Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-05-24
General Butler occupied Dundee.

General Butler occupied Dundee.
Senator Clark, OF Montana. has re.
signed.
President Steyn's brother captured
by General Butler.
Great rush is on from Dawson to gold
diggings of the Koyokuk.
There is no hope OF action by the sen.
ate on the Nicaragua canal bill this
session.
Germany is seizing Congo Free State
territory, and now occupies about 8, 900
square miles.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, introduced
bill making it a crime for railroads
to blacklist employees.
The United States court OF appeals
holds that a boycott is malicious inter.
ference with business.
London papers want to ostracise
Richard Croker in revenge for the posi-.
ton Tammany has taken in the Boer
war.
Democrats complain of Kansas City
hotel men. They object to paying five
dollars per day for bed in room with
four others.
President J. ]. Hill paid $4,000
for a Spokane -four mill in order to get
an entrance to the city for the Great
Northern.
Porto Rico and Hawaii will send
delegates to the Democratic national
convention. Each island will be &C.
corded six delegates.
The grandstand, famous glass betting
ring and all the buildings of the race.
track at Clifton, n. j., were entirely
destroyed by fire, with loss OF $780,.
600. The fire was the work of incen.
diaries.
Assistant Attorney General Boyd has
rendered decision in the case of ex.
press companies. in which he holds
they are not liable to taxes as brokers,
by reason OF their issuing money orders
and travellers checks.
An explosion OF a tank in the gaso.
line storehouse Of A. q. Wykoff, at
Raritan, n. Y, called ont the fire
engines. While the tiremen were at
work, a second tank exploded and its
flaming contents enveloped and fatally
burned two men.
Mrs. Leland Stanford, on the ami.
versary of her deceased sons birth, has
delivered over to Bishop Grace the
deed to the old stanford manson, which
shall henceforward he known as the
Stanford Lathrop Children's Home.
At the same time the $4,000 transfer
was made which is to serve as an en-
dowment fund for the institution.
Congress will adjourn about June 20.
Burglar ritied the postotiice and store
at jefferson, Or.
Butler has taken Beers stronghold
on the Biggarsberg.
The British were received at Kroon-
stad with open arms.
The minority report on the ship sub.
sidy bill is strongly against subsidy.
The governor of Missouri has offered
aid to the police in the st. Louis strike.
Nationalist won two.thirds of the
vacant seats in the Paris municipal gov.
ernment.
The Chicago & Rock Island railway
will probably build to Portland, Or.
Surveyors are now in the field
Dreyfus is in Paris and France is
worried. Officials will try to hurry
him away, owing to fear of demonstra.
tions.
Landing privileges at Manila are
held by an INSCRIPTIONS monopoly that
is accumula ing fortune and throt.
thing trade.
The number of cases OF bubonic
plague at Sydney, n. 5. W., officially
reported to this date is 2l6, OF which
IS proved fatal.
Chicago and other Mississippi valley
cities are expecting the hottest May
weather in years. There were four
prostrations in Chicago.
Joe Barker, found guilty OF man.
slaughter for the killing of Charles
Johnson, in Seattle, three months ago,
was sentenced to Is years imprison'
ment.
In the United States supreme court
at Boston, Charles II. Cole, former
president OF the now detunct Globe
National Bank, who recently pleaded
guilty on an indictment charging him
with misappropriation OF funds OF the
institution, WAS sentenced to serve eight
years in Greenfield.
Alec Whitney, aged rs, society
leader, was shot and killed on a street
car at Augusta, Ca, by negro in \
quarrel over a seat. The negro. Gus
Wilson, was taken of Georgia rail.
road passenger train at Harlem. rs
miles from Augusta. by a mob and
lynched. He was being taken to
Atlanta for safekeeping.
An American laundry plant has been
exported to China.
Over $1,000, 900 capital is invested
i ~ F.