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The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-02-15
Crimes and Grim ais.

AS a result of the building trades
strike in Chicago one man was shot
and several were beaten by strikers.
James b. Neal, who was at one time
a wealthy and prominent florist in
New York, committed suicide by swal-
lowing carbolic acid
Bill Cook, who was sentenced in
1895 to A. years Imprisonment in the
Albany, n. u, penitentiary, died there
from consumption.
Lin Atkins, wanted for various
crimes, and five other prisoners es-
capped from the fedealr jail at Paul's
Valley, |. T. A posse is in pursuit.
William III. Smiles, 20 years old, was
arrested at South BEND, charged with
embeZZling $4,000 from the estate of
the late Samuel Halstead of New
York.
Mrs. w. T.. Sistrunk, a member of
one of the most distinguished families
in Florida, committed suicide at ITALIA
hasse by shooting herself through the
heart.
BY the arrest of Anthony Decker
government officials believe they have
thwarted a scheme to float $3.50 900 Of
counterfeit Canadian money. He will
return to Canada without extradition
papers.
gill Cook. who was sentenced in
1895 to forty-five years Imprisonment
in the Albany, n. Y, penitentiary, died
there from consumption. He was once
one of the most noted desperadoes Of
the Indian Territory.
Levi Steward was hanged in the Es-
sex county jail at Sandwich, Ont.
Steward killed ''Old Jim" Ross on the
night of July IS last by blow on the
head with fence picket, delivered as
Steward afterwards confessed, nicely
for the purpose of robbery.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-02-15
Otherwise.

A combination Of all manufacturers
of whips in the country 1T Is SAID VIII
be accomplished during the next sixty
days.
The county supervisors awarded the
contract for building new courthouse
at Fort Dodge. Iowa to III. G. Koch 4
Co. of Milwaukee.
The secretary Of state of Illinois IL
censed the American Bicycle Company
of Jersey City, n. j., capital, SSOOo,-
600; capital in Illinois, $1O,0OO,OOO.
Plans for a costly piece Of construc-
ton work that practically will bring
about another trarS-continental line
are being made by the Southern Pa
cific company.
A freight and passenger train on the
Hooking Valley railroad collided at
Carey, o., resulting in the death of
fireman. engineer, express messenger
and two others.
Four firemen and two spectators
were injured during the progress of
fire in the basket factory OF John y.
Benedict, at Chicago. The loss was
$4,000. with no insurance.
Judge Morris, In the United States
district court at Baltimore, declared
the Charles A. VOgeler company, deal
ers in druggists supplies, bankrupts
and appointed three receivers.
Admiral Kautz. at Son Diego, Gal,
has transferred his flag from the Phil
adelphia to the Iowa, the transfer be.
ing attended with the usual salutes
and ceremonies. The Philadelphia has
sailed for San Francisco.
The United States transports Path
an. Sherman and Indiana arrived In
San Francisco from the Philippines.
On board the Sherman are % invaded
soldiers, and on the Indiana are the
bodies of 200 dead soldiers.
The Nebraska Republican central
state committee decided on Wednes.
day, May 2, at Lincoln, as the time
and place for holding the state conyen-
| ton for the selection of national dele
gates and for the nomination Of state
| ticket.
ExSecretary Of War Alger In an in
| terview, says this country owes Eng
| land debt Of gratitude for her atti.
tude during the war with Spain. and
| the least we can do to repay her 10 TO
abstain from interference In her pres.
ent struggle. -
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-02-15
A HAPPY VALENTINE.

