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The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-10-12
"Oh, Name, did you really?"

"Oh. Name. did you really?"
"Well, l guess"
ooh, Name. what was the natter?
HE heard about my going down the
river with a strange young man.
"Oh, Name. did he really?'
yep. Then he had the nerve to call
me up over the phone and read the
riot act to me. Said il I was going
to carry on like that he didn't want
me to be wearing his ring"
"Oh, Name, what did you say?"
Ring Off"
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-06-28
SUPERIOR WILDLY Ac1rArEp.
Mayor of the City Arrested for Grim
inal Libel. -

Mayor of the City Arrested for Grim
inal Libel.
West Superior, June 21.-This city is
sagitated over the arrest Of the mayor,
F. s. Parker, on charge of criminal
libel preferred by Aid. J. w. Barry. a
member of the city council and a sa-
loonkeeper. The mayor and several
members of the city council, represent
ing the opposing political factions,
have been at varience for some time.
About two weeks ago they succeeded
in passing resolution through the
council requiring the mayor to give a
list of all the gambling and disorderly
houses in the city. Tuesday night he
answered the resolution, refusing to
comply with it on the ground that Aid.
Barry. the introducer, had not present
ed 1t in good faith, but was incensed
because the mayor had closed a dis
reputable resort near his saloon. May
or Parker charged Barry with deriving
business from the house and said that
he introduced the resolution the night
after he had refused to allow it to re-
open. simply as retaliatory measure.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-06-28
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May Spill BLOOD 81

Great Excitement at Sank Rapids
Over County Seat Contest.
Sank Rapids. Mimi, June 20-There
was great excitement here last night
over the county seat contest with
Foley. It is not impossible that blood
will yet be shed.
8 A hundred men, with forty teams,
started last night from Foley for Sank
Rapids for, the, purpose of removing the
county records to Foley, and there are
intimations that the attempt to take
the records to Foley will be resisted by
force If necessary. The county COM
missioners met yesterday as q can
wasting board and decided that Foley
had won by 497 votes in the election to
decide whether the county seat Of
Benton county should remain in Sank
Rapids or be located at Foley.
Announcement was Immediately
made that contest would be begun
under the general election law on the
ground Of fraud ane the intimidation
Of voters. When she action of the
county commissioners became known
at Foley hundred men volunteered to
drive to Sank Rapids with forty teams
and procure the\records. This action
was soon noised about on the streets Of
Sank Rapids, and threats were made
that the men would meet with a warm
reception and would return home with
out the coveted records.
1t is stated that the county officials
will refuse to move to Foley or permit
their records to leave Sank Rapids on
the ground that no place has been pro-
vided for their proper keeping.
It was expected that an injunction
would be asked for, preventing the re-
moval of the records, but thus far no
move of the kind has been made.
Great apprehension prevails here.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-06-28
KIDNAPPED YEAns AGO.
Minnesota Man Finds His Parents
After Long Search.

NhAneSOt0 NAN FINDS HIS pdrcSatS
After Long Search.
Crookston, Mimi, June %. J. H.
Kearnes. timer employed in this city,
learned yesterday that his parents,
from whom he was kidnapped when
four years of age, are still living. Mr..
Kearnes was born in Linesville, Pa,
and lived with his parents until four
years Of age, when he was stolen, and
all efforts on their part were futile. He
was taken to Ohio, and later to Mime
sofa, where he married and has reared
family. Before the death of the wo-
man whose husband had kidnapped
Mr. Kearnes, she told him his history
and the residence of his parents as near
as she could remember. He made
ever.' effort to ascertain the truth of
the story, but was unable to do SO.
Recently he discovered that his father
was living at Leon, Ohio. A telegram
was at once sent and the father was
filled with joy to find that the son he
had Ions mourned as dead was still
living. Mr.. Kearnes will go to Leon for
an extended trip.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-06-28
NO MONARCHs IN OURS.
United States Will Not Accept
Crowned Head as Arbfter.

