The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-06-12
In Illinois President Roosevelt was

In Illinois President Roosevelt was
at HFrseeportt,
Rockford, Rochelle, Aurora. Joliet,
Dwight, H. Rontiac, Lexington and
Bloomington, passing the night at the
last named city.
Bids have been opened at the navy
department. for three battleships, to
be the most powerful inthe navy
The latest reports place1the number
of known dead by the recent.tornado
at Gainesville, Ga, at ITO. and the in
jured at 300.
mississippi river excursion steamer
was crushed against a bridge pier at
Hannibal, Mo, and four children were
drowned.
Conductor Clements and four me-
groes We're skilled in a wreck due to a
washout near Columbia, S.. C.
Louisville men are promoting a
strike Insurance company, which it is
proposed Shall write risks protecting
employers against-labor troubles.
sAllfthe low country between Warsaw
and Quincy,FIN.,, is under water. The
loss is $75o,oo0
At Paterson. N. j.. a bronze statue
of Carrot A. Hobart, late vice presi-
dent, erected in his honor by friends,
has been unveiled.
( The new state capitol building at
Jackson, Miss, erected at a cost of
$1,000, 600, was formally dedicated.
Thieves blew open, the safe of the
Gold-Stabeck bank at Vesta, Mimi, and
secured. S $500 in currency and $4,000
in notes. ~ ~
The law passed by the last congress
requiring all naturalization Offices to
make special inquiry regarding%anar
chistic views which may be held by APP
plicants for citizenship has gone into
Four hundred members of the Chi
cago Blacksmiths union have beensus-
pended blythe internationa1 oficials,for
breaking a contract with employers
and going onsstrike.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
at Danville, I'll, to wreck a. Chicago&
Eastern Illinois train by placing a tie
49, nv -IlNSl EOIlOSS. -
The fire loss of the UnitediStates and
Canada for the month of May was $780,
366, 500, against $14s s66, 900 in May, 1902.
Forest f%res.are doing immense dam
age in all portions of Maine.
The rivers are falling in Missouri and
Kansas sand the worst Of the flood is
over except at ST. Louis and vicinity.
President Roosevelt on the ,4th dedi-
Gated a new state armory and5spoke to
colored soldiers. at the tomb Of Lincoln
in Springfield, assisted in %dedicatinga
university at Decatur. spoke at Dam
Vile. and then left Illinois for Indian
apolis, where he made the final speech
OF his western trip. leaving at 9:2Op.m m.
for Washington.
Nine persons We're killed and. three
injured by a head-on collision of two
Santa Fe railroad passenger train near
Stilwell, Kan.
Samuel Mitchell (white), who led the
moi that lynched Thomas Gilyard. a
negro, at Joplin, Mo-, recently. has
been sentenced to tensyears'imprison-
ment.
At Greenville. Miss. John Dennis. a
negro, was lynched by a mob for an at
tempted criminal assault upon we'll
known young lady. &
John L. Miller. of Lincoln. Neb.. and
Miss Frances Moore, of Davenport. Ia.
students at the University of Chicago.
accidentally drowned in Jackson
park lagoon.
The federal grand jury heard testi-
;mony in Washingtonsin the case OLA.
w. Machen. former superintendent OF
free delivery. who is accused of accept
ing brides of 2 1000.
The Mississippi river food broke all
records at Keokuk. la. The sny, Hunt
and Indian Grove levees broke and
acres We're submerged.
Forest fres in the Adirondacks and
New England are rapidly spreading
and timber worth millions of dollars.is
being destroyed, with summe camps
and resorts.
Several large hotels and restaurants
were tied up in Chicago because Of a
of walters and cooks.
IS CoN.Doys hll4eQ r.. M. Berry anQ his
three sons at st. Francis. Kan, in a
quarrel over land.
Seyenty-one persons are now known
to have lost their lives in the flood at
Topeka, Kan.
a new counterfeit, a Photographic
reproduction Of the $40 issue Of the
National state bank of Metropolis, Ill,
has been discovered. III
All New England is praying for rain
to check,athe forest fires that are
sweeping from Maine to Connecticut.
personal AND POLITICAL.
S. e. Pettee, inventor of the machine
making paper bags, died at Cleye-
land, O., aged s1years.
Prof. j. P. Leslie, the famous geo.o-
ggist of the University of Pennsylvania,
died at his home in Milton.
Mrs. Sarah Elliott died at her home
n Chicago, aged 1os years.
Judge James Cobb, of Tugkegee.
Ala. who for IL years represented the
Fifth Alabama district in congress,
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