The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-03-20
THE NEWS in BRIEF.

For the Week Ending March II.
Nathaniel Surdam died at his homo
in Almena, Mich, aged 100 years.
The Missouri legislature has passed
a bill making chicken stealing a fell
ony.
Metal workers employed in "a of the
largest shops in Chicago have gone on
strike.
Secretary Shaw has decided to em-
ploy no more women immigration in
spectors.
The Delaware house of representa-
tives defeated a local option bill for
the state.
Gen. James A. Dumont has re-
signed as chief of the steamboat. in
spection service.
Two men cracked the safe in the
State bank, of Kasota, Mimi, secured
$500 and escaped.
Weekly trade reviews report a
promising outlook for spring and
summer business.
Joseph 81. Gibbs killed his wife and
himself at st. Paris, o. Domestic
trouble was the cause.
The death list of students at Cor
nell college at Ithaca, N. Y, from
typhoid now numbers 90.
President Roosevelt hopes to leave
Washington about the end Of the
month for a western tour.
The Kansas legislature adjourned
after having been in session ten days
over the constitutional limit.
Gottlieb Niegenfried, who MUIR
dered his divorced wife and her
father, was hanged at Lincoln, Neb.
Three men were killed and IA
severely injured by an explosion of
fire damp in a mine at Pontiac, Ill.
The launching Of the battleship
Colorado, building at the Cramps
yard, has been postponed until April
The Cuban senate has ratified the
reciprocity treaty with the United
States, two-thirds voting in the affirm
alive. Il
Robert G. Hedrick, commissioner
of Indian affairs under President
Lincoln. died in poverty in Indian
apolis. I
Andrew C. Wheeler, better known
as "Nym Crinkle," a well-known news
paper writer, died at his home at Mon
sey, N. Y. I
In the 5o>leading post Offices in the
country the gross postal receipts for
February show a net increase of over
10 per cent.
Eight men were killed and a large
number wounded, in a fight between
the hands of rival turpentine camps
near Orange Springs, Va.
Seven million dollars worth of art.
objects, bought by j. P. Morgan in
Europe, must pay $3,000,0 900 duty if
brought to United States.
Eugene Marshall, a negro student,
won in the debate at Ann Arbort to se-
lect an orator to represent Michigan
university in the Northern league.
The interior department. authorizes
the acquisition Of property in Wyom-
ing, Montana, Colorado, Nevada and
Arizona for extensive irrigation
works.
J.P. Morgan is said to have bought
for the American Tobacco company
the entire Vuelta Abajo region OF
Cuba, the finest tobacco lands in thl
world.
Thomas Hardenburg died in Atlan-
tic, Ia, aged 80 years. He has drawn
a war pension regularly since 1885.
and claims to be the oldest pensioner
on the roll.
Frank C. Pingree, who was presi-
dent of the wrecked City savings
bank in Detroit, has fled a petition
in bankruptcy. His liabilities are
$s25,0oo; assets, $4,000.
A government report shows that
the amount of wheat remaining in
farmers hands March / was 1854, OOO,-
600 bushels, corn, 1850, 100000 bushels,
and oats 365,00O,0OO bushels.
An alleged Philadelphia murder
mill where undesirable relatives or
friends can be disposed of at none
inal cost was unearthed by detec.
tiyes. a
Judge John F. Phillips, of the Unit.
ed States district court, granted an
injunction against striking team
sters in Kansas City on the grounds
that they yer violating interstate
commerce laws.