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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-01-01
Advertised letter.

Letters remaining uncalled for in
Milbank postoffice. December 30, 1903.
Campbell, Mrs. Rita
Chambers, Rev. H.C.
Edmund, Henry
Hulette. Clarence (package)
Jones, Tom
Kennedy. T. c. (psckage)
Solberg, A. y.
In calling for any of the above
please say advertised" and give
date OF advertisement. If not called
for in fifteen days will be sent to
the dead letter office.
w. w. DOWN.E. p. II.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-01-01
HOME HAPPENINGS.

The HERALD-ADvANGE wishes
it's readers all happy and pros
porous New Year.
The days are supposed to be
getting Ions ger and the mig hts
short ter.
Mrs. H. A. Martens is envoy
ing a visit from her sister, Mrs.
McCann, of Minneapolis.
Deputy Postmaster Smull and
wife are spending new years
with friends in Summit.
Miss Mamie Nixson has been
spen ding the week with friends
in Wilmot since Tuesday.
Miss Natalia Edison of Monte
video has been the guest of Miss
Gertrude Kelly during the week i.
Miss Hazel Conright was given
a surprise by a mum Der Of her
schoolmates and friends Monday
night
John Malsed, Jr., came up
from Appleton and spent a day
with MiIbank friends the first Of
the week,
Mrs. L. S. Perkins, OF Wilmot,
was visiting friends in Miloank
Monday, while stopping with the
James family.
Ed Ben edict and wife, of Ben
son are over spen ding few day
during the holiday season with
Milbank friends.
Rev r. Strutz held revival
meetings Sunday at Twin Brooks
and Rev. FL. Haag conducted the
meetings at Wilmot.
Miss Jessie Hicks, Of Sisseton,
was the guest OF her cousin,
Mrs. G.. L. Wood, last Tuesday.
She was on her way to Aberdeen.
Mrs. T.. Ferrill, OF Avon.
Bonhomme county, is spending
the Christmas holidays with the
family OF her sist in law, Mrs.
Will LoWt hi;tn.
The thres her friends OF M. S.
Eaton, better known as Shorty,
will be pleased to learn that he
is now a. St. Louis, which is
near his old home.
uesday evening last Messrs
Frank Mccarthy, Arthur Bloom
uuist and Phil Saunders enter
tanned their young friends at a
dancing party at Harmonic hall.
Henry Whempner, who has
been working with crew of
railroad men out at Linton, come
home to spend a day Or two of
the Christmas time at Milbank.
John and Fred Tessin are
ENJOYING a visit to Minnesota
friends, having gone last Thurs
dav on a visit to the cities and
to Spring Valley and other local
tiles.
Charley Stone has accepted a
position as travelling man for a
silk and dress goods house. His
territory will bein North Dakota:
and his headquarters in Grand
Forks.
F. W. Mey yers, of the firm Of
Meyers & Son, blacks miths, in.
.yited q number Of friends to
dinner Sunday that they might
help him celebrate his 18th
birthday.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-01-01
HOLOCAUST IN
CHICAGO THEATER
IrOquOis Playhouse Takes
Fire While Play is in
PrOgress-Panic Fol-
lows. Nearly One
Thousand
Dead

Wednesday afternoon the Iro.
quois uheater in Chicago burned
in which nearly one thousand
lives were lost.
The cause of the "jam ming
or the asbestos curtain, consid
cred the cause of the disaster,
was explained by an inspector
for the und er writer's who made
a tour of the house and found
that the wire on which the queen
OF the aerial ballet flew over the
audience in the second act held
the ashes tos cur tain in place and
preventedit from being lowered.
1T was shown by the Inspector
that the wire on which the most
spectacular feature of the show
was made practically caused the
holocaust.
The following are the stats tics
of the disas ter:
Number in audience estimated at 1,3OO
Number OF dead bodies taken from
building or lying in hospitals. 564
Mum Der of injured, Of whom
third will pro obably die. ...... 157
Mum Der of missing, some of whom
may yet turn out to be living. 3l4
Number Of those who escaped
from the ater without serious in
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-01-01
Card Of Thanks

We hereby desire to express our
thanks to the friends and neighbour
for the sympathy and kindly assist
ance rendered us during the illness
and decease of our wife and mother.
GEORGE EMPSON, Sr.
GEORGE EMPSON, Jr.
ALBERT EMpSON
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-01-01
Remember the revival meet
ngs only last few days longer

