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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1899
Page
2
A New York woman allegedly shot a man after aiming at a dog, while an artsy mockery thread muses on automobiles and coastlines. The piece scatters social wit about treaties, royalty, finance, ships, and crime alongside reflections on education and crime.
The Hon James W Bradbury a Bowdoin graduate of 1825 led this year’s alumni procession at commencement and is cited alongside notable contemporaries like Benton Calhoun Clay Houston and Welster Hawthorne Nathaniel Hawthorne’s long life is noted as eighty years since his death. The piece also appeals for pensions or half pay for former Government life saving station personnel after long service and aging hardships.
The piece condemns government treatment of the life saving service, noting pay cuts and lack of pensions, and urges Congressional remedy. It then discusses William Waldorf Astor’s naturalization and plans to spend life in England, arguing he should honor his American ties. Russia denies de Blowitz rumor of Czar abdication, examining Nicholas II's challenges and the unlikely prospect of his retirement.
A digest of late-19th century dispatches notes Mexican miners avoiding Yaqui violence, shifts in politics, and notable events. It mentions Mrs Phoebe Hearst as principal stockholder in a California oil venture and Julia Dent Grant's Philippines service and engagement to a Russian prince. It also covers transit losses, boundary talks, and various international incidents.
Eighteen yellow fever cases and one death in Key West. Cuban sentiment on census proclamation. Santo Domingo backs Jimines. Kentucky officer killed during arrest. rebels at Angeles repelled by Colonel Smith. Reports of Aguinaldo, Dreyfus, and Kruger. transport Morgan City grounded in Nagasaki. relief ship condemned. Wisconsin to trial. calls for forest reserve policy shift. Linns and rails expand. Numerous clips on politics, crime, industry, and technology.
Portland business leaders organize the Oregon Industrial Exposition with a $12 000 guarantee fund to showcase Northwest products including grains wool timber fish fruit and dairy. The event runs September 28 to October 28 featuring a 82 member military band acrobatics and world renowned performers. Also announced is Salem and Pacific Coast Railway Company’s incorporation to build and operate a main line in the Willamette valley linking forests and farms with markets, based at Falls City Oregon.
E H Winship and other Napa capitalists form a new corporation to build an automobile factory. Several large investors have agreed to invest 10 000 dollars each, with 100 000 dollars already in sight. The article also notes the Summer Fallow Machine Company intends to manufacture the Anderson Weed Destroyer in Durf, with an 80 dollar share and plans to produce thousands of units annually.
Estimates place the harvest between 250 000 and 800 000 bushels with four separators at work including one from Klickitat county and a new unit by Mason and McCloud. The Toppenish Trading Company has shipped 15 cars of grain to the Sound. Toppenish is busy, with large fruit shipments as well.
General Fitzhugh Lee reports on conditions in western Cuba and urges self government for Cubans with an independent republic. He supports elections, a president, vice president, and congress, and suggests U.S. troops remain to protect Americans and property during a transition. He does not detail a constitution.
A blaze at 1 am heavily damaged the Jacob Cold Packing Company plant in Kansas City Missouri. The fertilizing department engine room ice plant sausage department and lard room were destroyed with costly machinery. water pressure was low hindering firefighting.
Plan for smuggling Chinese into the United States via ice transport to San Francisco is reported. Four Chinese men, posing as acrobats, jugglers, etc., are to be landed in America with payments to ensure they stay. An initial batch of 190 has already departed aboard the Nippon Maru toward the United States.
Pittsburg Sept 4 A boiler explosion at Republic Iron Works South Twenty fourth street just before daylight killed five men and seriously injured seven The plant was nearly empty at the time and the blast wrecked parts of the mill forcing a shutdown Had it occurred later the death toll would have been far higher.
A Washington dispatch reports that Hiram Cronk of Ava New York aged 99 is no longer listed on pension rolls as alive though previously counted as the war of 1812 survivor and oldest pensioner. Cronk served forty days with the New York militia in 1814.
Washington announces at the Dewey celebration that Admiral Sampson is relieved of command of the North Atlantic Squadron. The action is at his request after a long sea service. Admiral Farquhar and Remey are named as prominent successors under consideration.
A Shanghai dispatch reports serious clashes between German and Chinese forces at Kiao Chou Hinterian with six Chinese wounded. The German minister to China sent an ultimatum demanding purity of life and property and order, warning of steps to protect German interests.
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