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The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
FOUR MILLIONS TO A NURSE.
A Chicago Woman Did Not Realize
Her Fathers Wealth.

Mrs. r. w. Wilson came to Califor-
mia the week following the fire in a
Francisco to act as a White Cross
nurse in the relief camps at San Fran
cisco. Tuesday she left for her home
in Chicago to take charge of her faith
er's estate, which was left to her and
amounts to $4,00O,0O0
Mrs. Wilson is a pretty blonde and
a widow. When she left her Chicago
home asst April she was not aware of
the fact that she would some day be
the heiress to so princely a fortune.
Her father was a merchant in the
great metropolis of the central states,
but h did not know hal his wealth
was counted in millions. She is the
only child, and, not caring to devote
herself to the society of her set, en-
tered the service of the White Cross
organization. When the call for vol
unteers came to go to California and
INTO the sick camps of the refugees,
Mrs. Wilson was one Of the first to ap-
ply and offer her services. She came
to the coast with the relief rain from
Chicago, and upon her arrival here
entered the smallpox hospital in San
Francisco. There she served as nurse
to the patients.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
ROBBERS RAID BANK
KILL MANAGER AND GET $4,000
IN GOLD.
TNxo Desperadocs Enter Japanese In
Stitution at Frisco, XIII One Man,
Seriously Injure Another and Es-
cape with Banks a

Two robbers entered the Kimmon
ginko, a japanese bank, also known
as the Golden bank, 1888 O'Farrel
street, San Francisco, Wednesday at
noon and after fatally beating $. IRA
lkata, the manager Of the bank, and
seriously injuring A. Sakake, a clerk,
with a piece of gas pipe, escaped with
$4,000 in gold. Manager Urakata died
two hours afterwards from his injur-
les. Urakata was acting as teller OF
the bank.
After striking down their victims
the robbers dragged them into a poor
ly lighted room in the rear of the
bank. There the PROSTATE forms of
the men were found later. The I'M
conscious men were lying in a pool of
blood that streamed from their
wounds, and nearby was a piece of
gas pipe, a foo in length.
Chief of Police Oman soo had de-
tailed on the case every available de-
tective and policeman in the city. He
advanced the theory that the robbers
are the same men who recently killed
Pfeitzner and Fried, merchants, in
their stores in this city.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
DRUNKEN FARMERS CRIME.
Fatally Wounds Wife and Then Cuts
His Own Throat.

Lying side by side in the same ward
at st. Francis hospital in Litchfeld,
ILL.,, r Alonzo Curtis, a farmer, and
his wife. waiting the result of the for
mer's attempt at murder and suicide.
Both are expected to die.
The circumstances indicate Curtis, a
prosperous farmer. living three miles
east OF Litchfeld. returned home
from Hillsboro Tuesday night in a
drunken rage and attacked his wife
with a butcher knife. Two young
daughters ran to the neighbors.
Curtis resisted the attempts to aid
his wife, standing his neighbors off
with a shotgun. The people who first
arrived left to obtain reinforcements
and upon returning fifteen minutes
later Curtis was found lying out in
the yard with his throat cut.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
Watertown Pioneer Dead.

c. c. Church died at his home in
Watertown at the age of rs. Death
was due to apOplexy. Mr.. Church was
a veteran of the civil He had
lived in WatertOwn for the last twen-
ty-four years, being one of her most
respected citizens. He is survived by
his wife and three children, DR.. O.. E.
Church of Reville, DR.. Truman T.
Church of Scotland, and Miss Lillian
Church. The Masons will have charge
of the funeral, the deceased being a
member of the blue lodge, the chapter
and of the Knights Templars.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
WIFE FAILS TO SEE PLATT.
The senator Refuses to Consent to II
Meeting.

Meeting.
That the papers in Mrs. Thomas
Collier Platt's suit for divorce were
served last week upon the senator is
positively stated by those in a posi-
ton to know the truth.
The actress who it is believed will
figure in the case is invisible to callers
at her New York home. A close friend
made the following statement:
The vaudeville actress indicated in
Mrs. Platt's back-fire against the sem
ator is a godchild of Senator Platt's.
Her mother was Senator Platt's school
friend and her father was the n
tors lifelong friend.
THE first wife Of Senator Plat took
a great interest in the social and pro-
fessional career OF their godchild.
Both before and after the young wom-
ans marriage she was often at Mrs.
Platt's home. Her husband has been
numbered among the close friends of
the senator for years.
THE senator's marriage to Mrs.
Janeway was followed by the es-
arrangement Of many of his relatives
and friends, among them the young
woman in question. The new Mrs.
Plat was ever her enemy. Prompt
and drastic action will be taken by
her IL n further publicity be given
to her by the senator's wife,"
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
PEASANTS.
Russian Court Furnishes Survivors OF
Massacre.

