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The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-07
SPREAD II ST X
rhe Butchers in independents Plants
Ordered Out.

Frank F.. Hawley, grand master of the
S~witchmen's Union of North America,
has been summoned to Chicago with the
the view Of getting the switchmen
throughout the United States to refuse to
handle cars containing anything for pack
ers.
President Donnelly ordered 1900
butcher %workmen, employed in the Chi
cago independent packing plants, to cease
work after Wednesday.
The manager of the Union Stock Yards
Company said that in anticipation of the
strike the stock handlers men had been
in training to take the places of the de-
sorting weighers, and no trouble was ex-
pected in handling stock.
A famine in meat is declared by the
strikers to be the probable result of their
new move against the packers.
Orders have been issued for a general
strike of all butcher workmen throughout
the country.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-07
COLLISION IN QUEBEC.
Nine Are Killed and Twenty-Thrce
Injured.

Nine persons were killed and twenty
three injured in a head-on collision on
the Grand Trunk Railway near Rich
mond, Quebec, Wednesday.
The trains involved were a special ex-
cursion from Montreal, bound for Sher-
brook, and passenger train No. 5, running
between Island Pond, VT, and Montreal.
The collision, it is said, was due to
neglect OF orders on the part Of the train
crew Of the excursion train, which left
Richmond without awaiting the arrival
Of the passenger train. Following is the
official list OF killed:
J.. b. Blanchett, NJ. p, st. Hyacinthe;
Fred Bowring, South Durham; Il. III.
Hackett, Montreal; unknown man, from
Beloeil, Que; w. T. Mountain, of Mon
treal; boy named Dubford, from Atha-
baska; Ephriam Grudette, st. H%yacinthe:
Charles Samard, st. Hyacinthe; Theo-
dore ID. Acton, st. Hyacinthe; A. Theo-
dore Richard, Lasker, Que.
The excursion train was running as
the first section OF the regular Grand
Trunk and Portland express, which usu-
ally crosses the Island Pond train at
Richmond, and was running on its time.
This makes it all the more inexplicable
why Conductor Atkinson, in charge OF
the excursion train, did not wait to make
the usual crossing. Atkinson disappear
ed shortly after the wreck occurred.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-07
is A WHOLESALE MURDERER
Police Evidence Against G. B. MARI
i'm Connecticut


in Connecticut.
That Greshon b. Marx, now held in
the Norwich County Jail at Colchester.
Conn, is the perpetrator OF a series OK
cold-blooded murders probably without
precedent in the history of Connecticut.
is the belief of the officials who Tuesday
began a systematic search for bodies ~
the Marx farm. -Four murders and the
attempt to poison another man can. it If
said by the officials, be traced TO Marx.
The two bodies of Marks allegeu vic
tins, Joe Pavol and Joe Palm, have been
with the murder of Pavol, his wife being
held as a witness for the state. The two
bodies for which the search was begun
Tuesday are those of an 1S-yepr-old boy
and a Hebrew peddler.
A boy who was known as Henry ar,
rived in New York from Russia about
three years ago, and came soon af-
ter to work for Marx. He worked ON
the farm about six months, and then
suddenly disappeared. Marx said he had
gone to Hartford to find employment.
The Hebrew peddler went to the Marx
home one evening two years ago and he
has not been seen alive since, so far as
known.
A Polander known as Joe made a
statement to Sheriff jackson in which he
accused Marx of attempting to end his
life with poisoned whisky. Joe took the
whisky, but was afraid to drink it, and
put il away. When the body of PavoI
was found Joe mentioned the matter to
a constable and gave him the whisky.
and the constable turned it over to the
jailer of the county Jail, who promised
to have it analysed.
Marx made still another attempt on
Joe's life when the latter discovered the
body of Pavol, it is said.
The two men whose bodies have been
found were six months behind in their
whom no trace has been found. Marx al
ways slept with his hired man, his wife
and four children sleeping in an adjoin-
ing room. The theory is that he drugged
his victims when they pressed him too
hard for their wages, and then crushed
their heads with an ak or some blunt in
strument, after which the bodies were
dismembered and buried. Each of the
bodies already found bears a CHASTITY hole
in the forehead.
The prisoner is a man so years old,
and was not too vigorous when arrested.
His health has been broken by c~onfne-
ment in the Jail last spring, and the nat
ural nervous worry of a man to be tried
for murder.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-07
EVACUATE LAO YANG
RUSSIANS FALL BACK TO RIGHT
BANK OF RIVER.
No Trains Between Mukden and
Lfao Yang-Serious Blow ro Ku-
ropatkin-If Report Is True, IL viii
Stop Retreat to His Northern Base

