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The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04
Crimes and Criminals.

Frank Dawson has been convicted OF
numbering Anna Hartmann, in the cir.
cult court at Paris, KY. and sentenced
to be hanged on March II.
William Reese. twenty-eight years
old. of Philadelphia. went into the back
yard of his boarding house and drew a
razor across his throat He died in an
hour
Lewis Radford, negro, was
lynched at Guthrie, KY, by mob Of
from thirty to forty negroes. Radford
was arrested accused OF killing Pris-
ella Frozell. also negro.
Sheriff Mcbride Of Plattsmouth,
Neb., has received word that the bank
in the village of Murdoch was robbed
of $1,000. The sheriff is hunting the
robbers with bloodhounds.
Jessie King, the eighteen-year-old
daughter of respectable family of
Mount Vernon. Mo-. whose identity she
declined to reveal. has been placed in
the county jail at San Antonio, Tex.
on the charge OF bigamy.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04
Resume 81 the neWS.

Mr.. and Mrs. John T. Brown of Rein
beck, Iowa, are dead at Pendleton, Ore,
murder and suicide.
Business troubles led Carl Cooper,
head of the Cooper Brewing company
of Chicago, to shoot himself.
Frank Kruger committed suicide at
Fremont, Neb., by taking strychnine in
beer. He had brother in st. Paul.
ExAld. Daniel Z. Lozier Of Grand
Rapids, Mich, accused OF accepting a
bribe to aid the Lake Michigan water
deal. changed his plea of not guilty to
guilty.
Hamlet was tried for the murder Of
Polonius before the Yale law school
mock court at New Haven, the jury
standing nine for convition and three
for acquittal.
Simeon NJ. Ayres of New York called
up members of his family over the tele-
phone and babe them come to him.
Then he took carbo.ic acid, being dead
when they arrived.
John P. Goggin, treasurer OF the
Nashua Trust company of Nashua, n.
H., was arrested. charged with embez-
cling between $4,000 and 100000. The
company has suspended temporarily.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04
IN HANDS OF COMBINE.
Organization of Lawyers and Doctors
to Press Personal Injury Claims.


Chicago, Feb. with nearly 5000
personal injury suits, involving dam
age claims aggregating $3S,666,952
pending against Chicago and irrefuta-
BILE evidence of a strong organization
of lawyers and doctors combined for
the sole purpose of pressing the
claims, City Attorney John F. Smulsi
declares that the city inevitably will
be made bankrupt unless some rem
edy Immediately is forthcoming. The
most complete analysis of the personal
injury suit evil ever attempted in any
city accompanies the city attorneys
annual report. AS the principal cause
of the astonishing increase in the
number of damage claims entered last
year is given the deplOrable financial
condition of the city, which absolutely
makes it impossible to take proper
care of streets and sidewalks. The
oonly possible check upon the steady
drain made upon the civic eXchequer,
Mr.. Smulsli asserts, lies in a new
charter, the lack of which, he says, is
at the root of Chicago's ills.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04
TO INVADE KOREA.