II | could be valentine,
/ know what | would do.
I'd get into an envelope
And travel straight to you.
And IL the postman didn't know
Your name Is Baby Dear
And where you live, I'd shake his bag
AS soon as he was near.
And then with all my might I'd jump
And run across the street.
Qm sure that he'd jump, too, to find
A valentine had feet
I'd ring the bell and ring the bell
A minute and a half,
And when you came and saw twas |,
oh, my, how we would laugh!
Anna M. Pratt.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-02-15
Casualties

r. A. Frazer, Santa Fe engineer,
was run over and killed at Lorenzo,
ILL.,, last night.
Fourteen-year-old son of John Hall
was accidentally killed while hunting
near Carmi, ILL.,
John Jacobson and George Moehey
were blown to atoms by the explosion
of dynamite at Iron Mountain, Mich.
The water tower of the plant Of the
American Strawboard company at
Piuua. O.. collapsed, wrecking the
building and killing Benjamin Keihl.
Boulonyille, Westchester county, n. T.,
was destroyed by fire in the absence
of the parents, and four of Winans
children, whose ages ranged from to
8 years. were burned to death.
Patrick Crow, suspected of being i'm
plicated i'm the laring Northwestern
train robbery between Maple Park and
Dekalb on the night of Oct. IL, has
been arrested at Chicago, but the po-
lice will not divulge the place OF ms
confinement.
News has been received at Nassau
that the British bark Thomas Faux
ner. Capt. A. u. Faulkner, which saiied
from Pensacola, Jan. "a for Monte
yideo was wrecked at Riding Rock.
Jan. %. The book and materials OF
the vessel were saved.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-02-15

SHE PEEPS FROM HER EASEMENT
WINDOW.
ten, and you feel the pressing CT the
arrow point.
Love, love, be wholly mine;
Come and be my yalentine!"
How did the music of 1t get into your
brain? From that time forth you sigh
and serve. But this is vengeance that
the Valentine Sprite exacts. In the
end you are left wailing in the soli-
tude of your twentieth-century superb
GRITTY:
Love, love, be wholly mine;
Come and benny valentine!"
But it may not be.
While for you, spirit of manly love,
with the reverence of tradition in your
heart and the loyal longing in your
soul, there is kinder fate. The VAL
entine Sprite, with her dover of mystic
wisdom, shall not beckon you but to
taunt. In the far distance of the future
years that bind you to her l hear the
echo of a tender strain:
Love, love. so wholly mine.
/ am still thy valentine!"
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-02-15
Deus Il GDGGR

Thomas II. Bard, Republican, has
been elected senator by the California
legislaturer, to succeed stephen NJ.
White, Democrat.
William j. Morgan, Jr,, vice presi-
dent of the Morgan Lithographing
company and widely known in theat-
rical circles, died at his home in Cleye-
land.
Rev John L. Kennedy, formerly
chairman of the Congregational Union
of England and Wales, and professor
of apologetics at New college, Lon
don, is dead in his eighty
year.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-02-15
Foreign Notes.


The long standing boundary dispute
in the Malayan peninsula between
Siam and Great Britain has been set
tied.
Emperor William has prohibited the
performance of a drama by Herr Bonn
which shows Frederick the Great in
character.
The statement of the London board
of trade for January shows increases
Of e., 344 200 in imports and t3,236, 400
i'm exports.
A partial strike of coal miners has
broken out in the Wurm district, and
il is thought this may become general
in that locality.
Another revolution against the gov
erEment of Venezuela is imminent. 1t
is said that there are serious dissen-
sions in the cabinet
The Italian bark Quirinale, from Car
thagena, has been wrecked near vile
Roi Capt. Calde and six men of the
crew were drowned.
Gustave Dahle, a former captain or
German cavalry, has been arrested at
Charlottenburg for les majestic, swind-
ling and other offences.
A decree has been issued announcing
that the bubonic plague has dlsap-
peared from Oporto and that the quar-
antine has been raised.
Herren Gebrueder and Dietz- train
ard oil commission merchants at Man
helm. Germany, have failed for 4OO,oD
marks. Several Mannheim banks anu
English speculative houses are al
fected.
The Paris Matin says the powers are
asking themselves IL the time has not
come to enforce the treaty guarantee
ing the neutrality of the Suez canal.
If England is incapable Of keeping or
der they will be obliged to intervene.
Ambassador White at Berlin does
not expect to go to The Hague TO sign
the ratified declarations OF the peace
conference, but thinks Stanford New
ell, United States minister to the Neth.
erlands, would sign for the United
States.
Emperor William has sent a note TO
the imperiaI chancellor Prince Hohen-
lobe. expressing his majesty's thanks
for his birthday congratulations, re
ferring especially to those received
from German colonists and other sub
/ jects abroad. rta
SO great is the demand in the Aus
traljan colonies for American and Can
adam paper for newspaper print that
every steamer from Vancouver, b. T..
for the past six months has carried
large consignments Of paper to Sydney.
| The next seamer to sail Will carry
| double the usual amount, 1OOOOO
pounds being the usual cargo.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-02-15
Personal.

