The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-10-02
THE NEWS IN BRIEF,

Hor the Week Ending September 2R.
flre destroyed nine business buildings
at AYRSHIRE, la.
Inc industrial center of the village of
uaroenvilse. N. Y, was destroyed by fire.
communication by wire with Nome
ana st. Michaels has been established.
fare destroyed F. B. Chase's sawmill
a. worse, Wis. causing a loss Of $780,
me University of Chicago has. added
sl,oVo'ooo worth of property to it's
holdings. A''
The republicans of the Sixteenth Ohio
ulstrlct nave nominated Caleb T. Weems
for congress. "eems
secretary of Agriculture Wilson SAYS
mat tne corn crop will be far from a fail
ure this year.
rus x. has begun important reform,
AZ the vatican for the purpose Of reduce
ing expenses. =
FORMER Congressman Edward Over
ton died at his home in Towanda p.
aged 81 years.
- p from Dawson says the
M oa output of gold will be- s10-
100000 this year.
robbers took about $4,000 in cash
from the Minnehaha county. hank 1T
valley Springs, S.. ID.
AFTER living in three centuries. John
Gnrapsey, 1o4 years of age died at his
nome in st. Paul. MINI
William Macabee. Of the United States
naval nome In Philadelphia. celebrated
his n hundredth birthday.
Fire in the shoe-string oil district If
iexas destroyed 35 derricks. causing a
totai loss estimated at 1926, 900.
John Alexander Dowie of zion r,+v
III. secured $4,000 to aid the move
ment for the invasion of New York CITY
by Zion hosts.
me steamship Texan has started on
a worlds record voyage Of 1000 miles
without a stop. sailing from Tacoma
to Philadelphia.
~ officers and crew of the battle
snip Indiana claim to have surpassed
the record of the battleship Alabama
In target practice.
Mark Smith, well-known comic onera
comedian and the original Pooh Bah in
The Mikado," died at his home in New
York. aged 4S years.
Robbers blew open the safe of the
Baxter Springs (Mo.) post office and Sc
cured $500 worth Of postage stamps and
about 5000 In money.
New storm warn1ngstowerssfor Lake
Michigan are to be built by the weather
bureau at Chicago. Frankfort, Mich.
and on Manitou Island.
Dimple, Daisy and Dot Redden.
known as the prettiest triplets in the
world. celebrated their twenty-1rst
birthday at Buchanan, Mich.
The immigration bureau has decided
that no person coming to the United
states from any port in the Philippine
islands is subject to a head tax.
Gov. Yates issued a circular letter to
all Illinois sheriffs advising them to
have the jails equipped with riot guns
In order to be prepared for mobs.
Congressman Vincent Boreing, Of the
Eleventh Kentucky district, the only
republican in the Kentucky delegation,
died at his home in London. aged GA.
Harry A. Garfield, son of the late
President Garfield. has accepted his ap-
pointment to the chair Of political
Jurisprudence at Princeton IN. J.) uni
versity.
Cuba's first year of self-reign was q
prosperous one. the revenues amount,
ing to $9,729,440. and the expenditures
$8,102, 567. leaving a surplus in the
treasury Of s1,626.S73.
The National Association of Marble
Dealers decided 10 lock. out its union
employees and to run open shops In the
future. Forty plants in all sections Of
the United States are affected.
The Mountain Top hotel on the sum
NIT of the Blue Ridge mountains in Vir-
ginia, where Washington and Jefferson
perfected their university plans. has
been destroyed by fire.
The Consolidated Lake Superior
company. which operated Industries al
the American and Canadian sSoos.'
and which was capitalized for $780,.
000, 008, has been wrecked.
The secretary OF the treasury author
ICES that. owingat0 the scarcity OF twt
per cent bonds. both for circulation ant
as security for government deposits. hi
will renew refunding operations to tn,
extent Of s2o. 600. 900.