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Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-07

There, within sight Of the Carpathian hills in country
almost devoid Of trees high nat desolae and unproduc
tive, the Count Alexander Beregpok is erecting grand
The Castle OF Mystery IT called all through
that district The Magyar peasants and the gypsy tribes
shun the plains soldiers encamped miles the
operations turn back all the curious and these
soldiers themselves permitted to approach within a
mile Of where army of imported workmen
in rearing the strange edihce.
Count Beregpok is member OF of the richest
landed families in the DodrogkO and the holdings Of the
family comprise of thousands wild land
The old castle of the Beregpok family stands the plain
Of Bodrog the cultivated land, which II overooks
from eminence. Southwark for of miles the
land lies fat and desoate desoate than the
of Britain and less adapted to agriculture At times
the plain Is crossed by the caravans and in fair
times the plain in the vicinity of the dotted with
their tents and wagons but mostly It is deserted. few
herds by day along the edges of the plain
and at night it is given to the wild animals and
according to the natives to the evil spirits.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-01-07

the plain towards the Residents Of the dis
trict the mystery with which the building
had been surrounded srove lift the veil Of and
discover what going forward. They made attempts
learn from the wornen something about the Castle
OF Mystery In that effort they made discovery which
added to the They learned that workman
employed in the building of the castle was a Mason
Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1906-04-26

TIE FOLKS WHO
LIVE IE ONE
CITY BLOCK
MAY BY
ENERGETIC USE
Or THE
WANT D5
The Wahpeton times., 1906-11-01
i
Personal.

Charles Day, an old settler of Troy,
Wis, died, aged seventy-six years.
Maj. Gen. James w. Forsyth, retired,
who served in the Civil war with dis
tinction, was stricken with apoplexy
and died at Columbus, Ohio.
Martin l.. Newell, formerly state
senator and once assistant attorney
general of Illinois, died at Springfield.
ILL.,, of paralysis, sixty-eight years old.
Edward James Saunderson, Union
list member of parliament for Armagh
north, who had been critically i'll Of
pneumonia at Castle Saunderson, died
at Armagh, Ireland. He was fifty-nine
years old
Mrs. Catherine Troutman Maynard
died at Seattle, Wash. She was the
oldest pioneer of that city, had lived
in the state fifty-six years, was married
seventy-four years ago and was past
ninety years of age.
The Wahpeton times., 1906-11-01

Running at speed estimated at
fifty miles an hour, the fast train
known as the Cleveland flyer" was
side-swiped by the caboose of a freight
train at Pittsburg Five trainmen were
injured.
Seized with an epileptic At while he
was STOPPING to feed his hogs, Elmer
Ebberly, farmer near Sioux City,
Iowa, fell face downward in half
foot of mud in the pig pen and was
smothered to death.
An engine on an extra freight train
of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul,
east-bound, exploded near Morton
Grove, ILL.,, killing Fireman J. Dough-
erty and injuring Engineer T. Klumb
and Brakeman w. L. Grass.
BY an explosion in the mine of the
Cambria Steel company at Johnstown
Pa, seven men are dead and two pain
fully burned. The explosion is though;
to have been caused by the ignition Of
gas in setting off blast.
In freight wreck at Kenton, Ohio
two men were killed and two seriously
hurt. A fast freight drawn by two en-
gines crashed into cut of cars stand
ing on the main track. The engine and
many cars were wrecked and hun
dreds of sheep were killed.
The Wahpeton times., 1906-11-01
FARMERS WANT 81 FOR WHEAT.
Society Of Equity Fixes Prices on vari.
GUS Farm Products.

