The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-02-11
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the week Ending Feb. s.

Fire at Mentone, Ind, wiped out half the
business portion of the town.
The explosion of boiler on towboat
in Pittsburg killed six persons,
Thomas Sidney Cooper, a noted land
scape painter. died near London.
The submarine torpedo boat Plunger has
been launched at Elizabe Import, N. j.
Admiral Schley ended his southern tour
with a reception at Knoxville, Tenn.
Gold assaying SIS ton has been dis
covered on a farm near Depeyster, N. T.
Archduke Leopold of Austria and the
archduchess, made balloon trip of 20O
miles.
An extensive conspiracy to assassinate
the empress dowager of China has been
unearthed.
Tom Brown (colored) was lynched by a
mob at Nicholasville, KY, for assaulting
white girl.
j. Pierpont Morgans special train ram
from Philadelphia TO New York, 80 miles,
in 81 minutes.
Frank Tennell killed Annie Johnson and
himself at Great Falls, Mont, after a
lovers quarrel
Three young women We're fatally hurt
and six others injured while coastng at
Cumberland, Md
Armstrong Hensley was hanged at Err
win. Tenn, for the murder of his siX-year-
old stepdaughter
AdlStE w liIeiI Is ldhlIS sleps W Up
pose the establishment of Christian Sci
ence in Germany.
Dowager Queen Margherita of Italy Is
to visit the United States under the name
of Countess Stupinigi.
Frank Knapp, merchant and postmaster
at Bertram, Iowa. was run over and killed
by Northwestern train.
The senate committee was informed by
Judge Taft that the majority of the Fill
pinoS favor American rule.
Gen. De Vets last gun and his chief
lieutenant commandant, Vessels, have
been captured by the British.
The Manila chamber of commerce has
sent address to congress urging sale Of
government lands to settlers.
The Chicago health department is or
ganizing cooperative crusade to crush
out smallpox in the middle west.
President Roosevelt has consented to his
daughters going to King Edwards corO-
nation as the guest of Whitelaw Reid.
Gov. Van SAINT in message to the Min
nesota legislature gave the details of the
states fight against the railroad merger.
James w. Tufts, the millionaire soda
fountain manufacturer of Boston, died
suddenly of apoplexy at Pinehurst. N. c.
New York tax commissioners will test
the right of mllionares to avoid taxes by
taking UP legal residence in Rhode Island
Three barges loaded with coal were lost
vi liiell way lFOIl Newport news W bOS-
ton and crews of 10 persons We're drowned.
| Capt. Grossman, an army officer, walked
4 20 miles on the Danube river with bis
newly invented shoes, towing a small
i boat
The laboratory and hotel conducted by
the Leslie E. Kelley company at Dwight,
| ILL.,, were destroyed by fire, the loss being
100000.
The United States supreme court has
affirmed the Illinois Central railroads title
/ to lake front land in Chicago valued at
| $40. C0O, 900.
The state railroad commission declared
| the Park avenue tunnel disaster in New
York city due to negligence of New York
| Central officials.
Euless Whitaker (colored), charged
with the murder of John Dorster was
| taken from Jail at Lynchburg, Tenn, and
| hanged by mob.
A merger of the Northwestern, ST. Paul
and Rock Island roads is said to be con-
templated by the Vanderbilt, Moore and
| Rockefeller interests.
1 The appointment of Yung Lu as "frst
| secretary" in China shows that Russia Will
! hold the whip hand and that Great Britain
may expect no favors.
Every law enacted by the Last WyominE
! legislature is invalid, for the reason that
| the bills were not read and recorded prop
| erly in the lower house.
The United States. Great Britain and
Japan are insisting that China shall not
sign away exclusive rights in Manchuria
| to the Russian government.
| The date of the national conference of
charities and corrections, which was set
for Milwaukee, has been changed to De-
troit May IS to June inclusive.
Many Presbyterians favor a revision of
their articles of faith, which. they hold, are
subject to double reading in the clause
referring to Infant damnation.'
| The Bulgarian minister of public instruc-
| ton was assassinated at Sofia by young
man who failed to get a position he de-
sired. The murderer committed suicide
Cincinnati judge has ruled that strik-
ers must not employ persuasion or any
other means to interfere with nonunion
men desiring work in carriage factory.
Following the action taken by the Sal
walton Army in London. the New York
branch will compile a ''Drunkard's Di-
| rectory," the idea being to ascertain the
| cause of the mans downfall.
| Gen. Pearson. a representative of the
! South African burghers. has asked per-
mission of President Roosevelt to assemble
a force and attack the British camp Of
mule buyers located near New Orleans.
| Lord Salisbury, in speech, declared
| England was ready to accept any settle
| ment in South Africa that recognized the
| rights of the sovereign and offered Sc
curity to the empire. He also said Ireland
/ must be pacified