The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-05-30
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the week Ending NAV "a.


Jean Rodriguez died at Laredo Tex,
aged 104 years
Half of the business section of Milford.
IND, has been destroyed by fire.
The London Chronicle declares, that peace
in South Africa is practically assured.
Kansas democrats have nominated w H.
Craddock, of Kansas City, for governor.
Ernest Senior, i years old, died from a
blow by batted ball in a game in Chicago.
The Bradbury piano factory was de-
stroyed by fire in New York, the loss being
$4,000.
The eleventh district republicans Of
Iowa have renominated Congressman Lot
Thomas.
Republicans of the Eleventh Indiana dis
trict nave nominated Fred j. Lands for
congress.
In the Thirteenth Ohio district the dem
ocrats have renominated James A Norton
for congress.
The arrival of the United States cruiser
Topeka at Port au Prince had a pacifying
effect on Hayti
John w. Churry. of South Bend. Ind.
h1lleu susanna kecskemetti, his sweet
heart, and himself.
Chicagoans are promoting reorganiza-
ton of the Omaha Packing company. with
a capital Of 100000
Secretary hay proposed to Denmark an
extension of one years time for ratification
" lie west 1ndleS treaty.
The Presbyterian general assembly in
New York adopted the creed revision report
with two negative votes.
j. +. Morgan & Co. announced the pur-
chase of the Monon road by the Southern
and Louisville and Nashville lines.
Inc Iowa G. A. R. ercampment at Des
MONIES adopted resolutions praising the
work of the army in the Philippines
Estimates of currency movement fore
Nayy h II a
with cash gains of probably S., 100000.
me United States commission has intro
duced English as the official language of
courts and customs in the Philippines
Alfred Hamilton was hanged at What
conn., Wash, for the murder of D. M. Wood
bury at Anacortes September Z, 1889.
King Alfonso. in the uniform Of captain
general, held his first review of Spanish
troops; 1900 soldiers passed in parade.
Adam Shaffer and his wife, both octo-
senarians and wealthy, were killed by a
tram on a crossing a Newcastle, Ind.
A kingstown (St. VincenO correspondent
visited the lee side of the island and found
La Soufrere still active. Vegetation is all
killed.
The agricultural department revised esti-
mate of the 1901 grain yield places wheat
at t4S, 46O,21S bushels and corn at l. 522 $40 S91
bushels.
Edwin Lawrence Godkin, former editor
OF the New York Evening Post, died at
Brixham, South Devonshire, England, aged
Il years.
A trust with sS5, 1900 capital to control
the Photographic business of the country
Is being formed by the Eastman Kodak
company.
Bishop Thoburn told the senate Philip
plrss committee that American occupation
of the islands was an act of God and should
be continued.
Inc schooner Helen Augusta, bound from
Stonington, Me-, for New York, has been
lost, and Capt Moore and a crew of six
men persisted.
Gen. Lloyd Wheaton, relieved from duty
IN the Philippines. was praised by Gen.
Chaffee, who called the soldiers attention
to his good record.
President Roosevelt was rendered a
luncheon by members of the Rochambeau
commission on board the French battleship
Gaulois at Annapolis. .e-,eerr6e cTared
by the United States court to have origi-
mated "Cyrano de Bergerac'' IN hts ''Mer-
chant Prince of Cornville."
DR.. Emmett Enos. former superintendent
of the Kankakee (Ill.) insane asylum, is
hopelessly insane from paresis; he correctly
diagnosed his own case.
Oliver oleson, in the Gus Jahnke murder
trial, at Alliance, Neb., testified they
dropped Michael Sierk into a WELL gave him
poison. and then shot him.
The use of whisky and tobacco when on
duty and nonpayment of debts will here
after cause the discharge of employees Of
the Northwestern railroad.
Western railroads will stop discrimina-
ton against live stock shipments from st.
Paul A 2S1a-cent rate on dressed beef
and live stock is, authorized.
An earthquake destroyed the town Of
Quezaltenango, Guatemala, containing S.
600 people. Business in Guatemala is suss-
pended and the coffee crop ruined.
Bishop Thoburn. of the Methodist Epis-
copal church. in his testimony before the
senate Philippine committee said Hong
Kong Is better governed than Chicago and
that human life Is safer there.
Ira D. Sankey the evangelist, has joined
the Presbyterian church in Brooklyn. He
says the change is not due to satisfaction
with the Methodist church. but was made
because he desired to worship with his FAM
lily. a
John F. Gaynor and w. D. Greene, want
ed for United States government fraud,
were taken from Montreal jail by friends
on writ and returned to Quebec by special
train. Secret service officers were out
W1tted.
Crazed by his infatuation for little Abitha
Mccullough, 1S-year-old girl, William
Austin killed the girl and four other per-
sons and then committed suicide In lone
ly farmhouse of William Wilkinson, near
Hastings, Fla.