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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-07
Casualty. Q


James Higgins, a well-to-do- farmer
OF Gilman, Pierce county, Wis, met
instant death in a runaway accident.
While rowing at the lake at Laporte,
Ind, with three companions, Miss Rose
Meyer, daughter Of DR.. ]. H. Meyer,
was drowned by the capsizing OF a
boat.
William Yordy, seventeen years old,
and George Snyder, twenty-one years
old, were drowned in Stacks dam,
near. Myerstown, Pa. They were fish.
ing and their boat capsized.
BY the breaking of a steel chain in
an elevator at the Eldora pipe plant
at Eldorado, Iowa, were severely in
jured. The men fell fifteen feet. 1t
is not believed any are fatally hurt.
Panic.stricken by fire in an adjoin-
ing building, occupants of the Nicholas
hotel, in Chicago, fed to the street.
The fire destroyed the third, fourth and
fifth stories of 253-255 Kinzie street.
Loss 100000.
Percy Pound, son of a prominent at
torney of Detroit; Miss Maloney and
Miss Anne Waldron, were drowned
by the upsetting of a canoe in the
American channel of the Detroit river
near Belle Isle bridge.
The British steamer Umzumbi,
bound for London from C~apetown,
struck on the Banner reefs, west of
prncf Eronon onI tho mn ~ M
crew, numbering seventy-ive, were
rescued by lifeboats manned by fisher
folk from Molehe island.
Three Slavs and an Italian were
blown to pieces by the premature ex-
plosion of a blast near Safe Harbor,
Pa. Another Slav is missing, and is
believed to have been blown into the
S~usquehanna river, and two Slave
and a negro were badly injured.
Fire at Portland, Ore, destroyed the
elevator dock and seriously damaged
the Albina dock, entailing a total loss
Of $330,000, equally divided between
the Pacific Coast Elevator company
and the Oregon Railroad & Naviga-
ton company. The origin of the fire
is unknown.
Fire, which started in the planning
mills of the White river Pine Lumber
company at Priest River, Idahoe has
destroyed t~hesentire plant, with S,OOO,-
600 feet of lumber, IL box cars on the
Great Northern tracks, together with
about % residences, comprising the
northern portion of the town. The
loss will approximate $685. 600, with
100000 insurance.
Three men were drowned when the
little Canadian fishing tug Shamrock
collided with the steamer w. c. Rich
ardson off Point Aux Pins, at Sault
Ste. Marie, and al sent to the bottom.
Capt. Charles Roussian and the en-
gineer and fireman, whose names are
unknown, were carried down with
their craft, which sank Immediately,
but the remaining three of the crew
managed to keep a1oat until assist
ance arrived.
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POWDER MILL Is WIPED OUT.
Ten Buildings Are Totally Demolished
Not a vestige Remaining.

Connellsville, Pa, Sept. IL. - The
Rand powder mills at Fair Chance,
six miles south of Uniontown, we're en-
tIrely wiped out by IN explosion at 9
o'clock Saturday morning. OF the
thirty-two men who were at work in
the mills, nineteen are dead. OF these
thirteen have been identified.
Scores of people in the town of Fair
Chance, within half a mile of the
powder mills, were more or less pain
fully injured. The shock of the ex.
plosion was distinctly felt in Con.
nellsville, twenty miles away, where
buildings were rocked on their founda-
tons. At Uniontown hundreds Of
panes of glass were broken.
Walls Battered In.
In the town Of Fair Chance there is
scarcely a house that did not suffer
damage. The sides were battered in
as though axes has been used. Hay
stacks were toppled owe in the fields
and live stock was stunned. The rails
of the Baltimore & Ohio railway and
the West Pennsylvania Traction Rail-
way company were torn from the
roadbed and traffic was delayed sew
eral hours.
A Baltimore & Ohio train had just
passed the Rand mills when the ex-
plosion occurred. The windows in the
passenger coaches were shattered and
passengers thrown into a panic. Had
the train been a few seconds late it
would have been blown up, as the
mills we're within a few rods of the
tracks. A street car on the West
Pennsylvania railway had also passed
just q few seconds before the explo-
sion, and was far enough away to
escape damage, though it was de-
rallied.
Ten Buildings Demolished.
There were seven explosions In all.
Every one of the ten buildings was to-
tally demolished. Not q -vestige Of
them remains. The debris that was
strewn over the ten acres of ground
where the plant was located took fire
soon after the explosion and added its
terrors to the disaster.
The dismembered remains of the
killed ere burned in many instances.
Identification of many was made by
parts of the clothing alone.
The first three explosions were not
as serious as the last four. Then the
packing house, pressing room and
magazine blew up, followed by two
cars of dynamite standing On a near.
by railroad siding, which were set of
by the conclusion from the powder ex-
plosion.
and 1t was with difficulty that they
were moved to a place of safety after
the explosion.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-07
RESUME OF TIE NEWS
Fresh- Aetuhe--BrAf
-NeEablk-
WashinQto.;.

