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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-15
MINNESOTA JOINS LINEUP.
University Council Adopts Conferences
Football Rules In Toto.

Football Rules In Toto.
Minneapolis, Feb. 13.-The Univer-
sity Of Minnesota has adopted the
recommendations of the recent Chi
cago conference, and football will be
played in it's restricted form at
Northrop field next fall. BY a unan.
imous vote of the faculty council late
Saturday afternoon the recommends
tions urged by the Angel conference
were accepted and Minnesota will
live up to them provided the other
schools of the conference also accept.
AS the majority Of the universities
have already adopted the plan, it is
believed that a second meeting Of the
conference will be called in a short
time to reconsider one or two OF tn
provisions which have been amends
by different colleges, and hat the
sweeping changes suggested at that
meeting will in general be in vogue
next fall.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-15
Foreign.

King Charles of Roumania Is seri-
ously ill, but it is said he is in no i'm
mediate danger. He is suffering from
Qualification of the arterie. of the
heart and has been ordered to abstain
from all work.
Lord Masham Samuel Cunliffe-Lis-
teri, the patentee of many inventions,
including a compressed air brake for
railroads and a wool combing ma
chine, died at Swinton abbey, Ma
sham, County of York, England.
A Jewish professor, Ravitseff, has
been appointed instructor at the Mos
COW university, with the sanction OF
NJ. Durnovo, minister of the :sterior.
This indicates q complete reversal of
Russia's attitude toward the Jews.
The mayor of Santiago has tele-
graphed the suggestion that the plan
tation of which San Juan hill is part
be purchased for Miss Alice Roose-
velt's wedding present, but the mat
ter has already been turned over TO
the minister at Paris.
1t is officially announced that the
insurrectionary movement in German
East Africa is completely suppressed.
The government has ordered the ma
rine corps. which was sent out to aid
in quelling the instruction, to en-
bark for home Feb. C.
The Shrieks Of a woman taken with
an epileptic fit during a children's
service at the parish church in Lerch-
enfield, Austria, caused a false alarm
of fire and a terrible panic ensued.
ORe child was killed, others mOrtally
hurt. and about fifty less seriously in,
jured.
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Accidental Happenings.

Fire, believed to be Of incendiary
origin, destroyed the p~ostofflce and
store building at Chillicothe, III. Loss,
SIC, 900.
A three-story brick building on the
north side of the city square at indie.
pendence, Mo-, was destroyed by fire,
causing a loss of $4,000.
While walking along the Pennsyl.
vania railroad tracks, near Spring
Mill, Pa, Joseph Nasal and Michael
Augustine were struck by a train and
killed.
Fire which started in the center of
the wholesale district at Indianapolis
threatened an entire block for more
than an hour. The loss is between
$4,000 and $125,000.
The Hotel Astoria, in Asbury Park,
n. j., was partly burned and several
w%ell-known buildings near the beach
were entirely destroyed by fire, with
a loss of about $4,000.
William Guilfoil was crushed to
death at the new paper mill at Mari
nette, Wis, when a huge mass of ice.
weighing several tons, fell on him and
broke every bone in his body.
President w. G. Tight Of the New
Mexico university was seriously in
jured by an explosion of gasoline in
torn off and he was otherwise mutt
lated.
The knitting mill of N. J. Rich & Co.
at Cleveland was entirely destroyed
by fire. One hundred and fifty girls
were in the building when the fire
broke out, but it is believed all got out
safely.
Three persons were injured, one Of
them seriously, in a small wreck on
the Salt Lake road in which two pas
senger trains crashed together in a
head-on collision near Rowland, Cal.
All of the injured were passengers.
During the progress of an amateur
boxing match at Colma, Cal. Thomas
Doven was struck under the heart by
Chiefly" Johnson and so severely in
jured that he died within a few min
utes. Johnson was taken into GUS
tody.
Fire at Springfield, H., destroyed
the implement and carriage ware
houses of William Schermerhorn in
the business section. Loss, 10000.
st. Nicholas hotel guests directly oppo-
site were aroused and prepared to
leave.
The siX-story factory building at
107-113 Grand street, at the corner of
Mercer street, New York, in the heart
of the silk and linen district, was
burned with a loss exceeding $3.50 900.
So many thousands of people were at
tracted to the scene that police re-
serves had to be summoned.
BY the explosion of one Of the four
powder houses at the iron mines at
Hartville, Wyo., the shaft house, black
smith shop and other buildings of the
Colorado Fuel and Iron company were
demolished and nearly every pane of
glass in the town shattered.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-15
PEASANTS MUST BUY LAND.
Reply to Delegation That Demands
Land As Gift From Gar.

