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


uela has been nipped in the bud.
Millions in war munitions were i'm.
ported through Dclagoa bay by the
Beers.
A Boer patrol, installing signals,
was badly cut up by hot fire from a
British kopje.
The headquarters of Generals White
and Hunter was smashed by a shot
from "Long Tom"
Despite reports to the contrary, Web.
ster Davis is to be retained as assistant
secretary of the interior.
The steamer Townsend, plying be.
tween Seattle and Alaskan points, is a
total loss near Haine's Mission.
Montagu White will be received as
the consular and diplomatic represent.
alive Of the South African republic.
Secretary Root has issued an order
appointing a complete new board OF
ordnance, with the exception of Gen.
eral Miles.
Governor Gage will call an extra ses-
sion of the California legislature. A
United States senator will probably
be elected.
Captain l. Friedman, who died in
San Francisco recently, left three.quar'
tiers of his fortune, amounting to $780,.
600, to charity.
The new ships now being built for
the Oceanic Steamship Company will
be without peers in the Pacific, and
will greatly improve the service.
Matt Histrom, who killed Luke
Mooers, the Clatsop county logger,
was adjudged insane. The evidence
showed the insanity to he hereditary
The overdue City of Seattle, has beer
reported from juneau, where she was
lowed by the Cottage City. The
Seattle's delay was caused by the
breaking of her propeller.
The transport Pennsylvania which
sails from San Francisco, will carry
funds for paying off the United States
troops now in the Philippines. About
81, 25O,OOO will be taken.
The captain and crew of "a OF the
British steamer Sutton, which went
ashore on Fenwick shoals, in Delaware
bay, have arrived in Philadelphia. 1t
is believed the Sutton will prove a
total loss.
In the senate Petti9rew offered a
resolution calling OH the president to
send the senate the report OF General
Bates relating to the treaty with the
sultan of Sulu. Among other things
the resolution asks whether the sultan
and his officials are under the civil SER
vice.
Tho cou, sing of rabbits was stopped
in Chicago by humane officers.
Mines at johannesburg have made
impregnable that city from an attack.
ing force.
Methodist missionaries will begin
active work in the Philippines to con.
vert the Tagals.
Count Boni de Castellane says he is
going to use his cane on the editor of
the Paris Figaro.
The pope warmly praises the work OF
an endowment for Catholic univer-
sity at Washington.
The Duke OF Teck is dead at London.
He died from pneumonia after an ill.
ness of several days.
The sugar war is to be continued on
the same lines as heretofore, and no
settlement is in sight.
At Butte, Mont, Dominick Massa, a
painter, mounted ladder to paint
building. He grabbed a live wire and
fell dead.
Colonel George NJ. Randall and Col.
onel James Bell. have been named by
the president for promotion to the rank
of brigadier.general.
Half a million dollars is the esti.
mated cost of repairing the Olympia
according to the report of the naval
construction board. The work will be
done ut the Boston navy -yard, and will
occupy about year.
According to the New York Herald's
Washington correspondent there is an
excellent prospect that the Nicaragua
canal bill will go through this session
without waiting for the report OF the
Walker commission.
Mrs. Annie Ellsworth Smith is dead
at New York. She sent the first tele.
graphic message, "What hath God
wrought" from the United States su.
preme court room, Washington, to Bal.
timore.
Two negroes were shot to death and
two white men desperately wounded as
the result Of an attempt to arrest a ne.
gro murderer at Macon, Ga. j. II.
Butler, colored, il the man who did
most OF the shooting, and who wac
himself shot to death.
Berlin, Germany, is to construct an
underground railway costing $25, OOO,.
600.
Twenty.three years ago Senator Tel
Ter entered the senate. Only three
senators who saw him sworn in are
still his MISREPRESENTATION of Iowa,
Cockrell OF Missouri, and Jones of Ne.
vada. In the intervening % years
over hundred senators have died.
But Mr.. Teller, although nearly three
score and ten, is still strong and Wig.