The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-12-25
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

For the Week Ending Dec. 10.
One hundred persons were made
homeless by a fire at Millvale, Pa.
The Great Lakes vessel season now
closed was the most prosperous since
1898.
The sum Of $4,000 was Melted by a
bal poudre for St.Luke's hospital annex
in Chicago.
Joseph Lauder celebrated his one
hundredth birthday at his home in
Dubuque, la.
By the sinking of the tugboat Matte
M. at Lake Concordia, Miss, six men
were drowned.
John Stringer (colored) was hanged
at birmingham, Ala, for the murder Of
William O'Neal.
Three children OF August Batteen, a
farmer of Allamakee county, Ia, were
burned to death.
Five thousand Crane employees in
Chicago will receive $3.50, 900 profits as
a Christmas gift.
Martin Olson, John Rusk and Lars
Anderson were suffocated in a fire at
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.
M. Contesse, a member of the budes-
rath from Neuchatel, has been elected
president of Switzerland.
The breaking of a lam flooded a large
portion of the city of Paterson, N. j.,
causing immense damage.
n board of lady managers of the
Louisiana Purchase exposition decided
to ask congress for 100000.
The Federal National bank, which was
closed by the stock panic early in Oc-
tober, reopened in P%ittsburg.
Twenty-Five citizens have been
chosen by Judge Tuthill to plan a cru
SADIE aginst crime in Chicago.
MI. j. Messersmith, her daughter,
and Frank Smith, a clerk, were burned
to death in a fire at Braidwood. III.
The transport Sherman arrived in
San Francisco from Manila, bringing
the men OF the Thirtieth infantry.
Mrs. Sarah Caswell Angel, wife of
the president of the University of Mich
igan, died at Ann Arbor of pneumonia.
Viola Sands Hazard, thought to be the
Oldest woman. in Rhode Island, died at
her home at Wakefield, aged los years.
A New York court has been asked
to decree that Charles M. Schwab owes
$500 900 to the s%hipbuilding trust.
Alexander Mcdonald, who was elected
to the United States senate from Arkan-
:as in 1859, died at Norwood Park, N. J.
William I. Buchanan, of Buffalo, N.
Y, the first United States minister to
the republic of Panama, sailed for Pan
anna
One brakeman was burned to death
and two fatally hurt in a collision be-
tween freight trains near Pawnee,
Kan.
A meeting of scientists in New York
adopted resolutions spreading the war
on mosquitoes to every state in the
union.
The remains of Herbert Spencer were
cremated at Hampstead, England, a
few invited guests attending the clos
ing rites.
Gen. Benjamin Viljoen, a Boer COM
mander, has arrived to arrange for an
exhibition of Boer life at the st. Louis
exposition.
Mrs. Harry T.. Smith and her two
young children were burned to death by
a fire which destroyed their home at
Oaklane, Pa.
Judge Jonas Hutchinson, of the Cook
county superior court, died suddenly at
his home in Chicago of heart failure,
aged SO years.
Benjamin Benedict, his wife ard their.
three-year-old daughter were burned to
Heath in a fire which destroyed their
home at Ashland, KY.
John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Car
negie are said to have reached an agree
ment to GUST J.. P%ierpont Morgan and his
friends from the steel trust.
News of the passage by the United
States senate of the bill for reciprocity
between the United States and CUBA
caused rejoicing in Havana.
The livery and undertaking business
in Chicago is tied UP bya strike of driy-
ers, and funeral professions will have to
be done away with until the difficulty
is settled.
The full report Of Fourth Assistant
Postmaster General Bristow in the
post Office scandal has been made pub
lie in Washington. 1t charges many
new Irregularities on the part of high
officials in the department.
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