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The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-03-07

London Letter: The war is hard on
The people a Of the burden of
wal taxes, which. of course. are ulti-
mately borne by the masses. The most
severe tax is hat on incomes. A tax of
six and one-elghth per cent is levied
on every income over $3.50 per annum.
Furthermore. In England the law gives
the assessors authority to go to the
books of every corporation and bust
ness house to ascertain what salaries
are paid employees. The tax on whisky
and tobacco is something enormous,
and has resulted in many people be-
Ing compelled to give up smoking. The
whisky tax is 50 a gallon and the tobac-
co tax 5 shillings 6 pence per pound.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-03-07
EIGHT AND HALF YEARS.
William Walters Sentenced for Kill
Ing Joe MlddIesworth.

Parker. S. D., Feb. 2S.-Yesterday at
ternoon Judge Smith sentenced Will
lam Walters to eight years n six
months in the state p~enitentiary for
the shooting of Joseph Middlesworth
at Centerville last fall.
"A. c. Nelson, who was arr asted in
Minneapolis for forgery committed in
this county, pleaded guilty and will be
sentenced Friday.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-03-07

There is a large American colony in
Rome. not only students. artists and
persons who come to spend the winter,
but many permanent residents. Sew
eral Roman princes n other members
of the nobility have married American
women. Many of the most prominent
ladies in the court circle are Americans,
including the wife of the minister of
the royal household.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-03-07
INCHES OF SNOW
Remarkable Fall In the Black Hills In
Three Days.

Deadwood, S. d., March 1.-Two and
one-half feet of 10Y has fallen in the
northern Black Hills during the past
three days. 1t is the heaviest snow
storm in six years. At noon today snow
is still falling.
St. Paul, March 1.-Specials from
Minnesota and North and South Da-
kota points report a general storm. in
some sections vergins on blizzard pro
portions.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-03-07

New York Press: A sound principle
is to get out early in the morning for
deep draughts of fresh air, before the
windows are opened, releasing myraids
of disease germs which ave been bred
over night in super-heated dwellings
and imprisoned there. Imagine the vast
multitudes of microbes hat are thrown
out of cellars. attics and sleeping cham
bers when the city's population awakes.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-03-07
Verdict Of Not Guilty.

Deadwood, s. D.. March 3.-Alfred G..
Covert and Harley Covert, charged
with robbery, were found not guilty.
The Covert brothers were indicted for
completely in the robbery Of Ed Woods
at Gaiena December 5, oyer which Jerry
Kelly was killed by Deputy Sheriff Eat
terson while trying to avoid arrest
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-03-07
Editor Marrlck Dead.

Deadwood, S.. D., Feb. 2s.-The vet
eran journalist Of the Black Hills, Al
bert w. Merrick, died yesterday Of
pneumonia. He was 60 years old, and
a veteran Of the rebellion. He started
the Deadwood Pioneer in 1876, when
there We're no other papers in this part
of Dakota
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-03-07

Augustus Scarlet Of Newark. N. j..
has been q school principal in that city
for thirty-nine years, for the past thir-
.ty years at the head Of the same school.
Those who were ace boys and girls
under his care now send their sons and
daughters to his school.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-03-07
South Dakota Notes.

Preparations are being completed for
the entertainment Of a farmers instl-
tute at Madison on March /.
Jerome Harvey, indicted for stealing
a horse belonging to Timothy D Cole
man, has been acquitted at Deadwood.
William Smith. a pioneer OF the
Black Hills, died at Whitewood.s He was
born in 1886. and came to the Black
Hills in 1876.
A specialstrain Of emigrant goods and
stock arrived in Armour yesterday. It
IS estimated that fully fifty new fam
lilies will locate ! n Douglas county this
spring.
v. IS. Peck has been appointed weigh
er Of mails on the. railway fromsAber-
deem to Sioux City. He has been a resi-.
dent of Douglas county nearly twenty.
years and is a very popular young a
u. N. Hunter of Sioux Falls is arr
ranging to! hold q district convention
of the creamery men and buttermak-f
ers Of the east portion of the state. The
meeting will be held in Sioux Falls
Thursday, March 10.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-03-07

One Of the English burglary insur-
ance companies advertises 9thnt there
are 10000 thieves known to the British
police. Sir Robert Anderson OF Scot
land Yard says that seventy would be
nearer to the number OF dangerous
professionals
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-03-07

