The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-01-15
THE NEWS in BRIEF.
For tho week Ending Jan. ..

The legislature of New York met in
annual session at Albany.
James Garfield killed his wife and
himself at Minneapolis, MINI.
John Reed, a veteran Of three wars,
died in Decatur, Ind, aged los years.
Elijah ]. Woodruff died at his home
in Toledo, O., at the age of 101 years.
E. H. Hartman has been elected
president of the Union Pacific railroad.
During the last year the accounts
Of 16S retiring postmasters were short
S23,454.
President Palma has vetoed the ma
tional lottery bill passed by the Cuban
congress.
Gov. John l.. Bates, of Massachusetts,,
was i~naugurated at Boston for his sec
| ond term.
A negro was lynched at Buena Vista,
Ark, for attempted assault on a young
white girl.
Parke Goodwin, for many years editor
of the Evening Post, died in New York,
aged So years.
Ex-Gov. Taft, of the Philippine
islands, sailed from Manila for the
United States.
Among the gifts to the Chinese en-
press on her s~ixty-ninth birthday were
II automobiles.
Fifty-siX strikers have been expelled
from San Miguel county, Col, by the
military authorities.
One thousand cases Of typhoid fever
were reported at Montreal, Que, and adj
joining municipalities.
Students at the Wesleyan university
at Delaware, O., will hereafter not be
allowed to use tobacco.
Railroads are making one of the
most sweeping reductions in general
expenses in their history.
After a quarrel Frank Benedict fatal
ly shot his wife and then blew out his
own brains in Burlington, la.
Gus Gregory (colored) was hanged at
New Madrid, Mo-, for the murder Of
George Marshall July 10, 1902.
Nearly $4,000 men have been laid
off by Is railroads centering in Chi
cago in the last three months.
j. p. MARCEL, cashier of the Highland
(kan.) bank, was arrested on a charge
OF forgeries aggregating $160, COO.
The United States Steel company's
earnings for the last quarter of 1908
fell from $32,S02,s21 to $14,S45 ,042.
Warren Barnhart, Oldest member Of
the firm of Barnhart Bros. & Spindler,
type founders, died in Chicago, aged 81
years.
Gov. L. F.. c. Garyin, of Rhode
Island, was inaugurated for his Sec
ond term and the general assembly
organized.
Detlef Evans, a German farmer near
Denison, Ia, poisoned his 1S-month-old
child and his wife. 1t is believed Evans
is insane.
Mrs. Myra Jane Williams, of Brain
erd, Mimi, was sentenced to the peni-
tentiafys for life for the murder of her
little daughter.
Sergeant Julius Frederick, arctic ex-
plorer and member of the Greedy ex-
petition in 1881, died in Indianapolis,
Ind, aged IS years.
frederick Lindstrom, a trusted enl1
ploye of a Chicago wholesale house, con-
fesses to embezzling $12,OO which he
lost in the poolrooms.
Bonds to the value of $3.50, 900 were
missing from the Bank of Staten Island
at Stapleton, N. j., and Otto Altman,
cashier, committed suicide.
Benton l.. Beebe, editor and pub.
Usher of the Sign of the Times a
Baptist publication, died in Middle.
t tcwn..N.5aas aged
Russell Sage, who is 81 years old,
has given up his daily visits to Wall
street in New York, and retired from
active participation in affairs.
Rear Admiral Tay Tor, chief of the bu-
reau of navigation, urges a naval sta
ton for Lake Michigan and Lake Bluff
and Racine are the location favored.
Forty thousand wage earners have
been given employment during the last
two weeks by the resumption of iron
and steel mills in the Pittsburg dis.
trict.
Nine. Lillian Nordica changed all
Of her plans for another concert tour
through the United States and will re-
turn to Europe, actuated by a fear that
threats against her life will be executed.
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