Ninety-seyen peasants wer tried az
Kerson, Russia, Monday on the charge
of having devastated the estate of Nj.
Krivoshein, formerly minister or rail-
roads. Sixty-three were sentenced to
imprisonment, while ~thirty-four We're
acquitted.
The trial brought out a recital of
the horrible atrocities ommitted by
authorities upon the accused. The
chief Of the district, accompanied by
a detachment of Cossacks, reached the
estate soon after the devastation. All
the peasants on the ground were at
once gathered in. No investigation
ton among the convicts.
to administer the last sacrament to
the persons and then ordered the Cos
sacks to zeal them all to death. The
butchery lasted for four hours. Twen-
ty-three peasants were killed and 135
were mutilated. The C~ossacks, then
thoroughly tired out, compelled the
peasants to continue the logging, and
men had to beat their own brothers,
sons n fathers. The victims of this
slaughter were innocent, those really
guilty having escaped by flight.
In spite of these revelations the
court found sentences as related
above.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
WEEKS HAPPENINGS
NEWS OF THE WEEK II = con-
DENSED FORM.
Home OF Harry Collins, q FARMER
Near Parker, is Entered by Thieves
Who ChIoroform Whole Family
Only Get $500.

Harry E. Collins, q farmer llVing
hear Parker, was robbed SUNDAY
night. The robbers removed 'he
screen from a bedroom window anu
chloroformed the members Of the
family, stole $500 which Collins haG
drawn from the bank saturday, ana
also robbed the baby's bank.
Mrs. Collins is dead, the doctors pc
ing unable to resuscitate her. Collins
is very weak, as are also his two child
rem. The robbers stole n OF ColIlhs
horses and rode away. n morse
came back saddled and bridled'
The sheriff and a posse are securing
the country for the robbers.
1t is believed the robbers saw COL
Inns draw the money from the bank
Coroner Brown held a post-mortem
with c.. w. Rector, A. A. RoWen ana
George Benson as jurors. The verdict
was that Mrs. Collins came to her
death from an overdose of chloro-
form administered by some person 10
the jury unknown.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
GREGORY LAND BOOMING.
Rapid Advance in Prices In the Rose
bud Country.

Land values in Gregory county are
more than holding their own and the
constant influx of those who are seek
ing a new location is surprising, even
to the many real estate firms VIC are
engaged in the business in Bonesteel
and other towns in the county. Every
train brings it's bunch Of Ian
and farm lands are advancing in price
rapidly and steadily. The reason Is
that the soil is of that nature thai at
once challenges the attention of those
who know a good thing in land values
when they see it. Farms Of $50 acres
that six months G could be purchas-
ed at from $4,000 to $4,000, have dou-
bled in price and it is a poor quarter
that does not now bring $4,000, ana
there are numerous transfers recorded
of $4,000.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
QUEER FREAK OF LIGHTNING.
Scorches Bed on Which n Child Was
SlCCDing.

A Sioux Falls physician, who re-
turned from a brief %sOjOurn at q farm
belonging to him on the Sioux river
reports an instance where lightning
played an extraordinary prank.
Lightning struck the house on the
farm. The bolt descended upon the
gable at one end and tore things in
every direction. 1t followed a side
wall down through a sleeping rom
and scorched the bed upon which a
child was sleeping.
1t then ran to the floor and was di-
verted across the room under the car
pet, tearing nails from the floor boards
with such force as to imbed them in
the ceiling, where they can now be
seen. The bolt, after crossing the
floor, left the room through a window
on which there was a wire screen,
and his screen is full of small holes,
as though struck by a charge of large
shot from a gun
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
POLICY KING ENDS HIS LIFE.
"Al" Adams is Found Dead i'm New
York Home.

