The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-08-15
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the week Ending Aug. o.


Nine persons were drowned by cloud
burst near Ration, N. NJ.
Hospital statistics show that typhoid
fever is epidemic in Chicago.
state convention OF the peoples party
Will be held in Springfield. ILL.,. August 8.
Nebraska prohibitionists have nominated
S. t. Davies, of Otoe county, for gov
ernor.
The Burlington road is to raise the sal
aries September II of nearly all trainmen
over Its entire system
Leo Wilder, wife and three children,
We're burned to death at their country
home near Elliott, Cal.
King Edward issued a proclamation Of
thanks for sympathy shown by his sub
jects during his illness.
The Minnesota inheritance tax law has
been declared invalid by Judge Bum, Of
the Ramsey county court.
The Cambria Steel company, of Penn
sylvania, has purchased the Republic iron
mines in Michigan, paying over Sl,000,OO0.
Aaron Halle was put to death in the cleo
trio chair in Sing Sing On. W prison for
the murder of Mary Mccarthy May II, 1900.
WI Ting Fang, who is in New York, an
nounces that on his return to China he will
write a book which will please Americans.
Maj. Willard, of the engineering corps,
reports progress on the Hennepin canal
and the work of Improving the Illinois
river.
A receiver has been appointed for Frank
X. Chandler, real estate dealer in Chicago,
whose liabilities are 100000 and assets
$4,000.
Harry Benton, a 17-year-old negro, was
hanged by a mob near Homer La, for as
sault on the four-year-old child of D. w.
Fortson.
The annual report on the Improvement
of the Illinois river shows an estimate
of S1S2,00O to be expended during the fis-
cal year.
Samuel A. Packard, attorney for
John A. Dowie, who recently joined Zion,
has given up both Zion and Dowie's law
business.
Secretary Shaw has decided that articles
of foreign production that have once paid
duty may be RENTED free when properly
identified.
1t is said, that Cubans are planning retail
iatory measures upon the constituents of
senators and representatives who opposed
reciprocity
Striking girls at the American cigar fac
tory in Trenton, N j., gave police captain
a mauNing and pledged themselves to keep
up the fight
The Colorado democratic convention has
been called to meet in Denver September 3,
and the republican state convention the
following day.
The feature of commerce of last yearis the
increase of s1OO00,0NO in imports of iron and
steel manufactures and decrease of Sl9,-
100000 in exports.
London spectators in American railway
stocks are insuring themselves against j.
p. Morgan's death. A nine per cent. annual
premium is paid.
William Stein, state mine inspector for
the Shenandoah region, says that five
collieries, valued at S1,500000, have been
flooded and ruined
Mrs. Estelle Tolton of Westville, Ind,
whose husband came near being lynched
for her supposed murder, returned to her
home from Chicago.
Harry de Windt, explorer, travelling
overland from Paris to New York, found
a village in Siberia where outside news
had not arrived for 80 years.
A general rain has fallen all over cast
ern Colorado. breaking a long drought.
In may places it amounted to cloud
burst, doing great damage.
Pope Leo is said to have notified reigning
houses of Europe that no more consan-
guineous marriages will be permitted. The
step is taken to check degeneracy.
| Jasper D. Ward, Colorado pioneer,
and one of the most prominent attorneys
! in the state died at Denver He was a
member of congress from Illinois in
| 1872
| Mr.. and Mrs. John Shandrow. of South
| Haven, Mich, adopted % children from
Minneap polls orphan asylum, who came for
summer outing on their 1O0-acre fruit
farm.
The United, States gunboat Machias has
been ordered to prevent the cutting of the
Hayti cable by insurgents. 1t belongs to the
French, but the Monroe doctrine Is in
volved
The Federated Catholic societies in ses-
sion in Chicago expressed sympathy for
! the frars in the Philippines and confidence
In the presidents ability and willingness
to rectify abuses.
The trial of Frank c. Andrews. the De-
troit banker accused Of misappropriating
| funds, developed that $4,000 certified
checks went to pay obligations to the City
| savings and, other banks.
| Senator Hanna, in an address at Ur-
| bana, o., declared that all labor dis
! putes could be settled by arbitration,
and said the Civic Federation's efforts
for ten months failed but once.
/ A Havana policemans alleged insult
! to Mrs. Herbert G. Squiers wife of the
| American minister, may cause interna-
tional complications. The carriage In
! which she was riding was stopped for
violation of municipal rule.
The Armour interests are said to have
sold out their Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
! Paul holdings to E. H. Hartman, and the
( merged packing syndicate is reported to
! have bought big tract of land across the
! Missouri river from Kansas City, where new
mammoth stockyards will be erected.
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