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The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-01-15
Japan Delays War.

Toxic, Jan. 9.-The japanese govern
ment has rractieally-determined te
continue negotiations. 1t is dissatisfied
with Russia's terms. as indicated in the
reply to Japan's last note, but does not
feel warranted in issuing an ultimatum
or breaking off negotiations and will
make another effort to secure their
modification before resorting to force.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-01-15
Peace Deciared.

Capetown. Jan. Sit is officially n
nounced that peace has been declared in
D~anSaraland, German Southwest Africa,
and that the hostile Hottentots have
surrendered.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-01-15

The dcuble-headed snake, hitherto
supposed to be peculiar to Central
America and the credulity of unscien-
ti1c travellers, has turned up in Cali
fornia. One story says that it was
headed for San Francisco, another to-
ward Los Angeles.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-01-15
GranIed New Trial.

Hamilton, o., Jan. 6.-Aifred a..
Knapp. self-confessed murderer OF five
persons, now in the penitentiary at
Columbus, awaiting execution for MUIR
der Of his wife, has been grated q
new trial by Judge Swing.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-01-15
License Unnecessarx.

Washington, Jan. 9.-The commits
sioner Of internal revenue has decided
that it is permissible for state prisons to
manufacture tobacco or cigars for its
own inmates without paying license.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-01-15
Trains Collide.

Topeka. Kan, Jan. 6.-Fast passen-
per train No. 3 on the Chicago, Rock
Island & Pacific railroad from Chicago
crashed into a freight train eight miles
west of here at n o'clock this morn
ing. The engineers and firemen on
both trains were instantly killed and
rs passengers were injured. Several
are reported killed. :
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-01-15
Anoplexr Cnuses Denim.

Cedar Rapids, Ia. Jan. j.. H.
Coutts, president Of the First national
bank Of Upton. has dropped dead In d
hotel here. The cause was apoplexy.
M. Coutts was SIS years old.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-01-15
President Is seIected.

Milwaukee, Jan. "a special from
Madison. Wis. says President Roosevelt
has been chosen to deliver the principal
Grafton at the semi-centennial jubilee of
the University of Wisconsin mex June.
There seems to be no doubt that the
president will accept the invitation.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-01-15
CAPITOL OF IOWA
PARTLY BURNED
Fire Destroys the Interior of the
North Wing cf the States
Beautiful Building.
Chamber of the House of Represen-
tat1ves "a Chnrred Mass of RUINS
GOV. Cummins Has the Contents
of All Offices Removed-Loss Is Es-
timated at 100000.

Des Moines, Ia, Jam. 5.-Fire Quilted
the northwest wing of the state capitol
yesterday with an approximate loss of
100000. The chamber of the house of
representatives is a charred mass of
ruined debris and cannot be fixed up in
time for the approaching session of the
legislature. The fire gained great head
way before it was checked, starting
about ten o'clock, and at moor it was
thought the entire building was doomed,
and Gov. Cummins ordered the contents
of all the Offices removed. However, it
was finally confined to the wing Of the
capitol in which it originated, and by
six o'clock was practically extin-
guished.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-01-15
SniIs for Hnme

Yokohama, Jan. 8.-Ex-Goy. Taft. of
the Philippine islands, sailed Thursday
for the United States via Honolulu, after
his visit tothe Japanese capital. As the
steamer sailed there was an enthusiastic
demonstration
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-01-15

Omaha, Jan. 9.-Unifed States Sena-3
tor Charles H. Dietrich was cleared yes
terday Of the charges Of bribery and
Illegally leasing q building TO the
United States government.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-01-15
Burned to Denth.

Rockford, III, Jan. Cdr. H. w.
Chappeil, of Oregon, ILL.,. was burned To-
death in the destruction Of his home
Tuesday night.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-01-15
CAildren Perish bY Fire,