One feature OF western civilization
has Just made its first appearance In
Japan. where d native woman has
brought suit for a breach Of promise,
hitherto an unknown procedure In the
land Of the ehgysanthenum,
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-03-07
Call a Pastor

Dell Rapids, S. D., Feb. 2s.--At a
largely attended meeting of the mem
bers of the Presbyterian church a
unanimous call was extended to Rev.
s. Munneke, of Chicago, to become the
permanent pastor of the church,. He
recently occupied the pulpit, and the
members were sc we'll pleased with him
that the action stated was taken.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-03-07

Chicago Daily News: Her Father
No. sir; you can't have her. I won't
have o son-in-law who has no more
brains than to want to marry a girl
with no more n than my daughter
has. s.acwn In allowing you to think you
could have her.
The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-03-07
woMAh.s SAD DEAT II.
Miss Rose Durkln Swept From Horse
and EroMned.4 80

Highmore, s.. b., March 3.-Miss Rose
Durkin, 20 years old. a school teacher,
was drowned by being swept off her
horse while crossing a ruin full Of wa
ter from the recent thaws near her
home at Stephen, twenty miles south
of Eighmore.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-04-10
His First Dress Suit.

He was a very youthful looking mar
and he wore a natty opera hat and a
lengthy raglan which caused him to be
the cynOsure of all eyes in the Arch
street trolley car. 1t was probably
the first time he had ever worn a dress
suit, and as he walked into the car his
painful embarrassment was noticea-
BILE. Many smiles fitted across the
passengers features, and the young
fellow noticed each one and blushed
deeply.
But more trouble was in store. Al
Seventeenth street two red-faced serv.
ant girls boarded the car. They
crowded into a seat and began to talk
volubly.
"Yis," said one. eth MISTRESS give
me a ould wrapper an She"
She paused here, as her wandering
gaze rested on the conspicuous young
man in the corner.
"Say, Ellen" she said loudly, and
with a giggle, "how would you like
that for a feller?'
The young mar left the car hurried
ly before it had reached the street
where he wished to alight.-Philadel'
phia Telegraph.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-04-10
DEATH OF LORD KIMBERLEY
Distinguished Liberal Leader Who Had
Held Many Important Places in
England During Fifty Years.

London, April S.-Lord Kimberley,
the Liberal statesman, who had been
ill for some time past, is dead.
Lord Kimberley was the leader. of the
Liberal party in the British peerage.
He was a member of each ministry
while Gladstone was premier, and the
last survivor of Gladstone's cabinets.
Lord Kimberley was born in 1921 and
succeeded his grandfather in the bar
Ony of WOdehOuse in 1916. He took
office under a Liberal government at
an early age, becoming under-Secre-
tary for foreign affairs in 1852. He
was envoy extraordinary to Russia
from 1856 to 1858, and upon his re-
turn again filled the office of under-Sec-
rotary for foreign affairs. A5
In 1864 he accepted the office of un-
der-secretary for India, and from 1861
to 1866 he was yicerOy of Ireland.
From 1868 to 1870 he was lord privy
seal, and was secretary of state for
the colonies from the last mentioned
date until February. 1874. and again
from 1880 to 1882. In 1889 Mr.. Glad
stone appointed him secretary of state
for India, and again in 1892. when he
held the post until 1894. In Mr.. Glad
stones last government Lord kimber-
ley was lord president of the council,
as we'll as secretary for India, and I'M
til Lord Rosebery's succession to the
premiership he was leader of the Lib
eral peerage. being again elected to
that position under the present regime.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-04-10
Rio Fire At Chesterton. Ind.

Chesterton, Ind, April S.--A fire
which broke out at 10 O'Clock ut night
and was not under control until :!
o'clock in the morning, destroyed half
of the entire town. South Bend and
Laporte were telegraphed to for help,
and an engine and one fire company
were brought here on a special train
from Laporte, but the fire was under
control before they arrived. The en-
tire male population of the town turned
out to fight the flames. Among the
buildings destroyed were the pOstOf-
flee and one hotel. The loss is esti-
mated at between $4,000 and 100000
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-04-10
What.

