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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1906-12-13
Criminal.

Will Johnson, a negro. was found
guilty of assault upon a white woman
at Atlanta, Ca, and sentenced to be
hanged.
A beggir woman arrested on the
steps of a public school in New York
had $4,000 In her pocket. She had
taien in SO in an hour.
Daniel Connors, charged with as.
saulting a hfteen-year-old girl, was
found guilty at Billings, Mont, and
sentenced TO five years in prison.
]. F. Culpepper. former chief OF po-
lice of Pine Bluff. Ark, and well
known throughout the Southwest, was
killed In a pistol duel with a negro.
Lorenzo Dow Short. a former con
ivict. shot and instantly killed Consta-
BILE Singer at Proctorville, Ohio, when
the officer attempted to arrest him for
larceny. -
Spectators and ranchmen have
committed fraudulent practices in en-.
tering school lands in Western Kan
sas. according to records filed at To-
peka, Kan.
NJ. G. Collins was arrested on a fed.
eral Indictment In Chicago. returned
two years ago In New Orleans. in
which Collins and others was charged
with defrauding a number of persons
through a poolroom scheme, operating
under the name Of the Cooperative
Turf association.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1906-12-13
Casualty List.

Fire in the business district Of Mont
real caused a loss of $4,000.
Fire In au automobile garage at
Pittsburg caused a loss Of about SIS,
600 before IL was controlled.
The town hall In Yokohama, a me-
mortal OF Gen. Grants visit to that
city, has been destroyed by fire.
Alfred Wilson, wheelman Of the
steamer Republic, fell from an ore
dock at Escanaba, Mich, and was
drowned.
While hunting near Denver, Iowa,
Ray Meeker. aged fourteen years, was
killed by the accidental discharge OF
his own gun.
One man was killed and fifteen seri-
ously injured as the result of a dust
explosion in the Rosebud mine lear
5eeleyville, Ind.
Mrs. Charles Rhode was fatally In.
jureG and $780, 900 loss caused by a
fire which destroyed a five-story block
at st. Joseph. Mo.
DR.. l.. L. Sherrom. an American ply
stefan residing at the City Of Mexico,
was found dead in bed as the result OF
taking an overdose of an opiate.
The incoming freight houses Of the
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway
company were damaged by fire at Chi
rago to the extent OF 100000.
One nan was killed and three in
jured, one fatally, in an explosion in
the Quincy mine at Houghton, Mich.
The dead and injured are all miners.
G.. o. Yergy, while driving across
the street railway tracks at Helena,
Mont, was hit by a trolley car, which
demolished his vehicle and crushed
him to death,
The steam barge Hickox, from Os-
wego for Belleville, Ont, now overdue,
and for which much anxiety was felt.
was burned while off Main Ducks. The
crew escaped.
Three men were killed and n was
fatally injured and five others were
severely hurt by the fall of an elevator
in the Geyser Manufacturing compa-
ny's shops at Chambersburg, Pa.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1906-12-13
SAYS MR.. STOR[R
M|SSTATES FACTS
PRESIDENT REPLIES AT LENGTH
TO ATTACK OF FORMER AM
BAssADoR.
MAKES UNTRUE STATEMENTS
NEVER AUTHORIZED EFFORTS TO
ADVANCE ARCHBISHOP IRE
LAND.

Washington. Dec. II. - President
Roosevelt last night made public a
long letter addressed TO Secretary
Root. giving correspondence between
the president and Former Ambassador
Bellamy Storer and Mrs. Storer, In
which he says that Mr.. Storer's refusal
to answer his letters and the publica-
ton of various private letters tustihed
the ambassadors removal; that Mr..
Storer's publication of private CORE
s%pondence was peculiarly ungentle-
manly, and that he (the president) a
stated with absolute clearness his po-
sition-the reason why it was out OF
the question for him as president to
try TO get any archbishop made cardi-
nal, though expressing his admiration
for Archbishop Ireland, as well as X d
ers of other denominations.
Should Know Facts.
lie says he thinks e we'll that the
members of the cabinet should know
certain 60 facts, which he (Storer)
either suppresses or misstates."
He says he did not resent the action
OF the StOTefS unJll II DeCdule efI-
dent that they were likely TO damage
American interests" He says Mrs.
Storer urged him to give her husband
a cabinet place and that she stated
Mr.. Choate at London and Gen. Porter
at Paris were not proper persons to be
ambassadors, suggesting her husband
in that connection. The president in
]corporates a letter from Postmaster
General Cortelyou contradicting the
statement that President Mckinley
had commissioned a gentleman to ask
the pope "as a personal favor to him"
and as an honor to the country TO
appoint Archbishop Ireland as cardi-
nal.
Storer's Statement Untrue.
The president declares that MI.
Storer's statement that he authorized
any such message TO be delivered to
Pope Plus is untrue.
The presidents action last night fol-
lows the publication of the confiden-
tial pamphlet" which Mr.. Storer last
week sent to the president, the cabi-
net and the senate foreign relations
committee.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1906-12-13
PROBE NAILS HIGH OFFICIALS.
Grand Jury Believes They Held Back
Facts When Witnesses.

