The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-08-22
THE NEWS in BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Aug. 10.

FOr the week Ending Aug. lO.
The business portion of Mendon, Mo-,
was destroyed by fire.
Cuba has asked to be admitted to the
International Postal union.
A farmers trust has been formed, in South
Dakota with 600 capital.
The government of Paraguay has formal
ly recognized the republic of Cuba.
A large part of the business section of
Princeton, Ky, was destroyed by fire.
Bishop Thomas O'Gorman brought
gilt to President Roosevelt from Pope Leo.
John W. Gates gave a waiter in hotel
at Saratoga Springs, N. Y, $500 bill as a
Tip"
An unknown man committed suicide by
jumping over the falls at Niagara Falls,
N. Y.
Official reports to the war office show
that cholera is decreasing in the Philip
pines.
time paced a mile at the record speed of
2:OOA
Mrs. Louisa Wells, aged 96 years, one
of the Oldest women in Indiana, died at La
porte.
Alabama prohibitionists have nominated
Rev. w. A. Day, of Montgomery, for gov
ernor..
The Wisconsin Bankers association
went on record as opposing the branch bank
system.
The Cleveland (o) board of health has
started war on the use of dirty money in
that city.
Gen. Irving Hale. of Denver, was elected
president of the Society of the Army of the
Philippines.
TWO men were wounded and the plant
closed by a riot at the Warnke washery at
Duryea, Pa.
Estimates from various states Indicate
that the crops will largely exceed last
years harvest.
The boiler of tug blew up near st.
Georges, Staten Island, and four of the
crew were killed.
Alderman Frank 7. Fowler, of Chicago.
has purchased the Waukegan Qll.) Daily
and Weekly Sun
Congressman E. S. Minor has been re-
nominated by the republicans of the Ninth
Wisconsin district.
A train on the Pennsylvania road made
the run from Crestline to Pittsburg, 1S9
miles, in lS9 minutes.
The transport Cook arrived at San Fran
cisco from Manila with 564 men of the
Twenty-tifth infantry.
King Edward has expressed desire to
have Gems. Botha and, Delarey visit him on
board the royal yacht.
Venezuela revolutionists seized three
American vessels and the United States.
government is likely to act.
Gems. Corbin, Young and Wood have
been invited to be guests of the kaiser at
the German army maneuvers.
Government officials are much encouraged
by the Willingness of Great Britain to join
In the adoption of the metric system.
The city OF Tientsin has been turned
over to the Chinese authorities by the for
eign commanders with great ceremony.
Anti-imperiallists intimate that Agui-
naldo will be brought to this country for
lecture tour just before the elections
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sylvania, has purchased the Republic iron
mines in Michigan, paying over s1.00O,OG0
Senator's Quay and Penrose of Pennsyl-
Vania, have received endless chain let
tiers urging them to end the miners strike.
A great part of Andrew Carnegie's Sl0,-
100000 university endowment will be used
to prosecute research into the origin of life.
DR.. Gunsaulus denies the report that he
will resign his Chicago pastorate and sue
coed DR.. Parker in the City temple in Lon
don.
Union workmen of Chicago are said to
be planning the purchase of 5000 acres Of
land in Wisconsin, to be used as summer
home.
Rev Wing Duncan, Baptist minister,
living near Winfield, Tenn, killed John and
William Tramwell, brothers, in a battle on
the street.
William ]. Bryan, replying to question,
again says he is not candidate in the next
campaign, but may entertain a call at some
future time.
E. "A. Tichenor, of New York, has been
selected by the president to succeeds Gen.
0. l.. Spaulding as assistant secretary Of
the treasury.
The big anthracite coal strike will COM
pei householders to use the bituminous
product in furnaces and CRATES before the
winter Is over.
The engagement of Miss Vivian Sartoris,
granddaughter of Gen. Grant, to Frederick
Roosevelt Scovel, a cousin of the presi-
dent. is announced.
Possibility of annexation of Hayti and
San Domingo by the United States is again
brought forward by disturbances and evil
dences of misrule in the island.
The secretary of the treasury has put
into action new system of handling LETT
tiers from the public whereby they are
promptly acknowledged and answered.
The Bethlehem Steel company, for which
Charles NJ. Schwab paid, 81 100000, has been
sold to the United States Shipbullding
company at a figure stated to be $26. COO, 600.
Congressional nominations: Illinois, Six
teenth district, j. NJ Nichaus (dem.) Ohio,
Thirteenth district, A. H. Jackson (rep);
Missouri, Eleventh district, Charles F. JOY
(rep.), renominateGl
Details of the new harvester combine
made public show a capitalization of $780,
100000, headquarters in Chicago, and the
inclusion of all the larger concerns in the
country. Cyrus H. Mccormick is presi-
dent.