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Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1905-02-05
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cine iu1ge 6rau nun blcibt brin. sic
lit obumddtig gctporoen. Die Mcna
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gum 9ottor."
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idmer3lihem Nuff6lu43cn ito6nt cr;
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mir 49,. G8 is ia. mein Sunge!"
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1905-02-05
Siio(ce = G'rinnerun9tr.

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2eute bon gap. - Sitten unb Sc.
funbbeit85uItanO. - Der n80nie
Der Siioice". 49, Die gebeimntBbpI.
len 8autcn in M}ctdIdnim. - Dor
ben Gnoeren Snieln.
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1905-02-05
Mon mub lid 3u belfcn
mt9ftn.

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bic 9oIemnatb, unb Dem @cbe9c Iciner
3a4nc cntfdbrt bos 3ommaltbo Sc
pad abl" (6iir ni6tmilitGriIdc QcIer
lei bemcrtt, baB gum N6lcgen Der Sorz
hitter befoblen piro: nMbIegrn" pbcr
p8rpdd ub,O
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1905-02-05
Der 3eit Der 8Gei II
It aaterei.

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Illf bis nelln llbr beldrdnft uno benz
nod ie1e ih piele meiner giirger NadtS
UNI 3cbn, elf, ia 5iu0If llbr erit bon Der
aneipe mad 9auie seben."
aSa, 9urhlaudt, Die ee1en ing
NoHbarreid, ba limb bic Wirtbfdafs
Ten biz sp0lf llbr se0ffnet."
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1905-02-05
Sicbe &tn0ct!

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las Grite lit bic Wtutter pom 3pci.
ten ...
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peiter. 4lio bas Grite 1T bic Mutter
rom 3lpcitcn mo Die S6tpciter bonn
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uul0 Die Wiltttcr bonn Grltcn lt16 ole
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Ter bonn @onien.
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item ltno Der 8otcr pom 3meiten lulo
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3ie9cl6od ocm Die Siege lit Die 0it!.
lcr oeS 8ndS u1O Die St)meiter oes
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&nter
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Der befonmt cincn 0ollor.
Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1905-02-05
Nus Der 3eit.

.6EGoises 5rdulein iparen bod
lpo6l nit Sbrer 5rau DIANA in benz
felben 9abe?"
DNein, mir iudten berI6iebene 3llr,
prte auf - Inn chamber nift gu scl
nieren."
Der gdldnte 0orfbaber.
Sommerfrif6lerin: yWdrum ioll
mir benn Der aebrlins ben 3abn sies
benz"
sNf, gu fold fleinen nieblihen
3dbnen brandt man bod feinen grs
lpafieneI."
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-12-28
The News of the Week
Accidental Happenings.

Fire at Des Moines destroyed the
Rothwell block, causing a loss esti.
mated at S150,000. The building is
n of the largest business blocks in
the city.
Charles B. Games, founder and vice
president of the st. Louis credit clear.
ing house, was instantly killed at his
residence by a shot from an old rife
that he was examining.
Fire in Chicago caused losses aggre-
eating $119,0 600 in a five-story manufac.
turing building. The principal losses
were: Lantz, Owen & Co, leather
dealers, $4,000; the building, 100000.
A fuse blew out on a street car in
Cleveland, Ohio, setting the vestibule
of the car on fire. A dozen passengers
made a rush for the exit, and in doing
SO trampled to death a 1~3-year-old
girl.
The boiler OF a freight engine on
the Wilmington & Northern railroad
blew up near Birdsboro, Pa, killing
William E. Hesser, the fireman, and
fatally scalding H. w. Leinbach, the
engineer, and a brakeman.
Mrs. John Lashaway, her daughter
in-law, Mrs. l.. l.. Lashaway, and the
latter's ~two-year-old baby were killed
at Weston, Ohio. A carriage in which
they were riding vas struck by a
south-bound passenger train at the
Main street crossing.
Fire in the military post at Fort
Myer. Va, destroyed the bachelors
quarter and caused considerable ex-
element at the post. All the nine
bachelor officers were asleep, but they
were aroused and escaped from the
building.
Thin ice on the Maumee river at
Toledo was the cause of the death of
three boys who we're SEATING there.
The boys skated over the channel of
the river where the ice was thin and
went through. They were seen to dis.
appear, but when rescuers reached
them they we're dead.
Mrs. William Ostrum and her two
children. aged m and two years,
were burned to death In their home
on the outskirts Of Charlevoix. Mich,
and the authorities consider that the
circumstances surrounding their death
warrants an investigation. Mrs. Os-
trum was subject to epilepsy. It is
thought she may have been seized
with an attack while holding a lamp
and have dropped it, causing the fire.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-12-28
LAX METHODS
OF OFFICIALS
EMPLOYEES OF STATE INsUR'
ANcE DEPARTMENT ON
THE STAND.
KNEW REPORT WAS NOT TRUt
STATE OFFICIAL THOUGHT IT
WAS NOT NECESSARY TO
REPORT 1T.

