Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-02-15
EVENTS OF TIE DAY
Epitome Of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting COllsctiUn Of Itsms From
the Two Heuispherss Presonted
~ . Condensed Form.
The Nicaragua canal bill will be
pushed through both houses this

The Nicaragua canal bill will be
pushed through both houses this
month.
Mexican liberals favor the candi-
dacy Of President Diaz for reelection
by a vote of three to one.
The league of Republican clubs OF
Oregon convened at the armorv in Port.
land, with 800 delegates present.
Mrs. Lille Devereaux Blake has
announced her candidacy for the presi.
dency of the National Women Suffragist
Association.
Members OF the Algonquin Club,
leading social organization OF Bridge.
port, Conn.,, have declined to entertain
w. J. Bryan.
The plague in Honolulu has broken
out in several isolated places outside OF
the originally infected district, and its
progress is regarded as serious.
John D. Rockefeller is no longer
president of the Standard Oil Company.
He resigned last December, but the
facts were kept secret until now.
Fifty.seven paintings, the property
of Austin II. King. of Providence, Il.
l., were sold at auction III New York
for $77,375, an average OF $l,356 pc,
picture.
Adelbert s. Hay, the new United
States consul at Pretoria, was received
by the Transvaal government, and pre-
sented his credentials. He created an
excellent impression.
Secretary Root has sent to congress
an abstract OF the militia force OF the
United States. 1t shows the total num-
Der of men available for military duty.
but unorganized, as O,343, $50 and an
aggregate organized strength of 1906.
$3.50.
Astoria, Or, now has the right OF
immediate transportation. a dispatch
from Washington states that Senator
George W. Mcl'ride's bill providing for
such has passed the senate. This
means a bonded warehouse at Astoria
and the unloading of Oriental freight
at that place.
by way of preparation for the great
struggle now in progress, the Beers in
the year 1898 bought from France
alone, guns, swords, carbines, pistols.
cartridges. lead, zinc, powder caps,
fuses, ETC., to the invOiced value of
1886, 900, according to a report OF the
state department from United Statos
Consul Covert at Lyons.
A movement has begun in Oakland
and Berkeley to send relief to the
Donkhobor colonies in Manitoba, which
are suffering for food. The Donk.
hobors are represented as worthy peo-
pie, greatly attached to their religious
belief, which resembles that Of the
Quakers They will not bear arms,
and were driven out OF Russia by the
compulsory military service.
The British are preparing to invade
the Free State.
William Henry Glider, the explorer,
died ut his home in Morristown, n. j.
The transports Ben Mohr and Meade
have arrived at San Francisco from
Manila.
Conditions in Cuba are such that the
people are not yet ready for self.gov-
eminent.
Major.G General Otis has appointed q
civil governor in Northern Luzon and
opened the hemp ports.
The Northern Pacific has selected
Everett, Wash, as the point from
which they will ship to the Orient.
Henry Watterson says the Louisville
& Nashville Railroad is the head and
front of the present troubles in Ken.
lucky.
The Echo Mountain house, large
hotel near Pasadena, Cal, was dc.
stroyed by fire. The loss is estimated
at 500, 900.
The natives of Borneo are in rebel.
lion. The trouble is serious enough to
demand the attention of a British gun
boat and marines.
The .Pauncefote treaty, amend.
ing the Clayton. Bulwer treaty, relative
to the construction of the Nicaragua
canal, was signed at the state depart.
ment by Secretary Hay and Lord
Pauncefote.
The famous Cherokee hydraulic gold
mine, of Oroville, CAL, from which
$lS. 900, 900 in gold has been taken.
and comprising 100 miles of water
bitches, 80 miles of 'debris" canals
and 800 acres Of patented channels,
has been purchased by Pittsbury syn.
dictate.
The Acknowledgment has received q
telegram from Assistant Adjutant Gen.
eral Mccain. at Vancouver barracks,
stating that Colonel Ray, at Fort Glib.
bon, Alaska, reports the safe arrival
there OF Lieutenant Heron and party.
who were supposed to have been lost
while exploring the Copper river coun.
try.
Henry Hughes, hero OF the old navy.
has been admitted into the county
almshouse at Chester, Pa, at the age
of 05 years.
Cannonading does not interfere with
the sending OF wireless telegraph mes.