Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-04-12
LATER NEWS.

LATER NEWS.
| Emily Coyhlan, the actress, died at
STAIN ford, Conn, aged 36 years.
Half the village OF Proctorville. Ohio.
was destroyed by fire. Loss 100000.
A German scientist has invented a
compound which melts iron in five
seconds.
Beers in Natal are becoming active,
and an engagement with Butler Is inn
minent.
The German flag has been raised over
the Samoan islands of Upolu, ManonO,
Apolima and Saru.
Captain John Goldman, the famous
advocate of free ships and free trade, il
dead at Boston, aged So.
The statue of Maud Adams will not
be admitted to the Paris exposition be-
cause it is a personal exhibit.
At Pittsburg, Pa. u big eight.story
department store was destroyed by fire,
causing a loss of over 81, 200, 900.
Another brother of President Steyn.
of Orange Free State, was captured at
Karee Siding, and is now at Bloem-
fontein.
The squadron OF the United States
navy, recently formed in Chinese
waters, is to have it's headquarters at
Hong Kong.
Forty people lost their lives at Austin,
Texas, due to an overflow of the Col.
orado river. Property destroyed ex-
ceeds 100000
Walter Il. Groffe, the defaulting
cashier OF the Adams Express Company
at Dayton, Ohio, who left the city
October last, taking with him 81. 600
OF the corporations money, has been
arrested in San Francisco.
The sitution in Ashactee is unchang.
ed. A Coomassie runner reports that
all the Ashantee tribes are in arms, the
king of Bekwal alone remaining loyal.
1t is believed that the Ashantee golden
stool has been found and that the rising
il due to the endeavor of the governor
of the colony. Sir Frederic Mitchell
Hodgson, to take possession OF it.
The American Plate Mirror Company
was chartered at Harrisburg, Pa, with
a capital OF $50, 100000 This com.
pany is composed of well-known plate
glass men, ana is looked upon as the
beginning OF determined move on the
part OF the American plate-glass men
TO wrest the trade in this country for
plate mirrors from foreign manu-.
| facturers.
Senator Tillman, from the committee
on mines and mining, reported the
bill providing for the utilization of n
part of the proceeds Of the sales OF pub
lie lands in support of schools for min.
ing in the public land states. 1t pro-
vides for the appropriation of $4,000
annually for the present in each case
and the gradual increase of the amount
to $50, 900.
The Republicans elected 10 out of 35
aldermen in Chicago.
Admiral Dewey has announced him
self as a candidate for president.
Genreal French has given up his
chase after the retreating Beers.
Boston is agitating the question Of
prohibition OF ringing church bells.
The United States building at the
Paris exposition will be closed on Sun
days.
| Queen Victoria landed at Dublin.
| Ireland, her first visit to the island in
80 years.
A temperance movement has been
inaugurated in Mexico, owing to the
| increase OF drunkenness.
Admiral Dewey's collection OF curios
and trophies, at his request, will he
placed in the Smithsonian Institute.
Turkish tower at the Paris exposition
obstrncts the view OF the United States
building and Commissioner Peck has
protested against it.
The Vanderbilts and Morgans now
have plans almost perfected which
will give them absolut to control of the
coal supply OF America.
Forty.four young men of Thurston,
Or, have petitioned the military board
for the organization of company of
the National Guard at that place.
The mammoth auditorium in which
the Democratic National convention
was to have been held on July 4, was
burned to the ground, entailing a loss
OF $3.50, 900.
At Logansport, Ind, $50 masked
men blew up two bridges and burned
two toll houses on the Logansport and
Bur lington pike at midnight. The
road is the only pike in the county,
and protests have been directed against
high toll and the alleged bad condition
of the pike.
Michael j. Dady. the Brooklyn con-
tractor who obtained from the Spanish
city government OF Havana $l2, 000,.
600 contract for sewering and paving.
has received letter from Governor.
General Wood. informing him that his
plans for the construction of sewers and
| the having ot the CITY of Havana are