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ATTACKED HIS LAWYER.
Condemned Murderer Attempts to Kill
Attorney Who Defended Him.

Atlanta, Ga. July 15.-While in the
death cell consulting with Willard Lee,
a murderer, Joseph Jordan, the pris-
oner's attorney, was set upon by the
condemned man and before turkeys
could rush to his rescue his throat was
terribly lacerated by the sharp nails
of the prisoner and his IA torn from
him in shreds. Lee is under sentence
of death for the murder of a girl, Miss
Lille Suttles, whom he shot in church
in 1902 because she refused to accept
his company. He pleaded insanity to
save his life. Jordan's injuries are
not likely to prove fatal,
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Look After ox.ter shlpment..

An official of the state administra.
ton of Maryland is the commander OF
the state fishery board. He receives
IN annual salary of $1,000 and has
the appointment of seventy-fve oyster
measurers chosen from the various
Maryland counties On the Chesapeake.
The duty of the oyster measurer is to
prevent the marketing OF very small
oysters.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-07-17
MRS. CUMMINGS GUILTY.
Given Ten Years in Prison for tn.
Murder of Her Husband

st. Louis, July Is. - A jury found
MRS. Minnie Cummings, charged with
killing her husband, Dennis Cum.
mlngs, April 10, guilty. The penalty
was fixed at ten years imprisonment
IN the penitentiary. The defendant
Will soon be tried for the murder Of
her third husband, Edgar M. Harris.
who died Oct. 5, 1901. His death was
first termed suicide.
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Rome. July Is, 2:16 a. m.-"While
there is life there is hope" was all the
consolation that DR.. LapToni could
give in admitting that Pope LeOs con-
ditiOn was very gra"e.
The pontift has suffered another re-
lapse and lie lies this morning in a
more critical condition than at any
time since the middle Of asst week.
The semi-comatose condition into
which he fell at midnight and the con-
fused state Of his heretofore lucid
mind on his awakening at an early
hour this morning, accompanied by
still greater depression THAI during
yesterday, are regarded as symptoms
of the gravest nature and as pointing
to an imminent dissolution. Even here
medical opinion was less pessimistic
and DR.. Mazzoni thought the
End Was Not Within Sight,
and expressed the opinion that unless
the disease took an unexpected turn
there waS no reason to expect the end
for two or three days. This statement
did not, however, relieve the anxiety
of those who know what powerful
stimulants ale being constantly ad-
ministered. Some attributed the
pontiff's extreme weakness to the ex-
cessive mental and physical efforts
undertaken yesterday in receiving WIS.,
itors, hearing mass, etc. For the first
time since his illness the pontiff
asked to have the shutters almost
closed, as the light hurt his eyes, and
at the same time, contrary to his GUS
tom, he begged tt be left as quiet as
possible. Another noteworthy symp-
tom of his
Weakening Condition
was the docility with which he took
his medicine and nourishment. Pre-
%viously, indeed during his whole life,
Pope Leo had argued against the pre-
sc%riptions of doctors or anything that
had the aspect of being forced upon
him. His feeling of fatigue and indif-
ference was interpreted as a sign that
his vitality was fast diminishing. Last
evening, late, nine cardinals, includ-
ing oatoll n Martlnelli, were ad-
mitted to the sick room, but the pope
could not even speak to them, merely
giving them his hand to kiss.
DR.. Rossini was reported to have
said In an interview yesterday:
The pope's pulse reaches 80 pulsa-
lions and over. Just calculate how
many times it has pulsated in ninety.
three years and you understand that
In his present condition all his or
gans and pulse must end by getting so
tired that they will stop forever"
Saw Too Many Visitors.
Paris, July 14.-According to q dis.
patch received here from Rome the
pope's strength was heavily taxed and
his sufferings increased by the number
OF visitors, altogether ~sixty-seven per-
sons, whom he received during the
past two days. Eighteen cardinals.
fifteen relatives and a number of high
papal officials imposed their visits on
him, and. as the pope wished to saw
a few words to each, the fatigue
caused fresh progress of malady.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-07-17
young Lady Drowned

nenosha, Wis, July Is. Marie
ulooons, the sixteen-year-old daugh.
yer OF Judge Gibbons Of the superior
court Chicago, was drowned at Camn
ZANE, near here, while bathing. Two
young brothers narrowly ESCAPED.
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Died as Result of a Fight

