The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-02-13
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the week Ending Feb. ..

Robert Bailey died in La Crosse,
Wis, aged 100 years.
The Montana senate defeated q
woman suffrage bill.
Mrs. Charity Green (colored), aged
LOB years, died at Omaha.
The United States supreme court has
adjourned for three weeks.
sixty-four japanese coal miners
were killed by a gas explosion.
A cyclone at Wilmington, Del, I'M
rooted so houses and injured two men.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt gave
their annual reception in honor of
congress.
Valentine Casagrande, a miner,
killed his wife and himself at Lead
vile, Col.
Secretary Root has accepted the res
1gnation of Naval Constructor Rich
mond P. Hobson.
Miles Johnson (colored) was
hanged at Augusta, Ca, for ASSAULT
ing a white woman.
Ihlrty persons were drowned off
Duraborg reef by the wreck of the
French bark Van Stabel.
Nine. Adelina Patti signed the con
tract calling for 60 concerts in America.
beginning November 3 next.
Hardie Henderson, a well-known
baseball player, was instantly killed
ny Tie cars in Philadelphia.
Col. &. R. Stormont has been an.
pointed commandant of the Indiana
soldiers home at Lafayette.
Nearly all the large rivers in In
alana are on the rampage as the re-
suit OF heavy rains and thaws.
Mary Ann Mills, the Oldest woman
In Canada, died in Woodham in her
one hundred and fifteenth year.
A European war is threatened by the
husso-Austrian concentration of
troops on the Roumania frontier.
rive men were killed in a railway
collision between two Rock Island
freight trains near T%ecolate, N. M.
John Stark, a saloonkeeper, killed
ms wife and himself at Rosedale,
Ind. Domestic trouble was the cause,
Cole Younger has been ~pardoned by
minnesota authorities and will be al
lowed to return to his old home inMis.
souri,.
Weekly trade reviews report car
and fuel famine felt by many indus
tries. Activity in building trades is
noted. &
The Morocco pretender was de.
feated at the gates of Fee by the sui.
tan's troops, and $500 rebels were
killed.
The German government has decid.
ed to readmit the Jesuits, who since
1872 have been excluded from the
country.
Indicted coal men in Chicago are to
escape prosecution under the anti.
trust law but must stand trial TO,
conspiracy.
Edwin Maxwell, of Clarksburg, w
Va, the Oldest member of the state
legislature, died at Charlestown
aged 10 years.
While a gang of laborers was raz
ing an old tannery building at But
falo, N. Y, the building collapsed ane
three were killed.
Wireless telegraph messages were
sent from an automobile in a New
York street to a brokers' Office il
the Waldorf hotel.
The car ordered the severe punish
ment of those Finlanders-14, 79s mel
in all-who failed to comply with theil
military obligations in 1902.
Maj. Gen. Arthur Macarthur ha!
been assigned to the department O.
California and Maj. Gen. John C. Bate:
will succeed him at Chicago.
William PAUL., of London, BARTON,
of the Castle Square opera company
fell from a sixth-story window of
St. Louis hotel and was killed.
San Francisco officials are urget
by commercial bodies of that city t,
cooperate with United States official:
in stamping put the bubonic plague
il w. Rumple, member of congress
from the Second district of Iowa, diet
at St. Luke's hospital in Chicago from
an affection of the throat, aged s.
years.
Secretary of War Root, in an address
at the New York Union League club, de
clared failure has resulted from be
slowing citizenship and equal rights OF
negroes.
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