Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1901-04-25
From All Parts Of the New World
and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR MANY READERS
Comparative Review Of the important Hap
psninss Of the Past Week In
Condensed Form.

All danger from the recent great
storm in the Ohio valley has passed.
United States officers have begun q
war on the Chinese slave trade in San
Francisco.
The Philippine tariff is not likely
to bc promulgated until insular cases
are decided
Joseph Hume, the pioneer salmon
packer of the Pacific coast, is dead ut
Berkeley, Cal.
The people of Santo Domingo will
have nothing to do with annexation
to the United States.
Province of Lcytc has been created
in the Philippines and American
officers placed in control.
Leading stove manufacturers will
form combine for mutual benefit i'll
the way of freight rates, etc.
Manufacturers of mining machinery
will combine to protect themselves
against the Westinghouse Company.
The Corcan government has dccid-
ed to borrow from France 5000. 900
yen for the purpose OF constructing u
railway.
Charles Brown, president, and F..
l.. Candy. cashier, OF the suspended
First National Bank OF Vancouver,
committed suicide.
4 rock was thrown through the
window of car on the Portland
Astoria train Several passengers
narrowly escaped injury.
The Twenty-sixth regiment. which
arrived in San Francisco on the trans
port Garonne, has landed and gone
into camp at the Preside.
The German riechstag has passed
bill which prolongs authors rights
ON dramatic and musical produce
tions from 30 to 80 years.
An attempt was made to poison a
prisoner in the county Jail at Denver.
Col An apple pie and some cheese
were LETT at the Jail hy an unknown
person for the prisoner. Examina-
ton revealed the fact that both con.
tanned great quantity OF arsenic and
other poi>ons.
Another rebel force in Martinique
has surrendered.
Cebu. Philippine islands. has not
yet been pacltied.
An English company is building a
railway across Mexico.
Prospectors at Nome were starting
for the hills in January.
The steamer Ramona blew up near
Victoria b. c., and four people were
killed.
General Miner makes a discourag.
ing report on conditions i'll South
Africa.
The transport Lawton has reached
San Francisco and the Garonne was
reporte d at Honolulu.
Rockhills plan for the adjustment
Of the Tsung Ii iamun was accepted
by the ministers at Pekin.
The treasury department purchased
bonds at the rate OF 1855.
A blizzard in southwestern Mis-.
souri, has done great damage to prop
erty. Practically all outside business
has been suspended.
Martin Ritter, who killed Clara
Cheek at Nashville, Ill.,, with ham.
mer. because she refused to marry
him, has been captured.
DR.. Rupert Blue. United States
marine surgeon. on duty at Milwau-
kee, has been ordered to proceed with.
out delay to San Francisco.
Alonzo J. Whitman. formerly state
senator from Minnesota. convicted Of
passing bad check. was sentenced
to two and half wears imprison.
ment.
Fire at Birmingham. Ala. des-
troyed street car barn. containing
IS cars, the Third Presbyterian church
and the parsonage and half 4 block
OF cottages adjoining. Loss, SIS. 600.
The Union Iron Works OF san
Francisco signed contract with the
navy department for the construction
OF the protected cruiser Milwaukee.
She is TO have - knots speed, 10 te
finished in three years. and To cost
81, S25, 600
Work on \ target to cost about
$50, 90 will he begun at the Brooklyn
navy yard shortly The target, which
is to test the relative strength OF the
Gathmann torpedo gun and the regu.
lar army II inch rifle, will duplicate
. section Of the battleship Iowa.
There are 100 different language
or dialects In the Philippines.
The postoflce department 10 max.
Ing plans to obviate the necessity Of
rehandlins European mails At New
York.
Autograph letters Of famous men
will be far rarer in the future than
now. Great men Of today content
themselves with signing their names.
often with rubber stamps. to type
written documents. and II will be
hard to get much sentiment from type.
written manuscripts.