The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-03-28
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

For the Week Ending March %.
John Henry Peavy, a negro, was hanged
at Vienna, Ga, for the murder of Jesse
Ford
Achilles l., known as king of Patagonia.
died in Paris, leaving his throne to an un-
known.
The state institution for the deaf and
dumb at Jackson, Miss has been destroyed
by fire.
new life-saving crew at Chatham,
Mass. rescued eight men from ship in
, distress.
A London paper predicts civil war in Ire
land as a result of the United Irish league
agitation.
w. j. Bryan celebrated his forty-second
birthday by moving to his farm near Lin
| coin, Neb.
The senate Philippine committee has de-
cided upon distinct coinage system for
the islands.
A jury declared Stewart Fife not guilty
of the murder of Banker Richardson at st.
Joseph, Mo.
The special session of the Colorado legis-
lature adjourned after the passage of the
revenue bill.
Republicans of the Ninth Indiana dis
trict have renominated Charles B. Lands
for congress.
Andrew Cranegie has given libraries to
and Paris, Ill.
James Hatfield. of the famous Kentucky
family of feudists, was killed in a fight at
North Bend, o.
The Virginia constitutional convention
has practically agreed upon plan to dis
franchise negroes.
Thomas E. Burns, an oldtime famous
ball player, died suddenly of heart disease
at Jersey City, N. ].
The civil tribunal at Paris has approved
the cession of the Panama canal property
to the United States
The Missouri supreme court rendered a
decision UNFOLDING the right of labor men
to enforce the boycott.
George Carter (colored) was hanged at
Moundsville, w Va, for the murder of Vir-
ginia Whistler, also co!ored.
Gen. Otis finished his testimony before
the senate Philippine committee, telling of
the duplicity of Aguinaldo.
-Four negroes were killed and one IA
tally beaten by white men at Madrid
Bend, Ky, for stealing chickens.
Santos-Dumont will visit ST. Louis to Sc
lect fair site for balloon shed in con-
nection with the airship contests.
John Woodward, the negro murderer of
Leonard Calvtt, a white planter, was
lynched by a mob at Vidalia La
Andrew Carnegie announced gift of
! $4,000 for libraries in 40 cities and towns.
Denver with 100000 heads the list.
The barge Hamilton was wrecked off
Newport News and Capt. Shoemaker and
his crew of four men were drowned.
Jerome Magee, of the University of Chi
cago track team. Went II feet inches in
pole vault, breaking the indoor record.
Gen. Macarthur has been assigned to the
| command of the Department of the Lakes
, and Gen, Funston has been sent to Denver.
| Henry Wright, negro, who attempted
| to assault a white girl at San Marcos, Tex,
| has been given SO years in the penitentiary-
German manufactures may be excluded
| from the United States in retaliation for
the exclusion of American meats by Ger
many.
| The English branch of the American to-
| bacco trust offered to give British con-
| sumers its net profits and $1,000 600 bonus
| for four years.
versary of the evacuation of Boston by the
British was celebrated by the unwilling
of a monument.
| Complaint has been made before the civil
:, service commission that there is syste-
matte exclusion of women from the gov
| eminent service.
! Prince Adalbert, third son of Emperor
William of Germany, is to visit the United
/, States in April as a cadet aboard the train
| ing ship Charlotte
Five hundred German, Austrian and Rus
i sian emigrants. disappointed with condi-
| tions in the United States, have returned to
| their former homes.
| The British budget demand exceeds the
nations income by $75,OOO,0OO The def
cheney, it is thought, Will have to be made
| up by new taxation.
| Stanislas La Croix, who murdered his
wife and an old man named Thomps, who
| was endeavoring to protect her, was
! hanged at Hull, Quebec.
| The weekly trade review notes numerous
| evidences of further Improvements in
4, markets, with vigorous domestic demand
and gain in foreign business.
| The Hartman interests are said to have
| secured control of the Rock Island rail-
| road through purchase of the Moore and
| the Leeds and Reid holdings.
| The situation on the iSthmus of Panama
| again becomes serious The government
| has established censorship over diplomatic
and consular cable messages. The United
States may interfere.
Edwin Farley, elevator man at the Aston
| house, New York. has confessed setting
| recent fires in that hotel. Officials have al
ready connected him with over a score of
/ fires and believe he is a pyromaniac.
| Suits to enjoin payment of rebates have
| been begun in Chicago by the interstate
/ commerce commission against the Lake
| Shore, Panhandle, Fort Wayne. Michigan
| Central, Illinois Central and Northwestern
! roads
| The shooting in Chicago of Joseph Hop
! kins by Dan Ripley, nephew of the former
chief of police. disclosed the fact that the
wounded man, supposed church member
! of Palos Park. Ill., was bank robber and
a paroled convict