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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05
Criminal.

John A. Norton, once a candidate for
governor of Connecticut on the So
cialist ticket, committed suicide by
inhaling gas through a tube.
James P. Hennessy, a clerk who re-
Gently confessed to stealing $40, 900
from the estate Of D. Percy Morgan,
was sentenced to even years.
Capt. G. M. Godfrey, assistant sur
geon in the United States army, sta
toned at Fort Mcpherson, shot him
self through the brain. The cause of
the suicide is not known.
A double murder occurred at Lock-
port, La, near Lake Charles, r. B.
Holloway of that place and Tom Bow
man of Orange, Tex, being the vic.
tins. No clue to the assassin.
John M. Koch, a well-known educa.
tor, was found dead in his house at
Mount Peterborough, Pa, where he
was formerly principal of the high
school. He had shot himself through
the heart.
Private Lee of Company E, Eleventh
infantry, shot and killed Private King
of Company l. of the same regiment,
in a saloon at Cheyenne, Wyo. Squads
are securing the streets and a l~ynchiug
is possible if Lee is captured.
A battle between Mexican despera.
does and Texas rangers resulted in the
killing of one of the bad men and the
wounding Of two. The fight was on La
Portia creek, near Minerva, a small
border town in Wilson county.
After an all-day drinking bout, Dam.
min Guise killed his friend. Rocco
Fenar, at Bloomington, Ind. Guise
caught Fenar by the neck and held
him while he blew out his brains with
a revolver. Guise was arrested.
Henry Edwards was shot and killed
by Clarence Turner at a dance at
Maysville, KY, because he insisted
upon dancing with a girl with whom
Turner had been dancing. Edwards
drew a gun upon Turner, the fight be.
ing in the nature Of a duel.
Edna Mullison, a thirteen-year-old
girl, was arrested at Shenandoah,
Iowa, on a charge of placing poison in
her fathers lunch. The warrant was
sworn out by Mullison, who can give
no reason for the attempt on his life.
The girl refuses to talk Of the crime.
She was unable to give bond.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05
General.

Mayor Augustus S. Miller of Provi-
dence, R. l., dropped dead at the Hope
club from heart disease. He was born
in 1S47.
Henry Howard, formerly governor of
Rhode Island, and a leading manufac-
turer, died at his home in Harris, R. l.,
aged rs.
Eli Jordan, 107 years old, is dead in
the eastern part of Pike county, Ala,
his demise being due to the infirmaties
of old age.
President Roosevelt will be asked to
visit Fort Worth during his October
trip to the South. He will also be in
vited to visit the state fair at Dallas.
At the Democratic city and county
convention Mayor Tom L. Johnson of
Cleveland vas renominated for a third
term. The Johnson adherents con
trolled the convention with practically
no opposition.
The Western Negro Press associa-
ton has adopted resolutions opposing
statehood for the two territories (In-
dian territory and Oklahoma), unless
an absolute guarantee can be given
that no "Jim Crow" laws discriminat.
ing between the races in public places
shall be passed.
The enormous sum that the Standard
Oil company pays in dividends yearly
is not widely realized. This year the
company will pay about $4,000, OGO.
The question as to what amount John
d. Rockefeller receives of this amount
has often been asked, and though
there is no official figures for his hold
ings of Standard Oil stock, it is
thought that he owns at least one-third
of the capital.
Capt. David B. Cadotte, a we'll
known master Of lake vessels, died at
his home in Detroit from a paralytic
stroke sustained aboard his ship on
Sept. IA. He was born in Algonac,
Mich, in 1851.
Wife desertion on the East side in
New York has become so common that
a movement has been started among
leading Hebrews of that quarter to
check the evil. Organizations with
this end in view are to be formed and
a system of following up and causing
the arrest of the men who desert their
wives and families will be established.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05
BIG STICK FOR TURK.
Powers May Take Action Beneficial to
Blood Drenched Macedonia,

