Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-02-01
LATER NEWS.

The kaiser's birthday was celebrated
in the usual way throughout Germany.
Buffers army has ,etreated to the
south of the Tugela, with heavy losses.
Revolution in Venezuela, under the
leadership of Hernandez, is spreading.
Fire in Minneapolis destroyed four.
story brick building, causing loss OF
$l2O,O00.
1t was reported on good Transvaal
authority that Mafeking was relieved
on January %.
Edgar Oswald, q 6.year.old boy OF
Astoria, was run over by street car
and fatally injured.
The Bank of Deerfeld, Deerfield,
Wis, was robbed of about $4,000.
The vault was blown open b, dynamite.
Fire destroyed the works Of the Elec'
trio Improvement Company at San
Jose. CAL, entailing loss of 500, 600.
Samuel Gompers, in a conference
with President Mckinley, advocated
an eight.hour law for all government
work.
1t is said that Lord Roberts favored
leaving Ladysmith to its fate and
marching on Bloemfontein, capital OF
Orange Free State.
The surgeon general of the marine
hospital service has shipped to Homo
lulu 900 doses of halffkine prophylac'
tic, a plague serum.
Phil Armour Jr., son of the Chicago
millionaire, died suddenly near Santa
Barbara, Cal. Death was due to con.
gestion OF the lungs.
DR.. Leyds, diplomatic agent OF the
Transvaal, says the Beers do not need
to apply for mediation, as everything
was going splendidly.
Three masked men entered the fac.
tory OF DR.. Peter Fahrney & Son, at
Chicago, blew open the safe and escaped
with 81 200 in currency.
The senate committee on Puerto
Rico, has decided that the island shall
be known as Porto Rico, and not
Puerto Rico, as fixed by recent execu'
tive order.
The weather in the vicinity of Mel.
bourne, Australia, has broken all re-
cords for heat recently. On New
Years day five deaths occurred from
prostration. The thermometer stood at
ia in the shade, and 1855 in the sun.
Cowboys and miners in Southern
Arizona and New Mexico, have organ
lied and are preparing to invade the
state of Sonora, Mexico, to avenge the
murder of the six American pros.
pectors by Mexican soldiers under Cen
eral Torres. They will fight against
the Mexican troops for the independ-
ence of Sonora and the Yaqui nation.
Recent Dawson fire destroyed prop
erty worth $500, 200.
Bubonic plague has broken out at Ro.
sario, South America.
A race riot occurred at Goldberg,
Ala. One negro was killed.
In long article in Paris paper
Emile lola defends his fathers honor.
The Alaska mail service will be ex.
tended to Cape York the coming
spring.
The National prohibition convention
has been called to meet at Chicago,
June -.
The census of Puerto Rico Just com.
pleted shows total OF 957 900 innhab-
itants on the island.
Nelson and Rossland have estab-
lished smallpox quarantine against
Northern Washington and Idaho.
1t is said the pro-Boer meeting at
Washington was conducted almost
wholly by anti-expansion and anti-ad-
ministration men.
Nearly all the business buildings and
many frame dwellings at the mining
towns of Ward and Lafayette, Colo.
RADIO, were destroyed by fire.
William Kirk, first mate of the
American ship Clarence S. Bement,
was murderously assaulted in his cabin
while his vessel was at anchor in Port.
land. Or, harbor.
Chairman Lacey. of the house com.
mittee on public lands, said that it
will he impossible to pass general land
laws for Alaska at this session, owing
to opposition in the senate.
The North China Daily News pub
fishes an edict, signed by Emperor
Kwang Su, appointing as emperor in
his place Put Sing, the nine ear.old
son OF Prince Tuano. The new emperor
will ascend the throne January 81.
The senate committee will report
favorably on Senator Fosters Alaska
lighthouse bill, making an appropria.
ton Of $500, 900, to include q light.
house at Unamak pass, Foster agreeing
to reduction in the appropriation
from $500, 900.
Commander Richard Wainwright,
who was in command of the Gloucester
at the battle of Santiago, was presented
a sword of honor and silver service
by committee representing the citi.
zens of the District OF Columbia in the
Columbia theater, Washington.
General Otis reports to the war dc.
partment that the Western coast of the
island of Panay is now open for trade,
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