The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-05-29
THE NEWS in BRIEF.

IHE NEWS in BRIEF.
For the Week Ending May 23.
Fire practically wiped out the min.
Ing town of Thornwood, w. Va.
The business portion of Dankirk, o.,
was practically wiped out by fire.
Great damage vas done in Ohio at
Delhi, Home City and Fernbank by d
cloudburst.
The Masonic temple at Bay City,
Mich. was burned. Loss, 500, 600; in
surance, $4,000.
One section of Montana is eaten IN
by %locusts, while another is under
three feet of snow.
At the confederate reunions in New
Orleans Gen. Gordon was reelected
commander in chief.
Maxim Cork, the Russian novelist,
blames Russian society for the fright
full massacre at Kishineff.
In a fit of jealousy Joseph Gutsch
killed his wife near Milwaukee, Wis,
and then fatally shot himself.
Two hundred and twenty acres are
to be added to the United States mill
tary reservation at West Point.
The Seaboard Air Line railway
shops at Portsmouth, Va, were
burned, the loss being $75O,0oo.
The Great Northern Express COM
pany has voluntarily increased the
wages of its messengers 1914 per cent.
John Dixon (colored) was driven
from Fremont, o., by a mob because he
refused to quit work when strikers
did.
Thomas A. Edison has been APP.
pointed honorary chief consulting en-.
gineer at the worlds fair at st,
Louis.
Frequent strikes in Chicago have
caused the abandonment of many pro.
posed improvements in industrial
plants.
Albert Palmer shot and killed Mollie
Beck at Bairdstown. Pa, because she
refused to marry him, and then killed
himself.
Kennedy and Bremner bakeries in
Chicago have been closed because OF
strikes, throwing 1000 employees out
of work.
Tom Sharkey defeated John Pien.
ing, the Graeco-Roman champion, in
a catch-as-catch-can wrestling match
in New York.
j. w. Bailey, for the last. 40 years
editor of the Bureau County Repub
lican, died at his home in Princeton
Ill, aged 70 years.
The Louisville (Ky.) Baptist or,
phanage has been given 100000 by
the will of Capt. w. F. Norton, an &c.
centric millionaire.
William Hopkins, a negro, charged
with cutraging his nine-year-oid step
daughter, was shot to death by a mol
at Whites Mill, Ga.
The national bank of Southport
Conn, closed its doors as a result o.
the cashiers defalcation, which is re
ported to be about $4,000.
Hugh J.. Murdoch, editor of TIL,
United Presbyterian and prominent il
church circles, died at his home il
sewickley. Pa, aged 10 years.
Rev. Henry Storey, a Baptist minis
ter, was burned to death and his wifi,
fatally burned in a fire that destroyed
their home in Richmond, Mich.
Judge Walter Evans, in the United
States court at Bowling Green, KY.
said that postmasters were response
BILE for thefts from their offices.
Eleven New Orleans street railwa,
employees have been sentenced to thre.
months Imprisonment for interrupt
ing mail cars during the REGENTS trike
Moses Hart, a negro desperate OF
trial at Corinth, Miss, fired at til,
chief of police in the courtroom, fet
to the street and was shot to death b.
a mob.
Count Leo Tolstoi declared tina,
the Jewish massacres at Kishinef
were due to 'fanatical priesthood
srobber officials and preaching of vic
lence by the government.
The Presbyterian general assembl,
at Los Angeles, Cal, has been notified
that creed amendments have beer
adopted in the entire by the presby
teries. The vote was nearly unani
nous.
B. w. Shows weekly crop review
shows weather favorable for growth
with needed rain everywhere except ii
southern Missouri and Illinois ant
northern Indiana and Ohio. Corn plant
ing is ten days late.
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