Japanese Transport Loaded With
Troops Ready to Start.
London, Feb. 2, 4 a. m.-The trans
mission of Russia's reply to Toxic is
withheld, and it may not be sent for
some days If Japan has reason to be-
lievo that an extension of time will
enable Russia to moke her reply more
satisfactory as regards Manchuria.
The Japanese legation here has re-
- = no new of the situation. Some
of the correspondents in Japan cable
that the belief still prevails that Rus
sia's attitude will make the preserva-
ton of peace impossible. The min
listers sat at Toxic for nearly eight
hours Saturday. Director Farnichi of
the Korean railway, sailed from Kobe
for Fusan Sunday with 140 civil engi-
neers.
Naval Reserves Mobilize.
The correspondent OF the Daily
Mail at Chefu cables that he has
learned that the japanese naval re-
serves were modified last week, and
that the First army reserve partly was
modified with great secrecy, the
troops arriving at their destination dis
guised as coolies. Over 100 transports
have been requisitioned and twenty
eight transports and thirty-eight war
ships are lying at Seseho, twenty-five
miles north by west of Nagasaki.
Forty transports filed with the Ku-
manato division are lying in Takeshi-
Xxi harbor in Tsushima, ready for i'll
vasion. The destination of these lat
ter vessels is believed to be Chung Yu,
whence the invasion of Korea easily
could be effected.
Russians Also Are Moving.
A dispatch to the Telegraph from
Toxic says that the report is con,
firmed that seven Russian regiments
are moving toward Yalu to occupy
Antung an dother places, some OF
which are on the south bank of the
Yalu river. Some detachments are
already there. The correspondent
adds that it is felt that the present
is an excellent occasion for England
to assist Japan by English bankers
helping to float war loan.
A PeIkin dispatch says that Sir Her.
bert Hart, director of the Chinese
maritime customs, has appointed Mr..
Gilchrlst, British subject, to succeed
M. Valoff. Russian. in the control of
the custom house at Newchwang.
The Express brings by way OF
Shanghai messages from Kobe dated
Jan. 26 which the censor of Kobe sup
pressed. These state that the sailings
of all outgoing Japanese line steamers
for Europe and America have been
suspended that that some of the
steamers have been fitted with eight.
inch guns.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04
PeopIe Talked About.

Bishop Thomas Underwood Dudley
oof Louisville, KY, is dead in New
York of heart disease.
The Rev. George Salmon, d. D.,
provost of Trinity college since 1888,
is dead at Dublin, ireland. He was
born in Dublin in 1919.
Judge William c. Jones. seventy
three years of age, died at St Louis
from gastritls. He was a former
judge of the criminal court.
President Harper of Chicago uni
versity and, and Carmilechers, the ar,
fist, have been decorated with the
cross OF the Legion of Honor.
George Arnold of Marinette, Wis, a
pioneer lumberman and vice president
of the G. II. Woster Company of Chi
cago, dropped dead at LAnse, Mich.
He was forty years Of age and was a
nephew and business associate of
former Gov. Scodeld.
Caleb Tharp, believed to have been
the Oldest soldier in the Civil war, Is
dead at his home In Ripley township,
COulAby, oIiO, dSSu lVo yNeSA %
He was past sixty when he enlisted.
His widow, who Is 101 years old. has
announced that she will apply for a
pension.
Mrs. Annie Chambers Ketchum, au-
thor of 1.-THE Bonnie Blue Flag" one
of the most famous war songs of the
Confederacy. as we'll as of many other
poems and prose writings, died in st.
Vincents hospital, New York, after
less than weeks illness, in her eigh'
tieth year.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04
From the CAPITAL.

From the Capital.
Secretary Moody asks for an appro-
priation of s34,000,000 to 10000, 900
Tor tie navy next year.
IL the Grand Army service pension
bill becomes law 1t will cost the
government s200.000,000 a year.
An order Will be issued at the direc-
ton OF President Roosevelt reviving
the Indian agency at Yankton, S. d.
Secretary Shaw says emohatically
there Is no truth In the report that he
Is about to retire from the cabinet.
The department of agriculture has
issued a bulletin on Meat on the
Farm" written by Andrew Boss of the
Minnesota agricultural college.
The house committee on Indian af-
fairs is expected to report for passage
Representative MarshalPs bill opening
the lands of the Devils Lake Indians to
settlement.
Representative Spalding of North
Dakota has introduced bills providing
for the erection of statues to the mem
Dry OF Alexander Hamilton and Will
lam Mckinley
Senator Hanna, who is iii with the
grip in Washington, Is much better.
His physician has ordered him to re-
main in his hotel apartments for sew
eral days until he fully regains his
normal health.
Mr.. Buchanan, American miniS2er to
Panama, is about to return to the
United States, starting in a few days
from Colon. Important private busi-
ness Is assigned as the cause Of the
minister's return.
United States Senator Dietrich OF Ne
braska, who was recently acquitted of
charges Oh trafficking in federal APP
pointments, will ask the senate to
make a searching and impartial in
vestigation of his case.
Representative McCleary has intro
duced joint resolution providing for
the acceptance OF the statue Of Gen.
Thaddeus Kosciusko, which Polish
Americans of the United States desire
to have placed in one Of the public
parks OF Washington.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04
SUES FOR $4,000.
Actress Gets After Peter Duryea, the
Prominent THURMAN.

