The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-06-03
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
For the Week Ending MAY ~.

Maj. Gen. Sir John C. Mcneil is
dead in London. He was born in 1881.
Hester Jackson, a negro woman who
claimed to be 10S years old. is dead
in Washington city.
Daniel Graves, an ~S0-year-old man,
was struck by lightning at North
Branch, Mich, and instantly killed.
On the first ballot Robert H. Patton,
of Springfield, was nominated for gov
ernor by the Illinois state prohibition
convention.
Prof. William II. Pettee, senior pro-
lessor OF mining engineering at the
University of Michigan, dropped dead
at Ann Arbor.
Stephen Herbert was arrested in
Providence, R. l., charged with steal.
ing jewelry valued at 100000 from j.
w. kiser, of Chicago.
T.. Z. Clark, a farmer near Wayne,
Neb.. was killed by lightning and his
son severely injured. Three horses they
were driving were killed.
Thomas w. Brennan and Daniel
Tautis. farmers, have been killed by
lightning near Sioux City. la. The two
were killed by a single bolt.
The democratic state convention OF
Maryland met in Baltimore, adopted a
platform and elected delegates-at-large
to the st. Louis convention.
Charles Penio, the oldest chief of the
Uklah tribe. is dead at Cox r%anchero,
in California. and the Indians cele-
brated a death feast. Penio was 1O7
years of age.
Nine hundred heavy hardware ham
dlers struck for higher wages in Chi
cago. The strike will cripple for a time
most, if not all, of the dealers in steel
and heavy hardware.
The president has appointed Com
mander Samuel w. B. Diehl to succeed
Capt. Samuel G.. Lemly, as judge adyo-
cate general of the navy, when the lat
ter's term expires June 5.
Twenty persons were injured, some
seriously, in a wreck OH the Cleveland
& P1ttsburg road. near East Liverpool.
O. The wreck was caused by the train
running into some freight cars.
The Oxford University Athletic club,
on behalf of Oxford and Cambridge
universities, has sent a challenge to
Harvard and Yale to hold an athletic
meeting in London this summer.
The Illinois democratic state conven-
,tion will meet in Springfield on June
IA, at II o'clock noon, 10 nominate
candidates for state offices. delegates
to the national convention, and presi-
Dental electors-at-large.
Rear Admiral Evans, just returned
from the far east on the battleshin
Kentucky, says in an interview that
there is grave danger of China taking
up arms with Japan, and predicts a
general wal would follow.
In the superior court at Grand Rap
ids, Mich, a jury was secured in the
trial of Eugene D. Conger, IF
the Grand Rapids Herald, who is
charged with conspiracy in the Lake
Michigan water deal OF 1900. ~
Shortage of traffic and consequent ne
cessity for reducing expenses on the
Pennsylvania railroad are the reasons
given for the closing to through traffic
OF the new Portage branch, built within
two years at a cost of $4,000, 900. 4
A tornado struck about two miles
south of Guthrie, o. t., doing much
damage to property. five farm houses
and many outbuiliings having been de-
molished. From the wind and hail
the crops also suffered heavily.
A bulletin issued by the census
bureau gives the total number Of EN-
ployes in the executive civil service
of the United States as I50.383. These
figures include only those employees
who are required to take ar examina-
ton.
The First National bank, Of Cape
May, N. j., was closed BY order of the
comptroller of the currency. 1t is said
that the depositors will be paid in full.
Financial difficulties of the former pres
ident, it is stated, caused the present
trouble. Il
A double drowning in Big Yellow
creek, at Hammondsville, o. The dead
are Annie Piatt,, aged IA years. and
Sadie Hardie, aged II years. The girls
are supposed to have gone wading in
the stream. 1t is probable they ven-
tured out too far and were swept away
by the swift current.
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