Milwaukee, July 15.-As the s.u
of injuries to the brain, saia ~ ,N
been received in a fight Whi'I s,sa
place June 20, John Czuppa' =
years old, son of John Czupps, =
loonkeeper, died last night an \
eighteen-year-old boys with WV sd
fought, are locked up at the Wes ~, j
police station to await the rs n,a,.r
the coroner's inquest. August ra
and John Kessler are the !oune
held by the police.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-07-17
IhQIan Held for Aaa..,IA

Marquette, Mich, July 15.-Nelson
Soa.ey' a h%alf-breed Indian captured
saturday at Pickerel lake, nine mi,ea
rom here for an assault unon .
Trained nurse In this city July 4. has
been held for trial.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-07-17
LOCOMOTIVE BLOWN W.

Boiler ExpIodes, Killing the E's""'
and Fatally Injuring the Flremsa
Cheyenne, Wyo., July 10. o,7
Pacific locomotive 1915, a comp0.1
of the Baldwin make, blew up W,
Colores station on Sherman mou n
killing Engineer Mike Lyons anu .
tally injuring Fireman Albert haa ..,|
both of Cheyenne. The entire n~l a
end of the locomotive was desuu sr1
Lyons was blown a distance Oh D1
yards.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-07-17
General.

Shamrock III. startled every one by
a swift burst of speed in light winds.
A%fricander won the Realization
stakes and made a new record for the
distance.
Suit has been begun in New Jersey
to secure facts about asphalt trust or
gaaization.
W. J.. Bryan formally opened his
new home at Fairview, near Lincoln,
Neb., with 500 in attendance.
Charles Hathaway, widely known as
a builder of street railways, is dead at
Cleveland, aged eighty-four.
President O'Connell of the Catholic
university says that Germans will IA
vor the institution henceforth.
President Roosevelt sent the first
message ove the new Pacific cable to
Manila and received a reply from Gov.
Taft.
F. A. Gault, president of the Dorin-
ion Cotton company in Montreal, and
the ~so-called cotton king of Canada, is
dead.
The heaviest rains that have visited
the Trinity and Red river valleys in
years prevail. Much damage will en-
sue.
Miss Schlicimier, author of a book
on Christian Science and a resident Of
Chicago, died of peritonitis at the city
hospital.
American orders for 500, 900 tons Of
steel rails, ingots and billets have been
placed in Westphalian Germany es.
adjustments.
The steamer Dolphin brought $685.
600 of Klondike gold, the largest ship
ment by any vessel during the season,
to Seattle recently.
Mrs. Carina Jordan, a playwright of
some note and formerly an actress, is
dead at her home in Mount Vernon
from heart disease.
The session of the American Rail-
way Master Car Builders has adjourn
ed at Saratoga after electing A. w.
Brezier of New York president.
The United States Steel corporation
has declared the regular quarterly div
idend Of l per cent on the common
and IL per cent on preferred stock.
Augustus E. P. Painter, aged sixty
years, one Of the most prominent iron
manufacturers and f%nanciers of Pitts
burg, died at his home at Allegheny of
diabetes.
The raising Of muskrats and bull
frogs on a wholesale plan is a new in
dustry that will be started by A. r.
Carr, a farmer of Hamilton county,
Indiana.
Importations Of precious stones to
the port of New York for the fiscal
year just ended were the heaviest on
record, having reached a total of more
than $27, 300, 200.
The trustees of the will of Cecil
Rhodes have decided to hold the first
election of scholars under the provi.
sions Of the will between February
and May, 1904.
In English, Ind, a fashionable club
Of young men known as THE Cell
bates" has been organized. The
members pledge themselves not to
marry any oma lacking those quail
ties which the celibates' mothers pos.
sessed and cultivated for the purpose
of making themselves perfect help
meets to their husbands.
President w. E. Stone Of Perdue
university, lndiana's agricultural
school, announces that a number of
young Filipinos will be among the
students next term.
The University of Chicago received
a consignment Of relics which have
been dug up recently by the Egyptian
Exploration society, which has been
working in the Nile valley.
A receiver has been appointed for
the Story Motor and Electric company
Of Harrison and New York. The COM
pany was incorporated in October,
1901. with a capital Of 100000.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-07-17
BRIEF DAY OF FREEDOM.

