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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-30
Domestic.

1t is announced that the next gov
ernor of the Yukon territory will be
w. w. B. McInnis, a member Of the
British Columbia legislature.
Students of the Kentucky university
pulled off a prize fight in which me
of the principals and his. second we're
students of the Bible college.
another job DONE" said w. H. COT
fin. an aged blacksmith of Des Moines,
as he turned Out a horse, newly shOd,
from his shop, then dropped dead.
Gifts amounting to .$437,370 we're an
nounced by President Harper at the
ffty-third quarterly convocation of the
University of Chicago. John D.. Rock
efeller gave $4,000.
Fourteen hundred patents for tim
Der claims in eastern Colorado ERE
Cancelled by the land office, and it is
said as many more will be Cancelled.
The law has not been followed.
DIR. Conrad Wesselhoef, a home
opathic physician of national reputa-
ton, is dead at Newton Center. Mass
He was formerly president of the
American Institution Of Homeopathy.
Sam Shubert "a theatrical manager,
is being sued for $4,000 because r.. H.
Burnside, his agent, discharged a girl
from Lillian Russell's chorus on the
ground that she wasn't pretty enough.
The steel bar association has ad-
vanced the price of steel bars 81 a ton,
and the steel plate manufacturers ad.
vanced the price of steel plate 50 a
ton. The structural steel manufacture
ers have also made a similar advance.
Boston society is waiting with keen
interest the coming of the stork into
at least tw~enty-six well-knOwn Back
bay households this winter. Society
there, as we'll as elsewhere, has been
held up as an example of race suicide.
but it is not apparently to obtain in
the best local circles next winter.
Among the families over which the
The Vanderbilt family war is ended
at last. BY Invitations to the ball she
gave for her daughter Gladys, Mrs.
Cornelius Vanderbilt, made possible the
reunion which society has been told
ax...n and again was coming, but
which, Until the debut Of Miss Gladys
never came.
Robert H. Patton of Springfield, III.
was elected chairman OF the Prohibit.
ton national committee at Chicago, to
/ succeed Oliver w. Stewart. Mr.. Pat
ton was the Prohibition candidate fol
+ governor OF Illinois in the last cam
paign.
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Resume 81 the neW$.

The residence of William Patterson,
with its contents. The loss is about
100000, partially insured.
A barn valued at $4,000. belonging to
A. ~F1eckerstein of Dyersville, Iowa,
was destroyed by fire. One horse was
burned and nineteen others were Grip
pied and Scared.
Two freight trains, each drawn by
two engines, crashed together on jew
ettville curve, about two miles north
of West Falls, N. Y. Two trainmen
were Killed and n badly scalded.
Fire destroyed the plant and stock
of the Houghton County Bedding COM
pany at Calumet, Mich, causing a loss
of $4,000, fully covered by insurance.
The building was owned by John Phil
lips of Allouez. whose loss is $500.
By the explosion of the boiler in one
of the largest engines on the Rock
Island road, Engineer M. Calhoun and
Fireman Kinney were killed at Daven-
port, Iowa. Head brakeman Thomas
Gimmet and Trainmen Gus Smith,
Russell Sherrod and George Nettleton
Four men were killed and their bod
les terribly mangled as the result of
a boiler explosion at the sawmill Of B.
F. Redline, near R%ohrsburg, Columbia
county, Pa. These men comprised the
entire force of the sawmill. The boil
er was comparatively new and the
cause of the explosion is not known.
While some of the recruits Of the
Twenty-ffth field battery were being
drilled near the post at Fort Ripley,
| Kan, the powder in one of the limbers
| upon which three men were riding ex-
ploded and two of the men were Sc
verely hurt. The injured are Corporal
Wesley Smith and Charles Ewing.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-30
THE MARKETS.
Latest Quotations From Grain and
Live Stock CenterS,

