The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-08-28
THE NEWS in BRIEF.
o the Week Ending August %.

"Oh the week Ending y e.
Mrs lcuisia Bugg died in Clinton,
Ia, aged 1O1 years.
Lucky" Baldwin has been elected
mayor of Arcadia, Cal.
A British force wiped out a Nigerian
town and killed 700 natives.
The battleship Missouri was success
fully launched at Baltimore, Md.
Forest fires burned over LOCO acres
in a belt of white pine and cedar near
Elk, Wash.
Pope Leo's fisherman's ring, supposed
to have been stolen, was found on his
writing table.
Clothing manufacture and other in
dustries are being driven from Chicago
by constant strikes.
The private bank Of Kinney & Co. at
Angola, Ind, closed it's doors with liza
bilities Of $4,000.
The Wabash Gnd.) Bridge and Iron
company has assigned with liabilities es-
timated at 5000. 900.
The democrats of the Eighth Texas
district have nominated John M.
Pihckney for congress.
A negro who assaulted and murdered
Mary Jenkins, aged 13, at Halifax, N.
s., was hanged by a mob.
Noah Brooks, a well known author of
Juvenile stories, died at his home in
Pasadena, CAL, aged 20 years.
Dispatches from Port Arthur report
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volve the whole country in conflict.
The annual reunion of the Army Of
the Philippines will be held in st.
Paul for four days, beginning August
81.
Because his wife threatened to leave
him Robert SNOWFALL shot her at
J~ohnstown, Pa, and then killed HIM
self.
Azure for lockjaw has been discovered
by DR.. s. A. Matthews, of the University
Of Chicago, and used successfully on q
boy.
Dan P. Eells, the Oldest bank off,
cial in point Of service in Ohio, died
at his home in Cleveland, aged Is
years.
A large gift to the University Of Chi
cago is promised by John d. Rockefel-
Ter for oriental and archaeological re-
search.
The collections of internal revenue for
the month Of July last were $22, 16S. 48O,
a decrease compared with July, 1902, of
Sill. 291.
Rev. Ell. Davies, pastor of the Pres
byterian church of Tecumseh, Neb.,
dropped dead of heart disease at War
saw, Ind.
Charles Reichman, known as the in
ventor Of the first oil cooking stove,
died at his home in Brooklyn, N. Y,
aged So years.
State Senator William P. Sullivan,
of Missouri, was convicted at Jeffer-
son City of soliciting bride for votes
and fined 800.
At New Britain, Conn, Frank Shirt
left, an insurance agent, killed Mrs
George Schofield and himself. Jeal-
ousy was the
At the fourth annual convention in
Nashville, Tenn.,>of the National Negro
Business Mems league, Booker T. Wash
ington was reelected president.
Miami and Fulton counties in In.
diana were visited by remarkable hail.
storms and thousands OF acres of grow.
ing corn were completely ruined.
James Lewis Meyers was arrested at
Charlottesville, Ind, for the murder OF
Branson Sloan ~ years ago.. The ac-
cused is a successful Tennessee lumber
man.
Mrs. John Hilsrow, wife Of a rich Ben
nett (Ia.) farmer, was kidnapped and helG
for heavy ransom in the cellar Of a va
cant house, eight miles from her home
but she escaped.
Six men who sailed from Chicago
last year to seek gold in Patagoni.
have been arrested at Turks island, il
the West Indies, as flibustering sus
poets. The state department has beel
notified.
The wedding of Miss Grace Green
way Brown, of Baltimore, to Honor
Palmer, of Chicago, took place il
London, about a score of friends bein'
present. A $4,000 necklace was pre-
. sented to the bride by the queen Q
: Spain.