Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-12-13
tV[hT5 Of Till DAY
IN Interesting Collection Of Items From the
Two Hemisphere Presented ina
Condensed Form.

Consul. General Stowe says the Boer
war is nearly ended.
Kruger's mission to Europe was frus.
trated by the Kaiser.
Nine men we're killed in a train
wreck near Suisun, Cal.
The lsthmian canal commission
recommends the Nicaragua route.
Senator Fairbanks, OF Indiana, in.
troduced bill to admit Oklahoma as a
state, with two repi esentatives.
A report comes from Queen Charlotte
island that the Indians there are short
Of food. Their wants will he attended
to.
1t is reasserted in Tien Tsin that the
Germans lost 20 killed and many
wounded west of Pao Ting Flu. where
they were attacked by 1850 Boxers.
Congressman briggs introduced q
resolution in the house requiring the
secretary of war to investigate the
practice Of "hazing" at West Point.
Senator Pettigrew introduced reso.
luton in the senate calling upon the
postmaste general to send to the senate
any information he may have in his
possession concerning postal frauds In
Cuba.
Tang Wang Huang. author Of the
outrages upon the Pao Ting Flu mission.
aries, was paraded through the streets
of Tien Tsin in cart under strong
German guard, previous to being hand.
ell over to the provisional government
tor decapitation.
The state OF Louisiana established a
quarantine station at FL Paso, Texas,
to guard against the possible introduce.
tion OF bubonic plague into that state
from the far East by way of the Pacific
coast. The Louisiana health office
will work in conjunction with the
Texas inspectors.
Frank Hawley, an American electric
promoter, 10 now in London in the in.
terest OF an American syndicate. Mr..
Hawley says the capitalists he repre-.
sents are ready to spend no less than
$4,000, 900 in the construction OF cleo.
trio surface roads in London and to the
suburbs to radius OF 80 miles. Not
penny of British capital will be
dent that the undertaking will be q
financial success.
Major Wood, commanding the Cana.
dian mounted police in the Yukon ter.
ritory, who collects the royalties on
gold, reports the collections this year
on the Klondike output as amounting
to nearly $900,O00, about 500, 900
more than was received last year. Ten
per cent of the gold mined 10 supposed
to be paid to the government, which
would indicate the Klondike output for
the season to have been only $4,000.
600, but the general estimate has placed
it at nearly $50. 100000.
Salem, Or. reelected its reform mu.
nicipal officers.
The ship subsidy bill will displacs
tie Philippine bill.
Kruger wept at Emperor William 8
refusal to meet him.
Five men were killed by the blowing
up of q power house in Chicago.
The short session of the Fifty sixth
congress was successfully opened.
Colorado game wardens arrested 10
Mormons who had killed 80 deer.
Robbers blew up . Silverton, Or,
bank, but failed to get at the cash.
A strange woman 10 exciting the Pa.
pago Indians to be guided by their
dreams.
Congressman Lacey and Senator Tel.
Ter are in favor Of Offering homes to the
Beers.
Oscar l.. Booze, q West Point cadet,
is dying from the effects of burning
drink given him by hazers.
A drunken man was killed and his
body derailed heavy locomotive ON
the o. K. s. N, near Hood River, Ore.
gon.
Rev. William Howard Day, d. D.,
general secretary OF the A. NJ. Il. Sec.
ond church, did at Harrisburg, Pa,
aged IS years.
Rev. Patrick Feehan, archbishop OF
the Catholic archdiocese OF Chicago,
will retire from the active manage.
ment of his Office with the close OF the
present year.
General W. L. White, ex.quarter.
master.general Of the Michigan Ma.
tional guard, pleaded guilty to ompliv.
ity In state military clothing frauds,
and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
John Baines, q constable, was MUIR.
dered at Dallas, Tex. >, by burning. His
clothing had been saturated with tur.
pentine and ignited. Both eyes were
burned ont. John Chapman and Ed
Eau lkner, saloon keepers, were arrest.
ed, charged with the murder.
A correspondent of Santiago de Cuba
says the natives there are becoming
adopts in the American game OF base.
ball. Havana may yet bid for place
IN the National league.
A celebrated English physician says
that he has found that warts can be
cured by revaccinaton. He revacci.
mated girl OF Is who had 81 warts on