The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-01-08
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Jan. ..

EEW 80 NE8
Seven thousand sheep were burned to
death at the East Buffalo IN. W stock
yards.
Safe blowers at San Jose, ILL.,, cracked
and looted the safe in the post Office
of $1,000.
J. Ed. Grille, of Cincinnati, has been
elected president of the American Base
ball association.
Robert G. Harper, the Oldest man in
Minneapolis, died at the age of lO4 e
and six months.
Secretary Root has declined to accept
the chairmanship of the national repub-
lican committee.
Within eight days Minneapolis mills
booked almost loo, 900 barrels Of flour
for export to Japan.
Lives lost in wars throughout the
world the past year number s ,46S,
against 25,700 in 1902
The Standard Oil company has reduced
the price Of oil FIVE cents in the east and
two cents in the west.
All the livery establishments in Chi
cago are open the employers agreeing
to reinstate the striking drivers.
Moses T. Clough and William Shaw,
prominent lawyers, lost their lives in a
ire in a Troy IN. W clubhouse.
Chicago liverymen rejected a proposal
to arbitrate made by the livery drivers
and declared they would fight to the end.
Mrs. Margaret +. Sullivan, one OF the
best known newspaper women in the
country, died in Chicago, aged Sc years.
Another warship at San Domingo
has been granted Minister Powell, as
three revolutions are in progress there.
Inventors of a trackless train made
their trial trip in Paris, and were con-
graduated by President Loubet on it's
success.
Burglars dynalnited the safe OF O.
Cohen, a jeweler in Des Moines, Ia, and
stole $4,000 in cash, diamonds and
watches.
Col. Henry l., Thomas, for "a years
translator in the state department, died
at his residence in Washington, aged
6S years.
Detlef Evans, a German farmer near
Denison, Ia, poisoned his 1S-month-old
child and his wife. 1t is believed Evans
is insane.
Ann Tyler, a blind negro woman SO
years old, and James Turner, a negro
So years, old, were burned to death in
Sedalia, Mo.
Experiments with turbine propulsion
prove successful and the new system
will be used on new naval ships of the
United States.
Mrs. Myra Jane Williams, OF Brain
erd, Mimi, was sentenced to the peni-
tertiary for life for the murder of her
little daughter.
Frederick Lindstrom, a trusted en-
ploye of a Chicago wholesale house, con-
tesses to embezzling $4,000, which he
lost in the poolrooms.
Fire, presumably Of incendiary orr
gin, totally destroyed the grain eleya-
tor at Corning dfstiliery in Peoria, ILL.,,
with a loss of $4,000.
Mary Anderson read and sang in the.
Peoples palace, London, for the first
~ yCoics 4 lC ClI6IldluluGu
was given for the poor.
DR.. Herman Adler, of London, praises
American Jews for seekingt to have Pres
ldent Roosevelt interfere to prevent n
other Kishineff massacre.
At Missoula, Mont, Judge Webster
sentenced John Tully, a soldier, to hang
February 26 for the murder of Thomas
Kennedy at Fort Missoula.
Jerome Sykes, star comedian Of "The
Millionaire" died of pneumonia con-
tracted during a Christmas party given
for his company In Chicago.
Joseph Boyd, employed as a track
walker in the st. Clair tunnel, shot and
killed his wife in their home at Sarina,
Ont, and then killed himself.
The advance in price of cotton breaks
all records of the season, and IL is esti-
mated that the south will receive more
than S700,000,0 900 for this years crop.
The corn crop of 1903 is announced
at Washington as 2,244, 176, 9253 bushels,
valued at 1852, 1865, Sol; winter wheat,
399, 1867, 250 bushels, worth 1886, 242, S49.
Alice Pitcher, q years old, daughter
of a Louisville (Ky.) organ manufac-
turer, masqueraded as a boy for three
years in Montana with her fathers con-
sent.
THE MARKETS.