ST. Cloud. MINI. Jan. 8-TWo children
Of Symanietz, Of ST. Anna. this coun-
ty. harmed to death "Wednesday night
while their parents were temporarily
absent.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-01-15

be replaced. The Iowa capitol is one of
the most beautiful in the United States.
1t is built along the lines of the beau
tiful capitol at Albany. 1t has been the
pride of the state and of the city of Des
Moines, and was erected at a cost of
So. 000, 900. The state capitol commits
sion, appointed for this purpose, had
just completed the restoration and re-
pair of the building at a cost of $125 900,
most of which had been expended in the
chamber which is ruined.
Carries No Insurance.
The state of Iowa carries no insurance
on any of its property. 1t believes the
better policy is to carry it's own insu-
rance. The loss on the buildingi is there
fore total.
The executive council met and turned
the matter of the repair of the capitol
over to the improvement commission,
which is composed of the Hon. A. B.
Funk, Of Spirit Lake; J. H. Shoentgen,
of Council Bluffs. and Prof. c. A. Cum
ming, of Des Moines.
One Man Killed.
Superving Engineer G. l.. LinIey fell
40 feet to his death while making an
inspection of the wing ruined by fire.
A burned floor gave way with him,
precipitating him to the floor of the
chamber of representatives. His skull
was crushed and he died almost in
stantly. Linley was unmarried and
25 years old. He lived in Chicago
and was employed by the capitol com
mission during the work Of improve
ment.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-01-15
Scene of DesoIntion.

The beautiful state capitol presents a
scene of desolation. The marble stair
cases are covered with ice, the floors
are flowing with water and the offices
under the burned part Of the building
are flooded. Many beautiful f%rescoes
in the chamber of the house can never
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-01-15

The Universal Pneumatic Transmits
sion Co, Chicago, is seeking to secure
a franchise to operate a pneumatic
s;:1s::i. II ssee--:c c ece. that city to the Mast
The concern uses the vacuum system,
and says it can transport light mer-
chandise, as we'll as mail. A letter
mailed in Chicago at noon would be in
New York at Z o'clock the same eve
ming. 1t is the aim Of the company
to connect the big cities of the coun-
try. The tubes can carry $4,000
pounds of freight an hour. A package
Of from 100 to 500 pounds can be shot
from Chicago to New York in seven
hours.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-01-15
ResponsibIe for Fire.

Des Moines, Ia. Jan. 8.-H. Frazee,
an electrical worker. is found to be re-
sponsible for the s25o,00o fire at the
state capitol. Frazee is found to have
dropped a lighted candle near the
locality where the blaze was first dis
covered. He will not be prosecuted.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-01-15
Nine Injured.

Deadwood, S. D., Jan. 1.-THE Burling-
ton passenger train that left Deadwood
at four o'clock Wednesday afternoon
crashed through a bridge at Rockford,
80 miles from Deadwood, and nine per-
sons were injured, several seriously. The
locomotive and baggage car got over
safely, but the chair car plunged into the
Little Rapid creek and the Pullman
rolled down the bank.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-01-15
Over 500 Buried.

In the three days given over 10 b%urlals,
funeral services have been said over $40
of the bodies, PSI of which have been
placed in Chicago burying grounds and
229 shipped to a distance. But 70 lden-
titled dead and four unidentified remain
to be consigned to their last resting
place. All the identified dead will be in
tered TODAY.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-01-15
MANY killed IN
railway WRECK
uead-Oa Collision Between Rock
Island Express and Cattle
Train in Kansas.
rr,o Crash Occurred at Willard and
~. uue to the CnreIessness OF
Trafnmen-Thirty or Mofe
gers Were Injured-Nnnhes VI ~
Persons That Were Killed.