'ings only last few days longer
G.. E. Skoe is enjoying a visit
from his brother from Itas ka
Co., MINI.
Mr.. Dennis Sullivan returns
to BrOOkings to resume his
studies at the college.
John Cable, of Wilmot, came
down yesterday to celebrate the
new year with Milbank friends.
Charlie Stone gave a very
pleasant party to nun Der of
young friends Wedn es day even
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. Will Shanno
of Choke, MINI, are visiting
MIR. Shannon S mo ther for a few
days.
The revival meetings at the
NJ. Il. church are being very
nicely attended. Every body
come.
Miss Minnie Seide came home
from Aberdeen and spent Christ.
mas with her parents, returning
there the first of the week.
Jens Peterson has disposed of
his bowling alley to Andrew Lar.
son, and Mr. Peterson is going
to look upa loca ton for a laun,
dry.
Miss Lizzie Young who is
teaching school at Frank fort,
this state, is home spending
the holiday vacation with her
parents.
John Phelan, who is employed
as train dispatcher at Mime.
apolis, was enjoying a short visit
with his Milbank friends the
first of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Oehler
returned yesterday from their
wedding trip, having visited
friends at several points in Wis.
consin and Minnesota.
Miss Ollie Mcbride is enjoy.
her Christmas vacation with her
Milbank frien ds, and expects to
return to her duties in the Min.
neapolis schools next week.
H. A. Seide is again able to be
around after undergoing a sur.
gical operation, perform ed by
Drs. Kriesel and Ferguson last
week, and is rapidly regaining e
his rength.
W. E. Let's received word
Yesterday that his nephew,
George Mclaughlin, had died at
Minot, N. d., and that the re
mains would arrive here on
Saturday for burial.
AS will be seen by an adver-
tisement in another column, M.
Arshak has opened upa general
stock of clot hing for men, won
en- and children, also shoes and
furnishings. in the Ben tley build
ing for merly occupied as post
office. Mr.. Arshak comes from
Iowa, where crops have not been
good for the past year, and says
that if he can do a reasona BILE
bu sness he will locate per
manentlyin Milbanlx.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-01-01
Notice

All persons are hereby warned not
to h aul rubbish of any kind onto the
premises known as MERITS lst adj
dition to Milbank, now owned by
l.. III. Bentley. Parties will be prose.
cuted who dump rubbish on said
premises.
L. 81. BENTT .ry.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-01-01
Married

At the home of the groom's parents in Milbank
on December 2+th. by Rev. +. Fenn Lynn an
Mr. lille + oman Blood, of Milbank and Miss
Amanda Feska, Of Day county, S. d.
The young people have large number OF
friends who wish them happiness in their
married life.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-01-01

For LaGrippe, Colds, Pneu-
monia and the whole troop of
winter diseases try Osteopathy.
First treatment free.
J. w. PAY, D. O.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-01-01
For Over Sixty Years.

MRS. WINsLow's SOOTHING
SYRUP has been used for chill
dren teething. It soothes the
child, softens the gums, allays
al pain, cures wind collie, and 10
the best remedy for DiarrhoeA
Twenty-Five cen to : bottle.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-01-01
Masonic Installation

The M embers of Mil bank lodge
A. F. & A. M. and mem bers of
Est ther chapter, o. E. S., held a
joint ms tallation Satur day night,
at the conclusion ofwhich oy sters
and other refresh ments were
served in the dinning hall. Fol :
lowing are the officers for the
ensuing year:
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-01-01
Alum Baking Powder,

There are so many alum bak.
ing powders about, most of which
are represented to be made OF
cream OF tartar, that the follow.
ing list of powders in which
chemists have found alum will
be of value:
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-01-01
CALUMET
CHApAAN'S
PALACE

The hoasekeeper should bear
IN mind ttht alum makes q cheap
baking powder. It costs but
two cents = pound, while cream
OF tartar costs thirty. Tho
quality Of the powder e, therA-
fore. usually indicated BY tho
price
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-01-01
O. E. S,

w. M.-Mrs. w. w. Dowuie
w. P.-Mr. Geo. Mitchell
Asso. M.-Mrs. A D. Con right
Sec.-Mrs. M. II. Wiseman
Treas. Mrs. w. M. Thomas
Cond.-Miss Maud Mitchell
Asso Cond. Miss Lou Hawes
Marshal-Miss Ruby Aldrich
Ada-Mrs. Aug Anderson
Ruth-Mrs. A. v. Fisher
EstheJ~Mrs. A. Hevener
Martha-Miss Agnes Lockhart
Electa-Mrs. Robt. Nichol
Warden-Mrs. C. w. Cannon
Sen tioel-Mr. LII Couright
Organist-Mrs. II. &c. Rose
& sChaplain-Nrs. James Watson
j. Asso. .M&rshals s-MrI.s john
Aslsed andsAss: GaCt3ltdd1e-
brook. %-
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-01-01

