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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1899
Page
2
The excerpts discuss peace treaty hopes involving Spain and Don Carlos, figures like Count Ito and China, a German constitutional view, and a range of topics from the Czar to biographical vignettes. They touch on religious modernity, Mexican trade practices, a Methodist bid for twenty million dollars to support education and charity, and Red Cross humanitarian ideals.
An article discusses international efforts for humane causes, European expansion, and world trade routes. It highlights canal traffic, treasury statistics, and shipping volumes for the St. Mary's Falls, Welland, and Kaiser Wilhelm canals, noting shifts in tonnage and freight rates from 1880s to 1890s. It also mentions rising inland transport costs and changes in New York canal usage.
A Washington observer cites reports from Mr. Fowler and ex-Minister Denby on Peking conditions and Shanghai tramway proposals. The piece argues American greatness lies in character and intellect, not steel, bridges, or railways, as US influence grows through invention and discovery.
Ambitious plan from Shimonoseki to Hiogo aims to link the Kingsui and Samyo railways across a mile wide strait. The bridge would permit ship passage beneath and connect southern Kinsui to northern mainland, marking a major engineering feat.
A World dispatch reports President Lopez denying exposure of the bark in force without government orders as General Miller declares Filipino independence recognized by powers. The U S expedition lands three miles from its destination near Manila after debate over landing near Ko Ilo and concerns about crew morale on shipboard confinement.
The United States revenue cutter Aluia ran aground on Padre Island near Corpus Christi Texas during a storm on Wednesday. All crew and officers reached land safely as search teams investigated the aloft wreck and recovered any missing passengers. A second vessel, Wheel Jersey, was sent to Padre Island to locate the remaining crew and passengers.
In Wichita on January 24 a claim surfaces that Admiral Cervera’s watch, a gold cased timepiece with diamonds, engraved Paschal Cervera, was taken as a reward from a Spanish pilot who steered Cervera’s ship from Santiago harbor. The owner, Lrant Betts, says the watch was sold due to financial hardship. Meanwhile in San Francisco on the same date a plan ships California meat to Manila troops, including 4000 cans on the Morgan City and 40,000 pounds of frozen beef on the Scandia.
Early morning in South Omaha an attempt to blow up F B Towle of the Omaha Packing Company failed when four bystanders stamped out a dynamite fuse on a porch. In Milwaukee the Granite Ware trust formed with National Enameling and Stamping Company as lead, capitalized at 10 million dollars in preferred and 20 million common stock. In St Louis Aguinaldo envoys Lasada Marti Burgos and J Lunaa visited seeking U S withdrawal from the Philippines during a 20 minute stop en route to Washington.
Copper boom sparks miner enthusiasm in Valparaiso Chile as caravans head to new mines and previously idle sites resume activity in the copper trade.
Washington reports the hospital ship Relief has been ordered to Manila. The vessel currently lies at New York and will travel to Manila by way of the Suez Canal.
In Nicarae Washington on January 24 the canal bill, known as the Morvan bill, passed the Senate 45 to 6. It authorizes the president to secure rights from Nicaragua and Costa Rica to build and own a transoceanic canal if agreements are reached, and to negotiate control or sight to construct while preserving perpetual owned access, with strict limits on payments to the Maritime Canal Company.
In Dawson through Port Townsend on January 24 the situation grows dire with rising sickness and full Elk Hospitals. Police donate $30,000 to aid the poor leaving $4,000 on hand while a memorial to Washington is prepared. A $9,000 monthly need for indigent care is estimated as death rates rival summer highs. Also reports on stampedes and a gold standard bill advancing in Congress.
The secretary of the interior upholds the land office ruling in the Schnee case over 33178 acres in Minnesota. Under contracts with the St Paul Minnesota & Manitoba Rail Road Ireland is not the purchaser for the first contract from 1880, but is for lands under the 1883 second contract. The lands from the first contract remain with others, while the second contracts belong to Ireland. Also reported murder of Spanish officers on Labaun Island, British Borneo, as natives attack and abduct women and children after lying church.
S W Johnson aged 47 formerly from Indiana was killed instantly by a premature giant powder blast at the May Queen mine near the Red Boy in Baker City Oregon. His wife and two brothers in Indiana were notified.
Rear Admiral Schley is presented a jeweled sword by his brother Royal Arcanum members at Carnegie Music Hall in New York City, in the presence of about four thousand people.
The United States transport Manitoba departed Savannah on January 24 bound for Havana carrying six troops of the Seventh Cavalry. They had arrived earlier that day in Savannah from Macon.
Major W H Daly chief surgeon with General Miles testified before the war investigation committee. He described his Tampa to Puerto Rico field service and affirmed his beef report was voluntary and his own. Daly noted a quarter of beef on shipboard tasted foul and suspected chemical preservatives borax and salicylic acid used externally on elk.
Reports from Samoa say December 31 ruling by Chief Justice Chambers nullified Mataafa’s election and named Malietoa Tuamas to the throne though a minor. Provisional government loyalists and consuls backed Mataafa’s faction. a British warship landed bluejackets to reopen the court amid protests.
Mobile Alabama January 23 government steamer Pansy reports finding part of the stern of the naphtha launch Paul Jones on Breton Island along with a smashed bow of a Yawl and small debris from the craft No bodies were recovered on the wreckage and the crew listed includes Joseph Brinkham Margerie Woodland Colonel Harry C G Yo cum Florence Yocum plus three unidentified men A ships logger note mentions ure seekers aboard. The incident follows the launch’s suspected explosion as cause.
A garbled dispatch references Washington politics and naval matters with scattered names, places, and numbers. It notes discussions in the Senate and House, references to Olympia and San Francisco, and mentions bills, committees, and appointments amid a broad collage of events.
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