George w. Baker, South Bend piow
manufactures, is dead, aged 6S.
The Rev. Booker Fox, well known
negro evangelist, died at Ottumwa. la.
aged 104.
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The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-12-27
BOAST OF BABY ELEPHANT.
Birth Of the Creature in Captivity La
Considered to BE Re-
markable.

The only elephant ever born in
America made its appearance in the
Ringling Bros menagerie at Barbara,
Wis. the other morning. Circus men
and the keepers of animals in geological
gardens have never heretofore been for
tunate enough to secure the big ami
mails except by importing them from
Asia and Africa. 1t has always been
asserted that elephants do not breed
except in their native climate when do
mesticated. The mother of the new
baby is Alice. She has been member
of the herd for six years. Before that
she had travelled number of years
with a wagon show. Alice is about 35
wears old. The father is Baldy. He is
more than so years o.d, and is said to be
one of the largest elephants now in cap
tivity.
The mother tried to trample upon
her offspring. Quick and resolute ac-
tion on the part of the keeper saved
the young animal from being killed. A
fresh milch COW was secured at once,
and. though somewhat frightened. be-
came wet nurse after few hours. The
new elephant weighs about 200 pounds,
is strong and healthy in appearance,
and bids fair TO thrive.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-12-27
EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES.
Peabody Museum. Yale University.
Receives important Collection
of Relics Found at AbydOn.

Pea body museum has received from
London an important collection OF
Egyptian antiquities presented to
Yale by the Connecticut members Of
the American Archaeological associa-
ton. The relics were found in ex.
cavations made in Abydon. by the
Egyptian Exploration Fund associa-
ton, and have been on exhibition in
London
In the collection are number OF
rare specimens. among them orna-
ments of shell and green glass beads,
pendants of feldspar and pieces OF
flint which date back to prehistoric
times. There are six finely-preserved
scarabs of the eighteenth dynasty
and number of alabaster vases of
the Rameses period in a very good
state of preservation. There is also
an inscription taken from royal
tomb belonging to king Of the first
dynasty.
In the tombs that were excavated
were found model tools, axes, hoes.
chisels, a headless statuetee, several
jars. two gold earrings and some gold
hair rings. A chair leg fitted with
ivory pegs also was obtained.
These specimens have all been
placed in the Peabody museum in a
room that will later be used exclusive
ly for Egyptian antiquities.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-12-27
New York Has "a Malay Colony.

We have a small number of Malays
and Lascars in the sailors boarding
house district, which is situated near
the East and North rivers, downtown,
says the New York Post. The Malays
are chiefly Manila men, although many
come from Batavia, Samarang and
Singapore. The Lascars are from In
dia. They are all so dark as to be taken
easily for negroes, but their features
are Caucasian and their hair is straight,
stiff and wiry. They are peaceable and
orderly up to certain point, and then
they lose all self-control and generally
resort to the knife. The number varies
from so to 400 and 500. They. are in
veterate smokers, and many of them
use opium as well as tobacco.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-12-27
VLADIVOSTOK IN WINTER.
Employed to Pre-
vent Interruption of Traffic
at Russia's Port.

