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The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1906-09-29
Thief Uncovers Hoard Of Gold.

Bloomington, ILL.,, Sept 26.-Charles
Laudett, a secondhand goods dealer
of this city, had no faith in banks. He
hid $3.50, mostly in gold, in a tool
chest in an, outbuilding. Tuesday
morning he found that a thief had dis.
covered his hoard and carried it off.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1906-09-29
Duke Of Fitz-James Dead.

Paris. Sept. 26.-The duke of Fitz.
James, an indirect descendant of the
Scottish royal family of Stuart, is dead
at the Chateau de Montjustin, depart.
ment Of Hauta:Saona
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1906-09-29
R.iIroads Win Aoainst Shippers,

Topeka, Kan. Sept 26.-The board
of railroad commissioners dismissed
the complaint of the Southwestern
Implement Dealers association
against the railroads Of the state. It
was charged the rates on implements
were unreason able.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1906-09-29
THE MARKETS.
Grain, Provisions, Etc.

h, Chicago. Sept. 25.
, FLoUR-steady. Spring wheat. special
brands, $40; Minnesota, hard patent,
jute $4.0odA.10; straight. export bags, 3d.
@4Oo; clear, export bags, s30o@3.25.
WHEAT-steady. December. 747s@75iac;
May. 7s@7s1ac.
coRN-steady. September. 4eAa47Ac:
May, 43ss@435ic.
oATs--Active. September. s3%98aNc:
May. 3sss@s5.sc.
RYE-Was quiet and steady on the
early call. September was &c bid and Ac
asked and December Size bid and &C
asked. Barley was active. The demand
was good and at firmer prices. Septem-
Der feed sold at 3shc, october was Csc bid
and 3S1kc asked and December 37Ac bid
and 3shc asked. September No. 2 sold at
A7c, October sold at 46hc and December
at 4elhc. December No. sold at 53Ec.
BUTTER-steady Creamery, per h.,
1s@2Slhc; diaries. 17@2o1ac.
EGGS-Firm. Fresh eggs. at mark, new
cases included. 151a@l6c per dozen: prime
firsts. Ice; extras, 1870.
LIVE POULTRY - Steady. Turkeys.
per h., 12c; chickens, fowls, per h.. 1l1a0
l6c; ducks, 110114ac.
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New York, Sept. Is.

New York, Sept. Is.
FLOUR-Steady but quiet.
wHEAT-Weaker. December, S2%@
s3Ac: May, S4M@S5lhc.
RYE-steady. No. western. 6ehc C. l.
+. Buffalo.
CoRN-Declines. September. 5sh@56shc.
The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1906-09-29

AS he opened the door q gun was
thrown in his face, and as he lodged
a bullet passed over his head. He
and his comrades then fired, killing
the two negroes.
Militia Kills Negro.
One negro was killed in Brownville,
a suburb, by militia while trying to
break through the lines. Two hun
dred and fifty seven negroes have al
ready been placed under arrest in
Brownville. The majority Of them were
heavily armed.
One other negro tried to get away,
and was shot. The raid started short
ly after five o'clock. Negroes were
searched for arms, and every one
armed was placed in the cars to be
sent to police barracks.
One of the first arrested was L. j.
Price, the negro postmaster, who IL
charged with supplying ammunition OF
the blacks. Negroes who tried to
break through the lines we're fired on,
hating promptly.
Capt. Wilson held a conference with
the presid ent of the Cannon sem
mary on the situation. The negroes
are hemmed in by militia. Members
of the governors horse guards and
mounted country policemen are anx-
ious to avenge the death of Ohicer
Heard and the wounding Of other
! members Of the force. The negroes
are badly frightened.
400 Negro Students Arrested.
All. the. students of Cannon negro
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04
COMPLETE TASK
INVESTIGATION OF LAST OF OLD
LINE COMPANIES IS COM.
PLETED.

