The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-06-12
In Illinois President Roosevelt was

bloomington passing the night at the
last named city.
Bids have been opened at the navy
department for three battleships, to
be the most powerful in the navy.
The latest reports place the number
of known dead by the recent tornado
at Gainesville, Ga. at ITO, and the in
jured at 800.
A Mississippi river excursion steamer
was crushed against a bridge pier at
Hannibal, Mo, and -four children were
drowned.
Conductor Clements and four ne
groes were killed in a wreck due to a
washout near Columbia. S. C.
Louisville men are promoting q
strike insurance company, which it is
proposed shall write risks protecting
employers against labor troubles.
All the low country between Warsaw
and Quincy, H., is under water. The
loss is $3.50, 900.
AT Paterson, N. J., a bronze statue
of Garret A. Hobart, late vice presi-
dent, erected in his honor by friends,
has been unveiled. -
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Jackson. Miss. erected at a cost of
81, COO, 900, was formally dedicated.
Thieves blew open the safe of the
Gold-Stabeck bank at Vesta, Mimi, and
secured $4,000 in currency and $4,000
in notes.
The law passed by the last congress
requiring all naturalization offices to
make special inquiry regarding anar-
chistic views which may be held by APP
plicants for citizenship has gone into
effect,
Four hundred members of the Chi
cago Blacksmiths' union have beensus-
pended by the international officials,for
breaking a contract with employers
and going on strike.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
at Danville, Ill, to wreck a Chicago &
Eastern Illinois train by placing, a tie
on the Nermillion river bridge.
h fire loss of the United,States and
Canada for the month of May was $16,-
366, 500, against $14,S sec 900 in Nay, !ao22.
Forest fires are doing immense dam
age in all portions of Maine.
The rivers are falling in Missouri and
Kansas and the worst of the flood is
over except at ST. Louis and vicinity.
g President Roosevelt OH the 4th dedi-
Gated q new state armory and spoke to
colored soldiers at the tomb of Lincoln
in Springfield. assisted in defeating a
university at Decatur, spoke at Dan
vile, and then left Illinois for Indian
apolis, where he made the final speech
of his western trip, leaving at 3:2Up.m
for Washington.
Nine persons We're killed. and, three
injured by a head-on collision Of two
Santa Fe railroad passenger train near
Stilwell, Kan.
Samuel Mitchell {white), who led the
moi that lynched Thomas Gilyard, a
negro, at Joplin, Mo-, recently, has
been sentenced to ten years imprison-
mcnt.
At Greenville, Miss, John Dennis, a
negro, was lynched by a mob for an at
tempted criminal assault upon a we'll
known young lady.
John L. Miller, of Lincoln, Neb., and
Miss Frances Moore. of Davenport, Ia.
students at the University of Chicago,
We're accidentally drowned in Jackson
park lagoon.
The federal grand jury heard testi-
mony in Washington in the case of A.
w. Machen, former superintendent Of
free delivery. who is accused of accept
ing brides of $4,000.
The Mississippi river food broke all
records at Keokuk, Ia. The Sny. Hunt
and Indian Grove leveas broke and
100000 acres were submerged.
Forest fires in the Adirondacks and
New England are rapidly spreading
and timber worth millions of dollarsis
being destroyed, with summer camps
and resorts.
Several large hotels and restaurants
We're tied up in Chicago because Of a
strike of walters and cooks.
Cowboys killed f. NJ. Berry and his
three ons at st. Francis, Kan, in a
| quarrel over land.
Seventy-one persons are now known
to have lost their lives in the flood at
Topeka, Kan.
A new counterfeit, a Photographic
reproduction of the $50 issue Of the
National state banko Metropolis, ILL.,,
has been discovered.
All New England is praying for rain
to check the forest fires that are
sweeping from Maine to Connecticut.
Personal AND POLITICAL.
S E. Pettee, inventor of the machine
for making paper bags. died at Cleve-I
land, O.. aged 81
Prof. J.. r. Leslie, the famous geoso-
gist of he LInivers ii sffn5sssennsyivania,
died at his home in Milton.
Mrs. Sarah Elliott died at her home
IN Chicago, aged 1O3 years.
Judge Iames-G.haa, ef TITS
Ala, who FOR II years represented the
Fifth Alabama district in congress,
died at Las Vegas, N. NJ.
Ohio republicans in convention at
Columbus nominated Myron 4. Her.
rick, Of Cleveland, for governor, and
President Roosevelt and Senator Ham
ma were Endorsed for reelection.
FOREIGN.
Gustaye Raul German, and William
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