East st. Louis, ILL.,, Oct. 27.-Prices
on farm products were fixed yesterday
by the American Society of Equity at
it's convention here, and by accepting
the report of the committee the men,
bers of the society bind themselves
not to sell products at less than the
following prices:
Wheat, No. Northern or No. 2 red,
81; corn, to the end of this year, As
cents, from Jan. to April 1, SO cents.
after April and until prices are again
fixed, 55 cents; oats. 40 cents; barley,
No. 2, So cents; rye, IS cents; buck.
wheat, 20 cents; potatoes, Irish, G5
cents; sweet, Is cents; beans, navy,
$1.50; red, 81; cotton, 12 cents: wool,
80 cents: hogs, $3.50; cattle. Sc;
sheep, $3.50; hay, $14; broomcorn,
SIS TO 500.
In nearly all instances The list Of
prices is to be based on Chicago mar
kets, the exceptions being the price OF
beans, which is based on Detroit quo
tations, and cotton on New York. 1t
was explained in the convention that
members must receive the prices
named, less the cost of transportation.
The Wahpeton times., 1906-11-01
'PIITSBURG IS STORM SWEPT
TWO PERSONS FATALLY INJURED.
-cREws OF LAKE VESSELS
IN DANGER.

Pittsburg, Oct. 3G.-A heavy wind
and rain storm passed over this city
Saturday night, seriously ;njuring four
persons, two fatally, and Frustrating
telegraph and telephone wires.
Face Death on Lake.
Cleveland, Oct 3O.-The barge Mau.,
rice B. Grover was burned Saturday
night Just inside the breakwater. The:
fire was discover ed about $ O'clock
and the crew from the life-saving sta
ton went to her rescue in tugs. The
storm, which had whipped the lake
into a heavy and dangerous sea, de.
layed the tugs, and when they arrived
the craft was practically destroyed.
It is now believed there was no loss
of life.
The storm, which had ragged during.
the greater part of the day, continues
unabated and is causing keen anxiety
in marine circles
At the Nottingham life-saving sta
tion it was reported that a scow which
was in tow Of an unknown tug had
broken loose in the storm with three
men on board and had been driven
over the breakwater.
The steel steamer Lackawanra was.
struck by the gale. outside the west
breakwater and ran upon the break.
water crib. Her side was stove in and
she filled with water Immediately.
The crew was taken of. by the life
savers.
The Wahpeton times., 1906-11-01
IOWA TRUST FIXES PRICES.
Commerce Commissioners Des Moine.
Hearing Is Sensational.

Commerce Commissioner Des Moinea
Hearing Is Sensational.
Des Moines, Iowa, Oct. 28.-Sensa
tional incidents marked the offering
of testimony before the interstate
commerce commission in session here
yesterday relative to the fixing of
prices for grain by the Des Moines
Cereal club for the members of the
State Grain Dealers association and
the pooling Of elevator business at
many Iowa points.
What Was Disclosed.
The witnesses and the facts dis.
closed by their testimony in the hear.
ing yesterday were to the effect that
the Grain Dealers association is max.
ing a fight against the farmers eleva.
tor organization, which is not. a mem.
ber of the association, by restricting
its terminal market when possible;
that extensive pooling arrangements
have existed, and now exist in Iowa,
which control the amount of business
done by competing elevators; that
prices of regular" elevators are gov
erned more or less by card issued
here by Ward G. Case and that this
card formerly was the result of the
weekly discussion.
The Wahpeton times., 1906-11-01
FRANCE SENDS A .wARsnIP
SITUATION IN MOROCCO GETTING
SERIOUS AND FEARS ARE IN.
TENslFIEp. -

Paris, Oct. 2S.-In view of the stu.
alton in Morocco, the French govern.
ment has decided to send a warship TO
Tangier.
American Minister Will Stay.
Tangier, Oct. 27.-The American
mission, headed by Mr.. Gummere, has
decided to remain in Fez until the sui
tan takes steps for the payment of the
indemnities demanded for outrages
upon American citizens. The govern.
ment declares it has not sufficient
funds to meet these demands. 1t is
rumored here that DIR. -Rosen, the Ger
man minister to Morocco, has arrang-
ed to make small loan to the sultan.
The Moorish officials, in answer to
the French representations regarding
the disquieting situation, declare their
ignorance of many facts called to their
attention and deny responsibility for
others.
The Wahpeton times., 1906-11-01
HANv PERISH IN TENEMENT FIRE
-Four Known Dead, Eight Missing, Two
Dyjno and Fifty Injured.

