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Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1907-04-04

The outbreak Of measles on board
the battleship Georgia has developed
into an epidemic, more that fifty men
having been taken from the ship to
the naval hospital.
Announcement was made at the
Houston Tex, recruiting station that
orders have been received from the
war department at Washington In
structing that no more negroes be ac-
cepted for service in the army.
Judge Cromwell Of the superior
court overruled the demurrers OF the
Cincinnati ice men indicted last sum
mer on a charge Of maintaining con-
spiracy in restraint of trade, and those
indicted will be compelled to stand
trial.
Mai. G. W. Penrose of the Twenty.
fifth infantry was acquitted of the
charge of neglect of duty as preferred
against him for alleged misconduct In
Brownsville, Tex, by negro troops OF
the Twenty-fifth infantry last August
connection with the shooting up" OF
The jury at Burlington, Iowa, rem.
dered verdict in the Beans-D Denny
breach Of promise suit Of $4,000, Den.
ny is wealthy Iowa land owner, and
Miss Beans was his housekeeper while
he lived at Galesburg, iii.
The Chicago & North Western Of.
fees In Boone, Iowa, hare received
word from Chicago that $2,000.O0O will
be spent by the company within the
next three years in making improve.
ments at and near Clinton. Among
the improvements already arranged
for are new double tracks, q new pas.
senger station and freight house and
steel bridges across the Mississippi
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1907-04-04

headaches, dizzy or fainting spells, u
nervous and easily startled, has gnaw-
ing feeling in stomach, sees imaginary
floating specks, or spots before her
eyes, has melanchOlia, or wblues," or .
weakening disagreeable, catarrhal drain
from pelvic organs, she can make No
mistake by resorting to the use Of DR..
Pierce's Favorite Prescription. IL will
invigorate and tone up the whole sys-
tenn and especially the pelvic organs.
DIR. Pierce's Favorite Prescription y
4 scientific medicine, carefully devised
by an experienced and skilIful phyGf-
clan, and adapted to woman'e delicate
system. Being made of native Americas
medicinal roots, and without alcohoa,
il ID perfectly harmless in its effects
~ any conditions Of the female system.
As powerful invigorating tonic, FL
vorite Prescription imparts lasting
strength to the whole system and 10 the
organs distinctly feminine in PARTICULAR.
For over worked, worn out rum
down." debilitated teachers, millinen,
dressmakers, seamstresses, shop girls
house, keepers, nursing mothers, and
feeble women generally, DR.. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription IL the greatest
earthly boon, being unequaled as an
appetixing cordial and restorative tonic.
As soothing and strengthening nor-
vine, vFavorite Prescription Is nm
equaled and is invaluable in allaying
and subduing nervous excitability, ir-
ritability, nervous exhaustion, nervous
prostration, neuralgia, hysteria, spasms,
st. Vitns's dance, and other distressing,
nervous symptoms commonly attendant
upon functional and organic disease Of
the womanly organs. II induces re-
freshing sleep and relieves mental anxi-
ETY. and dependency.
No woman suffering from any of the
above symptoms can afford to accept
any secret nostrum or medicine Of Mss-
kn0acm composition, % substitute for
medicine like DIR. Pierce's Favorite
Prescription, which IL OF KNOWN CON.
POSITION and has record Of over forty
years of cures and sells more largely
to-day than ever before. Its makers
withhold no secrets from their patients,
believing open publicity to be the very
best guaranty OF merit.
DR.. Pierce invites all suffering women
to consult him by letter free 81 charge.
All letters of consultation are held -
strictly private and sacredly cOnfden-
tiAl and al answers are returned a
plain, sealed envelopes. Address: Dst
r. v. Pierce, Invalids' Hotel and Sur.
gical Instituts, Buffalo, N. x.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1907-04-04

