Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-10-18
EVENTS OF THE DAY

~ ANlO vi I'LL IN
Ar Interesting Collection Of Items From
the Two Hc,nispheres Presented
In - Condemned Form.
BRYAN concluded his tour Of Illinois.
Cecil Rhodes will re.enter politics.
The empress dowager is said to be
i'll.
Roberts will name his own success.
DOr.
Colville Indian reservation is opened
for settlement.
Roosevelt spoke to an immense audi.
ence in st. Louis.
Canada will sell crown mining
CLAIMS in klOndiEe.
General Brooke urges reorganization
of the army OH modern lines.
Conger has prepared II list Of Chinese
officials that should be punished.
Idaho Soldiers Home was destroyed
by fire. One inmate was sutfocated.
The American Bible Society fur.
uisles list OF missionaries killed by
Boxers.
General Macarthur reported to the
war department that the transport
Rosecrans and the transport Argyle
isvkt ttnr
g and NJ. Seventh artillery. Major g.
g. Greenough.
2. II. Gilhooley. counsel for the
Elizabethport, N. j.. Banking Conn
pany, announced that William Schlie-
Der, a missing clerk Of the bank, was a
defaulter to the amount of $4,000.
and that the bank directors had made
good the aomunt of the shortage.
Lord George Hamilton, secretary Of
state for India, has received the fol.
lowing from Lord Curzon: 1.-THE gen.
eral condition of crops ia excellent,
and except in pant of Bombay famine
conditions are disappearing. The to.
tai mum Der ON the relief list has fallen
to 2,746, O0O."
The American Bridge Company
closed a contract to furnish all of the
structural steel to be used IN the cree.
ton of a big arsenal at Kure, Japan.
The money value of the contract is be.
tween $25O,OOO and 100000. II
will require six months to furnish the
material, and it must be delivered at
kure within year.
Officials of the North German Lloyd
Steamship Company at New York City
have awarded contract for monu.
ment to be erected in plot owned by
the company in n cemetery in North
Hudson. in memory of the persons who
lost their lives in the great fire that
destroyed the piers and steamers OF the
company at Hoboken. on June 30 last.
Bryan made IA speeches in Southern
Illinois.
The Chinese court refuses to return
to Pekin.
France is anxious to annex Yunnan
province.
Russian troops may Withdraw from
Manchuria.
Cham berlain is mentioned as a pos.
sible successor of Salisbury.
The ministerial majority in the Brit.
lsh parliament will be from $50 to l00.
Trades Council orders strike on Seat.
ties buildings. Over 1000 men are
idle.
The Beers now occupy Wepner, a.
well rs Rockville and Ficksburg. in
Orange River colony. and the British
are attempting to surround them.
Five thousand pilgrims assembled at
the St. Nikandei monastery. in the
Porkhoff district. St. Petersburg, for
religious festival. During the night
one OF the upper floors collapsed and
many OF those sleeping there fell upon
those below. A panic was caused by a
false alarm Of fire. and four men and 80
women were crushed to death, many
others being seriously injured.
Arrangements for building 5000
railroad by the Pullman Com pany. at
Pullman, H.. has been completed.
The contract calls for 9. 500 box cars.
each with a capacity OF 100000 pounds.
and 500 HAT cars. The total cost OF the
rolling stock will be $l.S65,0O This
is the second large order for freight
equipment given by the Baltimore &
Ohio management within the last week.
The first order was for 5000 steel cars.
20 cost IS, 900. 900.
Having found the natives OF Tutuila
1t to serve as policemen and maintain
peace and order. Commander B. F.
Tilley believes they would make excel
lent soldiers to man the Notifications
of Pango Pango harbor. In private
letters to officers on duty he has indi'
Gated that they would make effective
artillerymen. To enlist regiment OIL
natives, it would be necessary to OBJ
tain special authority from congress
The natives who are acting as police
men were enlisted by Commander Til,
ley as landsmen. 1t is likely. how
ever, that force Of marines will be
permanently stationed at Pango Pango,
White hlackhurries and Creen rosos