EmbezzIer Is Captured and Sent Back
to ~Penitentiary.
Sioux Falls, S. D., July 15.-A. v,
Scheiber, serving a year for embezzle-
ment, who escaped from the Sioux
Falls penitentiary on Saturday even.
ing, was recaptured yesterday near
Garretson and returned to the peniten.
tiary. He was striving to make his
way into Minnesota. His term would
have expired in September, counting
the good time allowance, which he
will now lose.
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Victim of Foul Bal

Rock Creek, Mimi, Jul! !" pacl
Doran, agent for the Northein : Il
at Stacy, who was struck Na.terd
ball Sunday afternoon, die VI
morning and the reina
brought here for burial.
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Killed bv Earth Sl'oe'

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, july eaf
Caught under a bank OF la''' =, rno,
and rock, Edward Hale, a wen Lam
farmer, met instant DEATH a. .sot ri
Gallagher sustained injuries 'A
prove fatal.
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Old Postoffice Discontinue M
Langdon, Mimi, July 15:-ln aoruu
Office at Point Douglas, TINS oct,
has been discontinued after 90, ri
service of over sixty years.
delivery is the cause.
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TO SUCCEED SANGER
Robert Shaw Oliver Will Become Al.
sistant Secretary of Wa

oyster Bay, N. Y, July Is. - AT a
conference yesterday between Presi.
Gent Roosevelt and Secretary Root If
war decided to appoint Robert Shaw
oilVer OF Albany to be assistant sec.
rotary of war, vice William Cary
oanger resigned. Mr.. Sanger has do.
cioeu TO retire on account of the i'll
health of his wife.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-07-17
Fifteen ARE BADLY HURT.
Grove OF Excursionists Are PIunoed
Into Subway Excavation

New York, July Is. - Fifteen per.
sons nave been hurt by falling into
the subway excavation at Lenox ave.
nue. n One Hundred and Twenty
n1th street, after jumping from a burn.
ing trolley car on which they had had
a thrilling ride for several blocks while
the motorman was making desperate
eHorts to reach a fire engine house.
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Commissioner of Insura
THE STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA,
Department of Insurance.

VI
Company's Certificate OF Authority.
Whereas. The State Farmers Mutual
Hail Insurance Company, a corporation
organized under the laws of Minnesota,
has filed In this Office a sworn statement
exhibiting it's condition and business for
the year ending December 81, 1902. con-
formable to the requirements of the laws
of this state. regulating the business Of
insurance.: and
Whereas, The said company has filed
In this onlce a duly certified copy OF it's
charter, with certificate Of organization,
In compliance with the requirements Of
the insurance law aforesaid:
Now, therefore, /, H. c. Shober, Com
missioner OF Insurance of the State os
South Dakota. pursuant to the provisions
of said laws, do hereby certify that the
above named company is fully empowered
through its authorized agents to transact
Its appropriate business of Hail Insurance
In this state, according to laws thereof,
until the 31st day of December, A, D.
1908.
In testimony whereof, l have hereunto
set my hand and seal at Pierre this 3rd
day of March, A. ID. 1908.
(Seal.) H.. G. SHOBER,
Commissioner of Insurance..
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STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA.

IHSuranCe DepaTtmenC
/. H. c. Shober, Commissioners OF In.
surance of the State of South Dakota do
hereby certify that the above is a true
copy OF the original statement now on
file at this office.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set
my hand and affixed the seal of this Office
at Pierre, this 16 day of April, 1903.
Seal.) H.. C. SHOBER.
COmmicSiopor IF Insurance
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-07-17
POPE LEO IS
MUCH WORSE
SUFFERS ANOTHER RELAPSE
AND LIES IN CRITICAL
CONDITION.
TIE end IS NOW NOT tM OtT
AWAkes FROM SEMl-CoMATOsa
CONDITION GREATLY DE-
PRESSED.
POWERFUL STIMulANIS uStD
HERETOFORE LUCID MIND FOR
TIE FIRST TIME Shows
CONFUSION.