WdSnin9to. 81.
Mrs. Robert McCormicb., wife Of the
American ambassador to Hrance, has
been decorated with the .yraht Gordon
of Chefacet.
1t is stated here on excellent au.
thority that Pres dent Roosevelt, in
his message to congress at the com.
ing session. w.hI discuss the question
OF immlgrat' ON with a view to the en-.
actment o. more restrictive laws.
In a telegram to the navy depart
ment Rear Admiral McAlla, command
art of the Mare island navy yard, an
+! nounced that, having undergone an
operation for appendicitis, Ensign
Wade, engineer officer of the Benning-
ton, would not be in condition to stand
trial for some time. The court was to
convene Sept. Is.
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NOT CORRUPT, But PARTIAL.
Keep Commission Reports on Govern
ment Printing ONCE.

Keep Commission Reports on Govern.
ment Printing ONCE.
Oyster Bay, Sept. IL. President
Roosevelt yesterday made public the
report Of the Keep commission on its
recent investigation of affairs In the
government printing Office at Wash
ington. The inquiry was made by
special direction of the president on
account Of a protest which he had re-
ceived from the officials of the Mer-
genthaler Typesetting Machine com.
pany against the award of a contract
by Public Printer Frank w. Palmer to
the LanstOn Monotype company for
seventy-two machines of it's make.
BY order Of the president the con-
tract with the Lanston company was
held up until an investigation could
be made with the view of ascertaining
whether the charge Of
Favoritism and Corruption
in the letting Of the contract were
substantially founded. The contract
is valued at $3.50, 600.
The president decided. after an ex'
animation of the Keep report, that the
contract for the Lanston machines
should stand. The Keep commission
reported that If the contract could be
set aside, 'such a course would be de.
sirable," although the commission
states expressly that mo corruption,
payment or promise passed from the
Lanston Monotype company to the
public printer or any person in the
government service"
1t was developed by the investiga'
ton, however, that two important as
sistants of the public printer were in.
directly interested in the Lanston
company, their wives being stock
holders therein" The commission
shows that a
Fair and Impartial test
of the Lanston and Mergenthaler ma.
chimes was not made, and reports that
the purchase of SO large a number OF
Lanston machines was "improvident'
and indicated great Partially and
bias on the part of the public printer"
The commission regards the purchase
as "maladministration."
The report of the commission is vol
luminous, containing about 10000
words. Accompanying it is a mem.
orandum by President Roosevelt in
which he approves the report except
as to the disposition of the contract
for. the Lanston machines, which he
has directed shall stand.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-07
JAP ARMY NOT YET INFORMED
OF THE SIGNING OF THE
PEACE TREATY.
! JAP OFFICIALS QUIT JOBS
RESIGN As RESULT OF WEEK OF
TURMOIL TOXIC coNTIN.
UEs QUIET.