New York, Dec 24.-Additional ties
timony as to the management OF the
Mutual Life Insurance company was
adduced yesterday by witnesses be
fore the legislative committee, tend
ing to show that the company USED
profits from the sale Of securities tt
conceal the reduction of book values
of real estate, or losses, as Charles Z
Hughes, counsel to the committee
called them.
Francis Hendricks, superintendent
Of the state insurance department
when on the witness stand Thursday
said he had never heard Of such
thing, and that It had never beer
called to his attention. Yesterday, af
ter auditors OF the Mutual Life hat
testified to this fact, Isaac Vanderpoel
chief examiner for the department
declared that
He Had Not Discovered
the matter in his examination OF thu
company last year. when In his re
port he gave the company what II
practically a certificate Of good char
acter." He said these manipulation
Of the figures were not apparent in thu
books.
These transfers Of profits to thu
debit side Of the profit and loss &C
count were made by the auditors upol
instruction from President McCurd!
and Vice President Grannis, and thu
written instructions were produced
They named the figures that adjusted
the accounts, and last year, Will,
there was really a profit Of almost
million and q half dollars when tn,
transfers were made, nc profit what
ever was shown.
He Did "Nothins."
Mr.. Vanderpoel said he had exam
ined the report of 1904, which showet
no profits from the sale of securities
Although he knew that was untrue, h,
did not think it was necessary to re
port 1t. The same situation existed n
the New York Life, according to MI
vanderpoel, although the practice wa
not general, and when asked what HI
did in the matter he said nothing"
Mr.. Vanderpoel lever knew Of thu
year-end loans Of the metropolitan
Life to Vermelye & Co., and neve,
knew how the company handled IL
collateral loans. He said he never II
an examination Of a company wen
back of its ledgers.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-12-28
Domestic.

John A. Burbank, aged 70, formerly
territorial governor of Dakota, died at
his home in Richmond, Ind, after a
brief illness.
Clay Neville, a farmer living sever
miles from Curryville, Mo-, commit
ted suicide from worry over having
more money than he could invest.
Mayor Fogo Of Wellsville, Ohio, has
given orders to the police that no ar
rests for drunkenness be made on
Christmas day. The offense will be
excused in honor of the day.
Richard Hodgson, Ii. d., one of the
foremost authorities in the world on
p%sychical research, died suddenly of
heart disease while playing handball
at the Union Boat club in Boston.
According to a private telegram.
Rev. William A. Sunday, the evangel.
list, died of heart failure at Burlington.
Iowa. He was forty-two years old and
at one time a member of the Chicago
National league baseball team.
After having run his engine past
eight stations at the rate of sixty
miles al hour without a single stop.
the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
railroad officials had Engineer Charles
NJ. Warren removed from his cab at
GAINESVILLE. Wis. 1t was found that
the man had gone insane.
A petition has been filed in the
United States court of appeals at Gin
cinnati in behalf of Mrs. Cassie l..
Chadwick, asking for a rehearing of
her case on the ground that the court
allegedly did not consider the errors
assigned by her in her first and fifth
assignments of errors. The petition
was filed by Attorney Francis j. Wing
of Cleveland. The court will not take
any action on the petition for rehear.
ing before Jan. 1.
A sensational robbery in which the
robbers stole about $4,000 worth of
jewelry, Occurred in the jewelry store
of Mrs. Mary Liggins at Philadelphia.
Two men entered the store while Mrs.
Ligigns was alone, knocked her down,
bOlted the door and proceeded to rob
the place. They were interrupted by
a policeman and fed through a back
door. taking all sorts of jewelry with
them. Mrs. Liggins vas found uncon-
scious. There is no clue.
Mrs. Miller, the aged mother of
joaquin Miller, the poet, died at the
poets residence. 1.-THE Heights" a
short distance back of Oakland, CAL,
aged nearly ninety years. She was
buried in the little graveyard back of
the house, where the poet has raised a
funeral pyre.
A granddaughter Of Senator W. A.
Clark OF Montana was born at San
Mateo. Cal. the parents being Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles w. Clark. When in
formed of the birth of the baby, Sena-
tor Clark announced that he would
give the little girl a dowry OF : .000.-
! o0e.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-12-28
Foreign.

