Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1901-03-28

Governor Rogers, of Washington. We.
toed the bill for the selection OF school
textbooks.
Russia agrees with Great Britain
to let Won Waldersee arbitrate the Tien
Tsin dispute.
Mrs. Nation was escorted from
grounds of Kansas soldiers home to
train by police.
Gravy of the Russian student trou.
bles impelled the Gear to call special
meeting of the ministers.
New Jersey village was destroyed
by burning oil, as the result of the
wreck of coal and oil train.
Insurgents will be given 30 days ex
tension of time to take advantage Of
the law regulating voting and Office
holding.
General Weyler Spanish minister OF
war, is preparing extensive army re.
forms. The food of the soldiers will
be improved, and economies will be
realized in the war budget
"The United States government"
says the London correspondent of the
Daily Express, has refused New Zea.
lands request to reopen the question of
permitting British steamers to trade
between Honolulu and San Francisco"
Two hundred girls working in the
overall department of SoffOrd Bros,
drygOods factory at Kansas City,
walked out. The firm recently re.
duced the price for making overalls
from $1.25 to SO cents dozen.
In the bankruptcy court at Burton.
on-Trent, England, Lord Waterpark
declared his bankruptcy was due to
the compulsory sale of his property
in compliance with the Gladstone act
of 1881. He said he had thereby lost
$4,000. The liabilities of the debt.
or amount to 226,00v, and his assets
are $4,000.
Great damage has been done by
floods in Andalusia.
A hurricane swept the New He.
brides January 25, doing great dam.
age.
The condition of Representative
Livingstone, of Georgia, who is i'll
at Washington, is encouraging.
The cruiser Olympia was placed in
the drydock at Boston to be scraped
and painted below the water line.
Company l, of the Twenty-third in.
fantry, stationed at Fort Douglass,
will leave for Fort Wingate, New
Mexico.
Carlos Roloff. the newly appointed
treasurer of Cuba. whose term begins
April l. will qualify with bond Of
100000.
Shamrock II will have several
trials over the Queens course in the
Solent, and of the Irish coast with
Shamrock l.
Senator Frye, Of Maine, sailed from
New York on the steamship Cherokee
for Santo Domingo. He is ON a five
weeks vacation.
Charles Roller is under arrest at
Los Angeles on warrant from New.
ark, N. j., charging him with embez.
element and forgery.
King Edward has approved the ap.
pointment of General Sir Arthur
Power Palmer as commander-in-chief
OF the forces in India.
Miss Pearl Colleasure was shot at
a charivari at Guthrie, and her life
is despaired of. She was hit with a
bullet while standing on the porch.
The lower house OF the Austrian
Reichsrath reported motion of
urgency in the Bohemian census de-
bate after a discussion lasting Ave
hours.
Creditors Of Gaylord, Blessing &
Co.. the Oldest firm of brokers in st.
Louis, who failed recently, filed a pc
titi0n to declare the company bank.
rupt.
Owing to the effects of the heavy
rains on one of the famous marbel
quarries at Carrara, Italy, land
slide of 1000 cubic yards occurred.
destroying the railway station.
The late Margaret Pillsbury, widow
Of exMayor George A. Pillsbury. OF
Minneapolis, bequeathed $4,000 to
Mimi; $4,000 to Margaret Pillsbury
hospital, at Concord N. H., and
$4,000 to the Northwestern hospital.
at Minneapolis.
The Baltimore & Ohio railroad has
ordered 105 new engines.
Florida is now thronged with visit.
ors from the northern and western
states.
In the United States regular army
Spanish is spoken fuently by 304
commissioned officers, French by 224
and German by 1876.
Besides King Edward there are -
heirs to the British throne without
going outside of the group Of Vic.
toria's direct descendants.