Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-09-29
NEWS OF THE DAY
ITEMS FROM VARIOUS PARTS OF
THE WORLD
Outside the State Of Washington Resume a
the Less Important, Though Not Less
Interesting. Happenings Of the Past Week
in Condensed. but Comparative
Form.

Three hundred cavalrymen are to be
stationed at Fort Walla Walk within a
month, according TO a bulletin from de-
partment headquarters. They will
come from the Philippines.
John Arthur, grand master of the
Masons of the state of Washington,
was given banquet at Walla Walla.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. $. Thompson cele-
brated their 50th wedding anniversary
at.the. home of DR.. and Mrs. j. A. Dix
at Garfield.
Spokane's city council is taking steps
to drive out slot machines, and Mayor
Byrnes of that town says the theaters
must stop Sunday performances. 8
Secretary Hay has sent urgent in
structions to the United States diplo-
matte officers abroad to do everything
within their power to secure displays
for the Worlds Exposition at st. Louis
from countries in which they are ac-
credited.
At Kansas City an elevator in large
dry goods store fell three stories.
There were 25 girls in the elevator at
the time and dozen were more or leSs
injured, but none will die.
At Pretoria, Max Ernest Henschell,
a German subject, has been convicted
of treachery and sentenced by mill
tary court to 10 years imprisonment at
hard labor.
The commissioner of internal revenue
calls attention to the opinion OF the at
torney general that no internal revenue
tax can be collected on cigars shipped
from the Philippines.
Fcrederick Wellington Ruckstuhl has
been appointed chief of sculpture at the
st. Louis worlds fair.
The battleship Iowa has sailed from
Montevideo to Bahia Blanca, where she
will 60 into drydock.
The whaling bark Platina, New Bed
ford, reports the capture, near Barba-
does, of pure white whale, which
made 100 barrels OF oil.
A severe earthquake shock was felt
Tuesday at Quito, capital of Ecquador.
No particular damage was done.
Mr.. Phipps, Carnegie's former part
ner, has given sl0O,0OO to the Boer re-
lief fund.
King Oscars yacht, with the Crown
Princess Victoria on board. ran onto
the rocks near Kalmar, on the Baltic.
John D. Long, ex-secretary of the ma
w. has been chosen president OF the
board of overseers OF Harvard univer-
sity.
Pearv SAYS the pole can be reached,
but that it will take 5000, 900 outfit
to do it. D
At Readville, Mass, Dan Patch tied
Star Pointers pacing record OF :5914
Senator Bard of California continues
to improve and is now pronounced out
of danger.
The business portion OF La Plata,
Macon county, Mo-, has been destroyed
by fire. Loss, $50, 900.
Nance O'Neill, the American actress,
is i'll and has been obliged to stop her
performances at the Adelphi theater,
London.
The corporation council of Bombay,
while voting an address to the Duke OF
Connaught, refused to vote an address
to Lord Kitchener.
A committee, of which General Stew
art l.. Woodford is president, has
started movement to secure public aid
in erecting monument to General
Franz Siegel.
John T. O'Sullivan. labor editor of
the Boston Globe and prominently
identified with national and state labor
organizations, was killed by Il train at
Lynn, Mass.
A dispatch from Mammoth Hot
Springs, Wyoming, says that S. Osgood
Peli, of New York, sustained serious
injuries to his left arm in fight with
a grizzly bear, which he finally killed.
Major NJ. L. Bridgeman, who was re-
Gently removed as Indian agent at the
Fort Belknap agency, has been arrested
by Special Agent McNichols, on a
charge OF falsifying his accounts. The
federal grand jury has indicted him on
80 counts.
To Succeed Henderson.
Hampton, Ia, Sept. 26.-Captain
Birdsall, of Wright county, was nomi.
mated on the second ballot in the Third
district by the Republican convention