The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-06-14
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Seven deaths and a score of prostra-
lions Is the result so far of the hot
wave in Chicago.
Raphael WE'LL, a millionaire clothier
San Francisco, announces hat he will
give complete outfits of clothing to
500 women as a bachelor tax against
himself.
Seattle felt a slight earthquake
shock one morning recently. There
was one tremble only. No damage was
done and few persons knew anything
about 1t.
The Hancock Consolidated Mining
company, capitalized for 100000
has been organized. The new com
pany will open extensive copper mines
under the city of Hancock, Mich.
The city council of Sioux City is con-
sidering a plan whereby d%enatured al
cohol may be manufactured from the
city garbage. Chemists say that gar
bage when properly treated makes the
best possible wood alcohol.
Andrew c. Fields, lobbyist of the in
companies, has offered to fur
nish District Attorney Jerome of New
York with a list of the legislators who
took money from him to assist in pass
ing bills favorable to insurance COM
panies.
All marriage records for Chicago
and Cook county were smashed one
| day last week when $50 persons were
licensed to wed. The nearest approach
to these figures was on June IA, three
years ago, when 155 licenses we're is
sued.
Gordon Bigelow of Milwaukee "a son
Of Frank G. Bigelow, a former bank
| president in Milwaukee who is now
confined in the L~eavenworth peniten-
tiary, commenced suit against William
A. Tracy of the brokerage firm of
Tracy & Co. of Chicago for $4,000.
A dispatch from San Diego, Cal,
states that George Boldt, Jr., son of
the owner of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel
| of New York, and Miss Estella Savin,
daughter of a wealthy Spanish mer-
| chant of Tia Juna, Mex, were married
secretly at Yuma, Ariz.
EnumeratOrs for the publishers of
the city directory of Chicago have com.
| pleted their work and the largely in
creased number Of names they have
turned in gives ground for the estima-
ton that the city's present population
is close to 2.750.0O0.
A jury trial in New York awarded
to John Delhaunty a verdict for the
| full amount of his claim in his suit for
$4,000 counsel fees against Richard
Garfield for legal services after Dis.
trict Attorney Jerome's raid on Can
fields gambling house in that city.
What is said to be the biggest wool
clip i IN Montana, 100000 pounds, be-
longing to ]. B. Long & Co. of Great
Falls, has just been sold to a Boston
firm. The price is not made public
but it is thought to average 25 cents a
pound. The wool was sold on the
sheep back and covers all the wool
belonging to the Montana firm. There
are 160, 900 sheep in Valley, Cascade
Telton and other counties still to be
sheared.
Thirty-four miners employed at the
Eleanor shaft at Punxsutawney, Pa.
suddenly became i'll and were obliged
| to Quit work. The men believe that
they were affected by fire damp, while
the coal company officials think poi
son was put in the mems dinner pals
by strikers.
With soaring flames menacing many
hundreds of children, enforcement o.
the fire drill in public school No. 1872
in the Brownsville section of Brook
lyn, emptied the building of its 3.26t
pupils within two and a half minutes
and without any one Of them receiving
. hurt Of any kind.