IOEh lIOItIt.
Albert J. Adams, of New York City,
who made a large fortune at the head
OF a policy gambling combine, shot
himself in the head Sunday night at
his home. Adams had been in poor
health since his release from Sing
Sing prison. Adams was rated as a
millionaire.
Adams was released from Sing Sing
Oct. II, 1904, after serving a short
sentence under the policy law. He
spent only one night in a prison cell at
Sing Sing. After thai the isolation
ward of the hospital was made over to
him and one or two others. He did
not do a stroke Of work in prison ex-
cept to attend to his own affairs. The
rigor of all the prison rules was miti-
gated in his behalf. In regard to re-
ceiving visits and supplies of comforts
and ~luxuries he was treated as the
other convicts. What was Of more
Importance to him is the a that he
had unrestricted correspondence.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
BATTLE IN A JAIL.
Officers Fatally Shot by MO-
bile Mob.

Roy Hoyle. of Mobile. Ala. a special
officer of the Mobile and Ohio railroad,
was fatally shot, and Alderman Sid
ney Lyons, chairman of the city coun-
ell Of Mobile, was slightly wounded In
the hand Tuesday night during a fight
at the county jail between deputy
sheriffs and a crowd Of men determin-
ed to capture Dick Robinson, a young
negro. The mob is hunting the negro
and threaten lynching if captured.
The negro, who is only II years old,
Tuesday attacked Ruth, h 12-year-
old daughter of BIount Sossamon, WHIT
lives about three miles from Mobile.
The girl vas passing a secluded spot
not far from her home when she was
attacked. Later she was found lying
taken to her home. Detectives were
placed on the track of the negro and
within three hours he was captured.
He was taken before the SOssamon
girl, who at once identified him. Sher-
if Hatch, knowing that the life of
the g would be taken by a mob
if he brought him into Mobile, caused
him to be conveyed to a station sew
eral miles up the Mobile and Ohio
railroad. He was not taken TO the Jail
at all, and was at least eight miles
from the city when the mob which de-
termined to have him appeared at the
Jail.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
SUPREME COURT VACANCY.
Place is Still Open to Taft IL He
Wants 1t,

A Washington dispatch says: The
ment to fill the vacancy in the SUI
preme court of the United States until
the reassembling of congress in De-
cember. Secretary Taft has been Of
fered the position, and has had the
question of accepting or declining it
The president has stated that he
would gladly appoint Attorney Gener-
al Moody, who is oOn to retire from
the cabinet, to the vacancy, but real
ICES that objections would follow be-
cause Massachusetts is already repre-
scented on the supreme court bench
in the person of Justice Holmes.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
ANTI-sALOGN LEAUGE ELECTION
Rev. r. w. Grafton, of Del! Rapids,
Chosen State Superintendent.

The annual meeting of the South
Dakota A~nti-Saloon league in Mitchell
last week resulted i'll the selection of a
superintendent to handle the work Of
the state, the position having been
filled temporarily. Rev. r. w. Graf
ton, of Dell Rapids, was chosen
for the place. The league decided to
incorporate. A subcommittee was
continued for tho purpose Of buying
or building an office for the headquar-
tiers Of the committee. The league has
a fund of $4,000 on hand for this pur-
pose.
The following officers were elected:
President, Rev. H. P. Carson, Of Scot
land; vice president, l. w. seaman
Of Mitchell, secretary, Rev. j.. E.
Booth. of Miller; treasurer, Rev. A. e.
Carhart, Of Mitchell. The ~headquar-
ters committee will be composed Of
these officers and a. LOOMS, of Red
field, Prof. NJ. NJ. Kramer, of Milbank,
Mrs. Eva Williams. Of WatertOwn, and
Mrs. F. A. Bidwell, of Mitchell.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
Welded AT LAST.
Case Which Has Attracted Much At
tention Finally Settled.

Rev. Avoids A~sadoOrian n MISS
Jessie Harris. both of Iroquois, this
state were united in marriage at
yankton Monday. Rev. Asadoorian
came to Yankton some days ago in
comnanv with Miss Harris and it was
their intention to be united IN mar
rage, but they decided to postpone
the wedding after procuring the IL
cense, Miss Harris remained IN Hank-
ton and entered Yankton college uh'li
her marriage Monday.
The groom is an Armenian VINO mas
been in the ministry in South Dakota
for the past nine years. The orlde Is d
daughter of a prominent old time res
ident of %IrOQuOiS.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
is VICTOR
Uncertainty Regarding the Balloon
Race Ends.

