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The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
A STRANGE ACCIDENT
SEVEN PERSONS INJURED AT
BELLAiRE, OHIO.
People Returning from n Funeral
Are the Victims of an Accident
Which Will Probably Result i'm
the Death of Two Persons.

A Wheeling, w. Va, dispatch says:
Two will probably die and five others
Iare severely injured as the result of a
Runaway accident at Bellaire, o., about
"A O'Clock Thursday afternoons:
The injured are Mrs. Shane Bell, wife
Of the lieutenant of police of Benwood,
throat cut by glass; will hardly survive;
Mrs. John Morris, Benwood, internally
injured; will die; Mrs. John Robey, Me-
Mechen, shoulder blade broken; Miss Al
Ia King, McMechen, badly. cut and
bruised; Mrs. Charles O. Kenney, Me-
Mechen, cut by glass about the face;
Mrs. John Carpenter, wife of Benwood
councilman, broken limb; Mrs. William
Tarr and Mrs. Marquis, Benwood, cut
and bruised.
The worst injured were in n carriage
driven by Jacob Duke, returning from
n funeral. The horses became frightened
at n train and dashed into a carriage
containing the other injured driven by
Robert Brown. The wheels caught and
Dukes carriage was thrown over a 30
foot embankment. The injured were re-
moved to the Bellaire hospital.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
TORNADO IN TiiE SOUTH.
Great Destruction in Randolph
County, Alabama.

A Columbus, Ga, dispatch says: The
Opilique News of Tuesday evening pub
lished a special from Roanoke, Ran
dolph County, Ala, stating that reports
have reached Roanoke of one of the most
disastrous storms that ever visited that
section, which swept across the south
ern part of Randolph County late Tues
day night.
Eight or nine lives are known to have
been lost, and damage amounting to
thousands of dollars was done TO prop
erty.
The tornado started at n point near
Double Heads and proceeded in a north
westerly course.
Inc residence of Mack Carlisle was
demolished and r. c. Haynes, of Roam
oke, was killed.
Six miles east several houses were de-
molished.
Three negroes were killed and several
injured on the Wilson plantation.
Three or four negroes were killed on
the Holly plantation, near Rock Mills.
At Lime postofice a store was demol-
ishcd and Il little white girl, daughter Of
Il Mr.. Lucas, was killed and her mother
seriously injured.
Details of the storm are difficult to oh,
tain on account of wires being down.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
WANTED FIVE MEN SHOT.
sensational Tale of Effort to Get
keRtuckian { o Commit Murders.

At Lexington, KY, DR.. Cox. jim
Cockril, Mark Cockril, Attorney
Vaughan and J.. b. Marcum were to be
shot by Anderson while in the court
house during the trial of Tom Cockril
for killing Ben Hargis, in obedience to
orders by James Hargis, according to a
sensational story told Wednesday by
White in the hearing of a motion for
bail for Hargis, Callahan and Anderson.
White is n brother of Tom White. who
is under death sentence for the murder
of j.. b. Marcum. White said that pri-
or to the killing James Hargis took him
to the Hargis store, gave him Il 4J-cali-
Der pistol and told him he wanted him
to return to the court house where the
trial of Cockril for the killing of Ben
Hargis was in progress and be ready
to do as James Hargis told him. He
declared Hargis wanted him to shoot
FIVE men, White being ordered to shoot
in case any trouble started. Kill all or
any ahmed one of them," is what
White said Hargis told him to do. He
said he declined to do this and returned
the pistol.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
BIG FLOOD FEARED.
Pennsylvania Rivers Again Rising
Rapidly.

A Pittsburg, Pa, special says: An
other great flood threatens this section.
For twenty-four hours heavy rains have
Yeen falling over all the country drained
by the Monongahela and her tributaries.
Reports received Tuesday show all the
streams were rising rapidly.
The weather bureau issued another
warning Tuesday morning to the effect
that a much higher stage of water than
that of Monday might be expected.
After remaining on the ground for four
months, practically the entire winters
snowfall on the river points, i'll some
places amounting to eight feet, was
washed out by over an inch of rain
which fell during Saturday and Sunday.
The torrent caused by this movement
has left much damage in its wake.
More than a score of industrial plants
are crippled and at least 10000 men are
temporarily forced into idleness.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
CONVICTED OF ASSAULT.
Brutal Elk Point Husband Found
Guilty of Grave Crime.

