The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1906-09-07

II. OldIudu, OIL IHo UTM Oh II. CldIudN
e Co, New York coffee merchants
was arrested at Harrisburg, Pa.
charged by the Importers Tea and
Coffee company that city with con
| spiraCy to defraud The Harrisburg
firm bought 15,0OOpounds of coffee al
II cents pound, and afterwards, ii
is alleged, found 1t to be worth only
II cents.
Casualties.
Paul Vetter, fourteen years old, OF
Chicago was drowned at Michigan
City, Ind.
A Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
train struck buggy at Rock City, ILL.,.
killing two girls
Stepping off one train and walking
In front of another at Stanton, Iowa
four men were seriously injured.
Miss Flora Mullen and Lucy Hill OF
Pleasant Hill, Ohio, were drowned by
the overturning OF buggy in a small
creek.
Nearly an entire block front OF
business houses were partially burned
| in New York, causing damage to a
dozen firms exceeding $250,000.
A car on the scenic railway at an
| amusement park at Broad Ripple
| eight miles north OF Indianapolis
jumped the track and injured five per,
sons.
rbo ,rfor% .or ~ vUiI,;orc noon a
ranchman residing two miles north OF
Iron Rod station, Mont, died from the
effects of dose Of poison admins
tered by mistake.
| Dewitt Adams, aged twenty-seven
and Miss Carroll Jones, aged seven.
teen, while returning from church
near Fredonia, Kan, were drowned in
attempting to ford Fall river.
Two men sitting upright In a wagon,
dead, and four mules dead in harness
were found near Kenna, N. M. They
were killed by lightning while driving
from Roswell to their farms near Ida.
A freight train on the Virginia &,
Southwestern railway ran of trestle
at Bristol, Va, and the engine and
eight cars we're plunged into the river.
| Two were killed and another serious
ly injured.
Fire at Lincoln, Neb., destroyed the
| First Christian church at Fourteenth
and X streets. Loss, $4,000. The
| Catholics purchased the building a
| year ago and were changing 1t into a
handsome cathedral.
Thirty miners at Shaft No. OF the
Southwestern Development company
at Pittsburg, Kan, were overcome by
gas and poisonous air. The victims
are In a serious condition, but all are
| expected to recover. Antoine Kauie
another miner employed by the com
pany, was killed by q fall Of rocks.
Otherwise.
! Democrats and Populists of the Fifth
| Nebraska district fused and nomin
ated r. D. Switzerland, Populist OF
Superior, Neb., for congress.
Four Greek laborers were killed
and another man fatally injured by
| being struck by a Baltimore & Ohio
Southwestern train at Symmes, three
miles from Loveland, Ohio.
Edward Heating. president Of the
Denver Press club, was elected presi
dent OF the international League ol
Press Clubs ct q session Of the con
vention ct Corona, on the continental
divide.
DR.. C. NJ. Bigelow Of Evanston and
c. e. lawrence of Chicago, who 1t
tempted to make q trip from Sauya
tuck, Mich. to Chicafo In q launch
and were supposed to have been lost
In . storm, are safe In Michigan City
Ind.
M. +. Elliott. general counsel fol
the Standard OH company, who was
shown telegram from Peoria, Ill.
to the effect that the Standard OF
company had taken steps to acquire
Ill OF the principal distillerfes in the
United States as result OF the dena
tured alcohol law by congress, said the
Standard had taken no steps in this
direction and would not.
Thre hundred and fifty Thousand
pounds Of food stuffs were destroyed
In Chicago last week, according tc
the last issue Of the bulletin Of the
health department, because they were
impure. The bulletin says the food
inspectors In the down town districts
alone condemned and destroyed 60.
719 pounds. This includes 5000
pounds Of canned goods and 1880
pounds OF fruit and vegetables.
Dan Patch went an exhibition mile
at Dubuque in 1:58 fat, the last quar-.
ter in :2s 1-2, lowering the track rec
| ord 5 3-4 seconds. 1t was the fastest
mile ever made BY harness horse
in Iowa.
| The feet Of Long Law, . Decatur
| Chinaman, injured in collision on
the interurban railway at Riverton,
ILL.,, have been sent to local under.
taking firm, which has prepared them
for permanent preservation. AZ soon
as the Chinaman II able to leave the
hospital he viii send the feet to China
70 relatives.