All uncertainty regarding the result
of the balloon race for the James Tor
don Bennett cup ended Tuesday when
a dispatch was received by the Aero
club of Paris, announcing c. S. Rolls
and his companion in the balloon Brit
tania, landed at Sandringham, Uplund,
at $50 Monday right. thus establish
ing Lieut.. Frank p. Lain, of the Sixth
cavalry, U. S. A, the American COM
petitor, the winner.
Signor Won Willer, of Italy, was Sec
ond; Count de la Vauix, Of France,
third; and Hon. c. S. Rolls, of Great
Britain, fourth.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
CAUGHT BY RUNAWAY CAR.
One Killed and Six Dangerously In
jured in New York.

A child was instantly killed and a
score of men and women injured, five
or six dangerously, Monday night in
New York, when a runaway car of the
Yonkers street railway dashed down
the steep incline of McLain venue,
jumped the track at a sharp turn at
the foot of the hill and turned over,
burying the passengers in the wreck
age.
The accident was due to the break
ing of a chain attached to the brake.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
Fire DESTROYS Show.

In a dense fog Tuesday a limited
passenger train on the Grand Trunk
crashed into a suburban train at Els
ton, nine miles from Chicago, de-
molishing three coaches and injuring
a number Of persons. Charles r. LIZ
erman Of Chicago Lawn, was probably
fatally hurt.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
FAILS TO END HIS LIFE.
Dallotan Attempts to Commit Suicide
by Cutting His Throat.

Henry Horton, who was making his
home in the Whitney farm, ten miles
west of Dell Rapids, chose a CHASTITY
method for committing suicide Fri
day, but failed. With a big jackknife
which he had sharpened for the occa-
sion he went to the haymow, where he
attempted to cut out his heart. The
blade missed his heart, however, and
punctured a lung, and it is believed
that his life may be saved. Horton
was in very bad health. He is related
to the Whitneys, where he stayed, and
is As years of age. OF late he has been
d~eSDOndent.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
Girl Accused of InSanticide.

Ida Peterson, of Lead, a Swede serv-'
ant girl, is confined in the county Jail
awaiting further developments in re-
gard to the death of her infant child.
The remains of a we'll developed baby
boy were found in the vault of an
clubhouse in South Lead, and a coro-
ner's jury developed the fact that
the child was alive at the time of its
birth.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
Bridge Gives Way.

ing to A. Thompson, of Dell Rapids.
fell partly through the approach to a
long bridge over the Big Sioux river,
six miles from Dell Rapids, and in the
accident Joseph Baken, the engineer,
and Willie Thompson, who was with
the outfit, were SO badly hurt hat
both died from their injuries.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
Iariated an EAGLE.

Chris Raber, a Butte county
rancher, probably is the first man IN
the state who ever succeeded in roplng
an eagle. While riding on his ranch
near Ghost creek, Raber espied a
young eagle on the ground. The eagle
was unable to fly very far on ccoun
of it's feathers being wet and heavy.
Raber, who is an expert with the larl'
at, promptly roped the bird. The eagle
measures seven feet from tip to tip OF
it's wings.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
Assist the Library.

The union library association, which
has recently been organized In Yank-
ton for the purpose Of aiding In the
maintenance Of the Carnegie library,
has arranged to hold a series of enter
tainments during the coming season,
the proceeds of the entertainments to
We expended for new books.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
Riches to Music Hall Singer

promoter and globe trotter is the
change wrought I'm a fortnight in the
fortunes of Harry Keefer, of Chicago.
Keefer. who is 22 years old. inherited
100000 from an uncle, Robert Allen,
of Newcastle, Pa. Two weeks later
he was married to Eva Armstrong, a
girl of Benton Harbor, Mich,
and a former sweetheart.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
Nine Corpses Float Ashore.

A st. Petersburg special says that
nine corpses with sacks over their
heads and bullet holes In their breasts
nave fioated ashore near the palace
of Peterhof. They are presumably
sailors recently executed at Kron
stadt.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
Indians Select Judges.

The Indians of Cheyenne River In
dian reservation have been selecting
new Judges for their supreme court,
the new selection for the Cherry Creek
district being Clarence Ward and that
for the White Horse district being
Abraham Whirlingham. No Heart Is
retained as one of the old judges, for
the agency district.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
Leg Torn Off in Thresher.