st. Petersburg, Feb. 9. - A lelega-
ton of citizens of Ekaterinosdar,
C~aucasia, sem to st. Petersburg to OBJ
tain the emperor's personal assur-
ance that the land question would not
be settled by the present government
but by the national assembly, was re-
ceived in audience by Premier White
Tuesday. An interesting account Of
the interview was published yester-
day. The premier pointed out that
the agrarian problem could not be
solved by a division of the state lands
alone, amounting only to sixteen mill
ion acres, much of which is forest
land. The peasants must be prepared
to buy private lands on the easy in
stallment plan as provided by the i'm
perial ukase of November last. The
spokesman of the delegation replied
that the peasants did not wish to buy
land but were determined to receive
It as a gift from the government.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-15
Crimes.

Captains of whaling vessels have
been accused of kidnapping native
Alaskan women, and the United States
government has ordered a rigorous in
vestigation.
Louis Becker, member Of the firm
of Becker & Degen, live stock brokers
at the Sioux City stock yards, is under
arrest on a charge of embezzlins ST.
200 from a client.
William Walter Hamilton, a negro,
for the murder of Lizzie Lyman, his
ommon law wife. The crime was a
particularly brutal one.
Ignace Cichon was shot and killed
and Joseph Hoyhols seriously wound
ed by John Senchal, an unbidden
guest at a wedding celebration at Ma
hanoy City, Pa. Senchal is in Jail.
After outwitting a mob bent upon
lynching Bud Jackson at Poplar Bluff,
Mo, after Mrs. Daniel Norman had
identified him as her assailant, Sher.
if Hogg brought the prisoner to St.
Louis.
Buck Mansfield, Nudge Hensen, Nat
Hines and Bob Calvin, Cherokee In
dams, were arrested, charged with
robbing the First National bank at
Owasso, I. T., on Jan. 26. The bank
vault was looted of $4,000.
The jury at San Francisco returned
a verdict of guilty in the case Of Will
lam J. Woodside and r. E. s.. Desmidt,
charged with violating a federal law
in fitting out the ship Carmencita on
an illegal sealing expedition. The jury
disagreed regarding Robert Tyson, a
c~o-defendant. The convicted men will
be sentenced Monday.
A demonstration in court at Mari
eta, Ohio, attended the acquittal of
Eddie Uhl of the murder of his father.
Many persons grasped his hand and
even some kissed Uhl, who had gain
ed his freedom after one Of the most
sensational and mystifying cases ever
tried here. The jury was out nine
teen hours.
Because, 1t is alleged, the young
woman on whom he lavished his affec.
lions did not reciprocate. Edward
Miltner, living a few miles east of
Warsaw. Iowa, has ended his life on
her doorstep.
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Many Killed and Wounded.

St. Petersburg. Feb. 1.-THE war
between the fighting organizations
of the revolutionists" and the So
called Black Hundred assumed a new
phase last night when a band of reds
surrounded the cabaret Schlussel-
burg-Chausee on the bank Of the
Newski river, above the city, and
threw a bomb among an assemblage
of workmen. The reds then opened
fire on the panic-stricken inmates of
the cabaret, killing two and seriously
wounding eighteen, of which latter
one died while being taken to the hos
pital.
Military detachments, which are
constantly p~atrolling the disturbed in
dustrial sections, hurried to the scene,
reinforced by the police and Cossacks,
and threw a Gordon around the whole
district.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-15
WORLDS PEACE UP.
TO ROOSEVELT
LONDON PAPER SAYS HE ALONE
CAN PREVENT WORLD.
WIDE WAR.
TO Be SPu|P OVER MOROCCO
FRENCH ATTITUDE UNFOLDING
AND GERMANY WILL
NEVER YIELD.