Due ~ 10 HOt 80 muCu Tic purpose Oh
this brief article to advocate the just
rights and privileges due to the women
of this country, although it has afforded
the writer great pleasureto pen the FORE
going brief tribute to their worth and
just deserts, as it ia to call attention to
the fact that when broken down In
health and strength by over-work, the
too frequent bearing of children, the
never ending toll, worry and care of the
household, or by whatever may over
tax the strength and delicacy OF her
sensitive system, there is one, tried and
proven, safe remedy upon which she
may rely to regain health, strength and
the power to fully enjoy life.
That remedy ia DR.. Pierce's Favorite
Prescriptions remedy made wholly
from the roots of native forest plants
which have been proven to be most
efficaciO1s, reliable and safe in the cure
OF woman's peculiar weaknesses, period
icRl pains, Irregularities, wasting and
weakening catarrhal, pelvic drains and
kindred ailments. It is remedy, the
makers of which print it's formula ON
every bottle-wrapper and attest its COM
pletencss and correctness u,,dcr oath; q
remedy devised and adapted to woman's
delicate constitution by an educated
physician-an experienced specialist in
woman's diseases; remedy, every in
gredient 81 which has received the writ
ten endbrselpent OF the most eminent
medicalN Xritese Of all the>eeveral schools
OF practicM foA the cure<Qf woman's
peculiar disAesee; . remedy (which has
more 6om0-ftde cures to its cfedit than
any other sold by @uggista fotw6pan's
special requirements az dJthe OILY one
which contains no alcohol inNs
make up -
Delicate, weak, nervous women should
especially shun the use of alcoholic
medicines which, from their stimulate
ing and exhilerating effects may seem,
for time, to do good, but which, from
the inevitable effects of the alcohol in
shrinking up the red corpuscles OF the
blood, are sure to do great and lasting
harm in the long run. Besides they
beget a craving for stimulants which ID
most deplorable. uFavorite Prescrip-
ton" is the one remedy for woman's
ills which contains no alcohol.
Only invigorating and nerve strength
ening effects can follow the use of this
famous medicine for women. 1t can
not possibly do harm in any state OF
condition OF the system.
II q woman has bearing down, 81
dragging pains, low down in the abdo-
men. or pelvis, backache. frequent
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1907-04-04
WOMAN'S RIGHTS.
The Dignity and sacredness Of motherhood.

Think Of the greatest who has lived this earth and
then think of him he lay his
possible that he should have grown great the worlds
estimate and perhaps had his
and that the world should forgotten
woman who bore him. The sons work is the mothers ra, and
erhood should longer be delayed high time this
greatest tasuresrHE
rs-should be recognized
Why should not these good mothers be the right and
have right that accorded the
most ignorant, insignificant and vlest of men?
It has been we'll said every great
should be built first"
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1907-04-04
Crimes and Criminals.

