The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-08-14

W. G. Rogers, of vinita, l. T., has
been elected principal chief Of the
Cherokee nation.
A stroke of lightning killed 81 head of
cattle nea Holdridge, Neb.
DR.. Adolph Cudell and DR.. Ernest
Leute, prominent young physicians at
Cleveland, o., were drowned while
bathing in Lake Erie.
The salary of William e. Corey, the
new president of the United States Steel
corporation, has been fixed at SIS, 900
a.year.
Sharp & Bryan, stock brokers in New
York, failed for $1,000, 900.
Seven Italian workmen were killed
in a wreck on the Great Western railway
at Devon, Ia.
William Howard, Edward Radadaugh
and William Sicily were blown to pieces
by an explosion in a nitryglycerin fac
tory nea Bluffton, Ind.
One hundred head of cattle were
burned to death in a fire at Whitehall,
MINI.
The International Team Drivers
union andthe National Transfers Union
Of America have consolidated.
John Alexander Dowie, general over
seer of the Christian Catholic church,
was made a citizen of the United States
in Chicago.
The Western National Bank Of the
United States and the National Bank of
Commerce in New York have merged
with a capital of $25, 000, 900.
Fire destroyed the stockyards in
Louisville, KY, and $50 sheep were Gre
mated.
Theodore Richter was killed and over
a score Of persons injured, three or four
fatally, by being blown from the worlds
fair buildings in st. Louis during q
storm.
During the last fiscal year 1864 rural
free delivery routes we're established
throughout the country.
Petty officers on the receiving ship
Columbia at the Brooklyn navy yard re-
fused to mess with a black man.
Gov. Yates sent letters to the sheriffs
of Vermilion. st. Clair and Alexander
counties in Illinois calling for a report
on lynchings.
Strikes involving 250,O0O workmen
have occurred in southern Russia.
Members of the senate subcommittee
on finance met at Senator Aldrich's home
in Rhode Island to frame a currency
bill to be introduced next session.
ELASTIC or emergency currency" was
Endorsed by the Wisconsin State Bank
ers' ASSOCIATION at the Milwaukee "
ton.
Columbian Celebration company bond
holders have been ordered by Judge Tu-
ley in Chicago to settle a $500, 900 in
debtedness to the Buda Foundry COM
pany, incurred on worlds fair spectacle
rum.
President Roosevelt has ordered the
white house grounds to be opened Satur-
day afternoons to poor children whose
parents are unable to take them into the
country.
The barge Florrie was lost between
Barnegat and Fire Island during a
storm and five persons were drowned.
T Mrs. Pearl Seaman came from China
to Chicago to become the bride of
Philip Herbert, formerly in the United
States navy, who rescued her from
Boxers at Shanghai.
Louise Haby, aged II, who was sold
in babyhood to a Dakota ranchman
and compelled to do hard labor all her
life, escaped and reached the home of
Chicago relatives.
United States Senator W. r. Hey
burn, of Idaho, a leading lawyer of
that state, was en- route to Pennsyl-
vania to wed his boyhood sweetheart,
Miss Gheratine Yeatman, who has
waited 20 years for him.
It is estimated that $1O,OOO,O0O has
been added in the past year to the year
ly payrolls of SO western railroads, and
that 10000 men share in the increase.
A shortage Of $4,000 has been dis
covered in the City National bank of
Canton, o., and Teller Albert w. Dicbel
has been arrested.
An explosion of powder in a mine
at Fairmont, W. Va, fatally injured five
miners.
After a voyage lasting over a year,
owing to severe storms, the French
bark Grand Duchesse Olga arrived at
Portland, Ore, from Antwerp.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Russell Sage, the dean ofsWal street,
celebrated his cighty-eighth birthday
in New York.
Joseph Saxton aged T3 years, the
last surviving uncle of Mrs. Mckinley,
died in Canton, O..
Thomas Hargis, former chief justice
Of Kentucky, died at Springfield, o.
William Judson, state oil inspector,
died suddenly at his home in Ann. Ar
Dor, Mich.
Maj. Joseph Rowland, governor of the
soldiers home at Leavenworth, Kan.
died at the age of q years.
John Gilbert Shanklin, for years q
leading democrat of Indiana, and for
merly editor of the Evansville Courier,
died at Evansville.
FOREIGN.
The Cuban commission, with Gen.
Gomez ms chairman has c0mn1otod a