Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-01-11
EVENTS OF TIE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
rERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection Of Items Fron
the Two Hemisphere Presented
- Condensed Form.

Colonel Pitcher won in skirmish
with the Beers near the scene of Me.
thuen's defeat.
The gold yield for 1899 in New South
Wales was 500, 41S ounces, an increase
of 1853, 925 ounces over 1898.
The battleship Wisconsin will have
the heaviest battery in the navy. The
boat will have her trial trip soon.
South Dakota Christian Scientists
are opposed to vaccination and will
take the question into the courts.
Twenty-Five thousand Pittsburg la.
borers were advanced from to 10 per
cent and in some cases even greater
percentage.
In St. Louis the electric lights in
parks, public buildings and alleys are
turned off because a contract has not
been renewed.
A German steamship company re-.
fused to take back contract.labor emf
grants and the captain was arrested at
y Texas port.
Booker T. Washington, the promi.
nent colored man, says the Negroes
only salvation ia to make himself use.
full and keep pace with the times.
At Colesburg General French was
opposed by from 5000 to 1000 Beers.
The British losses were slight, while
Beers are said to have lost heavily.
A horrible murder occurred near
Rosser, Ala. A woman was cut to
pieces and the remains were partially
burned. An old negress is suspected.
Secretary Hay announces that favor
able replies have been received from
England, Germany, France, Russia
and Japan to an open door policy in
China.
Secretary Root has taken measures
TO break the corner in hemp. He has
had many complaints and has instructed
Otis to open Southern Luzon ports
soon.
Senator IIarrell, of Kentucky, says
Whallen tried to buy his vote against
Goebel. Harrell wanted 50, 900, but re-
ceived only 1900 and now charges
bribery.
Secretary Root has directed the es-
tablishment of government line OF
steamships connecting San Francisco,
Honolulu and Manila, similar to that
running between New York, Cuba and
Porto Rico points.
The last link in the great waterway
connecting the great lakes with the
gulf has been completed. Water has
been turned into Chicago's big canal.
which took seven years to build, at a
cost of $33, 200, 900. The primary pur.
pose is to drain Chicago, but its posi-.
bilities are great.
A railroad boom has struck Hawaii.
Six inches of snow fell at Macon,
Ga.
Bechuanaland farmers are helping
the Beers.
Beers fired plum pudding at Lady.
smith garrison.
Oregon woolgrowers expect to get 20
cents for their 1900 crop.
Vigilance OF Americans prevented q
projected uprising in Manila.
At New York Kid Mccoy knocked
out Peter Maher in five rounds.
Idaho produced $4,000 600 in gold
and $6, 1913, 900 in silver last year.
France and England may have
trouble over Newfoundland fisheries.
The United States may buy the
Danish West Indies for 81, OOO,O
Ohio Irishmen offer sympathy.
money, arms and soldiers to the Beers.
Nicholas, car OF Russia, has again
issued all appeal for peace to the
powers of the world.
Multnomah's football team defeated
Stanford universities eleven at Port
land; score, IL to g..
billiard +. johnson, u Waterfront
reporter in San Francisco, was
drowned in bathtub.
Government officials say the cruiser
Montgomery was sent to Liberia to
give the Black Republic assurance OF
protection.
More miles of new railroad have
been built during 1899 than in any
previous year since 1890, when 500
miles OF line were completed. Since
January l, 1899, no less than 1850
miles OF track have been laid in the
United States on 3l2 lines in IA states
aud territories.
The torpedo.boat destroyer Colds
borough, built by Portland, Or,
firm, ON her second contractors trial
covered eight miles in Is minutes,
which is ut the rate of 80 miles an
hour, against q 2ls.knot current.
Steam was made without effort, and
not a bearing was heated. The run
was made in the Columbia river, near
Kalama.
Mrs. Ezra Shoupe. near Saltillo, Pa,
had lively fight with big buck,
which she first wounded with rifle
and then dispatched with knife.
The Russian government has ordered
all the rivers OF the empire surveyed
with view to connecting all the i'm.
portant streams with canals.
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