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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1899
Page
2
A reader selection from the Aberdeen Herald traces satirical takes on Aguinaldo and Philippine affairs, remarks on officials and photographers, plus anecdotes about royalty, etiquette and public offices. It surveys political humor, crime, and social opinion across varied topics with a local editorial voice.
A historical piece contrasts a royal ambassador’s cordial London visit with the Queen and the courtesy of court life, then profiles A T Stewart as a pioneer of aggressive advertising. It details how Stewart built a fortune in New York, the later trials of Hilton, Hughes & Co, and Wanamaker, and argues advertising fuels prosperity while neglect leads to decay.
A Chicago mother recounts a late night vision of her daughter who was teaching in Wisconsin. The sight faded as the girl slept beside her, and a Chicago wise man explains the astral body was briefly visiting before returning to the sleeper.
A compact aphorism notes that physical size or boasts do not guarantee outcomes. The saying suggests humility and contingency in life, with a humorous twist on fortune and self perception.
Texarkana Arkansas reports an outburst of racial violence with mobs lynching and shooting Black residents in Little River County. Seven bodies found, others hunted, whites arming for further clashes as Black residents flee. County lies in far southeast Arkansas near Indian Territory and Texas.
Reports from the Volga provinces describe famine conditions in Samaria and eastern European Russia. Red Cross funds are nearly exhausted as starvation drives disease, with typhus and scurvy spreading. Peasants sell belongings and endure cold damp cabins. immediate government relief is urged to avoid 1891 92 calamities.
Manila reports heavy fighting near Ilo Ilo on March 16 as 400 rebel riflemen from Pania clash with seven companies of the Eighteenth United States Infantry and a Tennessee battalion. Three Hotchkiss guns support General Miller. North of Jaro the line held with one missing and 15 wounded among U S troops. several sunstroke cases. Miller cites about 50 rebels killed and 100 wounded.
Washington reports General Otis says the transport Sherman arrived with 5 000 fresh regular troops for the Philippines. The Sherman followed the Grant via the Suez Canal and preceded the Sheridan, which is due in about two weeks. The Solace has reached Manila as part of the reinforcement flow aimed at subduing insurgents before the rainy season.
A Washington dispatch reports from the war department that Aguinaldo's forces in the Philippines use brass tipped bullets. Several American soldiers are wounded by the poisonous projectiles and their wounds are harder to heal than those from ordinary bullets.
Pittsburg March 25 six hundred Fox Pressed Steel Company workers quit in protest after the firm refused a one per cent wage advance.
The house bribery investigating committee begins formal examination of all 204 members in Harrisburg following yesterday's resolution. Berlin reports the German battleship Oldenburg ran aground near Kiel during a heavy snowstorm after breaking her anchor.
TopekaMarch 25 John T Graham of Denver owner of extensive Colorado New Mexico gold and silver mines and Utah copper mines passed through Topeka en route home He attended New York smelter operators meeting that formed a 65 million dollar trust He said the first move of the trust would be a 10 percent surge in silver price and that the contract among smelters prohibits ore treatment price raises for 10 years
Captain McQuesten says A. R. Peters, a San Francisco photographer, was captured outside Manila lines and tortured by headhunter cannibals. He was beaten, wounded, and held in a filthy jail before American officials secured his release at Malolos with help from English and Spanish nationals.
Rev W H Tubb will visit Molokai leper settlement as agent for a local improvement club with Senator Dwyer backing. He will stay four months to work with a committee to be appointed by President McKinley to study converting Molokai into a national leper settlement. San Francisco pesthouse lepers are argued to be moved to Molokai.
The Herald notes Warren W. Leland will collect $150 daily on use and occupancy policies until his new hotel opens. This is in addition to insurance on furniture. The policies insure payments for each day the business is not operating.
Washington March 25 It is believed the president will take an extended vacation this summer if public business permits. Last spring he planned a West trip to Yellowstone Park and the Pacific coast and may undertake it again this year.
The ordnance bureau has sent a circular to state governors stating that arms and ordnance stores loaned to volunteers in the Spanish American War will be returned to each state in kind.
In St Paul on March 25 a parole bill for the Younger boys, defeated yesterday by the senate, was reconsidered and passed. If enacted the former bandits may be paroled with approval from the board of pardons.
Articles of incorporation filed in Trenton New Jersey declare the New England Electric Vehicle & Transportation Company with capitalization of 25 million dollars. The firm is authorized to manufacture vehicle operating appliances and to manufacture and operate vehicles. Buffalo sails from Manila to New York via Suez to run at least two round trips annually carrying supplies for the American fleet and transporting invalids.
Vienna reports that popular actress Lolo Balzella shouted 'Tis love that kills' and then shot herself during a stage performance in Cilli Styria. She was carried away in a dying condition as Paris records influenza deaths rising by 288 in seven days.
Washington reports MacArthur driving the enemy north of Polo and reaching Newcanavan as U S forces push toward Malolos amid entrenched resistance. Otis dispatches note enemy entrenchments from Calocan to Malolos and rising fires around Malabon as rebels retreat.
U S reports from Washington describe widespread famine in China due to flood damage of the Yellow River. Consul Fowler relays dire conditions with estimated two million starving, refugees fleeing floodwaters, and crops ruined leaving hundreds without shelter in winter.
An explosion rocked a lodging house and saloon at the corner of Washington and Sons streets in Seattle on March 27. Six were injured and three fatally hurt as the boiler blast hurled debris and people across the basement and nearby sidewalks. Officials suspect the blast resulted from boiler neglect and the boiler running unattended.
A fierce cyclone swept through Liberty in Denar ty, near Nashville, damaging the Christian church and many homes. Trees were uprooted and sturdy buildings felled as the storm left a path of extensive destruction with fatalities reported.
In Jackson Mississippi on March 27 a mob carried out lynching of Black men after a race clash near Silver City along the Yazoo line. The ringleaders of the assault on the plantation last week were seized and killed, their bodies weighted with cot ties and tossed into the Yazoo River.
Berlin report notes Professor Koch, famed bacteriologist and cholera commission head, visited India where he identified comma cholera bacilli. He plans an expedition to the tropics to study malaria further. The Reichstag approved 60,000 marks in aid for the undertaking.
Rain continues across California with no immediate flood danger unless temperatures rise or snow melts rapidly. Sherman remains improved and to be transferred to the cruiser Chicago. Atlas steamer ashore near Racine after drifting ice in southeast gale. General successor to Alger discussed by inquiry, with no formal statement. Puebla sails to San Francisco with 600 infantry. Meantime Cincinnati finds wage increase agreed by foundrymen affecting 20 000 workers.
The readable text fragments describe wartime movements and lines of supply, noting figures and locations in a confused montage. Named entities are unclear due to damaged text, but imply a military front, routes, and burning lines with references to wagons and supplies.
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