The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-01-16
THE NEWS IN BRIEF

lI1E NEWO I'm DIGlEEs
For the Week Ending Jan. 10.
The bank of Louisville, Neb., was
broken into and robbed of $4,000.
The Massachusetts, legislature has
ordered a coal inquiry at Boston.
Chicago's poor are suffering for fuel
ans Mayor Harrison has appealed for
aid.
The state university building in
Norman, Okla, has been destroyed
by fire.
F%orty-eight Howard county (Ind.)
girls will go to North Dakota to marry
farmers.
Daniel H. Hastings, governor Of
Pennsylvania in 1894, died at Belle
fonte, oged 81 years.
Fire destroyed the central building
of the Young Mems Christian associ.
alton at Cleveland, o.
The American Beet Sugar associa-
ton has formally withdrawn its oppo-
sition to Cuban reciprocity.
Scores of poor people in Indianapolis
stole coal in broad daylight to keep
their families from freezing.
Three persons were killed and IA or
more injured, one fatally, by a collision
on the Pennsylvania road at Ada, Ohio.
With a production of 16, 329, sos bar
rels of -four in the year just closed,
Minneapolis passed every previous rec
ord.
q. po,rJ - %-oIo oo~~n - %ohlichSn
fictitious prices for grain were de-
clared illegal by the appellate court
in Chicago.
Gov. Van SAINT, of Minnesota, was
sworn in and in his message declared
his purpose to prosecute the railway
merger suit.
Emil johnson, a teamster, shot and
killed Miss Benna Benson at Virginia.
Mimi, because she refused to marry
him, and then killed himself.
Mrs. Carrie Nation, the temperance
reformer, has purchased a large resi-.
dence ut Kansas City, Kan, to be used
as a home for drunkards' wives.
Crazed by family troubles, his wife
having sued for divorce, Joseph Policy,
d TcllFGO IdIlueT Oh GlOOId, 1d.s SAOe
his wife and then killed himself.
Venezuelan government troops re-
captured Tucacas port from the reb-
els, taking $50 prisoners, and the adj
vance on Caracas was checked.
Rev. DIR. J. T. Mcfarland, of Topeka,
was fined 500 for contempt Of court
by a police magistrate whom he scored
for a fine imposed on Mrs. Nation.
Weekly trade reviews report
prompt collections and satisfactory
business conditions, fuel shortage
being the only disturbing element.
The public library for which AM
drew Carnegie gave $350,OOO was dedi-
Gated at Washington with addresses
by the donor and President Roosevelt.
Reports have reached Europe that
new atrocities are being committed
in Macedonia and the people are tiee-
ing from the country in great num-
bers.
In Berlin a horse meat banquet was
attended by 600 persons, who ate horse
soup, picked horse tongue, flet and
roast horse to prove itsspalatable quail
tiles.
The Pennsylvania road has divided
ownership of the Reading with the
Vanderbilt interests, the two now COM
trolling almost the entire eastern
anthracite and bituminous coal indus
try.
John Butler, alias W.. C. Lane, ar
rested at Quincy, ILL.,, and identified
as an Abingdon bank robber, was pos
ing as a wealthy stockman and en-
PERTAINING friends at an after-theater
lunch.
Ernest Davis, colored, was hanged at
Manchester, Va, for the murder OF
John Henry Stokes, another negro.
Sol Dunn, colored, was hanged at Au.
gusta, Ga, for killing William Springs,
a white man.
New York coal dealers advanced
prices to $14. Ocean steamships are
delayed for lack Of fuel. The Detroit
, city government will ask for a state
law enabling it to spend $4,000 forcoal
!, to be sold at cost.
New York's coal shortage is grow
) ing o serious. Independent out
put has advanced to $11 and $13. In
dianapolis poor are stealing fuel in
daylight. St. Louis receipts of Goa
are 80 per cent. below normal. An
thracite coal sells at SIS in Boston.
THE MARKETS.
5 New York. Jan. 10.
LIVE sToCK-steers........ 81 90 q S 60
e Hogs 6 IS q 6 40