Lyman futile Thursday morning was
convicted at Elk Point of assault with
intent to kill. The victim was his wife,
and she appeared in court in a rolling
chair, presenting a pitiable sight as a
result of her husbands i'll treatment.
Her nightgown and other garments,
which had been burned by the lighted
lamp with which her husband is alleged
to have committed the assault, were in
PRODUCED in court.
The maximum penalty for the crime is
ten years. futile was sentenced Friday
to six months in the penitentiary.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
TRAIN is WRECKED.
Rock Island Limited Thrown Into
the Ditch.

The Rock Island Railroad officials
claim robbers wrecked the Golden State
Limited, near Homestead, Ia. early
Tuesday morning.
Six persons were injured in the wreck,
three fatally.
The wreck occurred Oh a high embank-
ment. Two Denver and Colorado sleep
ers landed in the ditch on end, the en-
bankment at that point being about 80
feet wide.
The engine, mail car and composite
car also went down the embankment.
At the general offices of the Rock ISL
and at Chicago the officials expressed
doubt that the wreck at Homestead was
caused by robbers.
The officials said the wrecking of the
train was done maliciously and with pre-
meditation. 1t was found the rails 1T
the point where the wreck occurred had
not only been removed, but after being
taken out of line with the rest of the
tracks had been spiked down again.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
FORTY-FivE STILL MISSING.
Fifty-Five Bodies Recovered from,
the Brockton Disaster.

Satisfied that there was no chance of
recovering additional bodies from the
ruins OF the II. b. Grover Company's
shoe factory at B%rockton, Mass, search
was abandoned at IL o'clock Tuesday
night by the small army of volunteers
after thirty-seven hours of constant toll.
Although the police and Medical Ex-
aminer Paine feel sure that they have
removed from the debris all remains
which were not reduced to ashes, a sec
ond search shortly will be instituted TO
satisfy relatives and friends of the vic
tins.
The revised list as given out by the
police at 11:30 Tuesday night was as fol-
lows:
Bodies recovered, 30; identified, IA;
missing, 40; reported as escaped, 2S3.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
SENSATION AT BONESTEEL.
Young Lawyer from Nebraska Held
ON a Serious Charge.

Sensations which rival the days of dra.
matte intensity which held sway at
Bonesteel during the rush days to the
Rosebud have seized upon that town as
the result of a lawsuit growing out of a
scandal in high society" in which Da-
vid Watkins, Il young attorney, has been
held 10 the circuit court in the sum of
$500.
AS a result of the trial, which has
held the boards at Bonesteel for more
han a week, and which was attended
by crowds of several hundred eager aud
itors each day, there were threats to do
violence to Judge Howles, who presided.
Mrs. Nellie Neunemacker, who is al
legged to have been associated with Wat
kins. has attempted suicide by taking
blue ointment, and warrants have been
issued against both the woman and her
husband. She is charged with the same
crime alleged against Watkins, while
her husband, who shot al Watkins when
the latter fled towards Nebraska, is
charged with shooting with intent to
kill"
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
SIX MINERS KILLED.
-Four Others Are Injured in an Ex-
pIosion in an Indiana Mine.