London, Oct. 3.-Noel Buxton, M. p,
chairman Of the Balkan committee,
wrote to Foreign Minister Lansdowne
with respect to the massacre by Turk
ish troops in the Macedonian village of
Konopnitza, suggesting the enforce
ment Of European control of Mace
donia, by the aid Of a naval demonstra-
ton, If necessary. Lord L~ansdowne
replied to the effect that the govern
ment was already Investigating the
incident with a view to diplomatic
representations to the porte. He said
he had ascertained that the Turkish
authorities had sent a commission to
the scene, the report of which was
awaited.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05
DEADLOCK IN RlKSDAG.
Returns Show Majority Against Pro.
portionaI Representation.

Stockholm. Oct. 3. - Elections for
members of the second chamber of the
riksdag, which were held during Sep
TENDER, have just been concluded.
The question of the dissolution of the
union of Norway and Sweden exercised
little influence during the campaign,
the predominant factors being the ex-
tension of the franchise and the adop-
tion of proportional representation.
The result shows a decided majority
against the latter issue, indicating that
there will be another deadlock in the
riksdag, as the first chamber stands
committed to the proportional system.
The members of the Left have a small
majority in the new chamber. The So
cialists hold fourteen seats, having
gained several.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05
Casualty.

demonstration, ran his machine into q
wagon at Chicago and was killed. B.,
More than a dozen were injured in
an explosion in a fireworks factory in
the Green Point section Of Brooklyn.
Some of them are fatally hurt.
Fire destroyed the Fitwell clothing
store, damaged the Novelty depart.
ment store and the carpet store of W.
Elmendorf at Evansville, Ind. Loss
estimated at $4,000.
One motorman was instantly killed
and the other escaped death by jump.
ing when two trolley cars met in a
head-on collision near Albany, N. Y.
No passengers were injured.
A peach train was derailed while 60
ing at the rate Of twenty miles an
hour, near Lawrence, Mich, and the
engine and three cars went over a
bank. The engineer vas killed.
Dredge No. 4, owned by the Lake
Erie Dredging company of Buffalo,
%foundered in a gale off Dunkirk, N. Y.
Capt. Miller and crew were rescued.
The dredge was valued at $4,000.
An extra work train on the Cairo di.
vision of the Big Four railroad ran
into the rear end of an extra freight
train at Swango Hill, five miles south
of Paris, III. Four trainmen were in.
jured, n fatally.
Frank Carpenter, the f~ve-year-old
o of Orville Carpenter, a farmer liv.
ing in Ellis township, neal Iowa Falls,
Iowa, fell into a corn harvester and
was instantly killed, the body being
literally cut to pieces.
The Meteor, the fast Frisco line
passenger train, bound for st. Louis.
was wrecked lea Catoosa, I. T. The
engine, tender and four coaches jump
ed the track and were demolished.
Several persons were injured.
Thomas Johnson, aged 80, was saw.
ed in two while at work at Bucyrus,
Ohio. He was running the saw and
stopped down to remove a piece Of
bark. The saw caught him on the
shoulder and drew him against the
teeth and literally sawed him in two.
With a crash that could be heard for
blocks, a ~threelstory building under
course of construction on West Ferry
street, Buffalo, N. Y, collapsed, carry
ing down with it thirty bricklayers and
carpenters who were at work in and
on top of the structure. A score of
men were injured, eight Of them seri-
ously.
Asa Bullock, a prominent attorney
of Northern Indiana, is dead at his
home in Hobart, and his daughter,
Jessie. is seriously injured as the re-
suit of an automobile accident. While
driving on a country road neal Ham,
mond the horse became frightened at
an automobile and plunged down an
embankment. Bullock was extricated
from beneath the horse and lived only
a short time. The girls body was bad.
ly crushed.
While returning from the ball game
between Newark and the Columbus
American association team at Newark,
Ohio, three street ears loaded with
players and spectators were in col
lision. Eleven people were injured,
several seriously. A %half-dozen ears
were running close together. One car
stopped and the car behind crashed
into it and the third car hit the second,
creating q panic among the passen-
gers.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05
100 ARE HURT IN o
Germans and czechs Collide at Brunn,
Austria.

