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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-09

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The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-09

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The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-11-06
HEARD
FOR FIFTY Miles
Two Carloads Of Dynamite
Caused a Heavy Loss OF
Property.
WAS TERRIFIC DISASTER
Not a Structure in Main Part of Crest
line That Did Not Suffer-Many
People Badly Frightened and
Made Sick by Shock.

Crestline, O., Nov. 3.-Two carloads
of dynamite in the western end of the
Pennsylvania railroad yards exploded
last night as a result of a jolting into
other cars, blowing a hole forty feet
deep in the ground, twisting tracks out
of shape for a long distance, smashing
glass for a mile. shattering walls, top
ping roofs, rocking many persons to
seasickness and setting fire to 500 load
ed and empty cars. Burning brands
and splintered ties were hurled a quar-
ter of a mile. The ties crashed through
roofs, while the brands set fire to
strings of cars.
The explosion occurred about two
miles outside of Crestline, and save
jolts and bruises, few, it is believed,
We're severely hurt, though the police
are searching for possible victims. 1t
will b. many hours before the tracks
can be cleared.
The property loss will amount to
many thousands of dollars. The con-
cussion was felt several miles away,
and the report of the explosion reached
persons fifty miles from Crestline.
Church congregations were thrown into
CONSERVATION. Several buildings were
| wrecked. Several persons say that he
vibration due to the explosion caused
them to experience nausea and vertigo.
People rushed from churches and
houses to ascertain the cause of the
shock.
Yardmaster Courtier and Clerk Gel
singer, who were at work in the yard
Office half a mile away. were severely
hurt by the falling debris in the build
Ing in which they were working.
Hundreds of Pennsylvania employees
worked all night searching the ruins
for possible dead or injured.
The west yards Of the Pennsylvania
road are a wreck. Many cars were
shivered by the blast. Locomotives a
mile from the explosion were thrown
from the rails.
In the downtown portion of Crestline
there is not a building that has not
suffered damage. Many persons who
were OF the streets were cut and 9TH
erwise hurt by flying glass, and hun
dreds of women were frightened n
Mysteries.
All physicians were kept busy dur
ing the night administering sedatives.
The streets were filed for several
hours by people who were afraid to go
home. Sidewalks n roadways were
Uttered with shattered glass.
The mayor has sworn in many extra
policemen to guard exposed property.
All the churches were holding serv-
Ices when the explosion occurred.
Doors were blown off and windows
smashed in many of the buildings. The
flames from the burning cars produced
a spectacle that drew he attention of
many for a long timGH
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-11-06
NEGRO D.
Louisiana Mob Avenaes the Killing Of
Their Friend and Neighbor.

Shreveport, La, Nov. 4.-Joseph
Craddock, a negro, was lynched by a.
mol composed chiefly of negroes, at
TaylortoWn. Craddock was hanged
and then burned. Craddock went to.
the home of Wesley Chambers, a negro,
and split his head open with an TX.
When Chambers fell to the ground
Craddock mutilated the body with an
AK.
Soon afterwards Craddock crept up
on Dana Washington, a negro, and
struck him on the head with an ak.
CraddoCk then went to the Chambers
cabin and called Mercer, the brother
of Wesley Chambers. Suspecting moth
Ing, Mercer went to the door and was
beaten down with an ak and so Sc
verely injured that he died his ave.
ming. Jana Washington can not live.
Craddock was captured by a posse Of
white men, but a crowd of between
ESQ and 500, composed largely of ne
groes, took possession of the murderer.
He was at once hanged to a tree and
burned beneath it after being pro-
nounced dead.
The mel killed We're inoffensive ne
groeS.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-11-06
RUSH IN LAND BUSINESS.
An Unusual Number Of Applicants for
Mineral Patents.

Rapid City. S. D, Nov. 1.-THE
United States land office here is hav-
ing ar extraordinary rush OF business.
This is chiefly u to the large number
of applications for mineral patents
coming in. The past week was the
last in which mining men could make
their applications and get the neces-
sary sixty days publication before the
first OF the year SO as to avoid the
performance of annua assessment
work. The greater portion of the busi-
ness is coming from Lawrence county.
There is much more than there has
been AT any previous time during the
year, Notwithstanding that it has been
an active year for patent applications.
The office is also doing a big business
in homestead entries. most of this COM
ing from Butte county, along the
course of the proposed government il
-jgatiON ditch.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-11-06
DOUBLE TRACE 7
III BLACK HILLS
Young Rancher Kills His Sweet
heart and Commits
Suicide.
SAID SHE HAD TEASED HIM
Couple Were on Way to a Dance
Evidently Jensen struck the Girl
on the Head With a Shotgun
and Cut his Own Throat.