John Hippo. white man, hanged
Nashville, Tenn.
H. Clay Ewing, who was an attorney
general of Missouri from 1872 to 1874.
died at Jefferson City, Mo-, aged sew
enty-nine.
In duel over a poker game at Re
serve, La, T. w. Farrell was killed
and his opponent, b. P. Bourgeois, was
seriously wounded.
Lady Dorothy Stanley, widow OF Sir
Henry M. Stanley, the African ex-
plorer, was married in London to Hen.
ny Curtis, F. r. G. s.
William A. Proctor, president of the
Proctor & Gamble company, and son
of one of the firms founders, died
from a bullet wound self-intiicted, at
his home in Cincinnati.
John j. Nolan, retired leather mer
chant, formerly of Salem, Mass, COM
mitted suicide at the Crawford house
in Boston by cutting his throat Mr.
Nolan had been troubled with insom
MIA.
Eight residents of Helena, Mont,
have been arrested charged with UNI
lawful practices during the recent Re-
publican primaries. 1t is alleged that
they attempted unduly to influence
voters.
Interrupted in an evident attempt to
,i1;l af
Memphis shot and seriously wounded
his brother-in-law, J. E. Rousch, and
firing two bullets into his own breast
ended his life.
dream to the murder of August Schra-
der over a year ago, was found guilty
at Sibley, Iowa, and sentenced to life
Imprisonment. This is the third time
Rocker was convicted.
An indictment charging Mrs. Mi
chael Mcdonald with the murder of
Webster M. Guerin has been returned
by the grand jury in Chicago. Mrs.
Mcdonald shot Guerin after a quarrel
in his office ON Feb. 81.
MlS0 4NdiCy NAliCi, d WdltICoS CHi-
ployed at a hotel in East Pittsburg,
was stabbed seven times with butch
err knife and died within few min
utes. Walter Howard, a rejected suit
or, is charged with the crime.
Fred Miller was hanged at the peni-
Tertiary at Walla Walla, Wash, for the
murder of Fred Dierk at Castle Rock
last October. Miller collapsed during
the march to the gallows and was un-
conscious when the drop was sprung.
Albert Shuka, special policeman,
was stabbed to death at Cleveland
just after he had left dance hall
where he had been on duty. Shuka
had trouble with several young men
whom he elected from the hall and at
ter the place was closed the party re
newed the trouble.
With his throat cut from ear to ear,
and no evidence at hand to reveal the
perpetrator of the deed, James Ander-
son, custodian of the Masonic temple
at Council Bluffs, was found dead a
short time after the last OF party or
dancers had left the hall. That the
murder was committed In cold blood is
the opinion of the police.
The Washington times., 1907-07-22
Clash in North Carolina
Interests u. S. Officials

The Federal authorities are intensely
interested in the clash in North Carolina
between the State and Federal judiciary
over. the question raised by the Southern
Railway Company as 10 the constftu-
tionality Of the State law, fixing a rate
Of 2A cents a mile for passenger traffic
Should Judge Pritchard, Of the Federal
circuit court, order the release Of the
two passenger agents OF the Southern
who were sentenced to Asheville 10
thirty days in the chain gang for viola
ton OF the State law. it would precipi-
tate crisis that might be serious in its
Federal officials are of the opinion that
il would again bring to the front as a
political issue the question of State
rights. The Administration is W-atcbinr-
the trend of events in North Carolina
and a day or so ago an agent OF fhe
Department of Justice was sent To the
State TO make an investigation and re-
port.
Judge Pritchard is expected TO pro-
Ceed with great tact and diplomacy in
the present emergency.
Advices received here are to the effect
that the State authorities in Virginia
where 2-cent fare has been fixed will
adopt precisely the same coUr sc as
those in North Carolina. Judge Prit-
chard presldes in the circuit which en-
braces Virginia
The Washington times., 1907-07-22
MILITARY BALLOON
SINKS IN BALTIC
Four Russian Officers Car
ried Down in Secret
Experiments.

ST. PETERSBURG, July "A big
military balloon in which four officers
of the Russian artillery service were
making an experimental flight. has beer
sunk in the Baltic.
News of the disaster reached st. Pc
tersburg today and the war Office has
wired for full details. The four officers
were experienced aeronauts. and had
been experimenting with military bal
looms for some time.
Their experiments had been watched
with interest by the military authorities
in St. Petersburg. II had not been gen
orally known on the Continent that
Russia has really taken the lead in the
application of aeronautics to modern
warfare. and little had been published
in Russian newspapers.
The names of the officers engaged in
the perilous trials had been kept secret.
as had the general plans of the war
Office with reference to aeronautics. The
big balloon which sunk in the Baltic
was sent up yesterday.
Contrary winds drove her about for
some time and finally, after nightfall,
she was driven straight out over the
Baltic sea She disappeared quickly
from the watchers, and news of her col
lapse and the fate of the four officers
was brought In by q vessel
The Washington times., 1907-07-22
THE WEATHER .4EP0RT.