Of no member of the faculty Of the
University of Pennsylvania are there
more anecdotes related than DR.. Isaac
J. Schwatt, assistant professor of
mathematics in the college. DR..
Schwatt's good humOr and keen wit
make him very popular with the stu
dents, but he sometimes gets wrathy
if he thinks any student is trying to
make fun of him. Once at the begin
ming of a fall term. several fresh sOph-
ignores were passing the professors
study room and one of them called
out:
Hello, Schwatt," and passed on
down the hall.
DR.. Schwatt leaped from his chair
and, rushing to the door, seized the
first person he could lay his hands on,
shouting: "Hey, what you mean, sir?
You want to talk with me, then come
right inside: don't yell like that"
The unlucky student thus addressed
happened to be a first-year man, fresh
from Kansas, and he was very much
frightened.
why he stammered, II didn't
yell at you. I don't even know who
you are he added, with offended dig
nity.-Philadelphia Times.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-04-10
LATE FIGHT WITH THE BOERs
Story of the Battle at Doornba1t Farm
Heavy Loss on Both Sides in
Killed and Wounded.

Story of the Battle at DOornba1t Farm
Heavy Loss on Both Sides in =
Killed and Wounded.
Klerksdorp, Transvaal Colony, April
"details received of the battle at
DOornbalt Farm, March 81, in which
the British had three officers and
twenty-four men killed and sixteen Of
fcers and 131 men wounded, while the
Beers had 1877 men killed or wounded,
show that quite 1000 Beers opened a
strong attack from different points
with three guns and a pompom. This
attack was made at a moment when
the British had left their luggage in
q laager in charge OF the Canadian
contingent and were %galloping across
the open plain with the intention of
capturing a Boer convoy which had
been discovered five miles ahead.
The British retired steadily and,
having ~diSmOunted, opened a return
fusillade on the Beers. While the lug
gage in charge of the Canadians was
sent for the British formed a camp
and started digging trenches. The
Smelling of the Beers stampeded the
mules and caused confusion, but other
wise it was not very effective, as many
shells failed to explode. The Canadi-
ans front was attacked in strong num-
bers, but they CALAMITY repealed every
attempt made by the Beers to break
through.
One party of the Canadians fought
until all were -illed or wounded, and
the last of their party, although NOR
tally wounded. emptied two b%andoliers
of cartridges at the enemy and then
broke his rifle. The fighting was Sc
we're and general for fully three hours,
but after the British had ~entrenched
and the guns got into action the forces
repealed numerous and determined at
tacks made under the personal exhorta-
tons of the BOer leaders. Toward night
the fire gradually ceased and the Beers
retired.
London, April S.-A dispatch from
Lord Kitchener. dated from Pretoria,
says Commandant Kritzinger, who
was captured by General French at
Hanover Road. Cape Colony, Dec. II
last, and who has been tried by court
martial on the charge of having COM
mitted four murders in addition to
train wrecking and cruelty to prison
ers, has been acquitted and is being
treated as an ordinary prisoner OF
war.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-04-10
E-X-COUNCILMAN MISSING
st. Louis Man Who Had Been Indicted fol
Bribery Is Supposed to Have
Left the CITY.

st. Louis, April S.-Charles KratZ,
the eX-city councilman indicted for
bribery, is still missing and it is
charged he has jumped his bond. Cir
cult Attorney Folk is indignant. He
said:
II received reliable information last
Tuesday that KratZ was preparing to
leave the city. | called on Chief of
Detectives Desmond to detail men to
watch KratZ and prevent him from eS-
Gaping. Mr.. Desmond assured me that
KratZ would not escape. How well
that assurance has been kept can be
Judged by the results. If KratZ does
not appear in court Monday | shall
take occasion to make public the con
ditiOn Of affairs with which this Of
fee has had to contend in that quar-
ter
The report is current that KratZ is
on his way to Switzerland, where he
will make his future home. On the
occasion of his former disappearance
before the Meysenburg trial his bond
was increased from $4,000 to $4,000.
Edgar A. Mepham, the witness the
grand jury wanted so badly to testify
in the bribery cases, returned to st.
Louis a ,few hours after the grand
jury had adjourned.
The April grand jury will be i'm
paneled by Judge Douglas in the
morning. Circuit Attorney Folk has
asked that the jury be instructed to
take up the investigation of charges
of municipal corruption where the
February grand jury left off. Routine
cases will occupy the new grand jury's
time until Friday, when Mr.. Folk will
bring to it's attention several recent
phases of municipal corruption, nota-
bly, cases involving acts of members
Of the present house Of delegates.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-04-10

Greenback Doctrine of the Seventies
Union Label Is Favored.