Salt Lake City, Dec. 8. The federal
grand jury that is Investigating coal
land frauds in Utah and charges that
railroad corporations have discrimi
nated against certain shippers made a
partial report yesterday. Indictments
were returned against the Union Pa
cifc Railroad company, the Oregon
Short Line railroad, the Union Pacific
Coal company, the Utah Fuel company
and several of the highest officials rep
resenting the Hartman and Gould
corporations in Utah.
The indictment against the Harri-
man interests charges violation of
the interstate m law, alleging
discrimination against ID. J. Sharp. n
coal dealer in Salt Lake City, who
was forced out of business after he
had cut prices below the prices
charged by other dealers in coal.
The representatives of the Gould in
terests are charged with defrauding
and attempting to defraud the United
States government, the charges being
based on the methods pursued in &C
curing title to coal lands In Utah.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1906-12-13

Rev, Arthur Bell Nichols died Al
Banagher. ireland. aged ninety years
He was the husband of Charlotte
Bronte, the famous novelist
The directors of the Southern rail-
way elected w. w. Finley OF Washing
ton president of the company, to sue
coed the late Samuel Spencer.
Otto Young, one of the leading fin
anciers Of Chicago, died at his home
at Lake Geneva, Wis, after an illness
OF but one month. Mr.. Young was
born in Germany in 1874.
Prof. Henry Strobel Bemis, profess
sor of international law at the Har.
ward law school, has resigned, and will
assume a position permanently with
the government Of Siam as general ad.
visor.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1906-12-13
FIRE AT CORNELL.
Seven Lives Are Lost in Destruction
Of Fraternity House,

Of Fraternity House.
Ithaca, N. ", Dec. 9. The Chi Psi
fraternity house at Cornell university
was destroyed by fire at an early hour
yesterday morning. Seven lives r
lost. or these four were students and
the others prominent townsmen who
we're acting as volunteer firemen. The
bodies of the dead, with the exception
of two. were recovered. II has been
decided to dynamite the ruins to ia
cilitate the search for the missing
bodies.
The awful catastrophe has thrown
O only the university but the whole
town into mourning.
Among those earliest on the scene
and who contributed most of the work
of rescue from the flames, which had
already converted the first floor of the
doomed dormitory into an inferno,
were several Cornell football men. All
did effective work.
The cause of the fire Is unknown.
The building is an unsightly wreck
with no particle Of Its inner furniture
remaining.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1906-12-13
WEEKS HISTORY IN tPI1oM
ALL THE NEWS THAT Is WORTH
TELLING CONDENSED FOR
BUSY READERS.
From the Capital.

The indications are that the subject
of the reclamation of swampy or over
vowed lands by drainage win be
pushed this winter.
The secretary of the treasury has
given notice that on Dec. Is he will
anticipate interest. without rebate
amounting TO s12, ZOO. 900.
The Yudin collection Of 1000 vol
umes on Russia, one of the most exten
sive in existence, has been purchased
for the congressional library at Wash.
ington.
The actual cost OF producing Class
A armor plate is $295.S5 a ton, accord
Ing to a report made TO congress by
a board of officers named TO investi
gate the matter.
"a resolution was introduced in the
house asking the secretary of the int
rior for complete Information regard.
Ing all public lands reserved for entry
since July !, 1906.
Senator Nelson has introduced a bill
noviding for a gradual increase in
the annual appropriations TO state col,
leges for the benefit of agricultural
and mechanical arts.
"A movement is on 10 raise the saia'
rics of congressman from 5000 TO
1880 a year. III enacted by the pres
ent congress it would not take effect
until the next congress.
lit cost / 1904, 749 to keep the ships
OF Uncle Sans navy in commission
during the last fiscal year, according
70 the annual report OF Paymaster
General III. T. b. Harris.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1906-12-13
CONVERTED BUNS IN PULPIT.
A Fashionable Congregation Hears
Gospe! From Lips of Former Toughs.