MASONIC
w. M. S. S. LOckhart
S. W.-F. w. Meehan
J. VA. p. Ryder
Treas. j. G. Elliot
Sec.-Aug. And erson
S. Own. Ross
j. .D.-Arthur Fis her
S. S.-A. c.. Lender
j. S.-H. J. Benedict
Tyler-IA L. Conright
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-01-01

At her home in Mbank, on the morning OF
Thursday, December "a. 1903, of cancer, Mrs
Lucinda Empson, wife Of George Empson
IN the Sad year of her age.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-11-16
TRAGEDY IN WEST VIRGINIA
Three Men Are Shot and Killed at
Huntington.


Huntington, w. Va, adyices state:
Fayette County was excited Thursday
night as never before over a double kill
ng which occurred following the killing
Of Constable w. A. Jackson by Police
nan Will Elliott, of Montgomery, We'd
nesday night. In a quarrel between the
two officers, Jackson was shot and in
SANITY killed.
Harvey Jackson, a brother Of w. A.
Jackson, and two other brothers, are said
to have armed themselves and started to
''clean up" the entire police force of the
town, which is a small hamlet near Fay
cite.
A telephone message was sent to Sher-
if Daniels, of Fayette County, to come
to Montgomery at once. Daniels reached
Montgomery at 10 O'Clock Thursday
morning. Just as he stepped from the
train he saw Harvey Jackson %lounging
around the station not more than fifty
feet away. Without drawing his revOly-
err the sheriff walked over to Jackson,
and placing his hand on Jackson's shout
der told him TO leave the town under
penalty Of being arrested. Jackson, with
out a word, fired twice point blank at the
sheriff, each bullet taking effect. The
sheriff dropped TO the ground, dying in
stantly.
John Rolf, a prominent citizen Of the
town, was standing near by and had wit
messed the talk between Daniels and
Jackson. Throwing up his hands he ad-
yanced toward Jackson to demonstrate
with him and to help Daniels. Jackson
turned and shot Rolf dead. Then, re-
loading his revolver and pulling another
from his pocket he brandished them in
the air and defied anyone in the town to
take him.
The other Jackson boys came into the
town and met their brother Immediately
after the shooting. For half an hour the
three men paraded the streets firing re-
volvers and defying the town. The peO-
pie were in a panic and crawled into Gel
lars. The streets were deserted.
In the meantime Detective Harrison
Ash. who lives near Montgomery, and is
reputed to be the earnest man in West
Virginia, was ~telaphoned for. When he
was seen coming down the roadway from
Montgomery by the Jacksons they start
ed on a run for the mountain base, near
by and escaped to the woods. The citi-
zens soon after swarmed into the streets,
heavily armed. A posse of 200 men was
quickly organized, and under the leader
ship OF Ash and other police they start
ed beating the woods for the Jacksons.
The search is being kept up, and more
people are Joining in it every hullr.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-11-16
COLORADO
Three Men Shot as Result OF Eiec-
ton Ouarrels.

A Cripple Creek, Colo, dispatch says:
Three men were shot in this district
Tuesday rs a result of election quarrels.
One of them is dead, another mortauy
wounded and the third seriously injured.
The dead man is Christopher Miller, a
former alderman of Gold6eld, and a dep
uty sheriff, under Sheriff Robertson prior
to that officers resignation after the In
dependence explosion and Victor riot
Miller was shot while sitting on a fence
in front of a Goldfeld polling booth.
uty sheriff Robertson prior to that Off
GERS resignation after the independence
explosion and Victor riot. Miller was
shot while sitting on a fence i'll front OF
a Goldfeld polling booth.
Isaac Lebo, a friend Of Miller, who
was sitting beside the latter, was shot
in the shoulder. He may die. Lebo as
serts that James Warford shot / Mil
Ter, just before he died, said that Thomas
Brown fired the bullet that caused his
death. Some spectators say that War
ford fired both shots.
Brown and Warford are deputy sher'
ifs. They ordered Miller and Lebo, who
had been appointed election c~onstables,
to move away and remain outside of the
100-foot limit. .Iiller refused to obey,
and, it is said, made a motion as if tc
draw his revolver. The officers also as
sert that Lebo started to draw a revolver
before he was shot.
Miller and Lebo were members of the
! Western Federation Of Miners. Miller
was deported last June, but recently re-
turned.
Edward Doyle, a Republican deputy,
was shot in the groin by Constable
O'Leary, after he had assaulted Mrs.
Kennedy, a Democratic judge of election,
and attempted to shoot the constable
who interfered.
Warford and O'Leary were arrested.
Mrs. Kennedy also was arrested on an
order from Sheriff Bell, who charged her
with creating "A disturbance. She was
subsequently released, but was not per-
mitted to serve again as judge.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-11-16
CINCINNATI MURDER CASE.
Two Ciews Have Been Found by the
Police,

