The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-04-04
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending March 90

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Peary's supply ship Windward arrived
in New York from its arctic trip.
BY the will of the late Robert c. Billings.
of Boston, 81, 000 eco is left to charity.
AT Cambridge Mass. Princeton won the
eighth annual debate from Harvard.
Miss Ellen NJ. Stone, the American mis-
sionary, left Salonica for the United States.
Three Russian noblemen were hanged at
hutais for the murder of over 100 persons.
H. Clay Evans, commissioner of pen-
stons, has rendered his resignation to the
president.
William zeigler. a negro. was lynched by
mob near Troy, Ala. for assaulting a
white girl
A restaurant has been opened in New
York where food will be furnished at one
cent a plate.
DR.. Robert E. Gray. of Garden City, Kan,
was acquitted in Chicago of the murder of
Irma Brown.
The government will retain the harbor
Of Guantanamo, as it is the only naval sta
ton in Cuba.
A train on the Pennsylvania road ran
from Philadelphia to Jersey City, 80 miles.
in n minutes.
Mrs. Hattie Hand and her two children
were burned to death in prairie fire near
Anadarko. Okla.
NJ E. Benton has been renominated for
congress by the democrats of the Fifteenth
Missouri district.
President Roosevelt has announced that
deserters from the army or navy will find
no favor with him.
A new Rhode Island law requires two
years residence before application can be
made for divorce.
Negroes kept III slavery on turpentine
farm near Waterloo, Ca, have been res
leased by the court.
Labor leaders object to the proposed de-
partment of commerce and labor, desiring
! a bureau of their own.
revived their national organization to fight
prohibition movement.
The emperor of Austria performed the
traditional ceremony of washing the feet Of
II men at the Hofburg.
The National Baseball league has agreed
on truce in the faction fight and the sea-
SON will begin on April II.
Germany is said to have intimated to the
United States that the kaiser would not
oppose the cZar in China.
Foreign clergy at Picking are to be deco
rated by the emperor for services in set
Ting the Boxer indemnities.
Modern Woodmen of America has been
sued for $4,000 damages at Grand Rapids
| by man injured in initiation.
| Secretary Root sent papers to the presi-
dent showing how Cen Miles sought to SUI
persede Gen. Chaffee in China.
The American tobacco trust is said to
| have offered the Rrench government $751;
| 100000 for the tobacco monopoly.
| Boer representatives in London rejoice
| over the death of Cecil Rhodes, whom they
| accounted bitter and resourceful enemy.
\ Ex-Alderman e. A. Meysenburg, of ST.
Louis, has been convicted of accepting
bride of 900 in a street car franchise case.
| Big steel trust may be formed including
| plants in England, Germany, France and
Belgium. Sixteen Clyde concerns are in the
| deal.
| Stephen A. Conklin, at Emporia, Kan,
| shot and fatally wounded his divorced wife.
wounded her mother and committed sui
| eide.
Weekly trade reviews report general dis
| tribution of merchandise exceeding that
| of previous seasons, with prices we'll main
| tanned.
The president fatty opposes any action
by congress whereby the verdicts of court
martial in cases of desertion are over
| turned.
All coal miners in Michigan have been
| ordered to strike because of the failure of
| the operators and miners to agree upon a
| wage scale.
| The transport Egbert arrived In San
| Francisco from Manila with battalion of
| the Twenty-eighth infantry and S25 dis
| charged men. z
The Illinois Central road will be double
! tracked from Chicago TO New Orleans with
| in two years. large part of the line is all
| ready thus equipped.
| The end of the Boer war depends on
| Steyn and De Wet and some time is likely
| to elapse before the result of present nego-
| tiations can be known.
| A Rock Island passenger train struck
buggy in East Pueblo, Col, killing Mrs.
| John Close and her infant son and fatally
| injuring Miss Ella Hines.
| The official copy of the Farris election
| bill. passed by the Kentucky legislature.
| has been stolen at Frankfort, and the
measure cannot become law.
Mrs. G. B. Walker, of Miles, Ia, killed
j. S. Judd, at Las Vegas, N. M. in defense
| of her honor. The slain man was promi-
nent resident of Topeka, Kan.
Secret service agents raided a counter
| feiters' den at Corona, L. l., where they ar
rested five Italians and seized a large
amount Of counterfeiting machinery.
Mrs. Katherine Tingley leader of the
/ Theosophists, is charged with using the
| order for personal ends. She spent $780,
| 900 to establish an Oriental court" at Point
| Iona, Cal.
Christian C. Nelson, with many aliases
and from three to 10 wives, is in jail at
| ST. Joseph. Mo-, where he will be con-
fronted with as many of the deserted
women as the officers can locate.
The Copenhagen government takes no
stock in the Danish West Indies scandal re-
| ports, having refused to recognize either
Christmas or Gron in the negotiations. The
| state department at Washington will take
no action on the charges.
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