Latest Quotations From Grain and
Live Stock centers.
st. Paul, Dec. %. - Wheat No. 1
Northern, $1.O9 1-4@1.1o; No. 2 North
ern, $1.O4@1.O5; No. 3, 95 a SO 1-Sc.
Corn-No. 3 yellow, 4O@41c. Oats -
No. 3 white. 2S@28 1-2c.
Duluth, Dec. %. = Wheat - No. l
Northern. $1.09 IA; No. 2 Northern,
$1.O3 IA; fax, 1923; rye. 73c.
Minneapolis, Dec. 2s.-Wheat no.
l hard, SLIP IA: No. 1 Northern,
$1.1O IA; No. 2 Northern, $1.05. Oats
No. 3 white, 81 7-Sc.
Milwaukee, Dec. %. - Wheat No.
1 Northern, $1.12M1.14; No. 2 North
erp, $1.15@1.1S. Rye-No. 1, n Lee.
Barley-No. 2, SIC. Oats-Standard.
81 q 81 lie. Corn = No. 3, AZ 1-2 @
43 lie.
Chicago, Dec. %. - Wheat - No. 2
red, $1.14 1-2@1.15 IL; No. 3 red, $1.1O
@1.141-2; No. 2 hard, $1.09@1.14 IL;
No. 3 hard, $1.O9@1.11; No. 1 North.
ern, $1.15 1-2@1.18; No. 2 Northern,
$1.O5@1.15 IL. Corn No. 2. as q
46 lac. Oats-NO. 2, 3Oc.
Sioux City, Iowa, Dec. %. - Cattle
-Beeves, $3.50 q s; COWS, bulls and
mixed, $2.25@3.50; stockers and feed.
ers, $2.75@3.60; calves and yearlings,
1925 q 1926. Hogs Bulk, $4.45 q
4.47.
Chicago, Dec. %. - Cattle-Good to
prime steers. 500 a z; stockers and
feeders, 1920 @ 4; cows. $40 @ 4;
heifers. 1905; calves, $3.50 q SIS
Hogs = Mixed and butchers, $4,000
4.65; bulk Of sales, $4.50@4.65. Sheep
GOOD to choice wethers, $4.6O@5.5O;
native lambs. IS @ 6.S5: Western
lambs, $5.50@6.75.
South st. Paul, Dec. %. - Cattle -
Good to choice steers. $3.50 q 6;
good to choice COWS and heifers, $685.
@3.5O: butcher bulls. $2.35@3; veals
81 q s; good to choice stock steera
$2.75@3.65; good to choice milch
cows. 10000. Hogs - Range price
$4.15@4.5O; bulk. $4.25@4.35. Sheer
Good to choice lambs, $5.75@6.25;
fair to good, $3.50 q 5.75; good IA
choice yearling wethers. $4.50@5.25:
good to choice ewes. $404.25.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-30
REFORM FOR THE RUSSIANS.
czar Issues an imperial Ukase Making
Liberal Promises.

