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The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-30
NINE KILLED AND StvfRAl INJ-stD
FIVE CARS AND THE LOCOMOTIVE
WERE COMPLETELY DE-
MOLiSHED.
HIGH SPED CAUSES TIE WICK
ENGINEER WAS NEW MAN ON oi-
VISION AND NOT FAMILIAR
WITH TRACK.

Charlotte, N. c., Sept. 29.-Whlie
running at high rate of speed iasI
mail train on the Southern railway
iumped from a trestle seventy-fve feet
high north of Danville, Va, yesterday
afternoon and almost demolished. VI
the crew of sixteen men, including
mail carriers. nine were killed and
seven injured.
All of the injured men are seriously
hurts and have been taken to the hos
pital in Danville. Several of them are
thought to be MORALLY injured.
The trestle where the accident oc-
Cured is 500 feet long and is on
sharp curve. Engineer Brodie was a
new man on that division of the South
ern, and thus came to the curve at
high rate of speed.
The locomotive had gone only fifty
feet on the trestle when it
sprang From the Track,
carrying with it four mail cars and an
express car. The trestle, wooden
structure, also gave way for space
of fifty feet
At the foot of the trestle is shall
low stream with a rocky bottom. Strik-
ing this the locomotive and the cars
were reduced TO a mass of twisted
iron and steel and pieces of splintered
wood. AS the cars went down they
touched the sides of the riverside cot
ton mill.
All the dead men were mutilated.
The skin and hair on the engineer and
fireman were torn off by the boiler.
Several thousand people were soon
at the scene of the wreck. No one on
any Of the cars had made an effort to
Jump and the bodies of all those killed
were found in the wreckage of the diff
ferent cars to which they belonged
All unofficial opinions say the cause
of the wreck was the nigh speed OF the
train on the sharp curve.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-30
2o2,ooo.ooo BUSHELS OF WHEAT
MINNEAPOLIS FIRMS ESTIMATE
ON NORTHWESTERN WHEAT
CROP.
DID NOT SUFFER MUCH
YIELD OF OTHER GRAINS ESTi.
MATED AS HIGHER THAN
LAST YEAR.

st. Paul. Sept 27 - An estimate
based upon more than one thousand
reports from points where wheat has
been threshed places this years yield
in the Northwest at 202, asa 1892 bush
els. IT'S is the high est estimate that
has been placed upon the crop this
year and is carefully complied, The
Van Dusen-IIarrington Company OF
Minneapolis collected the data and
compiled the estimate,
The returns show the yield per acre
as follows: Minnesota, 1911; North
Dakota, 1872, and South Dakota, 14.4.
That the government report has
placed the acreage too low is believed
by the company.
This years acreage in the North.
west is given by the government re-
port as about 81 per cent, or 5,393,32S
for Minnesota, 3,434,179 for South Da-
kota and 4,349,6 for North Dakota.
The
Threshine Reports
tend to show, however, that the same
amount of wheat, relatively, was sown
this year as in 1899. 1t is upon this
proposition that the present estimate
of more than two hundred million
bushels is made. The years distribu-
ton will show, it is believed, that the
estimate is not far out of the way.
At present only about onethird of
the small grains is in the bins. The
wheat has not suffered to so great an
extent as was first supposed by reason
of bad weather and the threshers are
not losing a minute now. The wet
weather was followed by a cold spell
which prevented the wheat from
spiouting in the shocks. 1t was
Feared at First
that the loss from this would be large,
but the reports from the Northwest
have reduced this to such an extent
that it is hardly factor in estimating
this years yield
A continuance of good weather will
doubtless mean heavy movement OF
wheat at the terminals and the grain
will be of better quality than most of
that which has been received so far
this year has been
The government report showed the
wheat yield of 1902 to have been as
follows: Minnesota, 1873 per acre [:
North Dakota, 15.9, and South Dakota,
1872.
In other grains the yield is general.
ly estimated as higher than last year.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-30
ATTEMPTED KIDNAPPING.
Children Of Governor Are Said to Be
in Dancer.


Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 29.-An attempt
was made Saturday night to kdnap
the eight-yearold daughter of Gov
Mickey. While four of the governors
children were playing in front of the
mansion an unknown man came along
and tried to carry away the oldest girl.
The other children chung to his clothes
and screamed. The man was so badly
frightened when he saw the neighbors
coming that he dropped the child and
ran. Gov. Mickey says that the
warden of the penitentiary. Mr.. BEEN
er, reported to him twice that a kid
mapping attempt had been prophesied
by convicts. One convict said some
time ago that such plan had been
formed as means of getting revenge
on the governor for his refusal to in
terfere when William Rhea was
hanged last summer for murder.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-30
Sin and Sinners.

Louis Peasant confessed at Chicago
to having murdered Mrs. Mary Spilka
for money.
Charles Greenfield has been arrest
ed in Chicago charged with obtaining
$500 through confidence game.
An unknown man leaped overheard
from the steamer City of the Straits,
opposite Port au Pelee. in Lake Erie,
and was drowned
Game Warden e. w. Campbell shot
and probably fatally wounded Roman
Dalos, poacher, who resisted arrest
at Wilkesbarre. Pa.
The body of Arthur Eaton, eleven
years old, was found in the lake at
Chicago. He is thought to have been
drowned By Albert Shupe.
James Mears, seventy years old,
fatally shot his sonin-law, Michael
Crotty, in family row at Buffalo, N.
Y, and then killed himself.
Squire Hibler, Clayton Day and
Frank Chenault, negroes, escaped from
jail at Frankfort, Ky, first seriously
injuring Jailer Merritt Williams.
Ashbell Duntou interfered between
Malachi Barnes and his wife. who was
being maltreated by her husband, at
| East Sullivan, N. II. Dunton is now
| dead.
| After refusing to pay for cigars he
had ordered, John McCue, a wealthy
farmer, was killed In scufile with the
proprietor of the store at Freehold,
N. J.
Brig. Gen. John Chase obeyed the
order Ut the district court at Cripple
Creek, Colo, and produced the military
4 prisoners for whom habeas corpus
wrjts had been issued.
W. P. Gamble, United States deputy
marshall at San Francisco, confesses
to conspiracy in plot to substitute
old Chinese for Young anes who had
been ordered deported, and committed
suicide.
William Herdick, who escaped from
the Missouri penitentiary seventeen
! years ago, has recently been recap
tured and has now been pardoned by
Gov. Dockery in view of his seventeen
years exemplary life.
In hearing on petition by John
M. Stiles, painting contractor of chi
cago, for an injunction against build
ing trades unions, evidence was pro-
duced to show numerous cases of brib-
cry and violence on the part of union
officials.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-30
Casualties.

Henry Hines, the Rockford (Ill)
ball player, will lose his sight because
Of silver of steel in the eye.
Fire in the Shoestripg oil district
near Beaumont, Tex, destroyed thir.
ty-fiye derricks, causing total loss
of $685. 600
Fire at Price, Utah, completely de-
stroyed the large general store Of the
Emery County Mercantile company.
Loss, 100000.
The French steamer Admiral Guey-
don has been practically destroyed by
fire off the Arabian coast. One OF the
crew was killed.
Walter Isselhardt, son Of John Issel.
hardt of Belleville, H., fell into ket-
tie of boiling apple butter and was
scalded to death.
The explosion of an OIL tank set fire
to number of cars standing on the
side tracks at Greensboro, N. c., and
about twenty-five cars were entirely
destroyed.
Fire broke out In the building of the
ID. ]. Green company at McDonough,
Ga, destroyed that entire building and
an additional block, causing loss Of
100000.
The conveyor of the Southern Pa
cific elevator, 1900 feet long, was de-
stroyed by fire at Galveston, Tex. A
part of the wharf was destroyed. The
total damage is $75.0GA
Deadly gases in the bottom of a
thirty-foot we'll at the Day Chemical
works at Westline, Pa, caused two
deaths and several other men had
narrow escapes from sharing the same
fate.
A yard engine with a vestibule car
with an Uncle Toms Cabin company
collided with a freight train in the
yards at Circleville, Ohio. The car was
badly damaged and four women pain
| fully hurt.
Two weeks ago Edward Nelson OF
Rogers City, Mich, and brother,
went sailing on Lake Huron. That
was the last heard of them until the
body of Edward was washed ashore
near Alpena, Mich.
A building formerly used as par
afIine factory, containing machinery
and belonging to the Standard Oil
company at Cavan Point, Jersey City,
caught fire from some unknown cause
and was totally destroyed. The loss
is 100000.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-30
THE FEVER PLAGUE.
Thousands of People Leave Laredo,
Tex, OWinu to Yellow Fever.

