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The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-04-08
IT COMPARES UNFAvORABLY
VOLUME OF TRADE IS NOT so
LARGE AS LAST YEAR.
Dun and Bradstreet Review the Bust
ness Situation as It APP
pears to Them.

New York, April Ar. G. Dun q
Co.'S weekly review of trade avs
Much deferred eastern business was
transacted during the last few days.
and some sections report satisfactory
results, but at many points the Weatner
is not yet normal, and, on the Whole,
the seasons trade thus far compares
unfavorably with last years volume.
i Manufacturing returns continue con-
ficting, iron and steel plants gaining
ground, footwear exhibiting the natural
reaction from an unprecedented pro-
duction in 1903, while textile mills
have much idle machinery and little
forward business to encourage opera
ton. Lumber and building materials
are in better demand, although floods
at the west and labor troubles at the
east retarded structural work to some
extent. At Baltimore the general sit
uation is satisfactory, despite the fact
that rebuilding of the devastated dis
trict is hampered by efforts to secure
legislative enactments regarding the
arrangements of streets. Transporter
ton is still interrupted by scarcity OF
cars, although in the coke region there
is less congestion, and railway earn
ings thus far reported for March are
but 10 per cent. smaller than last year
Agricultural prospects are unchanged
better weather conditions at SOM
points being offset by less favorable
news from other regions and the price
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-04-08
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Gen. W.. H. Payne, who was com.
mander of the famous confederate
Black Horse cavalry at the first bat
tie Of Bull Run died in Washington,
aged Is years.
John Brink, SO years old, the first
white man to see Lake Geneva, Wis, and
who gave it it's name, died at Crystal
Lake, Wis.
New York state democratic primaries
assure Judge Parker control of the state
convention and presentation at st. Louis
as choice for president.
Burton N. Harrison, private secretary
to President Jefferson Davis, of the
southern ~confederacy, died in Washing
ton, aged 65 years.
Mrs. Chauncey Morlan, the 429-pound
"fat GIRL" died in a New York museum.
D. Harry Hammer, aged 62, we'll known
in Chicago legal circles, died as the result
of an apopleptic stroke.
The democrats of the Seventh Mis-
souri, district have renominated G. w.
Hamlin for congress.
Indiana democrats will hold their
state convention at Indianapolis May
IL to select delegates to ST. Louis.
w. T. Scott (colored) has announced
at East st. Louis, H., that "the national
civil liberty party" will hold a conven-
tion at st. Louis July 6 to nominate a
negro as a presidential candidate.
James E. Reeves, president of the
First national bank at Richmond, Ind,
for 40 years, died at the age of 80 years.
Colorado democrats will meet in
Denver June Z to elect delegates to the
national conventions.
Henry T. Bannon, of Portsmouth,
o., has been nominated for congress-
man by the republicans OF the Tenth
district.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-04-08
THIBETAH LEADER
DIES IN ATTACK
FIVE HIGH LHASSA OFFICIALS
ALSO SLAIN IN RECENT
BATTLE.
NARROW ESCAPE OF A
PRESS CORRESPONDENT
Is Attacked by Four Natives, But Two
Officers Come to His Aid-Line of
March Marked by the Dead and
Dying.

Tuna, Thibet, April 4.-The Thibetan
general, the whole of his personal es-
cort and five high Lhassa officials were
among the hundreds killed in the fight
ing of March 81 at Guiru, Thibet.
The small British losses are accounted
for by the fact that the Thibetans were
so huddled together that the majority
were unable either to use their swords or
to fire. The swordsmen in the front
rank could not reach the Sikhs, who had
fixed bayonets, while the men in the
middle of the mob could not reach the
enemy, but many Of them probably
killed each other in the mad excitement.
The scene recalled old-time fights in the
cockpits, the grim, determined faces of
the Thibetans, lighted with devilish say
agery, expressing contempt for the
Sikhs, whom they outnumbered six or
seven to one.
When the Lhassa general fired the
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-04-08

