The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-09-05
THE NEWS In BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Aug. 20.

For the Week Ending Aug. 20.
A five million dollar broom making COM
| bine is planned.
| Baltimore chemist is said to have per-
fected fuel made of street dirt.
The First national bank at Aberdeen,
s. D.. was robbed by burglars of $500.
Official cholera statistics show a total
| up to date in Manila of % 664 cases and S,040
| deaths.
The doors of the Elnora Qnd) bank,
| private institution, closed with liabilities
of $4,000
Value of the gold output for the year in
the United States was SIS, 666 100, and silver
$S3, 2S,4OO.
The democrats have nominated Lewis
Dlckes for congress in the Thirteenth Hill
nois district.
Boer generals at Brussels have unani-
mously selected Gen. Botha as future Lead
er of the Beers.
King Victor Emmanuel was given a
! hearty farewell on his departure from
Rome for Berlin.
Three persons We're killed and three NOR
tally wounded in political riot at HUI.
macao, Porto Rico.
Inc government estimate of gold output
IN klondike this year is $14,00O,0G0, COM
pared to $24,0C0,000 last year.
Reports of bankers throughout the west
and northwest show that crop and business
conddtione are at highwater mark
The federal court at Madison, Wis, has
enjoineo' all parties from interfering with
the E!gin Creamery company receiver
Gen. Fred B. Wood, of Tecumseh, has
been nominated Tor congress by the demo-
Gratis of the Second district of Michigan.
The Enora, Ind, bank safe was opened
and money supposed to be gone found.
The missing president may be suicide.
lad
Europe on Panama canal affairs, said the
people could abolish trusts if they SO desire.
Adjt. Gen. Corbin, Maj. Gen. Young and
Maj Gen. Wood are in Berlin as guests
of the emperor to witness the army review.
On the sixth anniversary of her hus-
bands death Mrs. Josephine Vollmer
killed herself and her niece in New York.
H. H. Brinker, formerly receiving teller
of the German national bank of Pittsburg,
Pa, is in Jail charged with embezzing $780,
500.
In a fit of jealous rage Christian CAM
killed Mrs. Lizzie Hall and Arthur w.
Campbell in New York and then committed
suicide.
The treasury department report shows
that the world has 1,I5O submarine tele-
graph cables, having total length Of near
ly 100000 miles.
The interstate commissions report for
the year ended June 80, 1901, shows total
receipts from operation OF all railroads.
to be $1,5SS, 526,OS7.
Clarence A. Plank, police judge of Spring.
field. O., who admitted shortage OF $4,-
300, committed suicide at Springfield Mo-,
by taking poison.
Mrs. John McCurdy, Chicago bride Of
few months, fearing that she was going
insane, killed herself by tying her head
over an open gas jet.
Secretary Shaw ordered the dismissal Of
a clerk VINO used his connection with the
treasury department in advertising
scheme to play the races.
There is a growing demand in Europe
for immediate action on the part of the
powers, especially the United States, to
stop the trouble in Venezuela.
Luther p Friestedt alderman from the
Thirteenth ward, Chicago, has sent in his
resignation because he received too many
appeals for free transportation.
The principal part of Ruskin, Ga, the
town which was formerly the home of the
Ruskin commonwealth colony of socialists
from Tennessee, has been burned.
Peter S. Hoe one of the original members
of the firm of r. Hoe & Co., manufacturers
of printing presses in New York city, died
in Mentclair. N. j., aged 81 years.
Gen. Samuel L. Casey, aged 81, died in
ST. Joseph, Mo. He was member of con-
gress from Kentucky during the war and
supported President Lincoln warmly.
Revenue cutter Tuscarora, which will
see service on the great lakes, has been
given her sea trial off Chesapeake Bay.
She is expected at Milwaukee October To-
Commander Wainwright has been APP
pointed to command the cruiser Newark
and will be succeeded as superintendent Of
the Annapolis academy by Capt. w. H.
Bronson.
John G. Carlisle, former secretary of the
treasury, delivered the annual address be-
fore the American Bar association a Sara
toga, dealing with the insular policy of the
government.
Acting Postmaster General Wynne holds
| that postal employees may act as delegates
to political conventions. but must not
| serve as chairman of state or county
committee.
| German iron, steel and coal industries
| formed combination to pay bonus to
members exporting to foreign countries,
thus making it possible for them to UNDER
| sell all competitors.
Secretary Shaw has issued circulars ap:
plying to the free entry of personal effects
of returning tourists Officials are uged
to use discretion, but to relax nothing where
| the evident intention is to smuggle.
j. r. Hunter, j. w. Woodwork, II. P.
| Kauffer and S. N. Bickerstaff of Kala-
| mazoo, implicated in scheme to defraud
the state of Michigan in military supply
| contracts, pleaded guilty and We're fined
| s., 900 each.
Admiral Higginson, in his report on the
naval maneuvers off the New England
coast lays great stress on the work Of
the Observers and recommends that all
vessels of the navy be supplied witha wire-
| less telegraph outfit.