Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-04-26
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
the Two Hemisphere Presented
In . Condensed Form.

The proceedings of the naval strategy
board will be secret.
The Ohio anti.bicycle law was de.
clared unconstitutional.
Democrats, Populists and Silver Re.
publicans have fused in Nebraska.
Fire in a tenement house at Newcas.
tie, Pa, caused the death of four per.
sons.
Republican party leaders have agreed
upon planks. Expansion will be the
keynote.
Charles Fl. Allen, OF Massachusetts,,
was nominated for governor OF Puerto
Rico by the president.
Large steel mills in the vicinity of
Chicago and Joliet have closed down
on account OF labor troubles.
In speech on the Philippine ques.
ton. Senator Hoar sail that the war
to date had cost 5000 lives.
An Albany, Or, man, whose SOD is
cornetist, but lost his hand, has had u
left-handed cornet made for the boy.
The historical church OF Notre Dame
dies Vortus, on the outskirts of Paris,
was pillaged, then burned by vandals.
Commodore Cowle, U $. n, has
sailed for the Philippines on the
steamer Doric, to take charge Of tho
machine shops at the Cavite navy yard.
General Montenegro, one Of che Fill.
pinos' best fighters. has surrendered to
Colonel Smith in the mountains near
Camaling, in the province OF l'angasi.
nan.
BY the closing of nine additional
cigar factories in New York city, the
number of striking and locked out
cigarmakers has been increased to
5000.
Twelve hundred Tagalos attacked
Cases battalion headquarters at Caga.
van, island of MindanaO, but were re.
pulsed with n loss of 90 killed and 80
wounded. Americans had five casual
ties.
Sixteen months have elapsed since
the sultan of Turkey promised to pay
500, 900 indemnity for the destruction
Of American missionary property dur
ing the riots of 1893. The usual sharp
hint is necessary.
The secretary of war has ordered an
investigation Of the case of Major
Knight, United States engineer.
charged with interfering with Father
Tierney. of tho Roman Catholic church.
in the performance of his duties.
Congress will adjourn in June.
War taxes will not be reduced at
this session OF congress.
Great Britain will levy tax on
mines to pay the expenses of the war.
A burglar entered saloon in Gle.
halls, WASH, and took $500 in silver.
Four men were killed and several in.
jured in drunken riot OF coal miners
near Johnstown, Pa.
Heavy rain and snow storms in the
vicinity Of Denver are causing much
delay to railroad traffic.
John IIannigan, aged 63. one OF the
best-known horse trainers in the cOun'
try, died at Mildale, Ky.
Two Mexican outlaws held up a
gambling house in johnson, Arizona.
and killed prominent mining man.
Rev. William !. Rutledge, OF Jack.
sonville, H., prominent Methodist
minister and originator OF the q. A.
r., is dead, aged SO.
The legislature of Trinidad has re.
cal trade and adopted the convention
with the United States.
Fourteen thousand people have en-.
gagged passage from Pacific coast ports
to Cape Nome. Alaska, Oh the first
fleet OF steamers. which sails about
May !.
Two hundred or 300 families bought
1000 acres of land near Eugene. Or,
with the intention of dividing it up
into 40.acre tracts and working on the
colonization plan.
Burglars at Toronto, Ont. dug
through the nine-inch brick wall oil
the vault OF St. Simon's church with
crowbars and picks and stole $l.l75.
the Easter Offering.
Conditions in famine.stricken 1ndia
are deplorable. Sixty millions Of PEG.
pie are suffering and 80, 900, 900 are in
dire distress, and only 5000. 900 are
receiving government aid.
In New York, n school of voice cul-
ture was begun on portentious scale
at Carnegie Hall, under the direction
of Giacomo Minkowsky, called the
Metropolitan School Of Voice and Sing.
ing. Edouard de Reezke and Nine.
Nordica will give scholarships to the
best gifted pupils under Minowsky.
Maurice Grau and Andrew A. McCor.
mick are lending their influence. Min.
kowsky is composer OF note.
Former Secretary OF the Interior
Hoke Smith has sold his Atlanta, Ga.
Journal to u Boston syndicate.
Germany and Russia are said to have
reached al agreement rs to railway
concessions, practically dividing Asia
Minor between them.
Cyril Arthur Pearson, principal