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The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-09
FEVER ON INCREASE
FiFTY-FOuR NEW CASES Re-
PORTED AT NEW ORLEANS.
Total Deaths to Date, S~4-Troubie
Over Quarantine Continurs-Some
Places, However, viii Welcome
the Refugees.

Notwithstanding an increase in the
number OF deaths and new cases, and
the admitted spread Of the disease the
past twenty-four hours, the yellow fever
situation at New Orleans Thursday,
compared with Wednesday, is viewed
with some assurance.
The amelioration of the conditions
between the authorities Of Mississippi
and Louisiana has lone much TO improve
the hopeful feeling. and the imbrostio
is now a closed incident.
Gov. Vardaman forwarded definite i'm
structions to the gulf coast for the better
observance of instructions, with, how
ever, the strict maintenance OF the orig
inal quarantine.
There is a gradual tightening of the
quarantine lines everywhere.
A New Orleans dispatch says: The re-
port up to 6 p. N. Thursday is as fol-
lows: New cases, "a; total cases to date,
432. Deaths, 5; total deaths to date,
81. New subfoci, u; total subfoci to
date. &C.
This was the largest number of new
cases reported in a single day, and
while it was naturally TO be expected in
consequence thereof, an increased num-
Der of new foci-sub-foci as it is officially
called-are really small in comparison.
lection to appear among those who were
exposed TO the original cases, and it is
not surprising that the infected quarter
should yield up such a record for one
day.
Although there was a large increase
of new cases and a considerable spread
of infection, there was u diminution in
the number of fatalities Thursday, and
the yellow fever situation was regarded
as having n hopeful aspect. The au-
thorities have not concealed their expec-
tation that for some time there would
be a daily average of twenty to twenty
five cases and a proportionate number Of
deaths owing to the extent of the main
infected territory and anything less
thar these figures will be regarded as n
distinct assurance that the situation is
still under control. Carrying on a scien-
tiic fight of this kind is a slow and
tedious work, but the confidence of the
authorities and the enthusiasm of the
bulk of the public show no impairment.
Though the announcement that Gov.
Vardaman has actually ordered the naval
brigade under arms and dispatched it in
the mosquito feet of the oyster com
mission to the Mississippi
boundary attracted attention, there is alb
solutely no apprehension that any serious
collision viii occur. Hope generally is
expressed that Gov. Varadaman's in
structions to his guards not to trespass
upon Louisiana territory will be rigidly
observed.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-09
CAUSE OF THE DISASTER.
Boiler on the Bennington Had Been
Weakened by Years OF Use.

"A San Diego dispatch says:
Prom an official source, the RELIABLE
ity Of which can not be questioned, it
has just become known what, in sub
stance, will be the report of the court
Of inquiry investigating the Bennington
disaster. 1t may be stated authoritively
that the court will find that boiler B of
the Remington exploded, not because Of
unusually high pressure. but because the
metal crown sheet and bolts holding the
crown sheet ia place had become dead,
had lost all life and nearly all tensile
strength by constant use and failure 70
renew the weakened place during the
years the Bennington was in service.
The court will not censure the officers
Of the Bennington, but will pass the mat
ter Of responsibility TO a higher author
tty,"
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-09
HISTORY OF THE PLAGUE.
Memories of Some Yellow Fever
Scourges in the South.

ScourGoS I'm the south. (,
The history of yellow fever in the
United States, with the awful memories
Of the summer and fall of 1878 still ris-
ing like ghostly specters, is well calcu-
lated to arouse dread of what may en-
sue between now and the frosts of au-
tumn. With the frightful death lists OF
the past before them, it is small wonder
that the people Of the Southern cities
are in a condition bordering on panic.
In New Orleans yellow fever prevail
ed to some extent every year as far back
as the records go up to 1880, with the
exception of the years the city was I'M
der the military control Of Gen. Ben
Butler, and the regulations of war time
completely interdicted travellers from the
tropics.
In 1880 the city changed its system OF
quarantine from the absolute Introduction
of commerce, which offered incentive to
run the blockade" to a more reason
able detention Of vessels from infected
ports that keep suspects from seeking
entrance to the city surreptitiously.
The mortality in New Orleans in the
years Of greatest yellow fever pestilence
from 1S47 to 1878 was /:
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-09

