The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-02-25
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the week Endi, . Feb. 2n


The Lackawanna road will pension old
employees.
The Twenty-ninth regiment left Fort
Sheridan, ILL.,, for the Philippines.
Turkish authorities deny the arrest of
Rev. Mr.. Tsilka and say he is in Sofia.
sleetstorm in the east cut off WASH
lngton from the world for several hours.
| Lord Rosebery's desertion of the liberal
party has stirred politicians in England
| Albert Bierstadt, the noted landscape
artist, died of heart disease in New York.
| Coon kinamen was killed and his wife
fatally injured by the cars near ingalls,,
Ind.
The graduation of the Naval academy
class on May will add 60 officers to the
navy
SwimmerH. F. Brewer broke all records
Tor 5Ut to LOCO yards at the Sportsmen'S
show in Chicago.
Elias Holiday has been nominated for
congress by the republicans of the Fifth
Indiana district.
Justice Horace Gray, of the United States
supreme court, is suffering from slight
attack of paralysis!
James E. Watson, of Rushville. Ind. has
been renominated for congress by Sixth
district republicans.
Kansas populists, after lively session
at Topeka, decided against affilia ton with
democrats this year.
| British naval estimates for the present
year provide for an expenditure of SIS, Co.,
| eV0 for new warships.
| Joseph Jefferson celebrated the seventy
third anniversary of his birth at Palm
| Beach, Fla, Thursday
| kroonland, the largest vessel thus far
built in the United States, has been
launched at Philadelphia
Inc Wisconsin supreme court in effect
has decided that the state inheritance
tax law is unconstitutional.
Fire at Lafayette, Ind, destroyed several
stores and damaged the Journal office, the
| aggregate loss being $3.50 600.
The name of President Mckinley has
been given to the Notifications on Great
Diamond island Portland. Me.
Rev. Newman Hail. D. D., LII. D., the
Congregational clergyman and writer,
died in London, aged Sc years.
| HI. j. Avery established a worlds record
at a three-cushion billiard tourney in Chi
cago by making 80 in 81 innings.
| The superintendent of schools at Kokomo,
Ind, reported that 400 boys out of 1900 in
| the city schools smoke cigarettes.
| Rev. Calvin Holman, one of the pioneer
preachers of Methodism, died at his home
In Topeka, Kan, aged IS years.
| Miss Gertrude Gothic was shot dead after
quarrel by her lover, George Sutton, who
attempted suicide, at Philadelphia.
| Tidal waves on the Salvadorian coast
caused a loss of more than so lives and the
| partial destruction of seven villages.
| The total amount of subscription received
| by the Illinois auxiliary of the Mckinley
Memorial association to date is $S0,6l699
| HI. f. Brewer, of San Francisco, won the
tOO-yard swimming championship at the
Coliseum In Chicago, breaking the record
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., left Groton.
Mass, for Washington in a private car,
accompanied by his mother and doctor
| Fire, followed by an explosion of gas,
wrecked the Tecumseh flats in Chicago
and rendered nearly 100 persons home
| less.
| The National Civic Federation committee
considered in New York a plan for a
| tribunal to prevent threatened strikes and
| lockouts.
The secretary of war furnished the sem
ate with mass of information disprov-
| ing charges of cruelty made against Phil
| ippine troops.
The United States transport Meade has
arrived at San Francisco from Manila
| with 1000 soldiers whose terms of service
/ have expired.
An American bank robber In the City Of
| Mexico killed cashier who refused to give
up money and then committed suicide to
| avoid capture.
Gen. Edward S. Bragg of Fond du Lac.
| Wis, sole surviving commander of the old
| Iron Brigade, celebrated his seventy fifth
| birthday Thursday.
| Attorney General Knox, by direction Of
President Roosevelt, is preparing a bill in
equity to test the legality of the Northern
| Pacific railway merger.
Chlkat Indians in the state of WASH
ington have buried alive a youthful con-
vert to Christianity because he denounced
| the mummeries of the tribe
| Minister WI violently denounced James
| D. Phelan. former mayor of San Francisco,
In a New York hotel for the latters oppo-
| sition to Chinese immigration.
| John Jordan, with several aliases, the
| king of green goods men, has been ar
| rested by secret service agent of the
| post office department in New York
Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Lyman
j. Gage is to become president of the
| United States Trust company of New
| York. with salary of $4,000 a year.
La Crosse Wis. is without legally quail
flied justice of the peace owing to the fail
ure of officials to file the necessary bonds,
and the fact may void all their decisions.
| Isaac Henderson, of West Lafayette.
| o., student at Drews theological SEM
| mary, committed suicide at New Bruns-
| wick, N. j., because of remorse for wick
| eGness.
| Ambassador White. in an address to
| Americans in Berlin, denied that there is
any hatred for Germans in the United
/ States, and insisted that the attitude of the
| emperor during the war with Spain was