czar Issues an Imperial Ukase Making
Liberal Promises.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 28.-An imperi-
al ukase issued last night makes de-
cided1y liberal promises under a num-
Der of heads. 1t promises a full and
equitable enforcement of existing
laws; assures the zemstvos of the full
est possible Of self-govern-
ment and the enforcement of the laws
now existing in their behalf; promul-
gates a scheme of workmen's insur-
ance; extends the liberty of the press
and promises a full legal trial of all
persons accused.
What the Ukase Promises.
The ukase concludes as follows:
Surveying the wide domain of the
peoples uttermost needs, we regard
as urgent in the interest of the legal
strengthening of civic and public
life:
"First-The adoption of effective
measures for safeguarding the Law in
It's full force as the most important
pillar of the throne of the %autocratic
empire, in order that it's inviolable full
fllment for all alike should be safe
guarded as the first duty by all the au-
thorities and in all places subject to
us, that it's non-fulfllment shall inevi-
tably bring with it legal responsibility
for every arbitrary act, and that per-
sons who have suffered wrong by such
acts shall be enabled to secure legal
redress.
"Second-That local and municipal
institutions should be given as wide
scope as possible in The administration
of various matters affecting local wei
fare, and hat they should have con-
ferred upon them the necessary indie
pendence, within legal limitations, and
that representatives of all sections of
THE population interested in local mat
ters should be called upon under eQui-
table conditions to take part in those
institutions with a view to the COM
pletest satisfaction possible of their
needs. Besides the government and
zemstvos district institutions hitherto
existing there should be also estab-
1iShed in close connection with them
public institutions for the administra-
ton of local affairs in localities of
smaller extent.
Equality Before Law.
"Third-That in order to secure
equality of persons of all classes be-
fore the law, steps should be taken to
bring about the necessary uniication
of judicial procedure through the en-
pire, and to assume independence of
the courts.
Fourth - That for the further de-
velopment of measures introduced by
us for the protection of workmen in
factories, workshops and commercial
establishments, attention is to be
given to the question of the introduce
ton of state insurance for workmen."
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-30
AGGRESSIVE MOVEMENTS At
PORT ARTHUR ARE Sue
CESSFUL.
RUSSIAN FORCES DISLDGED
ADVANCED POSITIONS FRONTING
JAPANESE RIGHT WING HAVE
FALLEN.

Toxic, Dec. %. - Toxic is again a
great military camp and the scenes of
last spring when the first armies were
modified and dispatched are dupli-
Gated. Thousands of recruits and re-
servists are assembled, drilling and
equipping preparatory to taking the
field. The department and temporary
barracks are filed. and it is necessary
to billet the soldiers brought to the
city.
The general military preparations
are enormous. 1t is planned to give
Field Marshal Oyama a total of half
a million men, with a heavily in
creased artillery arm, besides
increasing the Defenses
OF FOrmosa and the southern islands
in anticipation of the Russian second
Pacific %squadrOn's attempt to seize a
base. The port of Kleeung, Formosa,
has been declared in a state of siege
and other preparations in FOrmosa and
THE Pescadores are progressing. Win
ter is not interfering with the Japan
csc transport service. The railway
between Dalny and Yentai is working
we'll and the running time between
Taotai apd L%iao-yang is six days.
More Positions Taken.
The following report has been re-
ceived from the besiegers at Port Ar
thur:
A body of our right wing surprised
THE enemy at Hou-sany-tan-tun and
S~iao-fan-tun. the latter about six and
a half miles northwest of Port Arthur,
at 10 o'clock Saturday night and occu-
pied the villages, and, subsequently
%dislodging the enemy, occupied the
whole of Taliu-chia-tun. abou. five
miles northwest of Port Arthur. at
2:55 o'clock Sunday morning.
Our repeated attacks during the
past few days were uniformly success
full, and now the whole of the enemy's
advanced positions fronting our right
wing are in our hands.
Carry Trench After Trench.
London, Dec. %. The Daily Tele-
graphs correspondent at Chefu, in a
dispatch dated Dec. 26, says:
"A messenger from Port Arthur de-
scribes a Japanese attack the evening
of Dec. %. with a light column of 5000
and many machine guns, on the north
ern defenses. They dashed along the
railway, carried trench after trench,
and succeeded in reaching the water
course beneath Papuisean mountain,
whence the Russian artillery worked
terrible execution. A
Fierce Bayonet Fight
occurred at midnight. A strong Rus
sian force advancing eastward of Pay
tuscan mountain threatened the re-
treat of the Japanese, who. after a
desperate struggle, retreated to the
north, leaving several machine guns,
800 rifles and eighty prisoners. 1t is
estimated that they lost 600 killed.
The Japanese halted near the GENE
terry and finding that both their TANKS
had carried all the works forming the
outlying range of the main forts, they
intrenched On small hills near Else
mountain under a severe e%nflading
fire, which caused them heavy losses"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-30
Washinuton,