Six miners dead and four injured, two
probably fatally, is the result of IN ex-
plosion in the mine Of the Princeton
Coal and Mining Company at Princeton,
Ind, Wednesday afternoon.
Or the dead all but one were dead
when found in the mine. Their bodies
were rescued two hours after the explo-
sion, the delay being caused by the in
ability of the rescuers to combat the
afterdImp.
The FIVE injured were brought to the
surface thirty minutes after the eXplO-
sion. The cause of the disaster is not
known save that it resulted from Il pow
der explosion.
The miners were making their blasts
previous to leaving the mine and the
greater part of the miners had ascend
ed. The news reached the city about 1
o'clock and within a short time fifty rel
atives of the miners surrounded the
mouth of the shaft and anxiously await
ed each ascension of the cage. The
miners worked heroically and "a number
of them were overcome by the foul air
which filed the mine.
The explosion wrecked Il portion Of
the mine and the supporting timbers
were hurled in every direction. The sup
ports gone, the slate roof gave way in
many places and the c were in
constant danger from this source. The
first intimation that an explosion had oc-
CURED was the Taxation of the cage rope.
which was ascending. The engineer
noted a relaxing of the hosting rope III
dicating a force from below.
This is the second disaster to this
mine, operated and owned by the Prince
ton Coal and Mining Company. Nine
years ago an explosion in the mine killed
nine. The mine was then the property
of the Maule Coal Company.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
DOUBLE PlTTssuRG HANGING
Two Men Are Put to Death on the
fold.

J Two men were hanged at Pittsburg,
Pa, Thursday. Reno Dardaia went to
the scaffold first. His neck was broken.
William j. Byers followed him, and
when the trap was sprung the loop moose
pulled away, precipitating him to the
ground. For a minute he staggered
around under the scaffold and then the
sheriff caught him and carried him into
the Jail. He was not badly hurt. The
rope was again adjusted, and Byers,
pale and trembling, was again placed on
the scaffold. The trap was sprung, death
resulting from strangulation.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
MOTHER SLAIN BY HER SON.
Gun Accidentally Discharged While
Lad is Handling Weapon.

d., Wednesday noon of a deploralde ac-
cident on the farm of Il. +. Billings, liy-
ing two miles south of the village of
Rowena.
While an 1S-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Billings was handling a weapon it
was accidentally discharged. The full
charge struck Mrs. Billings, killing her
instantly. The lad is well nigh ~frenzied
with grief.
Mr.. Billings was not at home, being
an inmate of a Sioux City hospital.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
Accused Of Horse Stealing.

A letter sent to Rosebud Indian agen-
cy asking the whereabouts of a trunk
belonging to them has resulted in the
arrest of I'VE men at Seattle. Wash,
who are wanted in South Dakota on the
charge of horse stealing. The two men
are known as Harvey Eads and w. w.
Owen. and are charged with having stol-
en- a fine team OF horses belonging to S.
NJ. Hague, register Of deeds of Miner
County.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
Found Wounded in His Room.

Charles Erd, a prominent st. Louis
lawyer, was found in his apartments at
the Hotel Imperial, at New York, Wed
nesday, suffering from a self-inficted
bullet wound in the left temple. He
probably will recover. To the police
Erd declared the shooting was acct
dental.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
MONEY FOR INDIANS.
Uncle Sam Will Distribute 500, 900
Among Wahpetons and Sissetons.

Upon the recommendation of the sec
rotary of the interior, President Roose-
welt has authorized the payment to the
SiSsetOn and Wahpeton Iidians of South
Dakota of 100000 to be distributed per
capita.
The money is to be taken from the
principal of their trust funds now in the
treasury. The distribution is to be made
on account of the failure of their crops
for the last two years.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
Raising Draft Horses.

The farmers around WOOnSOcket are
making a great success of raising draft
horses for eastern markets. The other
day forty-fve head of horses were ship
ped from that town to Scranton, Pa.
Since March l a total of ninety head
have been shipped to the east. They
were young draft animals and represent
ed a value of more han $4,000, which
was distributed among the farmers Of
the vicinity.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
Children as BURGLARS.

The safe in G. ii. Aliens Office at Abb
erdeen was looted on Wednesday even
ing between 6 and Z o'clock, about $50
in silver being taken. The safe was
locked, but the combination was not
turned. Mr.. Allen went home for sup
per. and when he returned he found the
safe open and valuable papers scattered
about the floor of the office. Two 10
y~ear-old boys have been arrested for the
crime, and $27 of the money has been re-
covered.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
Confesses He ia a Murderer.

Asserting that he had been converted
by an evangelist, Earl Bodine, who says
ne is an ex-convict, went before Chief
of Police Hodgkins at Oakland, Cal,
and to him confessed hat eight years
ago, near Fort Fairfield, Me-, he had
shot and killed a companion, throwing
the body into the Aroostook River.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
OHcerholders Hold Over.