sons-10 per CEN of the population
died. -Four years later Philadelphia suf-
fered another visitation, with a death
loss of 1900. and in the year following
3,645 deaths from the fever occurred.
In 170S New York also was attacked
by the epidemic, 1850 persons dying,
while Boston gave 200 victims to the
disease in the same year. In 1862 Bos-
ton, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Whining
ton and Charleston suffered extensively
from the spread of the fever along the
coast, but since that time epidemics
have been confined more nearly to the
Southern States. New York, however,
has never been immune.
In 1853 there was a widespread cpl
demic, taking in Florida, Arkansas and
Texas. Many deaths from the fever
occurred in New York City in the same
year. In 1867 there was another cpl
demic, more limited in area, but par
ticularly virulent in Galveston, Texas,
where the mortality reached 1,150. Then
occurred the great epidemic of 1873. In
that year Memphis furnished 1000 vic
Tins. New Orleans proper lost only 225
from the disease, but the neighboring
town Of Shreveport lost 759.
Then came the most terrible year of
aI-1678-a year whose mention causes
a shudder throughout the land, and
whose numerals are synonymous with
death in the cities of New Orleans and
Memphis. The fever invaded 1872 towns
in Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama, Mis-
sissippi and Kentucky. There were
more thar $4,000 cases, and the death
roll reached the tremendous total of
1894.
Thousands upon thousands of citizens
fed from Memphis and New Orleans.
but Of the population that remained in
the former city-about 19,60O-70 per
cent sickened and $3.50, or more than
% per cent, died. In New Orleans the
mortality was about the same. 1t is
estimated that the loss to the country in
a commercial way as a direct result of
the epidemic was above 500, 100000.
The epidemic of 1873 furnished heroes
whose names will live with those who
fell In the Civil War of a decade and u
half before. The North not only sent
thousands Of dollars and trainloads OF
supplies to the stricken cities-whole
trainloads of collins, for 'send collins
was the cry sent up from the South
but physicians, nurses, priests and 9TH
ers volunteered by the hundred with their
services.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-09
ROADS USE PHONES.
Hello Lines are Used to Operate
Trains.

The strike of telegraph operators on
The Northern Pacific and Great North
ern systems has settled into what prom
tses to be a long drawn out contest be-
tween the two roads and the combina-
ton Of employees, who claim to have
plenty of money to prolong the fight
until the companies will be willing to
grant their demands.
The managers Of the Great Northern
and Northern Pacific systems say the
telegraphers' strike has not interfered
with the running Of passenger trains.
The systems are using the telephones
which had been installed the past year
for an emergency
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-09

Since 1873 the city has had to deal
with the fever at different times, but in
no case have the previous records been
reached. In 1897 the outbreak caused
the same panic over the New Orleans
situation that now prevails, but the
death list was comparatively small.
Yellow fever was first recognized def.
nnely In 1647 in the West Indies, and
since 1891 it has been endemic there.
In the latter part of the eighteenth and
the first part Of the nineteenth centuries
the disease created havoc along the
whole Atlantic coast of the United
States, spreading to seaports as far
North as Maine. In 1893 the city Of
Philadelphia, then having a population
of 10000, was stricken, and 1000 per-
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-09

