Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-07-19
LA,ER NEWS.

An all day fight between the Beers
and British ut Platkop resulted indeci.
sively.
The Russian minister at Pekin 10
said to have been boiled 70 death by
Boxers.
Nine houses were entirely consumed
and many others damaged by fire At
Dunsmuir, Cal.
A German paper says the seizure OF
Kiao Chou has caused the present trou-
BILE with China.
Fire at Durant. I. T., wiped out the
greater portion Of the town, causing u
loss Of 100000.
All foreigners have been removed
h0m the town of Wa Chou. China. and
are safe at Shanghai.
United States Senator John II. Gear,
Of Iowa, died at Washington City Of
heart disease, aged IS years.
A large part of the bu siness district
Of Prescott. Arizona. were burned,
causing loss Of $l,OO0,O0O.
The steamer City of Topeka arrived
at Seattle fiom Lynn canal with I've.
tween $3.50, 900 aud 81 200, 900 in gold
dust from klondike.
Twenty square miles of forests were
blurred by n fire started by firecracke1
near Grub Gulch, Cal. The loss will
be hundreds of thousands.
General rain has fallen over nearly
all India during the past few days and
the prospects are that crops have i'm.
mense.y improved. The famine area
has generally been benefited.
Eight-hour shifts for all underground
men ut the United Verde mine and al
increase Of Is per cent in wages for
miners in certain portions of the mine
were announced ut Jel ONE. Ariz.
Advices were received from Sydney
that tribal wars are raging at the Solo.
mon group There has been fierce
battle between the Marian (Boys) and
Nlalata tribes. The losses on each side
were heavy.
Dynamite was exploded under
Transit car in North st. Louis, and
four passengers were injured. A SUI
burban car. the only union line in the
city. accidentlv ran into strikers
illus wagon and injured ~ occupants,
two seriously.
Judge Thomas Aver, o. the uAited
States court of appeals at St. Louis,
has handed down IN opinion declaring
that John r. Reese, the Iowa Miners
Union official who was sentenced to
imprisonment in Kansas for violation
Of u strike injunction, was illegally
restrained of his liberty, and granted n
writ OF habeas corpus releasing him.
Judge Aver ruled that the lower court
erred in incluing Reese under the in.
junction.
William Ahles, an old resident OF
Tacoma, committed suicide.
Rich gold strikes have been made ON
the Koyukuk. some claims staked out
yielding 81 to the pan.
Robbers held up an Illinois Central
train hear Paducah, KY, blew up the
express car and secured $4,000.
The empress dowager has ordered
the suppression of the Boxers and the
protection of the legations At Pekin.
A Pullman car WAS turned upside
down near Redding. CAL, the nine oc.
cupants were all more or less injured,
but none fatally.
Thirty.six bodies, horribly distig
ured, have been recovered from the
hull of the steamship saale. recently
burned at lloboken, n. j.
County Commissioner Campbell, al
spokane county, WASH, WAS killed by
Al o. r. & n. passenger train near
Latah, Idaho. lie WAS crossing the
track in buggy.
A food OF gold is pouring in from
Alaska. The receipts Of the govern.
ment assay Office at Seattle in the fis.
cal year were 3.630,326. This
months receipts may exceed $6.0OO,.
coo.
The Chinese government Ia sorry foY
the recent outbreaks, but holds the
powers blamable. The empress dow
ager says the attacks on Tien Tsin were
the result of the Commandment of Tien
Tsin.
Savages of the Caroline islands at.
tackled . shipwrecked British crew,
seriously wounding two Of the British,
and were only driven on when NJ
American cattle dealer came to the
rescue of the British.
Or the Baltimore Il Ohio railroad.
deliberate attempt to wreck the
Washington express, hearing $1,000.
600 in gold to the subtrsssury in New
York. came very near being successful
1T Folsom, . short distance outside OF
Philadelphia.
The general freight agents OF leading
Western roads have formed an arrange.
ment for the pooling Of business. Joint
agencies are to be ssts blishsd At Kan.
sas City. Omaha and 81. Paul. A
joint agent will 10 placed IN charge OF
the traffic vt each Of these cities.
Colombian Ievolutionists, under Gen.
eral Juan b. Gonzales and Simon
Chaux, have captured the city OF i'opa.
van, = capital of the department OF
Cauca, On the march to rOpavan the