London, Feb. 1.-THE Statist, n
Of the leading financial weeklies OF
Great Britain, deals this week with
the Algeciras conference in a long
leader. The article predicts a failure
to reach a conclusion satisfactory to
France, and consequently continued
uneasiness in the commercial world,
while at the same time the writer be-
lieves that wal will not result. The
point of the Statist's conclusions is
that President Roosevelt alone can
save the situation, lust as he alone
was able to bring about peace be-
tween Russia and Japan"
Means Peace of World.
IF the United States is willing to
undertake the policing Of Morocco
everybody will hail with Joy her readi-
ness to assume an unpleasant respon-
sibility for the sake of preserving the
peace Of the world. Nobody would at
tempt to dictate to the United States,
yet everybody knows that the United
States is impartial, and by undertake
ing the policing would not entangle
herself in treaties, would not incur
any danger, and would not impose
upon herself any %gratuitous expense.
in return she would sweep away
the danger Of war between two great
European nations-a war which, II it
broke out, would in all probability
spread and ultimately become world
wide. We trust that for the sake Of
maintaining the worlds peace the
United States will in this case will.
ingly depart from its settled policy"
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-15
TWO SHOT IN CHURCH ROW.
Battle Between Mob and Police Re-
suits From D%issention Over Funds.


Chicago, Feb. 13.-An attack by a
crowd of angry Lithuanlans yesterday
upon the residence of the Rev. Ed
ward Stafanowicz, a Roman Catholic
priest, resulted in a battle between
the mob and the police in which two
men were shot and several others in
jured. The assailants were all mem
bers of the church of which the priest
is pastor. Dissension among the
members of the congregation over the
control of the church funds culmi-
mated in violence during the Sunday
services. Women are said to have
opened hostilities by hurting missiles
at the pastor. Pursued by the wor-
shippers, the priest retreated to his
residence. There he was besieged for
more than an hour in spite of the eff
forts Of a squad of police who repeat
eddy charged the mob. The attackers
had armed themselves with clubs and
stones and the police succeeded in
dispensing them only after firing into
the crowd.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-15
RESUME OF THE NEWS
From the Capital.

From the Capital.
The president has pardoned Mid
shipman John Paul Miller of Ken
lucky, recently convicted of hazing
at Annapolis naval academy.
Emperor Williams gift to Miss
Alice Roosevelt on the occasion of her
wedding will be a beautiful artistical-
ly wrought bracelet.
Representative Bede has introduced
a bill requiring common carriers to
supply refrigator cars and facilities
in the transportation of goods in in
terstate commerce.
Senator Gamble has reported from
the committee on military affairs his
joint resolution authorizing the sec.
rotary of wal to furnish condemned
cannon to the board of regents of the
University of South Dakota, to be
placed on the campus.
On the motion of Representative
Tawney of Minnesota, a provision has
been inserted in the pension appro-
priation bill, now before the house,
putting the famous pension order No.
rs into the form of law. Under it a
veteran entitled to a pension by age
will not be required to be physically
examined by a board of surgeons.
That beer is a food product, and
that it is fast coming to be classed
with the least harmful beverages, is a
claim now receiving the close atten-
ton of the government experts con-
nected with the department Of agri-
culture. The department of agricul-
ture is, and has been for some time,
perusing an investigation of the ma
ture, effects and value of beer.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-15
QUICK WORK MADE OF NEGRO.
ForcibIy Taken From Jail and Hanged
8 to Railroad Bridue.

o TO HdIlroao 6rid9e.
Gadsdcn, Ala, Feb. Is. Bunkie
Richardson, a negro charged with the
assault and murder of Mrs. Sarah
Smith here July Is last, was forcibly
taken from the jail here at an early
hour yesterday morning and hanged
to a bridge of the Louisville & Nash
vile railway Gro Coosa river.
Twenty-four masked men went to the
Jail, Overpowered the sheriff. and
jailer and made short work Of the
prisoner. Four negroes were charged
with the crime against Mrs. Smith,
of the most fiendish ever CON-
mitted in the state, two of whom have
been legally executed. The third.
Will Johnson, was recently convicted
but last week Gov. Jelks. believing
there was strong doubt of the prison
er's guilt, reprieved the sentence to
life Imprisonment.
Richardson, the man lynched yes
terday morning. had not been indict-
ed, but was in Jail awaiting the action
of the grand jury.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-15
MAN DIES
Thaddeus c. Field, Pioneer St. Paul
Resident, Dies of Heart Failure.

