The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1902-10-31
H NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the week Ending Oct. 20.

For the Week Ending Oct. 20.
Thirty persons were hurt In a wreck
on the Big Four road near Parker, Ill.
The king of Siamw win visitthe United
States next year asthe nations guest.
The Kentucky confederate veterans
home at Pewee Valley has been dedi-
Icated.
Five men we're drowned by. the foun-
dering of a craft off Fogo, N. F., during
a gale.
The trustees of the University of
Chicago voted 10 to 3 for segregation
of sexes.
England, France and Germany will
withdraw their troops from Shanghai,
China, January /.
The next meeting of the National
Educational association will be held in
Boston next july
Nine Americans andEuropeans were
drowned by the capsizing of a launch
on the Siberian coast.
President Roosevelt decided to with
hold all appointments until after the
meeting of congress.
The national w. C. 7. U. convention
at Portland, Me-, declared for compul-
sorry temperance instruction in public
schools.
Charles A. Russell, member of con-
gress from the Third Connecticut dis
trict since 1886, died at Danielson, aged
so years.
Secretary Moody has decided to ask
congress for a large increase in the
navy's fighting ships and an increase
of officers.
Weekly trade reviews report retail
business, retarded in some places by
mild weather, but movement of goods
fully sustained.
Arthur Meyer, aged 10, self-con-
fessed murderer of Douglas Craft, has
been sentenced at Kankakee, ILL, to 20
years imprisonment.
A jury at Clarinda, Ia, has found
William Lucas guilty of the murdertof
Emma Moore and fixed his punishment
at life imprisonment.
Chief Engineer Melville, of the
navy, in his annual report suggests
the use of oil for fuel on the tor
pedo boat ~destroyers.
Retail cigar dealers and manufacture
ers outside the American Tobacco COM
pany win meet in Chicago to plan a
ti~ghtagainst thetrust.
John D. Rockefeller has given to the
Teachers college of Columbia univer-
sity $4,000 with a proviso that 1t
raise a similar amount.
Arthur Meyer, aged 10, self-con-
fessed murdered OF Douglas Craft, has
been. sentenced at Kankakee, ILL.,, to
20 years. Imprisonment.
Attorney General Knox, who in
vestigated the Panama canal title,
will in his report hold~that the COM
pany can give a perfect title.
F. A. Heinze, of Butte, Mont, is ac-
cused of offering a $2,5Oo,co0 bride to
the SON of Senator Clark for adm get
ting political control of.the state.
The Missouri Valley Homeopathic
Medical association has begun a war
on kissing, which is declared to be a
nuisance and a breeder of disease.
The American Tobacco company has
appealed to the Iowa supreme court a
case to testthe validity of the state law
taxing cigarette dealers $25 a month.
Justice Harlan, of the United States
supreme court, took a personal hand
in a class fight at Columbian univer-
sity, of which he is a director, and
put a stop to.the fray.
Mrs. John Lame, wife of a farmer liv-
ing near Brockett, N. D., poisoned her
eight-months-old son and then COM
mitted suicide with poison. Domestic
trouble is said to have been the cause.
The National Association of Manu-
f%acturers has issued a circular declar-
ing a war On union labor and demand
ing the defeat of the e%igth-hour day
and anti-conspiracy bills now before
congress.
Col. Mosby, special-agent of the in
terror department, reports that cattle
r-aisers are illegally occupying mil
Lions OF acres of public lands in the
west which ought to be open to home-
stead settlers.
Andrew Carnegie was installed as
lord rector of St. Andrews university.
Glasgow. In his address he urged
the German emperor to form a politi-
cal and INDUSTRIAL union as Omitted
States of Europe" to resist American
invasion.
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