Thousands of People Leave Laredo,
Tex, Owing to Yellow Fever.
Laredo, Tex, Sept 29.-The yellow
fever seems to be on the increase in
this city despite rigorous measures
that are being taken to stamp out the
-scourge. Two deaths and twelve new
cases were reported at the close of
the day last night.
DR.. Guiteras, IN his house to house
canvas yesterday saw many cases of
fever, and at the conclusion of his
days examination made the announce
ment that twelve OF the cases Were
genuine yellow fever.
This city now presents dead APP
pearance, all those who could get
away having departed for points north
of the State Of Texas and for points
south. 1t is estimated by the authori-
ties that nearly
Four Thousand People Have Fled
from here since the beginning of the
yellow fever scare. The city is now
quarantined against in all directions in
the state and no person can get be-
yond the limits of Webb county 9th
er Texas counties have established a
shotgun quarantine and are turning
back all those who are endeavoring to
get away in coaches, buggies and
carts. The quarantine applies to all
persons, freight, baggage, express,
mail or other matter originating in the
city of Laredo or points south, the
only persons having authority to leave
the corporation limits being the health
officers of the State of Texas and of
the United States. The work Of plac-
ing the city in thoroughly
Sanitary Condition
Is being effectively and scientifically
carried on under the direct supervis-
ion of DR.. Guiteras and corps of ex-
pert assistants.
The situation In Nuevo Laredo is
unchanged, no death or new cases hav-
ing occurred as far as can be learned.
DR.. Mariana Trevino, a Mexican gov
eminent yellow fever expert is in
charge. Dr.. Trevino believes that
within eight days he will have stamped
out the fever
The Mexican custom house authorl-
ties have been temporarily moved to
Lampasas, where all incoming bag
gage and freight over the National
railway is examined, thus permitting
trains to run through to Laredo. Tex,
without stopping at Nuevo Laredo.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-30
OF the Weck

Miguel Valverde, secretary for for
eign affairs of Ecuador. has resigned,
owing to a disagreement with con-
gress. The other secretaries are ex-
pected to follow Senior Valverdes ex-
ample.
Three men whom the police believe
were concerned in burglary commit
ted at the South Hadley postofiice
were arrested at Miller's Falls, Mass,
afer desperate trruggle by local OF
ficers.
A meeting of the anti-duelling
league, attended by forty delegates,
was held at Frankfort, Germany, UNI
der the presidency Of Prince Loewen-
stein. Dr. Kolb of Iarmstaedt reported
that the largest number of duels took
place in Austria, while Germany took
second place.
The duke of Manchester, who mar
ried in 1900, Helen, daughter OF Eu-
gene Zimmerman OF Cincinnati, has
purchased for $4,000 Kylemore
castle and estate, comprising 10000
acres, situated on Tough Kylemore,
Connemara.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-30
Otherwise.

Prince Alert lowered the worlds
pacing record TO LOT.
Women of the country begin a cam
paign for the expulsion of Reed Smoot
from the United State ssenate.
Western Union messengers number.
ing several hundred struck at Chicago
for Sc week and $1.25 for nights,
with an eight-hour day.
The sovereign grand lodge of Odd
Fellows, in secret session, refused to
grant the Rebekah branch the right
to establish death and funeral fund.
Japanese colonies are to be estab-
lished in Texas for the manufacture Of
mating and other things from rice,
and the distilling of a drink called
sake.
Prof. Carl H. Eigenmann of Indiana
university has made arrangements to
leave for Cuba to take up his work in
the investigation of the blind fishes
Of the island.
Charles M. Schwab, former president
of the steel trust, is in Philadelphia,
seeking a site for new home. 1t is
announced that he intends to live
there part of each year.
Judge C. w. Raymond of the United
States district court at Muskogee, l.
T., holds that deeds of conveyance OF
allotted lands made without approval
of the secretary of the interior are
void.
The United States navy transport
Solace has arrived at San Francisco
from Manila with twenty civilian pas.
sengers and $50 time-expired officers
and soldiers from the various island
stations.
The officisis Of the Burlington Rail-
way company announce that a suitable
reward viii be offered by the company
for the arrest and conviction OF the
four men who held up the Portland
express north of st. Joseph. The rail.
road and express officials still insist
that the robbers got no booty.
The United States Steel corporation
may close all it's sheet and steel plants
in the near future unless the Amalga.
mated association will consent to q
reduction under the same plan as was
agreed upon last fall. The reason for
this attitude II an overstocksd market
and the dullness Of trade.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-30
DR.. AMEs FILES APPEAL.
Former Mayor Takes His Case to Su.
Dreme u art,

