The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-06-12
4 WEEKS RECORD
ALI the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
DOMESTIC.

The public debt statement issued
on the 1st shows that the debt de-
creased $3,247,3S5 during the month Of
May. Cash in the treasury, 1915, 16s, S07,
Total debt, less cash in the treasury,
81 1910, S56, 800.
The total receipts of the government
in May were $44,113, 969, and the dis
bursements $40, $50, 1896, leaving a sur
plus for the month of SO, 26,o73.
The body of Superintendent Z. +.
Isgan, of the Great Northern railroad,
who was lost in Montana mountains
on November 4 while hunting, has been
discovered by searchers near Bolton.
A supreme court ruling on a Ha-
waiian manslaughter ease declares
that the islands criminal procedure
has not been abolished by annexation.
Celestine CARING, "a years old, com
mitted suicide at New York after writ
ing that a promise to kill herself was
given to her husband if he died first.
An explosion destroyed the plant at
Elmira, N. Y. where jovite, a high ex-
plosive, was manufactured, and three
men were killed.
zaAaiTs=a nnaz y NogygEIa lit Mrs Hiram
Johnson, the Oldest twins in the United
States, celebrated their eighty-eighth
birthday at Monroe, Wis.
The total circulation of national
bank notes May 90 was $4o6, "A 1905, an
increase for the year of $40, 500, 021.
President Roosevelt witnessed a
wild west show at Cheyenne, where he
was given a beautiful horse, which lie
rechristened Wyoming.
In the Chicago judicial election the
democrats elected II and the reriit-
iicans three judges.
E~ighty-five persons We're killed and
40 fatally injured at Gainesville, Ca,
by a cyclone, and property aggregat-
ing.$500, 900 was destroyed.
Prof. John f. Hicks, botanist at the
state agricultural station at Wooster,
o., was shot to death before the home
Of his sweetheart by some unknown
person.
The floods are subsiding at Topeka,
Kan, and the height of the peril is
believed to have passed. Thirty-four
persons are known 10 have persisted.
United States supreme court passes
upon a number of important cases and
adiourns for the term.
The total coinage executed at the
minis of the United States during MAY
was $1.7S0,4S6.
Twenty-Five hundred square miles of
the most fertile valleys of Kansas ard
Missouri, including populons cities, are
covered with flood waters.
Whitaker Wright, the British fnan-
cial operator under arrest at New
York for alleged fraud, was refused
habeas corpus by the supreme court.
Water four feet above the danger
line is predicted for ST. Louis by the
governments weather bureau.
Mrs. Mary Mcknight, of Grayling,
Mich. is charged with causing the
death of Mr.. and Mrs. John Murphy
and their by giving them
poison.
treaty with the Uintah Indians has
been closed which will throw open in
Utah ], Sc, 900 acres of reservation land
for settlement in October, 1894,
The foods were s%nbsiding at Kansas
City, Mo-, and conditions were much
improved.
The New York building trades strike
is practically ended and work will be
resumed at once. Drivers and la
borers getnn concessions and waive
union recognition.
President Roosevelt made stops at
several towns in Iowa on his home
ward journey. In an address at Du-
bnque he favored a national policy
which refrains from wronging the
weak, but refuses to accept wrong
from strong nations
Tie deaths from the tornado at
Gainesville, Ga ns.ssE scr ce GGife nou-s
sand survivors are homeless and with
ont food or clothing.
Six railroads have made peace with
the freight handlers 2..s:s III 5 Sssr7s
averted a strike III Chicago.
Former Speaker Thomas B. Reed left
personal property valued att s431, 900,
according toa report filed by the APP
praisers at New York.
Topeka has decided to solicit outside
assistance for food sufferers. donbt.
ing Its ability to care FOR o,0oo sick
and homeless refugees. Four hundred
refugees are still unrescued.
Ferris wheel, which cost S36c,-
900, has been sold to a wreckingcom-
pany IN Chicago for $1,Soo and will be
removed as junk
Another general strike OF arthracite
coal miners IS threatenedby the execu-
tive board at NiIkesbarre, Pa.,because
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