Topeka, Kan, Jan. 7.-Seventeen
persons were killed and "a injured IN
the wreck of the Rock Island railway
California and Mexico express at VIII
lard Kan. II miles west of here, early
Yesterday morning. The tram col
lided head-on with a stock tram TOT
which it should have waited at VII
lard.
The Dead.
The names of the dead are: Gale
Fuller, Brockton, Pa; James Griffin,
Claremont, Mo-; Mrs. Mary Harvallle
and two children and her sister, Mrs.
Susan Reed, Chillicothe, Mo-; Mrs. j.
H. Hid, Greensburn, Kan; q. +.
Meyer, Buffalo, N. Y; w. S. Martin
and wife, st. Joseph, Mo-; Raymond
Martin and Grace and Lenora Reed,
Chillicothe, Mo-; E. R. Ranklns, DE
Kalb, Mo-; w. j. Wells, Jacksonville,
H.; Mrs. Mary Kaiser; unknown boy.
The Cause.
Carelessness of trainmen caused the
wreck. Instructed to meet a special
freight train at Willard, the engineer
and conductor of the Inflated passen-
ger train noting that a freight train
! stood on the sidetrack at Willard,
Nrushed through, thinking that the cars
| they had seen were the ones which
they had been instructed to pass. Fail
ure to scrutinize the number OF the
engine was directly responsible for
the collision. Had the engineer COM
pared the number of the train at Will
lard with his orders, the accident
would have been averted.
Two Cars Demolished.
Both trains were running at a high
speed and when the engines met they
were welded together by the terrific
impact. The engineer and fireman on
the freight escaped without injury by
jumping. The fireman on the passen-
ger train was seriou ly injured, but
the engineer escaped. 1t was in the
third car of the passenger train, the
first coach having been preceded by a
greatest loss of life occurred. The
smoker, which was occupied by only
two or three men, was overturned and
pushed through the car behind it,
which latter was crowded with pas
sengers, some standing in the aisle.
When rescue was finally possible
only three living persons were taken
out by the r%escuers, who were com
PEELED to chop holes in the side and
through the floor and top of the coach
to reach them.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-01-15
VIII BE

Chicago, Jan. S.-When the %Iroquois
fire started the audience viewed it with
calmness. and in fancied security sat
and waited misunderstanding faith ~nn-
til death swooped out from the prosceni-
UNI arch and claimed nearly 600 souls.
This terrible fact was brought out with
distinctness at the first session of the
inquest. The tragedy will be probed to
the very bottom, until every detail of
the horrible calamity and its auses are
exposed to the full light of day.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-01-15
Many Charges.

E1
Chicago, Jan. 9.-Curtains which
would not come down, aisles which were
overcrowded, fire protection which did
not protect, absence of discipline among
employees and many other things which
might have contributed to cause the APP
palling loss of life in the Iroquois theater
fire were charged in the testimony of the
witnesses who appeared at the session
of the inquest yesterday.
Eight chorus girls, members of the
pale moonlight" octet that danced and
sang while the flames roared in the lofts
above, gave graphic accounts of the
start Of the fire and agreed that the
asbestos curtain was caught in midair,
where the flames destroyed it. "A dra-
matte feature of the hearing was the
tainting of n of the moonlight" girls.
who fell PROSTATE to the floor when
asked to review the horrors of the death
rush.
AT oon and at the conclusion of the
days session, the jurors varied their
duties by viewing the bodies of three
more victims, who died in hospitals dur
ing the day, bringing the number Of dead
up to $50.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-01-15
The Dead Number 5o5.

The coroner's oficiaI list OF dead
for use at the inquest-contains just
565 names. Previous police reports
indicating sol dead are declared now
to be inaccurate and due to the shift
ing of bodies from one morgue to
another.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-01-15
Theater OvercrOwded.

At the inquiry before Fire Inspector
Fulkerson late yesterday afternoon
Manager Edwin H. Price, of the Iroquois
theater, testified that about ten min
utes before the fire broke out the treas
urer told him that they had sold about
100 more tickets than the seating ca
pacity. Manager Price said the receipts
December 80 were about $1,700.
All Are Closed.
The mayor refuses to allow lower
floors of theaters to be used and the
managers say they may remain closed
for months. An order sent out by Build
ing Commissioner Williams closed 324
halls. Every place of amusement in
the city is now shut.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-01-15
investigation Begins.

CnlCaSO, Jan. OVer 900
victims Of the Iroquois fire begins this
morning in the council chamber, when
a %coroner's jury will seek to establish
the causes of the fire aud to determine
the responsibility. Over 200 witnesses
are summoned, and hearing probably
will last six days. Every bit of evil
dence connected with the calamity will
be produced.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-03-25
DESTRUCTIVE BLAZE
AT FAULKTON
Over Entire Block Of Business
Buildings Destroyed With
Small Insurance.
KNOWN LOSS is $4,000
fire Started in a Meat Market-Heroit
Efforts Of Firemen Saved Much
Property-Meade County
Democrats.

