The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-06-13
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending June :.

a ciouGpurSt destroyed the greater part
of CORTLAND, Neb.
The supreme court of the United States
has adjourned to October 13 next
A census bulletin shows that Indiana has
22l,S9t farms, valued at SS41, 1S5, $40.
Iowa democrats will hold their state con-
VeEtion at Des Moines S~eptember3.
Violence in the anthracite miners strike
mas increased in the Schuylkil region.
Gen. Gomez refuses to accept an annual
pension OF $4,000 planned for him by Cubans.
The republicans of South Dakota have
nominated Charles N. Herried for gov
ernor.
Georgia democratic primaries resulted in
the nomination of j. NJ. Terrell for gov
ernor.
Engineer Frank Finch and Fireman Pay
were killed in a railway wreck near Chat
tanooga.
Samuel L. Clemens mark Twain) am
nounces his final retirement from the pub
lie platform.
The president has nominated John F.
Jewell, of Illinois, to be consul at Mar
Unique, w. 1.
Texas cattle will be shipped to restock
Boer farms; $50 head, have been shipped
from Pensacola.
Two villages have been destroyed and Is
persons killed by a volcano in the territory
of the Chico, Chill.
Jim Black. a negro, who murdered the
wife of j. K. Jones, was hanged by a mob
near Ravenal. s. c.
Irish members of the British house of
commons tried to defeat the $3.50, 900 gift to
Kitchener, but failed.
Gen. Kitchener has been made a viscount
and given a money award of $3.50, 600 for his
South African services.
Francis w. Griffith has been nominated
for congress by the democrats in the
Fourth Indiana district.
A Nou yorlx v,,Drar, oo,r ;uetioo ee,,o
an injunction against the alleged combine
OF western beef packers.
The Illinois Audubon society has warned
Chicago milliners that prosecutions will fol-
low II birds are used.on fall hats.
Oscar Webb, during a family quarrel at
Philadelphia. shot and killed his wife and
her mother and then shot himself.
John Alexander Dowie has ordered all
male residents of Zion City to grow boards
as a safeguard against bronchitis.
DR.. Samuel L. Clemens mark Twain) un-
yelled a tablet marking the house in st.
Louis where Eugene Field was born.
Whttecaps brutally whipped Mrs. Alice
Hanger, near Marengo, Ind, compelling
the husband to witness her punishment.
The British will not ask Kruger to ac-
knowledge their sovereignty over the
Transvaal owing to his age and infirmities.
The Indiana populists have nominated a
state ticket headed by William Gill, Of
Montgomery county. for secretary of state.
President Roosevelt opened in Washing
ton the eleventh annual convention of the
Association of Military Surgeons of the
United States.
The Philippine Instruction is ended ex-
| cept in Mindanao. Acting Gov. Wright
cables that civil rule can be established in
every island now.
clergyman of Silverton, Col, and John Nc
Comb, a Denver mining man, were drowned
near Durango, Col.
The republicans have nominated James
H. Southland for congress in the Ninth Ohio
district and B. F. Russell in the Sixteenth
district of Missouri.
A new French cabinet has been formed by
Senator Combes, who will succeed Waldeck-
Rousseau as premier. The members ara
radical and socialistic.
Letson Ballet, a young mining promoter,
has been convicted at Des Moines of using
the mails to defraud persons buying stock
in an Oregon property.
Sir Robert Giffan, in testimony before
the British subsidy committee. said foreign
shipping had increased 100 per cent. in five
years and British only ten.
Secretary Root submitted to congress the
text of instructions given Gov. Taft as basis
for negotiations with the vatican regard
ing friars' lands in Philippines.
Attorney General Hamlin, of Illinois, has
filed suit against ITO fire Insurance compa-
MES asking injunction restraining them
from fixing and maintaining rates.
A Staten Island magistrate refuses to dis
miss the case against the driver of an au-
tomobile, whose machine ran away n
killed two men during speed trials.
American congress on tuberculosis in ses-
sion at New York declared that consump-
ton is an acute, infectious disease and
urged methods to prevent its spread.
The democrats have nominated Judge
d. c. Badger for congress in the
Twelfth Ohio district and Capt. w.
Guthrie in the Tenth Indiana district.
An open letter to the Beers issued by
Schalk Burger and Commander in Chief
Botha urges loyalty to the new government.
The Boer vote for surrender was 81 to s.
James J. Hill, president of Great Northern
railroad. In an address at Illinois manu-
facturers' banquet, in Chicago, said federal
censorship of railroads leads to government
ownership, and destruction.
Sir Michael Hicks-Beacn, chancellor Of
the British exchequer, announces that all
of the f40. 000,0 600 war fund recently voted
will be necessary, but he can dispense with
the additional ELS, 1900 0 asked for.
Great Britain announces the selection OF
Michael Henry Herbert as Lord Paunce-
totes successor at Washington. while Spain
will send Senior de Ojeda to succeed the
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