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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1902
Page
3
A weekly digest notes oil strikes near Denver a post office bill passage and a senate ratified treaty. A bill proposes more senators by population the Spanish cabinet resignation and queen regent moving to form a Liberal ministry. Asia Minor earthquakes cause numerous deaths.
Government troops report their force faced a major revolutionary assault at Agua Dulce on February 28. Unable to hold due to superior enemy numbers and ammo, General Castro planned a 200 mile retreat toward David and Chiriqui. A 17 day march followed, with bananas as the main food in the final days. Colonel Luque was reported killed and revolutionists held David as Castro sought a mountain crossing to Bocas de Toro.
A sweeping summary notes losses, political moves, and battles. It mentions Eastern Oregon settlers, a burning post office in North Pelham New York, injuries from a railroad collision, deaths of notable figures, political shifts in Ireland, labor unemployment, canal and Nicaragua bills, Chinese exclusion, a murder gang in Beaumont Texas, Colombian rebels and Chiriqui capture, Japan Russia war talk, and warship spending. It also covers Agua Dulce fighting casualties, Indian attacks, and Colonel Uribe killed.
Six men dynamited the Exchange Bank in Minooka nine miles west of Joliet and seized between 2000 and 3000 dollars. Theodore Kline, awakened from illness, warned bank president A. K. Napp and was assaulted on returning. He was found gagged nearly two hours later as the robbers fled on a handcar.
London reports the British admiralty has contracted shipyards to build five first class and two third class cruisers and two battleships, signaling a surge in capital naval construction.
A fire at 1 30 this morning burned the west barn of the Eastern avenue sheds belonging to the St. Louis Transit Company. The blaze destroyed 70 cars and caused about 125000 dollars in losses.
A sweeping review notes post offices at Utopia and North Yakima, a naval cadet recruitment in Walla Walla, and electric street lighting in Republic. It reports Whatcom street railway expansion, hops markets in Yakima, quartz near Oakesdale, hotel and school expansions, and real estate activity in Tekoa. The piece covers the Inland Empire Stock Breeders’ session, pine and timber moves, a Steilacoom smallpox case, Dunn log drive, and key developments in mines, roads, and the Wenatchee canal project with landowner water rights.
Seattle market rundown lists delivery prices for hides pelts and tallow plus dry and green hides. It covers wool from Western and Eastern Washington, beef cattle cows steers sheep hogs calves and poultry, butter and eggs, oats barley wheat and seeds, plus hay values for Puget Sound and Eastern Washington timothy alfalfa.
The former governor John P Altgeld died at 7 09 am in the Hotel Munroe Joliet from cerebral hemorrhages his end came after physicians tried to revive him during the night He had been in fragile health since the Globe Savings Bank failure in 1896 and Spalding crash earlier years His last public appearance was as special orator for a Will County pro Boer meeting amid South African events.
The steamer Providence traveling from Vicksburg to Lake Palmyra overturned in a cyclonic squall near Lone Landing. Twenty one aboard were drowned, nine saved, as the hull lay bottom up in forty feet of water. Property loss runs to several thousand dollars.
A morning tornado swept southern Copiah and northern Lincoln counties near Vicksburg Miss killing at least seven people. Montgomery in Copiah was hardest hit with four bodies in debris. A railroad camp nearby lost three Negro workers, and a Illinois Central passenger train had its windows blown out in the storm.
Washington March 15 The house foreign affairs committee voted to skip Sherman’s bill renewing the Chinese exclusion law and to pursue Mitchell Kahn measures in continuous sessions. The nine-page first section approved limits Chinese laborers and blocks Philippine labor movement with broad support from Pacific coast lawmakers. Administrative provisions remain to be resolved but favor restricting entry to Chinese laborers.
Washington March 14 Doorkeeper W J Glenn of the house of representatives died at 3 10 this afternoon from acute inflammation of the lungs He was a resident of New York.
Washington March 17 Senator Mitchell introduces a bill to reimburse settlers on Eastern Oregon Land Company lands in Sherman county. The interior secretary would determine value of lands and improvements, issue indebtedness certificates, and warrants paid from treasury funds. The measure covers dispossessed settlers and includes provisions for heirs and death, with a hearing already held before the senate public lands committee.
Prince Henry of Prussia sailed for Germany on the Hamburg American liner Deutschland after a day of official farewells in New York. The voyage featured a luncheon, photos on the bridge, and a noisy send-off from crowds along the North River and harbor.
Boston reports a break in the Allied Freight Transportation Council strike. Governor Crane and city merchants pressured the NY NH&H Railroad to implement Boston Maine rules, enabling 20,000 idle workers to resume work. Old crews face possible vacancies, but demand for teamsters and longshoremen surges as commerce restarts.
Daily Mail correspondent reports a Warsaw court martial condemned Russian Colonel Grimm to death for passing military secrets to a foreign power. Arson? Polish aristocratic ladies are said to be arrested as his accomplices. Unconfirmed rumor says he was shot.
Helena March 15 A Special to the Independent reports Science Hall at the state university in Missoula was practically destroyed by a fire that started about 1 30 o'clock Friday morning. The hall is the second finest building on campus valued around 100000 dollars plus equipment pushing total value higher.
Washington and Hoboken dispatches relay a cordial exchange between Prince Henry of Prussia and President Theodore Roosevelt. The two leaders thank each other for the visit and express hopes the friendship between Germany and the United States will grow, with warm regards to Mrs Roosevelt and Miss Roosevelt.
Severe shocks at Shamaka cause widespread destitution with about 12 000 people left homeless after subterranean disturbances in mid February.
President E H Green of the Texas Midland Railroad announces receipt of a U S patent for a wireless telegraphy system. He plans immediate installation on the Midland, claiming it will be the first railroad in the world to use the system.
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