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The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-01
Casualty List.

Joseph #. Osburne, an actor OF Bos-
ton, was killed by being accidentally
thrown from a train near Chicago.
An explosion in the Victor Fuel
company's Maitland mine at Walsen-
burg, Colo, caused the death Of fifteen
miners.
Three men,, and possibly more, have
lost their lives in a fire in the old
shaft of the Old Dominion Copper com
pany at Globe, Ariz.
The four upper floors OF the Office
building Of the Equitable Life Insur-
ance society at Memphis we're gutted
by fire. Loss, 5000 600.
o. G. Apple. a young Elgin Ull.)
man who was making his first trip be-
tween Chicago and Clinton, Iowa, as
freight brakeman on the Northwestern
railroad. was instantly killed at Ster.
ling. H.. when he stepped from his
train directly in the path Of the fast
mail train. Apple was thrown lifeless
several feet from the track when the
great locomotive struck him.
South-bound express train No. Is on
the Southern Pacific was partially de-
rallied by a landslide near Delta. Cal.
Two persons were killed and four In.
iured. Others he'd narrow escapes.
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Crimes and Criminals.

Richard G. Ivens, the slayer of Mrs.
Bessie Hollister in Chicago, will be
put on trial March 5.
Evidence against the Mutual Re-
serve Life Insurance company will be
laid before the New York grand jury
to-day.
A report from Can Creek, Breathitt
county, KY, states that Henry Turner
shot and killed his father-in-law,
Elisha Howard. Turner has not been
captured.
Ex-Sheriff John B. Trainham of Ro-
anoke City, vas murdered in his bed
room at Roanoke. Va, his skull being
crushed with On axe. Trainham was
not known to have had an enemy.
While Rev. Hayward and family of
Billings. Mont, were attending divine
services Sunday night a thief entered
the First Congregational church par
sonage and ~ransacked 1t. He carried
off a valuable ring.
James S. Keerl Of Helena, Mont,
a well known civil engineer and high
ly connected socially throughout Mon
tana, must serve ten years for killing
Thomas S. Crystal, a Helena barten-
der, three years ago.
Robert Hannigan, a prominent cat
tleman of southern New Mexico, has
been taken by bandits from a stage
near Silver City N. NJ, and carried
into the Mongollon mountains, to be
held presumably for a reward.
Judge Williams of Milwaukee quash-
ed the indictment charging that ex-
County Clerk Otis T. Hare and Frank
Keogh fraudulently submitted q claim
for $685. to the county board OF 1902
for printing the official ballots.
The federal grand jury at Asheville,
n. c., returned two true bills against
Congressman E. Spencer Blackburn of
the Eighth North Carolina district,
charging him with practicing before
departments in Washington while a
congressman and receiving fees for
his services. No warrants for Black
burn have yet been issued.
Diamonds and rings worth $4,000
were stolen from the show window
of a jewelry store at Dayton. Ohio, at
6 o'clock in the evening. The thief
shattered the glass with a coupling
pin, snatched up the jewels and
jumped into a buggy driven by an ac-
complete who prevented pursuit by
firing at those who tried to interfere.
The sidewalks were crowded at the
time, and the considerable excitement
that prevailed assisted the marauders
in escaping.
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Domestic.