situation is extremely irregular. Fur
Their progress in the right direction is
reported in the iron and steel industry.
Commercial failures this week in
the United States are 20S, against 226
last week, 229 the preceding week, and
l73 the corresponding week last year.
Failures in Canada number 16, against
Is last week, 81 the preceding week and
18 last year."
Bradstreet's says: Low tempera-
lures and heavy rains, bad roads and
floods, the latter in the Ohio and trib-
utary valleys, have checked spring
trade, delayed collections, discouraged
Easter demand, and closed three
months period of rather backward
business in the north, east and west.
There are some redeeming features,
however. Agricultural implement men
have done probably the best seasons
trade on record, the railways are grad
ually winning out of their ~transporta-
ton difficulties, the western clothing
and shoe trades have done very we'll,
southern wholesale trade was never
idiSei lHdil 80 1dI lHlS year. ana the
feeling in the iron and steel trades is
a more cheerful n than seemed posi-
BILE a short time ago. While nearly all
signs point to assmaller turnover in the
country's trade than in 1903, feeling
is still general that the crop outlook,
stimulated by high prices, favors large
yields, and warm, dry weather is eager
~ awaited as furnishing a true test of
the real trade situation"
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-04-08
FOREIGN.

The mikado's land forces defeated
the Cossacks in an engagement be-
tween ANU and Chong-Ju, after losing
SO killed. Russian soldiers at New
Chwang hauled down American and
British flags and nullified all treaty
rights
The French chamber of deputies
passed the governments bill suppress
Ing all forms OF religious teaching.
Admiral Togo mace an official re.
port OF the attempt to bottle up Port
Arthur harbor, In which he stated
that his fleet was uninjured and that
the merchant vessels blew themselves
up instead Of being sunk by Russian
shells. Japanese cavalry and Cos.
sacks met in a fierce land engagement
near chong-Ju Korea, and the latter
were repulsed.
The transfer of the Panama canal to
the United States IS expected within 80
days, q decision Of the French courts
paving tbs way for early control and
! occupation. ]
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-04-08
4 WEEKS RECORD
ALI the News Of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News Of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
AT WORK.
Daily Proceedings of the Senate ano
House Briefly Told.

House Briefly Told.
The senate on the 28th discussed the
recent order of the pension bureau
making old age an evidence of disabil-
ity, and then passed the District of
Columbia appropriation bill. In the
house the sundry civil bill was dis
cussed.
The bill authorizing the erection Of
an additional executive department
building in Washington was again the
subject Of spirited debate in the sem
ate on the 18th. The post office appro-
priation bill was reported. In the
house general debate on the sundry
civil appropriation bill occupied the
time.
The senate while considering the post
Office appropriation bill on the Goth in
dulged in a discussion over alleged
frauds and the demand for an ~investi-
cation Of the department. In the house
substantial progress was made in the
consideration Of the sundry civil bill.
81 pages being disposed of, leaving only
81 to be read. The negro question was
debated.
In the senate on the 31st ult. the bill
for the repeal of the desert land, the
timber and stone and the homestead
Communication laws was discussed and
the post Office bill was also debated.
In the house consideration OF the sun
dry civil appropriation bill was con-
cluded and the bill was about to be
passed when it was found that nc
quorum was present.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-04-08

Rev. John Gordon, formerly president
of Tabor college, Iowa, has been in
augurated president Of Howard uni
versity in Washington.
The breaking of a levee near West
port, Ill, flooded houses to the second
story and the town was abandoned.
Two-thirds of Lawrence county was I'M
der water, in many places 20 feet deep.
Five lives have been lost and upwards
of S., 900 900 worth of damage to property
has been done by the flood which has de-
vastated many parts of Michigan during
the past five days.
Three members of an alleged malprac-
tice syndicate were held In Philadelphia
in connection with the deaths of two
women. Doctors testified that the syn
dictate had disposed of hundreds OF ba-
hies by burning them.
Iowa members Of the United Mine
Workers, 15, 900 strong, refused to accept
the new wage scale and voted to strike.
Frank A. Cady, a prominent attorney
at Marshield, Wis, jumped from a hotel
window at Hot Springs, Ark, while de-
lirious and was killed.
The village of Mill Spring, Mo, was
flooded. Many Of the Inhabitants were
living on their housetops and others
succeeded in escaping to the hills.
Frank B. Wright, formerly cashier Of
the First national bank of Dundee, ILL.,,
was sentenced to five years imprison-
ment for embezzling $54, 200.
The New Haven Comm court ruled
out the sealed letter in the Bryan-Ben-
nett will case, defeating William ].
Bryan in his suit for $50, 900.
Illinois coal miners will stay at work,
having come to terms on the wage
scale. In Iowa $4,000 miners quit.
The Union Trust company closed Its
doors in Boston, with liabilities OF
81, 600, 900, and nominal assets of about
the same amount.
The largest insurance policy ever
taken out by an individual, 81, 800, 900
has been issued by the Mutual Life tc
James c.. Colgate, a New York banker
Thirty-eight persons were killed in
car accidents during March in Cook
county, III.
Heavy rains have increased the food
danger in the southwestern part of In
diana, Vincennes, Mount Carmel, New
Harmony, GRANVILLE, Princeton and Ev-
ansville being inundated.
Seven girls were killed and four ia.
tally injured in an explosion in a fac
tory at Priceburg, Pa.
The flood conditions all over Micht.
gan were steadily improving.
Miss Marie Willis, Samuel Graham
and an unidentified man plunged tc
death in a boat over the Shoshont
falls at Boise, Idaho.
Records for fraternal order initia.
lions were broken in Chicago when the
Royal Arcanum received 3,100 candi
dates into it's ranks.
The great Hazleton Gnd.) fill of tn
Evansville & Terre Haute railroad
which cost $500, 900, was washed ava,
by a flood.
Owing to the alleged shortage o
SIS. 900 of George F. Clewell, treasurer
the Federal Trust company at Cleve
land, O., made an assignment, with liza
bilities of 5 $1,000, 900 and assets abou
the same.
Glenn Dawson, cashier of the Farm
ers' savings bank of Fenton, Ia, com
mitted suicide in the bank. His &C
counts are said to be straight.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-04-08
AM Previous records Broken.

