The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-07-15
4 WEEKS RECORD
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DOMESTIC.
A sailboat containing seven pleas
ure seekers was capsized in Muskegon
lake, Micn., and four Of the occu-
pants were drowned.
By the premature explosion of a can
non at Colfax, H., Leo Chapman, Roy
Harris, Fred Grending and Ralph Hes
ter, of that place, were dangerously
and perhaps In one or two cases fatal
ly injured.
Twenty-Five dead, 1884 injured is the
harvest of the Fourth of July celebra-
ton in the country. The fire loss was
SITS, 500.
Survivors of the steamship Norge
disaster now are known to number 1913,
1o2 having been picked up by English
and German vessels from lifeboats in
which they were adrift on the ocean.
Among those saved is Capt. Gundel, of
The Norge, who was carried down when
the ship sank. He rose and swan far
to a lifeboat filled with other sur
vivors.
Walter Stead and Frank Rule, of
Princeton, and a young man named
Rulong, of Philadelphia, were drowned
in Milestone river. at Princeton, N. j.,
by the capsizing of their boat.
Full details OF the wreck on the
Wabash railroad at Litchfield, ILL.,,
show that 10 were killed and 40 in
iured. Arrests may be ordered as q
result OF the inquiry which is now go
ing on.
John S. Lord, first deputy collector of
Internal revenue. for the Springfield (Ill.)
district. has been designated to act as
collector pending the permanent app
potntment of a successor to Isaac R.
Mills, who vas killed in the railroad ac-
cident at Litchfield, Ill.
Three daughters of John Young, of
Saltwater, Mimi, who were aged re-
spectively 15. Il and 10 years, have been
drowned in the st. Croix river. The
girls were bathing and got into a sink
hole.
Gen. Pet Cronie, of Boer war fame,
was married at st, Louis to Mrs. Stertzel,
he widow of a3Boer soldier. The cere-
mony was performed in the Boer camp
on the worlds fair grounds, and was
private.
John Ratliff, ten years old, was killed
and Hixon Ratliff, aged 10, a brother,
and Russell Ratliff. aged II, a cousin,
were probably fatally injured by the ex-
plosion of q box Of dynamite at the
country home of Levi Ratliff, 81 miles
south Of Marion, Ind.
a loss of nearly $500, 600 resulted from
q Are which destroyed the Electrical We
hlcle Equipment company's factory IN.
Brooklyn.
James Wilson, houseboat, moored on
the Ohio river near LaWrenceburg. Ind.
was blown up withsdynamite. Wilson's
wife and infanttshi ld are believed to have
perished. Wilson has disappeared and
no traces Of the bodies Of the woman
and child hare been found.
Seventeen survivors OF the Inflated
Danish steamer Norge were landed at
Aberdeen. Scotland, by a trawler tha.
found them af1oat, without water or
food, i1san open boat, in which they had
suffered for six days. Al search is being
made for three other boats,
Fire in Boston destroyed the Boston
q Matne piers and elevator. causing
$1,260,160 loss, and damaged the Allen
liner Austrian. The crew of the steam
IS Jumped oveshoard and are miss
ing.
Mrs Katherine Danz, convicted in
Philadelphia Of murder Ia the frst do
gree for poisoning her husband, sWil-
liam g: DAM, was sentenced to BE
hanged. GSSr4 $sSaASsss