Former Mayor Takes His Case to Su.
preme -rt.
Minneapolis, Sept. 81. = DR.. Albert
Alonzo Ames. former mayor, convicted
by the Hennepin county district court
of receiving bride from women with
the understanding that they be pro-
tected in running disorderly houses,
yesterday fled an appeal tn the state
supreme court. The case will be ar.
gued at the October term, which will
begin the 9Th of next month. The de-
Tense states in the appeal that the
verdict was not justified by the EVIL
dence, that new facts have since been
discovered tending to prove the in.
nocence of DR.. Ames, that the indict-
ment is faulty and that the court erred
in many rulings and in instructions
to the jury. The indictment is at
tackled on the ground that it alleges
several separate and distinct offenses.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-30
Notes From Abroad.

Another massacre OF Jews occurred
in Russia.
Many people are dying of starvation
and disease in the Danish West In
dies.
Irish leaders demand measure OF
local self-government in return for
their support to the government.
The Osservatore Romano, the organ
of the Vatican, says the pope has
chosen Mgr. Giuseppe Wilpert as pa
pal secretary Of state.
Eugene Fourgere. music hall sing.
sr of Paris. was murdered by robbers.
as was servant, and another servant
was maltreated SO she lost her reason.
Bulgaria again tells the powers that
1t is impossible to indefinitely main
tain neutrality while the Turks are
discriminating Bulgarians In Mace
donna
The municipal council of Frankfort,
Germany, has decided that Frankfort
shall participate in the collective 'ex-
hibit of German cities at the st. Louis
exposition.
The Venezuelan government has
declared quarantine of thirty days
against vessels from French Mediter-
ranean ports where cases of plague
nave occurred.
In q paper before the international
statistical conference at Berlin, DR.;
Karl Ballad said that tia largest citfe3
In Europe were the most healthful.
with Berlin IN the arst place.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-30
CONFIRMS THE ATROCITIES.
Wholesale determination Carried Out
in Macedonia.

London, Sept. pa dispatch from
Sofia to the Times says that docu-
ment purloined from Hilmi Pasha's
archives and which has fallen into
the hands of one of the consuls, gives
confirmation of the wholesale exter-
mination carried out in Macedonia.
1t records that ninety-three villages
have been destroyed in the vilayet of
Monastir alone, and that the total
number destroyed reaches Ill. Re
ports from other reliable quarters rep
resent that a much larger number of
respondent continues that the atten-
ton Of the humane and charitable
should be directed to the starving pop
ulation.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-30
BELIEVES IN HUSBAND.
Wife Of the Barber Shot at Sleepy
Eye Appears on the Scene.


New Ulm, Mimi, Sept. IA woman
claiming to be the wife of Charles
Kimball, barber who created SEN
sation in Sleepy Eye three weeks ago
and was shot by tramp, arrived in
this city yesterday from Baraboo,
Wis. She says that Kimball married
her at Fort Wayne, Ind, on Nov. 10,
1898, and that they have one child,
Lulu, seven years old She is making
an attempt to get Kimball out on bail
and wants the job of nursing him. She
went to Sleepy Eye for the purpose Of
seeing Mrs. Toomey. The latter has
caused to be published statement to
the effect that Kimbail was owing her
a large sum CT money. and that what
she took of his did not cover it. Mrs.
Kimball does not credit the story OF
love that is connected with the case.
and is firm in her belief that Kimball
Is true to her.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-30

Much sympathy is felt for the pitch
er on the Pittsburg baseball team who
had been released because he didn't
come up to expectations. and who VIII
therefore become a mere college pro-
lessor.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-30
People Talked About.