Faulkton, S.. D., March 23.-The mos
destructive fire in the history of this
city occurred this morning at 2 O'clock
when nearly all of one block in the
business portion with its contents was
burned to the ground, besides two resi-.
dences. The fire started at the rear enc
OF the ]. H. Hays meat market, and bu,
for the heroic work Of f1remen the
whole Of the business portion Of the city
would have been destroyed. The fol
lowing are the losses:
Dean & Whitlock, general merchen-
disc stock. loss $4,000; insurance, $l0,-
600.
o. NJ. Moe, two story building, loss
IS, 900; insurance, ST. 400.
j. II. Hays. butcher shop, telephone
exchange and buildings, loss $500; in
surance, s2,400.
p. H. O'Neil, bank building, loss, 49,
900; insurance, $1,000.
John Hansel, bArber shop, loss $500;
insurance, $500.
chandise, loss $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
Armstrong C O'Neil, store building,
loss $1,000; Insurance, $500.
Oulton & Reed, drug stock, loss So, 900;
Insurance, $3.50.
Eugene Brown pool room fixtures,
loss $500; no insurance.
Chas. Elliot, restaurant fixtures, SITS;
no insurance.
Amos Pond. restaurant fixtures, loss
$500: no insurance. 8
Merchants bank fixtures, loss $3.50, in
%surance, $3.50; Morse Bros, two story
building, loss $4,000; Insurance, $1,000.
j. NJ. Sockey, drug stock, loss 81, $780,;
insurance, S1,5O0.
G. G. Moulton, building. loss $1,000;
insurance, $500.
Belle f. Mccoy residence, loss $1,000;
insurance not known.
Hotel residence. loss $500; insurance
not known.
miscellaneous losses estimated at 81
600.
Total loss, $54, 525.
Total insurance, $4,000.
1t is believed the fire was Of incendi-
airy origin, as no fire or light was in or
near the building.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-03-25
TEXAS i TRIAL.
Suit Against Railroad Company Won
by Cattlemen.

E
Des Moines, Ia, March 21.-After a
:wo weeks trial and a three-day argu-
nent. the famous Texas tick" case
went to the jury yesterday afternoon.
and after a short elaboration a verdict
IF $4,000 for the plaintiff was returned.
The suit was brought by the Dorr
Cattle company against the Chicago
Great Western railway on a claim for
$4,000 damages alleged to have been
sustained by the plaintiff by reason Of
The placing of some three or four car
loads Of it's cattle in pens infected with
The Texas tick" The claim Of the
plaintiff Is that the value of the cattle
was SO diminished by the infection that
1t lost a considerable amount, and that
1t was all due to the negligence of the
company. which, the plaintiff claims,
had no business to place it's cattle in
infected pens.
The defense vas in the nature Of an
alibi for the ticks, in that the company
had striven hard to prove that the cat
lie of the plaintiff were never at n
time in the pens where the ticks were
Known to hare been, and that the com
pany gave the plaintiffs property all
reasonable care.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-03-25
WHOLESALE MURDER.
Prisoners in a Seoul Prison Are Being
Disposed of in a 'Barbarous
Fashion.

New York, March 23.-The numer-
aus executions at the local prison are
reported to be due to a movement by
the supreme court in the direction OF
clearing out the place. says a Seoul
dispatch to the Herald. A total of six
prisoners have been decapitated In
three nights past. and thirty-eight
hanged. Many of these victims had
been in Jail for years without trial.
Some We're former students in Japan,
and others thieves, htghway1nen, m
bezzlers Of public funds, political of
tenders and traitors. AS the bodies
were carried out strings of ten or
twenty men bound together retilled the
cells just vacated.
1t is probable representatives of for
eign powers will investigate, n IT
justified will take action. The prison
is heavily guarded, as 1t is feared the
peddlers' guild may attempt to force
an entrance and liberate the prisoners.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-03-25
INSTRUCT FOR HEARST.
Meado County Democrats Held Meet.