Godseyadani, Manchuria, Sept. IL
At ! O'Clock Saturday afternoon a
japanese commissioner, bearing a
white flag and escorted by fifty SOL
diers, arrived at a post near the rail-
road and handler to the Russian Off
GERS who went to meet him a letter
from Field Marshal Oyama to Gen.
Linevitch congratulating him on the
conclusion of peace and begging him
to appoint Russian Plenipotentiaries
to arrange an armistice.
Field Marshal Oyama appointed
Gen. F~ukushama as plenipotentiary
for his side, the letter announced, and
he suggested Chakhedza as the meet
ing place.
Starts for Peace Meet.
Gen. Oku's Headquarters in Field,
Sept. 11.-Gen. Fukushama left Kay
pan Saturday for the north to meet
the Russian generals and arrange the
details of armistice.
Gen. Fukushama positively refused
to allow the press correspondents to
accompany him. The correspondents
are still kept thirty miles in the reaZ
of the army, which has not yet beM
Informed of the signing of a peace
treaty.
The terms Of the treaty will proba-
bly, prove unpopular, but no demon
stration is feared.
No Secret Treaty.
Oyster Bay, Sept. Its there any
truth in the report of a secret agree
ment between Russia and Japan" was
asked of Baron Keneko.
"Mr. White, l think, has answered
that question, was the baron's reply.
New York, Sept. 12.-Mr. Sato yes
therday added the denial Of the Jap
anese ENJOYS to that of the Russians
made Saturday that a secret treaty Of
peace had been agreed upon by the
emperors of Japan and Russia.
Jap Officials Resign.
Toxic, Sept. IL. - Taunny Adachi.
chief Of the metropolitan police, has
resigned, and Kiyode Saki Of Naganc
prefecture, has been appointed as his
successor. It is believed that Wis
count Yoshikawa, minister Of home
affairs, has rendered his resignation,
which 1t is thought will be ~acceptedN
Isibur Yamagata, vice minister of the
home department, will probably sue
coed Yoskikawa.
The designations of the abovenamed
officials are the result OF a week of
turmoil. Yoskhikawa and Adachi at
tracted most of the popular dissatis-
faction on account of the closing of
Hibiya Park to public meetings.
The suspensions of the newspapers
Nippon, Jimin, Yorodu, Niroku and
the Myako have been withdrawn and
they have all resumed publication.
The Asahi and Nippon, published at
Osaka and the Kammon. published at
Shimonoseki, have been suspended.
Toxic continues to be quiet. The
anticipation of trouble in the Fuka-
district last night was not real
lied.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-07
Kills Wife and Self.

Decatur, ILL.,, Sept. 13.-Henry Port
wood. a wealthy and retired farmer at
Moweaqua. killed his wife and himself
with a razor. They two quarreled be-
cause of the presence Of Portwood's
child by a former wife in the house
hold. The man had been married
four times.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-07
THE SO-CALLED ARROGANCE OF
SWEDEN MAY LEAD TO SERi.
Gus DEVELOPMENTS.
WANT THE TROOPS MOBILIZED
SWEDISH PAPERS DEMAND THE
MOBILIZATION OF SEVENTY
THOUSAND TROOPS.

Christiania, Sept. 10.-With the re-
turn yesterday from Karlstad of the
Norwegian. commissioners sent 70
discuss with the commissioners of
Sweden the question of dissolution OF
the union, a decided n of uneasi.
ness prevails. and this is accentuated
by the complete silence observed in
official circles regarding the progress
of the negotiations. Even in the most
pacific circles the situation Is looked
upon as having an element Of danger
and the prevailing vousn has
been increased by the tone of the
Swedish newspapers, which are now
calling upon the government to mo-
Billie 10000 troops, at the same time
pointing out that Norway is only able
to command 5000 troops. While the
Swedish Riksdas Demanded
that the "fortresses recently erected
be no longer maintained" the Swed-
ish newspapers insist that the forth
fications of the old fortresses of Fred
Kristen and Kongsvinger shall be de-
stroyed. No suggestion could be made
which would more deeply wound the
national pride of the Norwegians.
Kongsvinger is thirty miles from the
frontier and holds a commanding po-
sition for the defense of Christiania,
the richest section of Norway, while
the corresponding zone in Sweden, it
is pointed out, is "unimportant and
has never been fortified"
Responsible people here say the ar
rogant tone by the Swedish press, un-
less it is modified, is likely to lead to
serious developments.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-07
Two Drown in Crash.