Greenback Doctrine of the Seventies
Union Label Is Favored.
In the platform the demand for mi
tiative and referendum is found in both
the preamble and platform. In the
plank on money the platform favorS
scientific money, based upon the en-
tire wealth of the people of the nj
tion," and not redeemable in any spe-
cific commodity, but to be legal tender
for all debts, public and private, and
to be issued by the government only,
and without the Intervention of banks.
sufficient in quantity to meet the re-
quirementS of commerce."
A resolution was passed c%ondemning
the action of Third Assistant Postuas-
ter General Madden for alleged dis
elimination against reform papers. and
asking for his dismissal. Another res
plution adopted urges that the members
of the Allied Peoples party demand
the union label on all goods purchased
by them. Still another resolution was
one expressing regret at the death of
Ex-Governor Waite, of Colorado
A mass meeting was held last night
at Liederkranz hall in the interest Of
union labor. The principal speaker
was H. Gaylord Wiltshire, known as the
millionaire Socialist, formerly of New
York, but now of Toronto, Canada,
who made an extended speech on so
cialism," during which he explained
the principles of the Socialists, which,
ne argued, would eventually solve the
problems agitating the reform forces
of the country.
Other speakers of the evening were
S. l.. MOzier. of the Single Tax League,
of st. Louis; George III. SHIRLEY, of
New York, chairman of the Non-Parti-
san Federation for Majority Rule; Ma
thaniel Eaton, of st. Louis, national
organizer for Missouri Of the Brother
hood of Railway Employees; S. L. Scott,
of the Public Ownership party. of st.
Louis; A. a. Gerhard, president of CT
gar Makers union No. A, of st. Louis,
and Mrs. Marion Todd, of Detroit.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-04-10
A Remarkable Find.

"A gentleman staying in a hotel in
Dublin recently was startled by some,
thing falling from the chimney ON to
the fire. 1t proved to be a pocketbOOk
the contents of which afforded certain
evidence that they had been in the
chimney nearly a quarter of a century
The book contained some visiting cards
bearing the name of a Captain Lam
bert, q shilling's worth of penny
stamps. a receipt for $50 dated 1879
a small calendar for the same year
and a ticket for a circular railway
tour with the same date. The memory
Of the hotel does not go back far
enough to explain the mystery, but
there is little doubt that the pocket.
book SO strangely recovered affords 9
clew to a crime which may have baf'
fled the police twenty-three years ago
Chicago Daily News.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-04-10
DEATH IS THE WINNER.
Gets the Decision at a Came
Of Foot Ball Played at
Glasgow.
HIS PRIZE Is A SCORE OF DEAD
With $50 Wounded: $50 Severe to
Serious Cases; Some VIII
Probably Die.

Glasgow, April THE casualty lists
Of the Ibrox Park disaster, when a
number of persons were killed or in
jured by the ~collapsing of a spectators
stand during the international foot ball
match Saturday afternoon between
England and Scotland, have been COM
pleted. They eclipse all the reports
and estimates Of the casualties which
were current just after the disaster.
which has resulted in the death of
twenty-one persons and the injury of
$50. Nearly 200 of the latter were so
seriously hurt that they were taken to
infirmarieS for operations and treat
ment. One hundred and fifty OF them
still remain at the infirmaries. A large
proportion of the injured had limbs
broken, bodies crushed and mangled.
and heads and faces gashed. Several
more deaths will undoubtedly result
from the most critical cases Of frac-
tured skulls.
But the Game Went On.
The infirmarieS were beSieged by
friends and relatives of the victims of
the disaster, and heartrending scenes
were witnessed when the names of
those who died yesterday were posted
outside the buildings. The action of
the authorities at Ibrox Park in avert
ing a more general panic by permitting
the game to proceed, while they en-
Outraged the impression of the crowd
within the Enclosure that the accident
was not so direful, is now generally
commended. The incOngruity OF the
yell of applause mingling with the
groans of the struggling sufferers will
never be forgotten by those who wit
messed the scene
How the Disaster Came About.
When the game began 10000 spec
tators were on the ground, and an
immense crowd had gathered outside.
Being unable to obtain admittance this
crowd broke down some of the barri-
ers and swarmed upon the field. where
upon the police charged and drove the
ihtruders back upon the terraces and
seats, with the result that the rail-
ings dividing the crowd were brOk
and the people were thrown over each
other. In the frantic struggle toward
the exits the pressure toward the up
per portion of the westerly terrace was
so great that 100 feet of the highest
part of the structure collapsed under
the weight of the crowd driven upon it,
precipitating the mass of people to the
ground sixty feet below. The injured
were piled in heaps, wedged in with
broken wood and steel Orders.
The foot ball game resulted in a
draw.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-04-10
Death of Adiutant General Reese.