Rev. Father J. F. Leary, aged sixty
one, chaplain-in-c chief Of the Grand
Army of the Republic, died at Chap
man, Kan, after a long illness. He
was born at Ogdensburg, N. Y.
The German orphan home of Fort
Dodge, Iowa, has been ~bequeathed a
240-acre farm valued at SIS, 200, by the
will of Hulda Reck, who last week
was killed by a fractions horse.
In an effort to reduce her weight,
Mrs. J. P. Abbott of Oshkosh has been
fasting for three weeks. 1t is said that
she takes no nourishment whatever,
but drinks about a quart of water a
day.
If Iowa does not gain substantially
in population during the next decade
it will not be the fault of a score or
more of young married women of Ma
son City, who have formed a new or
ganization to be known as the Anti
Race Suicide club.
Representative Hannah has offered
in the Kentucky general assembly a
resolution calling upon the Kentucky
delegation in congress to urge an ap-
preparation to buy the Abraham Lin
coin homestead in Larue county, and
convert it into a national park. The
resolution will be adopted.
Mrs. Sylvia Langdon Durham, the
second oldest person in Connecticut,
died, aged 105 years. The oldest per-
son in the state, Mrs. Debora Stillman
of Easton, who is LOG years old, is Sc
riously i'll as the result of shock caus
ed by the death of her son, which O &c
Cured during a fire at his home.
Col. A j. Lovejoy has established a
worlds record in the hog market at
Rockford, ILL.,. by the sale Of the prize.
winning Berkshire Masterpiece" to
W. F. Corsa Of Whitehall, ILL.,, for g..
500.
Mrs. Edith Samms, nee Carter, an
actress, is at Denver for the purpose.
1t is said. of i%nstituting a breach of
promise suit against Wilson Miner.
who married Mrs. Charles T. Yerkes.
It is understood that Miner is now
hurrying to Denver to make an effort
to adjust the matter before 1t 10 given
an airing In the courts.
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BRUTAL WORKof RUSS OFFICERS
GIRL Is SUBJECTED TO FRIGHT.
Full BRUTALlTIES AND IN
IDENTITIES.

St. Petersburg, Feb. q. - Great
wrath has been aroused in Liberal
circles by the publication of a letter
from Mile. Shiridonovo, the seventeen
year-old girl who shot NJ. Luzhenof-
sky, chief of the secret police at Tam
bot, in which she describes the indig-
mites and brutalities to which she
was subjected. On account of her
youth and her self-sacrifice in execut-
ing the sentence against M. Luzhenof-
sky, who was detested on account OF
his cruelty in suppressing the peasant
disorders, she has been made n OF
the heroines of the revolution and is
called a second Charlotte Corday.
Kicked and Beaten.
The letter says that after the shoot
ing of Luzhenofsky, whose body guard
of Cossacks did not save him from
five well-aimed bullets, Mile. Shirido-
novo was knocked down and beaten
with the whips of the Cossacks and
rifle butts. She was hen dragged by
her hair down stairs to a sleigh by the
enraged Cossacks, taken to the police
station, undressed and thrust into a
damp, cold cell, where she vas sub
jected to eleven hours of torment in
ordeer to force her to reveal the
names of her ~accomplices. The girl
says that two officers took brutal
pleasure in kicking her back and forth
across her cell, tearing her hair,
burning her flesh with their cigarettes
and threatening her with abandon
ment to the Cossacks unless she o n
fessed.
Mile S~hiridonovo is now in a hospi-
tai in a serious condition. Her skull
is fractured in two places, n eye is
injured and her body is a mass of
bruises from head to foot.
The newspapers demand the instant
trial and punishment of the two Of
ficers, whose names are given; but
the vengeance of the revolutionists
will probably anticipate official action.
The Russ also condemns the organ
ization which sen this child on such
a mission
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RESUME OF THE NEWS
Brief

Four people were burned to death
and three seriously hurt in a fire
which destroyed the home of Patrick
Grogan at Tunnel Hill. east of Johns.
town, Pa.
The second wreck to the Gould sys-
TEN fast mail train occurred at a point
three and a half miles south of Green.
vile, Tex. The train was ditched but
no n was hurt.
e. J. Peck, a we'll known business
man of Saginaw. Mich, was killed in
Louisville, KY, by either falling Or
jumping from the sixth floor of the
new Seelmach hotel.
Engineer Willard and Brakeman
Sheahan were killed and Fireman
Rogers badly injured in a head-on col
lision of freight trains near Eldora,
Iowa. Orders were misunderstood.
N. T. Knudson, a farm laborer near
Iowa City, Iowa, went to bed smoking
a cigar. He went to sleep, and when
his roommate arrived the bedding was
on fire and Knudson nearly ~suffocated.
Six brick structures in the business
section of Rutland, VT, occupied by
nearly a score of firms and many
smaller tenants, were destroyed by
fire Sunday. The loss is estimated at
$750,000.
Three men were killed and twenty
girls were injured by an explosion at
the Hercules powder plant, eighteen
miles north OF Louisiana, Mo. The
three men killed were employees of the
plant.
Ben Ellers, a well known rancher
residing near Harlem, Mont, was
thrown from his horse and instantly
killed. Ellers was to have been mar
ried shortly. He was about forty
years old.
While failing down logs on a rail
way for the Ingram Lumber company
at their Camp No. Z near Ingram,
Wis, Martin Lindberg was hit in the
neck by a log and instantly killed: He
leaves a family.
A young man named Roy, residing
in St. Boniface, Man., was killed in
the Birdshill sand pit. This makes
the second fatality in the same pit
within two days. Undermining Of
frozen ground caused both deaths.
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Friday.