Duluth, Sept. ~. -, Capt. Thomas
Wexford of the steamer w. c. Rich
ardson reported at the Office of the
local vessel inspectors that his ship
ran. down the Canadian tug Shamrock
just out of the 500 Sept. 5. The. cap
tain and engineer were drowned.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-07
ITALY FEELS MORE SHOCKS.
Inhabitants Of caIabria Again Thrown
Into Panic.

Rome, Sept. IL. Further slight
earthquake disturbances yesterday
caused additional terror among the
Inhabitants of Calabria. The damage,
however, was insignificant, although
the disturbances affected a more ex-
tended area, reaching Reggie and
Naples. The activity of Mount Vesuvi-
us increased while the violent erup-
ton of the ancient crater on the island
of Strombold is still in progress.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-07

While sympathiZing with Mark
Twain in his sufferings from the govt
It mitigates ones distress of mind tc
some extent to remember that Mark
must have had a good time while he
was getting it.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-07

Arizona thinks II Is too bad that its
destiny should be locked up with that
of the Greaser state of New Mexico.
It Is a%ggravating, but then Arizona
wants to get in so bad that she can
endure being put out.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-07
coNeER TO GO TO CALIFORNIA

Los Angeles to Be Homo Of the For
mer Ambassador.
Chihuahua, Mex, Sept. 10.-J. w
Conger of this city is authority fol-
the statement that his brother, E. H
Conger, who recently resigned his
position as ambassador to Mexico, will
soon move to Los Angeles, CAL, where
he will make his home. He says that
Mr.. Conger will engage in business in
Los Angeles.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-07
tornado kiIa Two.

Lawton, Okla. Sept. IL. A small
tornado passed " the vicinity OF
Walker, twenty miles south of here,
Saturday. killing two persons and se-
yerely injuring nine.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-07

A Chicago man and his wife have
found their way into the divorce court
because both wanted to occupy one
chair. Before they were married one
chair would have been-but isn't II
strange that a few words by a preach.
er should make such a difference.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-07

Railway companies are beginning to
abolish the age limit in hiring men to
work for them. They have found,
oddly enough, that some of their EN-.
ployes become more valuable as they
grow older.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-07

Statistics show that 400 ,000, 900
Havana cigars were manufactured
in the United States last year. Some
thing good-and cheap-must be pro.
vided for campaign smoking and cleo.
ton bets.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-07

Lord Curzon's resignation is report
ed to have increased K~itchener's pres,
tige in India. Sir Redvers Butler is
worrying along these days without
any prestige.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-07

Injunctions have been secured to re.
strain roosters FRI growing, dogs
from barking and the tolling of bells
and the footing of locomotive whistles
at night in Mount Vernon. N. Y. Why
are the Mount Vernon cats thus ia.
vored?
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-07

A Latrobe, Pa church has been dis.
ruptej because the pastor kissed a
pretty girl. The dispatches say the
pretty girls of the congregation are
standing by the preacher. Guess
where the homely spinsters and the
long-whiskered old elders are.-Chi
a z Record-Herald.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-07

1t is significant that no person has
succeeded in stealing John d. Rock
efeller's socks while he is bathing in
the morning dew. p
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-07

Another aeronaut has succeeded in
giving an entirely super1uous demon
stration of the truth that the law of
gravity is still working.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-07
LOOKS LIKE MURDER.
New York Editor Found Suffering
From Various Injuries.

From Various Injuries.
New York, Sept. 10. Jacob H.
Thompson, an exchange editor of the
New York Times, was found uncon-
scious and apparently dying from the
effects of a fractured skull, a stab
wound and st%rangulation, in his room
at the st. James hotel in Forty-ffth
street. The police believe murder was
attempted. The coroner, after an ex-
animation Of Mr.. Thompson's apart.
ments, said that it would have been
possible for his injuries to be inflicted
by falling after he had been stricken
with apoplexy.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-07

The New York Tombs caterer is
suing Nan Patterson for the return OF
a rabbits foot. He will attempt 20
prove its value by showing that Nan
escaped conviction by a hare.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-07