Springfield. Ills, April S.-Adjutant-
General Kasper \. Reese died at 1:45
this morning, of pneumonia, aged 60
years.
During the civil war he served in
Missouri and Illinois volunteer regi-
ments. He was appointed brigadier
general Of the Second Illinois National
Guard brigade in 1877. and was ad-
jutant general from 1891 to 1893. un-
der Governor Fifer. and from 1897 to
she time of his death under Governors
Tanner and Yates. He leaves a widow,
two daughters and one son.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-04-10
new PARTY is BORN
Allied Peoples Is the Name Given
1t by Those Who Stand
Sponsor.
BUT TWO PARTIES ALLIED AS YET
Aeaders Look for the Others of the
Genera Opposition to join
Organization Plans.

Louisville, Ky. April 4.-Under the
name Of the Allied Peoples Party OF
the United States a new political or
ganiZati0n was formed here yesterday
composed of reform elements opposed
to the Democratic and Republican par
ties. The platform of the new organi-
zation embodieS the platform adopted
at the conference held in Kansas City
last September, when a call for a con-
ventiOn was issued, ito unite reform
forces against p~lutOcracy." 1t reaf-
firms the spirit Of the declarations OF
principles adopted at the national con-
ventions of the Peoples party in ST.
Louis, Omaha and Cincinnati, and the
demand for the initiative and referen-
dun and the government ownership of
all public utilities are it's principal
planks.
Party Has Hopes of Growth.
While the Peoples party, Fusion
Populists, Socialists, Referendum
League, Union Labor party, Public
Ownership party of st. Louis, PrOhi-
bition party and United Christian party
were represented on the fOor Of the
convention by accredited or by volun-
teer delegates, only two national or
ganizations-the Peoples party and
the Public Ownership party-had CIV
en- their delegates any authority to
form al alliance. 1t is the hope, how
ever, of the Allied Peoples party that
other reform forces will later decide
to unite with the new organization.
Dominated by the PopuIists.
The convention was practically dom
mated by the Peoples party. At times
discussions of a lively nature took
place, and for a while it seemed al
though the movement was about to fail
owing to unwillingness Of a number
Of Peoples party delegates to make
II concessions to the other reform
forces present.
Plan of Organization Adopted.
Under the plan of organization
adopted the national committee of the
Peoples party, with 10 A. Parker as
its chairman, will remain intact, with
the addition of three more members
from Missouri who will have one-half
of a vote apiece until the next national
convention, this being a concession to
the reform forces of that state. This
committee will have power to call a
national convention, and it's headquar-
ters will be situfted wherever the
chairman desires, except three months
before an election, when they will be
in st. Louis.
Basis of Representation,
The national committee will be COM
posed of three members from each
state and territory, and al executive
eommottee of seven will be selected
from the country at large every four
years at a national convention. The
basis of representation will be five del
egates-at-large from each state and
territory and one additional delegate
for every thousand voters based on the
vote at the preceding national e,ec-
tion.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-04-10
Killed in a Grand Trunk Wreck.

Detroit. April S.-While an east
bound Grand Trunk passenger train
was passing through Milletts, a tank
station seven miles west of Lansing
early in the day the real coach and
the Pullman sleeper were thrown of
the track. One person was killed and
five were injured. The dead: Abra.
ham Burnstine. aged 10, 800 Marsh.
field avenue, Chicago. The injured
G.. Minahan, Providence, r. l., com
pound fracture of skull. fractured leg
Rev. NJ. J. Orzchowski of Chicago, q
Jesuit priest, two bad scalp wounds
J. T.. Gordon, badly bruised: Franb
Thomas, Mount Clemens. Mich. bad
ly bruised; J. L.. Zeigler, Detroit
brakeman. bruises.