Rome, July Is, 1880 a. m.-The pope
has passed a somewhat restless and
agitated night. He awOke at o:3o
o'clock, but shortly afterward dropped
again into a heavy sleep.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-07-17

Che Foo, China, July Is. Gen.
Kuropatkin, the Russian war minister,
and his staff, who have beer present
at the important conference at Port
Arthur of the Russian minister to
China. NJ. Lessar, and all the high
Russian officials in North China and
Manchuria, at which the Russian po-
sitiOn in the Far East was discussed,
left Port Arthur yesterday on their re-
turf to St. Petersburg.
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Balance, net assets 49,.
STATE OF


County of Waseca-ss.
F. 7. Day. President, and p. c. Bailey,
Secretary Of the State Farmers Mutual
Hail Insurance Company, being duly
sworn. depose and say. and each for him
self says, that they are the a~bove-de-
scribed officers of the said company, and
that on the thirty-first day of December
last all of the foregoing described assets
were the absolute property of the said
company, free from any liens and claims
thereon, except as hereinbefore stated;
and that the foregoing statement, with
the schedules and explanations hereunto
annexed, is a full and correct exhibit of
all the liabilities, and of the income and
disbursements, and of the general condi-
ton and affairs of the said company on
the said thirty-first day of December
last, and for the year ending on that day;
and that all the items, facts and answers
therein written are fairly and correctly
stated as given, without evasion or res
ervation. F. T. DAY.
p. G. BAILEY.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
~ day of February, A. d. 1903.
JOHN MOONAN,
(Notarial Seal) Notary Public.
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OUTRAGE BY cATTIEMEN
Destroy Buildings of a Sheen Fvock.
Master

newcastle, Wyo., July 15.-Masked
cattlemen visited a sheep lockmaster
lear Gillette and dynamited his honse
watering tank and windmill. Tho
nockmaster was bound to a post while
the work of destruction was going IN
and when the cattlemen denarted 1ho1
aumonlshed him to leave the countrv
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4ILBANK,
ANNUAL STATEMENT
For the year ending December 81, A. D.
1902, of the condition of the
State Farmers Mutual Hail In
Suroncc Company

Organized under the laws Of the State Of
Minnesota, made to the Commissioned
of Insurance of the State of South Da.
kota, pursuant TO the laws of said state.
President, r. +. Ward; secretary, T. C.,
Bailey. Incorporated March .. 1896.
Commenced business March 3, 1895.
Principal Office. Waseca, Minnesota.
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RUSSlA'S BOLD MOVE.

Informs China That She is Compe''ed
to Exclude Foreigners From MAN.
churia.
St. Petersburg, July l5.-AccordlhS
to the newspaper Hovikari, published
at Port Arthur. Russia he's informed
China that she is compelled to exclude
foreigners from Manchuria and post
pone the opening of Manchurian ports
owing to the presence of Englishmen
and Americans, who, in disguise, are
engaged in espionage. Russia, &C
cording to the paper, promises to open
the ports six years hence, when the
country has been ~tranquilized n set
tied.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-08-25
A More Beautiful Country Life.

A gentleman who has travelled over a large por-
ton of the country recently finds that along the
macadam road and the rural free delivery routes
the people of the country are greatly improving
the appearance of their homes by painting their
houses and outhouses and by cultivating grass
plats and lawns and yards around their houses,
and otherwise identifying them with flowers and
shrubbery. So much for good roads and rural
free delivery. So long as people live an isolated,
shut-in life, it is natural that they should often
be careless as to the outward appearance of their
homes, but good roads and rural free delivery
bring them closer together and work marvellous
changes in many ways. People who have given
thought to the subject are of the opinion that
good roads and rural free mail delivery can be
depended upon to check the influx of rural popula-
ton into the towns and cities, and thus save the
country people to themselves. -Charlotte Chron-
icle.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-08-25
Some Nuts for Farmers to Crack.

How much do you suppose it costs you a year
to repair your wagons and harness on account
of bad roads? How much does it cost you a year
for shoes and clothing that are ruined by your
children wading through the mud to school?
How much does it cost you a year for medicine
to cure your children's colds contracted in wading
through the mud to school and church? How
much of a damage a year to you is the mud that
prevents your children from attending school; or
damage to them, rather, in the loss of an educa-
ton? How much damage to you is our bad roads
in preventing your reaching market with your
produce? You are perfectly willing to spend
money in the buying of reapers and mowers and
other farm machinery. You are willing to pur-
chase carriages and harness. At the price po-
tatoes are to-day, one load would. be the average
farmers tax for ten years for good roads. At the
end of that time the roads would be good, and you
could vote to rescind the law if you wanted to and
you would have your good roads and no tax for
thirty or forty years, the balance of your life
Selected.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-08-25
BoYcorTING THE TOBACCO TRUST,