o. " Dn,,i,,
y "h"' - D, wy" I.
lars have reached mere Oh d ooup'e
tragedy, in which a young ranCher lV-
Ing in the western portion of the Black
Iips ,,a hi, syy.etboa p, we're the prin-
'in.Is
,ihn,. s tho younr ,ancher.
,,;niJ ~. .r$Saoort Nv striking her
~ No h,,a vri+h a sbofg,1n ana then
t1oH us
y ro,,,a, ,,sja.nt OF law
us VIZ . s ,r"s ,Ian Miss TINA
aa, ~ ,,,,t,,, Ut Who with her
"S.t~2o.' - 80 .Ih,nt eighteen
p",ot.,' r0 fnst ,t,air nnH, bnr,a in the
ntot.,aa go - ~ IIncn piIIs
49, 49, Lnan tna,iur comnany
~ d naI n.o,ia,n ~ tTeir dpnart-
Nili ~ =" in on,rty The
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-11-06
TWENTY-FIVE DEAD.
Terrible Loss of Life in a New York
Tenement House.

Terrible Loss of Life in a New York
Tenement House.
New York, Nov. 3.-Twenty-one men,
three women and a baby We're burned
to death or suffocated in a fire thai
caused 81, 600 damage to the house Of
all nations" tlVe-story tenement
house at 426 Eleventh venue
The police believe the fire to be Of in
cendiary origin. The dead are mostly
Italians. The fire vas extinguished in
twenty minutes.
The only person injured Is Mary Jane;
Quinn, who was burned about the face
and hands and severely bruised by
Gaping from the second floor.
In several apartments in the tene-
ment Halloween parties were in prog
ress ans guests at these added greatly
to the numbe of persons in the house
and the crush and jam to escape more
han it ordinarily would have been. AL
though plentifully provided with fire
scapes front and rear escape was cut
off a few minutes after the fire started
by the bodies of the dead which wedged
In the openings leading to the ladders.
The fire started in the basement and
rushing upwards attacked the stairway
leading to the apartments.
In a short space of time the flames
enveloped the stairway. The house
from the third floor to the fifth floor
was destroyed.
At the windows, front and rear
bodies of men and ON were
damned, showing that 4 desperate
struggle to escape had resulted in the
choking of these exits to the fire es-
capes and had been the cause Of suffo-
cation.
When the firemen reached the build
ing there was a mass of flame burst
ing through the roof, while the air was
filled with the creams of women ani
the curses of men. Many daring res.
cues were made by the firemen, who a
times had to use violence in their at
tempts to disentangle the mass o
w%rithing human beings struggling II
vain efforts to reach safety from tn
crowded fire escapes. One fireman
limbed to the fourth floor where
| window was filed with q mass Of PEG
pie damned in II fighting to get out
Re struck the heads of all the men h
, could see with his fist and they fel
back. He then handed down to tn
firemen on ladders below three WON
} en- and a baby. Another firernen per
formed a similar feat and rescued tw
girls from the fourth floor.
Life nets played a prominent part i
the work of rescue. The fireme
dropped men and women, dead an
alive, from one floor to another ant
finally, men standing on ladders on tn
first floor let them fall into the net
held by policemen and fremen in tn
street.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-11-06
SHE PLAYED THE RACES.
Mrs. Hunter Doll, Formerly Mrs. Cushs
man x. Davis, in a LaWG-it

man Il. DAVIS, IN a LaW%~'!
Washington, Nov. Mrs. Hunter
Doll, formerly Mrs. Cushman *, Ia
Wis, widow of the late senator from
Minnesota, has been playing the races
and the stock market. This was deVei-
oped today in testimony in q case pc
fore a justice of the peace brought pg
Mrs. Doll to recover certain moneys
from Mrs. Kate Osborne. Mrs. Don
says that she advanced Mrs. OSBORNE
$780,, which Mrs. Osborne said she coulo
invest for a turn in the market,
According to the arrangement, MIS-.
Doll was insured against loss, as MIS-.
Osborne agreed to return the money IN
lease the market went wrong, and II
there was a profit it was to be divided
.iequally. The deal turned out badly ana
most of the money was lost. Later,
Mrs. Doll says, she gave Mrs. OspoIne
$50 more, with the understanding that
it should be used by Mrs. Osborne IN
backing certain horses at the BenIaag +
track. If the wager yielded a profit II
was to be equally divided between them
and Mrs. Doll was to receive a return
of the principal.
Mrs. Doll Was Game.
The money was wagered and losl'
Mrs. Doll again advanced $lO0 to be IN
vested by Mrs. Osborne in stocks under
the same conditions as the first Sloe
was advanced. Mrs. Osborne thought
she could invest his sum to yield a
profit of $100 a month. That inVestmen'
also was a failure. Then Mrs. Osborne
gave Mrs. Doll promissory notes for the
amount she had advanced. These notes
We're not paid and Mrs. Doll entered
suit.
Mrs. Doll is well known in Minneap-
oils and St. Paul, as we'll as in Wash
ington. After her marriage to Senate
Davis she became conspicuous II
Washington society. She accompanied
Senator Davis when he went to Paris
as one of the United States commits
sioners appointed to negotiate q treaty
of peace with Spain and received much
social recognition from the Empress
Eugene and other noted French peo'
pie. She continued to live in Washing.
ton after Senator Davis death, ant
last summer was married to Hunter
Doll, a lawyer of Tennessee, who Is
several ears younger tina she. Mrs
Osborne was formerly a clerk in the
pension bureau.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-11-06
VALUABLE FEATHERS.
Hunter in Hand County Shoots a Large
Black Eagle.