Well. Jupiter has got another noon.
This makes the seventh. There is a
race between him and Saturn now
One more and they will be even.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-07

Can doctors know too much?" asks
the New York Times. Perhaps they
can, but most of them will be able
without much trouble to establish
their innocence.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-07

Woe unto them" exclaimed Isaiah,
that trust in chariots, because they
are many!" Even in Isaiah's time per.
haps, the people had to dodge them.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-07

King Leopold and Capt. Putnam
Bradlee Strong are both keeping out
of print, so we must admit that things
might be much worse than they are.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-07

A Chicagoan who claims that he is
"a perfect gentleman has been fined
$50 for flirting. Evidently the judge
mistook him for a gent"
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-07

Russia's new legislative body is re-
ferred to by the car as a gosudar.
%stvennaia douma. Oh, but he must
be mad.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-07

1t might be said Of the Pegasus
which Alfred Austin rides that it al.
so ran."-Charleston News and Cour.
Ter.
Move to amend: ALSO tried to fly"
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-07

King Alfonso was mixed up in an
other automobile accident a day or
two ago. He seems to have quit get
ting engaged to be married, though.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-07
Sent Up for Life.

Moscow, Sept. I'm. Kulikovsky,
who. on July IL, assassinated Maj.
Gen. Count S~huvaloh, has been SEN
fenced to imprisonment for life.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-07

Roy Knabenschue, the airship man
is described by a New York paper as
"a married man with a family of little
ones" Little airships?
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-07

Ethel Barrymore is TO be married
to a poet, but not solely, we are given
to understand. because she desires to
have a genius in the family.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-07

Are we to understand that the pro-
fessors have landed on the solar plex'
us of the nebular hypothesis?
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-07

Possibly the man who sent mobs
to the New York capitalists is merely
another kind of reformer.
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'"Treat children like plants" says
the Washington Post. That's right
straighten 'em with a stick.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-07

The Japs took one look at Secretary
Taft's physical proportions and order
ed whale for dinner.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-07

II the Taggart's have to quit the
army there will be nothing left for
them but to enter New York society
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-07
CHINA ORDERS FLOUR.
Ten Thousand Tons Ordered From
Minneapolis Mills.

Minneapolis Mills.
Minneapolis, Sept. 10.-The Chinese
government yesterday ordered 10, 0OO
tons Of -four from the Flour City mill.
ing interests. One of the large local
milling companies vas given q bid on
10000 tons Of patent flour yesterday,
and, while prices were just out OF
line, the possibility Of meeting 1t wal
not remote. The offer came from
China. via San Francisco, and s.
equivalent to 100. 900 barrels.
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SENT UP FOR ToRTuRINc DOG.

Man Who Sets Fire to Animal 10 Given
Two Years.
Sioux City, Iowa, Sept. 12.-Robert
Pittman will serve two years in the
penitentiary at Anamosa for apeculiar
offense. He was indicted and con-
victed In the district court for the
crime of pouring kerosene over a dog
and setting fire to the animal.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-09-07

Advice to those about to butt in:
Don't.
Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1905-03-02
HALF THE BODIES ARE FOUND
Only Three Were Rescued Alive, and
They Soon Died.

Birmingham, Ala, Feb, 29.--At 8
o'clock this evening rs hlackened and
disfgured bodies had been recovered
from the Virginia mine in which the
awful explosion occurred on Monday
afternoon, entombing more than l60
miners.
The rescuers are still heroically at
work in the stone, and az they advance
the bodies further in the mine are
found to be worse burned and mutilat-
ed than those nearer the exterior. No
hope is now held out that any are alive.
Three men were found yesterday whose
hearts were still beating, but they ex-
pired Immediately.
The Birmingham district has come
promptly forward in relieving the des-
titute families Of the victims, and mass
meetings have been held for that pur.
pose. Hundreds OF dollars have been
subscribed, and the Birmingham Com
mercial club has raised more than $3.-
600. Alabama District No. 20, United
Mineworkers Of America, today voted
$4,000 to be distributed among the
families.