Brunn, Austria, Oct. "a collision
took %placehere yesterday between
rival meetings of Germans and Czechs,
resulting from the agitation by the
former against the proposed establish
ment of a Czech university here.
Troops were compelled to intervene,
but before order was restored 100 per-
sons were injured, some seriously.
Several police stations were wrecked
and hundreds of windows we're broken.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05

When Mr.. Rockefeller's wig was
first announced the staff photograph
ers of the New York newspapers filled
all the trains for Cleveland. One of
them caught it first, and his scoop is
the biggest Gotham has recorded this
year.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05
HOSPITAL Force In Sick.

st. Louis, Oct. 8. - Nearly 100 per.
sons, doctors, nurses, attendants and
clerks at the city hospital, we're taken
violently i'll Saturday night from pto-
maine poison resulting from having
eaten oysters. None was seriously af-
fected.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05

What a wonderful thing is the law!
The New York judge who says he was
within the law in banishing a woman
from Gotham adds that the law can
not compel her to go away.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05
SETS LOOMS RIGHT.
President Says Secretary Hay Stood
by His Assistant.

Washington, Oct. BIN correspond.
ence between President Roosevelt and
Assistant Secretary Of State Loomis,
made public here last night, the pres.
ident says that Secretary Hay disa.
greed with him on "even mild c~ensure"
of Mr.. Loomis in the Taft report of the
investigation Of the, charges brought
by Mr.. Bowen, the former minister to
Venezuela, and adds that Secretary
Hay very strongly condemned Mr..
Bowen's course. The president quotes
Mr.. Hay as declaring that most of the
charges were really against himself
(Mr. Hay) and mot against Mr..
Loomis at ALL" and that Mr.. Bowen
knew that.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05

"The stock market is a wonderful
institution" says James J.. Hill. the
railroad president. 81 know nothing
about it." Most men are in the same
condition, but few are willing to adj
NIT It.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05

The hunger for righteousness" be-
gins in English children at the age of
Is, according to a London professor.
And it is generally so well satisfied
that most of them are never troubled
with it afterward.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05

A captious New York editor finds
gold certificates. Most of us are too
glad to see one to think of picking
flaws in it.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05

That pity is aEir . love is proved
By the fact that a shoemaker in New
York state, with two wooden legs,
advertised for a wife in the want col.
umns and received 10S applications.
Also, it pays to advertise.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05
MEN FOR CANAL ARE cLUssED.

Laborers From Martinique Refose TO
Land and Are Fired From Ship.
Colon, Oct. Silk hundred and fifty
laborers from Martinique, brought
here Friday on the French steamer
Versailles under contract to work on
the canal, refused to disembark or to
submit to vaccination, which is i'm
perative under the American sanitary
regulations. They clamored to be
taken back to Martinique, asserting
that they had been misinformed as to
the conditions here before they en-
barked, and that later they learned
these conditions were %intolerable and
deadly.
Yesterday morning, however, 500 of
them were with difficulty persuaded to
land and these were sent to points
along the line of the canal. One hun
dred and fifty remained on board and
Declined to Leave
the ship under any consideration.
These were forcibly elected from the
vessel by Panaman and canal zone pc.
licemen, but not until nearly every n
of them had been dubbed and several
were bleeding from nasty ounds. All
of yesterday and last night the Yer
sailles was guarded by Panaman po-
licemen.
Early in the morning the French
consul at Colon, M. Bonhenry, ap-
pealed to the men to listen to reason,
explaining that they had left Martin
ique under contract with the canal
zone emigration agent guaranteeing
the payment Of their passage here,
and that while working on the canal
they would have, inaddition to their
wages, the guarantee of free quarters
and free medical attendance. The
men, however.
Were Not Amenable
to this reasoning. Notwithstanding the
efforts of the consul and of the Pan
aman and American officials, and
despite the information given them BY
several of their countrymen that
health and other conditions on the
isthmus were satisfactory and that the
terms of their employment would en-
able them to save money, they persis-
tently refused to leave the ship, bar
ing their breasts and invoking death
in preference to- going ashore.
At 2 o'clock the laborers were in
formed that they would be given two
hours to reconsider their decision, and
at 4 o'clock three Of them consented
to disembark, the others still holding
out. Then the Panaman police, armed
with clubs, approached the laborers,
and on their refusing to quit the ship,
began to
Club Them Right and Left.
The zone police a few minutes later
assisted in the clubbing, but with bet
ter judgement and less indiscriminate-
ly. About fifty of the laborers leaped
into the sea, but all of the men were
able to swim. The captain, however
lowered a boat, which picked them up.
Nearly every nan had received blows
and several of them were bleeding
from ugly wounds.
Seeing that resistance was useless,
the men yielded, came ashore and be-
gan to eat the food which had been
placed on the dock in sight of them
for several hours. Many of them had
not eaten since Saturday. At 5 o'clock
all the laborers, who were in a pitia-
BILE condition, were placed on board a
train which left for Corozal, where
they will be put to work.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05

