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Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
THE WEEK In TRADE
BUSINESS WORLD AS SEEN BY
DUN & co.
Time Ago with a California MILL
ionaire's Wife Falls from a Train
i'm Iowa and Is Killed.
Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review

Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review.
r. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review OF
Trade says: Failures in August were in
number about II per cent. less than in
August, 1896, but the amount of liabilities
7O.8 per cent smaller. July and August
show a lower average Of liabilities per
failure than has ever been known in any
year or even in a quarter of the twenty
three years Dun IL Co. have kept quarterly
records.
The volume of business here has been
distinctly larger in speculative lines than
it was then, and in textile goods phenome-
nally larger, though s%lackening this week,
buyers having nearly completed their
initial purchases. With an extraordinary
movement in grain, heavy real estate and
business transactions and increased busi-
ness in the iron products, the month was
clearly the best August ever known.
Wheat continued its reaction until il
had fallen 4 cents more, but then rose 8
cents with the first revival of foreign buy
ing. Continued large exports of corn and
buying for export show still more clearly
the extent of deficiencies abroad. Cotton
mills are % running and turning out
great quantities of goods in response to
heavy purchases recently made. Wooden
mills have been buying more freely to re-
place the wool rapidly consumed, and the
goods market has been SO large and strong
that they are encouraged to purchase even
after a rise of so per cent. in a year.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
Not Exactly a Klondike.

A dispatch of recent date from Washing
ton tells in glowing terms that news has
just leaked out at the war department. con-
corning important discoveries of gold on
the government wood reservation near
Fort Meade. The dispatch would lead the
public to believe that another Klondike
had been discovered. The report is ex--
aggerated in the extreme. The exact size
of the wood reservation is two miles wide
and six miles long instead of sixteen miles
square. The district has been known for
years to contain gold. but the very best
assays yet made have gone but $i.6O TO the
ton, which makes the land worthless fOT
mining purposes.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
TO SOON FREE clsNERos.
Cuban Beauty Will Not Remain
Much Longer in Confinement.

Much Longer in Confinement.
If the Duke of Teuton's order for the
removal of Evangclina Cisneros from
Rec0jidas to a convent have been received
in Havana, which the authorities will not
admit, no action has yet been taken. Ac-
cording to precedent nothing will be done
until Weylcr returns from the field. The
date of his return is uncertain. In the
meantime there is no danger that the girl
will be harshly dealt with. 1t would
appear that her release from prison is only
q question of time.
Evangelina's chief desire is to face her
accuserS in open court. She still rcmcm-
beers she has IL sweetheart, and she is very
anxious concerning her fathers fate.
There is a fortune lying in chancery ia
which she has a better claim than anyone
else. 1t is not publicly alleged that any
official is trying to cheat her of her inher-
itancc, but the matter will lie investigated,
The fortune is said TO mount To 81 C0o,Oop
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
THE NEWS OF H DAY
SOUTH DAKOTA HAPPENINGS IN
CONDENSED FORM.
Horse Raiser. Charge State veter-
marian with "Ruthless Slaughter"
of Animals and Will Attempt to
Recover Damages from the State.
win Try to Get DAMAGES.

w WV A&eAtAb0kC6s
State Veterinarian Elliott has made sew
eral visits to the Cheyenne Agency this
summer and on each of his trips has or
dered horses in the Rousseau herd to be
killed, pr%onouncing them to be afflicted
with CHAMBERS. He has killed about $50
out of the herd, and on his last inspection
declared that. the whole herd of about 500
more was SO badly tainted with the dis
ease that they would probably have to be
all killed. Rousseau was not willing to
allow such wholesale slaughter without
further evidence, and employed j. NJ.
Treacy, a veterinarian from Sturgis, to
come out to his ranch and examine the
herd. He also examined other herds while
in that part of the country, and reports
that in over 1000 head examined by him
he found only W cases in which there
were symptoms of CHAMBERS. He charac-
terizes the killing done by the state eter-
marian as "ruthlcss slaughter" On his
report Rousseau and others who had their
horses killed by the state veterinarian will
attempt to recover from the state for their
alleged damages.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
TRAGIC END OF A LoTHARlo
II. Russell Ward Falls from u Train
and Is Killed,

III. Russell Ward of Santa Monica, CAL,
who became notorious a short time ago
through his connection with the elOpe-
mcnt of Mrs. Bradbury, wife of the CAL
ifornia millionaire, James III. Bradbury,
met his death near Wheatland, Iowa, Sat-
urday morning by jumping or falling from
the eastbound overland limited or the
Northwestern Railway.
Wards ticket from San Francisco to
New York was found in the clothing. 1t
is supposed that he arose from his berth in
the sleeping car and, installing the vcsti-
bule door for the door to the toilet room,
stepped off the swiftly moving train to his
death. He was untouched by the wheels,
but his hip was broken, and the means of
his instant death was apparent from an
ugly wound in the forehead. The body
was otherwise badly bruised. The coroner
returned IL verdict of accidental death.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
NATURAL GAS
Six Persons Arc Killed and Thirty
Hurt in Indiana.

