The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-12-31
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the week Ending Dec. 81.

For the Week Ending Dec. ~.
Armored cruisers of the navy are to be
equipped for wireless telegraDhy.
Marconi Will probably select Cape Breton
for permanent wireless telegraphy sta
ton.
Jennie June" Croly, a writer and or
sanizer of womens clubs, died at New
York.
The steamer Sun was destroyed at Mem
phis. Tenn, and four persons burned to
| death.
monthly line of steamers between New
york and the Philippines is to be estab-
| lished.
changed its headquarters from Chicago to
| New York.
| Gen. Alger is thought to have passed the
crisis and prospects for recovery are con-
sidercd favorable.
An Oklahoma farmer has been arrested
charged with the murder of man al Arno,
Mo-, ~ years ago.
| negro employe of the ST. Louis health
| board confessed giving out infected serum
| that caused Is deaths
The Minnesota attorney general has Sc
| lected two lawyers to help fight against
| HIPS railroad merger.
| William Pethick, an American VIII.
| served as private secretary to Ii Hung
! Chang, died at Peking.
/
| have been discovered In Kansas City. All
| western roads are losers.
| a Fort Wayne train dashed into party
of working girls in Chicago, killing one
and fatally injuring another.
Wayne Demon, an 1S-year-old boy. shot
| three negroes to death who attacked him
| in a saloon at Davy, w. Va.
| Superintendent Collins of New York
! state prisons, issued an order prohibiting
the clipping of convicts' hair.
| The peace protocol between Argentina
| and Chill is signed, but both countries con-
| tnue Warklike preparations
| Grover Cleveland has accepted appoint
| ment as a member of the National Civic
| Federation arbitration committee.
| The Zionist congress opened at Basic.
| and DR. Herzl processes confidence in the
| success of the colonization of Palestine
The pope honored John d. Crimmins. of
New York, by making him knight COM
mander of the Order of st. Gregory the
Great.
Two men were killed and another badly
hurt in a collision of two fast freights on
the Northwestern line near Little Suami-
CO, Wis.
George Gardner of Lowell. Mass.
knocked out Kid Carter, of Brooklyn, N.
Y. in the eighth round of their fight at San
Francisco
The American tobacco trust has cornered
| the Turkish tobacco crop. the principal
| source of supply for German cigarette man.
ufacturers.
Two prominent men in ST, Louis leaped
from an automobile to avoid collision with
| 4 locomotive and were ground to death I'M
! der the engines wheels.
a train burned in a tunnel of the over
head electric railway at Liverpool and
| seven persons are known to have persisted.
! The total may reach 81.
Charles F. Wenneker, appointed by Presi-
dent Roosevelt collector of customs at ST.
Louis, has declined the Office because Of
| business responsibilities.
| Scientists at Ann Arbor, Mich, are said
to have discovered an absolute antiseptic
for all intestinal diseases, such as cholera,
typhoid fever and dysentery.
| Representatives of so box and paper board
manufacturing companies met at Buffalo
| and formed the United Box Board & Paper
| company, with $50, 0O0. 900 capital.
| Two young women were run down by a
| Fort Wayne suburban train at the Thirty
first street crossing. Chicago. One was
killed and the other badly injured.
Rural free delivery mail carriers are to
be placed under civil service on February
| !. After that date political or religious af-
| liliation of applicants cannot be considered.
| The one hundred and twenty-fifth ami
versary of the battle of Trenton was cele-
| brated by sham battle and reproduction
| of the scenes of Washington's famous vic
| tory.
| Numerous Christmas fatalities are re-
| ported, the most serious of which was q
| battle between negroes and whites in Ala
| bama. IN which two were killed and two
wounded.
| Soldiers at the Preside in San Francisco
| engaged In riot growing out Of a stabbing
| and fought with the police who attempted
| to make arrests. Six officers were injured
| and Is soldiers arrested
Henry Siegel on his. return tn New York
| from abroad, admits that he Is considering
| the establishment In London Of a depart
ment store on American lines and that Sir
Thomas Upton may be associated with him
| in the venture.
Illinois board of equalization makes q
| net increase of S1S7, 00O. 900 over last year in
tax assessment for the state. Almost all
| of the addition falls upon Cook county.
SIS. 600 being valuation placed upon cap
| ital stock of corporations
| The United States has decided to cut its
| claim against China of Sc, 10000 to 5000,
| 600, which represents the actual damage
and cost of the military invasion. Euro
pean powers will not be permitted to grab
| the balance turned back to the helpless
| country.
VIII Reddng, wife murderer. and Jim
! Winton (both colored), who killed his
| sweetheart, were hanged at Birmingham,
Ala. Reuben Quinn was executed at Dan
vile, KY, for shooting officer John 4.
Crunl. who tried to arrest him. Cicero Har-
us (colored). who murdered Samuel Waso
last September, was hanged at Bristol, Va.