The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-11-13
THE NEWS IN |, BRIEF.
For weeKEna,ne xoxemperY.

For Ii Week Enaing November 4.
About $50 houses were destroyed by
fire at Jennie. Hayti.
Mrs. Thomas A. Hendricks, widow of
the late vice president, diedat Indian
apolis.
The Victor (Col.) First national
bank, with 100000 deposits, closed its
doors.
Wal is said to be certain both be-
tween Japan and Russia and Turkey
and Bulgaria.
The explosion of a car of dynamite on
a track at Crestline, o., caused a flnan-
cial loss of 100000.
Nine men were arrested at Belleville,
ILL.,, for alleged implication in a negro
lynching on June 6.
Fire which started on the Citizens
steamboat line pier at Troy, N. Y,
caused a loss of $~1,0oO,0G0.
Reports from Peking say Russia now
threatens to assume sole charge of the
government of M%anchuria.
Terrible earthquakes have occurred at
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killed and numbers injured.
Commander Booth-Tucker, of the
Salvation Army, saileu for England on
the steamship Cedric for a rest.
A savings bank for negroes; with a
colorsd for it's president, has
begun business in Richmond, Va.
Samuel Adams, a negro, was lynched
by a mob atPass Christian, Miss, for as
saulting the wife of one of the most
prominent residents of the place.
Grover Goss, Harry Eitzarach and
Ray Ward were burned to death in a
livery barn fire at Montpelier, Ind.
The annual report of Surgeon General
Rixey to the secretary of the navy calls
Tor more hospitals and hospital ships.
The total circulation Of national
bank notes October 81 was $419, 610, 6S3,
an increase for the year of $39. 134. 349.
The steamer Manhattan, with a cargo
Of $4,000 bushels of wheat, was burned
IN Lake Superior. The crew was saved.
HOLSTER Brothers lumber yard near
Thorpe, Wis, containing about 700, 600
feet of lumber, was destroyed by forest
fires.
T~wenty-four Chicago state banks and
trust companies report for October Is
m Increase of deposits of S., 595, 900 over
August II.
The president has appointed Daniel
Thew Wright, of Cincinnati, to be justice
OF the supreme court of the District of
Columbia.
Lieut.. General Young hasdecided that
the garrison in the.Philippines shall con-
sist of four regiments Of cavalry and nine
of infantry.
j. w. War;, secretary of the Moline
Gll.) Building, Savings and Loan as
ISOLATION, is said to be short ST. 900 in
his accounts.
The balance in the Cuban treasury on
November / was So, 900, and the sur
plus accumulated during the last seven
months vas $1,205, 900.
Election day in Kentucky was marked
by scenes of violence, several men be-
ing murdered and others fatally wound
ed in clashes at the polls.
Forty persons were killed by rail-
ways in Chicago during the month Of
October. Steam roads killed &c, eiec-
trio cars ten, cable lines four.
Lieut.. Albert M. Beecher, ordnance
officer on the b~attleship Maine, fell from
the forward turret, a. distance of 40 feet,
at Newport, r. L., and was killed.
By a majority of $4,000 the voters Of
New York state declare in favor of
deepening the Erie canal to admit 1000
ton barges, at a cost Of $101, 900, 900.
A new counterfeit five collar silver
certificate, series of 1899, check letter
A, plate No. ISL; Lyons, registrar:
Roberts, treasurer, has been dlscov.
cred.
The Cuban congress met in regular
session and President Palma in his
message expressed hope for speedy ac-
ton on the reciprocity treaty by the
United States.
Leonora Smith. aged IS years, was
shot and killed by her Tilted lover,
Hosie Bowers, aged 80, at her home
near Topeka, Kan. after which Bowers
killed himself.
Two earthquake snocKs were Ieil at
st. Louis and buildings rocked and
the telephone service was disarranged.
Shocks were also felt at Memphis, Lou.
isville and in Illinois.
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