Nladivostok is no longer the ice
closed port in winter it formerly was,
for the resources of modern shipbuild-
ing have been called in and powerful
ic ice-breakers keep it open the whole
year round. so that now there is no
interruption of traffic at any season
and passenger steamers come at reg
ular intervals all the winter. there
fore reasons for obtaining Port Ar
thur no longer exist. says Russian
correspondent. Still. the climate is
not good in winter. and, naturally.
the officers of the men-ofwar prefer
to winter in Port Arthur or Nagasaki.
although in summer time the bright
side of life in Vladivostok is quite as
attractive as in the southern ports.
The place has been strongly forti-
fed, but strangers are strictly pre-
vented from visiting the fortifica-
tions, which are to be seen on all the
hilltops. Magazines, masked bat
teries and other means of offense and
defense have been provided, and they
are connected by an electric tramway
and by telephone and telegraph, so
that in case of attack communication
with the various points can be rapid
ly established The number of SOL
diers stationed at Vladivostok has
been greatly increased, and probably
it would be a more difficult place to
capture than Port Arthur
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-12-27
GROUNDS DIVORCE ON BIBLE.
PennsylvaniR Judge writes q De-
cision of Extraordinary
Interest.


The written decision delivered by
President Judge Arnold in common
pleas court at Philadelphia the other
day, annulling the marriage of Will
liam Wilhelm to Elizabeth Wilhelmi.
on May II, 1888, is Of more than or
dinary interest.
The Judge expresses in undeniable
terms his sanction aud approval of
divorce as remedy for mismated
couples, supporting his views by
Biblical references.
After reviewing the three marriages
of the respondent the judge states.
referring to the suspicion of collusion
in the case:
This is suspicion merely. Our di-
vorce laws are wise and just. do not
agree with those persons who occa-
sionally denounce them. The hatred,
misery sin and crime which so often
flow from indissoluble marriage con-
fractions require remedy
"Wife beaters and deserters are
quite as bad as adulterers and should
be deprived of the opportunity of in
ficting further misery on their part
ners Desertion as a cause of divorce
has as much warrant of Scriptures as
adultery" (Here the Judge cites St.
Paul's first epistle to the Corinthians,
chapter 7. verse 15)
The Judge says that II divorces were
granted for Scriptural adultery only
no woman could ever obtain divorce
and in suprort of his view refers to
the cases of Abraham and Solomon.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-12-27
HUNTERS TURNING TO BEARS.
The Pursuit of Bruin Has Become
More Exciting Than That
of the Deer.

1t is thought that the Maine legisla-
providing for the payment of bounty
on wild animals killed in the state.
The experience with bears in particu-
lar has demonstrated that the bounty
laws, while "A burden on the taxpayers,
do not always cause an increase in the
number of predatory animals killed,
reports the New York Sun.
Up to two years ago Maine paid a
bounty of $5 each on bears. and when
it was proposed to repeal the law it was
argued that without the bounty as an
incentive 10 hunters to kill off the bears
no sheep could be raised in many parts
of the state. The bounty was repealed
and experience has shown that more
bears have been shot since that time
than ever before. while no more sheen
have been killed by bears than when
the bounty was in force.
Sportsmen from the large cities are
becoming tired of shooting deer, which
is rather tame sport anyway. and as
only one man in ten can get a moose.
many are turning their attention to
bears as being not only nobler but also
more valuable game than deer The
skin of good bear is worth taking
home, while a deer skin is worth very
little, and the meat of the bear is ais:
good, according to many tastes. For
merly few bears were taken through
Bangor by sportsmen on their way
home, but this season the shipments
average ten a week.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-12-27
GREAT SHE'LL COLLECTION.
One In San Francisco That the Owner
Spent sixty Years in
Gathering.