There were many theories advanced re-
garding the murder of Alma Steinigeweg
at Cincinnati. Two clews have been
found. 1t has been discovered that two
weeks before the murder of Lulu Muel-
Ter, Oct. 2, another girl was assaulted
in the same locality, and the body laid
on the railroad tracks, where it was
found. The girl recovered, although she
is still i'll. She says she was struck by a
man who answers the description of the
S~teinigeweg suspect as she was crossing
the bridge near the scene of the latest
tragedy.
A man has been found who says that a
few hours before Almja S~teinigeweg was
murdered a strange man asked him
where she lived, and upon receiving the
information walked rapidly down
Spring Grove Avenue toward the spot
where she was murdered. !
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-11-16
NEW THEORY IN MURDER.
Drug Fiend May Have Killed DIR.
Gerhard, of New Uim.

A New Ulm, Mimi, special says: Was
DR.. l.. A. Gebhard the victim of a CO.
caine fend under the powerful influence
of the drug or enraged because he was
refused a supply Of his beloved stimu'
liant?
That is a question that all New Ulm
is bordering over since DR.. George r..
Koch made public the statement that a
cocaine tiend, who asserted he was a den
fist in hard luck, visited his office a few
days before the murder. He asked for
cocaine and is known to have visited
other doctors offices on a similar errand.
If an affirmative answer can be given
to the question, DR.. Koch can explain
how n kerchief bearing his initials came
to be found in the office of the murdered
dentist. Otherwise the presence of the
kerchief must remain unexplained until
the murderer is caught.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-11-16
WEEKS HAPPENINGS
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN A CON-
DENsED FORM.
Report of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Survey of Big Irrigation fr'Jeo'
ia Finished-Proposed Ditch VIII
he a Mammoth One.

Tho Government engineers who nave
baen in charge of the Belle Fourche lrri-
cation proiect, looking towards a recia-
nation of 10000 acres OF land, have mn
isbed their labors. Engineer waiter, III
charge of the work for over Il year SUI
that everything is now ready lor ny ~.
ginning Of construction work on the ple
ditch save for a lack of lana TO com
pIete the 90, acres demanded oS 'hs
government before the appropriation VI
S.. 100. 900 would be put into use. II
is certain to be secured within the heA'
three months, and bids will then De sun
mitted for digging the ditch.
The first report, of the government con,
sulting engineers demanded that all iahu
owners agree to take water ana pear 4"
share of the expense of pullalhS ING
ditch. Nov. / was the date set, anu IL
was understood that if at that ume the
property holders did not get III line, the
project would be dropped. 1t soon pe,
came evident, however. that all Woulu
not agree to the proposition. Ihereupoh
an extension of time to Feb. l was grant
cd. and the first demand was altered so
that If the owners of 10000 acres would
DIM IltIlStlNt rs W pay 4
SO. 20 per acre for ten years, III order tha'
the government would be reimbursed Tor
advance money, the project would be car,
ried out. Otherwise it would be dropped
indefinitely.
Closely fonowing the final report or the
examining board, some of the land holu-
ers got together and decided to do thelr
utmost to fill up the deficiency, with the
result that only $500 acres are now need
ed to make certain the reclamation or o.
600 acres of the best land in the state
The consulting board has been very talr
in it's dealings with land owners, ana now
il is up to them to do business.
The proposed ditch is a mammoth one,
running from the Belle Fourche River 10
Owl Creek. 1t will be anywhere from
ten to thirty feet, according to the lay
of the land, and is to be forty feet wide
at the bottom.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-11-16
SPECIAL TRAIN WRECKED.
James Speyer, New Sork Banker,
Has a Narrow Escape.