St. Paul, Feb. 13. - Thaddeus G.
Field, president of the firm of Field,
Schlick & Co., died suddenly Satur,
day. Although Mr.. Field had been in
he was apparently as we'll as usual
Friday, and his death was entirely
unexpected. Mr.. Field was M of
the most prominent merchants in st.
Paul. He was sixty-eight years of
age and had taken part in the indus.
trial affairs of the city for half a cen,
fury. He came to St. Paul in 1856
and engaged in the dry goods bust.
nes with d. w. Ingersoll, organizing
the house, which has celebrated its
fitch anniversary.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-15
CHINESE Plan
BIG MASSACRE
WAR AGAINST FOREIGNERS IN
CHINA WILL START FEB
RUARY rs.
CHINAMAN SENDS WARNING
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
RECEIVES ALARMING
REPORTS.

Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. IL. - wong
Fong, former secretary Of the Six
companies in San Francisco. who Is
visiting in this city, yesterday said ne
thought the Boxer trouble in China is
about to eliminate in the greatest
massacre of modern times.
He issued the following warning to
several American friends last night,
t~elegraphing it to Seattle, Los An
geles and San Francisco:
THE blow is about to fall. Cable
warnings to friends to leave China at
once. Tell them to seek protection OF
Germany temporarily and get out or
the country before Feb. "a"
Fong is visiting All Loo Wal, the
wealthiest of the local Chinese col
ony, and after the messages were sent
he explained their purport as follows:
81 received word this morning that
the order has been sent out to the
subordinate circles of the Chinese Re-
form association to throw off all the
foreign elements in our country. start
ing Feb. %. The association is Os-
tensibly patriotic"
Prepart for Trouble.
Washington, Feb. 13. - Secretary
Root and Secretary Taft will appear
before the foreign relations commit
tee of the senate and the Philippines
committee of the house to eplain the
critical situation in China, and the ne
tessity for an appropriation of $780,
600 for sending troops to the Philip
pines for use in China. II has practi-
cally been decided that congress will
not authorize this expenditure until
advised of the exact situation.
This government has already estab-
lished two brigade posts in the Phil
ippines and ordered three regiments
there, so as 10 have the troops near
China when the real trouble begins.
Secretary Taft desires to send three
more regiments to the Philippines for
use in China. but this extensive move
ment of troops is so expensive that
the present appropriations are not
sufficient, and it became necessary to
ask congress for 100000 additional.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-15
Babe Smothers to Death.

Anoka, Mimi, Feb. 13.-The infant
child of Judge and Mrs. j. C. M. EngeI
died yesterday of suffocation. The
babe was sleeping quietly when the
mother left the room. On her return
some minutes later the tot was dead.
1t is believed the baby disturbed the
clothes and thus smothered.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-15
IN COLORADO.

The article about Colorado in the
Sioux Falls Afgus-Leader on Feb. 10th,
was certainly of interest to anyone
who is anxious to get a home of their
own in one of the finest climates in the
world. The success of the farmer who
has gone there from the middle west
and has been willing to work has been
a revelation. All kinds of crops are
raised. ais fruit and vegetables; good
soft water near the surface: good
schools. and in fact everything that
makes a country desirable as a home
is found there. A cop OF the paper.
or other information. will be sent upon
application. by c. L. Lofier, Sioux
Falls, South Dakota
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-15
JUMP FROM A
One Girl Is Hurt Seriously and Her
Sister Slightly.

Zumbrota, Mimi, Feb. 13.-Bertha
Skorum and her twelvee-year-old sis
ter boarded a train to Forest Mills.
When the train arrived there it did
not stop, and the younger girl became
alarmed and jumped off, receiving Sc
we're injuries about the head. When
she saw her younger sister jump,
Bertha also leaped from the train.
She, however, escaped serious injury.
The train was stopped and backed TO
Zumbrota, where the girls received
medical attention. 1t is thought the
younger girls injuries will prove
fatal.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-15
KILLS TWO.
Contractor and Helper Victims OF
Blast.