- TdSiioidb'S
Gospe! From Lips of Former Toughs.
New York, Dec. 1.-THE Collegiate
Church of st. Nicholas, the church OF
Helen Gould and Mrs. Russell Sage,
was filled With men and women Oh
wealth and social prestige last night
to listen to the story of the gospei
from the lips of converted Bowery
buns.
1t came, curious and critical congre-
cation, prepared to be shocked rather
than thrilled; it sat in silent wonder
through the most impressive religious
service ever held in the shadow of Mil
lionaire's Row ard went home amazed
by the power of mems testimony to
hold %spellbound this ultra-conservative
church of Fifth avenue
There was nothing sensational I'M
less it was the deep impression made
by the former outcasts of the Bowery,
and the way in which DR.. Mackay's
parishioners crowded about him at the
close of the services and asked that
the work go on.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1906-12-13
Otherwise.

The wisconsin state railroad, rate
commission has reduced the rate Oh
beet pulp 20 per cent.
A seat on the New York stock ex-
change sold for $82.500. The last
previous sale was at $4,000.
Members of the Chicago Christian
Endeavor union have called upon May
or Dunno to close the saloons on Sun.
day.
Statistics just compiled place the
number of deer killed in Michigan
during the season just closed at about
$4,000.
Young Corbett" and Terry McGov-
ern will fight before the Eureka Ath-
letic club of Baltimore the last week
In January.
Lewis Emery, Jr., the unsuccessful
Democratic-L Lincoln candidate for gov
ernor Of Pennsylvania. spent $25.561.4S
in his campaign.
The White Star Steamship company
has ordered another 650-foot steamer
from Harland & Wolff for the Ameri-
can passenger trade.
Several thousand employees of the
Michigan Central railroad have been
granted al; .nescass IL wages ranging
from / cent to 4 cents an hour.
Justice Harlan of the United States
supreme court is being importuned tc
become a candidate for governor Of
Kentucky on the Republican ticket.
The United States supreme court
has decided the case of the city oil
Atlanta (Ga.) against the so-called
pipe line trust" in favor of the city
The Long Island motor Parkwa,
was incorporated at Albany with a
capital of 100000 The company
Will purchase real estate and will es-
an automobile COURSE
The American Wine Growers asso-
cation, at a meeting in New York. In
j.. Sloat Fassett's pure wine bill
introduced in the last session OF con
giess.
Each tribe OF Usage Indians will be
worth at least $4,000 in lanes and an
nuities with the allotments they are
now receiving in Oklahoma, making
them the richest Indians in the United
States.
A statement of the earnings of the
New York Central & Hudson River
Railroad company for 1906 shows
gross earnings of 1872, 399, 100. an in
crease of Sc, sos, 500 over 1905. and net
earnings of SIS. 716,400. an increase OF
$1,151, SOC.
While Mrs. Miles Kelliher Of Mar
shalltown, Iowa, a preparing a
Thanksgiving turkey she found a IS
gold piece of the coinage of 1902 in
It's crop.
Evangelist w. A. Sunday, the for
mer baseball player, closed a remark
able series Of revivals at Kewamee,
ILL.,. during which there were 2,762 con
versions.
The government fled suit at Law.
ton, Okla, In the federal court, for
Indian land values and damages ar
gregating more than $114,000 against
the wichita Falls. Lawton 3 North.
western RsilzE&y company.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1906-12-13
WOMAN SHOOTS SENATOR
FORMER SENATOR BROWN VI
UTAH in A PREcARious CON-
DITlON.

Washington, Dec. 11.-Former Sena
tor Arthur Brown of Utah was shot
Saturday by Mrs. Anna Bradley OF SAT-
Lake City and is in a very precarious
condition. The doctors announced
Yesterday that he had a chance for re-
covery, but his friends admit that
there has been a change for the worse
and hat his recovery is doubtful. IL
is feared that blood poisoning VIII set
in.
Mrs. Bradley when arrested said: Il
was fully justified in doing what did
I loved the very ground he walked
on"
Motive Of Attack.
The cause If the shooting, so far as
Mrs. Bradley will say, is that Senator
Brown is the father of her two chill
dren, and that he refused to marry
her despite his repeated promises to
make her his wife. She said that SEN
ator Brown had been instrumental in
the divorce between her and her nus.
band, and that, as his wife was dead,
he now could do the right thing by
her" This, she said, he positively re-
fused to do.
Mrs. Bradley was hysterical all day
yesterday. She made frequent inqui-
ries as to the condition of her victim
Her attorneys say she is on the very
verge of a collapse.
Many Offers of Help.
She was in conference with her law,
yers for more than two hours yester-
day and they directed that she see no
one excep Senator Sutherland and her
physician.
According to the police a number Of
prominent Western politicians have no
titled her they are willing to furnish
money for her defense. Several local
restaurants yesterday telephoned the
matron at the house of detention hat
they would gladly serve Mrs. Bradley's
meals free of cost.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1906-12-13
TO EXCLUDE JAP LARoRERs.
Treaty Will Be Arranged by Secretary
Root and Ambassador Aoki.

