The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1902-12-19
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
ror the Week Ending DEC. IL.

- For the NSS
The London press blames Germans
far sinking Venezuelan warships.
The December wheat crop estimate
assumes an almost perfect conditloh.
DR.. Adolf Deucher has bee CHOSEN
president of the Swiss confederacs.
Andrey Carnegie. wife and daugh-
.or cached New York from Europe.
The weekly trade review reports a
| brisk business throughout IN" oun
try.
S;x men were reported killed IN a
Northern Pacific wreck at Frialey,
MINI.
Mrs. Elizabeth Strickler. who lived
near Decatur, Ind. died at the age OF
1o3 years.
A rumor has reached Alden, ARABIA,
of the assassination of the Mad Null
lah in Somaliland.
Harry Pulliam, of Pittsbnrg. has
been elected to the presidency OF the
National Baseball league.
An attempt to lay the shore n OF
the Pacific cable at San Francisco
failed because of high tide.
The new Wooster university build
ings, costing over s4oo,ooo, az
Wooster. O., have been dedicated.
John d. Rockefeller will give pos
sibly 500. O0O, 900 to establish n nation
al educational institution at Washing
ton.
For the first time in history Amer
lean capitalists have bought large
holdings in the stock of a Canadian
bank.
The total value Of crops in'1owa the
past year is placed at s215,722,339, or
S6O.O 900. 600 less than the value of crops
of 1901.
The National Civil Service Reform
league convention in Philadelphia
elected Daniel c.. Gilman, of Balti-
more, president.
Bogota is to be informed that the
United States will not tolerate any
further delay in negotiating isthmian
canal treaties.
Former President Cleveland pre-
sided at a meeting in Philadelphia in
School for Negroes.
A dispatch from Dublin say the
Irish people are united for self-gov-
eminent, but do not seek separation
from Great Britain.
A committee of the Federation of
Women's Clubs found distressing con-
d.tions in factories in Chicago where
children are employed.
Diplomatists in Washington deplore
the attitude of Britain and Germany
toward Venezuela. which has no
money to pay their claims.
A reciprocity treaty between Cuba
and the United States has been
signed in Havana by Gen. Bliss and
Secretaries Zaldo and Monies.
a new counterfeit $50 gold certi.
hcate, act July -, 1852, check letter C.
Lyons register. Roberts treasurer.
portrait of Garfield, has been dis
covered.
The senate committee on education
and labor concluded the taking Of
testimony on the eight-hour bill and
intends to act on the measure at an
early date.
An and wooden toy trust. with
100000 capital, will he organized
January / to eliminate wholesalers.
Prices have already advanced five to
ten per cent.
Inc house committee on judiciary
shelved three joint resolutions FRO.
posing an amendment to the consti.
tuition ~disqualifying polygamists from
holding office.
Ihree thousand Chicago union
cigar makers have decided 10 nos+,
pone their increased wage demand
n year to help manufacturers fnht
the tobacco trust.
James ]. Hill thinks the era Of nros.
perlty has reached its height and
mat a downward tendency will soon
be apparent, with diminished ;ndns.
trlal activity and tighter money.
PRESIDENT Baer. of the Reading raj,
road. IN a speech in New York. declared
hat "tinkering politicians" who try 70
override the federal constitution win
De c by the supreme court.
The coroner's Investigation of the
Lincoln hotel fire, in Chicago, where
- persons were killed, disclosed
.ha1 SIN rooms had no outside WIN.
COWS and that rooms leading to the
nre escape We're filed with nnests
and the doors locked.