The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-04-24
THE NEWS in BRIEF.
For tn. week nndlng Apr,1 e


For the Week Binding Apri1 ia.
King Christian celebrated his
e~ighty-fifth birthdaysin Copenhagen.
Andrew Carnegie has offered Cleve-
land, @, $4,000 to erect seven branch
libraries. SIS
TheWashingtonsHu Humane society has
elected President Roosevelt an honor
ary member.
]. w. Bryan, former lieutenant gov.
ernor Of Kentucky, died at his home in
Covington, Ky.
The Indiana supreme court holds
that the weekly wage statute is un-
constitutional.
Jane Lewis (colored) observed her
one hundred and fourteenth birth-
day at Hamilton, O.
After serving a years imprisonment
on Biackwelps island, N. Y, John Most,
an anarchist, has been released.
AA.W. Machen, chief # the free deliy-
cry division of the post office depart.
ment, is said to be slated for removal.
States, Attorney General Webb says
the use of the Bible in the public
school in San Francisco is unconstitu-
tional.
Mrs. Yetta Brownstein, aged 80
years, and her two children were
burned to death in their home in Phil
adelphia.
The crown prince and princess Of
Saxony are said to have become recon
ciled and will be remarked next week
at salzbqarg.
About q dozen strikers were shot
down by the troops in Rome during d
riot which the men had started in the
center of the city.
Shamrock j. was defeated BY Sham
rock III. in three trial races over q
windward and leeward seven miles
course at Weymouth.
At Colorado Springs Carrie Nation
made q savage attack on President
Roosevelt at the Temple theater and
was hissedsof the stage.
Reginald Vanderbilt, enraged at an
= to 5 sss;F = s pct M Is His i=ss HI As:
to-be and himself, horsewhipped q
photographer at Newport.
The governor of New Jersey, by
lamation, wiped out of existence hun-
dreds of concerns incorporated under
the easy laws Of that state.
The Northern Securities merger de-
cision expected by brokers to stopcor-
poration promotions untila federal SUI
preme court ruling is secured.
News from Venezuela indicates that
President Castro will sustain Minister
Bowen in his refusal to permit fnan-
cial syndicatss to settle the claims.
The fire loss of the United States
and Canada during the month Of
March amounted to SO. 9o7. 600, against
~$12,054,60o in the same month last
yenr.
Percy N. Clark, civil engineer of the
Chicago & Northwestern railway, was
killed in a tornado north of Appleton,
Wis, and. much property was de-
stroyed.
The United States government crop
report for April 1 places winter wheat
condition at 97.3; S79,0oo.O 900 bushels
yield will result if continued on acres
age planted.
Admiral Walkers estimate of the
number of men to be employed OH the
Panama canal when the United States.
formally shall have entered upon the
project is 10000. !,
Five men were injured, John Murray,
James Clayton and jefferson Powers
perhaps fatally, by the falling OF a der
rick while at work on a worlds fair
building at St. Louis. l
james J.. Hill hopes the suprema
court will reverse the finding In the
merger case, and intimates that if ID
does not the railroad owners will find
some other method to meet the emer-
gency.
The TIC. Williams Tobacco company.
of Richmond, Va, has been sold for 81
100000 tothe British-American Tobac-
co company, a combination of tbeCon-
tinental Tobacco company, the Ameri-
can Tobacco company and the Imperial
Tobacco company, the latter Of Eng-
land.
In fight at Jacksonville, o., Mrs.
Henry Skrotsky,C Charles Riley, Charles
Cochrane and Seth Tinkbam were ia
tally shot and Henry enthusiastically
wounded. The fight grew out of card
playing in a saloon. N is feared Tink-
ham, Riley and Cochrane will be-
lynched- "
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