Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-05-17
LATER NEWS.

which had been evacuated by the
Trans vaal forces.
Honolulu has been officially declared
clean port, the plague being etiicleht'
ly stamped out.
The senate. by close vote, rejected
the proposition for an armor- plate p'"n'
operated by the government.
The towns of IIilongos and Maaslh,
in Leyte, have been captured by the
Americans with few casualties.
The American pavilion at Paris was
turned over to the exposition authorizes
with impressive ceremonies.
woman and 8.year-old child were
burned to death Mt south Omaha, Neb.,
by starting fire with gasoline.
Germany is said to be supplying the
Filipinos with arms to enable them 10
continue their fight against the United
States.
Charles Panstein. a murderous attn.
lete of Butte, Mont, shot and killed
a butcher, his wife and then committed
suicide.
The Populist national convention at
S;onx Falls nominated W. J. Bryan for
president, Charles A Towne Tor vice.
president.
BEFORE leaving Kroonstaad, President
Steyn issued proclamation making
Lindlev the seat OF government OF
Orange Free State.
Niddle.of.the. Road Populist conven'
tion at Cincinnati, nominated Wharton
p. Barker for president and lgnatlns
Donnely for vice.president.
The work OF the Chicago city d.
rectory enumerators for 1900, almost
completed, shows that the population
of Chicago is not less than 2,oOl 1000.
Seven men were killed and 20 OF
more firemen hurt by a collision III
tunnel in Philadelphia. The wreck
caught fire, and the total loss is xl4o''
900.
Owing to the alarm being taken in
America over the influx OF Japanese
and the probability OF anti-Japanese
LEGISLATION, the Japanese government Is
| making eHO1tb W iu4A V'1C Va - ~ ~
surplus population to Formosa.
The cholera continues to rage in the
famine camps OF India. There have
been 400 deaths in three days at Man.
dive So numerous are the cases at
Cobra that it is impossible to collect
the bodies, which lie for days in the
sun. The people have fed and cannot
be induced to return. A similar state
of things prevails at Breach.
Plague has broken out at Hong Kong.
Ira Williams. a logger, was drowned
in the Necanicum river, near Astoria
The government OF the Orange Free
=, to Heilbron.
Republicans of Illinois in convention
assembled, Endorsed the Mckinley ad.
ministration.
Two men and two boys were killed
by the wrecking OF Il fruit train, near
Rawlins, Wyo.
Excessive customs duties imposed by
the military government are fast kill
ing American trade in the Philippines.
| The First and Second Irish Fusiliers
sailed from Cape Town for Athlone,
Ireland. to recuperate from their try.
ing experiences in the field.
Captain Cushing, OF the revenue cut.
ter Rush, which has sailed for the Arc.
tic, will take census of the inhab bit.
ants OF the Aleutian islands.
President Powell, OF the Order OF
Railway Telegraphers. issued an order
formally disseminating the strike OF
the Southern railway telegraphers.
During riot between strikers and
workmen at the Buttonwood mine OF
the Parish Coal Company at Wilkes
barre, Pa, about 20 men were badly
injured, the strikers dispensing the
workmen.
The British iron ship Sierra Nevada,
Captain Scott, from Liverpool, Janu.
AIRY l6, for Melbourne, Aus, was total
ly wrecked outside the harbor of the
latter place. Five of her crew were
saved, but 90 others, including the cap.
tain, persisted.
One hundred and ffty.seven japanese
immigrants have landed in San Fran.
cisco, OF which number IS were admit
ted by certificates of landing signed by
the United States immigration com.
missioner at Vancouver, b. c., and 80
on certificates from the commissioner
at Seattle.
Franklin W. Fisk, D. D., whose res.
ignation after Al years incumbency Of
the Office Of president of the Chicago
Theological seminary. takes effect at
the close OF the current year, has been
elected professor emeritus of the chair
OF sacred rhetoric of the institution.
The election is for life.
The secretary Of the treasury has di.
rected Collector jackson, at San Fran.
cisco. to detail an inspector from the
Chinese bureau to attend to the making
out OF papers for Chinese merchants
doimciled in this country who are on
the eve OF departing for China with the
intention OF returning. They will have
these papers on their return to this
country to facilitate their landing.