Miller. s. D, Nov. "a black eagle.
with white tail. measuring 6 feet 8
inches from tip to tip, weighing 10 3-4
pounds. was shot by Charley Miller on
ELM creek, twenty-five miles north
west OF here.
This is q bird hat the Sioux Indians
look up To With superStitious reVer-
ence. never killing one, but for the
white tail feathers: when they learn Of
one being captured, they will give al
most their last pony. The eagle just
captured has twelve of these white
feathers in his tail, which means to
MIR. Miller almost a little fortune. I'M
less civilization has inStilled new ideas
into the Indians mind regarding eagles
tails, which evidently il has not, for
two squaWs from Fort Thompson drove
to town posthaste ahead of the great
hunter. as they declared the success
full shot was. pitched their tents, and
began bartering for the white feathers.
Other Indians S0o followed, the feath-
ers being the magnet of attraction.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-11-06
CITY WATER TESTED
VermiIlion Receives Quite Encour,su
Reports From the Che,,i.t guy

Vermillion, S. D., Nov. 2-Tbn
dents of this city are now given IN Ia
derstand that the water which 9a un-
through the mains around town 10 1 rv
Il wholesome, and thai no dis
| germs Turk therein. At least fba toSe
| what Professor Duke H. BashforI Is
! pert chemist, of Sioux City. saws \ a.
the request of Mayor Bryant, Profoss "A
Isashford came here on Tuesday to avl
anime both the water and ice dished IN.
to citizens. He vas to have ]lectnred ~
the opera house that evening, Int W %'
ing to a chain of circumstancas "
audience was not given him. I'll
For some time past attacks have hoes
made upon the WaterWorks comn,n~
Ga private concern) for the oualft,. 3
water being given to patrons, II bHaa
been claimed thai it was nauseous 49, 49,
unfit for drinking purposes. OF n claw '1
sparkling nature when it flowed froa,
the wells into the reservoir ana n."a
pumped into the water mains. il cav
from the hydrants looking yellow ana
filthy. And in the face Of this the
company last week notified water con
them to pay for water that had to ho
run off before anything like the c]e9r
fluid could be obtained.
OF late the water mains ali over tho
city have undergone a good tlushinr
with direst pressure from the pumnina
station, and an improvement is notice
able. A general flushing had not haer
INDUCED in for years, although orcs-
sionally a hydrant was opened for .
short time. Hence a great amount ~
sediment naturally collected in tha
wooden mains.
The professors analysis of Vermil1jcn
! ,s x,o, too Sc mt a,1-
claims that it is polluted with matter
from sewers, drains and cess pools, and
a portion of it added to the city water
would certainly contaminate it, and
prove a truthful cause OF the production
of diarrhoea, ~dysentery, malarial
%fevers, typhoid fever, d%iphtheria, e,c.
A few years 6 demand was made
for Missouri liver ice, and many loads
were hauled here; but this proved an
expensive luxury and the people have
been content to use the product of The.
old Nermillion river.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-11-06
SHOT and KILLED
HIS BROTHERS
Pennsylvania Man Worked Into
a Frenzy Over Alteration
Uses a Gun.
FIRED TWICE AT SISTER
Then Barricaded Himself in a Barn.
Where for Hours He Held Posse
at Bay-Believed to Be
Insane.