Thursdays news from the seat of wal
closed with the receipt Of two dispatches
giving information Of a most significant
character as bearing on the domination
of Manchuria at the close OF the present
campaign. The first came in from the
Associated Press correspondent at st. Pc
tersburg, filed there at 1915 p. m, and
said that Gen. Kuropatkin had with
drawn his whole army to the right bank
of the Taitse River to meet Gen. Kuro-
kis fanking movement. The inference
drawn from this information was that
Lao Yang had been evacuated, the city
lying on the left bank of the river.
Nothing to confirm this was received
until several hours later, when a dis
patch from the Associated Press CORE
%spondent at st. Petersburg, dated Sept.
2, timed PIG Friday morning, said that
'the news of the evacuation of Lao
Yang and the withdrawal of the Russian
army to the right bank of the river TAFT
sc has caused intense excitement"
Late Thursday night the st. Peters
burg correspondent OF the Associated
Press obtained an opinion from the war
Office that the withdrawal to the right
bank Of the Taitse River became neces-
sary so that the Russians would be able
to repel blow in that direction, and that
Gen. Kuropatkin's move was the carrying
out of a well defined idea, rather thar a
retreat.
The same dispatch points out, with
notable lack of comment. that the Japan
csc took advantage of Gen. Kuropatkin's
withdrawal to occupy the city of Lao
Yang.
The second dispatch, which may have
a significant bearing on the campaign, is
that filed at Mukden at 9:27, Thursday,
stating that the train service between
lMukden and Lao Yang was interrupted,
and it may mean the cutting off of rail-
road communication, which would deprive
Gen. kuropatkin of IN opportunity to
retreat to his more northern base at Muk-
den. AS pointed out in the st. Peters
burg dispatch, the Mukden correspondent
does not mention whether the telegraphic
communications are open.
A dispatch from Toxic, filed there at 2
p. m. Thursday, said that popular esti-
mates of the date of the fall of Port Ar
thur inclined to the last week in Septem-
Der.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-07
INTERSTATE EAIR---sloux CITY
Large Entries in All Departments
Exhibitors Clamoring for Space.

Large Entries In All Departments
Exhibitors Clamoring for Space.
One OF the strong features of the Inter-
state Fair, to be held in Sioux City,
Sept. 5 to 10, inclusive, is the handsome
appearance Of the grounds, WOODLAND
Park. A gang of men for several months
has been at work clearing away under
brush, trimming trees, and identifying
the forest, so that the grounds proper
nave the appearance of a large city park.
The buildings have all been painted
white, and are handsomely decorated.
The effect is very pretty. Hundreds OK
electric lights will be placed through the
grounds and in the buildings, and the
fair will remain open at night to allow
visitors extra time in which to see the
exhibits.
The secretary reports large entries in
all departments and exhibitors clamoring
for space.
The entries in the $4,000 stake races
are considerably over rs. Horsemen from
Ohio ON the east to Colorado on the west
II Arkansas on the south and Canada
on the north, will bring their horses to
Sioux City in the expectation of securing
a portion of the stakes.
In addition to the regular trotting,
pacing and running races, one of the in
teresting features Of the fair will be
automobile races between machines from
Des Moines, Omaha, Minneapolis and
Sioux City.
The railroads have granted half fare
rates, and the attendance will undoubt-
edly be very large.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-07
GOOD CROPS IN BLACK HILLS
Fine Yield of All Kinds of Grain
il Reported.