Rev. Henry Percival, a prominent
Protestant Episcopal divine, died at
his country home in Devon. Pa He
was forty-nine years old.
On yung King, who for several
months has been secretary Of the San
Francisco Chinese consulate, has been
appointed vice consul general.
Joseph l.. Day, seventy-fve years
old, known as "the best dressed man
In Chicago died suddenly at the Au-
ditorium, supposedly of heart disease.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-30

Tie American golf players and the
American dancing masters are to hold
their annual meetings in st. Louis In
1904. II the management is shrewd
II will get these two associations in
The bird cage on the same day.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-30

Few OF us realize how many insane
people there are walking the streets.
untrammeled and unsupported. For
instance, a Rochester man recently
eloped with a woman and her seven.
teen children.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-30

al cable dispatch announces that
mile. Gjena Lunjevics. the youngest
sister OF the lately assassinated
oueen Draga of Servia. is to lecture
or the causes of the tragedy In the
music halls OF Europe. This Is char.
enthusiastically improper.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-30

Even If the powers should succeed
In restoring peace to Macedonia prob
ably the luckless inhabitants OF that
region would not have the slightest
idea what to do with 1t.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-30
MINING FORCES REDUCED.
overproduction Of Orc Cause Of the
Curtailment.-

MISREPRESENTATION OF Osc CAUSE ~ sH0
Curtailment.'
Marquette, Mich, Sept. 27.-Orders
were received at Ishpeming yesterday
reducing the mining working forces
400 men. Section 16 mine will be
closed. Similar instructions have
been sent to nearly all the trust mines
in the Lake Superior region. The to-
tai reduction amounts to several thou
sand men, It is said. Overproducsion
Of ore Is said to be the cause II cur.
tailment.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-30

In the New York city directory for
1904 there are over 1000 Smiths and
{ 200 Browns, and 5000 names have
re preAx "Mc.- II looks as though
az nxlo- Saxon were following the
Hollander into retirement before the
,,eaistless advance Of the Celt.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-30
POSSIBLY DROWNED.
Missionary and Five Indian Children
Are Missing.

Winnipeg, Man, Sept. 29.--Rev. Mr..
Mclaughlin. who left Herons River,
Lake Winnipeg, in sailboat with Ave
Indian children for Brandon Indian in
dustrial school some days ago, is miss
ing, and fears are entertained that the
party have been lost. Rev. Mr.. Sim
mons has left Selkirk with a tug to
skirt the shores OF the lake to find
traces of the missing ones.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-30

The Harry Lehr fashion of carrying
a purse attached to the wrist is rather
slow OF adoption in this town. where
the police are alert in searching for
freaks and lunatics.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-30

Prof. Langley may take q fearful
revenge upon the skeptics by sailing
his airship all alone some dark night
and never letting anybody know
about It.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-30

BY beginning on the oyster early
you may may be able to enjoy few speci-
mems before the scientific gentlemen
bob up with the annual scare about
oyster bacilli.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-30

How delighted Whistler must have
been to die If he had PRESIDENT knowl-
edge that the post norton crop OF
Whistler stories would hold out like
II has.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-30

The dancing professors are in favor
of greatsr dignity. But 1t isn't dignity
that the lady thinks of when an awk-
ward man steps on her train.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-30

Beirut may be trying to qualify as
the new capital of the Turkish en-
pire when the sultan has to pack his
grip and move out of Europe.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-30

II is more than thirty-three years
since France has had revolution. II
the French don't take care they'll be
getting out of the habit.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-30

1t begins to look as though the only
thing which might even hope to take
away the Americas cup would be a
fleet of warships.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-30

There is an epidemic of smallpox
among the fig pickers of Smyrna. Boil
your figs.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-30

II all men we're like Harry Lehr.
everybody could understand why Miss
Susan b. Anthony never got married.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-30

Baron Henri de Rothschild has
been fined So in Paris for auto scorch-
ing. The cable doesn't say how he
succeeded in raising the money.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-30

The hoppicking season has opened
in central New York. What a joy
Gus word, by the way, "hoppicking"
is!
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-30

With big Bill" Devery on her
side, why should Frau Cosima con-
time to feel that life has unlovely
aspects?
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-30

It will never do to again speak of
Vesuyius as she or her" after
learning that 1t has thrown rocks a
distance of 600 feet.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-30

In cabling that he is as fit as fid-
die" Vice Consul Magelssen shows
that he is also as vivacious as a
violin.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-09-30

Announcement is made of a tour OF
this country by the. prince of Thurn
and Taxis, but he isn't to collect any
thing but information.