United States Will Not Accept q
Crowned Head as Arbiter.
Washington. June 23.-The state de-
partment is at a loss to understand
the report from Ottawa that this gov
eminent has proposed that the Alaskan
boundary dispute be referred to the
car of Russia for arbitration. No
such proposition has been made at any
time. This government has not and
will not propose any European mon
arch as an arbiter in any international
misunderstanding it may have with
England or any other power. This is
not because of any lack Of confidence
in the car of Russia. but it is in line
with precedents that no European.
monarch shall arbitrate questions in
volving the rights of the United States.
The Alaskan boundary controversy is
at a StandStill.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-06-28
MET AWFUL DEATH
FoURTEEA PEOPLE KILLED AND
MANY INJURED IN A FIRE AT
PATERSON.
STUNNED, THEN BURNED TO DEATH
Explosion of Fireworks Causes the
Fire - Building Collapses, Bury
Ing Several Firemen-Familles I'm
Upper StOries Found EscaDe Cut
On-BOdies Recovered Horribly
Burned and Torn.

Paterson, N. j., June 49, - Fourteen
people are believed to have been killed
and number injured yesterday in q
fire following an explosion among a
quantity Of fireworks in the store of
Abraham M. Rittenberg. The store
was on the ground floor of a tenement
building. The cause of the explosion
is not known. The property loss will
not exceed $4,000.
The explosion occurred shortly after
noon and many of the occupants of
the building were out at dinner. The
building in which the explosion Qc-
Cured was a frame tenement, four
stories high. with stores on the ground
Hoor. The middle store was occupied
by Rittenburg. Ten families occupied
mats IN the building. So great was the
force of the explosion that boy play
ing in the street half a block away
was lifted from his feet and hurled
against an iron fence. One of his legs
was broken. A number of those who
were on the upper floors of the building
when the explosion took place were
either stunned and then
Burned to Death.
or found escape cut off and suffocated.
After the first explosion there was a
succession of smaller ones, and then
came a second big explosion which
was muftied and deadened, and prob
ably occurred in the cellar. Every
window seemed to be emitting flame
within a minute after the first explo-
sion. woman, her clothing on fire,
leaped out of one of the windows and
fell to the yard below. Her dead body
was dragged out of reach of the flames
but her flesh was roasted and dropped
from the bones. She later proved to be
Mrs. Williams. Mrs. Williams hus-
band was a cripple. His wife is sup
posed to have remained longer than she.
could with safety in an effort to save
him. He was found burned to a crisp
on his bed. Some of the occupants Of
the rooms dropped from the windows
and were bruised. Others hung from
the windows until the firemen came.
Twenty persons were taken down this
way through the fire and smoke by the
firemen, while others dropped into life
nets. p p
Falling Building Buriea Firemen.
While the rescues were going on the
fireinen We're fighting the flames. Capt.
Allen led with j hose line in an effort
to keep the fire from the upper floors,
where it was said many were pinned in.
The men had hardly taken their posi-
lions and begun on the sidewalk to
throw water into the upper floors when,
without warning, the whole upper part
of the building above them sagged
! outward and Fell. The captain and two
of his men We're buried under the blaz
ing debris. One of the men is badly
hurt. The building in which the ex-
pioson occurred WIS entirely de-
stroyed. Gutenberg will probably be
arrested pending an investigation. The
b. dies taken out thus far are almost
unrecogniza BILE, and are burned and
tern by the fire and the collapse of the
tinlberS of the building.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-06-28
SHIRT WAISTS IN COURT.

st. Louis Judge Tells Jurors They
May Take on Their Coats.
st. Louis, June %. = Judge Horatio
D. Wood, of the criminal division of
the circuit court, made ruling that
shirt waists will be permitted in the
court during the heated term. It was
a most oppressively hot afternoon and
the twelve jurors were sweltering in
their coats. The judge stopped the
trial to announce: '"The shirt waist is,
I believe, the proper garment for hot
weather, and you gentlemen may take
off your coats. This rule will hold
good during the heated term"
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-06-28
Farmers BRIGHT idea.

Sioux Falls, S. D., June PA unique
sche,lc for destroying grasshoppers
has been adopted by Riley Girton. a
farmer living near Bijou Hills. The
hoppers are quite numerous in the vi
cini.y Of Girton's farm. He matches
chickens with an incubator and dis
tributes the various coops around his
fields. He states that he has thus pre-
vented damage to his garden and crops
and, in addition, the grasshoppers
make cheap feed for the chickens.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-06-28
WAITING AND STARVING.