New York, Dec. 31.-With the ad-
journment of the legislative commit
tee on insurance investigation last
night the investigation of the last of
the old line companies was completed.
To-day, the last day of the commit
tees session, will be given over to
the presentation of exhibits hat have
not heretofore been prepared by sew
eral companies, and these are so
numerous that they will not be read
for the record, but after Introduction
by the witnesses will be marked for
Identification.
Yesterday the examination of the
United States'Life Insurance company
was completed and the Manhattan
Life Insurance ~mpany was taken
up. President Stokes of the latter
company was a witness. The last old
line company taken up was the Life
Insurance Club of New York. This
appeared to be a system Of securing
insurance without agents by means of
advertising. In the examination of it's
president, Robert Wightman, it was
brought out that the system is antag-
onistic to the larger companies.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04
Accidental Happenings.

Former United States Senator Bard
was seriously injured in a runaway
near Oxnard, Cal.
Fire destroyed the Vannuy's Broad
way hotel at Los Angeles. The loss
Is estimated at S250,000.
John Gordon, son of U. S. Gordon,
died at Sullivan, Ind, from injuries
sustained in a football game ten days
ago.
Harry Collision, a prominent banker
at Rantoul and Thomasboro, ILL.,, was
struck by a train at the latter place
and instantly killed.
Robert McFall and Clarence Misner,
six and eight years old, were drowned
bodies were recovered.
The shaft building of the Marquette
Third Vein Coal company, near Spring
Valley, ILL.,, was destroyed by fire. The
loss is estimated at $3.50, 900, and there
is no insurance.
John Casey, t~wenty-eight years old,
was killed and George Ward fatally
injured by the premature explosion OF
a shot in the Sunnyside coal mine near
Evansville, Ind.
Max Lichtenfeld was found dead at
Meriden, Conn, by the janitor of Tur'
ner hall. Investigation disclosed the
fact that L%ichtenfeld on a wager drank
a quantity Of beer.
John X. Crested and Kenton w. At
we'll were blown to atoms at Cedar
Bluff, w. Va, by the explosion OF
twelve ans of dynamite which they
attempted to thaw.
Three trainmen were killed in a
wreck on the Philadelphia & Reading
railroad at Parkomen JUNCTION, Pa. A
milk train on the Reading division
crashed into a freight train.
Martin Gallagher, an aged inmate OF
the county infirmary at Oakland, Cal.
was found dead on the grounds of the
institution. His feet were caught on
the top strand of a barbed wire fence
and his face was buried in the mud.
A tank containing bromide gas
which was being used to operate
stereopticon lantern in the Salvation
Army barracks in Chicago, exploded
and fatally injured Capt. Follett, who
was working the lantern.
Two children of Mr.. and Mrs
| George Fayette burned to death al
! Miller's Mill, Mich, a little girl foul
years old and a boy n year old. The
baby was burned to a crisp in a high
chair and the little girl was smoth
cred to death. The mother had lock
ed them in the house alone. 1t is sup
posed the little girl set fire to the
house while playing with matches.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04
Eoreiqn.

The State of Mexico bank will dou-
BILE it's present capital Of $780, 900.
The new issue of 81, 500, 900 will be
sold at a premium of SIS per 800
share, the bank being very prosper
Gus.
Mail advices from Shanghai tell of
a great fire at Hankow, known as the
Chicago of China, in which about 5000
houses were destroyed and a large
number of lives lost, variously esti-
mated at from 100 to 500.
An attempt was made by an an
archist to stab Cardinal Cassanas y
Pages, bishop of Urgel, Spain, as he
was coming out of the cathedral. A
cannon frustrated the attempt and the
would-be-assassin was arrested.
Sir Edwin Cornwall, chairman of the
London county council, has issued to
the press a proposal for an interna-
tional congress of representatives of
capitals having over 500, 900 popula-
ton to meet annually for the discus
sion of municipal methods.
At Torreon, Mex, nine persons who
were poisoned at a banquet have died
and many others are i'll. 1t was al
legged that the poisoning was part of a
political plot. ~Strychnine was put
into a bowl of punch. All the dead are
said to be Of one political faction. The
members Of the opposite faction were
not affected by the punch they drank.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04
RESUME OF THE NEWS