Louis Eaton, Of Sisseton. had his
left leg torn from his body while
threshing. He was standing on the
separator when he shipped and the
limb was drawn into the cylinder.
where it was shredded to mincemeat
to within eight inches of his hip. With
rare presence of mind he directed the
men in knotting a rope around the
stump, thus checking the flow Of
blood.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
Fatal Gasoline Explosion.

Mrs. II. T. Cheadle, of Salem, died
Sunday forenoon from the effects of
burns received Saturday afternoon
about 4 o'clock in the explosion of a
gasoline stove. Mrs. Cheadle was the
wife Of Mr.. H. T. Cheadle and togeth-
err they ran a restaurant and confec-
tionery establishment.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
Cotton Prices hmm

Prices of cotton futures in New Or
leans jumped Al points over Saturdays
sales Monday because of a new gulf
storm warning issued by the weather
bureau and additional reports Of
strom damage last week.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
Pay $4,000 for Ranch.

What is known as the Hutterische
Bruder-Gemeinde society, with head
quarters at Olivet, Hutchinson county.
has purchased the r. O.. Richards
ranch Of 1900 acres near Forestburg.
The price paid was 500, 900, which in
cludes stock and personal property.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
Stabhing ARRAY.

A thresher named Jerry was stab
bed several times in a row over a
newspaper on a farm near Pierpont.
Frank Tragill, a member Of the same
crew has been arrested charged with
assault with intent to do great bodily
harm, and is held pending the posi-
BILE recovery of the victim.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
WILL LOSE THEIR OFFICES.
Two United States Marshals Are to
BE Removed.

President Roosevelt determined
Tuesday to remove from office Vivian
j. Fagin. United States marshal of
the southern district of Ohio, upon the
report OF the civil service commission
hat he had been guilty Of making po-
litical assessments, and Marshal
O'Niel, of the western district Of Lou
isiana, on the allegation Of general
unfitness as disclosed by the report of
a commissioner Of the department OF
justice.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
Wins Gorging Contest: Dies.

Frank Miller, aged 81, proved that
he could eat more cheese than any
other cheese lover in Johnsburg, ILL.,,
and then he died. Fred Justen proved
taht he could eat almost as much Of
the limburger variety as Miller. He
probably will die. Jake Brayfield made
a poor showing as a cheese consumer
and he Is only desperately sick.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
Oldest Mason Dead.

William Spencer, of Britton, is dead
at the age of IS. He was known as
the oldest Mason in the state, having
Joined that fraternity over sixty Yeas
ago at ~Sandusky, O.. At his death he
was a member Of Cement lodge at
Claremont, which had charge of his
funeral.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
May Investigate Death.

Coroner Hamburger, In a statement
made Tuesday in New York. gave init
nation that he was not entirely salts
fed thai the death Of "Al" Adams,
the former so-called policy king, was
the result of suicide.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
Assassin Is Executed

In spite of the appeal for mercy by
the widow of Gen. Kozlov. who was
murdered In a park at Peterhof, July
IA. In a mistake for Gen. Trepon, the
assassin was executed In st. Peters
burg Tuesday.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
Bodies Sent to Fort Riley,

The bodies of t~wenty-nine members
of the Seventh cavalry who we're kill
ed in the memorable battle with the
Sioux Indians at Pine Ridge agency
s. D., on Dec. 20, 1890, have just been
exhumed and shipped to Fort Riley,
Kan, for interment in the post ceme-
terry.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
Fire in Wyoming Mine.

The large coal mine twelve miles
north Of Theromopolis, Wyo, owned
by Samuel Gebo, of Montana, is burn
ing fiercely, and seemed doomed. All
the men working in the mine escaping
in safety.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10

Minister of Public Instruction Gil
mento. of Madrid. Spain. has an
nounced a project for a loan Of $10.-
0o0.o 600 for the construction of 5000
primary schools during the next five
years.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
Killed nv q Train.

E. F, Monroe, a blacksmith, who had
been working in Pierre for several
months, was found dead beside the
railroad tracks east of hat city by a
section crew.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
Dedicate at Herreid.

Herreid Catholics are looking for
ward with interest to Wednesday. Oct.
8. when the o st. Michael's Catholic
church building at that place will be
dedicated with elaborate exercises.
The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1906-10-10
Victims of Explosion.

Aldrich Schroeder, son Of John
Schroeder, q prominent resident Of
Emery, who was one of the victims
Of a fatal dynamite accident in Ly-
man county. has recovered to such an
extent hat he has been moved to
the family home at Emery.