A oppression that has moved ouita
LopIuly ONeI lhe northern portion of the
ICuuLy since FRIDAY night has been
attended BY general shovyers - +tS
ueIslOILis from Montana, the Dakotas
ana Nebraska eastward into ths ioy,-e,.
lako region In portions OF the o,rt,.,',,, y, ~
upper Mississippi valley ana t6e sd,,tt, -
ern upper lake region the rafnfe1i G.
DAY and Sunday night was exCessiS,oi,, J,
heaYy. In the East, South, and ev+r'.,,,sL
West the weather has been gensrs ~,
fair s0ueI any
High temperatures were the r,,,.
Sunday, except in the middle Atlantic
states, and this mornings chart EhovtS
but little change, except in the North !
west. where II Is somewhat cooler.
There VIII be showers tonight in tho
uper Ohio valley, the lower lake reeioo
Tuesday in the northern portion of the
latter district In the South the weath-
er will De generally fair tonight and
Tuesday, and on Tuesday in the lower
lake region. Temperatures will change
but little
storm warnings are displayed on the
lower lakes.
The winds along the middle Atlantic
coast Will be light 10 fresh, mostly west
70 southwest on the south Atlantic ard
east Gulf coasts light and variable. and
on the lower lakes fresh 10 brisk south
west to northwest, probably thunder
squalls Monday afternoon or night
Steamers departing today for Euro
pean ports Will have variable winds
mostly west 10 southwest and light 10
fresh. showers Tuesday TO the Grand
Banks.
The Washington times., 1907-07-22
GIRL
GOES INSANE
IN ARGUMENT
Norfolk Belle Debates
With F FelloW-P Passenger
on Religion.

Miss Annie Wood. one OF Norfolk s
society girls. engaged in an argument
with a feliow-passsngsr on the Newport
News. q steamer bound 10 this city. on
the various phases Of the doctrine of
Free VIII, last night, and went violently
insane.
The argument waxed stronger and
stronger until finally Miss Wood had
drawn nearly the whole boat into the
question by her emphatic statements
Suddenly she became very hysterical.
sobbed and laughed violently by turns,
and finally her emotions were so siren
uous that the frightened officers Of the
boat had 10 use force 10 quiet her and
keep her from harming herself.
TIE voyage up the river saw E.tss
Wood becoming more and more violent.
and when tie wharf was reached, It IS
said, that the boat officials and the har-
Dor police, who were hastily summoned.
were obliged 70 wrap her completely in
a blanket before they could get her
ashore.
She was Immediately committed tenn
porarily 10 st. Elizabeth's. and her rela-
tives IN Norfolk notified OF her condi-
ticn.
The r1Imor that she declared her visit
to be one Of importance TO President
Roosevelt is pronounced by an eyewit-
ness as false. who says that her entire
talk while il ranged widely in topic,
was on religions subjects.
Members of her family are expected to
arrive here today
The Washington times., 1907-07-22
MINE EXPLOSION
KILLS 400 JAPS,
CAUSE unknown

TOKYO, July 22.-An explosion
today at the Tokyo Okla coal mines
is believed TO have cost the lives of
400 miners. The mines were crowd
ed with workmen when the explo-
sion occurred, shutting them of
from escape TO the surface. A score
of bodies have been recovered.
Details of the explosion are lack
ing and no cause for the disaster is
given in the meager reports re-
eeived. 1t is known that there were
All miners in the workings. and
only few Of these were able to get
out
Evidence of the force of the ex-
plosion is given in the shattered re-
mains OF some Of the victims It
will be hard to identify many Of the
bodies, so badly were they mutilated.
The Washington times., 1907-07-22
NAGILLS ON WAY
TO ILLINOIS HOME
Sheriff Finds Couple Anx-
ious to Face Charges
Against Them.

