Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-02-08

Plague at Honolulu is under control.
Dawson evil-doers are forced to saw
wood.
General Buffers position is becoming
precarious.
Surveyors are now ut work on the
Oregon Midland railway route.
A big steel mill was wrecked in
Pittsburg by boiler explosion.
A bill was introduced in congress to
provide mining laws for Cape Nome.
Money is now ready for the purchase
of the Salem, Or, federal building site.
Census Supervisor Kelly has left for
Alaska to enter upon his duties there.
Owing to a split in the National
League, Baltimore may lose her base.
ball club.
An attempt to rob the Missouri, Kan
sas & Texas railway train at Holden,
Mo-, was frustrated.
The United States transports City of
Pueblo and Senator have arrived at
San Francisco from Manila
Near Corunna, Spain, a torpedo boat,
name and nationality unknown, has
been totally lost, with all on board.
Quarantine officers in San Francisco
are adopting stringent measures to pro.
tect that port from the bubonic plague.
The Union hotel, at Revelstoke, b.
c., was totally destroyed by fire, the
blaze originating in the furnace room.
The German steamer Remus has been
wrecked near Aarhaus, Denmark,
where she was bound. The captain
and 10 men persisted.
Colonel Charles F. Williams, COM
mander OF the United States marine
corps ut Mare Island, died suddenly Of
hemorrhage OF the stomach.
"Nick" Haworth, suspected murder
err of Night Waterman Sandal, at
Kaysville, Utah, attempted to commit
suicide at Salt Lake by bleeding.
Robert Fitzsimmons now claims he
was drugged when he was whipped by
James Jeffries for the championship
of the world at Coney Island, last June.
A runaway electric car on the Day
ton & Xenia traction road, at Dayton,
O., left the track at sharp curve and
was demolished, killing three persons.
An American scouting party of the
Twenty fifth was caught in ambush by
Filipinos and an officer and three men
killed. Insurgents lost 40 in killed aud
wounded.
Senator William Goebel, Of Ken.
lucky, was shot and seriously wounded
by crazed kentuckian, two shots pas
sing entirely through t,e Democratic
leaders, body.
People of China are said to take
imperial changes with great equani.
nifty.
William Jennings Bryan will accept
the Populist nomination for the presi.
dency.
Lord Pauncefote will retire as am
bassador of Great Britain to the United
States, April l.
The interstate commerce commission
has sued the Northern Pacific to en-
force disregarded laws.
Senators are said to want no change
in the manner OF their election. The
house favors popular vote.
Dundonald's forces, for whom fears
were entertained, are safe on the south
bank OF the Tugela river.
Five business men of Walla Walla
were victimized by smooth folger,
who cashed bogus checks.
The Prince Regent of Bavaria has
conferred the Order of st. Michaels,
first. class, on DIR. Nansen, the explorer.
In Cincinnati, Charles Barlruff, a
tanner. killed his wife, his son and his
daughter and then tried to set the
house on fire.
A funeral train, arranged by the
Southern Pacific, will convey the re-
mains of General Lawton and Major
Logan to the East.
James II. Britton, ex.mayor Of st.
Louis. and for many years one OF the
leading bankers of the West, died at
Ardley, n. Y, aged SO.
Captain G. II. stockton, president
OF the naval war college, says: Com
mand OF the sea OH our North Pacific
coast and the waters OF the western
basin OF the North Pacific should be in
our hands in peace and war time.
This can only be effected by readiness
of a proper and sufficient naval force
either on the spot, or to be furnished
from the Atlantic through an un.
tramelled canal. In addition to this.
and ready for combining, should be the
available forces normally attached to
the Philippines and the waters about
China. Japan and Corea. In other
words. the Pacific ocean, from Samoa
should be within our
CONTROL"
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