Washington.
The United States has decided the
boundary case between the states OF
Missouri and Nebraska in favor of the
state Of Nebraska.
Postmaster General Wynne removed
two more rural carriers for alleged ef-
forts to influence legislation, the en-
ployes being E. H. Nevin Of Berthoud,
Col, and J. w. Whitehead of Medina,
Ohio.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw had
a narrow escape from a serious injury
or possible death when struck by a
street car in front of the department.
The fender worked promptly, however,
and he was picked up and carried
thirty feet, escaping uninjured.
President Roosevelt has accepted an
invitation to attend the Lincoln day
dinner to be given by the Republican
club of New York on Feb. 10. The il.
vitation was extended by William d
Murphy of New York on behalf of the
club. The president will deliver an
address at the dinner.
Commissioner Of Corporations Gar.
field has been ordered to proceed early
next month to Kansas City, Chicago,
and other points, to personally inves-
tigate the beef trust. He has authority
to set up a court of inquiry and sum
non witnesses. 1t is quite likely that
the commissioner may go to South st.
Paul.
Secretary Taft will make an effor,
to secur from the present congress
tariff legislation for the Philippines
along the line recommended in his an.
nual report to the president. He ex
poets to act promptly in tie matter
and will have a conference with Chair
man Payne of the ways and means
committee as to his further course in
the matter.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-30
Broker kula himse6.

New York. Dec. 28-Made desperate
by the failure OF the American Fuel
corporation, Of which he was the Sec
rotary, George s. Evans, a broker and
promoter, ended his life in a hotel in
Jersey City yesterday by shooting him.
self in the head. When he committed
the act his wife was sitting before u
window in the residence Of her father
in Bloomfield, N. j., waiting for her
husband, and when a messenger
brought the announcement of the trag-
edy she collapsed and is now in a seri-
Gus condition.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-30
ALLEGED SLAYER y q

Officers Say Man Killed Aunt Because
He Loved Her.
Port Huron, Mich, Dec. 2S.-George
Bearss, who was arrested at Flint yes
terday, confessed, Sheriff Davidson
says, to the murder of his aunt, Mrs.
Abel Brown, in her home on q farm
neal Belleville, last Friday. Mrs.
Browns head was crushed with q
whiffletree, and she was stabbed in q
number Of places. The ofRcers say
that Bearss said he IA infatuated
with his aunt.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-30
MANY SPECTATORS PRESS FOR
WARD AND EXPRESS SYMPA-
THY FOR ACTRESS.
FOREMAN is CHASED BY MOB
MOUNTED POLICE ARE. CALLED
OUT TO DISPENSE THE
rHRONG.

