest revolution seems to be
precarious.
An elastic bank note currency with
the gold standard enacted into law Is
what Secretary Gage will ask for in
his annual report. He will recommend
enactment of law for the issue Of
bank notes against deposits of bonds
and greenbacks, and allowing banks to
issue notes against their assets under
certain restrictions.
The recuperative powers of the Beers
are regarded with wonder by the
British.
The Peruvian cocoa crop is failure.
The plants were damaged by insects
and the price has already doubled.
A professional baseball league for
1900, to include Seattle, Tacoma, Port.
land and Vancouver, 3. c., is now on
the tapis.
Admiral schley will go to South
Africa in command OF the South At.
lantic squadron to protect American
interests during the progress of the war.
Interesting experiments of Marconi's
system on warshlps resulted in wire.
less telegraph messages being success.
fully transmitted over 20 miles OF
space.
Professor Arthur McGiffert, of Union
seminary. New York, refuses to quietly
resign from the Presbyterian ministry,
and another heresy trial seems inevt.
liable.
The president, it is said, considers
that the Germans and British caused
the trouble at Samoa and that they
should pay the greater portion Of the
damage.
At Kamloops, B. c., John Hayes is
to be tried for murder. He is accused
by the confession of his sister of hav.
ing killed her husband, she acting 40
accomplice.
Dwight L. Townsend, founder of the
Postal Telegraph Company, United
Lines Telegraph Company and the fam.
Gus Havemeyer sugar factory, Is dead
at New York.
In his message President Mckinley
will ask for an appropriation for q
commission to be appointed to investi.
gate the commercial and industrial con.
dition Of the Chinese empire.
The Aberdeen Packing Company'a
cannery at Fairhaven, WASH, Wa
burned. All machinery and stock, in.
GLIDING $4,000 cases of canned salmon,
went up in smoke; loss. $3.50, 900.
Captain Leary, the naval governor OF
the island of Guam, in the Ladrones,
was forced to adopt heroic measures to
enforce his administration. The friars
were hostile to his orders 70 he invited
them to leave.
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