Washington, Feb. 24.-Preceded by
a debate which indicated no hesitancy
but rather a relish in taking action
against alleged railroad combinations,
the house agreed yesterday to the
Tillman-G illispie resolution directing
the interstate commerce commission
to make an immediate inquiry and re-
port regarding alleged restraints Of
trade on the part of certain railways
regarding the handling Of coal and
merchandise. The resolution is not
in the form it passed the senate and
will go back to the senate for second
action. The debate occupied an hour
and consisted of a succession of
speeches in denunciation of alleged re-
straining practices. Mr.. Grosvenor of
Ohio supported it as a ''rebuke to the
recent puerile report which had been
made by a certain railway Official"
The house devoted the remainder OF
the day to minor matters and passed
several bills, among which was the
famous Mussel Shoals dam bill.
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Wednesday

Washington, Feb. 22.-The senate
yesterday passed a pure food bill by
the decisive vote of 63 to 4. The vote
was taken after a day devoted almost
exclusively to .debate Of a desultory
character on the measure. Several Ell
forts were made to amend the bill and
the committee accepted a number OF
suggestions, but only those accepted
were incorporated in the bill as
passed.
The bill makes it a misdemeanOr TO
manufacture or sell adulterated or
misbranded foods, drugs, medicines or
liquors in the District Of Columbia, the
territories and the insular possessions
of the United States, and prohibits the
shipment of such goods from one state
to another or to a foreign country. 1t
also prohibits the receipt of such
goods. Punishment by a fine OF $500
or by Imprisonment for one year or
both is prescribed.
Chairman Hull of the military af-
fairs committee, in presenting the
army appropriation bill to the house
yesterday, urged the necessity of COM
plete preparedness as to our army and
navy for trouble in the Orient. He de-
clared that any nation not prepared to
defend its position in China. might as
we'll haul down its flag and quit the
Pacific.
Speeches on tariff, immigration and
the Bayne customs house bill on
sumed the balance of the day.
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Thursday

Washington, Feb. %. - Mr.. Knox's
much discussed and long expected
railroad rate bill was introduced in
the senate yesterday and because of
the exceptional interest in the subject
was accorded the unusual privilege of
a reading at length on the day of in
PRODUCTION. Close attention was given
to the reading.
Mr.. Foraker gave notice OF a speech
For next Wednesday on the rate ques-
ton.
The remainder of the day was de-
voted to listening to the reading of
Washington's farewell address by Mr..
McCreary and the consideration of the
hazing bill.
The house refused to adjourn in
celebration of Washington's birthday,
and it's members participated in gen
eral debate OF the army %appropria-
ton bill. The speeches took a wide
range.
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COL. HENDERSON
PASSES AWAY
FORMER SPEAKER OF THE
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
Is DEAD.
WILL Be NO COAL STRIKE
SAYS VICE PRESIDENT OF MIN.
ERS-NO CHANGE SAY THE
OPERATORS.

Dubuque, Iowa, Feb. q. - Former
Speaker David B. Henderson of the
national house of representatives,
died at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon
at Mercy Hospital of paresis, which
attacked him nine months ago. He
began to sing Friday afternoon, raj
lied Saturday morning, but in the af-
and failed rapidly until the end came.
All of his family, except a son who is
in California, were at the bedside. Col.
Henderson was unable to recognize
any one but his wife since a week ago
except on Friday, when he partly re-
gained his mental faculties.
Washington, Feb. q. - Former
Speaker David B. Henderson, who
died at Dubuque, Iowa, yesterday, was
for many years a prominent figure in
the councils of his party and had a
host of friends among both Republic
n and Democrats in congress. Sue
ceeding Speaker Reed in the chair,
Mr.. Henderson carried Out vigorously
the rules adopted by his predecessor
for the expedition of the business of
the house. He was twice elected
speaker. his last term in that office
closing a t~wenty-year service in the
lower branch of congress.
1t was in advocating the cause of
war veterans that the former speaker
was seen at his best in debate in the
house. He stubbornly fought for what
he believed to be their rights and elo-
quently pleaded their cause.
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CADETS PERISH IN FLAMES.
Military Academy at Gambler, Ohio, Is
DESTROYED by Eire-Three Dead.

