The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-05-23
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

THE NEWS in BRIEF.
For the Week Ending May II.
The S12O,CG0CGO hardware trust has COLI
iapsed.
Fire nearly wiped out the village of Sul-
Ivan, Wis.
James Rose died at st. Martins, N, BIS
aged Ill years.
Fire wiped out the entire business por-
ton of Farlin Ia.
Lewis Nixon has resigned as leader OF
Tammany Hall in New York.
Carbonate, small town in Kansas has
been almost entirely destroyed by fire.
Dun & Co.'S trade review reported wealth.
er and wages disturbing factors in business.
A Kansas City firm has sued big meat
packers for damages, alleging blackhsting.
The British steamer Camorta is reported
lost with 139 persons off the coast of Ma
dras.
The Monon railroad has been sold to-
the Louisville & Nashville and Southern
roads.
Five men tried to rob Rock Island ex-
press car at Muscatine. Ia. Three Were
caught.
Illinois republicans have renominatet
Henry s. Boutell for congress in the Ninth
district.
New York hotels increased dining-room
prices because beef and other food prices
have risen.
Mrs Julia Bedell celebrated her one hun
dred and first birthday at her home in Bay
onne, N. ].
John Jacobson and his wife and infant
child were burned to death in fire at
Laurel, Neb
William S. Green shot and killed his de
vorced wife and committed suicide at Mont
gomery City, Mo.
William Malcolm, city treasurer of Pas
sale, N. j. admitted that he was short $780,
900 in his accounts.
Gen. Charles Dick has been renominated
for congress by the republicans of the Nine
teenth district of Ohio
In the oil fields near Austin, Tex, the drill
in a well at depth Of 142 feet dropped into
a lake of liquid asphalt.
Overthrow of the government of Hayt
has been MADE complete by the departure
Of President Sam for France.
DR.. William Tod Helmuth, aged 60 years.
a surgeon of national reputation. died sud-
denly at his home in New York.
Twelve thousand persons have been abb
solutely ruined by the failure of the Hum
bert's Insurance company. in Paris.
AT Shrewsbury, Mass. Mrs. George Buck.
IS years old, and Mrs. Hannah Cummings.
over 50 years old, We're burned to death.
The president Issued proclamation for
the opening to settlement July II of the
Fort Hall Indian reservation in Idaho.
Lord Pauncefote has rendered his resig-
nation as ambassador to Washington from
England and asked immediate acceptance.
Carrie Nation was sent to Jail at Topeka,
Kan, under sentence of 80 days imprison-
ment and $l00 fine for smashing bar fixtures.
The one hundred and fourteenth general
assembly of the Presbyterian church
opened in the Fifth Avenue church in New
York.
Anton Regler and Hannah Kickel, who
Ior@ I, TOO
married, committed suicide together at st.
Louis.
Albert Gallatin Riddle, well-known law
yer and author, and an ex-member of con-
gress from Ohio, died in Washington, aged
Sc years.
The report of the revision commission was
presented to the Presbyterian general as
sembly and discussion will begin next
Thursday.
Cesson of the Danish West Indies to the
United States is delayed till after the fall
elections through the obstruction of the
landsthing.
Senator Cullom secured promise from
President Roosevelt to visit the Illinois state
! fair at Springfield provided no affairs of
| state interfere.
| Anthracite coal operators are worried by
the intimation that Attorney General Knox
will proceed against them under the Sher-
man antitrust law.
John Alexander Dowie, at the funeral of
his daughter in Chicago. said disobedience
of his order caused the fatal burns and
made prayers useless.
Bulk of the stock of the Philadelphia
Record has been sold to William S, Stenger
at price which makes the value of the en-
tire property $s,l0o,C00
c. NJ Schwab, steel trust president an
! rounces that the Staten Island hotel and
beach bought by him will be for the use Of
New York poor children.
Joseph Chamberlain, in a Birmingham
speech, said the British government hoped
for Boer peace, but was not Sanguine of
Nereeniging conference outcome.
American insurance losses on Martinique
were small. St. Vincent risks are carried
| by English concerns. French companies
held most of the Martinique risks.
| Senators opposing the Nicaraguan canal
| route, which is dotted with volcanoes, will
urge the Martinique horror as an argument
against choosing that water way.
| Western railroad officials have promised
| the interstate commerce commission to end
discrimination live stock in favor Of
| packers products. Rates on latter are to
| be raised.
| Effect of the coal strike is seen in New
| York in an advance in the price of anthra-
| cite product, decline in stocks of the
| "coalers" and alarm among manufacture
| ers over the possible spread of the trouble
| to bituminous fields
| A returned army officer says the F'lipinos
are deluded into continuing the struggle by
| the Hong-kong junta, which represents
| President Roosevelt as a prisoner in the
| white house, menaced by Americans, who
! demand independence for the archipelago.