The Surprise party" is the latest
thing at Newport. Thus do the most
complex products of ornate civiliza-
ton suddenly revert to first princi-
pies. The donation party may come
next.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05

President Palma says that the day
of his defeat would be the happiest
of his life. Now we know why men
become candidates when there is not
the slightest chance of success.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05
FATHER SHOOTS BRIDE.
Kills Himself and Daughter Who Had
Eloped.

Brantford. Ont, Oct. 8. - A young
Armenian woman was shot on the
street by her father, who then shot
himself. Both will die. The woman
came here from Hamilton Friday night
and was married. The father. who op-
posed the marriage, followed his
daughter here. and meeting her and
her husband on the street, began
shooting with the above result. He
fred at the husband but missed him.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05

A steamboat man estimates the
amount of cash spent by American
visitors to Europe this summer at $751;
$685. We know who spent the $27
to go as far toward Europe as he
could, but the other part of the figure
10 ridiculously small.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05

It's a pity that the successful men
who tell young men how to do it
cannot be put in the running a second
time. We wonder how many of them
would hit it twice.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05

The smart young men Of Newport
have taken to growing ]mustaches,
thereby setting a fashion that the
poorest of young men can generally
follow.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05

The worlds supply of sheep Is rapid
ly diminishing, an official statement
says. The supply of lambs for the
speculative centers does not seem to
have been affected.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05

Masks for certain convicts have
been advocated at a prison congress.
There are many who would be in
prison but for the masks they wear.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05

Then there is the notifying reflec-
ton that the astronomers on the
planet Mars must have discovered our
north pole ages ago.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05

AS a New York boy has been held in
$1,000 bail on a charge Of stealing a
watermelon the inference is that a col
ored man was on the bench.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05

When Maggie Fox of Minneapolis
found her lost hustle containing $500,
she was that much ahead and that
much behind.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05
Score Drown In Sea Crash.

Helsingfors, Finland, Oct. 3. - The
Swedish steamers Njord and Robert
collided Saturday evening neal Hveen
island, In the sound. The Rober. sank.
Twenty persons were drowned.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05

Judging by the picture of the WON
an in the New Jersey Jail who con-
fesses to having four husbands, she
must have been a hypnotist.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05

The mystery of what the baby
speaks is solved. 1t is Esperanto, for
1t is spoken fiuently and nobody can
understand it.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05

They have found a man in New
York who has been married fifty
times, and he has never applied for
one of those Carnegie hero medals.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05

Society, says a Philadelphia minis
ter, is going wild. 1t may have misun-
derstood the appeal for a return to
nature.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05

A man says the trusts have driven
him to crime. Here is a hint to
drunkards in need of a new excuse.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05

The war incident cannot be consid-
cred closed until Rujj'rd Kipling has
written one Of his stirring poems
about it.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05
ENVOY Is NOW COUNT wIrTE.