Pottsville, Pa, Nov. 4.-Worked into
a frenzy as a result Of an altercatioli
with a brother, Benjamin
Weissinger, a farmer, shot ana kiileo
his brothers., Louis II frederlck' az
tempted to kill his sister n a sister
in-law, and held a number or polceileL
at bay for nine hours before ne was
captured.
rel over the cleaning of a horse. Ben
iauin fired four shots at Frederick, put
none of them took effect. bredeflcn
! fed to the attic of the farm housc, anu
| was followed into the house by beAJa-
min. Benjamin secured a rifle, ana u
he was leaving the house, encouitereo
| Louis. Without a word benjamin AHeu
| at Louis, killing him.
BENJAMIN then walked down a pain
| and caught a glimpse Of Frederick, VINO
wa looking out OF an attic Wlndo"
! BENJAMIN raised mis- rifle and shot
Frederick dead.
Frederick's wife, who had gone to the
attic with him, attempted to drag the
body back, but did not succeed uhtl
| Benjamin had fired several shots al
her without effect.
Turned Gun on Sister.
Benjamin's attention was then at
tracted to his sister Mary, VINO mao
| come OUT QI Inc ilOuSc w
from doing n more SnootlnS. She
persisted SO strongly that he turned
his rifle on her and fired twice, u ms
aim was bad and the young woman es-
capped into the house.
BENJAMIN then b~arricaded himself 1T
the barn, after securing a shotgun, sew
eral revolvers and a supply of ammunl
ton. Neighbors summoned police as
s%istance from P%ottsville.
Every attempt the police maze u
approach the barn was met with sew
eral shots from Weissinger, and rein
forcements were sen for. Towards
evening, after a parley with Benjamin
he permitted David Wertz and Samue
Lovett, farm hands. to enter the bar1
to feed the horses and cattle. Weis'
singer in the meantime kept the meI
covered with firearms.
When Sheriff Smith appeared anoth'
er parley IA held with Welsslnger
and he agreed to let the two farm
hands bring him his supper. The mel
were instructed to watch their p
tunity, seize him by the arms ant
shout, which would lie the signal TO-
the deputies to rush in. This they dlt
and q struggle took place. The forc'
of numbers was too much for BenJa
min, and he was tied hand and foot.
W~eissinger is believed to be insane
He exclaimed continually: Il, am be
Witched."
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-11-06
New Line 10 Seattle.

Huron, S. D., Nov. 3.-No small inter-
ast is manifest in this part of the stare
n the announcement made by RoS"el
Miller, chairman of the board of direct
ors of the Chicago, Milwaukee and q.
Paul railway to the effect that trains
will be running into Seattle WITHIN t"o
years, yer u W lines This l.
taken to mean that the Milwaukee CON-
pany will construct a line from EValts
TO Seattle, via Miles2City, Helena, Ana
conda, MOSCOW and over the CASCADE
mountains to the north of Mt. Tacoma
| partial survey of which route has al
ready been made; in fact it has beeh
approved from Evarts, in Wa!WoTIIi
county, South Dakota. on the Mlsso"i
river, 10 a point more than half va!
% Seattle.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-11-06
EY BARGE TO ST. LOUIS.
Omaha Shippers Have a Plan to Re-
Guce Freight Rates.


Omaha, Neb., Nov. "A number OF
shippers and grain men here AVE
started a movement looking to the op-
Grafton of q lines of barges on the Mis-
souri, river between Omaha and st.
Louis, where connection can be made
With the river service from New Or
leans, Pittsburg and other important
points. 1t is proposed to establish the
barge service to relieve the congestion
produced by the inability Of the rail-
ways to handle h freight traffic eX-
peditiously and to provide a weapon
which may be used to compel the rail-
ways to grant lower freight rates.
The bargeS which il is proposed to
use would carry 200 tons of freight
each and O Of them could be towed
by an ordinary towboat. 1t is pointed
out in connection with this project that
freight can be delivered by steamer
from Pittsburg in a shorter time thar
it requires to get a shipment of So
called fast freight through by rail.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-11-06
FATALITY AVERTED.
Engine Jumps Track and Nearly
Pushes Elevated Train. Into
the Street.

New York, Nov. A great fatality
was narrowly averted here today when
an engine jumped the track on the ap-
proach to the Second avenue bridge
over Harlan river and crashed into
the rear car of an elevated train, de-
railing it and all but pushing it from
the bridge to the surface fifty feet be-
low.
; Luckily the engine was running SO
slowly tina the guard rails kept the
car with it's load of passengers from
falling from the bridge, and the coils
ion itself damaged the car but slight
ly and injured no one. Among the 400
passengers on the train there was slight
panic.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-11-06
UPSET ~EXTRADITlON.
london Newspapers Comment AID.
versely on the Release of James
l.. L~ynchehaun.