CLINTON. ILL.,. July 22.-Sherih Camp
bell today telegraphed TO States Attor-
ney Miller that he, with the Magills, ex-
poets to arrive here Wednesday after
noon. The sheriff reported that the Ma
gius are anxious to come back and face
the charges against then.
Miller was informed that the coveted
suicide letters were in the sheriff's hands.
Gossip and speculation today center
about Miss Magill. WHAT will her testi-
mony be? VIII. she seek 10 aid her
father and stepmother, or will she say
her own mother did not die a suicides
death2
An attempt is being made to keep the
hour and the manner Of the arrival Of
the party secret
The Washington times., 1907-07-22
GAS COMPANY
HEARING DELAYED

The hearing of testimony on the peti-
tion OF the Georgetown Gas Light Com
pany TO increase its capital stock from
$l50OoO 10 S3&,000 by demonstrating to
the court that the actual cash value OF
the plant and extensions amounts to
the latter figure was postponed this
morning untl next Monday morning at
10 o'clock.
Justice Ashley NJ. Gould. sitting in
Equity Court, No. ?. was ready at 10
O'Clock to proceed with the hearing set
FOR today, but r. Ross Perry, Of coun-
sci Tor the gas company, explained 10
the court that although counsel had
peen working diligently 10 prepare the
infotindtion necessary, they had been
unable 10 complete il, but would be
ready to proceed q week hence.
The Washington times., 1907-07-22
DIE
IN COLLISION
OFSTEAMERS
Pacific Coast Liner,
Columbia, Sunk by
Lumber Vessel.

SAN FRANCISCO, July 22.-One hundred per-
sons arc believed to have been drowned last night
when the steamer Columbia was sunk by collision
with the lumber steamship San Pedro, of Shelter
Cove.
About an equal number of passengers from
the Columbia escaped death by Getting aboard the
San Pedro.
The accident occurred in a heavy fog, and the
Columbia went down in very few minutes after
she was struck with terrific force on the port bow
by the Sen Pedro.
DISASTER BELIEVED WORST IN HISTORY OF COAST
The been one of the most disastrous of
the Pacific
The doomed passengers were caught like rats and had no chance
of escape Capt P Doan reported to have gone down
ship
Though the wreck occurred about p O'Clock Saturday night tina
first arrived here today.
The San Pedro badly damaged was kept aoa and her
passengers well those who boarded her from the Columbia
taken of by the steamship George Elder the vessel now
being towed to Eureka
TERRIBLE SCENES ABOARD THE DOOMED COLUMBIA
The aboard the Columbia meagery reports reach
ing here, terrible.
parted many who eanbered upon
the San Pedro their loved swallowed
herOism are reported II said that in some cases
escaped they preferred with their hu
band, refusing ship.
The time for escape little chance for
argument and only those who deck jumped
COLUMBIA CROWDED TO HER CAPACITY.
The Columbia capacity with passengers many
Of them and children All by the
crash but the Columbia they scarcely chance
for lives
The San Pedro small boats
lowered possible prevailed
the
enough half of the Columbas passengers
The and aided in the work
Of and towed the Pedro
The the
piled with lights and frequent marine occurred there
believed occurred in one of the d,s
fog peculiar this Shipping men here ss
that the cliffs fesavne from the
shore mpossibiHty.
COLUMBIA WAS BUILT TWENTY SEVEN YEARS AGO
Columbia of
built by Chester Pa and WAS oad b he
San Francisco and Portland Steamship Company.
She her port Portland at the time Of M
collision She long, BEAM and II feet dat,
The San Pedro wooden steamship of She was
built at Aberdeen WASH and 1851 feet BEAM
The San Pedro heavily laden with given
side of the passenger
The Washington times., 1907-07-22
TWENTY-FIVE HURT
IN TERRIFIC STORM

WILLISTON, n D.. July pa ter
rife wind. hail. and rainstorm last niob+
injured twenty-five persons. two of tteyo
probably fatally; destroyed efteen
dwelling houses. and did much Other
damage to property in this city and the
surrounding country.
Those believed TO be fatally hurt are
a man named Holmes, and Mrs Colling-
ton. Mrs Collington and her baby boy
were blown out of their house and for
about 100 yards, landing against a wire
fence Their home was entirely de-
strOyed-
Most Of the houses demolished We're
small cnes IN the suburbs OF the city
The court house, school house. and
Union block sustained considerable
damage.
The Washington times., 1907-07-22
Milwaukee, Woman
Deceived by Him,
Police Say.
Obtained S5OOFrOnl
Mrs. Arnold Here,
She Says.

