Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-03-29
EVENTS OF TIE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection OF Items From
tho Two Hemis pheres Presented
in . Condensed Form.

The Beers have 100000 fighting men
left.
President Kruger does not expect
any aid from the powers.
The Beers have blown up the bridges
north of Bloom fontein and are retreat.
ing to the north.
Central American governments are
opposed to the Davis amendment to the
ay.Paunceiote treaty.
Senator Davis, chairman of the sen.
ate committee on foreign relations and
in charge of the French reciprocity
treaty, said that Notwithstanding the
purpose to extend the time for the ex-
change OF notifications, he proposes to
do all he can to obtain ratification dur
ing the present session.
Elizabeth T. Struble, editor OF the
Nautilus, a Christian science news
paper, at Sioux Falls. S. D.. pleaded
guilty in the federal court to sending
obscene literature through the mails,
and was fined 5000. Mrs. Struble re-
fused to pay the fine and was taken t.
Jail.
The differential freight rate OF 10 per
cent on the Canadian Pacific between
the East and San Francisco is abolished.
This is the outcome of meeting held
in Chicago, at which agents OF the
American lines threatened to secure
legislation deharring the Canadian Pa
cifc from participating in traffic orig
mating in the United States ii the dit
erential were continued.
Much concern is being shown Ivy the
German government in the threat made
bv Montague White that the Beers will
ing made the base of the British opera
lions against Pretoria. The Berlin au-
thorities will strongly oppose such &C.
ton, because Of the damage which will
done to the property owned by Ger
mans.
Great excitement prevails in San
Jacinto, as it has been discovered that
part of the San Jacinto mountain has
slipped into subterranean cavern. A
territory covering so acres, at al eleva.
ton of 4 1000 feet, was dislodged by the
recent earthquake and has slipped $50
feet lower than it had previously stood
for centuries. The face of the new val.
ley is thickly traversed with assures
aud cracks.
The German government contem.
plates another expeditionary force to
the interior of Shan Tung, where most
of the American missions are located.
The German governor at kiao Chou has
standing instructions to take such
measures for the protection, not only
of German missionaries and other in.
terests in Shan Tung province as may
seem necessary, but OF American mis-
sionaries as we'll.
Julia Arthur has retired from the
stage.
st. Patrick's day was enthusiastically
celebrated throughout Cape Town.
IIetty Green's daughter is said to he
engaged to a poor Spanish nobleman.
The Kansas City, pittsburg & Gulf
railway system has been sold at auc.
ton.
Andrew Bolter, one OF the noted
entomologists in America, is dead in
Chicago.
Two boys, aged 9 and 3 years, were
burned to death in their own house
near Alfred. N. Y.
British industries are badly in need
of cash. The money market is head
over ears in debt.
Nine persons were injured III New
York by the dropping of IA coal chute
upon an elevated train.
General Hernandez, leader OF the
Venezuela revolution, is making pro.
gress against the government.
Two thousand Boer women in Pre-
toria have been armed to aid III the dc.
Tense OF the Transvaal capital.
United States supreme court rendered
a decision upholding the Texas courts
III their war against the trusts.
During a row in saloon at Occur
d'Alene, Idaho, two negroes were shot,
one fatally and the other seriously.
Puerto Rico's distress is growing
worse. Governor General Davis cabled
that 500 tons OF provisions will be
needed weekly.
The French line freighter Pauillac
is missing. She carried Il cargo valued
at %3, 900, 900 and has not been heard
from for over a month.
TO prevent friction with the sultan
Of the Sulu archipelago, measures have
been taken by the American authori.
ties in the Philippines for the adjudi-
cation Of any questions that may arise
which cannot be disposed OF by provis-
ions of the treaty which he and Gen.
eral Bates entered into several months
ago.
Diplomats in Constantinople believe
Russia aims ut commercial protectorate
of northern Asia Minor.
The American Political league, a new
organization, will hold u national con.
vention in Boston July 1.
Congressman and senator's have 49,.
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