DestituttOn of People Who Are Ea-
ger to Rush Into Reservations.
Kansas City, June 23.-Thousands of
people men. women and children,
camp ing on the border of the Kiowa-
Comanche-Apache reservation in Okla
homa awaiting the opening of that
land for settlement, are in destitute
circumstances, according to DR.. J. J.
Mckenna, who has just returned from
the scene. DR.. McKenna said: "Twen-
ty thousand men, women and children
are massed on the border and half Of
them are utterly destitute. At least
5000 of them have been there year
and a half. They went with possibly
$500 or $500, and have made nothing
since they arrived"
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-06-28
BARKER FOUND GUILTY.
Charged With Shooting With Intent
to Kill Rev. JHhn Keller.

Charged With Shooting With Intent
to Kill Rev. JShn Keller.
New York. June 23.-The jury before
which Thomas G. Barker of Arlington,
N. j.. was tried for shooting with in
tent to kill the Rev. John Keller of the
same town took one ballot yesterday
afternoon and returned with a verdict
of guilty. Under the charge Of the
court they could do little else. The
jurors We're told they must set aside all
else and decide only if Barker. with
intent to kill, fired at Keller. That was
the law and they must obey it. Notice
of appeal was given by Earker's coun-
sci. Barker last night found himself
once more an inmate of the county jail.
He must remain there until $4,000 bail
is furnished. Before him stands pos
sible seven years imprisonment and a
fine of as much as $4,000.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-06-28
MUST REACH THE POLE.

Lenders of Arctic Expedition VIII
n" Satisfied with Nothin~ Less.
New York, June %. - A dispatch to
the Journal and Advertises from Dun
dee says ALL is ready on the America;
the Baldwin-Ziegler expedition is about
ready to start for the north pole. The
leaders and the forty men who accom-
pany them. many we'll known scient-
lists, declare they will not be content
to go further north" than the duke Of
Abruzzi. who holds the honor of having
been "furthest north" They vow they
will reach the pole and plant the
American flag there. The expedition is
fortunate in having fine ship. She
was formerly the Esquimaux, the
crack whaler Of the fleet here.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-06-28
su.picion Of MURDER.

Greene, Iowa, June 81 = Mrs. Louis
Bussee, living seven miles southwest
Of here, was found in her house dead
and partly burned, one leg being en-
tirely burned off. 1t is supposed she
was murdered and the house set on
fire, as kerosene and feathers were
scattered all over the floor. DR.. v. C.
Birner, the coroner, is holding an in
quest. She had only been married a
short time and was the second wife.
There had been considerable trouble.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-06-28
HOLD MOB AT BAY.
Soldiers Guarding a Negro to Pre-
vent Lynching.

Soldiers Guarding Negro to Pre-
vent Lynching.
Houston, Tex, June %. = A special
train bearing the Houston cavalry
company, a portion of the Light Guard
has left here for Trinity, Tex, where
the remainder of the light guard are
guarding negro named Spencer who
was Identified as man who last week
attempted an outrage. From train
which was not allowed to stop at Trim
ity the negro could be seen tied to a
tree, while around him were grouped
the soldiers and surrounding them a
mob of people. A late telegram from
Trinity says the soldiers are still
guarding the negro and the mob is
watching the military to prevent any
escape with the negro. According to
the best information the mob is several
hundred strong.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-06-28
BOTHA SURRENDERS.

Sensational Story to This Effect Is
Reiterated In London.
London, June %. The Sun again
prints the sensational announcement
which it made June 10, that Gen.
Botha, the Boer commander, after the
receipt of President Kruger's decision
not to concede anything, decided to ig-
more the former president of the Trans
says it is believed at the British foreign
office that the formal act of surrender
has already occurred.
Joseph Chamberlain, the Colonial
secretary, declares that the rumors Of
the surrender of Gen. Botha are un-
founded.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-06-28
A DARKENED LIFE.
Home Broken UP and Reason Almost
Gone.