New York, Feb 2.-Peter Duryea,
prominent breeder of trotting horses
and partner of ID. Stokes in the Patch
en-Willles stock farm at Lexington,
KY, has been made defendant In
suit brought by Sarah Madden, an
actress, to recover $4,000 for alleged
breach of promise of marriage, says
the Herald.
George z. Coffin and Louis A. Cavil'
lier of No. 229 Broadway are counsel
for Miss Madden, and the action has
been begun in the supreme court OF
New York.
Mr.. Duryea declined to discuss the
case, but his counsel, Benjamin Stein
hardt, of Howe & Hummel, said that
Mr.. Duryoa is emphatic in the state
ment that he
Never Promised to Marry
Miss Madden, and that the action is
an attempt to eXtort money from him.
Miss Madden boards with Mrs. Ward
McAllister, the widow of former so
ciety leader in New York. She claims
that about eight years ago she was in
troduced to Mr.. Duryea in New York,
that she went with a number OF his
friends to Lexington, Ky, and that
there he promised TO marry her. She
saw Mr.. Duryea last, she says, about
last Christmas. Miss Madden has
been with a number of theatrical COM
panies.
Mr.. Duryea is reputed to be man
,f fnh oil
fortune from his uncle. Nicholas Dur
yea. Besides his Lexington property
he has an estate in England.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04
TEN THOUSAND COLOMBIAN SOL
DiERS WILL BE SENT TO
THE IsTHMUS.
COMES As A GREAT SURPRISE
THOUGHT THAT COLOMBIA HAD
DECIDED TO ACCEPT THE
INEVITABLE.

New York, FEB. 2.-This cable dis
patch was received here last night
from an official source in Bogota. ac-
cording to the Sun:
Government is helpless in effort to
prevent war. In less than month
from now 10000 men will be on the
isthmus."
This information, confirming rumors
ccbled from Panama that Colombia in
tends organizing and sending an eX-
petition against Panama, comes as
surprise, in view of the changed attl-
tude of the Colombians, who had APP
parently accepted the inevitable and
depended on Gen. Raphael Reyes,
their special envoy to Washington,
To Save What He Could
from the wreck, says the Sun. Gen.
Reyes was to have sailed yesterday for
Barranquil,a on the steamer Valencia,
but for the second time he deferred
his departure. Gen. Pedro Nelisphina
and De Lucas Cabellero, colleagues OF
Geen. Reyes on the Colombian COM
mission, sailed on the Valencia.
The story continues, on seemingly
good authority it is stated that Gen.
Reyes remains here because his nego-
tiations with the state department at
Washington have not been completely
broken off, and that he has a tentative
promise from this government that
Colombia will be taken care of with a
pecuniary balm for her injured feel
ings.
No comments could be solicited
from Gen. Reyes at the Hoffman house
on the threat ming dispatch from b.
gotta
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04
NINE SLABS KILL A WOMAN.
Detroit Police Looking for Boarder as
the Murderer.

the Murderer.
Detroit, Feb. Mrs. James T. Sc
vile was stabbed to death Saturday,
and the police are searching for Joe
Miller, who boarded with the Sevilles.
Miller rushed out of the building just
as Mrs. Seville ran down stairs and
collapsed. There were nine wounds in
her back. chest and arms, and one of
them had penetrated the heart. Sc
vile said Miller had caused him to
leave Mrs. Seville by telling of init
mate relations between Miller and
Mrs. Seville.
Later Miller walked into police head
quarters and gave himself up, admit
ting that he had stabbed Mrs. Seville.
He told the police that the only reason
he had for killing Mrs. Seville, whom
he loved. was that he believed that
she and her husband had concOcted a
plot to cheat him out of his money. He
expresses no regret for his horrible
deed.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04
NATURAL GAS LETS GO.
Two Persons Killed and Six Are In
iured.

