The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-05-16
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For Week Ending May1o.

FIRE nearly wiped out the village of Sul%
liVan, Wis
President Roosevelt has signed the oieo-
margarine bill.
Fire at Bobruisk Russia DESTROYED Oh
houses and $50 stores.
Snow fell in portions of Wisconsin, Min
nesota ard North Dakota
Asurcion Esquivel has been inaugurat-
ed president of Costa Rica
Iowa republicans will hold their state
convention in Des Moines on July 80.
Minnesota republicans will hold their
state convention in st. Paul on July /.
In clash between railway workmen at
Log Mountain. Tenn, six men We're killed.
Mrs Locky Perry celebrated her one hun
dredth birthday at her home in Waverly,
Ia.
Five men tried to rob Rock Island ex-
press car at Muscatine, Ia. Three were
caught.
The mock marriages of 100 couples at
Jewish ball in Yonkers, N " are said to
be valid.
Rains in Iowa, Kansas. Nebraska and In
dian territory have saved the wheat and
hay crops.
A new train on the Pennsylvania will
make the trip from Chicago to New York
in II hours
Two hundred houses at Bartlett the IA
nous health resort in Hungary have been
destroyed by fire.
Queen Wilhelmina of Holland has passed
successfully the crisis of her illness and is
recovering rapidly.
Father Richard H. MCGUIRE, pastor of st.
kevin's church at Irondale, ILL.,, was found
dead in his bathtub.
Arbitrators rendered an opinion against
Salvador in a dispute regarding claims
of United States citizens
John Shorten, editor of the Cripple Creek
Herald, died while sitting in a chair in the
st. James hotel in Denver, Col.
Senator McLaurin Is. CD and A. a. Gates,
of that state, had fist fight over politics
ir hotel lobby in Washington.
The Burns university school near Char
lotte, w. Va, was destroyed by fire and two
students persisted in the flames.
A new million dollar watch company,
which will fight the combine, has been
organized at South Bend. Ind
The senate Philippine committee listened
to details of the murder and mutilation of
American troops by the Fiipinos.
The president has pardoned five union
miners adjudged guilty of contempt of court
in the western district of Virginia
The senate appropriated Sl65, 900 for repair
ing the white house interior. A separate ex-
ecutive office building is provided for.
The New York Central railroad has leased
the Delaware and Hudson route, securing
its own line to Saratoga and Montreal.
coast of Spain created panic i'll a number
of cities, but no fatalities are reported.
Trees shrubbery and blooming plants
are being killed by smoke, ard the beautiful
foliage of Chicago is rapidly disappearing.
Francis NJ. Anthony celebrated the one
hundred and second anniversary of his
birth at his home near Bloomington, Ill.
Secretary Shaw has modified customs
rules to admit free luggage taken
abroad and giving $500 exemption on APP
parel.
Hetty Green, the richest woman in the
United States. has been granted permis-
sion by the New York police to carry a
revolver.
Margaret Taylor, a Cincinnati girl kid
mapped four years ago by her aunt, has been
found in Italy, and her abductor will be
arrested.
The executive committee of the United
Mine Workers ordered big strike at the,
anthracite region, which will render eco
men idle
ments just published show that the
British tenders are to receive the sum
of s17O,0OO.OOO.
The case against Senator Money. of Mis-
siSsippi, growing out of an alteration on a
street car in Washington, was nolled by the
district attorney.
The Federation of Women's Clubs end
ed their Los Angeles meeting. Mrs.
Dimies T. S. Denison, of New York, was
elected president.
For the first time in the history of
the Congregational church the degree of
bachelor of divinity has been conferred
on a woman in Chicago.
Jewish rabbis of the New Orleans con-
ference appointed a committee to get
views of congregations on changing Sab
bath from Saturday to Sunday.
The San Domingo revolution ended with
the overthrow of the Jiminez government
and surrender of the capital. Vice President
Vasquez heads the new government.
Andrew Carnegie, in a London inter-
view, said that England will not be a
European power in the future, and must
make an alliance with American repub-
lies.
Wage disputes. fire and tornado curtait
production, according to weekly trade re-
views, at a time when demand for consump-
ton surpasses all records and prices reach
the highest points in recent years.
Republican congressional nominations:
Illinois, First district, Martin B, Madden;
Second. James R. Mann; Third W. w. VIII
son. Michigan, Fourth district, E. l.. HAM
ilton. Ohio. Sixteenth district. ]. ]. Gill.
Congressional renomina tons: Third Iowa
district, D. B. Henderson (rep); Fifth Iowa.
r. G. Cousins (rep.); Seventh Ohio. T. B.
Kyle (rep); Tenth Ohio, Stephen Morgan
(rep): Third Michigan, w. Gardner (rep);
Fifteenth Illinois. G. w. Prince (rep.); Sec
ond Indiana, r. w. Mers (dem).