1t is now certain that no appointment
to the office Of United States marshal
for South Dakota, or to the position of
United States attorney for South Da-
kota, will be made for several months.
The idea was prevalent among the peo-
pie of South Dakota generally that the
terms of United States Marshal Kenne-
dy and United States Attorney Elliott
would expire this spring, but such is not
the case.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
Train Robbcr IVES, p,rao,a,

Gov. Folk, of Missouri, has pardoned
James l.. West, convicted of holding up
q train on the Missouri Pacific Railway
near Sedaiia and sentenced to ten years
in the penitentiary beginning June %,
1860. The pardon was issued on a re-
quest signed by the presiding Judge at
the trial and others.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
MADISON TO GET RAILROAD
South Dakota Central will be Ex-
tended from Cotton.

A telegram received from +. f. Sher-
man. of Sioux Falls, president of the
South Dakota Central Railroad Com
pany, who is temporarily in New York
City, states that a corps of surveyors
will be placed in the field this week to
run a survey from Cotton, the present
terminus of the road, to Madison.
For some time there has been specula-
ton as to the route to be followed by
the roads after leaving Cotton, but that
it will go to Madison is now assured.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
RUSH TO AMERICA.
Thousands of Foreigners Pour Into
Port Of New York

The spring rush of immigration has al.
most swamped government officials at
Ellis island, New York. In the last
three days 10000 immigrants have
reached port. Reports received from
abroad indicate the rush will continue to
increase in April and May, Since March
j $4,000 Italians and 1000 Russian He
brews have arrived at Ellis island. The
percentage of Hungarian immigration
shows a remarkable increase.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29

A bomb thrown from the window OF
a house in Volsk Street, Warsaw, Po-
land, exploded in the midst of a pass
ing patrol composed of police and in
fantry. Six soldiers and two policemen
were dangerously wounded. They were
removed to the military hispital. The
ssssssiH ESCAPED.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
BAD WRECK AT LINCOLN.
Over Thirty People Hurt i'm Smash.
mp on the Burlington.

A Lincoln, Neb., special says: A Bur.
lington train from Grand Island was
wrecked in West Lincoln Thursday.
Thirty persons were injured, none fatal.
ly. The smoking car and the rear
coach turned completely over.
c. IL. Sterburg, of Washington, ID. c.,
and Charles s. Gaskill, of Alma, Neb.
were perhaps fatally injured.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
Held for Embezzlement.

b. II. McDufy, a supposed broker Of
New York, who is vice president Of the
defunct Bank of Lawton, Okla, was
arrested at Lawton on the charge of
having embezzled $4,000 of the funds
of that institution, and was held on a
$500 bond.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
Railroad Extension 10 Begin

Actual work of construction on the
railroad from Chamberlain to the Black
Hills will begin within thirty days. A
corporation called the White River Rail
road Company was organized with sever
al of the Milwaukee officials as direc-
tors, in connection with Black Hills cap
itaiists. and a survey along the White
River has been made.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
Must Redistrict the CITY.

A writ OF %mandamus has been served
on the mayor and city council of Red
field, citing them to appear before Judge
Whiting ut Huron to show cause why
they have not taken steps to divide the
city into four wards. Redfeld is now a
city of $500. The code provides that
the city council shall proceed to redis.
trict the city into four wards.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
Calvin Dies Of Wounds.

Richard Calvin died at Deadwood Sat-
urday from the effects of a gunshot
wound inflicted by L. p. Farnham at the
Queen of the Hills mine last Saturday.
In his post-mortcm testimony Calvin
testified that the shooting was premedi-
tated by Farnham.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
To Vote on LIQUOR Question.

For the first time in many years the
liquor question will be voted upon by
the citizens of Yankton at the spring
election IN April 3. The ruling of the
supreme court holding that the question
must be submitted each year has made
necessary the circulation of a petition
to have the question submitted to the
voters. The city council acted favora-
bly, upon the petition.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
~IncendiarY Fire.