The boycott does not commend itself to us as the
hest means of combating the Tobacco Trust.
In the first place, it would not be effective. If
every man in North Carolina, South Carolina and
Virginia, should join the boycott, the Trust, far
from being conquered or killed, would not even be
crippled. 1t is doubtful whether 2 per cent of it's
product is sold in these States. The world is its
field. and it can spare North Carolina.
Moreover, there are not enough independent en-
~terprises to handle the tobacco crop, and to re
fuse to sell to the Trust would mean such an over
production for the independents, that they could
not afford to offer reasonable prices.
Then, too, there are other areas that are said
to be partially adapted to bright tobacco, and the
Trust would develop these, if its present source of
supply should fail.
The only way out is to meet organization with
organizations; hold the Tobacco Trust squarely to
the letter of the law; deal with it in a legitimate,
business way, and require it to deal with the farm
er in the same manner.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-08-25
For Editors to Think About.

Is 1t right to feed the people on a certain class
OF reading matter simply because there is a de-
mand 1t! Minute details of a lynching that oc-
CURED IN Texas, a wife-murder in Kansas City,
rape, murder and the like in a distant field may
lind readers by the score, but this class of reading
appeals only to the ~sentient a~ppetites of man
and instead OF e~levating the readers thereof, it
becomes the author of much mischief in the repe-
tltion OF crime itself. Certainly the forum of the
the weekly press could weed out more of this than
is now done. There is food for serious reflection,
brethren of the press, as to what we shall place
each week before our respective readers.-Albe-
marie Enterprise.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-08-25
Education and the Farmer.

60, he knows enough to farm" 1 have heard
the above words often repeated about some
young man who had reached the age when he
should enter the high school or the academy,
1t seems to be a popular idea that one does
not need to know much to farm, and there are
some individuals who follow that vocation who
would confirm this idea; but looking at it from
the standpoint, of the twentieth century, can
even a farmer afford to be uneducated? Who
are the successful farmers of to-day? Governor
Mount, of Indiana, was a successful farmer, but
he had his college diploma hanging on the wall,
Secretary Wilson is another example of the edu-
Gated farmer.
But even in ordinary farm life the advan-
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-08-25

tages of an education must not be overlooked.
The time is soon coming when the farmer who
does not understand the value and proper use
of fertilizers, and the composition of his soil,
will be a failure as a farmer, The future sue
cessful farmer will be a college graduate, with
a knowledge of chemistry and biology.
How many farmers are killing, day after day,
the harmless snake, toads, screech owls, as well
as other birds who are their best protection
against the insect pests which devour their
crops? How many shoot the w~oodpecker out of
their CHEEKY trees when it is the worm the bird
is after, and not the fruit? Multitudes of farm
ers are doing these things, some through care
lessness and neglect, many because they know
not what they do.
The successful farmer is the one who keeps
a set of books, and knows what every crop and
every head of stock costs him, and what each
yields in return. Some men do the same thing
year after year, whether it pays or not, simply
because they have gotten in the way of doing it.
Such farming does not pay, and that farmer
wastes a great deal of Drawn and muscle which
a little calculation would save.
So much for the practical, money-making
side of the question; but isn't there something
worth more than that? Isn't it worth more to
have an education, so that when one sits by the
fire during the long winter evenings he can ap-
p~reciate the words of wise men and poets2
Isn't it worth something to understand how the
great undertakings of the worlds history-mak-
es are carried on? Isn't it worth something
to know, as you toll under the boiling sun, how
the sun and air and all the elements work to-
gether to produce the ruddy apple, the finty
wheat, or the golden corn?
Give us the educated farmer, with his steady
integrity, his frank and open heart, and his
fearlessness in overcoming obstacles, and we
have a man who is capable of filing a thousand
spheres of usefulness which he alone who lives
close to the great heart Of nature, and who sym
pathizes with his fellows, can fll-C. O. Wit
ter, in the Brethren Evangelist.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1903-08-25

Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts.
None of us yet know, for none of us have been
taught in early youth what fairy palaces we may
build of beautiful thoughts, proof against all adj
versity-bright fancies, satisfied memories, noble
histories, faithful sayings-treasure houses of
restful and pleasant thoughts, which care cannot
disturb, nor pain make gloomy, nor poverty take
away from us-houses built without hands for our
souls to live in.-Ruskin.