The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-08-21
THE WEEKS NEWS
Happenings of the Past Seven
Days in Brief.
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
Casualties and Fires, Personal and Pc.
litical Notes, Business Failures and
Assumptions, Weather Record.
TxyyrTSY r TrT1NJFH INpnfF " DADTS
ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD
INTELLIGENCE FROM ALL PARTS
DOMESTIC.

DOMESTIC.
James Coghill, 40 years old, who had
lived three and a half years with a
broken back. died in Holyoke, Mass.
The United States Express company
has begun suit at Grand Rapids against
the state OF Michigan 10 recover s12. 900
taxes.
The International Typographical
unions forty-ninth annual convention
opened at Washington, D. c., with 315
delegates.
Twelve thousand striking employees of
textile mills in Philadelphia have re-
turned to work.
A farmer at Lakeside, Wis, held up
the driver of an automobile with a rifle
n commanded him to proceed at slow
er speed.
h wheat yield for the Dakotas and
Minnesota is estimated by H. V. Jones,
crop expert, at 147, 900, 600 bushels.
The dates for the Olympian games in
st. Louis, 1904, have been set for Au-
gust 20 to September 3.
Kent Stow, son OF a well-known
Buffalo IN. " railroad man, while in
sane as the result Of illness killed his
wife and himself.
tory at Rutland, O., John Mutchler,
Said Mar and Dele Rawlins were killed
n a dozen others injured.
IcpV.e that
there will be a good average crop
yield throughout the country.
Postmaster General Payne will pre-
vent interference by railroad strikes
with interstate commerce by making
all trains mail trains and commission
ing their crews as United States postal
employees.
John Temple Graves, of Georgia, in
an address before the anti-lynching con-
ference at C%hautauaua, N. Y, held that
lynching al justified by crime that
provoked 1t. and said separation was the
only solution for the southern race
problem.
Positive statement is made that Sec
rotary Root will place his resignation in
the hands OF President Roosevelt before
sailing for Europe to sit with the Alas
kan boundary commission.
The Reading railroad is reported at
Philadelphia to have been leased to the
Delaware & Hudsen and L4ackawanna
lines.
Building operations are paralyzed in
Chicago because of contractors pools
and the heavy cost of labor and material.
Frank Tilley, of Rising Sun, Ind. died
of injuries received in the recent wreck
of Wallace Brothers circus train, max
Ing the twenty-ffth victim.
The secret service has discovered a
new counterfeit $40 silver certificate. 1t
is in imitation OF the series of 1891, check
letter D, Tillman register, and bears the
portrait of Hendricks.
w. S. Stone, OF Eldon, Ia, has been
elected grand chief engineer Of the
Brotherhood OF Lcccmours Engineers.
succeeding p. Nj. Arthur, deceased.
It is said that establishment OF the
army canteen will be recommended by
Secretary Root in his annual report.
Joseph Hallier, organizer of the Unit
edMine Workers, was shot and seriously
wounded by angry citizens at Horse
Creek, Ala, who objected to the organi-
cation OF a union at that place.
Whipping by a Georgia prison war
den is told OF by Mamie De Crist, white
convict, before the legislative commit
tee at Milledgeville.
Corn Is making good progress In the
central and western belt but less promis-
Ing In the upper Ohio valley ana middle |
AtlanGsc states, according to the gov
~ernrnentss weekly report.
Leaders Of the Anti-saloon League Of
America closed a ten days. secret confer
snce at.Winona Lake, Ind.
The night clerk OF a hotel at Chelsea
near Atlantic City, N. u, disappeared
nth $4,000 not his own.
City Marshal John n. Williams shot
2 killed William Feldbusch In 4 dneI
on the river ut Indiananolis.
Sheriff Beese, Of Sacramento, Cal. has
abandoned the hunt for the conyicts who
escaped from the Folsom penitentiarr
JohnsK Brcwn cashier of the nnion
bank st New Holland. d, ii missing ana
~ said obs Extraordinarily $75,O9o.
Furnace coznpanyss plant fell, lallins
three men. 800
George w. Beavers. under tndiet.
ment fer alleged postal frauds. q a..
saaFea 2 fugitive from justice.