Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-06-28
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An 1nterestiMg Collection Of Items From
the Two Henisrheres Presented
In " Condensed Form.

Two thousand stand of arms have
been given up by the Beers at Pretoria.
The battle.ship Oregon and 5000
American troops will 60 to Taku at
once.
American ships took no part in the
bonn bardment and seizure Of the Chi.
nese forts at Taku.
A special session Of congress may be
called. The situation in the far East
seems to demand it.
Three of the forts at Taku were com.
pletely destroyed by the bombardment
from foreign ships, and the British yes.
selscaptured four Chinese torpedo boats.
Mrs. Beveridge. wife of United States
Senator Beveridge, Of Indiana, died in
sanitarium at Dansville, N. Y, Of
heart failure. She had been i'll several
months.
Half of the business portion Of the
city of Bloomington, ILL.,, including
five squares OF the finest business blocks
of the city and the court house, were
destroyed by fire, with losses estimated
at 81, 100000.
Negotiations for commercial treaty
with France have been satisfactorily
concluded by the Brazilian minister Of
foreign affairs at Rio Janeiro. France
will grant q reduction of 20 per cent
ON the duty on Brazilian coffee.
The Pacific Oil Works Company was
incorporated at Tacoma. WASH, with
capital Of $3.50, 900, to bore for oil in
. gulch, almost in the heart of the
city. Sample oil from outcropping in
dictate rich deposit. Work will he
prosecuted at once.
A dispatch from Lord Roberts sent
from Pretoria, June Is, gives an official
version of an attack on a British post
at Zand river, June Is, by 500 Beers,
with three guns. 1t says that General
Knox, with a mixed force. drove of tho
Beers, who left four dead and four pris-
oners OH the field. The British loss
was Major Seymour and two men killed
and nine wounded.
The French government will have
1900 troops at Taku when the rein.
forcements just ordered have arrived
there. They will reach 1aku before
June 80. The dispatch Of u cruiser
division, which was decided upon,
will give France strong naval force.
consisting of seven modern cruisers
three of the first.class and four Of the
second class-four 9unboats and a dis.
patch boat.
Chinese forts at Taku fired ON foreign
vessels, but were soon forced to sur.
render.
Russia has demanded OF China an in.
demnity of 5O,OOO.O0O taels for tho
damage done t. the railroad from Tien
Tsin to Pekin.
John Vass, one OF the best.known
mining experts on the Pacific Coast,
died of consumption at Baker City.
Or, aged 46 years.
Trouble is rife in the northern part
Of the Republic Of San Domingo. Many
arrests have been made, including lead.
ers of the former government party.
In consequence OF the gravity Of the
situation in China, England has order
ed the Seventh Bengal infantry at
Simla, India. to proceed to Hong Kong.
C. Pardee. aged SO years. brake.
man on the Southern Pacific train. who
lives in Ashland, Or, was killed at
Dunsmuir, CAL. by bein run over by y
train.
Information from Pekin. brought to
Shanghai by refugees. says that the
city is in state OF panic. lncendiary
fires are OF nightly occurrence, and
scores Of outrages are reported. Wo.
men and children from lien Tsin are
Touring into Shanghai. The chief
danger there is the fact that the native
town, behind the European settlement.
is full of bad characters, whose atti.
tude is becoming every day more inso.
lent and menacing.
At Needles. Cal, the federal quaran.
tine inspector has been prevented from
molesting passengers on Santa Fe trains
ut the state line and his authority is
ignorned by the railroad officials. Or.
ders have been issued to all conductors
to take up the pass OF the inspector,
Mr.. Jenkins, If presented, aud collect
his fare. Jenkins has wired to Surgeon
Keuyoun for instructions. The con.
ductors have also been ordered to give
the inspector no information.
S. j. MCGOWAN, superintendent OF
the Phoenix. Ariz., Indian Industrial
School, having been directed to inves.
tigxte the condition of the Pima ln.
dams on their reservation on the ella
river. 80 miles from Phoenix, who
were reported to he suffering from
famine. states that 5000 Pimas and
an equal numner OF Papagoes are in
great distress. Congress has appropri.
ated $33, 900 for the relief OF the In.
dams and rations will soon be distri.
buted.
The tobacco trust has established .
virtual boycott on independent dealers
doing business in New England.
Statistics OF the criminal population
NJ thu IJnit0d States shOwe that Onlv