The Oklahoma Ice and Brewing
company's cold storage plant at Okla.
homa City, owned by Adolphus Busch
Of st. Louis, and containing 1000
cases Of eggs, was destroyed by fire.
Loss, $4,000. A meat wagon driver
was arrested, charged with having set
fire to the plant.
Three men were instantly killed by
a passenger train near Brawly street
crossing at ~Spartanburg, S. G. The
men were standing on a track watching
a freight train when the passenger
dashed around a curve and upon them
before they could jump to safety.
With all her headgear torn away and
her top sails set, an unknown three.
masUed schooner has sunk in twelve
fathoms Of water six and one-half
miles northeast of winter quarter flag.
ship at Norfolk, Va, and directly in
the path of coastwise navigation. The
fate of the crew is not known.
Andrew G.. Damery, a New York
broker, was found with n hand cut
off. He was lying unconscious on
Main street, New Rochelle, N. Y, and
died without having recovered suffi.
GENTLY to tell what happened to him.
Damery's skull was fractured. He
was lying a the street car tracks.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04
Domestic.

Lexington, ILL.,, has been put under
quarantine regulations by the state
health department because of the dis
covery Of four cases Of smallpox.
The lid" was on tight in Burling-
ton, Iowa, Sunday. The town was dry
for the first time in its history, and
not an intoxicated person was arrest
ed.
Lewis Graham, aged eighty-four, a
Mexican wal and Civil war veteran,
and president of the National Typo
graphical union, died suddenly at New
Orleans.
Louis N. Megargee, well-known
newspaper man and writer, died at his
home in Narberth, near Philadelphia,
of pneumonia He was fifty years OF
age.
Mrs. Almira Pierce Johnson, one of
the oldest members OF the Women's
Relief corps in the country, and of the
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton, is dead at Milford, Mass, at the
age of 101 years and six months.
A letter from Waiter Scott, the cow
boy miner VINO was reported murdered
in Death Valley some time ago, was
received by a friend In Los Angeles,
stating that he had been shot, but was
not seriously hurt.
Justice Walter Van Dyke Of the SUI
preme court of California died at Oak
land after an illness of only twenty
four hours. Justice Van Dyke was
born in New York state in 1923. He
was a resident Of California since
1849.
The Akron, Ohio, Gas company, one
| of John r. Walsh's properties, is in the
hands of a receiver, the petition being
signed by Squire, Dempsey & Saun.
ders of Cleveland, on a claim of $5,703
for coal furnished by the Youghio.
| gheny & Ohio Coal company.
John Mccarthy, undertaken. died at
his home at Syracuse, N. Y, aged
fifty-nine years. He was known
throughout the country as an enthusi
astic Democrat. In 1884 he bet ev
erything he possessed, even his
hearse, on Grover Cleveland. He was
a warm supporter and personal friend
Of William ]. Bryan.
Jack O'Brien, the pugilist who re-
| Gently defeated Robert Fitzsimmons
authorized the issuance Of a challenge
to James J. Jeffries, the retired
heavyweight champion. Any terms
that Jeffries may demand, he says
| will be accepted.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04
CASS LAKE SURPRISED.
Adjustment of Custodian's Office at
Star Island Causes Wonder.

Cass Lake, Mimi, Dec. 31.-The IN
nouucement made in the press dis
patches that the position of custodian
of Star island had been abolished by
Commissioner of Indian Affairs Leupp
came as a surprise to the people here.
For a week past it had been a matter
of common talk that the island was
almost wholly in Beltrami county, and
the naming of a successor TO the late
E. G. Hill would probably cause a
clash between the two counties.
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Washington.

washington.
The navy department has been in.
formed Of the death of Commander
William Hershall Allen, U. s. N, at
the naval home, Philadelphia. He was
a native Of Illinois and entered the
naval service in September, 1872.
Complaint, which is regarded as in.
volving infractions Of the postal laws
of a most serious nature, has been filed
and is being investigated by the post
Office department in relation to the
delivery of the mail of certain prom.
inent politicians Of Frankfort, Ky.
AS a reward for his prompt action
In going to the relief of Lightship No.
So, off Nantucket, recently, as the re-
suit of which thirteen men were res
cued from almost certain death. Capt.
Glib of the lighthouse tender Azalea
has received a substantial increase in
salary.
Because of the prisoners previous
good military record, the president
has issued a pardon in the case of
Paul H. Mcdonald, formerly first lieu,
tenant of the Tenth infantry. Melon.
aid was convicted by court-martial OF
the charge of obtaining money under
false %pretenses.
In submitting his annual report as
supervising inspector of the general
steamboat inspection service, George
Uhler expresses considerable anxiety
regarding the present practice of car
rying crude petroleum in passenger
steamers in quantities which leopard,
ize the safety of the ship and passen,
gers. Much of this oil, he says, is SO
highly inflammable that it will flash
at the ordinary summer temperature
Of the atmosphere.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04
Hydrophobia Panic.

