The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-05-20
THE NEWS I'M BRIEF.
For the Week Ending NAV ia

Eor q Week Ending May IL.
Col. Henry B. 3, Bristol. u. S. Al. Tres
tired, is dead.
The Farmers State bank at Nardin,
Q. T, failed. Assets and liabilities not
given.
The steamer Doric, arriving in San
Francisco from the orient, brought ST.
250, 900 gold from Japan.
Brig. Gen. Peter q. Swaine, U. s. A.
(retired), is dead at his home at Los
Nietos, Cal, aged IA years.
Russia has decided to make an ex-
hibit at the st. Louis exposition and
reserved 10000 square feet of space,
A jury at Sherman, Tex. gave Louis
James, the actor, a Judgment for $4,000
against the Oriental hotel association, Of
Dallas, Tex. for libel.
Two mills Of the Schaghticoke Pow.
der company We're blown up near Troy,
N. Y. Two employees were killed and
many buildings demolished.
The restaurant belonging to John
ziegle. at Rochester,, MIMI, was de-
stroyed by fire, and the head waiter,
Emma Damyi, lost her life.
Congressman Henry McMorran, of
Port Huron, was renominated by ac-
clamation al the republican v
ton of the Seventh Michigan district.
Secretary Taft has appointed Charles
S.. Lobingier a judge of the court Of first
instance in the Philippines, The APP
pointee is a young lawyer of Omaha,
Neb.
John Brown, under arrest at Dick
enson, N. D., charged with the murder
of his ~12-year-old son while in a fit OF
anger. The father buried the boy inn
mediately. f
South Trimble was renominated for
congress on the two-hundred and nine
tieth ballot by the democrats of the
seventh Kentucky district with a single
vote to spare.
The firm of Whitney, Pousland & Co,
leading commission merchants of Bos-
ton, filed a voluntary petition in bank
ruptcy with liabilities of Sill, 908 and
assets of $463.
While the rumor that a revolution
has broken out in Hayti are false.
there is general discomfort in the re-
public, and a revolution is momen-
tarily looked for.
Robert M. Furman. aged 81 years.
editor OF the Raleigh Morning Post,
died at Beaufort, N. c., where he had
gone In search Of health. The eeaauso
Of death was heart failure.
The gross postal receipts for April.
1904, at the so largest post offices in the
country, as compared with April, 1903,
aggregated Sc, $3.50. 819, a net increase OF
$439,658, or over eight per cent.
Rear Admiral Albert Sewall Kenney
(retired) formerly paymaster g~eneralof
the navy, it is stated at the navy de-
partment, has been selected as treasurer
of the Panama canal commission.
George w. Lederer, the theatrical
manager, New York, filed a voluntary
petition In bankruptcy. He states his
known liabilities as $17o, 975, with as
sets Of 500. He specifies 234 creditors.
The seat of II. Archie Pell ON the New
York stock exchange has been sold for
the reported price of $500. This is
about $500 under the last price OBJ
tanned for q stock exchange member
ship.
Sympathetic strikes of the women
binders, blankbook binders and rulers
in Chicago are promised by union Off
Gals, If effort is made to run the shops
with nonunion binders. a strike
being On.
Alfred Bissell, a veteran of the Mex
! lean and civil wars. died at Oregon
City, Ore, aged 80. Mr.. Bissell was .
delegate from Illinois to the eonYen-
ton that first nominated Lincoln for
the presidency.
In a wreck at Hope Mills, N. c., on
the Atlantic Coast Line Engineer Dyer
was killed and the fireman fatally in
jured. Twelve cars were demolished
The wreck was caused by the engine
Jumping the track.
Mrs. Robert J. Burdette, of California,
has advised friends in ST. Louis that she
will not allow her name to appear as a
candidate for president Of the National
Federation of Women's clubs, which con-
venes in st. Louis May IL.
Testimony was begun at Rising Sun,
Ind, in the trial of James Gillespie, Mrs.
Belle Seward and Mr.. and Mrs. Barbour,
for the murder of Elizabeth Gillespie,
with the mother of the victim and Of two
of the defendants as the first witness.