~
Broad Ripple, a suburb of Indianapolis,
ten miles from the city proper, was the
scene of one of the worst disasters that has
ever visited the state, Saturday. Six per-
sons were burned to death and thirty peo-
pie were seriously injured.
-Four buildings occupying a block are in
ruins. OF the six dead nothing but the
charrcd and blackened bones with hang
ing strips of foul smelling flesh remained.
AT 10 O'Clock a foul odor was noticed in
the drug store of j. NJ. Watts, and a lamp
in a dark room used for amateur photo.
graphy went out. 1t was lighted and as
the burning match was thrown on the
iloor the explosion came. The walls were
hurled in every direction and the top of
the building fell with IL crunching grind
ing sound, covering all. The ruins were
burning Immediately and shrieks could be
heard from those buried beneath. OF the
seven persons i'll the building three were
burned alive. The rest are still alive and
may recover.
A hundred persons were at work on the
ruins and trying to save the Gresh grocery
adjoining, pulling at the ruins to save
those buried underneath. While thus en-
gagged, and twenty minutes after the first
explosion. when the second came from
beneath the grocery, it was will, Il mighty
roar, and blew the building to atoms.
Forty people were knocked senselcss, were
strcwn in all directions with broker bones
and burning bodies, while many more es-
capped with small bruises. This shock
made the whole town CULVER. Beneath
these ruins Plus Grcsll, the groccryman,
was caught and crushed to death. His
body was recovered before il was entirely
burned. The explosion was caused by
natural gas leading into the cellars of the
building from n 3-inch main in the street,
from which the houses We're supplied.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
GULF TRAIN HELD UP
OUTLAWS SECURED $4,000 TO
$i5, 600.
Scene of the Robbery Was Near
Twin Mountain ii Colorndo-Nat-
ural Gas Explosion Kills Six Pco.
pie in lndiana-Othcr Items.
Train Held Up in Colorado.

VI ss WA -
Gulf passenger train No. l was held up
and robbed at Twin Mountain Saturday
night by two masked men. Two men got
on the blind baggage at Folsom Colo, and
when nearing Twin Mountain they
climbed over the tender of the engine, and
covering the engineer and fireman with
revolvers, ordered them to stop when they
reached the road crossing. AT Twin
Mountain two men were stationed at the
road crossing with four horses, and as soon
as the train stopped they began to shoot
their revolvers to intimidate the pas
sengcrs. Two of the men entered the ex-
press car and blew open the safe. 1t is
not known low much they secured but it
is estimated ron 5000 to $4,000. Inn
mediately on receiving the news u Folsom
posse was organized md started in pursuit.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
GOLD STRIKE AT eoeEMoN7
Excitement Over a Rich Find in
the Streets of the Town.

Excitement Over a Rich Find in
the Streets of the Town.
While e%xcavating for a sewer in Edge
mont some fine sand was encountered,
and old miners saw it and determined that
it carried gold. A pan of dirt was carried
to Lake Calvert and five large colors of
gold were found. Excitement runs high
and dirt was carried to the lake by several
people and in all cases large colors were
found. Expert miners declare that the
diggings with the results of the panning
would give $40 per day to the man. 1t is
supposed that the old channel of the Chey.
enne River has been struck, and the citi-
zens are looking anxiously for some ground
that is unoccupied. The agent for the
Edgemont company is awaiting further
developments before allowing any of the
lots to be sold along the line Of the sewer
Present owners Of lots are fearing that it
would be a question whether they can hold
their property under the recent placer
laws. Merchants and others are wild over
the prospects and have closed their stores
To nan gold.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
Roads Get an Injunction.

