The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1902-11-21
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the week Endins nov. is.

For the Week Ending Nov. rs
Caracas has been reinstated as the
capital of Venezuela.
A new cabinet has been formed in
Spain with Sagasta as premier.
Michael Clifford celebrated his one
.hundredth birthday at his home in
EBaraboo, Wis.
Eight persons are dead as the re-
suit of a boiler explosion in a fur
mace at Lebanon, Pa.
Pool operators in Wall street, New
York, were hit for $780, 600, 900 by q
slump in the market.
Foreign commercial men were given
a banquet in Washington and were adj
lressed by Secretary Shaw.
A cannon ball fired by the British
in the war of 1912 has been dug out in
a cut near Bladensburg, Nd.
The presidential party in the Mis-
sissippi woods got a bear, but the
president failed to get a shot.
Secretary of State Cook, of Mis-
souri,, that the Democratic
plurality in that state is 1924.
The whisky tax law enacted by the
last Missouri legislature has been de-
clared unconstitutional and void.
Weekly trade reviews show good
distribution of merchandise in prep
aration for heavy holiday trade.
Postmaster General Payne will urge
on congress a two-cent postage rate
to England, France and Germany.
The American Bankers association
in session in New Orleans elected as
president Caldwell Hardy, of Norfolk,
Va.
The Burlington, Grand Trunk and
Wabash railways nave increased the
wages OF their employees ten per
cent. .
The Princeton Cll.) football team
has won the championship of athletic
club football teams of the United
States.
The total vote of Indiana at the.
recent election was. 50O,O71, and the
republican plurality in the state was
1864.
Leslie Combes, of Louisville, has
been appointed minister to Guate-
mala, to succeed DR.. w. G. Hunter,
resigned.
Prof. Samuel M. Lindsey, commits
sioner of education in Porto Rico, says
the educational prospects of the is-
land are good.
A syndicate of American capitalists
has bought 10000 0 acres of land in
Canada and proposes to settle 12.5OO
families thereon.
The official canvass of the vote OF
Illinois at the recent election gives
Busse (rep.) for state treasurer u
plurality of s6,771.
In a battle with four robbers Mar
shall Henry Krohm, of Elyria, o., was
dangerously wounded and one Of the
robbers was killed.
Col. Ed Butler, a St. Louis million
aire, has been convicted of attempted
bribery and. sentenced to three years
in the ~penitentiary.
Four towns were completely buried
and thousands of people killed. by the
eruption of the volcano of Santa
Maria in Guatemala.
The German ~reichstag adopted
tariffsbill allowing retaliation against
countries that impose discriminating
duties on German goods.
John w. Holleck, a farmer and al.
legged pension agent, wns sentenced.
in st. Louis to ten years in the peni-
Tertiary for pension frauds.
The Pennsylvania company volnn-
tarily increased the wages of
than 100000 employees, adding $s,0o0,-
GOO annually to its pay roll.
Brig. Gen. Hamilton S. Haw-
kins, U. S. A., retired. has been
detailed as governor of the National
Soldiers Home in Washington.
During a controversy over a board
bill at Manchester. o.. James Master
son fatally shot NJ. p. Birmingham,
owner of the Hotel Bratt, and then
killed himself.
Five men suspected of the Gardner
(Ill.(s bank robbery. October 30, have
been arrested in Chicago after a search
begun with bloodhounds. Alton train
men have partly identified them.
The United States commissions in Ma
Mia has passed an actto assist the sup
preston of ladronism. It makes high
way robbery committed by three or
more persons a capital offense.
THE MARKETS.