Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-03-22
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Filipino insurgents are fighting hard
to keep the Americans out OF southern
Luzon.
Plague in Honolulu is stamped out,
q fter a total of 81 cases, So OF which
were fatal.
A brother of President Steyn. of the
Orange Free State, has been captured
by the British.
General George White has arrived at
Durham and embarked upon the trans
mort for East London.
England politely declined the proffer
Of the United States to intercede Ill
the war in South Africa.
Near Baker City, Or, an O. II. q n.
freight train ran down four japanese
section hands, two being killed.
Labor troubles are rife in Martinique.
Riots and incendiary fires spread terror
through the island, and ignorant
negroes threatened to behead the
whites.
The United States government has
purchased the steamer Columbia from
the Northern Pacific Steamship Com
pany. She will go on the regular
Manila run.
The steamship Armenia, loading at
New York, will carry supplies to Ma
Mia for the American troops Ill the
Philippines, and 1900 tons OF rails and
a large amount of steel bridge and
structural work for the Siberian rail-
WAY. to be delivered ut Nladivostock.
Senator Sewell has introduced bill
changing the name OF the Paris, OF the
American line, to the Philadelphia.
Three of the ships OF the international
Navigation Company constituting the
American Trans Atlantic mail service,
already bear names of American cities
the St, Paul, the st. Louis and the
New York.
T. X. Scarborough, formerly clerk in
the auditors office OF the Pacific Ex-
press Company, at Omaha, has sued
the express company and Erastus
Young, its auditor, for $50, 900 dam
ages, alleging that by reason OF his ar
rest on May 26, 1898. on the charge OF
embezzlement, he has been brought
into public scandal and disgrace.
John z. Little, the actor, died IL
Brooklyn. aged SO years.
Tho I,.;.~a -c~"~~- will -""+"'.'ish q
San Francisco has had case of genu
inc bubonic plague. Chinatown is tc
be cleaned up.
The Cinnamon of Philadelphia have
decided to band together for the pur-
pose of self.protection.
Fifteen persons, the majority OF
whom were children, persisted in a
tenement. house fire at Newark, N. j.
In Chicago, while playing with a re-
volver, a 7.year.old boy shot his mother
in the abdomen. The wound will
prove fatal.
Erving Winslow, secretary OF the
Anti.Imperialist League, says that the
anti-expansion vote will he between
1000, 900 and 5000. 900.
Walla Walla, WASH, veterans of the
Spanish American war contemplate or
ganizing camp to be named after
General Henry W. Lawton.
Addison G. Rand, president of the
Rand Drill Company, and treasurer of
the Latin & Rand Powder Company,
died in New York, aged SO years.
The schooner Lila and Matte was
wrecked on Tillamook bar, being blown
ashore while trying to get out of the
bay. The vessel will be total wreck
Puerto Rlcaus must be fed for many
months yet. In the center of the
island there is nothing to eat and fruit
cannot be had for from two to four
months.
The Portuguese authorities at Lou.
renco Marques. at the request OF Great
Britain, have arrested four Germans
bound for Pretoria, with arms and let
tiers of Introduction from DR.. Leyds.
Permission to do general business in
Japan has been refused 60 foreign in.
surance companies, most of them
American. Japanese ofiicisls state that
this results from the fact that their ap.
plications have failed to comply with
the Japanese insurance laws.
1t is probable that the warning Chi.
nese tongs in San Francisco will be
brought together for the purpose of
effecting a peaceful settlement OF the
difficulties which caused the death of
three prominent Chinese within the last
two weeks. The Wah Ting and Sin
Suey Wing tongs have been arrayed
against the Suey Sing tongs, and while
the former organizations started the
shooting, the latter retaliated in a ter.
rible way week ago, when two prom.
inent members of the first named tong
were shot down in their places OF bust.
ness.
At Cripple Creek, COL, the February
output OF gold was ~, 296, 700.
Throughout Illinois, Michigan, Indi.
ana, the southwest and west, the heav-
lest snowstorm in years prevailed.
Democrats of the Kentuckv leoisla.