Pittsburg. Feb. 2.-An explosion of
natural gas in the cellar of the home
of Henry Magel in West Liberty yes
terday was the cause of the death OF
two persons and the severe injury of
six others. The explosion Is supposed
to have been caused by leak from
the gas main into the cellar, and
when Mr. Magel went to the cellar for
a bucket of coal carrying lighted
candle, a terrific explosion followed,
completely wrecking the house.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04

The Original hero" OF Ameiie Rives'
novel, "The Quick or The Dead" ex.
pired the other day at Richmond. It
will be news to large majority of
the people who read novels now that
there ever was such story as THE
Quick or the Dead"
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04

An Arizona man committed suicide
few days ago because he couldn't get
his salary raised from $4,000 to $12,.
600 year. We know quite lot OF
people who would be willing to take
$4,000 year each and live even in
Arizona.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04

So many children were named for
Ruth Cleveland that it is interesting
10 know that she herself was named
for Ruth Tappan, classmate of Mrs
Cleveland at Wells college.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04

A trainload of doctors and surgical
supplies stationed at convenient
points along the right OF Way may
soon come to be indispensable to the
successful operation of the railway
business.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04

Let us hesitate before we rashly 90
against such a formidable military ar.
ray as Generals Ortiz, Tribe Tribe,
Bustamente-especi this fellow
and Noyo.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04

It appears that the late Henry d,
Lloyd left an estate of S25o,0o0. And
yet there have been few men who
cared less for wealth, for wealth's
sake, than Mr. Lloyd.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04

A st. Louis paper states that out
Of tx 1nty-two American novellsts
there Is only one handsome man. AS
each of the twenty-five will consider
himself the exception referred to no
offense will be taken.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04

The number of horses eaten by Par
isians has grown from 10000 In 1900
to more than 10000 year The pass
ing OF the horse in Paris is by way
of the abattoir.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04
coastinq Accident.

lie Sueur. Mimi, Feb. "A coasting
sled ran into the bobsled of Louis
Stackman here. severely injuring Mrs.
Stackman and breaking the leg and
cutting the face of George whalen ana
severely injuring Ed Carson.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04
FOURTEEN MEN KILLED.
Lift in Mexican Mine Drops to Bot
tom With Sixteen Men.

tom WIN OiNISen men'
Monterey Mex, Feb. 2.-Word has
reached this city from Victoria, capt.
tai of the State of Tamulipas, stating
that fourteen men were Killed Ia a
mine accident near that city. Sixteen
men, it is stated, were being hoisted
out of the mine in huge lift after
having completed their days work
when the engineer, through some
cause could not stop the lift when it
had reached the surface, and a few
seconds later, before any of the men
had opportunity to alight, all the
cables broke, precipitating the lift and
it's human freight to the bottom of the
shaft, distance of 1,500 feet. Of the
sixteen men who were in it fourteen
were killed outright, one was serious
ly wounded and one missing.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04

With the coal In the bin getting
lower and lower all the time. Edward
Atkinson would confer general IA
vor II he would hurry up the produc-
ton OF some OF his nice mud fuel.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04

An Alabama girl who Is heiress to
a fortune of ss.oO0000 is mysteriously
missing. 1t might be good plan to
call of the detectives and get some
titled foreigner to come over and find
her.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04

Cincinnati. Ohio, Feb. when Mrs.
Matilda Clarity was told yesterday
that her bnbe was dying she emptied
a can of coal oil on her clothing and
set 1t on fire. Both died last night.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04

Common sense is leaking through =,
even the density of the minds In con
troll of the French army, 1t being pro-
posed 10 give the enlisted man g.
chance to win shoulder straps.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04

When woman finally thinks OF a
place to put her money where nobody
would ever think of looking for it, 1t
is very trying indeed for her to forget
where Ii is herself.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04