Akeley, Mimi, Feb. 13. - Edward
Fisher of the railroad contracting
firm of Davis & Fisher of Chicago and
Arthur Moore Of Elk River were in
stantly killed at Camp Z of the Red
River Lumber company's railroad by
a dynamite explosion while thawing
out about fifty pounds Of the ex-
plosive. Fishers body was hurled
forty feet from the place of the acct
dent and was terribly mutilated.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-15
DRAGGED TO DEATH.
Boy at Pennington, Mimi, Is Killed
by a Colt.

Pennington, Mimi, Feb. 13.-Wes.
ley Hack, the eleven-year-old O of
w. H. Hack of Credit River, was
dragged to death by a colt which he
was leading to water. The rope by
which the boy was leading the colt
became entangled about his legs. and
the colt started to run out of the
barn door, dragging the boy after it.
He was thrown heavily against the
door beam and then dragged across
the field and yard to the house. where
the colt was stopped by the boys
mother. His skull was fractured.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-15
NATIVES ARE IN UUGLY MOOD.
Blacks Rise Up in Arms to Resist
Collection of British Taxes.


Pietermaritzburg, Natal, Feb. IL
The collection of the poll tax from
natives has led to trouble which, it is
feared. will spread and possibly de-
velop into an ugly native rising.
Armed natives have resisted the col
lection of the tax, and have wounded
with spears an inspector Of police and
a trooper. Fourteen mounted police,
who were proceeding to the scene,
have been attacked and six were
killed.
Cavalry and artillery and outlying
detachments of police have been
called in and are being concentrated
to deal with the recalcitrant natives.
Martial law has been declared.
1t is reported that the natives are
determined to resist the collection of
the poll tax.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-15
HUNDRED HOURS DEEP IN EARTH
Miners Imprisoned Monday Night Are
Saved Alive.

Stockton, Cal, Feb. 13.-Tomo Sa-
bath and Zero Buvoich, who had been
imprisoned in the App mine at Quartz
by a cavern since midnight on Mon
day, were rescued Saturday after hav-
ing been without food for more than
100 hours. There was plenty OF
water at hand and they did not suffer
from thirst. They were extremely
weak when rescued, but otherwise
were In good condition.
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Poisoned by Fish Balls.

Brooten, Mimi, Feb. 13.-As the re.
suit of eating canned fish balls three
members of the family Of Banker
BONNER became violently i'll, and it
was only by the most strenuous eff.
forts Of physicians that their lives
were saved.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-15

Was there no p~ublic-spirited mil
lionaire novelist to save the sacred
home of Mrs. Wigs from the posses.
sion of a saloonkeeper? Where were
Mr.. AIDE. Mr.. George McCutcheon,
Mr.. Churchill?
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-15

Mr.. Chambers, the American cornet.
fist, is to be paid $1,000 a week, with.
out board, for tootling in Paris. We
would like to start a subscription-to
scare up any old sum that would buy
off a few ether cornetists from toot.
ling.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-15
Milwaukee Train Kills Two.

Templeton, Iowa, Feb. 13.-Frank
Reicher, a farm hand. was killed and
Peter Klein, his employer, fatally in.
jured while driving across the tracks
of the Milwaukee road On their way
TO town.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-15

Pittsburg millionaires are now
charged with bribery and corruption.
Evidently the chorus girls haven't
kept them so busy as has been sup
posed.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-15

What's the use being a victorious
hero. anyway? Field Marshal Oyama's
name isn't appearing in the headlines
any oftener than Gen. Stoessel's, and
we have forgotten for the moment
who the Jap fellow was that Port
Arthur was surrendered to.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-15

A Pittsburg doctor has tasted for
thirty-seven days. If the air of Pitts
burg were as full of n]ourishment as
it is of SCOT, he could live forever
without eating.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-15

Chicago announces that she is going
TO have the biggest hotel in the world.
There are people who are compelled
TO stay in Chicago over night.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-15

In London society they are discuss
Ing the question: What is propriety
pink" What does London society
know about propriety?
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-15

President Hadlcy of Yale says that
there are too many teachers in this
country, and that they get too little
pay. It's the same with newspaper
men.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-15
Iowa Man Kills Himself.

Clinton. Iowa, Feb. 81. NJ. Van.
arnum, seventy-nine years old, while
respondent because of Ill health, com.
mitted suicide at his home at Gala
mus by shooting himself.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-02-15

THE bridegroom is usually the
ern wedding" according to a wom-
ans magazine. Also. he is generally
the most depressed.