The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-12-11
DOMESTIC.

Mrs. David Plapp, of Malta, H., was
found dead in a snowdrift.
The United States supreme court has
affirmed the constitutionality Of the
Kansas e%ight-hour law.
Peter Niedermeier, Harvey Van Dine,
Gustav Marx and Emil Roeski, Chicago
bandits, were arraigned before Justice
Kersten and all pleaded not guilty ex-
cept Marx.
The wages of GA, 900 cotton textile op-
eratives in Massachusetts have been re-
duced.
Cashier Francis ID. Wright. of the de-
1unct Dundee (Ill.) First national bank.
has been arrested for the alleged embez-
element of 100000.
Forty-four persons were killed in Cook
county, HI, during November by rail-
ways and 105 injured, and AZ committed
suicide.
The historic Academy of Music, the
largest theater in Brooklyn, N. Y, was
destroyed by fire, the loss being $780,
00e.
H. o. Wright, of Pendleton, Ind, a
Purdue student, died at indianapolis,
making II deaths from the Big Four
wreck on October 80.
The government receipts in November
were $44.692, 594 and expenditures $47,-
427,7SS, leaving a deficit for the month
Of $2,T35,194.
Phil Davis, Walter Carter and Clint
Thomas, all negroes, We're lynched near
Belcher, La, for shooting Robert Adger.
Secretary Wilson says that the balance
OF foreign trade in favor OF the farmers
Of this country during the last Ia years
has been 81, SOC, 600, 900.
- aaass . shot Frederick Hayden
In Springfield, ILL.,, and then killed her
self.
The United States transport Logan
sailed from San Francisco for Manila,
among the passengers being 13 brides,
all married to army officers within a
year.
Receivers in bankruptcy for the prop
erty ofSJohn Alexander Dowie at Zion
City. III. were appointed on the petition
OF creditors. Dowie'.s immediate liabili-
ties are placed at $685., 900, and he claims
that he has ample funds to pay all debts.
Delegates from eight western states
met In Chicago and enthusiastically APP
proved the plan for an alliance of the
farmers.
Circus Dixon, a young white man. was
hanged at Trenton, N. G., for the murder
IN March, 1901, of Godfrey Weber.
The annual report of Director Roberts
OF h United States mint bureau shows
that the coinage last year aggregated
FOG 872,4 s2 pieces, breaking all previous
records.
The United States batt1eship Missouri
has been placed In commission.
The public debt statement issued on
Lhe Isl shows that the debt Increased
S5,426,99s during the month OF Novem-
Der. Cash in the treasury, $685., 237 1923.
Total debt, less cash in treasury, $685.
Sa9,410.
s aTahe total circalatinn of NATIONAL
bank notes on November so was S421,-
lO6. 979. an increase for the year Of $780,
2E2 A65
The Rockefeller-Goald combinationis
said g have gained actual control OF the
Pennsylvania lines. as we'll az other vast
railway interests.
Ill government report on the condi-
faon q crops says winter wheat is not
satisfactory. and that corn is uneven ii
quality.
Atfred Bayiiss, state superintendent
'olS pHpIic instrilction, says that over
a,oVO, 0Oo pupils were enrolled in illinois
schools last year.
Fred stsube* murderer 81 Miss Alice
nenn1nger. Of Havana I'LL, was cap
suTeas Missouri and confessed lis
crime
Aae 5fQWn ct Greenwond, Del, was
hsafly wrecked BY anexplosion ofdyna-
sMases#sIWo psfsonswere killed and 1oo
SA}Afsa aan& naapy houses wersshnrued. !