A Whitewood special states: The har-
vest has commenced in full blast along
the valleys in this vicinity. There will
be a great crop of all kinds of grain. The
general average for wheat will be Is to
20 bushels per acre. The hay crop is un-
usually large, and the farmers are about
to begin cutting for the third time their
alfalfa. Oats, rye and barley have ma
tured early and are mostly out Of the
way. Not very much corn is raised in
the Hills, but what little there is is ma
turing rapidly and will probably get
through before the frost. The next six
weeks will be al active season for the
farmers. There are several steam
outfits already Jun the field.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-07
MAKE A POOR HAUL.
Train Robbers Overlook a Thirteen
Thousand Dollar Package.

Upon the arrival of the Oregon express.
on the Oregon Short Line, at Kemmerer,
Wyo., at 2 o'clock Wednesday morning,
four men stepped out from the shadow
of a building near the depot and as soon
as the door of the express ear was open
ed by the messenger two of them held
him up, while two others stood off the
station agent.
A package containing 5000 to pay off
the employees of the Kemmerer Coal Com
pany was demanded and given to the
robbers, who disappeared.
A package containing $4,000 was not
disturbed.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-07
POSTMASTER RESIGNS.
James Lewis of Canton Finds the
Work Too Confirming.

Postmaster James Lewis, of Canton,
has rendered his resignation to the de-
partment to take effect as 500 as a sue
cessor can be appointed and qualities.
This action on the part of Mr.. Lewis
comes as a surprise to his friends, al
though a few intimates knew that he was
getting tired Of thework owing to the
close confinement and long hours.
He has served the government faith
fully for nearly seven years, and no
man has ever given better satisfaction to
the patrons of the office, but he said re-
Gently: IL find the confinement is be-
ginning to undermine my health and l
must get out"
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-07
DEAD" MAN RETURNS.

His Widow Had Received Insur-
ance on His Life.
Frank Holborn has turned up in Brook
lyn, N. T., though officially he has been
dead for three years. If he has N
doubt about it it he can consult the cor
oner who held an inquest in his case, or
go to the Cypress Hills cemetery and see
his grave. His widow was paid $1,000
life insurance.
Holborn disappeared in November,
1900. In March, 1901, a body, frozen In
a mass OF ice, was found in the Hacken-
sack River, and was identified by Mrs.
Holborn as that of her husband. 1t now
develops that he deserted his family and
has been wandering in the orient.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-07
FUNERAL OF JUDGE BENNETT.
Largest Attendance at Obsequies
Ever Known In WATERFOWL.

The funeral of the late Judge Julian
Bennett was held Sunday in WATERFOWL
from the Methodist church, it being the
largest funeral ever held in the CITY,
There was not nearly sufficient room in
the church 70 accommodate those wishing
to hear the service although 1000 people
were inside the building.
Rev. o. p. Rider, Of the Presbyterian
church, oficiated, assisted by Rev. w. S.
Shepherd, of the Methodist church. Two
hundred Elks and Knights of Pythias
were present with twenty-three mem
bers of the Third circuit bar.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-07
CHARGED WITH ASSAULT.

A Federation or Labor Of1ciai AR
rested mt Topeka.
A. e. Ireland, an American Fedora
ton Of Labor Official who is helping con-
duct the Santa Fe machinists' strike, was
arrested at Topeka, Kan, by Sheriff
Lightfoot, Of Madison, Ia, on a charge
of assault with intent to kill He IS
said to have struck Wesley K. Johnson, a
non-union Santa Re workman, with a
missile concealed In a handkerchief, pro-
ducing a dangerous wound.
ireland left for Fort Madison in charge
Of an officer.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-07
HOSE WAS TOO SHORT.
Efforts to Save Large Memo Eieya-
tor Were in Vain.