Treaty viii Be Arranged by Secretary
Root and Ambassador Aoki.
Washington, Dec. 1O.-A treaty be-.
tween the United States and Japan
will be arranged for tho exclusion of
Japanese laborers. This definite de-
termination has been reached by Pres
ident Roosevelt. He has abandoned
the alternative plan of congressional
legislation.
The negotiation of the treaty will
be conducted here. The intention is
to submit the convention before the
adjournment of congress-, March A..
The document will be arranged by Sec
rotary Root and Ambassador Aoki
The president has had the plan in
mind for several days, but he was not
informed until yesterday afternoon by
Ambassador Aoki that the government
OF Japan would welcome the exclusion
of her laborers from the United States.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1906-12-13
Storer's Statement Untrue.
OIL TRUST is NO PET NOW.
Standard Oil No Longer Gets illegal
Rates From Railroads.

Washington, Dec. IL. - The annual
report Of Commissioner of Corpora
tons James r. Garfield, made public
yesterday, devotes special attention to
the Investigations of the transporta-
ton of oil and the operations of the
Standard Oil company.
In his report the commissioners says:
"A most striking and important re-
suit Immediately followed the investi-
cation of the bureau; the railroads
Cancelled substantially all the secret
rates, illegal Oh improper discrimina-
tions, and in many cases the discrimi-
nations in open rates. The shippers
of oil advise the bureau that for the
first time in many years they are nov
rapidly obtaining equality of treat
ment from the transportation compa-
MES"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1906-12-13

The state OF siege which has exis,
ed In the republic Of San Salvador
since Sept. IL has Just been ended.
Three notebooks which formerly be.
longed to Shelley, the poet, containing
unpublished manuscript, were sold in
London for $4,000.
The original OF Little Dorritt Is still
living at Islington, Eng, and Is "a
years old. She will open a sale at O.
5vys training school text w5sh
Smallpox, which recently appeared
In Spring Hill. a coal mining town in
Nova Scotia, continues to spread and
there are now 600 cases in Cumber-
land county.
In view of recent sensational re-
ports regarding the health of Joseph
Chamberlain, 1t is officially announced
that the ex-secretary's condition Is
constantly improving.
The report that Mohammed Ali Mir
"a. the heir apparent, has been SUM
moned to Teheran to assume the re-
gency during the illness OF his father.
The shah. has been confirmed.
King Edward VII. CT England, as an
exhibitor, captured the first prize with
his shire stallion Prem Victor at the
International live stock exposition in
Chicago, winning owe Lord Roth
schild's famous stallion Girton Charm
or, which secured second place.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1906-12-13
SEVEN ARE BLOWN TO ATOMS.
Attempt to Open Box Of Dynamite Re
suits Very D~isastrousiy,

Charlotte, N. c., Dec. 11.-One white
man, five negroes and an Indian were
blown into fragments by the explosion
OF dynamite in a tunnel on the right
of way of the New South & Western
railroad. The white man had been
ordered to open a box of dynamite for
blasting purposes and started to COM
ply. One blow from a hammer explod-
ed the contents and only a small frag-
ment of the white man, who was blown
through the tunnel, has been found.
Six others were dismembered and sew
en- were seriously injured. A mule
and car were thrown through the por-
tai of the tunnel and down the noun
tain side. The car was wrecked. but
the mule escaped unscathed.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1906-12-13

Ambassador and Mrs. Reid have
sailed for the United States. They will
spend Christmas Ia New York.
Formen Governor George W Hendee
died at his home at Morrisville. Vt.
aged seventy-four years, Of heart trou-
BILE.
j. Howard Watson. editorial writer
on the Seattle Times. and former sec.
reiary to Former Governor Mcbride
is dead.
1t Ii reported that Ida Tarbell. who
gained noforiety by her magazine arti-
cles on John ID. Rockefeller. win &c
ON the stage.
prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn OF New
Yer& city has been elected secretary
ef the smithsonian '~nstisntions 20 sue
eecd the fate Prof. Langley,
An advance In wages varying from
{ to 10 per cent has been mace'jn the
rofton mills OF Rhode Island. About
10000 operatives are affected.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1906-12-13
NEGROES VICTIMS OF PLOT.
Soldiers Were Victims Of Anti-Negre
Conspiracy, Says Negro.