Of the bayonet on the State line by
Mississippi soldiers and told to return
whence they anne.
Indignation at the shotgun methods
OF Mississippi is intense and Governor
Blanchard of Louisiana has been mott
fed of the latest complications. The
border towns ON the State line are
sharing in the ill-feeling engendered
by the plague and retaliatory measures
are being resorted to. In n instance,
at Vidalia, La, the people have re-
fused to permit registered mail to come
from Natchez, Miss.
While women and children knelt at
the affairs in churches Sunday and
prayed that New Orleans might be de-
livered from the scourge Of yellow
fever, the husbands, brothers and faith
ers scrubbed and cleaned the city In
an effort to eradicate mosquito breed
ing. Armies Of men worked in all Of
the wards as on any other day. The
work Of oiling and screening cisterns
progressed, and despite the heat great
progress was made. Ministers of the
gospel advised their congregations to
work.
Railroad traffic out of the city is
practically paralyzed in both passenger
and freight. Mississippi merchants are
refusing to allow cars of freight pur-
chased in New Orleans to be set on
sidings at their stores and are order
ing the railroad companies to haul
them back to their point Of origin.
Monday the Meridian field artillery,
Mississippi National Guard, was or
dered to the coast to aid in keeping up
the quarantine. The full State military
organization Of staff officers is campel
along the line of the Louisville and
Nashville Road and a squad of men
under a commissioned officer now
escorts trains from border to border.
Following the example Of Natchez,
Greenyille, Miss, and Lake Providence
and East Carroll parish, La, have de-
clared a strict quarantine against the
world.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-09
MURDER BY eoYs.
One of Three Arrested in California
Makes n Confession.

Percy Pembroke, aged 16 years, one
of three boys arrested charged with the
murder of L. w. Cook, made a full con-
fession in his cell at Oakland, CAL,
Thursday. The boys, all under II years
of age, deliberately planned to hold up
their friend and acquaintance, Thomas
w. Cook. They lay in wait for him
armed with bludgeons of lead pipe. When
Cook appeared Pembroke declares Blake
stepped behind him and dealt him a
stunning blow with the pipe. Cook fell
and Pembroke ran from the scene of
the crime, leaving his companions, John
Sneider and George Blake, to complete
the robbery.
Pembroke ~exonerates Crowhurst, an
other suspect.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-09
Boycott spreads to Japan.

department at Washington Tuesday
from the American consul at Nagasaki
stating the boycott against Americans
and American products now prevailing
in Shanghai has extended TO Nagasaki.
This is the first indication of the spread
of the movement to Japan.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-09
FIND THEIR BOY IN A CELL.
Long Hunt for Kansas City Youth
is Successful.

After q long and unsuccessful search
for their son, Roy Cartwright, a pros
porous blacksmith of Kansas City, and
his wife, believed their son had been
kidnapped until following a last chance,
urged by his wife, Mr.. C~ourtwright Tues
day applied at the p~enitentiary at JEFF
ferson City, Mo-, and found his son serv.
ing a term of two years. The boy had
been convicted of stealing four sweaters
at Springfield, Nc.
In order to protect the name of his
parents, the boy said they were dead.
Efforts will be made to secure a pardon
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-09
EXODUS TO UNITED STATES
Forty Eight Thousand Immigrants
Arrived During July.

A New York special says: Undesir-
able immigrants from all parts of Eu-
rope are pouring into this country at an
increased rate, according to United States
Commissioner Watchorn.
About 4S,000 immigrants arrived dur
Ing July, against 10000 for the same
period last year.
The undesirable element is shown by
The increased number OF deportations.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-09
Conscientious BURGLARS.

Lieut.. Lally, of the Detroit, Mich,
detective department, has received a
mysterious package which contained
checks, notes and other important pa
pers, a~ggregating in value about So, 900,
belonging to the Crystal Salt Company,
of st. Clair, Mich. The offices of the
were robbed several weeks ayo.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-09
Mystery in Suicide.

Great mystery surrounds the suicide
Of Prof. s. o. Lewis, principal of the
Tempe, Ariz., public schools. He was
unmarried, and highly respected. School
had been closed for several weeks, and
a frightful odor caused an investigation,
when the body was found, much decom.
posed.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-09
Uses Corn Knife i'm Ficht.