Home Broken UP and Reason Almost
Gone.
La Crosse, Wis, June 21.-Disheart-
ened by what is supposed to be an in
durable disease, the life of Anna Tor
kelson, aged fourteen, has been dark
ened by the disappearance of her
mother, who left home with her ten
months-old babe, saying that she
would never return. Besides her
mother and infant sister she has a
father and seven other brothers and
sisters, all of whom reside at Hegg,
Trempealeau county. The girl was
brought to this city by Chairman K. S.
Knuteson of the Trempealeau board.
The case is a sad one, and while the
girl is many miles away from home
and friends, she is an invalid and con-
tinues to fail, during which she con-
stantly inquiries about her mother, who
deserted her.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-06-28
TAFT AT THE HEAD.
Order Issued Establishing Civil Gov
eminent In Philippines.

Order Issued Establishing Civil Gov
eminent in Philippines.
Washington, June %. = Secretary
Root yesterday issued the order of the
president establishing civil govern
ment in the Philippines. The order re-
lieves the military governor of the
Philippines from the performance of
civil duties on and after July 4, but de-
clares that his authority will be exer-
cised as heretofore in those districts in
which the instruction still exists
William H. Taft, president Of the Phil
ippine commission. is appointed civil
governor and will exercise authority in
all civil affairs in the government Of
the Philippines heretofore exercised in
such affairs by the military governor.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-06-28
n 80
\ YES LOST
FssFRIGHTFuL WORK OF A TORNADO
WHICH VISITS PORTIONS OF
81 NEBRASKA.
death AND RUIN in ITS PATH
One Family Of seven killed, ana ont
OF Another Family of SIX, Two
Were Killed and the Rest Fatally
MISUNDERSTANDING In It's Path
Destroyed-Only Neager Reports
Obtninable.

Omaha, June .2S.-Special dispatches
to the World-Herald from Naper, Neb.,
tell of the frightful work Of tornado
which visited that vicinity Thursday
) night, the details being obtainable only
late last evening.
The storm swept down the Keyapaha
river Thursday evening at o'clock.
q Only meager reports are at hand. One
family of seven were killed and out Of
another family Of six, two were killed
and the balance. except the father, ia
i tally injured. No other casualties have
been reported. The family Of Jacob
Berg and Metz We're injured some
what when their houses were demol-
tshed, but not seriously. All communi-
cation with the outside world is cut off
and it is impossible to learn what dam
age the storm did along the Keyapaha
river west of where the two families
were found. The big wagon bridge
across the Keyapaha river was COM
pletely destroyed. A correspondent
visited the houses of the stricken fami-
lies yesterday. Where once stood fine
dwellings and other buildings there
was nothing to be seen
Except KindlinE Wood.
The father of the Greening family
was found quarter of mile from the
houses badly mangled. There is no
= chance for his recovery. Little Maggie
and Jacob Greening were found 600
yards from where the house stood.
They were stripped of all their cloth
ing but were not disfgured. The other
two children were close to the house
and We're in full view of their mother
and oldest sister, who We're both fatal
ly injured and who could see them, but
render no assistance
The tornado was preceded by Sc
we're hailstorm. Stones fell that meas
ured ten inches in circumference. The
{. Keyapaka river is raging torrent and
impossible. Everything in the track
of the storm was destroyed. Trees
were blown down and the smaller ones
were stripped of leaves and barb wire
fences were carried 600 yards. The fur
niture that was in the homes of the
Andersons and Greetings cannot be
found. A trunk and pieces Of a table
were picked up half mile away.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-06-28
PHOTOGRAPHERS LUCKY FALL.

Drops a Hundred Feet From n Ball
loon and Escapes Uninured.
Chicago, June %. - George r. Law
renee, who was taking a birds eye
photograph Of the stock yards from a
balloon yesterday, fell 100 feet with his
basket and alighted on his feet unin-
jured. The ropes that held the basket
to the balloon. gave way on the descent.
Lawrence shot downward like a stone,
and the basket struck some telegraph
wires over the main cattle alley, near
the exchange building, breaking the
fall. Even at that the spectators exy
pected to see the man dashed to pieces.
but to their surprise he alighted grace
fully, without mark to show for his
thrilling adventure.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-06-28
NO BLOOD SHED.