Sioux City, Iowa, Dec. 81. - The
whole city is terrorized by the revival
of a hydrophobia scare. Ten people
were bitten on the streets last night,
four seriously. and fully thirty dogs
were bitten. The mayors order OF a
week ago to muzzle all dogs was not
generally observed, although the
slaughter of CANNES has been going
on. One dog was found with lockiaw.
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TRAGIC DEATH OF A MAID.
Meets Instant Death In Elevator of St.
Luke's Hospital.

st. Paul, Dec. 31.-Elizabeth Steph-
enson, a maid in the woman's ward,
was instantly killed yesterday morn
ing at St. Luke's hospital while trying
to operate the hospitals freight eleva-
tor. Miss Stephenson boarded the
elevator at the basement, intending to
stop at the first floor, but in some way
her body was caught between the ele-
vator and the sides Of the elevator
shaft, and the ascending elevator hor-
ribly crushed and mangled her body.
When the elevator reached the open
ing at the first floor her body was re-
leased, and fell back eighteen feet
into the basement.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04
MCCLELLAN NAMES BINGHAM.
Retired Army Officer for Police Com
missioner.

New York, Dec. 31.-Mayor McClel-
Ian last night announced the appoint
ment of Brig. Gen. Theodore A. Bing-
ham, U. S. A., retired, as police COM
missioner, succeeding William Nc
Adoo, who has held the Office through
Mr.. McClellan's first term. The 9TH
err appointments to places in the city
administration include several who
have held Office during the last two
years. None of the new appointees
is known as an organization man,
nor is there a Tammany hall district
leader among the mayors selections.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04
Sins and Sinners.

Robbers blew the safe of the only
bank in the town of Moore, a small
village eve miles southeast of Okla
homa City, and escaped with 5 1000.
The grand jury at Cincinnati has
returned a joint indictment against
representatives of the leading coal
companies doing business in Cincin-
natl.
Geodge M. McKelvey, n OF the
most prominent men of Youngstown,
Ohio, committed suicide by shooting
himself in the head, while sitting on
the bed in his room while his family
was at church.
Miss Elsie Smith of Albany, N. Y,
who was Queen Titania" in the AL
bany Halloween carnival Of 1904, has
reported to the police that she re-
ceived through the mail a box of candy
containing poison.
Miss Lulu Bowen, a clerk employed
at Satisfaction No. I, Oakland post
Office, has been taken into custody at
Oakland, Cal, charged with embez.
Zl6lleuI. her are, IL Is
charged, short $1,000.
Abraham H. Hummel, the lawyer
convicted of conspiracy in the Dodge
Morse divorce case and released on
$4,000 bail, has been re-arrested and
released again, that the district attor'
ney might question the right of the
supreme court to admit him to bail.
Four p~awnbrokers, n a woman,
were arrested at East st. Louis for
displaying brass ~'knuckles" and sling
shots Of the kind usually known as
"billies," in their show windows. The
Illinois statutes make it a INSIDE
meanor to offer such articles for sale.
A bloody riot among negroes oc-
Cured at Ewing, Ga. The riot was
the result of a Christmas frolic among
negroes who had been drinking. A
general fusillade occurred and prob
ably fifty shots were fired. Two ne
groes were killed outright, three were
mortally wounded and died later, while
eight others received bullet wounds.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04
Five Men Escape Posses.

Toledo, Dec. 31.-The five men who
mortally wounded Marshal Thornton
are still at large, having broken
through the net spread about the
thicket between here and Perrysburg.
The man hunt has been renewed.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04

New Jersey m to the front Will
a muley COW that barks like a dog. Bur
she will have TO do better than that
TO beat the Massachusetts rabbit thai
attacked a man and bit off his nose
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04
Cut His Own Throat.

Appleton, Mimi, Dec. 81. - Torkel
Thompson, ST., committed suicide at
the residence of his 10 by cutting his
throat with a razor, He was eighty
three years old, and 1t is supposed
his mind was affected.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04
Death in capitai cave.ln.

