Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-02-27
EVENTS OF THE DAY
FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF
THE WORLD.
A Comprehensive Review Of the Important
Happenings Of the Past Week, Presented
In . Condensed Form. Which Is Most
Likely to Prove Of Interest to Our Many
Readers.

Readers.
Twenty lives were lost in $1,000
600 hotel fire at New York.
A tidal wave on the SalvadOrian
coast caused the loss OF more than so
lives.
The riots continue at Barcelona and
other Spanish cities. Almost the entire
nation has been placed under martial
law.
The house committee on territories
unanimously voted to report bills for
the admission of the territories of New
Mexico, Arizona and Oklahoma.
The Hay-Pauncefote treaty, giving
England's assent to the construction OF
a canal across Central America by the
United States, has been ratified.
Hundreds of forged Bank OF England
notes have been put in circulation i'll
London during the past few days. They
are hard to tell from the genuine.
A financial crisis is about to occur in
Chile.
Germany will abolish the bounties
on sugar.
Rich gold and copper discoveries
have been made in Africa.
The president has made public his
decision in the Schley appeal.
The Corean army will be reorganized
with British officers in charge.
Two hundred persons have been killed
in the riots at Barcelona, Spain.
A broken rail caused wreck in Ohio
in which one man was killed and five
injured.
Nine Filipino officers and SO men
have surrendered. They also gave up
500 revolvers, Sc rifles and 1000
rounds of ammunition.
The senate has passed the Indian war
veteran pension bill.
One life was lost in the burning of
sanitarium at Battle Creek, Mich.
A bolt factroy at Louisville KY, was
destroyed by fire. Loss, 500, 900.
Fire in Cleveland, Ohio, rooming
house destroyed 500, 900 worth of prop
erty.
A trunk factory at Wyandotte, Mich,
was totally destroyed byffire. Loss,
$125, 900.
President Roosevelt has been asked to
ol.Jf g
1andant Kritzinger.
Twenty-six Chicago families are
homeless as the result of an apartment
house fire. Loss, 100000.
Lyman J. Gage has been rendered the
presidency of the United States Trust
Company. He will likely accept.
A dispatch from Paris announces that
Miss Stone has been liberated. Official
notice has not, as yet, been received.
Spain is now interested in'the con-
troversy between European powers as
to which nation prevented intervention.
She wants to know who her friends are.
A mob lynched negro in small
town neal: st. Louis.
An Iowa gambling house was held up
and robbed of $4,000.
A crusade is on in New York against
automobile scorchers.
New York has just experienced the
worst blizzard in IA years.
Death list from Shamaka, Russia,
earthquake numbers 1000.
The senate has ratified the treaty for
the purchase of the Danish West In
dies.
BY the confession of another prison.
or, a man in the Colorado penitentiary
for murder has been set free.
Admiral Dewey was asked to dine
with Prince Henry, but had to decline,
owing to the illness of Mrs. Dewey.
The bill to repeal the war taxes was
unanimously passed by the house, every
member voting in favor of it. 1t may,
however, be amended in the senate.
A bill has been introduced in the
senate for the retirement of Naval Con-
structor Hobson. His eyesight has
been very poor for the past two years.
Portland chamber of commerce trus-
tees were severely criticised for their
recent action favoring admission of Chi
nese by mass meeting of 1900 citi-
Zens.
Prince Henry is on his way to the
United States.
Fire at Wisdom, Mont, destroyed
$4,000 worth of property.
Martial law has been declared at
Trieste, Austria, on account of riots.
General Bell has stamped out the re-
belllion in Ratangas province, Luzon.
The treaty for the Danish West In
dies will come up in the senate this
week.
Organized laborers to the number of
1000 are employed by the diamond
dealers and jewelers. of Amsterdam.