The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-07-08
THE NEWS in IRIEF.
For the Week Ending June %.


In mine accident near Dover, N. j..
| five men We're killed.
Cornell won the intercolle giate four-oared
race at Poughkeepsie. N. Y.
Lord Miner took the oath as governor
of the Transvaal at Pretoria.
Three men were drowned at Milwaukee
by the capsizng of boat while fishing.
The tenth triennial international Sum
Gay school convention began at Denver,
Col.
Charles Davis was hanged at Pittsburg,
Pa, for the murder of his wife last De-
cember.
Pennsylvania democrats have nominated
| Robert e. PattisoE, of Philadelphia, for
governor
The Ohio supreme court rendered de-
| cision invalidating special charters enact
ed by cities.
South Dakota democrats and populists
fused and nominated John F. Martin (dem)
for governor.
Gus Rubin defeated Tom sharkey in
London for purse of $4,000, the fight
lasting II rounds.
general miners strike is feared by
the railroad companies, which have begun
contiscatlng csal.
John p Hopkins, of Chicago, has been
elected chairman of the Illinois state DEM
ocratic committee.
Yale university gave degrees to class
of $50. Plans for Chinese volunteer mis-
sion were announced.
Alonzo Wells and Lena Geiger, aged nine.
were struck by a train and fatally injured
near Cedar Rapids, Ia.
Nebraska democratic and populist COM
ventions united on w. H. Thompson, a
democrat, for governor.
w. j. Bryan has issued a statement de-
nouncing Grover Cleveland for his Tilden
club speech in New York
The situation in Hayti is more serious
and the authorities are powerless. An ex-
tensive outbreak is feared.
The Virginia constitutional convention
has adjourned sine die, having been in
session year and IA days.
China is said to have relinquished all
claims to sovereignty in Manchuria in the
recent agreement with Russia.
Alabama republicans split, one faction
nominating H. H. Myers for governor, and
the other Charles D. Greaves.
Senator Pettus, of Alabama and his wife
celebrated in Washington the tifty-eighth
anniversary of their marriage.
Edward Hemsley, Jr., bricklayer, shot
and killed his divorced wife at Salt Lake
City and then committed suicide.
Gen. o. L. Spalding. first assistant Sec
rotary of the treasury, has been notified
by Mr.. Shaw that he is to retire.
Illinois civil war claim of S1,0O5,l29
against federal government will be paid
as soon as warrants can be prepared.
An engine exploded on a farm near Mount
Vernon, Ind, killing Thomas Rowe and
fatally injuring four other persons.
Mayor Holden, of GAINESVILLE, o., and Chief
of Police Tracey fought in courtroom.
and the mayor was knocked insensible.
J A Cuban reciprocity treaty, it is said, has
! been prepared and will be held in readi-
ness for any emergency that may arise.
Robert S. Mccormick has presented to
| Emperor Francis Joseph his credentials as
| United States ambassador to Austria.
| Illinois democrats have nominated Jonas
| Olson for congress in the Fifteenth district
and Wilbur H. Kinds in the Nineteenth
| President Loubet signed a decree closing
| all religious orders in France which have
not complied with the law on associations.
| Wisconsin prohibitionists met in Milwau-
! kee and nominated a state ticket headed
| by e. w. Drake, of Milwaukee, for gov
ernor.
Gen. A. S. Burt, retired, who recently
| arrived in San Francisco from the Phil.
ippines, advocates selling the islands to
Japan.
/ A cyclone did great damage in the Vic
cinity of Lancaster, Ky, a dozen farm
houses being blown to pieces and crops
| destroyed.
Illinois coal miners gave $4,000 cash to-
| ward carrying on the strike in West Vir-
ginia. They have sl,00O,c10 still left in the
/ state treasury.
The Yale crew defeated Harvard by four
lengths in the varsity race at New Lon
con, Conn, and Harvard won the four
cared race by 21s lengths.
| Charles NJ Schwab, United States Steel
| company president, inspected the Chicago
and Joliet mills with view to spending
So 100000 in improvements.
The will of Very Rev. E. A. Hoffman,
dean of the General Theological Seminary
| at New York, disposes of an estate esti-
mated at $4,000, 900 to SIS, 10000.
fast passenger train on the Chicago.
st. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railroad
was wrecked near Ashton, Ia, and two per-
sons were killed and many injured.
Edmond Bruwaert, French consul gener-
al at New York, is to be minister to Cuba
His probable successor In Henri Merou, at
present French consul general at Chicago.
The Missouri republicans nominated
state ticket headed by ]. U. White for
| superintendent of public instruction. and
| Endorsed President Roosevelt for reelection
in 1904.
All striking engineers and some f1remen
coke, Pa, have returned to work. This is
regarded as the first break in the anthra-
| cite strike.
| France has given assurance that it will
help in the Panama canal transfer and the
| United States will ask aid in learning the
| validity of the title. Rear Admiral Walker
| may head the new commission.