New York, April ALI previous high
records for loans and deposits were
swept aside by the weeks statement OF
the associated banks Of this city. Loans
now aggregate s 1,o22, 7o7. 100, and depos-
It's 81. s 1868. 400. The deposit in
crease for the week OF almost $21, OOo.-
900 rs doubtless due to preparations for
the payment Of the $4,000, 900 Of Pan.
anna canal moneys.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-04-08
A Fatal Fire.

Wheeling, w. Va, April 4.--Fire which
broke out in the grocery of Holderman
Bros, in Benwood, early Saturday,
DESTROYED a ive-story fiat building,
owned by the same firm. a two-story
dwelling of August Holderman and a
saloon of Daniel Cleary. About 800
foreigners lived in the fiat, and many
narrow escapes were made from death.
George Hef1ee, a baker, is missing, and
is believed to have lost his life. Two ex-
plosions preceded the discovery of the
flames, and the fire is thought to have
beer Of incendiary origin. The loss was
$50, 900.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-04-08
Fatal Explosion.

Meadville, Pa, April Am air tank
six by ten feet, exploded in the machine
shops of the Erie railroad shops here
Saturday, partially wrecking the inn
mense building and killing John G.
Frederick, gang foreman, aged 81, in.
stantly and injuring several. The air
tank vas carrying about 100 pounds
pressure. The explosion Jared the en-
tire city. It stopped all work in the
machine shop until repairs are made.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-04-08
DOMESTIC.

WdIIeu d. WlESOuy d SulCdSO law
yer, acting in his own behalf. has
brought suit in the Washington courts
to prevent payment being made for
the Panama canal alleging that it
would be unconstitutional,
United States Senator Joseph r.
Burton, Of Kansas, was convicted in
the United States court at st. Louis
of accepting comper eation for protect
ing the interests of the Railto Grain
ment.
Nearly 1000 immigrants landed at
Ellis Island, N. Y, In two days.
A tornado swept the country nea
Charlottesville, Mo, causing the loss
of six lives and destroying much prop
erty.
The investigation Of the protests
against Senator Reed Smoot will be
resumed in Washington April IL.
Half the asparagus crop Of Califor-
mia was destroyed by the recent floods
in the Sacramento valley.
The FIFTH death in nine weeks in the
DAILY family of actors occurred in Bos-
ton.
At Grand Rapids, Mich, $4,000 peo-
pie were in distress because of floods,
and at Saginaw a large portion of the
business section of the city was under
water. At Lansing. Battle Creek,
Flint, Kalamazoo and other towns the
situation was improving.
Four men were drowned in Lake Calu-
met, near Chicago, while hunting
ducks.
Five lives lost and property damage of
nearly S5,000,0 900 is the record of the
floods in Michigan. The waters were
subsiding.
All rivers tributary to the Wabash and
Ohio were overlooking and great dam
g was being done to farms and build
ings throughout southern Indiana.
Judge Kavanagh restrained seven
unions from interfering with the BUSH
ness OF 10 Chicago concerns.
H. @. Jepson, a hermit, vas found
dead in the woods nea Escanaba. Mich,
with a record of his Illness to the day Of
his death clutched In his hands.
New York agents declare advance
bookings for transatlantic travel lighter
than for several years.
Nine leaders OF the International
Transfers union have been indicted
by Q st. Louis grand jury for violence
attendant upon q strike in that city.
Chicago merchants succeeded in
blocking a plan for removing the In.
dian warehouse to st. Louis.
Capt. Cowles, the presidents broth
erin-law, was held responsible for the
collision between the battleships Illi-
nois and Missouri by the court Of
inquiry.
The senate committee restored to
the post office appropriation bill the
clause allowing rural mail carriers to
engage In private business on their
routes.
The secretary of the interior has IN
formed congress that the new pension
order will result in increasing expendi-
lures $5,400.000 each year.
pr. Maraglianos,sItaly' most famous
physician, informed "a PHILADELPHIA
doctors convention that he had discov-
cred vaccination cures consumption.
WilkiesL. Edwards was arrested ct
Colorado Springs, Col, tor attempting
to murder his bride OF two months.
who is heiress Il $4,000, 900.
3 A. Heinze. Montana copper mag
nataTwas tined 5000 lii the federal
court III Butts TOR copfemnf-
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-04-08
Pioneer Lumberman Dead

