Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-10-25

Ar Interesting Collection of Items From
the Two Hemisphercs Presented
in n Condensed Form.
Signal corps men were surprised By
Tagals in Neuva Ecija province.
Treasury Department may station n
Chinese interpreter Oh Puget sound.
Bryan spoke to packed house in
Madison Square garden, New York.
Queen Wilhelmina announces her
bethrothal to Duke Henry OF Mecklen.
burg.Schwer'n.
Andrew Carnegie has presented &c.
900 to the town Of Hawick, Roxbury.
county. Scotland, for public library.
Captain Il. E. Ewing, Of San Fran
cisco, manager OF the Welchbach
Lamp Company, committed suicide by
inhaling gas.
In the province Of Smolensk. Russia,
there is held every three months lot.
terry in husbands and wives. who are
chosen by the chance drawing OF lot
terry ticket.
Two men were killed and ono fatally
injured by the derailment of freight
train on the Chicago & A lton. ut Lawn
dale. Ill. The week WAS caused by
the removal of a rail by section gang
making repairs.
Fire in the lumber district o! Osh.
kosh, Wis, destroyed 100000 900 feet
OF lumber and part of the HOLSTER
Ames Company's mills aud the plant
of Challoner's Sons Company The to-.
tai loss amounts to $3OO,O00.
The United States transport Grant
has sailed from San Francisco for Ma.
Mia. On the vessel ar, o07 casuals and
recruits representing every regiment
of the regular service in China and the
Philippines. A large number Of hos.
pital corps men accompanied the sol.
diers.
An explosion OF rubber cement IN the
basement Of . four.story building in
Detroit. Mich, resulted in a lire which
cost the lives of two men and injured
eight persons. four of whom were
girls. The fire spread with such IA.
pidity that the employees were COMPEL.
Cd TO jump from the upper stories.
The Oregon Short Lines fast mail
was wrecked at Topaz, 80 miles east of
Pocatello, Idaho, by running into the
rear end of freight train standing on
tho main line. The engine Of the pas.
senger train rolled down the embank.
meut, and Engineer Reckman and Fire.
man George were badly injured. An
unknown tramp was killed and another
had his leg crushed.
Butler will return to England.
Germany accepts Frances proposal.
Immense field OF coal has been dis.
covered in Alaska.
Reformers defeated the imperial
army on East river.
The Beers are very active in the
Kroonstadt district.
Russians take the first step on the
right bank Of the Amur.
Lord Alverstone will be the new lord
chief justice of England.
Mexican troops arc having hard
campaign against Indians.
Captain Shields and his 81 men were
rescued from the Filipinos.
A milk com bine has been formed by
milkmen Of Vancouver, b. G.
Roosevelt concluded his Kentucky
tour with q speech in Covington.
The rebellion In Southern China is
anti.dynastic rather than anti. foreign.
Yellow fever is expected to increase
in Havana while sewers are being dug.
Fire ut Herrick, ILL.,. destroyed 10
business houses, causlng loss Of $780,.
900.
John F. Adams. a patient at the
Oregon insane asylum, hanged him.
self.
Lii Hung Chang expresses regret foE
recent occurrences and thanks Ameri.
cans.
Dewet proclaims that burghers who
refuse to fight will be made prisoners
OF war.
A case OF illness. suspected to be bu.
bonic plague. is reported at Stepney,
. parish suburb of London.
Records that fell into the hands oil
correspondents show that Chinese an.
thorities supported the Boxer move
ment.
A dispatch from Port Limon, Colon.
bia. says that serious fire broke ont
and that several prominent commercial
buildings were destroyed.
The sultan Of Turkey has leased te
Germany for 80 years the island oil
Uroan, in the Red sea. 40 miles north
Of Kamaran, for ooaling station.
Full returns a. to the wine harvest
throughout Germany for the year show
that 1t 10 more abundant and Of more
excellent quality than for several years
previous.
In Jeresy City. N. j.. a daughter
was born to the wife OF Bresci. the ~.