An unsuccessful attempt was made
Wednesday morning to burn the row of
frame buildings occupied by Shull's drug
store, Pfaff's restaurant, Wesley Il Gin
gery's real estate office and States Attor-
ney Glenn's law Office at washington
Springs. The fire got no farther than
burning two small holes through the floor
in the Office of Vessey & Gingery.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
Griscom jumped Into The Sea.

Andrew NJ. Griscom, member of a well
known Philadelphia family, who disap-
peared from Philadelphia several weeks
z and was supposed to be in Europe,
committed suicide on March 10 by jump
ing overheard at sea from the steam
or Minnetonka.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
Bars Betting on Races.

At Nashville, Tenn, the lower house of
the state legislature, by a vote of 56 to
%, passed the bill prohibiting betting on
horse races in Tennessee. The bill orig
mated in the senate and now goes to the
governor.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
SIX Men Are Drowned.

AT Charleroi, Pa, six men were
drowned Thursday while attempting to
cross the Monongahela River. The fer
ryman lost control of his skiff in mid
stream and the boat was carried over a
dam and capsized.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
Man with n Bomb Arrested.

A st. Petersburg dispatch says
the police guarding the palace of Grand
Duke Alexis nave arrested a suspicious
looking ~loiterer who was found to be
carrying a bomb. The grand duke is
stated to have gone abroad ~incognito a
fortnight ago.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
Prof. Keely Resigns.

Prof. Keely has resigned his position
In the engineering department of the
state university at Vermillion to accept
a situation with the Symms & Powers
Co., heating and ventilating engineers, of
Sioux Falls.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
A DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.
Lad Accidentally Shoots and Kills
His Mother.

A deplorable accident happened on the
farm of b. f. Billings, living two miles
south of the village of Rowena.
While an 1S-year-old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Bollings was handling a weapon it
was accidentally discharged. The full
charge struck Mrs. Billings, killing her
instantly. The lad is well night frenzied
with grief
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
Wounded by Assassin.

At Dvinsky, Russia, an attempt was
made to assassinate Assistant Commits
sioner Of Police Degereff. His assail-
ant, who escaped, fired several shots at
Degeref and wounded him in the head
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
TWO ChiIdrcn Peri.h

Two children Of Mr.. and Mrs. George
Hysell have been burned to death in
their home at Alanson, Mich, where the
father is a mill employe. The mother,
when she discovered the flames, rushed
out for help. The roof fell in just as she
retdrned, and the children perisbed
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
A Progressive Indian.

Joseph Dubray. a mixed blood Sioux
Indian, who lives near Wagner, is be-
iieyed TO he the first Sioux Indian in the
history of South Dakota to make a
homestead entry on public land. While
at the district United States land office
the other day he made homestead entry
OF a valuable quarter section situated
on Seven Mile Greek, near Wagner.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
..I,ll be Your Naxafo.,,

News Of the marriage of Lewis Jones,
a full-blood negro, and Mary Lanotte, a
full-blood Sioux Indian, has reached
Deadwood. The event took place at
Chadron, Neb.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
BIG FIRE IN NEW YORK

Nine-StOry Office STRUCTURE burned
No Loss of Life Reported.
The Empire State building, nine sto-
ries, at the corner OF Broadway and
Bleecker Street, New York, burned
Wednesday. The three upper floors,
where the fire started, were soon in
flames.
A large number of girls were en-
ployed in the building. but all escaped.
The flames spread with startling ra-
pidity.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
Funeral or Judge smythe.

The funeral of f. w. Smythe at Elk
Point was largely attended and the floral
offerings were very bcaitifui.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
Fine Depot for Madison.

The Milwaukee has decided to huld a
new depot in Madison. II will he Of
stone and viii cost $50, 900.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29
British steamer seized.

The British steamer Barmoton, carry
ing coal tC Vladivostok, was seized Sat
urday by tine Japanese
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1905-03-29

Ssuux CITY Stock Market.
Thursday 8 quotations on the Sioux
CMy stock market follow: Butcher steers,
S4.00Q4.75. Top hogs 81 10