The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-05-09
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the week Ending May. 3.

For the Week Ending May. 3.
The president has signed the Legislative
appropriation bill.
Mrs. Mary Hall. of La Grange, Ind, died
after fasting for 90 days
storm in Wyoming killed over 1900
sheep on various ranches.
Many Americans are said to be seeking
homes in northwest Canada.
On April 80 the total circula ton of na>-
tional bank notes was 1856, 9S7 ,399
The final meeting of Boer leaders to dis
cuss peace terms will be held May 10.
The Federation of Womens clubs biennial
convention began at Los Angeles, Cal.
The expenses of the visit of Prince Henry
to Chicago We're go, 800, or $1,000 an hour.
William Henry Moody, the new secretary
of the navy, has taken the oath of office
Twelve thousand workmen struck at
Pittsburg to enforce eight-hour demands.
Andrew Carnegie announces that he will
give another 900 to % towns for libra
rieS.
Andrew Carnegie left New York on the
steamship ST. Louis for his estate in Scot
land.
Democrats of the Twelfth Indiana dis
trict have Ienominated James M. Robinson
tor congress.
The fourth monthly installment of the
Chinese indemnity, amounting to $1,292 200.
has been paid.
The Rock Island road has purcased the st.
Louis, Kansas City & Colorado line, pay
ing $500 share.
The Russian battleship Retvisan, built by
Cramp & Sons in Philadelphia, left the ship
yards for Russia.
Arthur Bonner, sugar trust treasurer. told
the senate committee the trust was not
interested in Cuba
Dun & Co.'S weekly trade review says la
Dor controversies are the only factor in the
industrial situation.
H. A. Barrows, disbursing clerk in the
census office in Washington, has been found
1850 short in his accounts.
New gold fields of amazing richness ara
said to have ben discovered under the tun-
ORA along the Behrng coast.
Officers of the United States cruiser Chi
cago, imprisoned in Venice, are set free
by order of the king of Italy.
Princess Radziwill was sentenced in Cape
Town to two years in the house of correc-
ton for forging Rhodes notes.
Admiral and Mrs. Schley, on visit in
Memphis, were presented with silver
service by citizens of Tennessee.
Dominican revolutionsts now threaten
San Domingo and the fall of the Jiminez
government is considered near.
Lewis Young (colored) was hanged at
Moundsville, w. Va, for the murder of Ar
thur kell in a quarrel over girl.
AT Davenport, Ia, fire destroyed the main
pOlllOI VI llle pldul VI luS belleuOOI1 oleeA
Axle company, the loss being $25O,OOO.
The report that Tom Thunder the cele-
! brated Winnebago Indian. was drowned
near Gatesville, Wis. was erroneous.
| The Amalgamated association In session
/ at Wheeling, W. Va, reelected Theodore
Shaffer president for the ensuing year.
| Forty thousand people gave President
( elect Estrada Palma an enthusiastic well
come on his arrival in Santiago de CUBA. {
Thomas Mast, the famous caricaturist.
has been nominated by President Roosevelt
as consul general a t Guayaquil. Ecuador.
Bank clearings in the United States for
the week amount to s. 2.025.676. decrease
| of 1873 per cent. as compared with last year.
Ernest Dewley. a negro who shot and
| seriously wounded Harry Dowell, a young
white man. at Custom, Ky, was hanged by
| mob
| The National Society of the Sons of the
| American Revolution is session in Wash
ngton elected as president Edwin Warteld,-
| of Maryland.
The members of the English house Of
commons asked the government to pledge
| itself to prevent transfer of ships to Amer
| lean combine.
In a collision on the New York Central
road at Clyde, N. Y, the engineer and fire
| men were killed the 10 other persons We're
| seriously injured.
| Gov. Cummins of Iowa, in speech at
Minneapolis, said the American people will
| eventually crush out trusts that attempt
/ to throttle competition.
| Commission men at the stock yards in
! Chicago advise western shippers to hold
| their cattle and not ship at present, as the
| market just now is SLOW
| Because of dependency Mrs. John L.
kingsbury poisoned her two children, aged
eight and II. a t Denver, Col, and committed
| suicide by the same method.
]. j. Hill, the railway magnate, says the
| Injunction to control rates Will be futile.
and that only roads that are best equipped
and best situated will get traffic.
NJ. Santos-Dumont sailed Thursday for
| Europe, but intends to return to America
and give exhibitions with the air ship with
which he circled the Eiffel tower
The presentation in the house of bill
| to amend the bankruptcy law developed
strong opposition, ready not only to defeat
the amendments but to repeal the law.
High prices for meat are driving Amert-
cans toward vegetarianism, according to
| H. w. Wiley. of the United States agricul-
| tural department. Cereals supply all need
ed nutriment and are cheaper.
Kellar (Mich.) citizens heard robbers blow
open the post office safe and gave chase.
| The thieves were located near Watervliet
| and a fight followed with the posse. One
robber was shot and the other surrendered.
Congressional denominations: Third Iowa
district. d. B. Henderson (rep): Fifth Iowa.
r. G. Cousins Qep): Seventh Ohio, T. B.
Kyle Crep); Tenth Ohio, Stephen Morgan
| (rep.); Third Michigan, w. Gardner (rep):
Fifteenth Illinois, G. w. Prince (repD Sec
| wy