The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-10-02
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

For the Week Ending September 20.
Fire destroyed nine business buildings
at Ayrshire, Ia.
Industrial center of the village of
Gardenvilie, N. Y, was destroyed by fire.
! communication by wire with Nome
and st. Michaels has been established.
Fire destroyed f. B. Chase's sawmill
lat Morse Wis, causing a loss of $780,
900.
The University of Chicago has added
$1,000. 900 worth of property to its
holdings.
The republicans of the Sixteenth Ohio
district have nominated Caleb l.. Weems
for congress.
Secretary Of Agriculture Wilson says
that the corn crop will be far from a fall
ure this year.
Plus x. has begun Important reforms
at the vatican for the purpose of reduc-
ing expenses.
Former Congressman Edward over
died at his heme IL anda, T d.,
aged 81 years.
"A dispatch from Dawson says the
klondike's output of gold will be S10,-
100000 this year.
Robbers took about $40, 900 in cash
from the Minnehaha county bank at
Valley Springs, S. d.
After living in three centuries. John
Chrapsey. 104 years of age, died at his
home in st. Paul, MINI.
William Macabee, of the United States
Naval home in Philadelphia, celebrated
his one hundredth birthday.
Fire In the shoe-string oil district of
Texas destroyed IS derricks, causing a
total loss estimated at $125, 900.
John Alexander Dowie, of Zion City.
H., secured $4,000 to aid the move
ment for the invasion of New York city
by Zion hosts.
The steamship Texan has started on
a worlds record voyage of / 1000 miles
without a stop, sailing from Tacoma
to Philadelphia.
The officers and crew of the battle
ship Indiana claim to have surpassed
the record of the battleship Alabama
in target practice.
MARK Smith, w~eif-known comic opera
comedian and the original Pooh Bah in
The Mikado," died at his home in New
York, aged 4S years.
Robbers blew open the safe of the
Baxter Springs {Mo.) post Office and Sc.
cured $500 worth Of postage stamps and
about 5000 in money.
New storm warning towers for Lake
Michigan are to be built by the weather
bureau at Chicago, Frankfort, Mich,
and on Manitou Island.
Dimple. Daisy and Dot Redden
known as the prettiest triplets in the
world. celebrated their twenty-frst
birthday at Buchanan, Mich.
The immigration bureau has decided
that no person coming to the United
states from any port in the Philippine
islands is subject to a head tax.
Gov. Yates issued a circular letter tt
all Illinois sheriffs advising them tt
have the jails equipped with riot gun:
In order to be prepared for mobs.
Congressman Vincent Boreing. Of the
Eleventh Kentucky district. the only
republican in the Kentucky delegation
died at his home in London, aged Sd.
Harry A. Garfield, son Of the late
President Garfield, has accepted his ap,
pointment to the chair of politica
Jurisprudence at Princeton IN. J.) uni
yersity.
Cuba's first year of self-reign was 6
prosperous one, the revenues amount
Ing to $9,729,440 and the expenditures
$S,1Q2,567. leaving a surplus in the
treasury Of $1.626,873.
The National Association Of Marble
Dealers decided to lock out its unloI
employees and to run open shops in The
future. Forty plants in all sections Of
the United States are affected.
The Mountain Top hotel on the sum
NIT Of the Blue Ridge mountains in V1r.
ginia, where Washington and Jefferson
perfected their university plans. ha:
been destroyed by fire.
The Consolidated Lake Superior
company, which operated industries a,
the American and Canadian "Soos.'
and which vas capitalized for 500.
0eo. SOC, has been wrecked.
The secretary OF the treasury author
ICES that, owing to the scarcity Of twt
per cent. bonds. both for circulation am
as security for government deposits, h,
will renew refunding operations to thu
extent Of $40. 600, Ooa.
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