The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-06-12

The Atlas Loan company Of St.
Thomas, Ont, closed~itstsdoors,rswith
liabilities of $4,000,000.
/. Fire wiped out the village of Briggs
Corner, II. B.
Over 100 persons lost their lives by
.the sinking Of the British steamerAr Are
in the harbor of Valparaiso.
The Venezuelan revolutionists who
have for over. a year and a half been
fighting the government of presidents
will petition the United States
for recognition as belligerents.
Two hundred residents of Smerdash,
European Turkey, were murdered by
Bashi-Bazouks and their villages
#burned,after hombardment.
Consul McWade, at Canton, tele-
graphs that over a million natives in
Skwang-Si, China, are starving.
. Mayor Francisco Sanchez, instiQator
of the assassination of DupiD and
F%renchmen, at Chilpa1ingo,
Mexico, has been shot dead at public
execution.
Pope Leo is said to spend most of his
time in a half sleeping condition, which
at times approaches coma.
LATER.
The bodies of seven more victims
were found at Topeka, making II
known dead.
:s August w. Machen, former superin-
5tendent of the free delivery system,
has been indicted on a bribery charge.
The Indictment was returned in open
court at Washington, d. C.
Ri President Roosevelt reached Wash
ington the 5th from his trip through
out the west.
Mrs. Robert Sector was chloroformed
and robbed of about $1,000 in her
apartments in Seattle.
Two men are dead and another is
dying as the result of a fight at Eagle
lake, Texas, where City Marshal XII
.nard and William G. Mellow shot each
other to death, and Pierce Hammond,a
bystander, received a mortal wound.
In the province of Wong Of Kwang-
81, over a million Chinese are starving
to death.
Three blind pigs were raided at
Wlllmar, Mimi, and a large stock of
liquors captured. Four men were ar
rested.
Samuel Montgomery, alleged muir
derer of his wife, escaped lynching at
the hands of an angry mob at Tomah,
Wis, through the strategy of Sheriff
Castles, of Monroe county, and the
protection of a Q of deputized citi-
zens with leveled rifles.
A hurricane has swept over the Phi
Hppine islands and great damage has
been done to':shipping. The United
States transport Samshui5 is reported
have been wrecked. This however.
has not been confirmed.
The Associated Press has perfected
arrangements for The use of the Mar
cpni wireless telegraph system in con.
nsection with thettrial races between
the Reliance, Constitution and Column
bia off Sandy Hook.
"A perpetual injunction, preventing
any combination of certain coal opera
9 r intlllinois and Indiana to sell their
wares through one distributing agency
and regulate prices, was issued by
Judge Kohlsaat of Chicago.
Reports from every section in North.
ern Maine confirm the first reports Of
loss to numbering and 9TH
er interests from forest fires. In adj
a town hos been DESTROYED
and hundreds of buildings burned.
Hugh j. Cannon, a Mormon missions
airy, and his wife, have been expelled
from Germany.
Two men we're killed and two fatally
injured on a handcar that was run
down by a stock train neal Genoa,
Neb,
VIM. Hardee, a condemned murderer,
killed Charles Williams, his death
watch, with a rife he secured from
the Jail kitchen, at Anaconda, Mont.
McChesEey, the VESTS greatest thor
oughbred horse, won the Harlem han
aicap at Chicago.
The strike of the brickmakers of
Cleveland tiessup more than S., 600, 900
worth of building operations.
The steamers Insulaire ard Liban
net in collision near Marseilles, France.
The Liban sank and over 100 of her
passengers and crew persisted.
Torrential rains visited Spartanburp..
5. G., and caused twenty-five deaths,
many injuries and great loss. All the
bridges and trestles on the main line
the Southern railway were washed
away.
Estimates by lumbermen place the
oss:from fires anddrouth in Aroostook
county, Maine, at more than 81, 900, 900.
lnd.for northern and eastern Maine at
50 900, 200.
w. T. Wyatt, a colored school teach
II, was lynched at Belleville, ILL.,. for
probably mortally wounding County
School Superintendent Charles Hertel
# st. Clair county. Hertel had re-
used to renew the teaching certificate
# Wyatt and was shot. Two hours Ia
'er amob lynched Wyatt.
Two hundred persons. in the VILLAGE
Il Black WalnutMon the NORTH