The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-01-29
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For tire Week Ending Jan. 2s.

At Brighton, Col, the Adams county
courthouse was burned to the ground.
The Kentucky legislature passed a
bill appropriating $1,000, 900 for a new
state capitol.
Mayor j. NJ. May. inventor of farm
machinery, died in Cedar Rapids. Ia,
aged 80 years.
Mrs. Ruth Brown Thompson, daugh-
terof John Brown, the liberator, died at
Pasadena, Cal.
Mrs. Louisa Elton, % years of age,
killed her two children and herself in
New York city.
William Sparrow and wife, old resi-
dents at Kasson, Mimi, were asphyxi-
ated by coal gas.
A. Tressler, of Springfield, O., has
been elected president of Midland college
at At%chison, Kan.
The swillso former Gov. Asa S. Bush
nell, of Ohio, distributes an estate esti-
mated at $1,000, 900.
burglars took 81, 200 from the bank at
Jamestown, Miss, and $500 from the state
bank at Mclean, Neb.
The distillery plant of Mfhalovitch,
Fletcher & Co. at Cincinnati was burned.
the loss being $25O,OOo.
franklin Union No. 4 OF Pressfeeders
in Chicago was placed in the hands of
a receiver by Judge Brentano.
Andrew Carnegie has given So, 900 to
nuiid a library at Talladega college, a
coiored school at Talladega, Ala.
4 plea for ship subsidies was mace by
Senator Hanna at the national board OF
trade convention banquet at Washing
ton.
Gov. Yates has filed a protest against
the Illinois state tax rate of So cents per
500 valuation with the secretary of
state.
Secretary Hay left Washington for
Townsville, Ca, where he expects to
remain two weeks as the guest of Col.
Payne.
Kid" Carter knocked out Joe Choyn-
ski in the first round of a fight at Bos-
ton and the police arrested both prin-
cipals.
+" ~" SouShSo "hlSu,l Is cidlmGu, C0n-
not be ~telescoped, are being tried by the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad
company.
The New York Central railroad will
try to break the worlds speed record
OF 120 miles an hour made at Prossen.
Germany.
control OF the copper supply and mar
kets of the world has passed TO the hands
OF the Standard Oil company and the
Rothchilds.
A. J. McLaurin ana n. D. Money have
been elected by the Mississippi legisla-
ture to succeed themselves in the United
States senate.
A Brooklyn IN. W wife heater was
sent to prison for eight years on his
eighth appearance before the courts on
the same charge.
Mrs. Linday Allison. who claimed to
be the oldest resident in the United
States, died at Pensacola, Fla, at the
age of 1873 years.
While handling a gun he did not
knew was loaded Charles Crabtree q i2-
year-old boy at Burlington, Ia, acciden-
tally killed his mother.
The Olyphant breaker and washery of
the Delaware & Hudson company at Oily
plant, Pa, was destroyed by fire, throw
ing $500 persons out of work.
A movement is under way to secure
investigation by the national govern
ment into the causes of fires and to avert
the great loss OF life and property.
Cured of a broken neck, James Dunn.
IL years old, has been discharged from a
hospital in New York, where he had
spent five months in a plaster cast.
w. j. Bryan, in an address at a Lin
coin (Neb.) banquet given in his honor,
opposed abandonment of '"bimetalism'p
or change in party's tariff attitude.
Santa Fe railroad officials We're elated
over a life sentence given John Divine
for wrecking the Colorado express on
October 30, by which 25 were injured.
The latest reports to the American
board in Boston from the relief eenters,
in Macedonia show that there are now
100000 persons homeless and without
means of support.
A battle at Puerto Plata between Sam
Domingo revolutionists and government
forces was practically refereed by the
United States naval commander. who
finally stopped it.