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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1899
Page
2
The Internal Secretary is resigning with Warren Has lander as possible replacement. A conference will consider installing a new secretary and a redesigned personnel unit. The plan includes officers from the Navy and Army in a reforming group amid ongoing relations with the Philippines.
The Cuban military assembly voted 21 to 1 to disband the army and dissolve its ranks. Muster-rolls stay with the executive committee for copying for Governor-General Brooke. General Fernando Freye de Amade closed the final session at 7 pm with a hopeful farewell.
Manila reports General MacArthur plans to move to Calumpit six miles north of Malolos to secure water and a strategic river crossing. Reconnaissance along 12 miles east finds no major opposition while insurgents threaten Calumpit and San Fernando. Montana Regiment losses include one killed and three wounded. heat disabled twenty five. Two buried Krupp guns and 27007 silver dollars found.
A Humboldt harbor disaster occurs when the steamer Chilkat with 19 aboard sinks after tipping over on the bar near Eureka. Ten deaths are reported among the total, with only two passengers and seven crew members surviving, while four passengers and six crew members perish.
From the Orient 94 Chinese killed and 123 wounded in Talien Wan riot. Nabone destroyed by fire with 100 houses and 70 deaths. Also reports plague deaths in Formosa and an assassination attempt on Hoshi Toru. In Chicago a wife fatally stabs her husband during a quarrel in front of two children. five knife wounds conclude the murder.
The Carnegie Steel Company plans to post notices in all plants today announcing a wage increase for unskilled workers to $1.40 per day, effective from April 1. The move affects about 10,000 men across the company. Hong Kong authorities seek extension of ceded territory under treaty terms with England.
Spokane reporter notes Crystal Butte mine on Myers creek Colville reservation has about 15 000 tons of ore blocked out with 4000 to 8000 tons ready for stoping valued at roughly 475 000 at 25 a ton. Ore in winze averages at least 100 per ton in gold with fair samples over 300 per ton. overall average believed between 25 and 50 per ton.
Boston April 7 ex presidents Cleveland and Harrison sent letters to the United Societies of Christian Endeavor endorsing a peaceful approach to international disputes. Cleveland praised practical noble efforts to abandon war as a means of settlement and leadership in peace efforts. Harrison urged America to seek global peace through love forbearance and arbitration while noting current limits and the need for gradual progress.
A Washington dispatch notes wide interest in a proposed new lighthouse district on the North Pacific. Residents of Oregon and Washington have written to the treasury seeking appointments under the district. The district remains conjectural, expected only if the sundry civil bill advances, possibly not before June or July 1900.
A powder car on a Great Northern freight train exploded in Everett Washington killing a tramp and injuring two others named Sylvester Fagan and Charles Flebotte. Two mixed freight cars burned as heat from the blast spread. The dead man’s name was not known. Authorities suspect the tramps set the cars and caused the powder car to detonate.
Henry C. Nicholi of Hamburg has arrived in Portland as a representative of a colony of 200 or 800 persons aiming to settle in Oregon. He states the group will require at least 10,000 acres of land and will move as soon as members are notified of the land requirements.
Seattle and Portland markets list wide prices for produce dairy poultry and meats. Onions 80c per 100 pounds, potatoes 35 to 40 dollars per 100 pounds, apples 60c to 1 per box, butter creamery 26c per pound, eggs 15c, cheese 13c, poultry rates various, fresh meat prices for beef veal pork and mutton, and staple grains including wheat oats and barley with per ton and per barrel figures. Portland markets show similar ranges for wheat, flour, oats, barley, hay, butter, cheese, poultry, potatoes, and vegetables with multiple per-unit and per-ton prices.
A Washington telegraph reports strong support among St Kitts inhabitants for swapping the Philippines for the British West Indies. Proponents argue Britain would cede Caribbean possessions, giving the United States strategic military leverage over the Caribbean Sea and closer ties with Central and South America.
The U S cruiser Charleston shelled Dagupan after rebels opened fire when a shore sounding boat approached. An American officer was wounded and insurgents evacuated the town during the engagement off Luzon coast.
Mary E. Carpenter wins $2000 civil writ against the Legion of Honor after John E. Carpenter vanished from his St. Louis home on January 30, 1897. The court of appeals affirms lower courts finding him legally dead, noting prior suicide remarks. Judgment awarded to the plaintiff.
A New Orleans special reports Churchill Guthrey and Augustus S. Flournoy of Kansas City arrived from Bluefields on the Breakwater after being captured and shot as filibusters in Nicaragua. They departed quietly for Kansas City.
Havana reports General Gomez will be restored as commander in chief of the Cuban army until its disbandment. The move signals a restructuring of Cuban military leadership amid ongoing political shifts.
Wool prices listed for Nevada Oregon Valley Northern regions ranging from 8 to 17 cents per pound. Millstuffs mids 18 22 dollars per ton and bran 16 50 to 17 50. Onions silverskin 50 to 90 cents per sack. Butter fancy creamery 17 18 cents and seconds 16 17 cents. Eggs store 6 cents and fancy ranch 17 18 cents. Hops 1898 crop 150.
Strikers march in Ishpeming as mines shut down. A railroad factory explosion kills three in Braddock and wrecks the building. A Braddock survivor recounts the disaster. The Hoosier missionary’s son is declared insane in Oakland. Train collisions claim two dead and one injured near Greenburg. A betting ring tragedy in Brooklyn. Elwood dies after cashing a ticket. The president opens Colorado land to settlement May 4. A Samoan settlement plan draws English favor. Ingalls carries General Alger to Porto Rico and Jamaica. Army liquor sales allowed in canteens per War Dept ruling. Miners in Iowa vote to strike 2000 workers. Vanderbuilt wedding in New York. Virginia Fair wed in San Francisco. Harrison re elected Chicago mayor. Manila coalition seeks Filipino prisoner release. Iloilo devastated by recent fighting. Sampson named Skagway postmaster. The Spider and Fly company hit for Sunday law violations in Tacoma. El Paso shooting with Mampla death. Germany eyes Amoy fleet for Futeien seize. New York regimental muster out. Glasgow execution of Bob Brown. Minneapolis murder suicide. Jealousy bride Carr ie Rogers weds William Blackman. Dewey gunfire casualty estimates released. Pacific coast cracker trust forming. Hines Lumber buys Wisconsin timber. War tax upheld by supreme court for stock and livestock. Joplin mine cave in kills five. Windsor hotel ruin search ends with 45 dead and several missing.
Andrew C. Fowle died at his Newark home in 1862 at age 70 after heart failure. He constructed for the government the first geometrical lathe used in bank note engraving. The state department announces islands Spain evacuated in the West Indies are under military control awaiting Congress action on future government.
A wide sweep of brief items from A. J. Smith in Salt Lake City to General Miller in Massachusetts. The list includes military moves, strikes, and administrative actions across the United States and abroad, with notes on beef inquiries, railway labor, and industry price changes.
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