Judge Garland of the United States
court at Sioux Falls heard the application.
of the attorneys for the twelve lines Of
railroad operating in this state for an order
restraining the state railroad commission
from pushing the schedule of rates which
it proposes to enforce, and which it pro-
mulgated Friday last. The injunction was
granted, made returnable September g.
The schedule of rates promulgated by the
railroad commissioners varies 50 per cent.
as applied to the various roads. A stand
ard tariff is published which is an increase
of % per cent. over the present rates
charged uniformly in this state.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
DRIVEN OUT OF GUATEMALA
Ex.Prcsidcnt of Honduras Exilcd
for Fomenting q Revolt.

Ex.Prcsidcnt of Honduras Exilcd
for Fomenting a Revolt.
The steamer Acapulco, from Panama,
brought an inkling of another political
earthquake in Guatemala. When the
vessel reached Acjutla she was met by a
telegram from President Barrios and held
until II O'Clock at night, when a special
train arrived with Gen. Vasquez, ex-presi-
dent of Honduras, under guard. 1t was
ascertained that Vasquez, who had taken
refuge in SANTOS de Guatemala after his
expulsion from Honduras, had been
ordered deported by Barrios. The refugee
was put on board the steamer and landed
at Acapulco. 1t is said he was detected in
fomenting a revolution against Barrios.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
Black Hills NJ. e.. Conference.

The Black Hills NJ. E. Conference which
wa held at Rapid City, was the largest
conference of any that has been held in
the Hills. The following is the list of ap-
pOintments of ministers to their respective
places of future work: Oclrichs, John
Hall; Rapid. City, ID. w. Tracy; Hot
Springs, to be supplied; Hermosa, to be
supplied; Tilford and Piedmont, II. l..
Robinson; Sturgis, w. j. Pyle; White
wood and Galena, to be supplied; Belle
Fourche, Roscoe b. Hughes; Nashville, j.
NJ. Gardner; Speariish, j. d. Skaggs;
Beulall, j. l.. Muir; Sundance, L.. II.
Bailey; Dcadwood, G. II. MacAdam; Lead,
VIM. Vanl3urcn; Central and Terraville,
J. II. Muse; Terry, to be supplied; Custer,
j. w. Kendall; keystone and Hill City, td
be supplied; Edgemont, A. l.. Bake; Prin-
gle, U. w. Butterficld.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
FLoeGED BY A MASKED MOE
Man and Woman Terribly Punished
in Michigan.

The village of llarriSyille, Mich, is eX-
cited over an outrage perpetrated by "A
masked mob upon Hiram Mckinna and
Mrs. Frank Haws. Mckinna was recently
shot and slightly wounded by Mrs. Haws'
husband on account of McKinna's alleged
familiarity with Mrs. liaws. During
Thursday night W parties of masked
men took the woman and Me-
Kenna from the latter's house,
stripped them of most of their clothing
and marched them to West Harrisburg,
six miles distant, tlogging them both with
whips en- route. The hair was cut from
Mrs. Haws' head and finally the couple
were left tied to a telegraph post.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
a1AkKEr QUoTAr1oNs

Ch:cago-Cattie. common to prime,
$500 to 1915; hogs, shipping grades,
$500 to $40; sheep, fair to choice. $2.W
to $3.50; wheat, No. 2 red, CSC to 94c;
corn, No. 2, Bic to 32c; oats, No. =, 19c
to 2Oc: rye, No. 2, SOC to Sic; butter
choice creamery, lie to lOc: eggs. fresh,
13c to 14c; new potatoes, SIC to CSC pei
bushel.
lndianapolis-Cattle. shipping. $500 to
$5.25; hogs, choice light, $500 to $4.75;
sheep. common to choice. $500 to $4.OO;
wheat, No. 2, 0Oc to 92c; corn, No. 2
white, 3Oc to 32c; oats, No. 2 white, liz
to 19c.
St. Louis-catt,e. $500 to $3.50: hogs,
$500 to $4.75; sheep. $500 to $4.OO;
wheat, No. 2, 97c to Soc; corn, No. .
yellow. 27c to 29c; oats, No. 2 white, 10e
to Doc: rye. No. 2, Acc to Sic.
Cincinnati-Cattle. $3.50 to $3.50; hogs
$500 to $4.75; sheep. $3.50 to $4.OO;
wheat. No. 2, Csc to 96c; corn, No.
mixed, 30c to 32c: oats, No. 2 mixed, 2Oe
to dc; rye, No. 2, Acc to Gle.
Detroit-Cattle. $3.50 to $3.50: hogs,
$500 to S4.25; sheep. $3.50 to $3.75;
wheat, No. 2, 05c to 07c; corn, No. .
yellow. 32c to 35c; oats, No. 2 white, go
to &c; rye, 51c to SIC.
Toledo-Wheat, No. 2 red. Csc to 97c;
corn, No. 2 mixed. 30c to Bic; oats, No
2 white, 1Sc to Zoe: rye, No. 2, Soc to SIC;
clover seed. 1920 to $3.50.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., No. 2 spring, 92e
to 94c; corn. No. 3, 20c to Bic; oats, No
2 white, 21c to 2Sc; rye. No. I. Soc to Sic;
barley. No. 2, 40c to 43c; pork, mess
1915 to 1925.
Buralo-Cattle. 800 to $3.50: hogs
$500 to $500; sheep. $500 to s4.75
wheat, No. 2 red, CSC to 07c; corn, No
2 yellow, 35c to 88c; oats, No. 2 white
DC to 25c.
New York-Cattie. $500 to $3.50: hogs
$3.50 to $500; sheep, $500 to $4.75
wheat, No. 2 red. $1.O2 to $1.O4; corn
No. 2, SIC to 3Sc; oats, No. 2 white, 23c I.
Z5e; butter, creamery, 12c to zoe; eggs
Western. Ice to tic.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
Feeders Find a Ready Sale.