Charles Schmittendorf and August
Hiegner had trouble over the settlement
of a small account at LeMars, Iowa, and
a row ensued, in which Schmittendorf
slashed Heigner's arm with a corn knife.
The case will be aired in court.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-09
Fever az Montgomery.

1t has been officially announced that
there is one case of yellow fever in Mont
gomery. Ala. The announcement came
from the state board OF health. together
with the statement that there is no cause
for alarm.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-09
Saws His Way ont or JAIN.

Earl Trainer, alias Harry $. Emmett,
charged with blowing up the Stoddard,
Wis. ~postofice o. the night of July 6,
escaped from Jail at Lacrosse, Wis,
saving his way out. A fine steel saw,
concealed in a bunch Of fruit sent him
by a woman purporting to be his wife,
enabled him to escape.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-09
Kansas City Elevator Burns.

Fire completely destroyed the mill.
warehouses and elevator of the Kansas
City Milling company, Broadway and
Twenty-fourth street, Kansas City, en-
failing a loss OF 100000. Grain and
-four worth $4,000 was destroyed. The
rrope.sss WAS insured for 500, 1000.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-09
Rioting in San Juan.

As the outcome of the 'longshoremen's
strike for an increase in wages the great
err portion of San Juan, p. r., was IN
Tuesday night. The mob dug up paw
ing blocks and stones and rushed
through the streets, fighting the police.
One person was killed and forty in
jIned. three of whom may die.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-09
Struck a Submarine Mine.

Seven sailors We're killed and eight Sc
verely injured by the explosion of a sub.
marine mine during mining practice in
Sandman roads, near Stockholm, Swe-
den. A boat containing the. victims
struck a mine and was blown into the
cir
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-09
GOLD FOR WIDOW.
The Fight Over ZiegIer Fortune is
Settled.

Settled.
By the payment of $2,500,000 to the
widow of the late William Ziegler, the
Iiegler will contest was settled at New
York.
Justice Giegrich, of the supreme court,
authorized Justice Gaynor, executor of
the estate, to pay Mrs. Ziegler $1,250,00C
cash and 5000 shares of the Royal Bak.
ing Powder company stock, valued at
81 400, 000.
William Ziegler, the 14-year-old adopt
ed son Of the testator, consented to this
settlement.
The late William Ziegler was head CT
the baking powder trust, and the hacker
of the Ziegler north pole relief expedi.
ton.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-09
Three women KiIIed.

A Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
freight train, north bound, struck a bug
gy west Of Frecport, Ill, killing three
women.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-09
Fatal Lovers Quarrel.

Early Thursday morning at Chicago,
William Demow shot and fatally wound
ed his sweetheart, Amelia Walder, and
then sent a bullet through his brain. The
twp had been to a theater and quarreled
on the way home.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-09
Explosion.

a Kingston, N. Y, special says: An
explosion occurred in a dynamite factory
at Mugs Hollow, Esopus township,
Thursday afternoon. The report says six
men were killed and a number injured.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-09

Sioux City: Thursdays quotations OK
the Sioux City stock market follow:
Butcher steers, $4.30Q4.45. Top hogs,
$5.70.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-08-09

A Wabash passenger train was derail-
ed three miles west of Buffalo, N. Y. Five
coaches were turned over. Seven passen-
gers were injured, none seriously.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-09-08
MORTGAGE Sale