New York, Dec. 10. - Declaring that
his investigation exonerates ever one
of The three companies of negro sol.
,diers of the Twenty-ifth infantry. re-
Gently dismissed from the army for
shooting up the town of Brownsville.
Tex. Gilbert Stewart. colored. return
ed from the Southwest yesterday,
armed with affidavits and bristling, he
saws. with facts that absolutely con
trovert the reports of army officers.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1906-12-13
FIVE SOLDIERS ARE KILLED.
Later Report Of Fight With Pulajanes
Is Received at Manila.

Manila, Dec. 8. - According to the
latest reports from Capt. Samuel v.
Ham, concerning the recent fight on
the Island of Leyte. between an Amer
lean force and P~ulajanes, a detach-
ment Of Company l., Eighth United
States infantry, with a force of con
stabulary, under command of Lieut..
Ralph f. Yates, Jr.. was rushed by
sixty bolomen, four miles from La Pas,
on the Tarragona trail. on the after
noo Of Dec. S. The Pulajane3 had a
few guns, from which they fired a vol
ley, and then rushed the troops. In
the onslaught five American soldiers
were killed and nine wounded. The
enemy lost thirty killed. The number
of the wounded and of the prisoners
taken is unknown.
A detachment has started N pursuit.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1906-12-13
JAPS AND RUSSIANS READY.
Aair in Far. East Is Loaded With Etec.
tricity-Both Are Stronger.

London, Dec. 10 - simultaneously
with the announcement IN the English
newspapers that some of the Loyd's
underwriters have been insuring
against an outbreak of war between
Russia and Japan ir 1907 at 5 guineas
per cent, Col. Gaedke, whose articles
and letters in the B%erliner T~ageblatt
during the war attracted universal at
tention, writes for that journal a re,
markable article on the military posi-
ton in the Far East. Col. Gaedke says
the time for a renewal of hostilities is
not yet. He says there are clear
signs that the air is loaded with cleo
tricity, but the financial conditions of
both Russia and japan will postpone
hostilities.
Meanwhile Russia's military posi-
ton in the Far East has been consid-
erably bettered. She had only eighty
eight battalions there before the wal;
now she has 1877.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1906-12-13
MARLBOROUGH WANTS TRIAL.
Duke Is Planning to Take His Alleged
WRONGS Into Court.


London, Dec. 9.-The Marlboroughs
even with the good Offices of kinfolks
on both sides, have thus far been una.
BILE to come to an amicable arrange
ment on the custody of the children,
who naturally feel desperately the sep.
aration from their mother, with whom
until a month ago they had spent
practically all their lives.
The duke has HAD frequent and long
consultations in the house of lords cor
ridors with Sir Edward Carson, former
solicitor general, who is his leading
counsel and whose employment in the
suit creates the expectation that the
duke intends to bring his alleged
wrongs into court, as Sir Edward is
noted for his hard fighting qualities
as an advocate rather than as an adj
viser.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1906-12-13
COL. SESSIONS A

Once Prominent Politician Uses Knife
and Is Taken to an Asylum.
Marshalltown, Dec. IL. - Col. Fitz-
roy Sessions, at n time prominent
in Iowa politics and the holder or
many government positions, but since
August Of last year an inmate of the
Iowa soldiers home here, went vio-
lently insane last night and assaulted
Adam Liebernecht. a helpless invalid
in the hospital, with a cane and knife,
cutting a cash in his thigh.
Col. Sessions was arrested and taken
to the insane asylum.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1906-12-13
TO WRECK COLISEUM.
st. Louis Building Where Cleveland
and Parker Were Nominated.

st. Louis. Dec. IL. - The contracts
have been let and work will begin
wrecking the st. Louis exposition
building, an historical structure which
included the coliseum in which the
conventions were held which nomi-
mated Cleveland and Thurman in 1883
and Parker and Davis in 1904 for pres
ident and vice president, respectively,
ON the Democratic ticket.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1906-12-13
Cornell Mourns.

Ithaca, N. Y, Dec. IA memorial
service for the four students and three
others who lost their lives in the fire
that destroyed the Chi Psi fraternity
lodge was held in Sage chapel on Cor
nell campus yesterday.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1906-12-13
MAY AGAIN FLOOD sALToN BASIN
Colorado River Breaks loose-Many
May Lose Homes.

Yuma, Ariz., Dec. 1.-THE entire
Colorado river has found a channel
around the Hind dam and is flowing
back into Salton sink. Unless the
flood can be stopped very soon the
main line of the Southern Pacific will
have to be rebuilt. for 200 miles on
higher ground. and a thousand people
in Salton basin will iase their homes.
Not less than $25, 100000 depends on
the effort to close the break.