Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-02-08
LATER NEWS.


pressed.
The house passed the Indian app'o'
priation bill.
The transport Manuense has arrived
at San Francisco from Manila.
W. J. Bryan spoke to AN audience OF
1000 people at Chicopee. Mass.
Cardinal Gibbons commends congress
for its action in the Roberts case.
Nelson, of Minneapolis, lowered the
two.mile skating record of 5:5l to 5:33
William Stanley Hazeltine, the ma.
rine artist, is dead in Rome. aged 81
years.
A serious riot occurred in Porto Rice
during the parades of two political
parties.
Chicago des-unionists in the Fed
Grafton of Labor denounced Governor
Taylor, of Kentucky.
The president has issued proclama
ton fixing tariff Of duties and taxes
for the island of Guam.
The passengers and mail brought
from Honolulu by the steamer Austria
liza were released from quarantine.
The strike at Cramps shipyard.
which has been in progress since Au
gust, has been officially declared off.
VIM. Goebel, the contrasting COVER
nor OF Kentucky, is dead from the re-
suit of the bullet fired by an unknown
assassin.
The British government has contract
ed with the Philadelphia & Reading
Railroad Company for 100000 toni
of coal.
Fire in St. Louis destroyed -four
blocks, causing property loss OF
81 100000. One man was killed and
several injured.
A reward OF s., 900 has been offered
for the arrest and conviction OF the per
son or persons who made the attempt
on the life of William Goebel..
General Kobbe has occupied the is.
lands of Lamar and Leyte. In the
fight ut Catbalogan 10 insurgents were
killed and the Americans captured five
cannon, with their artillerymen.
Secretary Reitz, OF the Transvaal re.
public, says that the Beers have never
abused the white flag, and that the
British murdered women, children and
American citizens at Derdepoort.
The value of property captured by Adj
miral Dewey's fleet in Manila bay has
been estimated by the board OF APP
praisal at 1926, l4l. The largest items
in the statement are: "Ship and boat
equipment, $24l, 500; ordnance mate.
rails, $l4,294, and fuel, $50, 56S."
The appraisal was called for as evi.
dence in the suit brought by Admiral
Dewey for the award Of prize money.
The Beers credit divine providence
with their Tugela victory.
No river and harbor bill will be pre-.
sented at this session of congress.
The British parliament has reassem.
bled. No disorder was manifested.
Alexander Dunsmuir, the coal king
OF the Pacific coast, died III New York
city, aged ~ years.
Services in commemoration OF the
martyrdom of Charles l, OF England,
were held in Boston.
The transport Missouri, en- route tc
San Francisco from Manila, has II in.
sane soldiers aboard.
Fire destroyed the business portion
of the town of Winfield, Kan. Hun.
dreds of people are homeless.
Lieutenant Winston Churchill de.
scribes the battle of Spionkop as the
hardest fight of the South African war.
All is quiet in Samoa. The natives
are more settled than at any time since
the disturbance between the native
factions.
The sheriff of Colfax, WASH, has
offered reward of $500 for the capture
of Clemens, the murderer OF man
named Boland.
A special dispatch from Cape Town
says $50 American scouts, who arrived
there as muleteers, have enlisted in
the British forces.
A cold wave is prevailing east of the
Rocky mountains. The temperature il
eight degrees below zero at Chicago and
six below ut Omaha.
The Fergus Printing Company, of
Chicago, one of the oldest printing
houses in the city, was thrown into the
streets for non-payment of rent.
Great Northern officials and EN-.
ployes' grievance committee held q
conference and it is announced there
will he no strike, all differences being
settled
Governor Taylor declares that state
OF insurrection now prevails in Ken.
lucky. lie has ordered the legislature
adjourned, but the Democrats have re.
fused to obey his edict.
K. V. Wilson has been arrested in
San Francisco on the charge of having
embezzled a package containing 5000,
while he was agent for the Great
Northern Express Company at Frank.
lin, King county, Wash.
Lee Gong, a Chinaman OF Fargo, n.
d., who alleges st. Louis is his home,
appealed today from the United States
c.,nrt To the SECRETARY Of the treasury