-Four Known Dead, Eight Missing, Two
Dying and Fifty Injured.
Kansas City, Kan, Oct. 27.-Fom
persons. are known to be dead. eight
others are missing. two are fatally in.
jured and fifty more are more or less
seriously injured as the result of a
fire which destroyed the Chamber of
Commerce building at an early hour
yesterday.
Deliberately Sacrifices Life.
A railroad man standing near tho
burning building yesterday morning
heard Il man in a second story window
giving the distress signal of the
Brotherhood of Railway Firemen, of
which he was a member. Finding a
rope, he threw it to his brother fire.
man, who, instead of using it himself.
passed 1t to woman in the window
above him. The woman saved herself,
but the man was lost. His name is
not known.
The actual loss of life will not. be
known until a thorough search of the
ruins can be made, and probably not
then, as some of the firemen assert
that many bodies must have been
burned to ashes. The building, used
as tenement house and containing
100 rooms, held, as near as can he
learned, between 200 and 300 persons
at the time the fire broke out, at 1890
O'Clock
The Wahpeton times., 1906-11-01
TO PUT OIL. !. Trust |
OUT Of BUSINESS
GOVERNMENT PLANS MIGHTY At.
TACK ON, THE RockEFELLER
COMBINE.
NO CHANCE TO WRIGGlf OUT
EVIDENCE COLLECTED sv GAR.
FIELD is SAID TO BE SEN.
sAT,oNAL.

washington, oct. 3O.-PreSldent
Roosevelt has now fully digested the
evidence against the Standard Oil
company collected by James r. Gar
field. commissioner of corporations.
and has reached the decision to go
ahead with the necessary proceed.
ings. to ask the federal courts to dis.
solve the Standard OH the ground
that it is operated in restraint of trade
and in violation of the Sherman anti
trust law.
The action will be similar to that
against the Northern Securities COM
pany, and 1t Is the present intention
to commence proceedings within two
weeks in the United States court at
ST. Louis. The action will ask for per-
manent Injunction restraining the
Standard forever from continuing it's
business un,ier the: system built up by
John d. Rockefeller.
Chiefs Of the Trust Must Testify.
The action will be double-header
and will mt only demand the dissolu-
tion of the Standard Oil monopoly, but
will cite John d. Rockefeller, William
Rockefeller, H. H. Rogers, John d..
Archbold and some other members Ut
the combine to also come into court
and make a personal defense. Every
possible safeguard has been devised
to prevent them from wriggling out OF
the meshes of the prosecution.
The president is enthusiastic over
the evidence collected by Mr.. Garfield
and feels certain that IL the Sherman
law cannot be enforced against the
monopoly on the showing the govern
ment is prepared 10 make. 1t cannot be
enforced against anybody.
The prosecution is largely in the
hands of Milton &. Purdy. assistant
attorney general.
GarfieId's Facts Sensational.
The information that the action will
be commenced is positive. Commits
sicner Garfield's primary report on the
Standard Oil investigation, made last
May, is said by those who know to
1--we been :. mild document compared
with the information withheld from
the public by the same official.
1t is upon the secret information,
supplemented by evidence brought out
ir various state prosecutions against
the same corporation. and IL strength.
cncd by what is considered to be vol
untary information from other sources
which has come into the possession nj
the government, that network Of eyi
dence has been prepared upon which
the government will base its alleg;,-
tion that the Standard Oil company is
Il trust in the legal acceptation of ths,
laeaning of the word, violator of the
Sherman antitrust law. and therefore
should be permanently dissolved and
prohibited from doing business by it's
l:esent methods.
The Wahpeton times., 1906-11-01
Raise Rural Paw.

