Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-01-04
EVENTS OF TIE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
rERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Iuterestins Collection 81 ltems Frons
the Two Hemispheres Presented
e Condensed Form.
Over 500 British prisoners captured
at Stormberg have reached Pretoria.

Over 500 British prisoners captured
at Stormberg have reached Pretoria.
Butler has destroyed the Colenso
footbridge, and makes no further at.
tempt to advance.
Armour's canning department, Chi
cage, is rushed night and day filling
orders for the English army.
A drunken wife in San Francisco has
charged her husband with murder and
he is being held by the authorities.
The currency bill, according to a
Washington correspondent, will be
rushed through the senate without
amendment.
The Great Northern will inaugurate
new departure. A large block of the
company's stock is to be distributed
among the employees at par.
1t is said that England had been
warned by General Butler, whom she is
now turning down. that it would not
be wise to attack the Beers until bet.
ter prepared.
Should all Spanish war pensions now
asked be allowed, it would cost g..
725, 900. The Seventy first New Yorks
asks for annual allowances which az
gregate $34, 1852.
Yaqui Indians plumber, kill and burn
villages and the Mexicans do not seem
to make much Roadway in whipping
the savages. An entire Mexican regi-
ment seems to have Disappeared.
The Fenians are organizing at Buffa-
10, N. Y, for an invasion of Canada.
They expect, it ia said, to raise 25, 600
men, and have two carloads of arms
and munitions Of war in concealment.
There il disaffection among the Free
Slater troops. They complain that
Cronje's men are overbearing and bet.
ter fed than they. The Transvaaler's
are suspicious and the situation is be.
coming grave.
The president Of the New York
prison association, who has made an
investigation OF the Cuban prisons tells
horrible tale OF the conditions there.
Offenders OF all classes sleep in filth
and vermin. No beds or clean clothing
is provided. Money or influence is
necessary before they can secure their
| freedom.
The members of the senate committee
on privileges and elections declare
they will carry on the investigation OF
Senator Clark's case without regard to
the decision of the Montana supreme
court under which Welcome was dis.
barred from practice on charges of brib.
cry in connection with the senator's
election.
The United States cruiser Mont.
gomery has been on Il secret mission
and the American flag may soon float
over Liberia. The little country has
long desired an American protectorate
and it may now be given. Mason OF
Illinois will introduce resolution OF
inquiry in the senate, asking the pur-
pose for which the Montgomery was
sent to Liberian waters.
The Changers warehouse at Rose
burg, Or, was destroyed by fire; loss,
$4,000, fully insured.
A six-story building, 80 years old.
was destroyed by fire in New York, en-
failing loss of $50, 900.
At San Francisco the Carlisle In.
dams defeated the university OF Cali
| fornia in football game; score, to 0.
Julius Baldwin is dead at his homo
at The Dalles. He was one of the old.
est and most prominent pioneers Of the
Northwest.
Thirty men persisted in colliery
horror caused by fire damp explosion
at the Braznell mine, near Browns
Vile, Pa.
Laurier's French. Canadian following
is protesting against Canada sending
any more troops to help England in
South Africa.
Mrs. Potter Palmer will be appointed
by President Mckinley director of the
American woman's department at the
Paris exposition.
The state department will investigate
the action OF the British government
in SEEING several cargoes of American
flour off Delagoa bay.
The trainwreck near Pomona, Cal.
in which one life was lost and four
were injured, was caused by the break
ing of u locomotive wheel.
At Rome the pope solemnly inaugu
rated the holy year by performing the
impressive ceremony of opening the
holy door OF st. Peters cathedral.
The charred remains of W. j
Thomas, u farmer, and his three chill
dren, were found in the ashes OF theil
home, II miles southwest of Chilli
cothe, Kan. 1t is supposed that Thoma'
murdered the children and then set firt
to the house and took his own life
About year ago Thomas wife com
mitted suicide by taking poison.
Admiral and Mrs. Dewey have taker
a pew in st. Paul's Roman Catholic
church, Washington.
The entire crop of sugarcane and beet
for l899.l9O0 will amount to about g.
| ono 600 tons-abOut the same amOun1