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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1902
Page
3
The Daily Mail claims authority to report near agreement on peace terms between Britain and the Boers at Pretoria with some details still unsettled. Milner summons an Australian expert to assess farm rebuilding costs as negotiators pursue a measured path toward a responsible government.
In the House of Commons on April 19 London government leader A J Balfour said after two conferences between Lord Kitchener and Boer delegates at Pretoria an armistice was not granted but facilities would be provided for Boer command representatives to meet and consider the situation The Boer leaders have left Pretoria to carry out this law Communication between Boer leaders is not expected to resume for at least three weeks The statement was generally well received.
In St. Petersburg on April 16, Minister of the Interior M. Sipiaguin was shot at 1 PM in the ministerial offices lobby. He died at 2 PM. The attacker, a student wearing an aide de camp uniform, was seized on the scene after firing at close range.
At midnight rain had fallen for five hours over the Walla Walla valley. The heaviest storm of the season drenched the area, bringing great benefit to grain and fruit. Anxiety over crops is now allayed.
From Christiana Norway the port reports a week of unprecedented immigration to America with thirteen hundred Scandinavians sailing out in the past seven days.
New York reports Commodore J Pierpont Morgan's steam yacht Corsair has sailed for Gibraltar where Morgan will join for an extended cruise.
Adjutant General Drain restructures units making Company A attach to Company K First Infantry with disbandment of Company K. State Treasurer Maynard issues warrant calls totaling 1 911 35 from capitol building fund and 82 528 69 from general fund. Seattle school district bonds 275 000 20 years 4 per cent ruled valid by supreme court. Governor McBride optimistic cap itol completion for next legislature with steel roof and ironwork contracts advancing. White marble tombstones requested for First Washington Volunteers graves. federal law covers markers unless relatives object.
Democrats and insurgent Republicans overruled a chair ruling to adopt amends on the Cuban reciprocity bill. The measure passed committee 164 to 111 and the full House 247 to 52, with 64 Republicans joining Democrats on the key amendment. The bill allows a 20 percent tariff cut for Cuba until December 1, 1903 and sets refined sugar duties at 1.825 cents per pound during the agreement.
About 250000 acres of timber land in Spokane and Stevens counties, holding roughly 1 billion feet of lumber, were sold by the Northern Pacific Railway to Spokane Seattle and Wisconsin millmen. W. F. Wilsey closed the final deal. Major buyers include Pacific Fir Company of Wisconsin, Buckeye Lumber Company, Spokane Lumber Company, and Holland-Horr Company. The sale nearly clears NP timber lands in Washington and may push prices higher.
Secretary Root departed New York aboard the Esperanza to study conditions on the island and to prepare plans for the withdrawal of U S troops on May 20 He said the trip is to see the situation firsthand and that there is no great significance beyond ground observations.
Spokane prohibitionists announce plans to field a full ticket next fall and have organized the Spokane Prohibition Alliance. John G. Woolley, candidate for president on the Prohibition ticket, will lecture in Spokane on May 18.
Chicago April 19 The Chicagos world’s fair corporation will be wound up. A surplus of about 450000 will be divided among shareholders. This equals roughly 45 cents per share. The city of Chicago will receive 225000 on its 5000000 holding.
The Senate voted 48 to 38 to substitute Platt's measure extending the 1888 act and related treaties to all islands and insular territories, with later provisions for a possible new China treaty and treasury rule changes. Riot and death tolls followed socialist demonstrations in Louvain, Belgium as police and Civic Guard clashed.
Washington April 18 after formal conference house members chiefly concerned with the Chinese exclusion bill decided to accept the senate substitute adopted yesterday continuing in force the present laws and applying them to our insular possessions.
Articles of incorporation filed in Olympia name George W. Dickinson as president and general manager and outline a 500 to 600 mile Alaska line from Resurrection Bay to Rampart. Survey by C. M. Anderson in 1898 with four parties to conduct permanent survey this summer. Head offices to open in the Denny building next Monday.
Berlin reports police at Insterburg have expelled two missionaries Lorenzo Walker and Joseph Zwahles for being unwelcome characters. The action reflects local intolerance toward the group in East Prussia.
In Brussels on April 19 the chamber of representatives voted 84 to 64 against revising the Belgian constitution to provide universal suffrage.
Reports from Amsterdam and The Hague detail Queen Wilhelmina's worsening fever. An official bulletin confirms typhoid, with doctors noting the illness' ordinary progression and prayers for recovery. Berlin reports speculation of a possible regency in the Netherlands due to her illness.
In St Louis on April 18 Governor Taft won World’s Fair backing to fund part of the Philippine exhibit. The committee agreed to share expenses, aiming the display as the fair’s supreme feature. Taft will seek Secretary Root’s approval. War Department must finalize the amount.
Tomas Estrada Palma newly elected president of Cuba returns from eighteen years in exile. A large Central Valley crowd sees him off at his old home in New York with parade and flags, including volunteers, schoolchildren, and a village band at the station.
United States Consul McWade at Canton reports to the state department that whole villages on the banks of North river near Chick Wanfu are devastated by smallpox. Fat shan suffers from cholera and plague.
New York reports the International Banking Company of the United States will soon start operations in London with an office at Bishopsgate Street. The move marks expansion into the British financial market and signals ongoing growth of the bank’s overseas presence.
The triennial meeting of the General Society of Sons of the Revolution is in session in Washington on April 19. Delegates gather to discuss society affairs and plans for future commemorations.
Louis Lacoste of Montreal designs a ship brake that deploys a vertical gate from the waterline to halt a vessel quickly in danger. The hinged gate stays closed during normal travel and opens at right angles to resist the water, with multiple sets possible per ship. The feature is a slow but discussed addition, alongside reversed propeller ideas, amid broader notes on long term day-length changes and meteoric dust effects.
Professor Woodward reports that day length has shifted little in 10 million years as Earth cools and loses volume. Meteoric dust adds mass, affecting results, and early estimates by Laplace differ. If cooling continues to the end, the day could shrink about 6 percent, roughly an hour, under iron-like contraction.
A Mississippi River button factory moves by boat to raw mussel shells instead of transporting material to shore. The 42 by 12 foot vessel houses machinery and a three horsepower engine, letting workers live aboard and avoiding land rents and taxes while drifting from Minnesota to Louisiana to harvest beds and manufacture buttons.
In a smoking room a man claims daring feats in South Africa including capturing Boer officers and wagons. An amused listener taunts him as a Munchausen figure, and the teller admits he is merely a photographer.
Mr. Cathcart Wason member for Orkney and Shetland gave up knitting stockings in the House of Commons smoking room due to complaints from veteran MPs. He cited poor eyesight and reading as reasons, but the hobby has faded from Westminster life. A quip from a relative echoes a home life anecdote about a mother in law.
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