Winnipeg, Man, April Wv. r. Dick.
a pioneer lumberman of the Canadian
northwest, is dead. He was born in
Kingston, Ont, in 1921, and came to Fort
Garry In 1871. Shortly afterwards he
built q large sawmill, and for years
was the head of the Rat Portage Lam
berscompany, practically controlling the
lumber interests Of the west. IN 1874
he was elected to the second legislature
of Manitoba.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-04-08
Miners Ratify Agreement.

Altoona, Pa, April 1.-The scale
agreed upon by the joint scale commits
tee Friday night, giving go cents a ton
for pick mining, was ratified by the
miners convention Saturday, after con-
siderable discussion. The scale fixes
for n year the wages of 10000 mine
employees. All the mining corporations
and firms pay the Altoona scale, wheth-
er they are party to the conference or
g&sEAzsN aGHss N4s gSY%f
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-04-08
Murderous Attack OF Son.

Eau Claire, Wis. April 4.-Mrs
Burns, q widow 20 years old, was at
tackled by her son with a Ratchet Sat
urday morning as she lay In bed, sus-
tanning q fractured skull. and will die.
Jan Burns, her son, a middIe-aged
bachelor, is in Jail. He III thought to
be Insane.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-04-08
Dam Almost Completed.

Appleton, Wis. April 1.-THE largest
dam In the state will be completed at
Grand Rapids in a few days, giving the
water power and mill industry of the
Wisconsin river immense advancement
The dam is 1000 feet long and Will fur
nish 9,000-horse power.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-04-08
TWIN CITY MARKETS.
Minneanolis. Anri1 |.

Minneapolis, April 2.
Wheat-No. ! northern. 99c; No. z
northern. 97c; May. 97zc oats-No.
8 white, SIC. Corn-No. 8, 46e Rye
2, Csc Barley-No. 2. 41c.
|Flax-$I.15. Butter-Creamery, ex-
tras, e8@24c; creamery, firsts, 2l@22c;
fancy, 1s@I9c. Poultry-Tur-
keys, s@ioc; chickens, 7@sc- Hay
IUplands, fancy, IS. 80.
st. Paul, April 2.
Cattle-Steers, So. 4o@3. rs; cows,ss 81. rs
|@s.0o. Hogs - 81. 8O@5.2S Sheep
'muttons. 81. 90: lambs. s5.0a
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-04-08
overstreet Renominated.

Indianapolis, Ind. April 4.-Con-
gresham Jesse overstreet was renom-
mated Saturday afternoon by the re-
pubhcans Of the Seventh district, by
reclamation. ~
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-04-08
Truce Declared.

Des Moines, Ia, April A. A truce
for Is days has been declared in the
Iowa mine strike, during which the
miners will furnish men to run pumps
and keep the workings dry, pending
the arrival Of John Mitchell.
The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1904-04-08
Russians at Wiju.

