Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-04-19
EVENTS OF TIE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Intereating Collection Of Items From
tho Two Hemispheres Presented
in = Condensed Form.


The Hague peace treaties we've rati.
fled by President Mckinley.
Commodore William X. Mayo, died
at his home in Washington, aged IS
years.
General Lee has been appointed to
command the new department OF
Havana and Pinard de Rio.
Nicaragua has landed troops in
Columbian territory. The nature OF
the movement is not understood.
A .year.old child was scalded to
death bv falling into tub OF hot water
and I've, near Ashland, Or.
Indians attempted to rescue the
murderers of MIR. and Mrs. Bert Horton,
but were driven off by Skayway troops.
The United States government denies
the report that it has joined with other
powers in threatening to land troops in
China.
A vote on the resolution relative to
the seating of NJ. 5. Quay as senator
from Pennsylvania, will be taken Oh
April "a.
Thomas H. Tongue was renominated
for congressman flOm the Second dis.
trict on the first ballot ut McNlinn.
Vile, Or.
Texas and louisiana, to guard against
bubonic plague, may establish quar-
antine against Cinnamon coming from
California.
An inventor OF thorite has announced
his willingness to sell the government
the right to manufacture the explosive
for $3.50, 200.
The British bark Iranian, which
sailed from New York, November 25,
for Yokohama, has been wrecked on
the Japanese coast.
The Building Trades Assembly, OF
Houston, Texas, has ordered a general
strike in sympathy with the carpenters,
causing 800 men to walk out.
Two negro murderers were executed
at Sunmerville, Texas. When sem
fenced both asked for deck of cards,
and declined the offer of Bible.
A minister of Ballard, CAL, near
Santa Barbara, committed suicide by
blowing the top of his head off with a
shotgun. Temporary insanity was the
cause.
! Former Congressman. mn ChaK Eaa AL i:
nounced himself as a candidate for the
e.presidential nomination OH the
Democratic ticket.
The contract for carrying the Aus
tralian and English closed mails across
the Pacific has been awarded by the
United States government to the
Oceanic Steamship Company for 10
years at a rate OF ~ per mile.
Webster Davis addressed an immense
pro-Boer audience in Washington.
Cubans have confidence in General
Gomez and entreat him not to leave the
island.
The Edward 7. Smith box factory
at New York, was destroyed by fire;
loss, @.0O,OuU.
Ex-Governor Pattison. OF Pennsyl.
vania, is wanted for vlce.president on
the Democratic ticket.
Beers claim to have captured III guns
at Bloemfontein waterworks, instead
OF seven, as first reported.
Building tradesmen in indianapolis
have returned to work. their employers
conceding to their demands.
Generals in the Philippines are call.
ing for more troops. They cannot hold
the rebels down with the present force.
The 65th anniversary OF the birth OF
King Leopold. OF Belgium, was appro-
priately celebrated throughout the
kingdom.
The British North American and
West Indies squadron is to he increased
by one battleship. two cruisers and
several torpedo boats.
The body of an unknown young man
was found in the Willamette river near
Oregon City. with his head entanglel
in fish net. 1t is Il case OF deliberate
suicide.
The United States supreme court de.
cided the case OF Grundling w. the city
of Chicago. involving the validity of
the anti.cigarette ordinance of that
city. The ordinance was attacked as
unconstitutional. The opinion OF Jus.
tice Peckham held the ordinance not
to be unconstitutional.
In his address at the memorial ser.
vices held in memory of the late DIR.
Isaac NJ. Wise, at Isaiah temple. DR..
Emil G. Hirsch made an appeal to the
Jewish people OF Chicago to raise $780,.
600, which is the amount yet required
to lift the debt on the Jewish Union
College, in Cincinnati. BY SO doing.
DR.. Hirsch said, the great work which
was begun by DR.. Wise, and carried
forward by him under difficulties,
could be fully accomplished.
Great Britain's naval estimates
amount to $50, 10000
Buffalo Bill says 10000 Mormons
from Salt Lake will found city in
Wyoming.
Steamer Prairie. with American ex.