London, Nov. 4.-The release from
custody of James l.. Lynchehaun by
Federal Commissioner Moores at In
dlanapolis Saturday, on the ground
that while Lynchehaun's crime was
brutal it was nevertheless Of a political
nature, is adversely comented upon by
some afternoon papers here. the Globe
claiming politics Influenced the decis-
lon. The paper says:
The next assassin of q president will
plead Commissioner Moores Judgment
with Irresistible force il he escapes
across the Canadian line. Americans
Will nave no cause for complaint if the
result throws out of gear the whole
machinery of ~extradition between the
United States and Great Britain"
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-11-06
MORGAN AT TOM 3.
A Brief Stop at Canton With Pennsyl'
varia Railroad Officials,

Canton. O., Nov. u. Pierpont Morgan,
with a party of ten officials of the Penn
sylvania railroad, visited the tomb OF
President Mckinley. The party was on
the way from New York to Chicago in a
special train. 1t was the first time Mr..
Morgan had Been in the vicinity OF Gam
ton since the presidents death and it was
at his wish that the train was stopped here
and a visit made to the vault. Through
the corporal of the guard, the party OBJ
tanned permission to go as far as he gates
of the tomb. Besides ]. p. Morgan, the
members of the party were President Lar
inner of New York, head of the Fort
Wayne railroad; Mr.. Spencer, secretary
of the road; Thomas Rood OF Pittsburg
chief engineer of the Pennsylvania rail
road. and the division superintendent, E
T.. Whittier.
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-11-06
DOWlE'S FATHER DENIES.
Says "Eiijah H." Is His Son and Was
Born in Lawful WedIock.

Essex, Ia, Nov. 2.-John Murray
Dowie, in regard to the statement
made by his son, John Alexander
Dowie, says: 1.-The statement that I
an not the father of John Alexander
Dowie is the greatest myth ever ut
tered by the mouth of man. 1t is scan
dalous that my son should repudiate
me after l nave lone SO much for him.
He is my son, and was born in lawful
Wedlock. No one can deny it. The
records may be had at the great reg
lister offices, Princess street, Edinburgh,
Scotland. l have always lived a quiet,
peaceful Christian life, and it breaks
my heart to have this trouble come
toward the end"
The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1903-11-06
RUSSIANS IN MukDEN.
China Much Worried and Empress
Dowsuer Calls Cc1fcrer &C,

China Much Worried and Empress
Dowsger Calls Coaforer &C.
Pekin, Nov. "A conference of high
officials with the dowager empress con-
corning h reoccupation of Mukden by
Russian troops was held at the summe
palace today. Yuan Ski Kai, governor
general of Chi Lii province, was sum
moned hastily from Tien Tsin and pro-
iceeded directly to the palace. The
Russians AVE a Tartar general at
Mul<den and the province is in the GUS
tody of his yamen.
The Chinese government is greatly
disturbed at the re~occupation of Muk-
den, the capital of Manchuria. The
foreign office is appealing to friendly
foreign legations for help and advice,
admitting it's own helplessness in the
matter.
The Russians returned to Mukden on
Thursday OF last week. According to
advices received by the Chinese gov
ernment, 1900 Russian soldiers took
possession of the official buildings
there, b~arricaded the gates and evicted
the Chinese officials. There are be-
tween 10000 and $4,000 Chinese troops
in and about Mukden and the Chinese
commanders in Manchuria have been
given imperative orders in no wise to
| resist the Russian government and to
circumstances leading to reoccupation
OF Mukden are as follows:
Brisand's Head Cause Trouble.
The Russians employed Il noteL
| brigand, who was accused of many
| crimes against the Chinese, as chief of
one of the irregular bands of police
the are organizing in Manchuria. The
/ Chinese authorities repeatedly request
ed the surrender Of this man and the
Russians recently consented to give
him up. When this became known the
Russians demanded the execution OF
this officer within five days, giving as
an alternative the seizure of Mukden.
The Chinese foreign office was nego-
| tiating with Paul Lossar, the Russian
minister, on the matter and offered to
Danish the officer in question, pleading
tina he had exceeded his instructions,
and to remove the taotai, his superior,
from office. There was Il isunder
standing as to the time limit set for the
negotiations; the Chinese thought it eX-
pired yesterday. Before the negotia-
tons were completed the news was re-
ceived here that Russia had fulfilled
her threat to reoccupy Mukden.
The fact hat Viceroy AleXieff has
moved headquarters from Port Arthur
to Vladivostok has caused great sur
prise in Picking. 1t is generally con-
iectured thai he was unwilling to risk
passing the winter at a port which the
Japanese would undoubtedly make a
strenuous attempt to blockade In the
, went Of war.