Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-04-26
LATER NEWS.
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The plant OF the ST. Louis Chronicle,
st. Louis, Mo-, was destroyed by fire.
Loss, $50, 200.
The loss to railroads by the recent
food in Mississippi will amount to
more than 81, 100000.
Plague is still rife in Manila, a foul
breeding place having been discovered
in the heart of the city.
Rev. Charles Beecher, brother of the
late Henry Ward Beecher, died at
Georgetown, Mas, aged "a year.
Efforts to stamp out the plague IN
Sydney, Autralia, have not been sue
cessful. The epidemic is spreading.
Bush fires are raging in Manitoba
and advices from Winnepeg state that
500 persons are in danger of losing
their lives.
Five men were killed ut Balmain
Australia, by being precipitaten to the
bottom OF an l,SOO-foot perpendicular
shaft of a mine.
A strange tale of crime has come to
light in the case of rich Colorado
miner, who is charged with the muir
der of four persons.
Ex.Congressman David q. Colson,
on trial at Frankfort, Ky for the MUIR
der of Lieutenant Scott and Lutbcr
Demaree last January is, has been ac-
quilted.
The total receipts of the Cuban treas
ury for the month of March, 1900, were
$l,678,68S The receipts for the cor
responding month of 1899 amounted to
$963, O33.
Queen Victoria reviewed the naval
and infantry brigades and the boys OF
the Royal Hibernian military school ut
Dublin. Two hundred Thousand people
witnessed the review.
At Atchison, Kan, Il reader of cheap
novels was given Is years in the peni.
Tertiary TO, arson. lie set fire to n
house in order to play the part of hero
by rescu;ng the family.
Adelbert Woiceth Bogdamowski and
Anton Rody, alias Anton Koschinowski,
who arrived in New York recently OH
the steamship Palatia, will be sent
back to their native country. The men
admit they were implicated in the
burglary of store in Lemberg,
Galicia, in which they got about TO-.
600 forms and seriously wounded the
proprietor Two of the men have been
arrested Oh the other side. The special
board of inquiry investigated the mat.
ter, and, upon the confession of the
men, it was decided to deport them.
Civil government for Puerto Rico
will be inaugurated May /.
The election in Louisiana resulted in
a sweeping victory tor the Democrats.
The Ameer of Afghanistan warns
England of Russian aggression OH In.
dia.
Harry F.. Allen, defaulting clerk OF
Denver county treasurer's office, was
arrested in San Francisco.
Canada will repeal the alien labor
Law which was aimed ut American
miners in the Atlin district.
Great battles have taken place be.
tween government troops and rebels in
the United States of Colombia.
Thirteen persons were drowned by
the capsizing OF n boat while crossing
the Rhine, near Bingen, Germany.
Work ON the dam at Croton Land.
ing. n. ", has been resumed, under
the protection of the state troops.
LORD Roberts sharply criticises the
London papers maintain there is moth
ing LETT for Butler but to resign.
Orders have been given to turn the
transports Tartar and Westminster
over to their owners. The government
has no longer any neei for their serv.
ices.
The will OF woman who died in
Topeka. Kas., recently. bequeaths the
greater part of fortune of $3.50, 600
for the founding OF the University of
Topeka.
Harry B. Wandell. city editor OF the
st. Louis Globe-Democrat, and his
sister, have fallen heir to an estate in
the Canary islands, valued at from
$40, ZOO, 900 to SEQ, 100000.
The Sultan OF Turkey for the third
time announces his intention to in.
crease duties per cent. The powers
will address another note to the porte
stating their objections to such an in.
crease.
A party of three scientists have
sailed from San Francisco to explore
the unknown portion of Northeastern
Siberia. One object of their trip will
be to determine whether or not the
American Indian is descended from
,Asiatic stock.
The mountain which overlooks the
town OF Klappi, in Bohemia. where q
landslide recently occurred, has under.
gone u seismic disturbance which Is
spreading throughout the entire prov.
ince. The heights of the Bohemia
middle range are moving and houses
aud churches lave collapsed in some
30 villages. Railway embankments
have been moved, streams diverted and
roads sunk.