Whereas, default has been made In the pay
ment OF the money secured by mortgage dat
ed the 25th Gay of May 1904 executed by Russell
p. Wxom and Louisa L. Wixom, his wife, of
the Village OF Bancroft, Shiawassee County,
Michigan to Mary A. Rappleye, of Owosso,
Michigan, which said mortgage was recorded
In the office OF the Register of Deeds of Shia-
wassee county in nber 80 of mortgages on page
$40 on the t6th day of May 1904. And whereas
the amount claimed to be due on said mortgage
at the date OF this notice is the sum of three
hundred eighteen and 95 100 dollars tSSis. 95) for
principal and interest and the further sum of
fifteen dollars attorney fee as stipulated for IL
said morte age; and no suit or proceeding hav-
ing been Instituted at'law or in equity 10 recov.
er the same or any part thereof.
Now Therefore notice is hereby given that by
virtue OF the power of sale in said mortgage
contained, and In pursuance of the statute In
such case made and provided, the said mortgage
Will be forcosed by sale of the premises
therein described at public auotioDr or vendue
TO the highest bidder, at the front door of the
Court House in the city OF Corunna In said
county chat being the place for holding the
Circuit Court on Saturday the 9th day OF Sep
TENDER 1905 at ten o'clock in the forenoon,
which said premises are described in said mort
gage as follows to wit: commencing eight (s)
feet south OF the north east corner of lot four
(D In block eleven () OF the Village of Ban
croft, running thence south thirty one (3D feet
along the west liBe of Main street, thence west
one hundred and twenty five (126) feet TO alley,
one hundred twenty Ave (125) feet 10 beginning.
Also q piece of land commencing thirty.nine
(39) feet south OF the northeast corner of lot
four (4), block eleven QD of the Village OF Ban
croft, running from that point south five 80
feet thence west one hundred and twenty-five
025) feet, thence north FIVE (5) feet, thence east
one hundred and twenty. five l25) feet to the
place of beginning, all IN the Village OF Ban
croft, Shiawassee County State Of Michigan.
Dated this 18th day Of June A. d. 1905.
MARY A. RAPPLEyE.
FITZPATRICK x rIERPONT. MORTGAGE
Attorneys for Mortgage.
Owosso, Mich.
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-09-08
STATE OF MICHIGAN-iN THE CIRCUIT
na CQIr,rrY GIL ~ ccrrtr

STATE OF MICHIGAN-iN THE CIRCUIT
COURT FOR TIE COUNTY OF SHIAwAssEE,
IN CHANCERY.
Luella Dwight. Complainant, VS.. Pearl
Dwight Defendant.
Suit pending in the Circuit Court for the
County Of Shiawassee. IN CHANGERS, at the city
OF Corunna, on the oath day OF July, nineteen
hundred and five
1t satisfactorily appearing to this Court by
affidavit en- dle that defendant Pearl Dwight,
Is not resident of this state, but resides in the
city OF Chicago, In the state OF Illinois, on
motion of Watson & Chapman, solicitors for
complainant, 1t Is ordered that the said defend
ant, Pearl Dwight. cause his appearance to be
entered herein within four months from the
date of this order. and in case OF his appearance
that he cau.e his answer TO the complainant TO
to be filed and copy thereof TO be served on
said com plainant's solicitors within twenty
days after service on him OF the copy of said
bill and notice OF this order and that In de fault
thereof said bill TO be taken as confessed by
non. resident defendant.
And IL is further ordered that within twenty
days after the date the said complainant cause
n notice of this order TO be publish6 in The
Owosso Times, newspaper printed published
and circulated in said county, and that such
publication be continued therein at least once
In each week for six successive weeks. or that
she cause copy of this order TO be personally
served on said non resident defendant at least
twenty days before the above time prescribed
for his appearance.
Countersgn d. STEARNS +. SMITH,
JOHN " MARTIN. Circuit Judge
Register of Court 7w-7-2S
The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1905-09-08
.Forwnrd!- the Word.

A western city has chosen the word
Forward" for its motto. Every grange
needs to have the same watchword.
remarks the Grange Bulletin. The or
ganization that is content to be the
same thing year after year is not very
ambitious. OF course the good old
ways were good and are good, but the
truth of the matter Is that they don't
exactly fit the new occasions. We need
to adapt them to new conditions, need
to make them fit our present times and
needs. In other words, we need to be
as independent and resourceful in our
time as our fathers and grandfathers
were in the good old times which
sometimes seem to us to have been
sort of golden age. But the real gold
en- age is now-now for those who
are worthy to ss-e in such an age. ..