The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-01-01
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending Dec. 2s,

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Gov. w. H. Taft has left Manila for
the United States.
United States supreme court has
adjourned until January 4 next.
president of San Domingo, was frus-
trated.
w. !. Buchanan, United States minis
ter to the republic of Panama, arrived
in Panama.
Sir Thomas Upton has announced
his readiness to challenge again for the
America cup.
Ihree children of August Batteen, a
farmer of Allamakee county, Ia, were
burned to death.
The trials of men implicated in water
scandals in Grand Rapids, Mich, Will
begin January II.
Martin Olson, John Rusk and Lars
Anderson were ~suffocated in a fire al
Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.
Fire destroyed tie Travellers hotel at
Menomlnee, Mich, and James Beatty
persisted in the flames.
Railway building of the year 1903 has
added 5,723 miles of track, bringing the
total up to 2O9,s95 miles.
Rev. Oren Burbank Cheny, founder
and first president of Bates college, died
at Lewiston, Me-, aged 81 years.
R.J. 9. Walters, a member of the For.
ty-seventh congress from Pennsylvania,
died in Philadelphia, aged IS years.
The story that Pope Plus was be-
queathed millions of dollars by his
predecessor is economically denied.
Secretary Moody asks congress for
S2,0OO.OO0 for and armament for
the new naval ships now being rushed.
Viola Sands Hazard, thought to be the
Oldest woman in Rhode Island, died at
her home at Wakefield. aged 1O5 years.
Hiram w. Beckwith, Of Danville, Ill,
from 1856 to 1851 a law partner of Abra-
ham Lincoln, died in Chicago, aged q.
Gen. John G. Black, of Chicago, sent
his acceptance to President Roosevelt Of
his nomination as civil service commits
sioner.
A battery of seven boilers in the pow
er house of the St. Louis (Mo.) Transit
company, exploded, killing five m
pioyes.
The Missouri supreme court has de-
cided against ticket brokers, and the
railroads will make reduced rates for
the fair.
Judge Poke Barrow, a member Of
the United States senate from 1882
to 1888, died in Savannah, Ca, aged
"a years.
Engineer Albert and Conductor Her
zalt, both of NATION, were killed in a
head-on collision between freight trains
at Butler, Ill.
that the first-class battleship Iowa had
been placed in commission at the Brook
Ign navy yard.
Senator Hanna has declined to serve
as chairman of the national republican
company after the expiration of his
term next June.
G. M. Waters has been appointed sup
erintendent OF the division of salaries
and allowances for the post office depart
ment in Washington.
The remains OF AZ private soldiers
who lost their lives in the Philippines
were buried with military honors at the
National cemetery at Arlington.
The advisory board of the Amaiga-
mated Steel Workers union in Pitts
burg announced that 33 lodges had
voted to accept a wage reduction of ten
per cent.
Charles w. Graves was arrested at Des
Moines, Ia, Tor alleged wife murder, the
information being given by his step
daughter, a member of the Grau Opera
company.
Gladys Asch was shot to death in Chi
cago by Albert Altenhofen, formerly a
Milwaukee business man, who deserted
his family for her. The slayer commit
ted suicide.
Andrew Carnegie has set apart 81, O0O,-
600, the interest to form a perpetual fund
to relieve workmen injured in Carnegie
plants and to aid heirs of those killed
while at work.
All records for Christmas business
in the New York post office were
broken this year. One million pack
ages passed through the Office in n
day.
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