Seoul, April At is reported here
that 1000 Russian troops, including Cos
sacks and in~fantrymen, are e~ntrenched
about the gate on the south side OF
Win.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-10

John A. Johnson plurality over R.
G. Dunn for governor of Minnesota
will be not far from 10000.
Belated returns have somewhat re-
duced his lead, but the figures as Civ
en- in T. Journal table today will
not be materially reduced.
Hennepin county complete except
eight city precincts, gives Dunn 13,407,
and johnson 22,292, a plurality Of 1886
for Johnson. This lead III Hennepin is
much larger than looked for, and larger
than the first returns indicated. The
early figures from the outside counties
have been scaled down somewhat in
favor of Dunn, as returns have come in
from the back districts. AS a rule
these precincts show more Of a tendency
to vote the ticket straight. These
changes in the outside counties are re-
trieved by the improved showing fol
j Johnson in Hennepin.
r. G. Dunn and James A. Martin, his
manager, have conceded johnson IS cleo
ton. The, Pioneer Press grudgingly
comedies the state to johnson by 1900
The remainder Of the republican state
ticket is elected by varying majorities
including Ray w: Jones and the SUI
preIne court. justices.
The following table shows the. lates1
returns on governor. There only Qns
figure Isl given, IL is the plurality
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-10
ROOSEVELT HAS 100000
AS POPULAR PLLLRALITl
SUSPECT TAKEN IN
new ULM CASE
Cocaine Fiend" Arrested at
Rochester and Taken to
Scene of Crime.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
Rochester, Mimi, Nov. 10.--An arrest
Of a suspect in the Gebhard murder
case at New, Ulm was made here last
cocaine fiend,' and corresponding to
the description Of the stranger seen by
several persons at New Ulm, Fairfax
and Owatonna, was arrested for yagran-
cy, and held pending the arrival of Of
ficials from Brown county.
bennett, who says he is from Chicago,
colored shirt and derby hat, and is 81
years old. He is about five feet, seven
inches in height and SAYS he is crippled
in one leg. His face is smooth, except
for, as struggling, light colored mus
tache.
The suspect says he came here 9 day
/ OF so ago looking for work. Owing to
his deformity he says he is not fitted
for hard manual work, aand SO conceived
!, the idea of leaving Chicago and travel
ing about the west in search of light
employment, such as washing windows
and an scrubbingg out. offices. He made
fees. here yesterday, but could not find
much to do. This, he says, has been
his, experience. wherever he has been,
and explains why he has wandered from
point to point. ~. ~
The suspect procured a prescription
| yesterday for quantity. of cocaine
from a physician here, and went to the
drug store of Fuller & Britzius last
] night to have it filed. It was while
in the store that his arrest was made
ostensibly on the charge Of vagrancy
but really as a suspect in the Gebhard
tragedy.
The prisoner pleaded guilty to the
to four days In s ib the sentenee beae
suspended in order that Sheriff Julius
Of Brown county and Chief Of Police
,Klause of New Ulm might take him tt
the scene of the murder for examina
tion. The officers and their prisoner
left here this forenoon and were due tx
reach New Ulm at 1:15 this afternoon
! bennett did not understand the rea
significance, of his arrest, or pretended
not to, for some time after he was il
custody, and did not make an extended
statement here. He asserted with mucl
show Of positiveness that he had neve,
been in New Ulm and could not there
4 fore be the murderer.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-11-10
ARMISTICE POSSIBLE
Port Arthur's Commander Said to Have
Asked for One.

Toxic, Nov. lot is reported that
General Stoessel, commanding at Port
Arthur, has asked the Japanese for an
armistice, the purpose of which is not
stated. A confirmation Of the report is
unobtainable.
1t is hoped here that General Stoes-
sci will capitulate before the city
proper is taken. The Japanese soldiers
are angry and inflamed on account of
the alleged abuse of their wounded by
the Russians. They believe they will
be murdered if captured. Under these
conditions it will possibly be difficult
to avoid a massacre when the troops
meet in the final combat.
A report from General Nogi's head
quarters before Port Arthur, dated Nov
8, says: .--e .. ~
The enemy's military warehouse
situated in the northern part Of Port
Arthur, was bombarded Nov 6 with
heavy siege and naval guns. The bonn
bardment caused a conflagration.
"The afternoon of Nov. 6 the maya
zine Of an old battery on Sung-choW
mountain was exploded by our shells
Manchurian headquarters, reporting
Nov. 8, says:
con the night Of Nov. two com
panies of the enemy attacked our out
posts, but were completely repulsed.
"A1 is quiet in other directions