Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-05-31
LATER NEWS.

All the British armies are converging
An Johannesburg, and u big battle is
imminent.
Dick Croker says he believes Bryan
will beat Mckinley. lie does not con-
si,ler Dewey Gin it,"
The steamers Geo. w. Elder ana
Nome City sailed from Portland tor
Cape Nome with $50 passengers and
large quantities OF freight.
The secretary of war has awarded
the contract for the construction OF
breakwater ut San Pedro. CAL, to the
California Construction Company, ut
its bid OF $2,375, 900.
Arthur Rehan, brother Of Miss Ada
Rehnn and Mrs. Oliver Doud Byron.
died in Brooklyn, aged 3s years. lie
had managed many OF Aueustln DAYS
theatrical road companies.
Timothy D. Blackstone, formerly
president of the Chicago q Alton rail-
road. and one of the Oldest and most
prominent railroad officers III Chicago,
died suddenly at his residence III that
city.
Captain Page Mccarthy, one OF the
principals in the famous Mccarthy
Mortleci duel, is dead the result OF
long illness. The duel, which took
place at Richmond, Va, in the spring
of 1873, was one OF the most celebrated
since the civil war.
General Wade, who was directed to
moceed to the Northern Cheyenne In
dian agency, at Tongue river. Mont
and investigate the reports that the III.
dams had the "Nlessiah" craze, and
intended to rise against the whites.
has telegraphed the acknowledgement
that he could find no reason to antlcl-
pate trouble. lie says the Indians are
in bad condition, but peaceable and
we'll disposed.
commissioner Hermann, OF the gem
eral land Office, has issued an order Ill.
structing superintendents OF forest re-
serves throughout the West to plant
suitable saplings and trees where por-
lions of the forests have been destroyed
by fire. lie is also making arrange
ments for the establishment OF tele-
phone system, which is to connect all
the forest stations in certain districts
so that in the future in case OF tire
help may he summoned Immediately.
Collector of Internal Revenue Lynch
is making preparations to establish an
office in Honolulu, the Hawaiian
islands having he~l added to the Dis.
! A.:r x>f N..I; nj q.
nue. laws go into effect in Hawaii on
June II. All deputies at the Honolulu
office will be selected from citizens OF
Hawaii. The stocks OF beer. wines,
liquors, opium, cigars and tobacco now
in the islands will he inspected and i'll.
ventoried. After June Il goods from
the United States must be stamped be-
fore being sent to the islands.
Eight hundred Beers surrendered at
Vrybury, north of Kimberley.
Plague in Honolulu has been effect.
single s ssss If as "n atvsn not recording
Recent injunction decisions have
stirred up the labor unions. and they
urge concerted action.
The auditor OF the war department
finds it big task to straishten out the
Cuban and Puerto Rican finances.
Twenty-Five miners, 10 whites and IL
| Negroes, lost their lives in an explO.
sion in coal mine near Raleigh y. G.
At Pueblo, Col, negro fiend who
had ravished and murdered two girls in
an orphan home, was lynched by u
mob.
Grand Chief Arthur, of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers. was re-
elected at the convention at Milwaukee,
Wis.
General Warren occupied Douglas
after heavy fighting and without sus-
tanning any loss. The Beers have re.
treated to the north.
The will of the late benjamin II.
| Howell the sugar merchant, OF New
York, disposes OF an estate valued at
81, 500, 900. and gives $l5, 200 to Brook.
Ign charities.
The Methodist general conference at
Chicago, after considerable discussion,
voted to abolish the time limit on pas
torates. The result OF the vote was re.
ceived with great applause.
Another note regarding the Ameri.
can indemnity claim has been handed
to the sultan's envoy, Teroiik Pasha.
1t is couched in more precise terms. in.
sisting Oh prompt settlement.
Considerable California capital has
been invested in an extensive mining
enterprise in Siberia and Manchuria.
Concessions for large tracts OF land
have been obtained from the Russian
and Chinese governments, and the work
OF development will soon begin.
At the Kansas Democratic conven-
ton, at Wichita. to elect delegates to
the national convention. in his opening
prayer, Rev. Dubber set the delegates
wild by the praying of the nomination
and triumphant election of Bryan.
The applause lasted several minutes.
The water OF large lake near the
town of Zapotalan, Mexico, disap.
peared in great fissure III the earth,
produced by an earthquake. The bed
OF the former lake is now dry, and the