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THE NEWS IN BRIEF. For the Week Ending August 22. Mrs Louisia Bugg died in Clinton, Ia., aged 101 years. "Lucky" Baldwin has been elected mayor of Arcadia, Cal. A British force wiped out a Nigerian town and killed 700 natives. The battleship Missouri was success! fully launched at Baltimore, Md. Forest fires burned over 1,000 acres in a belt of white pine and cedar near Elk, Wash. Pope Leo's fisherman's ring, supposed to have been stolen, was found on his writing table. Clothing manufacture and other industries are being driven from Chicago by constant strikes. The private bank of Kinney & Co. at Angola, Ind., closed its doors with liabilities of $143,000. The Wabash (Ind.) Bridge and Iron company has assigned with liabilities estimated at $200,000. The democrats of the Eighth Texas district have nominated John M. Pinckney for congress. A negro who assaulted and murdered Mary Jenkins, aged 13, at Halifax, N. S., was hanged by a mob. Noah Brooks, a well known author of juvenile stories, died at his home in Pasadena, Cal., aged 70 years. Dispatches from Port Arthur report risings in China which threatens to involve the whole country in conflict. The annual reunion of the Army of the Philippines will be held in St. Paul for four days, beginning August 31. Because his wife threatened to leave him Robert Snowball shot her at Johnstown, Pa., and then killed himself. A cure for lockjaw has been discovered by Dr. S. A. Matthews, of the University of Chicago, and used successfully on a boy. Dan P. Eells, the oldest bank official in point of service in Ohio, died at his home in Cleveland, aged 78 years. A large gift to the University of Chicago is promised by John D. Rockefeller for oriental and archaeological research. The collections of internal revenue for the month of July last were $22,168,480, a decrease compared with July, 1902, of $111,291. Rev. E. I. Davies, pastor of the Presbyterian church of Tecumseh, Neb., dropped dead of heart disease at Warsaw, Ind. Charles Reichman, known as the inventor of the first oil cooking stove, died at his home in Brooklyn, N. Y., aged 86 years. State Senator William P. Sullivan, of Missouri, was convicted at Jefferson City of soliciting bribe for votes and fined $100. At New Britain, Conn., Frank Shirtleff, an insurance agent, killed Mrs George Schofield and himself. Jealousy was the cause. At the fourth annual convention in S Nashville, Tenn., of the National Negro t Business Men's league, Booker T. WashS ington was reelected president. Miami and Fulton counties in Indiana were visited by remarkable hailstorms and thousands of acres of growt ing corn were completely ruined. f James Lewis Meyers was arrested at S Crawfordsville, Ind., for the murder of Branson Sloan 27 years ago. The accused is a successful Tennessee lumberf man. Mrs. John Hilsrow, wife of a rich Bennett (Ia.) farmer, was kidnaped and held for heavy ransom in the cellar of a vacant house, eight miles from her home, e but she escaped. Six men who sailed from Chicago last year to seek gold in Patagonia have been arrested at Turks island, in the West Indies, as filibustering suspects. The state department has been 4 notified. The wedding of Miss Grace Greenway Brown, of Baltimore, to Honore Palmer, of Chicago, took place in London, about a score of friends being present. A $10,000 necklace was presented to the bride by the queen of g Spain.
