The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-04-03
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

For the Week Ending March Rs.
The straits of Mackinac are now
open for navigation.
Will Dorsey (colored) was hanged
at Birmingham, Ala, for highway
robbery.
The supreme court of Ohio has de.
clared constitutional the estate local op.
ton statute.
The Missouri legislature before adj.
journing made appropriations amount.
ing to S 6,463, o22.
The weekly trade reviews report
business accelerated by the early
opening of spring.
The United States armored cruiser
West Virginia will be launched at
Newport News April 10.
The German empress was thrown
from her horse near Berlin and her
right arm was fractured
Frank NJ. Steinhart, of Illinois, will
succeed William A. Rublee, of Wiscon-
sin. as consul general at Havana.
Macabebe scouts defeated q San
Miguel force after a brisk battle.
The enemy left As dead on the field.
Walter Chism, Luther Owen and. Jen-
ME George were drowned near Caruth-
ersville, Mo-, by the upsetting of a ca
noe.
John v. Connolly, a noted'horseman,
was thrown to the street by the horse
he was riding in Madison, Ind, and
killed.
The Carthusian monks, the richest
religious order in France, have been re-
fused permission to remain in the re-
public.
Mrs. Roosevelt and the children will
spend the time during the presidents
western tour at Sycamore Hill, Oys-
ter Bay.
The National Council of Women, in
session at New Orleans. elected Mrs.
Mary Wood Swift, Of San Francisco,
president.
While insane Mrs. Peter Burke killed
her four children at Fiskdale, Mass,
with an ak, cut her own throat and set
fire to the house.
President Roosevelt will start April
! on his tour of the west. He will
travel $4,000 miles, visiting % states
and two territories.
Fire destroyed the plants Of the
American Cycle company and the In.
dia Rubber company at Akron, o, the
loss being $o5o,0o0.
Michigan railroads have begun suit
in the federal court to restrain the
state from collecting taxes on the
ad valorem system.
During the first 25 days Of March
49,l62 immigrants arrived in New
York, being 1000 more2than during
the same period lastyear.
A new counterfeit two-dollar silver
certificate, series 1899. check Letter
&C." Lyons, register; Roberts, treas
urer. has been discovered.
William Nichol. James McLellen
Hugh McCallum and II. Boulton were
drowned in Bass lake, ear Over
sound, Ontario, while fishing.
The Lowell (Mass-) Textile council
voted to strike because ten per cent
wage increase is refused. Seven plant
and 5000 employees are involved.
William B. Byers, a Colorado pionee
and founder of the Rocky Mountain
News, the first daily newspaper pub
lished in Denver, died in that city, age,
e years.
Seven packing concerns purchase
last summer by Armour-Swift-Morri
interests have been merged in the Ma
tional Packing company, with SIS 900
600 capital.
At the annual meeting of the trus
, tees of the Drake university in De
{ Moines, Ia, ex-Gov. N. NJ. Drake, tn
founder, n ounced donations aggre
{ eating $150,O00.
The Mills & Knight company, q
Boston, one Of the oldest printin
and book houses in New England, ha
e assigned. Liabilities, $91,279; assets
nominally about the same.
At the national convention in Ne,
Orleans of the American Women
Suffrage association Susan B. Anthem
was elected honorary president an
Carrie C. Gait, of New York, was cleo
ed president.
!. The exchanges at the leading clea:
ing houses in the United States du
ing the seven days ended on the GIT
i aggregated $s,o00,318,l31. The d
: crease. compared with the corr,
s spending week of last year was. 80.
"a fsENEE $FN 0p5s