Washington, Oct. 28.-The salaries
of the rural carriers of the United
States, numbering 36,566 men AMI
women, will be increased by congress
at the coming session Of recommen-
dation that will be submitted by Post
master General Cortelyou is put into
the form of law.
Just how much increased conpensa
tion will be asked for the rural car.
riers has not been made knLwn. The
present salaries range from about $50
a year to a maximum Of $3.50. ascord.
ing to the length Of a route.
The Wahpeton times., 1906-11-01
PRESIDENT SENDS SECRETARY
METcALF TO SAN FRANCISCO
ON MISSION.
DEMAND THEIR FULL RIGHTS
PRESIDENT ANXIOUS TO DEMON.
sTRATE TO JAPAN SINGER.
iTY OF AMERICA.

Washington, Oct. 2S.-presidcnt
Roosevelt last night directed Victo:
H. Metcalf, secretary of the depart.
ment of commerce and labor, to go to
Sen Francisco and make thorough
and complete inquiry into the situation
affecting the exclusion of Japanese
children from schools provided for
white children and the determination
to place Japanese pupils in separate
schools. ...-
Asks Full Rights for Japs.
The determination to send Secretary
Metcalf to San Francisco was one of
the results of the request made by
Viscount Aoki, the Japanese ambassa
dor, who at conference with Secre-
tary Root yesterday asked in behalf Of
his government that the Japanese sub
jects in California be accorded theiy
full rights under the treaty of 1894.
including that of the children to at
tend the public schools nf San Fran.
cisco.
Aiiay Feeling in Japan.
1t is hoped that the expressed de-
oAAS OA IlAS W SCCulC
the treaty rights Of the Japanese will
tend to allay the anti-American feeling
in Japan until the whole matter is dip.
lomatically adjusted.
The inquiries to be instituted by MIR.
Metcalf are supplemental to the steps
initiated in San Francisco Thursday
by direction of the department of JUS
tice to compel the authorities to re.
ceive Japanese pupils.
Look Into Boycott.
Incidental to the school question.
Mr.. Metcalf will pay some attention to
the charges made by Count Aoli that
japanese restaurant keepers in San
Francisco have suffered indignities.
At least seven Or eight reports have
been made concerning a boycott inau-
gurated against these restaurants.
The japanese officials in Washington
say they realize that these demonstra-
tions and the exclusion of the school
children are acts local in character,
but they say it is hard to convince the
people of Japan that the central gov
ernment is not responsible.
The Wahpeton times., 1906-11-01
EfWS OF WEEK SUMMARIZED
IMPORTANT EVENTS At HOME
AND ON FOREIGN SHORES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
From the Capital.

Gen. Elliott, commander of the ma
rine corps. says an immediate increase
in the corps is necessary to sustain
the efficiency Of the service.
The supreme court of the United
States to-day refused to assume juris-
diction in the contempt case of Mayor
Rose of Kansas City, Kan, leaving the
$1,000 in effect.
Ii was announced at the state de-
partment that Herbert G. Squires of
New York had been selected to be
American minister at Panama to sue.
ceed Charles E. Magoon.
Fort Omaha, Neb., is to be the scene
OF many interesting balloon expert
ments during the next few months.
French manufacturers have shipped to
the signal corps of the army a new
spherical silk balloon, which will be
thoroughly tested at the Nebraska
post.
Statistics prepared by the geograph-
ical survey of the natural gas industry
show that in the calendar year 1905
the value of natural gas produced and
sold exceeded that of any previous
year by $3,066,O99. The total value
of the gas produced and sold was $11,
562,S55.
President Roosevelt was mustered
IN as an honorary member of the Asso-
ciate member of the Associate Socie.
1y of Farnsworth post, G. A. R., Of
Mount Vernon, N. Y. The ceremony
took place IN the cabinet room of the
executive offices and was conducted by
Cen. Horace Porter.
President Roosevelt has deter.
mined to prevent the further employ.
ment in governmental service of hus-
band and wife belonging to one family.
Either one may remain, but the other
must retire. The president has re.
quested the ivil service commission
to furnish him list of all the cases
in which both husband and wife are
employed in any of the executive de.
partments here.
The Wahpeton times., 1906-11-01
Otherwise.

