The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1902-12-12
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the week Ending Dec. 9.


Mrs. Malinda Lowell died at Bedford,
Ind, aged 1o5 years.
The little town of Ward, S. d., was
nearly wiped out by fire.
George Bear, an Indian, was
hanged at Sioux Falls, S. D., for muir
der.
Mont Pelee, on the Island of Mar
Unique, has resumed it's dangerous
activity.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt cele-
brated the sixteenth anniversary of
their wedding.
Mrs. Carrie Nation is IN Jail at To-
peka, Kan, on the charge of disturb
ing the peace.
The American league is to have
Sunday baseball only in Chicago and
St. Louis next year.
Chicago's anthracite coal supply is
1,OOO,0 900 IONS short and suffering is
likely from cold weather.
The coinage executed at the minis
of the United States during Novem-
Der amounted to $5,246, $50.
The schooner Wesley NJ. CLEAR was
wrecked in a storm off Hatteras in
let and the crew of ten drowned.
The president has appointed Rob-
ert NJ. McWade, of Pennsylvania, to
be consul general at Canton, China.
Shamrock, a prize bullock at the
stock show in Chicago, was sold at
Sc cents a pound, bringing $1,o1O.so.
The sixth annual convention of the
National Live Stock association will
be held January IS nextin Kansas City,
Mo.
Weekly trade reviews. say that bust
ness activity continues throughou.
the country in excess of previous
years.
John H. Holder. publisher of the
Aurora Beacon and the pioneer news
paper man of Aurora, Ill, died sud-
denly.
A. b. Anderson. of Charlottesville,
Ind, will be appointed United States
district judge to succeed John Baker,
resigned.
An injunction against Cleveland la
Dor unions to prevent b%oycotting of
" IL las DtcI lltUe DCEI1a.
nent by Judge Ford.
The German. emperor in a speech
to a %deputation Of workingmen at
Breslau said socialists were the foes
OF the wage
Caleb Powers, convicted in the
Goebel murder conspiracy in Kentucky
and sentenced to life Imprisonment,
has been granted a new trial.
The November fire loss shows a to-
tai of $10,55s,30O, against $14. sol, 900 for
1901. Loss for IL months. 1923, 667. 900,
against $152, 900. 900 for 1901.
1t has been decided that the America
cup race shall be sailed beginning Au-
gust 20, 1903, and continuing on al
ternate days until concluded.
DR.. Henry S. Cutler, composer and
musical conductor, credited with IN
Producing vested male choirs in this
country, died at Swampscott, Mass.
The three men who are supposed
to have robbed the bank at Bridger,
Mont, and escaped with $3,73s were
captured after a wild ride of 800 miles.
A well-known New York financier
says that of sO,oOO,0 900 silver dollars
now in circulation it is likely that
not less than 100000, 600 are counter
felt.
Sir Hiram Maxim, British inventor
and gunmaker, will start for the United
States soon to begin flying machine ex-
periments that will extend over two
years.
The government receipts during
November amounted to $43, 500, DOL
and the disbursements $40, o40,257.
leaving a surplus for the month Of
$5Ss,741.
A girl aged six years and an in-
FAINT of two months, children of Mrs.
Ainsley Bowers, of Saginaw, Mich,
were burned to death while their
mother was absent from the house.
The United States navy began a war
game in the Caribbean sea. Rear Adj
miral Summers feet sailed from Trim
dad to effect a landing on American
West Indian possessions. Admiral
Higginson's fleet is on guard.
The government monthly crop re-
port shows winter wheat condition
promising and the crop making rapid
growth. The Hessian fly is causing
extensive damage in early sown grain,
but the late grain is unaffected.