The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-09-09
Accidental Happenings.

was Edward R~osenberger, whose skull
was fractured.
Peter Farari, aged %, a miner, was
shot by walking into a gun set for
bear. Five buckshot entered his legs,
one passing into his thigh, just escap-
ing the abdomen.
The year-old daughter of John Pill
ger of the Atlantic mine at Houghton,
Mich, had her dress fired from a bon
fire which children had built near her
home, and received burns causing her
death.
Forest fires at the head Of the Bitter
Root valley in Montana are spreading.
Prospectors and campers have been
forced to leave and in several in
stances camps and cabins have been
destroyed.
Edward w. Hager, a wealthy manu-
facturer, was killed in an automobile
accident. The Hager mill is in Cedar
vile, eight miles from Xenia, Ohio,
and Mr.. Hager made the distance daily
in twenty minutes.
One hundred kegs vf powder explod-
ed in the pressroom of the Latin &
Rand Powder works at Punxsautwa-
ney, Pa, killing Leonard Blair, seri-
ously injuring three men and causing
costly destruction of property.
The big plant of the Armstrong
Packing company at Dallas, Tex, was
destroyed by fire. When the flames
V,orn IicoOuorn1 fhau hoI uof ton uoOd
a start and firemen were powerlesS to
check them. The loss may reach
$500, 600.
Albert Walker, who only recently re-
ceived word that he was the legal heir
to Earl Fitzwillem of England and to
believed to have been drowned while
in swimming in the Assiniboine river
at Brandon, Man.
Heavy rains e%xtinguished all forest
fires which have been raging in the
vicinity of Wallace, Idaho, with unpre-
cedented fury in several places for
nearly a month. About 10000 worth
of timber was destroyed in the vicin-
ity of Occur d'Alene lake.
While workmen employed at the
Lorraine steel plant at Lorraine, Ohio,
were tamping a charge of dynamite it
exploded, killing William Ferguson
and crushing Edward Miller about the
chest and head so that he can hardly
recover John Greenwood's eyes were
burned and Mike Probes left arm was
broken.
Forest fires have destroyed the ham,
lies are homeless. Two men have been
drowned. The steamer Prospero has
embarked the women and children.
The men are fighting the flames in an
effort to prevent the destructive fires
from covering a wider area. The gov
eminent is providing food, shelter and
other assistance to the destitute.
Domestic.
Over 1000 of the new coinage of
Philippine gold is on board the United
States army transport Thomas, which
sailed recently from San Francisco for
| Manila
Adolph C. linn, aged ffty-ive years,
died in Milwaukee of appendicitis,
after a weeks illness. Mr.. linn was
we'll known in banking circles and was
prominent in the mailing industry.
The report of the committee for the
| relief of the survivors of the Gen. Slo-
cum disaster in New York shows that
958 bodies have been recovered and
that sos, 543 was collected and ex-
pended.
Secretary Urey Woodson Of the
! Democratic national committee has re-
ceived a letter from William j. Bryan
saying he will be at the disposal Of
the committee for campaign purposes
during October.
One of the largest steamships on the
Pacific coast, the Victoria, will sail
from Seattle, Nov. Is, for oriental ports
carrying q diminutive exposition. Over
500, 900 is being expended in fitting up
the vessel for exhibition purposes.
For president OF the United States,
Charles H. H. Howard of Illinois; for
vice president of the United States,
| George H. SHIRLEY of Washington, D.
| c., is the ticket nominated by the con-
vention OF the Continental National
party in Chicago.
Alvin J.. Cook, now of Iona, Mich,
who was believed by his relatives to
have been killed in the Civil war, or
to have persisted in a Confederate
prison. recently surprised his sister,
Mrs. William d. Sherman of Rutland,
VT, by walking into her house. /.
An endurance swimming match from
the Brooklyn bridge to Coney island
has resulted In a victory for a man
with one leg-Charles Seigfried of
Bay Ridge-who negotiated the dis
lance in five hours and forty-ive min
utes. Two young were close
behind him at the finish. One of
them tainted after they had led nearly
the entire distance. Several contest
ants were delirious when taken from
the water and one or two had to be
removed to the hospital.