The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-08-28
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending August %.

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FOL the Week Ending August 20.
Mrs l.euisia Bugg died in Clinton,
Ia, aged 101 years.
Lucky" Baldwin has been elected
mayor of Arcadia, Cal.
+, A British force wiped out a Nigerian
town and killed TOO natives.
The battleship Missouri wa success
fully launched at Baltimore, Md.
Forest fires burned over 1000 acres
in a belt of white pine and cedar near
Elk, Wash.
Pope Leo's fisherman's ring, supposed
to have been stolen, was found on his
writing table.
Clothing manufacture and other in
dustries are being driven from Chicago
by constant strikes.
The private bank of Kinney G Co. at
Angola, Ind. closed its doors with liza
bilities of si43, 900.
The Wabash Qnd.) Bridge and Iron
company has assigned with liabilities es-
timated at 5000. 900.
The democrats of the Eighth Texas
district have nominated John M.
Pinckney for congress.
A negro who assaulted and murdered
Mary Jenkins, aged 13, at Halifax, N.
S., was hanged by a mob.
Noah Brooks, a well known author of
juvenile stories, died at his home in
Pasadena, Cal, aged 70 years.
Dispatches from Port Arthur report
risings IN China which threatens to in
volve the whole country in conflict.
The annual reunion Of the Army OF
the Philippines will be held in st.
Paul for four days. beginning August
81.
Because his wife threatened to leave
him Robert SNOWFALL shot her at
Johnstown. Pa, and then killed HIM
self.
A cure for lockjaw has been discovered
by DR.. S. A.. Matthews, OF the University
of Chicago, and used successfully on a
boy.
e P Eei!s, b oldest hankAom-
cial in point of service in Ohio. died
at his home in Cleveland, aged 70
years.
A large gift to the University of Chi
cago is promised by John D. Rockefel-
Ter for oriental and archaeological re-
search.
The collections of internal revenue for
the month OF July last were S22, 168, 48O,
a decrease compared with July, 1902, of
Sill, 29l.
byterian church of Tecumseh, Neb.,
dropped dead of heart disease at War
saw, Ind.
Charles Reichman, known as the in
ventor of the first oil cooking stove,
died at his home in Brooklyn, N. Y,
aged Sc years.
State Senator William P. Sullivan,
of Missouri, was convicted at Jeffer-
son City of soliciting bride for votes
and fined 500.
AT New Britain, Conn, Frank Shirt
left, an insurance agent, killed Mrs
George Schoneld and himself. Jeal-
ousy was the cause.
al tllS lUut IL duuudl convention III
Nashville, Tenn, of the National Negro
Business Mems league, Booker T. Wash
ington was reelected president.
Miami and Fulton counties in In
diana We're visited by remarkable hail
storms and thousands OF acres of grow
ing corn were completely ruined.
James Lewis Meyers was arrested at
Charlottesville, Ind, for the murder Of
Branson Sloan 27 years ago. The ac-
cused is a successful Tennessee lumber
man.
Mrs. John Hilsrow, wife of a. rich Benz
nett (Ia.) farmer, was kidnapped and held
for heavy ransom in the cellar of a va
cant house, eight miles from her home,
but she escaped.
Six men who sailed from Chicago
last year to seek gold in Patagonia
have been arrested at Turks island, in
the West Indies, as filibustering sus-
poets. The state department has been
notified.
The wedding of Miss Grace Green
way Brown, of Baltimore, to Honore
Palmer, Of Chicago, took place in
London, about a score of friends being
present. A $4,000 necklace was pre-
sented to the bride by the queen ot
Spain.