Torpedo boats No. 20 and No. 81
collided violently during the name u
vers in the harbor at Brest, France.
Both vessels were badly damaged.
Miss Olive Ross, aged fifteen years,
was instantly killed and Bert Brooks,
Misses Tracy, Ross and Agnes Mil
lard were or less seriously in,
jured in a runaway at Ottumwa, la.
Hermosillo advices state that a
band OF Yaqui Indians waylaid Fer
nando M~aytorona, one Of the most
wealthy merchants in Sonora, Mex,
on the outskirts Of the village of May
torena, and killed him and his driver.
Acting Gov. Gen. Ide will invite
William ]. Bryan, on the latter's arriv-
al at Manila from China, to be a guest
| Of the Order of Elks. Mr.. Bryan will
be lavishly entertained by the Elks and
| will deliver a lecture to them on the
| topic OF The Prince Of Peace"
The duke and duchess of Aosta.
cousins OF King Victor Emmanuel,
while on an automobile trip ran over
a woman. The car was Immediately
| woman with her to the home of a doc
| tor, who said that she was in a danger
Gus condition.
Edward Joris, the Belgian, and
three others charged with participa-
ton in the attempt to assassinate the
sultan last summer. were sentenced
| to death by the native court at Con-
stantinople. Other alleged accom-
plices were committed to penal servi-
tude for life. and ten persons charged
with the same crime, who have not
| yet been arrested, were sentenced to
death.
The unexpected visit Of Emperor
William TO Brunswick to confer with
the regent. Prince Albrecht, and the
recent visit of the duke of Oldenberg,
father of the betrothed wife Of Prince
| Eitel Frederick, the second son of
Emperor William, to the same capital,
has given rise, the Tageblatt says, to
the belief hat the emperor's plan is to
have Prince Eitel take the throne of
Brunswick, Prince Albrecht resign
ing.
A fire almost totally destroyed the
Bovard block, Grant avenue, Du Ques,
ne, Pa. causing a loss Of $4,000
Mrs. Sadie Bedell, a telephone opera.
tor, was partially suffocated by smoke
and was carried from the building
unconscious. The fire is supposed
to have been of incendiary origin.
The department store of NJ. Weisberg
sustained a loss of $4,000. The 9TH
er buildings adjacent were damaged
by smoke and water.
Gov. Toole of Montana is not a can.
| didate for the senate to succeed w. A.
Clark. He made an announcement to
that end, denying a report that he
was a candidate. He says that II his
health permits he will serve out his
present term as governor and then re-
tire from politics.
The organization formed to pur-
chase the house in which President
Theodore Roosevelt was born at %
East Twentieth street in New York.
and present IL to the nation. complet-
ed the details of the purchase and Sc
cured possession of the property for
: sec, 600.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-12-28
DOWN STEEP EMsANkMENr.

Illinois Central Passenger Train ID
DeraiIed and Falls Twenty-Five Feet.
Memphis, Tenn, Dec. 24.--One pas.
senger was killed and six injured in a
wreck on the Illinois Central, six
miles north of Holly Springs. Miss,
yesterday morning. Two coaches Of a
north-bound local passenger train be.
tween Canton. Miss, and Cairo. were
derailed and turned owe q twenty-five
foot embankment. Mrs. Wade was
crushed to death. OF the injured one
win probably die.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-12-28
cHILD's PLEA WINS PARDON.
Maryland Governor Frees Prisoner I,
Please Six-Year-Oid Child.

Annapolis, Nd, Dec. 24.-The sym
pathy Of the six-year-old daughter OF
Gov. Warfield gained a pardon foI
Robert Carson, sentenced to eighteen
months in the penitentiary for lar
ceny. Earsom's wife, in the course OF
a strenuous campaign to obtain ex'
ecutive clemency, called at the ex,
ecutive mansion one morning carrying
a baby in her arms. Little Emma,
the governors daughter, became deep.
Iy concerned in her story, and after a
long talk with the governor in his
room, wound up with:
Father, don't you think the man
ought to be let out II he is sorry?"
The governor vas impressed and,
as a strong petition was presented to
him, he signed the pardon. /.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-12-28

The car of all the Russians would
probably be willing TO give a consider.
able part of his $12, 900 600 salary to
know just what is going to happen TO
him in the next few weeks.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-12-28
Three Irainmen Killed.

Phoenixville, Pa, Dec. "a. Three
trainmen were killed yesterday in a
wreck on the Philadelphia & Reading
railroad at Parkomen Junction. A
milk train on the Reading division
crashed into a freight train.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-12-28
Bio Increase In FREIGHT.

Sault Ste. Marie, Mich, Dec. "a. -
The government report issued yester-
day places the total freight tonnage Of
the 500 canal for the year at 1870,
$50 tons. an increase over last year Of
10 per cent.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-12-28

Several Korean officials have com
mitted hara-kiri. thus showing, as
japan desires the world to note. their
thorough sympathy with japanese in.
situations.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-12-28
Boom in shjphuiIdjnu.