Title.
81. petersburg, Oct. 3. - M. White
has been created a count. Though M.
Witte had expected to return to st.
petersburg Yesterday morning, at the
invitation OF Emperor Nicholas he re-
NAMED to lunch on board the imperial
yacht Polar Star, returning to st. Pc
tersburg last evening. Owing to the
absence OF Emperor Nicholas, it is an
nounced that the peace treaty will not
DC signed until the end Of the week.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05

At last one of the British royal fam
lily has distinguished himself; 1t was
by eating jam.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05

Existence is a fight against the
storms of trouble, and cupid is the
fellow who hands out the life preserv-
ers.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05

The circus, it appears, has been ele-
waited. Now let all available energy
be concentrated on the theater.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05

Alice Hogan Rice of "Mrs. Wigs"
fame has started a bank. There's
money in cabbages.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-10-05

In certain parts of Russia you do
not need to scratch anybody to find a
Tartar.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1905-03-17
NORTHEAST BETHANY.

Mr.. and Mrs. John Briggs and daugh-
ter visited at II. Huffords OF North
Wheeler. over Sunday.
Miss Louise Fenner, who has been
visiting her aunt in Mt. Pleasant re-
turned home last Friday.
The Define Brothers buzzed wood for
G.. Pompey and G. Buchhoz last week.
Mrs. Francis Gee, who has been TAX
ing care of a sick sister-in-law at Stanton
returned home Saturday.
Wesley Beard and John Kehl made a
business trip TO st. Louis Saturday.
Miss Rosa Kehl, of St. Louis, is home
for a few days.
The Ladies' Aid Society of Bethany,
met at the home of Mrs. VanThurn
last Thursday. In two weeks they will
be entertained by Mrs. Will Foster.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Stewart visited
in Ithaca last week.
Mrs. Hustled visited her daughter
Mrs. A. l.. Fox, several days last week.
NJ. Oberst, Of Fremont. Ohio, is spend
ing a week with his son, Frank.
There was no service at the Bethany
church Sunday, owing to the illness of
Rev Hayward's mother.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Bodfish spent Friday
evening with Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Oberst.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1905-03-17
WEST PINE RIVER.

Bruce Hoyt, of Mt. Pleasant, spent a
few DAYS in this vicinity with friends,
returning home Saturday.
Mabel Wilson is quite i'll with the
grip.
Mrs. T. Raycraft is entertaining COM
pany.
Grandpa Lanshaw is reported no
better.
Will ADAMS is moving his family onto
:. Adams farm, which he intends to
work this summer.
J. Jones and family spent Sunday at
Mr. Flewellings.
Mrs. G. Flewelling expects to remodel
her house in the near future.
Belle Sullivan visited friends in Alma
over Sunday.
Elmer Post and family have moved
into the same house with his father.
Mr. and Mrs. VIM. Fowler spent sun
day with {. Nelson and family.
Several from here attended the Free
Methodist church at Alma Sunday.
a. II. Brown purchased new horse
Monday.
Mrs Fred Kyes was very pleasantly
surprised bv party of her friends and
neghbors last Monday eveding, 1t being
her forty-fourth birthday Refresh
ments were served. Just before leaving
Mrs Morton presented Mrs. Kyes with q
set of silver knives and forks as token
of remembrance from her friends. Al
report fine time.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1905-03-17
Ate Frozen Orange and Died.

Cedar Springs, Mich, March 15.-
From the effects OF eating a frozen
orange in Florida, l.. +. Harng. lead.
ing business man. died Tuesday morn.
ing. Mr.. and Mrs. Haring left about
the first of November for the south
and spent a delightful season in Flori.
da and left few days ago for their
Michigan home. On the return jour.
ney Mr.. Haring was taken very sick
as the result of eating frozen orange
The best of medical assistance was un.
able to relieve his suffering and he
passed away. aged only 80. He leaves
a young widow.