A party of farmers from the vicinity Of
Centerville went to Pierre last week with
the intention of picking up a large ship
ment of feeders for their farms. They ex-
pectcd to take back from 1000 to 1900 head!
with them. The owners of stock on This
range this year are having no trouble to-
find a market, as the buyers are hunting
them up closely, and the owner of stock
can find competitive buyers at his ranch
almost any day without the trouble of
looking them up for himself. This fact is
running the price of cattle up and a good
bunch of steers beats Klondikc, as they are
to be had without the hardship of that
country and pay as we'll.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
KANSAS CORN CROP.
Tota, Yield Placed at I05.677.2sO
Bushels.


An official estimate of the corn crop of
Kansas has been issued by the state board
of agriculture in the form of n compila-
tion of estimates by farmers throughout
the state. The average yield is placed at
20 bushels per acre and the total crop at
l65, 677 $50 bushels, as against 221, OO0. 600
bushels last year and POI, OOO, 600 in 1895.
The dry, hot winds of the past week have
caused serious damage to the crop, tile
average condition during the week falling
from 60 per cent. to So per cent. The re-
ports as a whole indicate that the crop is
poor not only as to yield, hut as to weight
and quality. Though the crop is disap-
pointing, it is a noteworthy fact that the
state has raised only seven bigger corn
crops. This is accounted for in the fact
that the acreage, which is s, 2S3, 900 bushels,
is the greatest in the history of the state.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
BAD NEW YORK WRECK.

One Passenger Killed and Seven
lei Others Injured.
The New York vestibuled limited ON the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
jumped the track at Blodgett's Mills, near,
Syracuse, N. y, and plunged through the
station buildings. The locomotive, bag
gage car aud two coaches went entirely
through the structure. Mrs. j. H. Nc
Quillan of Philadelphia was killed and
seventeen other passengers injured, non
fatally. The accident was due to q broken
~n;l
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
A Heated Hurricane.

A dispatch from Huron, Sept. 8, says:.
A hot wind, with a velocity of forty
miles prevailed over this portion of the
state to-day, searching pasturage and
shrinking vegetation. The temperature
for the past fourdays has ranged from soto
& in the shade. Corn, which is an
especially fine crop, is rapidly maturing.
Wheat thrashing is in progress. but tile.
yield falls far below the estimate, and i'll
the same average continues, total crop for
for the state will not exceed q 5000, 600
bushels of wheat.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
HIS LAST G RIDE.
Henry Wendell. AN Eccentric Frisco
Money Lender. Is Killed.

Henry Wendell, an eccentric money
lender and furniture broker of san Fran
cisco, whose life the past many years has
been one long chapter of trouble with
pretty women, was recently thrown from
his buggy and killed. Wendell lived alone
in a house jealousy protected from intru-
sion by a fence and barbed wire. He was
a bachelor, over 80 years old, and was re-
puted to be wealthy. Wendell went out
for a drive with a young lady, Miss Con
stance Kohl, a musician, who claims to he
an adopted daughter of the deceased.
When opposite the aims house the horse
ran away and the occupants were thrown
out, Wendell being instantly killed.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
For Violating the Peddler Law.