Washington, Dec. 81. - AS the re.
suit of a cavern which occurred yes.
terday at the site Of the hey National
Metropolitan Citizens bank building
an Italian laborer Is dead and two
other workmen injured.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04

After reading that eight titled Eng
lish hunters killed $500 pheasants il
three days, the American live-pigeor
shooter must feel that an apology i!
due for some of the things said abou'
him.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04
Dr.. Mayo Talks to Surgeons.

Kansas City, Dec. 31.-Dr. Charles
H. Mayo of Rochester, Mimi, deliv
cred an address yesterday before the
Westerns ureical and genealogical as
ISOLATION. which Is meeting in annual
convention.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04

Uncle Russell Sage may not be sc
great a financier as J.. Pierpont Nor
gan, but he would like it noticed that
nobody ever sold him an imposing col
lection of liabilities in the guise of
railroad system.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04

Boston spends $6,500,000 yearly
for baked beans, and if some stats
tician will give the amount expended
on eyeglasses it will be ar easy mat
ter to compute how much is left foi
luxuries.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04

If English reporters were as enter
prising as their American confreres
they would have informed the worlt
before now whether the Princess Ens
has given any orders to her dress
maker for a wedding gown.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04

"One can buy a modest little even
ing hat for 500" says a fashion writer.
Maybe so, but if it's the n who sends
her bills to us she is e~lectioneerine
for a jolt.-Chicago Journal.
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TOWN TO RECLAIM A N
Black River Falls Is to Build levee {,
Provide Market Place.

Black River Falls, Wis, Dec. 81. -
A levee 600 feet long is being built of
stone along the west bank Of Black
river in this city. The high water has
worn away an area two blocks wide,
and the space between this new wall
and the present bank will be filled up
and used as a market place. The wall
will be sixteen feet thick at the bot
tom and six feet at the top. 1t will
reclaim five or six blocks washed
away.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04

The pich farmer who is using his
automobile Ito pump water and run
his corn shelter" may not have a
poetic soul, but isn't he intensely
practical!
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CRISIS NEAR IN sANTo DOMINGO
Morales and Opponents Gather Their
Forces.

Forces.
Washington, Dec. 31.-The situation
in Santp Domingo is becoming more
serious, according to the advices re-
ceived at the department of state yes
terday from Minister Dawson at San
Domingo. He notified Secretary
Root that President Morales is still
fighting near Jainia with a small force
and that Jiminists are advancin from
Monte Christi against Santiago. San
Domingo city is quiet, but a%pprehen-
sive. A %cablegram was received from
Puerto Plata which stated that a
small revolutionary force is concen-
trating at Guayabin.
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One bold young reporter in New
York had the audacity to ask Sarah
Bernhard if it were really true that
she is of German birth instead OF
French. And the goddess was so over
come that NJ. Meyer had to nswer fol
her.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04

How homelike and familiar that
closing sentence of Capt. Amundsen,S
message to Nansen: wire me $500 as
soon as possible"
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04

A New York savings bank is tt
erect a new $275,O00 building, and fur
nish homes for its unmarried employees
under his own roof. Excuses for moi
being on hand at the opening of bust
ness will be hard to find under this ar
iangement.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04

Personally, We wish Henry Sienke-
wicz would devote less attention to
Russian politics and hurry up with his
Napoleon triology instead.
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Yes, Gentle Annie, it is safe to mar
ry on 81 900 a year; that is, It is just
as safe as it is to marry on any other
amount per annum.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04

In the studios they are betting that
Artist Charles Dana Gibson will
come back within two years and re-
sumo black and white. Why not?
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04

More money is lost on the rae
tracks of the country in one season
than there l. in circulation" says a
writer of sporting gossip. This is also
true of Wall street.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04

Girls, when he tells you your eyes
are stars in the night in his life, re-
member that there are estimated 20
be something like 3,567,S22 stars Oh
view.
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04

John Bartlett, compiler of the we'll
known Familiar Quotations. is dead.
after LIES itful fever, he sleeps
WELL"
The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-01-04

Mr.. Ryan acted like a bachelor. A
bachelor, you know, is a man who
does not have to answer questions he
doesn't want to answer.