When Mr.. Schwab's 1898 $1,000
bonds were exhibited TO the court. the
participants in the trial sat about a
long green table. How very appro-
pirate!
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04

clyde Fitch recently wrote six plays
In one month. MIR. Fitch writes plays
SO quickly that they must seem new
to him when he sees them on the
stage.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04

The sketch of the career OF King
Peter of Servia recalls the late Noah
Brooks remark as TO the fierceness
of the beat that lights upon a throne
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04

The American prohibition year book
In It's statistics on whisky, neglects to
credit the stuff with the jobs 1t lost
for its intimates during 1903.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04

OF course the young chambermaid
of Ogden, Utah, who has just married
a 70-year-old millionaire, believes in
the predestined affinity of souls.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04

II good New Years resolution be-
gins to show wear and become little
frayed at the edges that is no reason
for discarding it.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04

The man who was ambitious to
drive the water wagon on Jan. l is
now content to cling to the left hind
wheel.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04

New York city, we are informed by
several exchanges, is to have mon
ster cat show" Where are the mon.
ster cats to come from?
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04

Marie Corelli is described as being
short and plump" Be 1t far from
ns to intimate that her stories are
long and thin.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04

The Shanghai men who sent news"
during the Boxer troubles have APP
parently moved north TO Kobe.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04

Fitzsimmons, however is confident
that he could effect another landing
on Corbett's solar plexus.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04

Boston teachers do not chew gum
They masticate an insoluble sub
stance that exudes from certain trees.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04
COLD CAUSES A WRECK.
One Person Killed and Thirteen II
jured

jured.
Kansas City, Feb. 1.-THE Colorado
flyer on the Missouri Pacific was de-
rallied near Miller. Kan. yesterday,
while running at the rate of forty
miles, an hour. The baggage car,
smoker and chair car were thrown
into the ditch and terribly shattered.
One person was killed and thirteen in
jured, one seriously. The wreck was
caused by the swapping of rail. due
to the intense cold.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04

Russell Sage has quit keeping regu.
lar Office hours, but he has not yet
given up the 10-cent lunch.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04

A young man seldom feels inclined
to complain because a girl lisps,
when she says yes.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04
PRAYERS FOR RAIN.
Apparently Jupiter PIuvius ls Boy
cotting Los Angeles.

cotting Los angeles.
Los Angeles. CAL, Feb. Especial
prayers will be offered in most of the
churches in this city, when the pas
tors and congregations will unite in
an appeal for rain. Several of the
leading Protestant clergymen of Los
Angeles, including Bishop Johnson
have joined IN an open call to the vari
Gus congregations. asking united
prayer.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1904-02-04

Boston teachers who are victims Of
the chicle habit should chew nothing
but beans.
The San Francisco call., 1904-08-07
JEFFRIES' EXHIBITION
OF WONDERFUL STRENGTH
Champion Lifts Carcass Of Beef
Weighing SO Pounds and Places
It in Wagon.

HARBIN SPRINGS, Aug. 6.-There
have been strong men since the days
of the redoubtable Hercules of ancient
myth, but Jim Jeffries gave an ex-
hibition of physical prowess Thursday
evening that makes the cleaning of
the Augean stables look like a Mon
day morning washing.
Mine host Jim Hays had a three
year-old steer that was down on the
card for a killing and a butcher from
Middletown was on his way to pull off
the event. Jeff heard of the matter
and with several friends determined
to dispose of the beef before the ar
rival of the Middletown expert.
Jeff took a shot with his trusty
rife and the steers lamp went out.
block and tackle was made fast to
the limb of a tree and the beef was
hoisted off the ground to be dressed.
After this operation had been per-
formed Jeff's startling demonstration
of strength occurred. Getting a firm
hold of the carcass without any ap-
parent effort he lifted it into a wait
ing wagon. The beef when cut up
and weighed in the kitchen scaled 51O
pounds.
jeff continues his road and gym
nasium work daily and is in great
form. He will not allow any one to
know his weight and when brother
Jack attempted to get a glimpse of the
balancing bar on the scales the other
day the big fellow hastened to shove
back the indicator.