The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-06-19
The Michigan legislature has adj

the state supreme court from five to
eight.
Mayor Hays, Of Pittsburg, Pa, has
been indicted charged with a mis-
demeanor in discharging an old soldier
from the employ of the city.
United States troops were ordered
to the mining town of Morenci, Ariz.,
to protect liyesand property from 5000
striking miners, mostly foreigners.
The Kansas City (Kan.) relief COM
mittee says that the number of home
less and destitute in that city and SUI
burbs because of the food is 90, 1000.
Mrs. Mary Mcknight, of Kalkaska.
Mich, who confessed poisoning her
brother, his wife and baby, is sus-
pected of killing eight other persons,
who died suddenly while at her house
during the last Is years.
j. P. Rumble, of Milwaukee, has
been elected department commander
of the G. A. r. of Wisconsin.
A register of 10000 French officers
and enlisted men who assisted in the
American war for independence has
been given to President Roosevelt by
the French republic.
The Bessemer (!Ala.) savings bank
closed its doors because of a de-
falcation of 100000 by its president,
I. j. Cornwall, who is missing.
Iwothirds of East st. Louis, ILL.,,
were under water and eleven persons
We're drowned as the result Of a
hr0lar 1o~ao o-l anrnon
destitute.
The government crop report shows
$4,000 acres decrease in spring wheat
acreage.
Bride of $4,000 is said to have been
solicited by members of the joint coun-
Gil of the walters union to settle res
taurant strikes in Chicago.
At the commencement .exercises:of
the Military academy at West Point
there Were "a graduates.
: j. NJ. Clark and wife,and three chill
dren and w. B. Moneymaker and wife
were drowned}atA Aberdeen, Ark, blythe
capsizing of a houseboat. :.
Hints of corruption in securing the
location of post office s%ubstations will
be Investigated by Assistant ostmas-
ter General Bristow.
A sharp earthquake shock was felt
at San Francisco and other California
cities.
Lockjaw resulting from use of toy
pistols caused the death of two Pitts
burg boys, making the total of dead
from that u since May 80 ten.
Fire d~estroyeda Presbyterian church
and a row Of housesin Rochester, N. Y
the loss being $500, 900.
At indianapolis James Dumas, pro-
prietor of a transfer company, killed
Sarah r. King, wife Of Wesley R.. Kire,
and then took his own life.
Ora Copenhaver, Of indianapolis, and
William Jackson, of Evansville, were
hanged at Michigan City, Ind, for MUIR
der.
The business portion of Mays Lick,
KY. has been destroyed by fire.
Burglars took 81, 500 from the Farm
ers' bank at Wilder. MINI.
The yachts Constitution and Co.
were again defeated by the
Reliance, which led to a finish by five
minutes and SO seconds over q 80 emile
course.
Strikes in all Chicago hotels and
restaurants have been ordered bv
walters and cooks.
Judge B. D. Magruder, of the Ill.,
nois supreme court, was officially re-
buked at Springfield for filing an
opinion without the knowledge of his
fellow justices.
The president and Alice Roosevelt,
Secretary Loeb and Commander
Cowles, returned to Washington from
Cleveland.
The New York supreme court in a
decision in a will contest said that
love at 80 years is not insanity.
The flood crisis at East St. Louis
has passed, and life savers have
turned to the task of saving prop
erty.
William J.. Bryan denies that he
has abandoned politics by his re-
nunciation of leadership.
The Bank of Commerce at Besse-
mer, Ala, closed its doors with liza
bilities of $1,000.
The Western Railway Passenger as
ISOLATION is threatened with collapse
because of rate cutting.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
The marriage of Gov. Bailey, Of Kan
sas, and Mrs. Ida M. Weede took place
at Kansas City.
Capt. Richmond P. Hobson has de-
clared'himself acandidate for congress
from Alabama on a greater navy plat
form.
Conrad Kahler. an old time pressman,
who invented the newspaper folding
mahines. died IN Chicago, aged 6s years.
Miss Ruth Hanna, daughter Of SEN
ator NJ. "A. Hanna, was married at
Cleveland, O., to Joseph Medill Nc
Cormick, of Chicago. President
Roosevelt and daughter were among
the guests.
FOREIGN.
John G. Ingersoll, United States con-
sui at Cartagena, Colombia, died at
Colon. He wasa native of Illinois.