The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-08-07

All the religious reformers OF theBabi
sect at Yezd, Persia, we're %butchered by
a mob and their bodies dragged through
the streets.
The customs revenues in the Phil
ippines for the first four months Of
1903 were $2,931,7S2, against $780,
oil in the same period in 1902.
The value of German exports to the
Unssed States during the fiscal year end
ed July / last was $119,77S,625, a net in
crease of SIS, 064 SOL over the preceding
fiscal year.
Reports of an uprising in the eastern
district of Cuba are not confirmed, and
President Palma says the incident is in
significant.
King Edward and Queen Alexandra
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of picturesque
localities in Ireland, being everywhere
greeted with great cordially.
The last tribute was paid to the late
Pope Leo when the third great
requiem mass was celebrated in the
Sistine chapel of the vatican.
Ten strikers who interfered with
railway trains at Mikhailovo, Russia,
were shot dead by troops.
LATER.
Lawrence Murphy. former treasurer
Of the Journeymen S~tonecutters Union,
of New York, who was arrested last
December, charged with emblezzling
$1,000 from the organization was
sentenced to five years and six months
in the states prison.
An express train was held up by a
mob near Clifton Forge, w. Va, and a
desperate effort made to take two ne
gro prisoners from the train. The
negroes, however, were safely landed
in Jail.
William Schultz, a farmer, was killed
at Lakeland, Mimi, in a runaway.
While full of customers, the jewelry
store OF Louis Weber, Chicago, was
robbed of SIS, 200 worth of diamonds.
Gold nuggets are said to have been
found in the Bluffs neal Brownsville,
Wis.
George Houston, a negro llackman,
who was caught by two policemen
while assaulting Annie Grooves, who
is IA years old, was the victim of a mob
in Tampa, Fla.
John Galloway, a soldier recently re-
turned from the Philippines was bru-
tally murdered at a camp two miles
from Rockport, Ky, and Robert Car
roll "a companion, SO badly injured
that his life is despaired of.
While hundreds of people stood on a
bridge to see Clarence Lutz, an arm
less man, swim across the Willamette
river, a section of the bridge collapsed,
precipitating more than one hundred
people forty feet into the river. Min
ME Raymond, Lottie Cannon and an
unidentified boy were drowned and
twenty-five persons were injured at
Portland, Ore.
Robert Lee, the negro who shot Po-
liceman Massey at Evansville, Ind,
July 8, and started the riot that re-
suited in the death aud injury Of many
citizens, died in prison from a wound
from a shot fred by Massey.
William REM, 16 years ole, was
drowned in the Mississippi river at La
Crosse, Wis.
Ewart Checktield, 6 years old, died
at Bunker Hill, ILL.,, from eating poi
soned candy.
Twelve of the desperadoes who es-
capped from the Folsom, Cal, peni-
tertiary are still at large.
Experiments are being made in Mil
waukee for making whisky from sor-
ghum molasses.
Fire destroyed $40, 900 worth of prop
erty at Owatonna, MINI.
The Russian authorities are reported
to have notified the government at Pc
king that Russia will prohibit foreign
ers from staying in Manchuria at
present, but that six years hence,
when Russia has restored order and
quiet in Manchuria, the country will
be opened to foreigners for free COM
meJce.
The monthly comparative statement
of the government receipts and expen-
ditures shows that for the month of
-
July. 1908, the total receipts from all
sources was $4s,611, 575, and the dis
bursements $40, 3ss, 1885,.
The first day Of the papal conclave
ended without an election of a pope.
Two ballots were cast. That these gave
to no candidate the necessary AZ votes
was made known to Rome and to the
world by the smoke of burning ballots
which issued from the sistine chapel.
Seven Gypsy girls were sold at auc-
ton in Chicago. The highest price
paid was $1,000 for a young women Of
exceptional beauty. The lowest price
was $50.
A freight train plunged full speed
through an open bridge at Coopers-
vile, N. Y, killing engineer and fire.
man.
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