The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-05-29
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Eud,re Mo- .,

For the Week Ending May %.
Fire practically wiped out the min.
ing town of Thornwood, w. Va.
The business portion of Dunkirk, O..
was practically wiped out by fire.
Great damage was done in Ohio at
Delhi. Home City and Fernbank by a
cloudburst.
The Masonic temple at Bay City,
Mich, vas burned. Loss, 500, 900; in.
surance, $4,000.
One section of Montana is eaten up
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,
planes Russian society for the fright
ful 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 s75o,ooo.
The Great Northern Express COM
pany has voluntarily increased the.
wages of it's 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 Moll;e
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 outraging his nine-year-old step.
daughter, was shot to death by a mob
at Whites Mill, Ga.
The national bank of Southport.
Conn.,, closed its doors as a result OF
the cashiers defalcation, which is re.
ported to be about $15O,0OO.
Hugh J. Murdoch, editor of the
United Presbyterian and prominent in
church circles, died at his home in
Sewickley, Pa, aged 70 years.
Rev. Henry Storey, a Baptist minis.
ter, was burned to death and his wife
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 responsi.
BILE for thefts from their offices.
Eleven New Orleans street railway
employees have been sentenced to three
months Imprisonment for interrupt
ing mail cars during the REGENTS trike
Moses Hart, a negro desperate OF
trial at Corinth, Miss, fred at the
chief of police in the courtroom, fec
to the street and was shot to death b,
a mob.
Count Leo Tolstoi declared thai
the Jewish m%assacres at Kishinef
were due to "fanatical priesthood,'
''robber officials" and preaching of VIC
lence by the government.
The Presbyterian general assembl.
at Los Angeles, CAL, has been notified
that creed amendments have beef
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 il
southern Missouri and Illinois ant
northern Indiana and Ohio. Corn plant
ing is ten days late.
THE MARKEST.