New York. Dec. 25-Following a day
of intense nervous strain Nan Patter-
son is in the Tombs i'll, and, perhaps,
on the verge of a breakdown, but with
constant attendance.
The former show girl, expecting
~acquittal at the hands of the jury
which has listened to the evidence in
her trial for the murder of Caesar
Young last June, went into court yes
terday noon to learn that the twelve
men had been unable to reach an
agreement, in fact, had beer equally
divided in their judgment as to wheth-
err she held the revolver that ended
Young's life.
Jury Equally Divided.
The jury stood six to six-half for
acquittal and half for conviction. AL
though no official announcement was
made further than this, court house
talk had it that of the six deciding
against Nan Patterson, none was for
conviction of murder in the first de-
gree, that one held out for murder in
the second degree, two for manslaugh-
ter in the first degree and three for
m~anslaughter in the second degree.
Immediately the announcement or
the disagreement was made Miss Pat
terson broke INTO a fit of weeping
which continued ever after she was
led from the court to a retiring
chamber, where physicians were
called and restoratives administered,
Then she was taken to the Tombs-
but she again wept and moaned and
became hysterical, and the efforts OF
her aged father, the prison matron
and attendants to quiet her were
futile.
Many Express Sympathy.
The demonstration in the court
after the announcement Of the disa-
greement was somewhat remarkable.
many pressing forward to express
sympathy for the young woman.
Abraham Levy, chief counsel for
Miss Patterson, called on his client in
the Tombs late yesterday afternoon
and remained with her an hour.
"The girl is in a very bad mental
condition. he said, after he had left
her. She is almost constantly hys-
t~erical, but l don't think she will col
lapse. am going to make a desper-
ate effort to get bail for her."
Interest now centers in District At
torney Je.ome's future action. He has
not said what he will do. but it was
intimated that the way the jury stood
may influence him as to a new trial.
The jury ooh but one ballot. ac~
cording to the foreman, and devoted
the remainder Of the time to discus
sion. From first to last the division
was even.
Foreman Is Chased.
The interest in the case was SO n
tense that the crowds which had stood
outside the court building all the
morning pursued the foreman of he
Jury when he left the court after the
final adjournment. He boarded a troll
lev car but men chased the car to his
business office and mounted policemen
were called upon to dispense he
throng.
Abraham Levy issued a statement
In the course Of which he said:
I'VE feel confident now that, in view
OF the wide publicity given to the
case other witnesses will come for
ward If necessary to c~OrrObOrate the
defendants story in all it's substantial
details. We question whether the dis
trict attorney will move for a third
trial of this case"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-30
Accidental Happenings.


Mrs. John Johnson of Bangor, Me-,
lost her life in a fire while trying to
rescue her two small children.
Fire at Abba. Iowa. destroyed $50,
900 worth of property. Four business
firms were totally burned out.
The large three-story building at
912-21 Walnut street, Philadelphia, oc-
cupied by half a dozen business con
Germs, was totally destroyed by fire.
Fire destroyed the Midway terminal
of the Silver Lake mine, near Silver
ton, Col. cutting off the supply of ore
from these mines to the mill II
throwing 200 men out Of employment.
Loss 100000.
One girl was killed, two fatally in
jured and a score of others hurt from
jumping from windows after an explO-
sion which wrecked Lloyd & Simpsons
toy pistol factory at Portsmouth, Ohio.
entailing a loss estimated at $1,000
A north-bound train on the Virginia
| Midland division of the Southern rail
q was derailed at Somerset, Va,
and one passenger named Macarthur
Of Baltimore, was killed and three
| others injured.
Three persons were killed and sew
eral injured. two fatally, in a fire in a
three-story- brick residence at 1874
South Main street. in Williamsburg
| section of Brooklyn. The fire was
! caused by the explosion of an oil stove.
Most Of those who lost their lives were
caught on the upper stories of the
building. from which there were no
fire escapes.
Breaking Ave great cables as if they
had been threads. the 1OO-ton floating
derrick Hercules, during a squall at
New York crashed into the battleship
Texas, 80 injuring the war vessel that
she will have to go into the dry dock.
While q freight was stalled on the
Canadian Pacific road at Fort William,
ont. it was crashed into by a train of
empty passenger coaches and Conduc-
tor Patrick Savage of the passenger
vas killed.
Attorney General Cuneen will apply
Tor ! receiver for the suspended Buf-
Nlo German-American bank.
HrZ
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-30

The Business Mems association of
Washington. D. c., has elected Mr..
Oyster as It's president. This fur
nishes additional proof that Mr.. Oys-
ter Is not g clam.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-30
SEVEN BUILDINGS BURNED.
Incendiaries Destroy a Business Block
at Washburn, III.

Peoria, ILL.,, Dec. 25.-Fire swept one
Of the principal blocks Of Washburn
out of existence in less than an hour
early Yesterday morning, resulted in
the death of DR.. Jesse Weaver, vet
Urinary surgeon, who occupied a DON
in August Martins general store
Seven buildings, including the village
hall. were entirely destroyed at a loss
estimated at $4,000. The fire is sup
posed to have been of incendiary
origin.
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Hitchcock to Have Place.