Sunday morning smoke was discovered
issuing from the roof of the barn attach
ed to the Hunting Company's elevator at
Memo. The alarm was sounded and the
firemen and citizens promptly respond
ed. The hose was laid, but was ashort
about 40 feet. Efforts to save the DOOM
ed building were abandoned, and the
firemen directed their attention to the
Wollman elevator, standing twenty feet
to the west. 1t caught fire several times
but the timely and continued work Of the
firemen in the intense hea saved it with
but a nominal loss.
The Hunting Company's loss is un-
known, but it is supposed that the build
ing and grain were covered by insurance.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-07
Accused OF Killing wire.

Lester Scofeld, a prominent young
farmer living near ~Coffeyville, Kan, has
been arrested on the charge of numbering
his wife. Mrs. Scoield was killed May
~ and her husband says she was killed
by the accidental discharge of a revolver
Mrs. Marian Allen, mother of the dead
woman, claims that Scofeld and her
daughter had a quarrel during which
Scofield killed her.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-07
To be a Foreign Missionary

Miss Jessie Payne, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. B. s. Payne, of vermillion
Township, left Monday for New York,
where she will take a steamer for China.
Miss Payne's ambition has ever been to
become a foreign missionary, and the
dream of her life is about to be realized,
ms she will take up missionary work in
China soon after arriving there. Miss
Payne is a graduate Of the state uniyer-
sity of South Dakota and wen qualified
for the work in foreign lands.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-07
SUCCESS WITH WINTER WHEAT
Joel Fry Shows IL Can be Grown in
South Dakota.

Joel Fry, of Sioux Falls, who owns
a farm in Turner County, and who last
fall sowed fifteen acres to winter wheat,
has made a report as to the result of his
experiment.
The wheat matured three weeks earlier
than spring wheat, and was harvested
the second week in July. Mr.. Fry thinks
that with an average spring, the harvest
would have been as early as the Fourth
of July. The yield was % bushels per
acre of a fine quality of wheat.
He will In September incsease his acre
age to about twenty-five acres.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-07
HITS TWO CITIES.
New Strike Order Applies to Chica.
90 and ST. Louis.

- RsA1 ~ SthhSh
go and 81. Louis.
A Chicago dispatch says: Not a bull
lock, hog or sheep has been driven out Of
the stock yards since the order to the
handlers went into effect.
A committee of live stock owners and
commission men has waited upon Don
nelly and requested permission to load
cattle now in the yards for shipment to
the east. The request was referred to
the allied trades council.
Representatives of the Independent
packing companies had a conference with
the allied trades council and presented a
request that the strike in their estab-
lishments be called off. The request was
referred to the councils conference board.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-07
BECOMES A HELL.
Dead Lie Unburied Between Lines
at Port Arthur.

.hO ~
at Port Arthur.
Direct news from Gen. Stoessel, at
Port Arthur, up to the 25th, and of a
favorable character, has beer received
at st. Petersburg.
Gen. Stoessels report says the Japan
csc attacks were repulsed until Aug. %,
with heavy losses to the attackers. He
gives no details of the positions held,
Of the Russian loss in men, but says the
officers suffered severely, especially tn
younger ones. Some of the larger Rus
sian guns placed out of action by the
japanese batteries were replaced by
field pieces.
The general describes the stencil from
the dead bodies between the lines as hor-
rible.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-07
National sanitariurn.

Work upon the national sanitarium at
Hot Springs is progressing finely, two of
the ward buildings and the service build
ing now being ready for the roof. The
carpenters are busy with the roofs and
will soon have then ready for the Spanish
thing. The completed stone work of the
buildings gives a good idea OF the at
t~ractive appearance they will present
when all are finished.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-07
BOxERISM is REVIVED.
Fear OF Massacre Causes Mission
aries to Flee.

A revival of boxerism is reported from
Tamingfu, in the southwestern part of
Pechili province, 200 miles from Tien-
tsin, China. Over twenty American mis-
sionaries, including women and chill
dren, have been obliged to evacuate Tam
ingfu owing to an impending massacre on
the part of the boxers.
The telegraph company refused to
transmit a message from the missionaries
to Minister Conger. Fortunately, English
friends in Honan forwarded the message,
whereupon the viceroy of Pechili dis
patched urgent orders for their protec-
ton
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-07
TO CONSOLIDATE LINES.

