The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-11-24
RESUME OF THE NEWS
Brief
Accidental Happenings.

Accidental Happenings.
A boiler explosion in a -four mill at
Gutenberg, Iowa, killed Joel Baum
gartner, owner, and Benjamin Walter,
engineer, and wrecked the building.
An east-bound Union Pacific passen-
ger train collided with a work train
near Bonner Springs, Kan, and a
number of persons were injured, but
ncne killed.
Seven girls were injured and dam
age amounting to about $4,000 was
caused by a fire which destroyed the
five-story factory building at Leonard
and Meserole streets, Brooklyn.
An explosion of gas in the Taylor
coal mine near Starlight, Pa, resulted
in the death of F. c. Smyers. Seven
other men employed in the mine were
seriously but not fatally burned.
Randall Mcleod, left end of the
Hampton, Iowa high school football
team, was probably fatally injured in
a game with Marshalltown high
school. His intestines were ruptured.
Spreading rails caused the derail-
ment of the tender and two mail cars
of a west-bound train near kirkwood,
Mo-, killing Fireman James McDan-
iels, who was thrown under the ten
der.
Five persons were injured, three Sc
riously, in a collision between Denver
& Rio Grande passenger train No. 4
nd Rock Island Passenger train No.
0, in the Rio Grande yards at Pueblo,
Colo.
A motor handcar driven by Allison
| r. Hines, roadmaster of the Big Four
run down by a fast freight at Ander-
son, Ind. Hines received injuries
! which resulted in his death a few
hours later.
While walking along the railroad
track at Anderson, Ind, Lewis Mum
Gle, II years old, and Mollie Tinkle,
aged II, were run dawn by an in
bound passenger train. The body Of
the girl was so badly mangled as to
make identification difficult.
Fire destroyed the Macon county,
Mo-, infirmary, an institution for pau
pers and insane persons. Mrs. A. M.
Decker, one of the patients, was
frightfuly burned about the face and
arms, but probably will recover The
other patients were safely removed
from the building.
While driving across the railroad
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Greene and her mother-in-law, Mrs.
Rachael Greene, were killed by a Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul passenger
rain, which s%plintered the body to
atoms. Both bodies were mangled al
most beyond recognition.
General.
George Kaiser died at the city hos
pital at Dallas, Tex, after having
slept more than 100 hours.
In a certificate filed in the county
clerks office in New York, Mayor
George B. Mcclellan asserts that he
spent nothing in the recent campaign.
Miss Jessie H. Mcpherson, a society
girl of Racine, Wis, has brought suit
for $4,000 against Walter A. Wood,
son of Lyman Wood, manufacturer,
for breach Of promise.
A peculiar strike went into effect In
Philadelphia at a shirt-making estab-
lishment when 500 girls decided to
quit work because the firm had vir-
tually discharged 800 male employees.
Horace Lewis Smith, we'll known as
an actor by the stage name of Horace
Lewis, died at his home at Broohline,
Mass. of heart trouble. He was 81
years old and had been on the stage
thirty years.
A petition in involuntary bankrupt
cy against the Brown-Corliss Engine
company of Corliss, Wis. has been
filed in the Office of the clerk of the
United States court by Robert Rom
company of Milwaukee.
Notwithstanding the reduction of
duty on wheat from the United States,
none is going into Mexico and com
plants are heard frequently that a
trust operating in both countries is
holding back the supply in the United
States.
One OF the most complete tubercu-
losis camps in the country is to be es-
tablished near Blue Island, near Chi
cago, through the munificence of Mrs.
Edward L. Gaylord, who has donated
100 acres of land and will supply the
entire fund necessary to equip and
maintain the settlement. The propos-
ed camp is to be used for the treat
ment of the poor only. Only i~ncipient
and durable cases will be received.
James L. Ord Of Chicago, who
claims to be the great grandson Of
George w. Of England, and Mrs. Maria
Smyth Fitzherbert, whose marriage
was shown to be valid by papers
which were opened In London recent.
ly, declared that he would take steps
to claim a share in the estate which
it is claimed was left by King George
and Mrs. Fitzherbert. Mr.. Ord esti.
mates the value Of the estate at $685..