James Speyer, New York Banker,
Has a Narrow Escape.
Word has just reached Laredo, Tex,
that the special which just left over the
Mexican National Railroad, bearing Jas.
Speyer, of the banking firm of Speyer
& Co., of New York, while going at a
high rate of speed was ditched between
Sanchez and La Jarita, about twenty
five miles south Of Laredo.
A special train later reached Laredo,
bearing the members of the party who
started out with Mr.. Speyer early in the
evening.
Mr.. Speyer is uninjured. One of the
party, j. Davis, of New York, received
painful cuts about the face, but otherwise
is uninjured.
The wreck, it is stated, was the result
of the condition of the roadbed and the
speed-seventy-fve miles an hour-the
train was going at the time, it having
been the intention Of the railroad officials
to endeavor to establish a new record
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-11-16
PRISON FOR ANKER
Herman Haas, Chicago Embezzier,
Gets a Six Year Sentence.

Herman Haas, Chicago Embezzier,
Gets a Six Year sentence.
Herman Haas, charged with embez-
zling funds from the Corn Exchange Ma
tional Bank at Chicago, pleaded guilty
Friday and was sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for six years.
Mr.. Haas was auditor Of the Corn Ex-
change National Bank for four years, or
since it absorbed the National Bank OF
America, with which institution he had
been a trusted employe. Haas disappear
ed from Chicago last May. At the time
Of his disappearance sensational rumors
were in circulation that he had become
infatuated with n music hall singer and
had at one performance thrown green
backs to her as she stood on the stage.
After he had left town his books were
examined and the shortage of about S20,-
600 was discovered.
Haas went south and over the border
into Mexico, but evaded pursuit. When
he reached Panama he felt he was safe
on account of extradition laws. But the
surety company-a Philadelphia cou-
cern-which had to make good his de-
falcation was hot OH his trail and brought
about his apprehension in Colon.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-11-16
TOOK A SHOT AT AN EDITOR
Attempt to Assassinate Proprietor
Plankinton Herald.

T. w. Taubman, editor and proprietor
of the Plankinton Herald, was the VIC
tim of an attempt at assassination at
about 8 o'clock Sunday evening.
He was sitting III his office chair, just
a few feet from the window, all alone.
some of his friends having just left him
IA few minutes before the shot was fired.
The bullet, a 3S-caliber, passed through
the window, a very thick glass, struck the
back of the chair, a hard wood piece
about three-fourths of an inch thick,
passed through it and struck Mr.. Taub-
man i'll the back, inficting a slight
wound.
The fact of the bullet striking the chair
is all that saved Mr.. Taubman's life.
Search was Immediately made for the
would-be assassin, but no clew as yet
has been found.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-11-16
A MYSTERIOUS CRIME
FOUR MEMBERS OF CALIFORNIA
FAMILY SLAIN.
Attempt To Burn the Bodies-Mur-
derer Sets Fire TO the Home of
Victims - No Motive Nor Clue
Found-Coroner Investigating.

II is now known that julius Weber, his
wife, their 19-year-old daughter, Bertha,
and their son, Paul, aged IA years, were
murdered at Auburn, Cal, Thursday
night by an unknown assassin who set
fire TO the home in an effort to cover his
crime. Before the fire had made any
great Roadway the bodies of the muir
dered woman and her two children We're
rescued from the burning house.
An examination of the bodies showed
that Mrs. Weber and the children had
been murdered before the fire had been
started. The daughter had been killed
by a pistol wound, as had been Mrs. Web
err. On the boys head were several deep
cuts. He had also been shot.
An effort to reach Julius Weber, the
father, who was also thought to be in the
burning house, was abandoned until
Friday, when a search was made in the
burning embers and his body was found
in the bathroom Of the dwelling. He, too,
had been shot down before being left TO
be consumed by the flames.
The body Of Mr.. Weber was so badly
burned that it has been impossible TO
ascertain how many times he was shot.
1t has been ascertained beyond n doubt
that the women were killed in one room
and their clothing set on fire and that
they were then dragged into the apart
ment where their bodies We're discovered.
One very peculiar circumstances of the
tragedy is that while the bodies of the
mother and daughter were burned to
some extent, the apartment in which they
were lying was not on fire when the fire.
men broke in, which showed that they
had been killed in some other portion of
the house, partially burned and then
dragged into the room where they were
found.
The physicians are holding an autopsy
over the badly charred remains of Julius
Weber.
Coroner Shepard, Sheriff Kean and
District Attorney Robinson are making
IA thorough investigation of the tragedy.