ing at Sturgis.
Sturgis, S. D., March 23.-The demo-
cratic county convention of Meade
county was held at the court house in
this city Saturday. The convention in
structed for William Randolph Hearst
for president; Tor ex-senator r. F. Pet
tfgrew to head the South Dakota DEL
egation to the. national convention at
st. Louis, and for E. S. johnson of
Armour, for national committeeman.
Following are the names Of delegates
to the state convention at Sioux Falls,
March so:
Jesse Brown, Wesley A. Stuart, John
Scoilafd, NJ. NJ. Cooper, I. III. Sin
cisir. ". Y. Doyle, VIM. Calvin, S. H.
Martin, B. n. Oliver, Geo. B. McPher-
son. Among the a~lternates who will
also attend the convention will be DR..
j. Fl. McSloy and c. T. Runkel.
Among the resolutions upon Mr..
Hearst We're the following:
We greatly applaud his recognition
of the great mass Of voters, as the pri-
mary repository of political sovereignty
in consulting them first and direct as
to his candidacy for the presidency
Of these United States, and direct all
voters attention to the diametrical
methods always employed by the mod
sern Hamiltonian party under the lead
'ership of Theodore Roosevelt, who
SEEKS the nomination for the first post
of political honor through the corrupt
t,lst-owned political machine.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-03-25
ANOTHER CLASH
IN FAR EAST
Japanese Reported Successful
in Several Recent Enccun-
tiers With Russia.
WAS FIRING OFF YIN KoW
Fourteen Shots Heard Within Half an
Hour, But Owing 30 Hazy Atmos-
phere No Ships Were
Visible.

Yin kow, March 23.-Eiring was
heard Off the coast apparently about
| six miles to the southwark, fourteen
shots having been heard between Z n
1850 o'clock his morning. The morn
ing was hazy, and it was impossible to
distinguish objects at sea-. A creditable
report has reached here that two cruis-
ers n five gunboats were off Kin
Chow yesterday.
London, March GA number Of ru
mors are printed in the newspapers
here this morning, but they must be ac-
cepted with great reserve.
The Daily Telegraph's Toxic corre-
Spondent cables an account of the Jap
anese occupation of Port Arthur after a
combined land and sea attack Saturday
and Sunday. 1t is asserted that a d.
vision of Japanese landed on the Lao
Tung peninsula Saturday and engaged
the Russians neal Port Arthur, while
the fleet b~ombarded from Saturday
evening until Sunday morning.
The sam correspondent reports a
sharp encounter at Chyong Syong, on
the Yalu river (about thirty miles
northeast of Wiju), in which the Rus
SLAMS lost 600 in killed Or wounded.
Il LIN Jaiiy SIIloll1ClcS Shanghai ~
respondent hears from Newchwang
that the japanese crossed the Tatung
pass, forty miles from Hal Cheng, and
that collisions occurred with the Rus
SLAMS.
Reports from Seoul and Toxic are to
the effect hat Marquis Ito has arrang-
ed to lend 5000, 900 yen (s2, 500, O0) to
Korea on easy terms.
According to the Standards Tientsin
r0J1.AC Z, = y, fNI;,1 t. w. Is
the powers for an extension of. a year
IN the period of the payment of the
indemnity growing out of the Boxer
troubles.
The correspondent at Tientsin Of the
Daily Mail reports that Kataoka, q
Japanese merchant and Russian spy,
mas been assassinated by being buried
alive. but that the Japanese authori-
ties disavow any knowledge OF the as
sassins.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-03-25
AN EFFECTIVE CORk.
Fifteen japanese Ships Chained To.
eather to Be Used to Bottle
Port Arthur

London, March 23.-Japan is about to
make 4 sensational attempt 10 bottle
up Port Arthur at once and fifteen big
steamships are being prepared at
sasebo for this new effort. They are
being loaded with stone and will be
linked together with chains and wire
cables. They are to steam toward Port
Arthur in line, and it is immaterial
whether they are sunk by Russian guns
or are blown up by their crews In
either event they will thoroughly block
the entrance to the harbcr according
TO the belief Of the naval officers who
are engineering the plan.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-03-25
RECORD.
Great Record Made by Gunners of the
BattIeship k~earsarue.

Great Record Made by Gunners of the
Battleship kearsarge.
Washington, March 23.--In a priyate
letter received at the navy department
today from an officer on board the
kearsarge, the following remarkable
record made by hat battleship in her
target practice just completed at Pen
sacola is given:
One 13-irch gun made six hits out of
seven shots in five minutes and twenty
seconds: an 8-inch gun made ten hits
out of ten shots in five minutes and
twenty seconds, and a J-inch gun made
eighteen hits out of eighteen shots in
Two At the navy department
this record was declared to he the hest
ever made by an American warshjn
and as far as the officials know 1t has
not been equaled in any foreign coun.
try