County Records Removed From
Sank Rapids to Foley.
Sank Rapids, Mimi, June 81. - About
five hundred men with about one hundred
teams arrived here early yesterday morn
ing and began loading the records and
furnishings Of the offices in the court
house.
The advent of the Foleyites caused con-
siderable excitement and a lawyer for
merly located in Sank Rapids. but now
resident of Foley and one of the prime
movers in the county seat removal agi-
tation. was egged, but no blood was shed.
The various county officials went to Foley
yesterday afternoon. Everything is now
quiet.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-06-28
RUSSIA TOO HAsTY.
No Cause for RetalfatinE Against
{ 4. the United Stafes.

No Cause for RetalfatinG Against
the United states. ..
Washington, June q. Most OF the
time Of the cabinet yesterday was
spent in q discussion Of the action OF
the treasury department in imposing q
countervatling duty on certain Russian
products. Secretary Gage explained in
detail the action which the department
had taken and thetcabinet unanimously
approved Of what he had done. AS a
result Of the consideration Of the en-
tire matter by the cabinet Secretary
Hay Will soon make representations to
the Russian government fully explain
Ing the attitude of this government
and pointing out that Russia has acted
hastily and under a, Misrepresentation
OF the facts of her position Of retalia-
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-06-28
ROBBERY OF INDIANS.
Alleged Illegal Cnttinw of Logs t
BE EXPOSED.

Alleged Illegal Cutting of Logs to
Be Exposed.
Milwaukee,. Wis, June 21-It transpired
yesterday that Joseph r. Farr. superin-
tendent Of logging on the Indian reserva-
tions Of the United States. has been in
Washington the past five or six days max
ing his report to Indian Commissioner
Jones concerning his discoveries on the
White Earth reservation in Minnesota.
Friends of Farr who have been in Wash
ington say he is determined to push the
exposure of the alleged illegal cutting Of
green logs on the reservation to finish,
no matter how many big men are in
volved.
Further than this, it is reported that
Jones is supporting Farr in every respect,
and that if the alleged rottenness is be-
ing covered up it is not wit hthe aid of
Jones.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-06-28
BAN ON woMEN's HATS.
Methodist Church Wants Headrear
Removed.

Methodist Church Wants Headreor
Removed.
Omaha, June 23-The First Methodist
church has put ban on women's hats
and the official board of that church at
meeting Yesterday rassed the follow
ing resolution:
Whereas, The wearing Of hats in
church by the ladies greatly obstructs
the view, causing others both incon-
venience and annoyance, thereby de-
tracing from the enjoyment of the SER
vices, to which all are equally entitled,
therefore, be it
Resolved, That it is the desire of
the trustees of this church that at all
the public services the ladies remove
their hats after entering the pews."
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-06-28
Farmer. My.teriou. Death

Sheboygan, Wis, June %. - Ernest
Urner, a farmer Of the town OF She
boygan, was found dead under circum-
stances which denote foul play. Urner
was hanging out of a wagon. his head
under a wheel and his neck broken.
The lines attached to the horses were
cut. The district attorney will investi-
gate.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-06-28
Car Fell 200 Feet.

Lead, S. D., June 2O.-While the train
crew of the Black Hills & Fort Pierre
Railway company were letting car
load of machinery down to the end Of
the track the car broke away and
started down grade. Before 1t could be
stopped it went over the end of the
track and,-fell 200 feet into the De
smet open-cut. The car and machinery
were smashed and completely demol-
lshed. Supt. Grier Immediately tele
graphed for duplicate order of the
machinery.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-06-28
TREMENDOUS TOTAL.

Export Trade for the United States
Expected to Show Great Increase.
Washington, June 20. - The export
trade Of the United States for the
fiscal year that will end the last day
of this month is expected to reach the
tremendous total Of a billion and a
half, the largest increase being in ag-
ricultural products, or 65.553 per cent
of the whole amount. The mnnufac-
lures aggregated 27.40 per cent. 81
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1901-06-28

Elkhorn, Wis, June 21.-The state
firemen's annual tournament opened
last night. Departments from about
thirty cities outside of Milwaukee are
present. The chief interest centers in
the prize contests which take place to-
day. The following officers were elect
ed: President, H. ]. Grail, Johnson's
Creek; vice president, r. A. Miller,
South Milwaukee,; secretary, F. H.
Henry. jefferson; treasurer, F. B.
Brown. Oconomowoc. Reedsburg was
selected for next years tournament.