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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1898
Page
2
Aberdeen Washington editorials mock war debts and political boasts while riffing on ships, prices, and fashions. They joke about a bicycle craze, Worth and dress, and social changes amid a reflection on national debt and modern tastes.
The piece argues beauty in architecture as uplift and notes medicalization of emotions like nostalgia and bashfulness. It highlights rural free delivery expansion, cites petitions from 35 states, new distributing stations, and the need to modernize mail service to connect remote communities and end isolation.
A Berlin publication discloses imperial private dining practices. The emperor hires a chief butler for meals priced per head. Ordinary dinners cost under two dollars, wine excluded, while festive dinners vary from 83 to 10. Emperors meals include meat breakfast lunch and a six course dinner with hook Bordeaux and champagne. The castle stores 2,000 bottles of fine wine and 4,000 casks of other wines and liquors.
Divers recovered 800 tons of copper from a wreck in Lake Huron at 105 feet. The ship lay there for thirty two years as salvage efforts drew many people seeking notoriety through dramatic methods.
A roundup of global and domestic events including the Danish queen's death in Copenhagen, commissions meeting in Paris, wildfires in Colorado, Cuban troop movements, unrest in Jamaica, a Roumanian assassination plot, labor clashes in Illinois, and various diplomatic exchanges with Italy and Spain. Also notes on ships Norfolk Oregon Iowa tests, canal cost estimates, and a St Louis factory fire injuring several.
A reduction plan cuts the North Atlantic squadron from about one hundred vessels to thirty two. A boiler burst at a sawmill near Evergreen Alabama killed boiler engineer Bud Archer his wife their child and his wife’s sister. A Chicago and Northwestern special train set a new Chicago to Omaha record covering 493 miles in nine hours and 29 minutes.
General Otis reports 87 U S troop deaths in three months in the Philippines. U S consulates told to halve flags in memory of Ambassador Bayard. Warrant out for Senator Quay amid accusations of state money misuse. Four prominent Tennesseans assassinated near Murfreesboro. Hollingsworth captured and shot. Fitzhugh Lee’s corps to Cuba. Cuba to be divided into military departments. Fastnet arrives at Vancouver with half a million in dust and more on the wharf. Dreyfus upheaval roils Paris. many wounded in fights. Dewey ordered to move ships toward Beijing. Baltimore and Petrel dispatched. Bertha Beilstein kills mother and attempts suicide. motive claimed as life loss. German exports to America decreasing. Wisconsin pine forests burned. 500 million pines threatened. Spanish forces preparing to leave Cuba. Crete ultimatum presented to the Ottoman Porte. Armenians attacked near Alashgord. 50 dead. Skagway/Ox under British administration. Yukon access via a Canadian canal. Washington hop crop forecast 27.7–80 thousand bales. many contracted at 10–11 cents. Bella schooner lost off Seattle. crew casualties. Cumberland Wisconsin fire destroys area. 2250000 in damage. five children die. Gaelic brings congressmen to San Francisco. Cullen praises progress. Aguinaldo renounces dictatorship in favor of revolutionary president. Naga se serves as consul. Methodist missionary noted. American Indians company forms in New York with $15 million to develop Cuba and Puerto Rico. McKinley to attend peace exposition in Omaha.
A Shanghai dispatch confirms the emperor’s death with conflicting accounts of suicide, poison, strangulation, or torture. Another report says he died by own action on September 21 after naming the dowager empress to lead China. English secretaries and Chinese officials are banished amid rising anti English sentiment.
Cable from Minister Conger to the state department says six alleged conspirators were executed by imperial order in Peking. Kang, a leading reformer and adviser to the emperor, escaped on a British vessel. The empress reportedly ordered the executions and warned that trouble may flare at interior points.
Disruptions in Paris on October 4 around a Dreyfus demonstration led by M Pressence at Salle Wagram ended with police arresting Pressence, Vaughn, and Deputy Mary before crowds dispersed. Later clashes near Libre Parale offices injured several and sparked arrests. Fears of further unrest and a possible exodus among hotel guests grew as rival party leaders seek to mobilize the working class. Le Matin notes the cruiser Dubordieu waiting off Salut islands to remove Dreyfus.
Madrid reports the cabinet approves General Rios to grant reforms in the Visayas and concentrates forces in Mindanao amid 450 garrisoned there. It protests to Washington over U S troops denial and asserts insurgents receive arms. Reinforcements and artillery batteries are to depart within 24 hours. Protests over prisoners in the Philippines will continue.
A report notes that under current policy a Russian person is not considered of age until 26, prompting discussion on legal status, rights, and eligibility for certain contracts and responsibilities.
A severe weather system swept coastal Georgia and South Carolina, causing property damage and widespread disruption. Emergency crews reported damaged homes, flooded streets, and power outages as residents brace for cleanup and assessments. Local officials urge caution and appeals for assistance for affected families and businesses.
Savannah reports a massive late day storm from the West Indies. The harbor and riverfront suffered damage while nearby sea islands and the South Carolina coast were submerged. One drowning death is reported near Thonbold, with rice crops and shipping losses mounting.
A major blaze at the Denver and Rio Grande freight depot sparked a wind driven fire in Colorado Springs. Flames swept four blocks by two and damaged the Antlers hotel and several lumber yards. Estimated loss centers near one million dollars, with aid from Denver and Pueblo expected to help contain it.
Canadian Pacific railway plans a new trans-Pacific line with steamers Tartar and Athenian of 4500 tons. The Athenian will sail first from Vancouver loading grain for Russia after reaching Seattle and Portland.
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