London, Dec. "a. = Shipbuildinb re-
turns for the past year from the north
east coast of England show a record
output Of 965, 600 tons, an increase of
230, 900 tons over 1904.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-12-28
2,52o,ooe EGGS BURNED.
Meat Wagon Driver Accused Of Firing
Cold STORAGE Plant.

Oklahoma City. Okla, Dec. 24.-The
Oklahoma Ice and Brewing company's
cold storage plant, owned by Adolphus
Busch of st. Louis, and containing
1000 cases of eggs, was destroyed by
fire yesterday. Loss, $4,000. A meat
wagon driver was arrested. charged
with having set fire to the plant.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-12-28

P~aderewski is entirely recovered,
after two operations, from the effects
Of his American railway accident. 1t
is said not to be safe yet, however,
to call his dog Syracuse" in the plan
lists presence.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-12-28

The best time in the year to eat
eggs, Constant Reader" is when the
relations subsisting between your
poeketbook and the price Of eggs are
most harmonious.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-12-28

A writer for the Saturday Evening
Post asserts that the horse is the
most dangerous and deadly animal in
the world. Worst Of all. he proves ii
by Official statistics.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-12-28

The leading man in San Francisco's
Chinese theater says his enemies
have offered $2,500 for his assassina,
tion. They are not necessarily his
enemies; they may be lovers OF act,
Ing.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-12-28

The farmer who can read Secretary
Wilson's glowing and auroral report
without feeling alfred rich and pros
perous may be set down as An incur.
able and unimaginative pessimist.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-12-28

King Edward has decided TO confer
the Order OF Merit on both Field Mar,
shall Oyama and Admiral Togo. Does
this remind you of the Rewards of
Merit that you used to get at Sunday
school!
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-12-28
Sins and Sinners.

Leonard Imboden and James A.
Hill, bankers, have been found guilty
OF conspiring to wreck the Denver
Savings bank.
Will Carter, a negro, was hanged at
Wilmington, n. c., for a criminal as,
sault upon a siX-year-old white girl at
Wallace IN November last.
Andrew Rods of Butte was shot
three times by a colored highwayman
who attempted to snatch his watch
and pocketbook. The robber made
his escape.
Austin Francis of Kansas City,
charged with the murder a month ago
of Winona Newton, his f~ifteen-year-
old sweetheart, was found guilty of
murder in the first degree.
w. F. Mahaffy a prominent and
well-to-do citizen Of Dallas, Tex, COM
mitted suicide by tying n wire around
his neck, a rope around his legs, and
jumping head foremost into a well.
Four robbers blew open the safe in
the bank at Baldwin, ILL.,, battled des-
perately with citizens and escaped in
a buggy. Nobody was hurt in the
street fight. About $4,000 was taken.
Michael ]. Sullivan, aged SO, a road
master for the Grand Trunk railway,
was shot from ambush when he an
swered a rap at the door of his house
at Monroe, Mich. 1t is thought he
cannot recover.
After agreeing to make no denial II
let of with fines, the brick trust"
cases came to an end In Chicago.
Each Of the nine defendants fines was
$4,000. Certified checks for $18,0 900
were paid in court. The Indictments
charged conspiracy to restrain trade.
The negro district Of Beaumont.
Tex, recently was the scene Of a
triple tragedy. Byron B~erriett, a mo-
torman, and Elisha Perita, a deputy
constable, being shot and almost in
stantly killed by Henry Powell, a 49,
year-old negro, who was in turn killed
by Deputy Sheriff Trevis.
Former Aid. Robert l.. Rudolph,
who was convicted at Milwaukee a
month ago Of soliciting a bride Of
500 from ex-City Attorney Charles H.
Hamilton in 1901, has been denied a
new trial. Argument is now being
heard on a motion to defer sentence
pending reference of certain questions
to the supreme court.
Advices received at the Office Of
Supt. Beamer of the Northern Pacific
at Spokane say that not more than
$500 in cash was secured by the band
its who robbed the North Coast linn.
tied train near North Yakima, but
they secured a large amount of nego-
table paper, value not yet ascertain
ed. The Northern Pacific Railway
company has offered a reward Of $4,-
600 for the arrest Of the robbers and
the state officials a reward OF 81, 900.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-12-28

Washington, Dec. "a. - Important
details of the treaty between China
and Japan signed in Pekin yesterday
have reached the state department by
cable. China consents to lease to
Japan the Liao-tung peninsula, at the
southern extremity of which Is Port
Arthur and Dalny. This territory was
formerly held by Russia under lease
from China. Most important Of all of
the provisions Of the treaty is an arti.
Gle whereby China agrees to open to
the worlds commerce and trade six.
teen principal ports and cities in
Manchuria.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-12-28

AT the bottom" says Mr.. Eckels.
'rhe great mass Of the American peo-
PIE arc honest" Does the gentleman
wish to be understood as insinuating
that their honesty is what keeps the
great mass of the American people at
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