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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1898
Page
2
A digest of varied events: a water works sale for 1.5 million to bondholders. brush fires in Victoria. a Kentucky card game shooting left eight dead and four wounded. leadership shifts in finance and railroads. inquiries into a train wreck and a sailor’s death. new factories in California. a San Francisco magnate’s illness. and travel notes on ships, patents, and legal actions.
Boston reports a broad strike wave amid wage cuts affecting about 127 000 workers in 150 mills. Biddeford and Lewiston see mills closed or crippled as 8200 and 300 workers walk out. New Bedford holds the line with lockout risk and planned strike funds, while Vermont and other Maine mills enter partial stoppages.
Washington reports push for the government expedition to the Klondike with Sifton authorizing escort and provisions to Skagway by February 1. Ottawa notes no immediate starvation danger at Dawson but stresses distributing supplies between Fort Selkirk and Skagway as ice forms. Local report from Middleboro describes a racially charged card game fight on Sandy Fork leaving eight killed and multiple wounded amid escalating violence and fear of further crimes.
A United States Consul Ashley Dr Hoffman and four others are believed drowned after a boating party incident near Colon where a boatman’s body has been recovered. Consul General Gudgeon at Panama reported the loss to Washington with few details. Ashley, a former Virginia newspaper man, had been appointed recently. Also noted, the steamship Mariposa sailed for San Francisco with 450000 sovereigns.
A Prussian Silesia dispatch reports the Koenigen Louise coal mine fire trapped workers. Fifteen miners were brought to the surface with seven dead, and authorities fear twenty five more may have perished as escape routes collapsed.
Fire at Market and Quincy streets in Chicago injures two firefighters. Eight firms report stock losses totaling about five hundred thousand dollars as flames sweep the northwest corner. Firemen battled the blaze with extensive damage reported.
In Havana the city remains tense though outwardly quiet as crowds threaten a general revolt over unrest and censorship. The mob demanded the release of attorney Jesus Trillo while clashes with cavalry and arrests mark the street actions near the palace and central park.
Albert C. Greenleaf a beekeeper, committed suicide by jumping from the 16th floor of the Masonic temple after earlier attempt at the Chamber of Commerce. His fall was witnessed by many in the rotunda as his body struck the marble landing and was reduced to a pulp.
The Sangamon circuit court grand jury indicted 10 companies forming the Springfield Coal Association for conspiring to defraud. They allegedly advanced coal prices by 50 cents per ton while claiming wage hikes of 7.0 cents per ton justified the raise.
The escape of Lieutenant Turney of the British survey party, recently attacked by tribesmen in Mekrana Belochistan, is confirmed from Calcutta dated January 18.
News from Barboursville Kentucky reports a deadly Wednesday night confrontation at a hidden tavern on Sandy Fork. Four Black men named Robert Caldwell Smith Helton John Williams and Tom Wilson were killed in the violence.
Atlantic City, Jan 18. The United States government plans a carrier pigeon loft in the city to support the naval service. The project aims to enhance communications for naval operations and distant missions.
Benjamin Butterworth United States commissioner of parents died at 3 15 this afternoon after a lingering illness at Piney Woods hotel in Thomasville Ga He had been improving after pneumonia but suffered uremic convulsions two weeks ago and never recovered His wife and children were at his bedside as the body was prepared for shipment to Washington tomorrow
Twenty two Dawson City travelers arrive on the Corona with gold dust and drafts totaling between eight hundred thousand and one million dollars. The party includes one woman, Miss Lou Keller, and notable earners such as D Campbell and EF Kinging. Food scarcity near Dawson is noted but no starvation, as ice chokes the Yukon river with ridges ten to twenty feet high. A Northwest Mounted Police detachment reaches Skagway while relief efforts are debated and transport costs rise.
A Bourbon Indiana crowd panicked during Rev. Aikin's sermon on His Satanic Majesty. A devil figure rushed the aisle, blowing smoke and causing a stampede that toppled a stove and burned Bethel church. George Aikin, the preacher's son, later confessed he and others wore the devil suit and hid among attendees.
Acting Secretary Meiklejohn tells Congress that fortifications and armament require two additional artillery regiments to keep guns and mortars in good condition and ready. He includes General Miles reports and proposes unit batteries behind the guns, with detachments to cover the remainder, noting current forces are inadequate.
A Rome dispatch reports a severe quake near Argentina in Italy. Several buildings and a church collapsed, with numerous injuries.
The Daily Chronicle describes Henry Savage Landor and his native companions enduring torture in Thibet during a trek toward Lassa. Photographs show burned hair and scorched skin while captives faced near eye injuries. Landor lost an eye and was rescued by a party including Wilson Larkin and Kasak Singh Pat after three days without sustenance.
The official death list tallies 43 lives lost with at least 70 injured after a tornado hit Fort Smith Arkansas Tuesday night. Five new deaths were added. bodies retrieved from the Smith block ruins. relief efforts involve food and clothing distribution as 150 buildings were demolished. Several survivors and rescuers are identified, with aid promised from Memphis St Louis Kansas City Little Rock and other cities.
Mrs. Lucille Lane daughter of ex Senator Blackburn shot herself in her Wellington hotel apartment in Washington. Family says the wound is likely non fatal and doctors focus on pain relief. The pistol fell from a drawer lace bundle as she reached for a handkerchief. the weapon misfired, striking her left chest. Ex Senator Blackburn, not a resident, was summoned from his room in New York avenue and remained at the hotel.
The House spent two hours on general debate for the army appropriation bill and the rest of the day paying tribute to late Representative Milliken of Maine. A bill authorizing a new district judge for the northern Texas district was passed, and leaders discussed paymaster duties and funding policies.
New York reports the Union Pacific reorganizes and the Vanderbilts secure virtual possession of a through transcontinental route. The New York Central leads the chain from Buffalo via Lake Shore to Chicago, then Chicago &North Western to Omaha, with Union Pacific Oregon Short Line and Oregon Railway & Navigation guiding to Portland. Total mileage reaches 13,420 miles.
London cable reports Willard E. Greene leading a beet sugar venture to Europe and Sacramento valley lands. Contracts secure 150 000 acres near Chico Marysville and Red Bluff and construction of three large sugar factories will begin. Syndicate capital stands at 15000000 dollars. In New York a banker learns two Tucson treasure seekers A J Keeler F C Kingsley and Thomas Field are presumed dead in Arizona likely murdered by Navajo.
A tax riot at Boriavi near Nariad in Gujarat injures a collector and kills five Sepoys. Three hundred Sepoy troops have been dispatched from Ahmedabad to the disturbance site.
Report from Metramul Beloochistan dated January 17 describes an attack on a British surveying party of about 200 men. Several native guards were killed or wounded in the incident.
A blaze in the Boston dry goods store in the Odd Fellows building on Broadway Butte Mont January 18 caused near total loss of the block. Fire, likely incendiary, was contained after widespread damage. The opera house audience fled as alarms spread. few injuries reported amid cool theater crew actions.
News from Madrid dated January 18 reports severe floods near Valencia the capital of Valencia province. Eighty houses have collapsed amid rising waters. Local authorities mobilize emergency response and evacuations as the situation develops.
The Senate discusses immigration restrictions and measures related to Cuba and the island of waters near it. Debates reference the exclusion of illiterates and the role of immigration in national policy as part of a broader agricultural bill and foreign relations session.
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