The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-03-27
THE NEWS in BRIEF.

For the Week Ending March Fl.
The Venezuelan congress assembled
1T Caracas.
Mrs. Ely Knudsen died in Chicago,
aged nearly 1O2 years.
The Mississippi river food at Mem
phis broke all records.
The Buffalo IN. W Racing associa-
ton has been declaredinsolvent.
The first Cuban consulate genera1i in
France has been inaugurated at Mar
settles.
An earthquake shock at Helena,
Mont, did serious damage to the new
statehouse.
Gov. Dockery has signed the anti
cigarette bill passed by the Missouri
Legislature.
.Hentsch's bonded warehouse was
burned at Sydney, N. s. W., the loss
being So, SOC, 1000.
Justice Charles v. Barden, of the
Wisconsin supreme court, died.in Madi-
son, aged SO years.
The president has reappointed DR..
w. D. Crum %(colored) collector of Gus
toms at Charleston, sc. i
Former President Cleveland cele-
brated his sixty-sixth birthday at his
home in Princeton, N. j..
Charles Godfrey Leland, a well-
known American author, died in Flor.
ence, Italy, aged 70 years.
Weekly reviews report trade brisk,
especially in the west. Fear of strikes
is the only disturbing element.
The Clarendon hotel at Grand. Rap
ids, Mich, was destroyed by fire and
William G. Hawkins was killed. !.
James S. Harlan, attorney general
to Porto Rico, has resigned, and will
resume his lawpractice in Chicago.
President Roosevelt appointed S. N.
d. North director of the census to suc-
coed William r. Merriam, resigned.
The post office safe at Wilmington,
Ill, wasblown open with dynamite and
robbed of 500 in money and. stamps.
Gov. Odell, of New York, has been
threatened by an assassin, and a de-
%tective has been hired to guard him.
C. Moench & Sons company and
Moench, Fischer & Gaensslen, Go
wanda IN. " tanners, failed for ST.
1884, 900. 1
BY a vote of 214 to 107 the New
Hampshire house of representatives
put itself on record in favor of a liz
cense law. 1
William P. Wood, chief Of the secret
service division under Lincoln and
johnson, died in Washington at the g
of 80 years.
Rev. P. NJ. Weddell, one Of the oldest
Baptist ministers in the middle
west, died suddenly at Piqua, O., atthe
age of 80 years.
The twenty-second session of theleg-
islature of Arizona has closed. Gov.
Brodie vetoed the bill for granting suf-
frage to women.
lingo, the largest elephant in cap
tivity, died aboard the steamer
Georgia, en- route to New York, and
was buried at sea.
The grand jury at Charleston, ". Va,
indicted $50 miners accused of particle
pating in a BATTLE with DEPUTY mar.
shals at Stamford.
Officials of the Mormon church will
appeal to Gov. Odell for the pardon Of
William Hooper Young, ~nowserving a,
life sentence in Sing Sing.
James 81. Pound, a Detroit lawyer.
has been chosen by the Michigan
democratic committee for the SUI
preme bench, Judge Yaple having de-
clined.
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain Of
Great Britain, was entertained by
lord mayor of London and says that
the Beers will be loyal to the British
empire. /
Jose Estrada Palma, son of the
Cuban president, was privately mar
,ried to Miss Mabel Jacobs, daughter
of a New York tobacco importer, on
February II.
The chief of Buffalo police force
sticks to first theory, that a woman
killed Burdick, and says he continues
to suspect the same woman whom he
suspected at first.
Ole Oleson was hanged at Aitkin,
Mimi, for numbering his daughter.
James Rufin and Jay Green (col-
ored) were hanged at Sioux City, Ark.
for the murder of Don McGhee. At
Moultrie, Ca, J. II. Bryant (colored)
was hanged for killing D.. Buchanan.
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