While women all over the United
States are regretting their marital ex-
periences with Adolph II. Kreiger, said
TO be one Of the cleverest confidence
operators and swindlers at large, the
police OF nearly every city in the coun-
Try arc secretly admiring his audacity in
continuing his relnunerative matrimonial
schemes and his cleverness in evading
cs pture.
Kreiser is well known TO the police Of
this city, and information received yes
terday that ne had succeeded in another
remarkable coup de maitre did not come
as much OF a surprise. Kreiger is the
man who appeared in Washington in
December. 1905. inserted an advertise
ment IN a paper for managing house.
keeper in widOwer's elegant home" and
. waited for results. He got them. tco.
Engaged Her Immediately.
One of the first answers to the adver-
tisement was from Mrs. Cora 1. Arnold
widow. Kreiger engaged her immedi-
ately- A day or two following, he pro-
posed marriage and Mrs. Arnold ac-
cepted. few days prior to the date
set for the ceremony he exhibited q
draft for S2S,O0O on a bank of Pueblo
Col, and explained that Il would be
necessary to postpone the ceremony for
the reason that he was short Of ready
money, and. being a stranger and un-
known in the city, could not get the
draft cashed.
He then requested the assistance OF
Mrs Arnold In raising some money.
pending returns from The draft which
ne claimed to have deposited for col
lection Mrs. Arnold gave him $500 and
Two days later he disappeared. Now
and then the Washington Police Depart
ment would hear that Kreiger had
operated in some other city, but he
always made a successful get away be-
fore the victim reported the matter to
the authorities.
Got Away From Marshal.
Last May he was arrested in Newark.
n. j.. and turned over 20 a deputy
United States marshal for removal 70
this Jurisdiction. The marshal, IL is
said' believed he could furnish bond IL
given time to secure il, and did not
surrender him Immediately. The officer
accompanied Kreiger TO Baltimore
where he was left standing outside a
saloon one evening while his prisoner
went inside ''tO negotiate a loan.
kreiger went out the back door, and
the marshal saw him no more.
Yesterday Major Sylvester received the
following letter from ]. I. Jansen. chief
Of police of Milwaukee:
will you please advise me il AdoIph
II. kreiger, alias Frederick Seier. pub
llshed in the Chicago Daily Bulletin OF
July II, as being wanted in your city
charged with being a confidence oper-
ator and swindler, married a woman In
your city.
This man visited Milwaukee a few
days ago and was married TO a widow
He succeeded in getting $3.50 from her
and then absconded.
The widow is very anxious to learn
whether she is his legal Wife
hreigeT has left a trail of aliases ex-
1ghdlhg from the Atlantic to the Pacific
ne Is a German about forty years old
ne wears Masonic chain and button
ana ana seems TO have an unlimited supply
OF money. ES-V
Just at present the police are wonder
ing Where he Will turn up next.
The Washington times., 1907-07-22
DAYS OUTING PLANNED
FOR 500 POOR CHILDREN

Five hundFed poor children and moth
ers will be given an outing to Chesa-
peake Beach tomorrow week through
the kindness Of Paul Y. Waters. general
manager OF the resort. The children and
mothers 70 so on the trip VIII be select
ed by the agents OF the Associared
Charities. and the agents viii look after
them while they are on the outing.
This Is the second of a series OF three
outings to the salt water resort given
by Mr.. Waters. In all, he viii have
given more than 800 children a swim
In the SURF when the summer endR