Military Academy at Gambler, Ohio, Is
Destroyed by Fire-Three Dead.
Gambler, Ohio, Feb. 27.-Three boys
are dead, nine seriously injured and
several others more or less hurt as a
result of a fire which destroyed Mil
ner hall, Delano and North halls and
North annex, Kenyon military acad-
envy, early Saturday. The fire broke
out at 4 a. m. and quickly spread
through the building.
The charred remains of the three
victims were found in the debris Sun
day after long search. The dead and
injured are all students of the mill
tary academy and Kenyon college.
The property loss by the destruc-
ton of the buildings Is estimated at
800, 900, with 60 per cent insurance.
There Is no satisfactory explanation
Is to what caused the fire. Some are
of the opinion that oily rags may have
caused spontaneous combustion. The
floors Of the building were oiled, and
this. in part. at least, accounts for
the rapidity with which the buildings
burned.
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ONE HEAD FOR CANAL.
Either That or Let Out the Job ia
Contractor Says Enuineer Wallace,

Either That or Let Out the Job to
Contractor Says Engineer Wallace.
New York, Feb. 27.-John F. Wal.
lace, formerly chief engineer Of the
Panama canal, has contributed an
article to the March number of the
Engineering Magazine %recounting his
observations and experiences during
the year in which he was in charge of
construction work in the canal zone.
Mr.. Wallace declares it to be his be-
lief that 1T will require more time
and money to construct a high level
canal on the eighty-five-foot plan, I'M
der the present method of government
control, than it will to construct a sea
level canal provided the work is &C.
complished by modern efficient meth
DDS"
He advocates either placing the
work in the hands Of one man, a prac-
tical engineer, with unlimited authori-
ty, or letting the work to one large
contracting firm.
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MINERS WILL NOT STRIKE.
Vice President Lewis Says There Will
Be No Strike.

Indianapolis, Feb. 81. In a state
ment issued last night to the Associa-
ted Press Vice President T. T.. Lewis,
Of the United Mine Workers of Amer
lea, declares that there will be no
strike of the mine workers On April /,
saying the operators will restore the
reduction accepted by the miners two
years ago and perhaps lore.
Situation Unchanged.
Pittsburg, Feb. q. - Francis T.
Robbins, chairman of the executive
board of the Pittsburg Coal company,
and n of the operators who was a
party to the interstate convention,
was in the city yesterday. He said:
There is no change in the situation
between the bituminous coal opera
tors and the United Mine Workers re-
garding a new wage arrangement for
the year beginning April l next.
There can be no compromise offer to
the miners without a meeting of the
operators who are members of the
interstate agreement, and no such
meeting has been held o has one
been called. The dispute between the
operators and miners remains iden-
tically as it has been since the ad-
journment of the joint conference in
Indianapolis
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Saturday,

Washington, Feb. rs. - In a two
hour session Saturday the house
passed 416 private pension bills be-
sides a number of minor measures by
unanimous consent. An effort was
made to secure the passage of the
bill making the records of the internal
revenue bureau available for court
evidence against violators Of the pro-
hibition and local option liquor laws,
but as the proceeding was by unani-
nous consent a single objection
blocked the measure.
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Two Killed in Wreck

Redding, CAL, Feb. 23.-South-bound
express train No. Is on the Southern
Pacific was partially derailed by a
landslide near Delta last night. Two
persons were killed and four injured.
Others had narrow escapes. /,
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BATTLING NELSON, HERO.
PugiIist Painfully Injured While Stop
Pima Runaway.