French manufacturers have shipped
to the army signal corps new spheri.
cal silk balloon, which will be thor.
oughly tested at Fort Omaha, Neb. A
hydrogen plant will be built there.
Maj. E. F. Taggart of divorce fame
who is now serving in the Philippines,
Is critically i'll at a military hospital
there. He is suffering with dysentery,
and his recovery is said to be doubt.
full.
An heroic statue of Gen. William
Henry Gibson, famous colonel of the
Forty-ninth Ohio volunteers, and wide
ly known as a Republican campaign
orator, was unveiled at Tifin, Ohio, by
his grandsons.
The Dunbar Furnace company, the
semat-Solvay Coke works and the
New Haven & Dunbar railway at
Connelsville, Pa, announce an IN:
crease in wages Of 10 cents day for
I'll laborers, affecting 1000 men.
Mrs. Fannie Eberson, wife Of A. A
Eberson, testified in Judge Withrow's
court In st. Louis that her husband
had playful habit of pelting her with
$50 and 800 bills. which he rolled in.
to compact wads and used as mis-.
siles. This was during their happy
married life. before Mrs. Eberson filed
suit for divorce.
The American Antiquarian society
elected Rev. Dr.. Edward Everett Hale
its president, to succeed the late
Stephen Salisbury Of Worcester. a
tribute was. paid BY Dr.. Hale to Capt.
Roald Amundsen, who rediscoversd
tse NofthNeGt massage.
The Wahpeton times., 1906-11-01
Casualty List.

The freighter Hastings burned off
South Norwalk, Conn. The crew was
saved.
Mrs. Guadalupe Vigily Bares and
her two children were drowned in the
Rio Grande river near Santa Fe dur.
ing the recent blizzard.
Two men were killed five miles east
OF Anaconda. Mont, by runaway car
OF ore. They are Rosario Lavucci and
Basil Hoyt. Lavucci was torn to
pieces.
The Pittsburg Special jumped the
tracks near Allegheny, Pa. The en-
gine slipped down to the Ohio river.
AT least four persons, all trainmen
were seriously injured.
Carbolic acid, taken in mistake for
cough medicine, is responsible for the
death of Haze! King, the seventeen
year-old daughter of Charles L. King
of independence, Iowa.
A sail ferryboat, plying between
Beaufort and Ladies' Island, S. c.,
swamped during storm with six men
and four women, all negroes, on board.
Three women were drowned.
Three or more persons were killed
and dozen injured when an incoming
passenger train collided with an out.
bound car on the Toledo & Indiana
traction line at Toledo, Ohio.
An excursion train returning from
Cleveland to Columbus collided, head.
on, with a freight train. The engineer
and fireman on the passenger train
were killed. None of the passengers
were hurt.
Eight Employees were injured, one
of them perhaps fatally, when trac.
tion car left the rails on a steep grade
near Chagrin Falls, Ohio, at curve.
The motorman could not control the
speed Of the car.
Clifford Belden Of Dubuque was
killed, and Herman Weicker of Mil.
waukee fatally injured at spechts Fer
ry. Iowa. They were employed by the
Milwaukee railroad and went to sleep
under box car, which was moved by
an engine. Belden's legs were severed
from his body.
Two wrecks are reported on the
Mexican Central railroad below Lare.
do. Mex, and several people were
hurt. "a passenger and freight train
were both wrecked by bulls setting on
the track Tra0e vas dslsysd for ssv.
eTal hours. go. ..9e 5,ss
4 F.. - ~
The Wahpeton times., 1906-11-01
Ex.Rebel. Make rrouhIe.