There is probably no finer collec-
ton of shells in the world than one
in this city, owned by Prof. Con-
radus de Lange. Agents of the
Smithsonian institution who have
seen it have said this, and added that
it eXcelled in many features. especial
ly in the rarity of its specimens, the
one in the possession of that famous
museum. Every sea and land in the
world has given from its treasure to
the collection. and it has taken De
Lange nearly 60 years to get it to-
gether. The professor says, and emf
nent authorities sustain him. that he
does not believe there is another lot
of genealogical apercula-that is,
shells with their doors-in existence,
says the San francisco Bulletin.
Shortly before the demise of the
late Senator Stanford he entered into
negotiations with the professor to
purchase the collection, but the for
mer's last illness came and they were
abandoned. De Lange is getting old
and he feels that the time has come
to give the world tie benefit of his
three-score years Of research. 1t was
with this idea that he took up the
study of conchology and started a
collection in his Norwegian home
when not more than a boy. He is
now 81 years of age and believes that
among other important things of
civilization man first got his idea of
architecture and color from shells
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-12-27
WE'D ON A SINKING VESSEL.
Two Courageous Emigrants Plighted
Their Vows In the Face of
Death.

Perhaps the most impressive mar
risge ceremony ever performed was
solemnzed while death stood leering
by on the deck of the sinking emf
grant steamer st. Levan. The vessel
was bound to Australia, with 300 emf
grants on board and heavy cargo.
During n violent hurricane in the In
dian ocean the cargo shifted, throw
ing the vessel over on her beam ends
and leaving her entirely helpless. A
panic cnsued and before the ships
officers could quell ii 80 of the passen-
gers had leaped over the side in their
terror. For days the ship drifted,
swept by the seas. and life was lost
daily. Finally it was decided to give
the steamer one more day and then
take to the boats. as the st. Levan
was sinking slowly. Then two of the
passengers-a young man and a young
woman, who had become engaged on
the voyage-hunted up the chaplain
and demanded to be married
The chaplain declined at first. say
ing they had much better spend their
time getting ready for the death that
seemed certain. The pair had no no.
tion of looking at the gloomy side
and said they would rather die as man
and wife if it was inevitable. Even
tually the clergyman married them
before two witnesses. with sinking
ship instead of q church. and the cries
of terrified passengers as a chorus.
The boats were resorted to two hours
later and all were taken off. OF the
22O souls on board only the newly
married couple and six other people,
in the smallest boat, ever saw land
again. They reached the isle of So
cotra after 12 days at sea.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-12-27
SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT.
Miles from the Generator Ac-
cOmplished at Seattle.

The Snoqualmie Falls Power com.
pany of Seattle. Wash, has performed
novel feat in the driving of an elec-
trio motor 153 miles distant from the
generator. All the transmission lines
of the company were connected up in
one continuous circuit, commencing
at Snoqualmie Falls, running to Seat
tie back to the falls, then to Tacoma
and back again to the falls. The reg.
ular transmission is 32 miles to Sc.
attle and A miles to Tacoma.
The tests were conducted for ex-
perimental purposes only, and tC
show that electric transmission OF
power can be made commercially
practical at much greater distances
than has heretofore been contem.
plated.
The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1900-12-27
VENETIAN IRON WARE.
Nine-Tenths of II Now Ma ufactured
in New York-A Growing
Fad.

At first sight there does not seem
CRIME of Pittsburgh and the artistic
screens and house lanterns of to-day,
but the connection came when the
Pennsylvania forges succeeded in pro-
ducing ductile iron and soft steel in
any shape at very cheap prices. Be-
fore that time, says the New York
Post all the specimens of that beau
tful school of art known.as Venetian
ron work were imported from Italy,
Paris and Sheffield, but to-day nine
tenths of it is made in the United
States. and a very goodly portion
right here in the city. You can buy
the iron and steel in any quantity,
ready for use. If your tastes run
towards small objects, you can get
a dolls house, and. on the other hand,
you can secure rods and straps thick
and strong enough to make the gates
of safe-deposit company.
y few simn.c too.s are all that are
required for TIC work, and for those
who have little or no originality hun
dreds and even thousands of designs
are neatly printed upon sheets of pa
per for both student and artisan. The
work is fad with mary people, who
turn out products CT commendable
beauty and utility. Hall lanterns.
ckafing dish frames, picture holders.
lamp stands. chandeliers. electroliers.
cas- brackets and trapsom screens arc
the favorite objects. Beyond these
are hundreds which find n ready sale
in the market or constitute highly
appreciated presents at the holiday
season.