Purpose OF a Telephone Company
Incorporated at Pierre
Articles of incorporation were filed
Tuesday at Pierre with the secretary of
state for the Dakota Central Telephone
Company with headquarters at Aber-
deem, and a capital of S., DOC.
The directors are j. l.. w. Zietlow, J.
F. Zietlow, w. G. Bickelhaupt, Isaac
Lincoln and c. n. Herreid. 1t purpose
Is to consolidate a number of northwest
ern lines in this and adjoining states into
one large central company.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-07

Driven to the city by hunger, having
eaten little except dandelion leaves
since last Sunday, Giuseppi Hermanno,
who escaped through the Salt Meadow
swamp at Newark, N. j., after killing
his brother-inlaw, Nunzio Monano, and
wounding Mrs. Monano, was caught by
the police.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-07
Failed This Year.

Albert Wagner, of Alpena, has expert
mented for a number OF years with win
ter wheat and usually has been success
full. This year, however, his winter
wheat proved an entire failure. The
long hard winter and unusual scarcity OF
snow, except in drifts, caused his wheat
10 winter XII.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-07
Purchases Heahquarters.

The old Aberdeen hotel building will
become the property Of the Commercial
Club, of Aberdeen, that organization hav-
ing decided to purchase the building,
$4,000 being the price OF the building,
$4,000 being the cost Of the hosiery.
The Commercial Club will fit it up for q
headquarters building.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-07

A writ Of habeas corpus for Nan Pat.
terson, who is under Indictment at New
York on the charge Of numbering Caesar
Young, last June, was granted Thursday.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-07

A New York dispatch says; All grades
81 refined sugar advanced 5 cents a hun,
drcd pounds Thursday.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-09-07
TO KEEP UP STRIKE.

Abandon Strike.
A Chicago special y The execu.
tive board Of the butcher workmen at a
meeting Tuesday voted not to call of
the strike, but to continue the struggle
until the strikers are accorded an hon.
orable adjustment"
About 200 union workmen returned to
the stock yards Tuesday morning and
were given work
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Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-05
New Dry Cell Battery.

A new German patent relating to gal
vanic batteries of the class which is
composed of a series of separate dry
cells has been issued. The improve
ments cover the production of battery
which is capable of being kept in store,
of being transported in an absolutely
dry condition and of being rendered fit
for use at a moments notice by the in
PRODUCTION of suitable liquid into the
separate cells constituting the battery
The space between the two electrodes of
the cells is filled up with plotting paper
or other suitable material, capable of
absorbing the electrolyte. When re-
quired for use the covers are removed
from the cells and filled with the blot
ting paper soaked with any convenient
electrolyte, such as ammoniac solution
The covers are then replaced, and the
batteries are ready for immediate use.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-03-05
MAKING PRECIOUS STONES
Chips Of the Ruby Turned Into Stones
of Commercial Size---Are Pro-.
nounced Genuine.

Rudolph Oblatt, a chemist and ex-
pert on precious stones, is reported 70
have invented process for the fusing
of particles of ruby, known as ruby
waste, into stones of commercial
size. The stones which he has pro-
duced have received considerable at
tention from local biologists and are
pronounced genuine. He selects, says
the New York Commercial, from the
small, rough, genuine ruby particles
whose colors and qualities are prac-
tically the same. One chip he places
upon the top of U-shaped platinum
tube. He then applies the heat, which
is concentrated by a special process
and forced upon the ruby with an air
pressure of 800 pounds. AS the chip is
melted he adds other chips until he
has built up genuine ruby whose
weight varies from five to ten carats.
The operation requires from one to two
hours.
After the ruby has been produced a
difficult task remains-that of. cooling
of the stone, which is at a tremendous
heat This is accomplished by a sci
entifc process which prevents cracking
The ruby is sent to the precious-stone
cutters, where it passes exactly
through the same process as a stone
from the Burmah mines.