G. II. Rankin, of the Minneapolis Tail
oring Company, who was arrested at Fort
Pierre under the peddler license law and
released on insufficient papers, was later
rearrested at Pierre. He was taken before
City Justice March, who imposed a fine OF
$50, which Rankin refused to pay, and lie
was sent to Jail. His attorneys have not
decided yet just what steps will be taken,
but they expect to carry the case up.
There is but little doubt as to the law be-
ing unconstitutional and a test would ston
any further prosecution under it.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
ENGLAND AND elMETALL,sM

Gen. Payne Saw No Indication that
She Desired to Join Us.
Gen. Payne, a member of the monetary
commission, has returned from England
on private business. He declined to state
what the commissioners accomplished, but
said the other two members would stay
abroad until October.
"Have you seen any indication in Eng
land that her people desire to join with us
on a bimctallic basis" was asked the
general.
81 can't say that l have. We are watt
ing to see. There seems to he a desire for
international bimetallism."
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
A walworth County Inventor.

Henry Erbe of Walworth County mas
invented and patented a haystacker which
promises to revolutionize all former
methods of making hay. 1t gathers the
hay from the windrow by being pushed
ahead OF the horses on the same principle
as a header and when loaded with about
900 pounds of hay it is taken to the stack
where it is raised high enough to place the
whole load OH the stack at once without
handling. 1t is claimed that two men with
one of these machines can stack forty tons
Of hay in one day.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
The Nitro Glycer,nc Exploded.

BY an explosion of nitroglycerine at
Monongahela, Pa, two men and a horse
were killed, a buggy demolished and q
bridge across the Mo%nongahela so badly
damaged that it will have to be abandoned
until repaired. Windows in the vicinity
were broken and residents for a mile
awakened by tho conclusion. 1t is sup
posed the men had glycerine in the buggy
and that u sudden jolt caused the explo-
Sinn
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
Reciprocity with France.

The French ambassador, Patenotre,
called on Secretary Sherman Saturday
relative to the proposed reciprocity treaty
between the United States and France.
The subject wa discussed in a general
way, but owing to the Importance of the
questions involved, it is not expected that
final results will be reached until the re-
turn of the president.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
Boy DRAGGED to Death.

The A-year-old adopted son of II. B.
Stewart of Harlem met with a horrible
death. He was leading u COW and fastened
the rope around his wasit. The COW be-
am Infatuated from some cause and ran
madly through the town. The boy, unable
to eXtricate himself, was thrown violently
to the ground. dragged through the streets,
dashed against buildings and machinery,
and when at last rescued, was dead, his
neck having been broken.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
TWELVE MINERS KILLED.
\ Disastrous Explosion Near Glen

\ Disastrous Explosion Near Glen
wood Springs, Colo.
\ terrible explosion of coal dust oc-
cured il. the old Sunshine Mine, owned
by the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company,
twelve miles from Glcnwood, Colo, Satur-
day. Twelve bodies have been recovered.
liesclling parties are still exploring the
mine and great crowds surround the
entrance. The bodies taken out were i'll a
most horribly mutiiatcd condition.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
Mysterious Paris suicide,

The body of u beautiful woman, naked
and frigltfully mutilated, with the skull
smashed, was found in the River Seine at
Paris. On the middle of the woman's back
was tatooed the words, "Long Live
Poland!'' and sDeath to Traitors!" The
remains are supposed to he those of a
nihilist who had incurred the suspicion of
fellow nihilists.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
Lee Secures Carey's Release.

Consul General Lee at Havana has just
feported to the state department his action
in the case of American citizen Jose Carey,
who has been held captive by the Spanish
authorities in Cuba. lie cables that Carey
was born i'll Cedar Falls, Iowa, and lived
twenty-three years in Chicago. He has
engaged in the instruction for eighteen
months, but the consul general secured his
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
To Prevent Evasion

The treasury department has decided
that boiling cloths for milling purposes,
which under the new tariff law are not
dutiable, must be tagged "bolting cloth
expressly for milling purposes" The
purpose of the department is to pre-
vent such cloth from being used for dress
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
Safe Robbed of So 600

The safe of the district tax collectors
office in Washington was robbed Thurs
day night of about $4,000 collected during
the day for taxes. The police believe that
Varick Hawkins, the negro janitor of the
tax collector, learned the combination aud
robbed the safe after Office hours.
Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1897-09-10
SECTION 22 IS HELD UP.

Tariff Collections Under 1t Are sus-
pended Pending a Decision.
Assistant Secretary Howell of the treas
ury department has instructed the COL
lector at New York to suspend the collec-
tion of discriminating duties under section
% of the new tariff law pending a decision
by the attorney general.