The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-07-24

train was wrecked at Shelbyville, Ill,
and IL employees were badly injured.
George w. Dillon, manager Of Had
den-Rhode company's brokerage office
in Escanaba, Mich, is missing, and the
sum of $25, 900 is unaccounted for.
The post Office department has or
dered a thorough investigation of every
branch of the New York city post Office.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Miss Lavinia Wheeler died in Oak
land, Cal, at the age of 1O2 years.
Mrs. Nancy Townsend died at Sand
wich, I'LL, aged 100 years and four
months.
1t is said that Grover Cleveland is to
speak before the Chicago Commercial
club in October as a candidate for the
presidency of the United States.
Miss Mary J.. Piercey, one Of THE small
est women in the world, died in Bayonne,
N. J. She was 81 inches tall, weighed
SO pounds and was 40 years of age.
Harriet Stanwood Blaine, widow of
James G. Blaine, died at her home in
Augusta, Me, aged rs years.
Mrs. Cynthia Hendrix, 1O1 years old,
died at her home in West Monroe,
N. Y.
Hudson Samson, known in Methodist
Episcopal church circles throughout
the United States for his charity and
philanthropy, died in Pittsburg, Pa.
P. M. Arthur, grand chief engineer Of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers, dropped dead while speaking ct
a banquet at Winnipeg, Man.
Morris K. Belknap; of Louisville. was
nominated for governor by the republic
can state convention in that city, and
President Roosevelt's administration
was commended in the platform.
Col. John X. Miller, one of the most
noted union officers in Tennessee, died
at his home in Eli%zabethtown, aged rs
years.
FOREIGN.
The prince of Wales was entertained
at breakfast on board the United States
flagship Kearsarge in Portsmouth har-
Dor.
The municipal corporation of Dublin
voted against presenting King Edward
with an address Of welcome on his visit
to that city.
The Servian authorities have I'M
earthed a conspiracy among soldiers of
a frontier garrison to avenge The as
s~assination of King Alexander and
Queen Draga.
A cyclone ravaged the French pos
sessions in Tonquin and $50 natives
were killed and many villages laid in
ruins.
Judge Wilcox, the intimate friend
and adviser of the late King Kala-
kaua and other monarchs of the Ha-
waiian islands. died in Honolulu.
Thirty lives were lost in a food
which destroyed SO houses at Graef-
fenberg, Austria.
Russia has informed China that she
is compelled to exclude foreigners from
Manchuria and postpone the opening
of Manchurian ports.
A London and Great Western train.
carrying the prince and princess of
Wales, covered 246 miles in 233A min
utes, breaking the worlds record.
The British government in India ap-
pealed to Secretary Wilson to solve the
food problem there and he advised
them to mix beans and peas with rice,
which is now the sole diet.
An arrangements procession at Bel
fast was attacked by Roman Catholics
and many persons were injured.
King Peter Of Servia is accused by the
Paris Gil Bias with leading the conspir-
acy which killed King Alexander.
Samuel Herbert Dougal was hanged
in Chelmsford, England, for the muir
der Of Camille Cecile Holland in Essex.
The pope's personal fortune has been
~bequeathed to the church, his relatives
already having received their share.
The czar has abolished punishment
of prisoners in Russia with cat-o'-nine-
tails, cudgels, claiming to the car or
the head.
The Cuban senate has ratified all the
treaties with the United states.