Havana, Oct. 28.-As result of con-
tinued depredations by numerous
small bands of insurgents in Santa
Clara province, Brig. Gen. Bell has or.
dered the Fifteenth cavalry at Place.
tas to occupy the towns of Santa
Clara, Esperanza, Cienfuegos, Cruchs
and Santo Domingo. taking the places
of the rural guard garrisons, which
will then be released to pursue an6
scatter the marauders. This is in &C
cordance with Gov. Magoon's. policy
not to use American troops in the sup
preston of disorders. r.
The Wahpeton times., 1906-11-01
THREE METHODS OF REsATlNe.
Federal Court at Minneapolis Finds
Out How Rates Are Cut,

Minneapolis, Minn., Oct. 2s.-Thrce
forms of freight rebates have been
unearthed by the special federal grand
jury which has been studying the dis.
eliminating system practiccd by cer-
tain Of the ten Twin City lines. One
OF these is the absorption of elevation
charges; another is the absorption OF
switching charges; a third is the ma
nipulation of allowances for grain
doors in freight cars.
All of these rebates are said to have
been discontinued when it became
noised about the chamber of com;
merce that at least one firm was wax.
ing fat on special concessions. Other
elevator lines which attempted to get
in on the favors were turned down, it
is SAID, which, of course, at once Gre
ated discrimination. Direct evidence
was submitted to this effect.
The Wahpeton times., 1906-11-01
Criminal.

A verdict imposing the death pen
atty on Thomas Brady, a white man
for criminal assault upon a sixteen
year-old girl, was returned at Alex
andria, La, by the jury which tried
him.
William Dutton, widely known cir
Gus rider, was assaulted at Cincinnati
and probably fatally injured. His as
sailants, who apparently sought to rob
him. have not been captured. Dutton
was one of the first American riders
to exhibit before the khedive of Egypt
and the czar of Russia.
Because she was Respondent over a
love affair, Mary Eplett of Sault Ste
Marie took a dose of laudanum with
suicidal intent, but will probably re
cover. She was in love with a man
who married another woman. and this
is said to be the third time she has
attempted to kill herself.
The body of a man tied in cotton
sack was found in the river at Paw
paw, l. T. The sack was bound with
wire, to which had been fastened a
piece Of railroad iron, evidently in
tended for sinker. The back of the
mans head had been crushed in, and
he apparently had been dead several
days.
]. S. Espy, D. E. Horrigan, William
Herb, T. T. Kirk, Addison Boren, w
A. Merritt, Henry Nichols and Edward
Kerr, officers and directors of the de-
funct State Bank of Pittsburg, were
found guilty of irregularities in con-
nection with the failure of the bank
by jury in the criminal court. The
charge was receiving deposits, know
ing the bank was insolvent.
The Wahpeton times., 1906-11-01
400 IN PITCHED BATTLE.
Rival TrackIayers Are Badly Battered
in FIGHT.

Louisville, KY, Oct. 30.-A pitches!
battle. in which picks, shoyels and
fists were used as weapons, and in
which 400 men participated, was
fought by rival tracklayers' gangs OF
the Louisville & Nashville railroad
and the Louisville & Eastern Electric
railway yesterday. About two score
of the cornbatants were badly shock
ed or battered up. The fight took
place just east of Boards, where a
gang of 100 Louisville & Eastern men
attempted to lay their. track across
the Louisville & Nashville line
The Wahpeton times., 1906-11-01
From other Shores.

Baniaros tribesmen have seized the
town of Arzilla, twenty-five miles
south of Tangier. and assumed the
governorship.
Reports issued by the government
show that the damages sustained by
the crops from the recent cyclones in
Cuba are not as great as has been sup
posed.
Another circular from the so-called
revolutionary committee is being cir.
culated in Mexico City. 1t bears a
New Orleans date, but was mailed in
Mobile, Ala. 1t declares that Presi.
dent Cabrera of Guatemala is a
marked man and will shortly be assas-
sinated.
A dispatch received in London from
Vladivostoll by Lloyds agency says the
Russian wooden coasting steamer
Warjasin struck floating mine and
foundered on Oct 20. Some of he:
passengers and crew were saved, but
$50 persons were drowned. Another
message received by news agency
says 200 passengers perished on board
the Warjagin, only one being saved.
A special from Tucson, Ariz., says
that we'll known citizen of that place
whose name is withheld, has returned
from Nogales, where he was authorita.
lively informed that Salcide and all
the other revolutionists recently de.
ported from Arizona were taken to
Hermosillo and summarily executed,
notwithstanding official statements to
the contrary.