Washington. Dec. 28.-,It is said on
excellent authority that Frank M.
Hitchcock, who was connected with
the Republican national committee
during the recent campaign, will be-
come first assistant postmaster gen.
eral when George B. CortelyOu enters
the cabinet as postmaster general
early in the new administration.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-30

A Partisan scientist has discovered
that love is the result Of a microbe.
The boil weevil is not to be compared
with this pestiferous microbes raw.
ages.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-30

Among the truly thankful count also
Nr. and Mrs. Cramer of New York,
Who have been married only nineteen
months. and now rejoice in the pos.
soeeeion 81. two pairs Of twins.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-30
Crimes and Criminals.

F. Pierce Mays, a prominent lawyer
of Portland, Ore, was indicted in con
nection with the land frauds investiga-
ton now being conducted by the fed
eral grand jury.
Between the Liberty and the Verdi
girls rivers in Kansas more than a mile
of the partly completed pipe line OF
the Kansas Natural Gas company was
blown up with dynamite. There is no
clue.
The Los Angeles police have learned
that Dan Cronin, sentenced to two
years penal servitude for a daring
daylight robbery, is a notorious Grim
inal wanted at ST. Louis, Kansas City
and Chicago.
With choking voice Judge Cochren,
white-haired and pallid, sentenced his
nephew. Daniel Moore, of Meridian
Miss, to prison of twenty-five years.
Moore was convicted of manslaughter
having killed a friend in a quarrel.
Mary Olah. the Hungarian girl who
shot Sigimund Bohn, a waiter. in a
cafe in New York and then sent two
bullets into her own body, is dead
Before the woman died she said that
BOhn betrayed her before she learned
that he had a wife and two children.
It is believed that Bohn will recover
The Portland Oregonian says that
it has become known that the grand
jury which is investigating the land
frauds charges has been approached
for the purpose Of influencing the de-
cisions. One juryman is known to
have been approached, and the man
who did 1t is known to the federal au-
thorities. The attempt was unsuc-
cesful. SO it is stated.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-30

One of the professors at the Uni.
versity OF Chicago lays all lovers OF
music r lazy. Let the public kindly
get wrought up without unnecessary
delay.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-30

Mark Twain's books are being
barred out of public libraries. Mark
Il IN old man now. but it is with
success. as with all other good things.
ssbetter late than never"
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-30
MANY SLAMS DODGE ARMY.
The Patricia Brings 2,435 Russians Of
One Trip,

New York, Dec. 2S.-The Hamburg
American line steamer Patricia, from
Hamburg, brought 131 cabin and 2,435
steerage passengers. The greater
from Russia and came here to escape
conscription. The cabin passengers
were treated to a Christmas tree and
dinner.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-30

The average man has the privilege
= comforting himself every now and
SthSn With the thought that it isn't al
nsays the men who have the most
hrnIns vho make the most money.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-30

a bank to be open night and cay is
projected in New York city, and it
isn't . faro bank, either. New York
has always had that kind, and the
dealers never sleep.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-30

The average citizen of the United
States eats seventy-fve pounds of
sugar In a year. Average reader. are
you getting your full share?
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-30

A New York man carried a pig on
h elevated railway. Presumably he
mistook the coach for a refrigerator
car.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-30

The French duel is conducive to
longevity. but a fair average OF NOR
tally is maintained over there by an
occasional automobile race.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-30

Rev. DR.. Zimmerman of Baltimore
asks What shall we do with our old
mem" Adopt the reciprocity plan and
care for them as they cared for us.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-30

"Inexpressibly sorry!" says a Now
York Herald Personal advertise.
ment. What an eloquent phrase it is!
How often you have felt that way!
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-12-30

The case of the Washington drug.
scription counter is not easily under
stood. for he was on the safe side of
the counter.