Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-02-15
LAT Err NEWS.

place vt Coney Island about the middle
of May.
r. Daniel Trawley has made arrange
ments to take copmany OF actors to
Cape Nome.
An alliance, offensive and defensive,
has been contaminated between Eng
land and Portugal.
The English nation has settled down
to the realization that the war with
the Beers will last q long time.
Governor Taylor, of Kentucky, has
declined to sign the peace agreement
and the case will go to the courts.
A destructive fire visited the city OF
San Salvador, Central America. The
total loss is estimated at 81, 10000
The United States transport Colum.
bia arrived at San Francisco from
Manila. She made the trip in 30 days.
Three ballot.box suffers of Philadel.
phia were sentenced to imprisonment
for two years and to pay a fine OF $500
each.
A resolution expressing sympathy
with the Beers was adopted by the sen.
ate 1t was offered by Allen, OF
Nebraska.
Lord Roberts has addressed letter
to Presidents Kruger and Steyne, com.
planning of the wanton destruction OF
property in Natal.
Three children of ?. Darcy, living
near South Union, Wash, were poison
ed by drinking the water from an
abandoned we'll.
Six men were injured by an explosion
in the Columbia tirecracker works at
Fostoria, Ohio. A large part of the
factory was wrecked.
1t has been decided by the secretary
of the navy to appoint Commander
Seaton Schroeder to be tn. first naval
governor OF the Samoan island OF
Tutuila.
The house committee on military
affairs will investigate into the Idaho
mining riots at Wardner, which the
federal troops, under General Merriam,
suppressed.
In Chicago. 1000 workingmen who
have been engaged on buildings in
course OF construction, quit work 1t
is the beginning of Il war between labor
and the contractor.
The jury in the case of Roland b.
Molineaux, convicted of poisonin. Mrs.
Adams, returned verdict of guilty Of
murder in the first degree 1t is said
the trial has cost 5000, 900.
The Beers have taken Inkandla, a
Zululand magistracy. The magistrate
the night previous exploded the maya
zine, and, with his staff and police.
evacuated the place and proceeded to
Eshowe.
Lord Roberts and General Kitchener
have started for the front.
The insurgents have been driven out
OF Legaspi, province OF Albay.
Thousands viewed the remains of
Senator Goebel at Covington, Ken.
Affairs in Santo Domingo are in a
turbulent condition. lnsurrection is
breeding.
1t is said the dowager empress OF
China is afraid to depose the emperor
at present.
On account of the serious roadbed
washout on its Lewiston division, the
Northern Pacific will lose 100000.
The transports Pathan and Sherman
In
On board the Sherman are IS invalid
soldiers.
Fire at Little Rock, Ark, destroyed
property to the value of 1865, 900. The
J. 2. Quinn Dry Goods Company will
lose $l5O,O0O.
British troops crossed the Upper
Tugela river at Kolendrift with the OBJ
ject of storming the Boer positions, but
were driven back.
Three hundred Spanish prisoners re.
volted at the treatment they received
at the hands of Filipinos, dispersed
their captors and hold the fort.
The largest Office building in the
world is to be erected in New York
City, by the Alliance Realty Company.
1t will be 20 stories high and will cost
$4,OOO,OO0
President Ilavemeyer, OF the Ameri'
can Sugar Refining Company denies
that the leading retineries of the COM
pany were closed down as result OF
the loss of business.
Fish commissioners Of Oregon and
Washington have issued statement
that only citizens were granted licenses
and that false claims may have been
made in some instances.
The mortality in the city of BON.
bay, India, in one day was unprece.
dented. There was a total of 40S
deaths. The situation is aggravated by
the advent OF famine refugees.
Word has been received by the de.
partment OF Indian affairs and by the
police authorities OF fresh troubles
among the Indians OF Upper Laird, b.
G. Seven members of Scotch family
are said to have been murdered.
The Sunset Telephone Company OF
Oakland. CAL, has mortgaged to the
Old Colony Trust Company of Boston,
its entire possessions in California, Ne.