Huntington, W Va, Feb. 27.-Bat-
ting Nelson, the champion light
weight pugilist, who is spending a few
days in the mountains at Blue Sui
phur, ear here, prior to going into
training at Philadelphia, was painfully
bruised in stopping a runaway yester-
day. Mrs. Frank Howard was taking
her two children for a drive and the
horse, becoming frightened, bolted
and ran. AS the runaway neared
Nelson, the pugilist leaped for the
horses head and succeeded in stop
ping it after he had been dragged a
considerable distance.
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Hog Sells for $500.

Rockford, ILL.,, Feb. %. = Col. A. ].
Lovejoy has established a worlds rec
ord in the hog market by the sale of
the prize winning Berkshire Master
piece. to w. F. Corsa Of Whitehall.
ILL.,, for 1880.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-01

The Chicago superintendent OF
schools is annoyed because a woman
has been trying to work off on him an
infallible cure for cold feet, which
she says are the source of all our ills,
Perhaps he Is looking for a panacea
against cold hands.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-01

The question of jury service for the
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Com
pany of Boston might properly depend
on the results of a test as to whether
the ancients and honorables are wet
or dry.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-01
BANK is ACQUITTED.
His Brother Received Deposits When
Bank Was Insolvent.

Des Moines, Iowa, Feb. 27.-Banker
Fred McCutcheon, on trial at Ida
Grove for receiving deposits after his
bank at H~olstein, Iowa, was insolvent,
was acquitted Of the charge. Nc
C%utcheon's brother testified that he
received the alleged unlawful deposits
instead of the defendant. and the lat
ter was cleared on this evidence.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-01

Young John Rockefeller comes to
the front with the novel observation
that everybody ought to live within
his income. Well, we are certainly
living within his income.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-01

A loathly contemporary says that
schoolmarms are homely, and that is
why they stay schoolmarms. Not only
is he a prevaricator, but the teachers
out his way are not unionized. One
more such remark and they will be.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-01

At Hotel Cecil, in London, brandy
over 100 years old is sold to guests
regularly. This proves that after all
that has been said an Englishman can
keep a bottle a good deal longer than
an American can.
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Most of us love work, but still the
chores would hardly enable a hypnot-
ist to recall us from the brink of the
grave.
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A correspondent Of the New York
Herald tells of the numerous over.
churches, and the within, pray.
ing. have mercy upon us, miserable
sinners" Yes, miserable and unmerc,
iful, too.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-01

New Jersey is thinking of revokinc
the charter of the Standard Oil com
rany, always reserving. of course, the
right to have another think after con-
%sultatiOn with 20 Broadway.
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Kaiser Wilhelm has employed a
man with a divining rod to find water
II Africa. He would not run such a
risk Of disappointment if he employed
a man with a nickel to find a saloon.
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: II is to be hoped that the news that
an American cOrnet player is receiv-
ing $500 a week in Paris won't start
the man next door to practicing here.
after double time.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-01

Old man Giddles wants 10 know
what's the use of wondering whether
there are people on Mars, when we
can sell them anything.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-01

The Scottish peer who is TO marry
Lady Mary Hamilton, with her ST.
100000 a year, may lot have any mon
ey, but he is Graham bred.
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GETS FIVE YEARS FOR FORGERY.

Ben Valentine, a Wealthy Brooklyn
Lawyer, Convicted and Sentenced.
Mineola, l.. l., Feb. 27.-Ben E. Val
e%ntine, a wealthy Brooklyn lawyer,
was sentenced to an indeterminate
term of not more than five years and
three months in Sing Sing prison for
forgery. Valentine had been convict
ed of forging his wife's name to a
deed for property belonging to his
mother. Valentine was admitted to
bail pending an application for a GER
tifcate Of reasonable doubt.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-01

John Gazics of New York fell sew
enty-five feet, off the Palisades. He
landed in a tree. and lives. There are
those who are willing to bet he cant
do it again.
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Nine. Humbert has been released,
but she has inherited her last fortune.
The old game wouldn't work now in
an idiot asylum.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-03-01

Mrs. Theodore Neales Of Bitter
Township, Penn, has just presented
her husband with No. II. Is there any
thing in this name Theodore?
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Judging from the dispatches from
Biarritz. we assume that King Alfonso
is expert in running an automobile
with one hand.