The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-18
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


The Western Baseball league has been
disbanded
Miss Alice Roosevelt has returned to
Washington from Cuba.
King Leopold of Belgium was mobbed
at Brussels by socialists.
Fire destroyed one-half of the business
district of Chesterton, Ind.
Six Princeton students have been fined
$3.50 each for college pranks.
Edward Kelly, the king of safe blow-
ers," was arrested in Chicago.
The April government crop report an-
nounces a low wheat condition.
Assays of gold-bearing quartz found at
Prairie du CHEN, Wis, run from s25 to
81, 200 ton.
Fire in the pillow shop of the southern
plow works at Columbus, Ca, caused a
loss of 100000.
Two farmers. named Kanser and Bus
tlewere, were shot from ambush and killed
at Bernstadt, Ky.
Republicans of the Nineteenth Illinois
district have renominated Vespasfan War
ner for congress.
abandoned the measure for the present
session of congress
James Jackson (colored) was hanged at
Kansas City for the murder Of Prophet
Everett, also colored.
Joseph r. Miller, music teacher COM
nett in Detroit, Mich.
Thomas Blackard, young farmer at
Dukedom Tenn, was hanged by mob for
killing Frank Taylor.
Gov. odel has signed bill appropriating
100000 Cor statue of the late President
Mckinley in Buffalo, N. Y.
An unknown negro who shot and killed
Deputy Sheriff j. B. Thomas near Victoria,
La, was shot to death by mob.
Louis Busse, the wife murderer, was
found guilty in the first degree at Wayerly.
Ia, and the death penalty imposed
Col. E. H. Crowder, U. S. A, has begun
inquiry in the British camp at New Or
leans, aided by secret service agents.
! Perry A. Hull, of Chicago, one of the most
| prominent republican politicians in Illinois.
died of pneumonia at Beaumont, Tex.
Miss Nancy Austin, dead at Sparta. Mich.
weighed 500 pounds and is supposed to have
| been the largest woman in the state.
Henry Flutcher, negro boy, was hanged
| for murder at st. Louis IS minutes before
reprieve arrived from the governor.
| By the capsizing of the towboat Acorn
at Pittsburg Capt. Sam Silvey, a wrecker,
and Lee Legg, fireman, We're drowned.
Dun & Co.'S weekly review of trade says
| business of the country is prosperous in
spite of labor troubles and bad weather.
Lee Gallaher, paying teller of the First
| national bank of st. Joseph, Mo-, has been
| arrested on charge Of embezzling 81, 600.
Mrs. Annie Schloss at Minneapolis sum-
| moned her husband to meet her at a ceme-
| terry, and when he appeared shot herself
dead.
Robert j. Wynne, Washington CORE
spondent of the New York Press, accept
ed the Office of first assistant postmaster
general
Congressman Robert r. Hit is formally
announced as a candidate for the Illinois
United States senatorship, to succeed w.
E. Mason.
The British camp at Lathrop, Mo-, has
shipped more than 1900 mules and horses
to South Africa since the beginning of the
Boer war.
Impressive memorial services for Cecit
Rhodes were held in st. Paul's, London.
coincident with the hour of burial in Ma
toppo Hills.
The Renfost apartment building in Chf-
cago was burned, with s25OOOO loss, and
Fireman Patrick Mccormick was killed by
falling walls.
Mrs. A. Edward Tower, wife of a mil-
donaire resident of Poughkeepse, N. Y,
killed her 14-year-old boy and herself while
temporarily insane.
Brig. Gen. Fitzsimons, of the First
brigade, Illinois national guard, has re-
signed and Col. George NJ. Moulton, of Chi
cago, succeeds him.
Gen. Schoield appeared before the sem
ate committee and urged passage of a staff
bill or adoption of some similar reform
measure for the army.
James Wright a negro criminal, with
a party of friends stood off sheriff and
posse in Scott county. Va, killing five
men and wounding two.
Germany, Italy and Austria have agreed
to renew the triple alliance for term Of
years, the former to make trade conces-
sions to the latter nations.
A republican congressional district COM
vention held at Athens, O., renominated
Hon. Charles H. Grosvenor by acclama-
ton from the Eleventh district
Santos-Dumont has reached New York
on his way to ST. Louis. He expressed the
belief that airship lines will be estab-
1shed between New York and Europe.
Ohio's new tax plan requires public corr
4 porations to pay one per cent. on gross in
comes and private corporations to pay
one-tenth of one per cent. on capital stock.
The United States government will short
ly erect a wireless telegraph station in
Key West, Fla, making connections with
Havana, Cuba 1t is 80 miles across the
Gulf of Mexico.
After an Imprisonment of eight days in
the county Jail at El6orado Kan, Jessie
Morrison. awaiting her third trial for the
murder of Mrs. DIN Castle, has been re-
leased on $4,000 bond.
Miss Maud Dewitt Talmage daughter of
Rev I. Dewitt Talmage, and Clarence
Frederick Wyckoff, of Ithaca, N. Y, were
married at the residence of the brides
parents in Washington.