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The Washington times., 1907-07-21

The lights refused to work Friday
night, and, as Mr.. Flemmer believed
there was something wrong with the
current, he telephoned the power COM
pany TO send a man around Sousa and
Berger were sent out to make the neces-
sary repairs.
There were no customers in the store
at the time. Mr.. Flemmer and his wife,
who live in apartments over the store,
were out for supper. Mr.. Fiemmer was
sent for by telephone. and arrived be-
fore the victims had been carried away
in an ambulance.
The Washington times., 1907-07-21
Special Notices.

A LATHE Money Spent on the Roof
at the right time viii save much expense
and Inconvenience IN the future Consult us
about the roof work
Coherth Practical Timer SO l4th St NV.
OOOSA w Stove Expert. Phone NJ. 2I39.
The Washington times., 1907-07-21
FORTY ARE DEAD
RESULT OF WRECK
Continued from First Page)

IN which many persons. both dead and
alive, were buried might catch fire
neryed the survivors 20 the work of res
cue, a work in which they were as
sisted by the farmers In the vicinity.
With their bare hands or with i'm
provised tools they set TO work 10 raise
the heavy timbers under which human
beings were lying. and one after another
was released until. when the wrecking
train arrived from Detroit, nearly TWEEN
~ bodies had been extricated. besides
a number OF wounded people. The dead
were nearly all crushed beyond any
hope Of recognition, and their clothing
was literally torn off them.
The wreckage is splotched with blood
and here and there are clumps of hair
and q piece Of scalp TO tell where some
poor man met his end Every now and
then some OF the cooler ones, who can
do something besides standing about and
vringing their hands. reached into the
wreckage and pulled forth body or
maybe part Of one and that. too, was
lined Up along the bank OF the ditch
and covered with canvas AS the nerve
Of the passengers who escaped ana were
not too badly injured to walk. returned.
they walked along the long TOW OF dead
and the canvas was raised from their
faces and they picked out one here and
another there by name
The identified dead were placed IN q
separate spot and tags bearing their
names affixed TO their clothing.
The Washington times., 1907-07-21

DR.. e. o. PIGEON. Dentist.
Office hours: Daily SD A. NJ. &c
p. NJ. Sundays. 10 TO 2.
Cor. D and 7th SITS. Phone Main 41E4-R
WE ADDRESS ENVELOPES 81 50
per thousand O. H Damon Young. 31s
Munsey Bldg Phone 22S1 Main Je2S-Sot
The Washington times., 1907-07-21

WILL ANY PERSON WHO
saw the collision between man
riding a bicycle and an auto
mobile on Pa. ave. between Sth
and 9Th SITS. Friday evening.
July y, 1907, about O'Clock,
kindly communicate with BY
RON s. ADAMS, 512 18th St
NV. or GEORGE P HOOVER,
Commercial National Bank
Bldg.7 ty17-tf
The Washington times., 1907-07-21

George Webb. one OF clerks employed
In the store, who as soon as he saw the
men fall rushed downstairs to the main
switch and turned of the current,
throwing the store in darkness
Effort to Rescusitate Fails.
Claude Berger. an electricians helper
and a brother-in-law OF Sousa, and sew
eral clerks were standing few feet
away at the time. and they worked
over both until the arrival of an am
bulance.
Both men were carried to the Casualty
Hospital wnere the surgeons worked
over them for nearly two hours. Neither
showed any signs of life. however, and
efforts 10 resuseitate them were with
out success
According to those who Witnessed the
affair there was a report that could
be heard for blocks as SOusa took hold
of the wire. AS he fell from the counter,
Candee reached out to grab him. There
was a flash as both men fell 20 the
floor.
The Washington times., 1907-07-21

o p. M Week Days
10 p. n. Saturdays
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-12-12
Personal.

Maj. w. T. Seward, doorkeeper of
the United States senate, dropped
dead while entering revolving door
of the capitol
Prof. jeffrey o. Hebeck, professor
Of German and Slavonic languages at
the University Of Nebraska, died at
Lincoln of peritonitis.
Gen. Allen Thomas, United States
minister to Venezuela during the Sec
ond administration of President Cleve-
land, died at his home at Waveland,
Miss.
Morris F. Tyler, president of the
Southern New England Telephone
company, former treasurer of Yale
university and millionaire, died sud-
denly in New Haven.
Francis J. O'Neill of the London
staff of the Associated Press died at
his home in London after an illness of
several weeks. Mr.. O'Neill was wide
ly known in newspaper circles in the
United States, having been connected
prominently with papers in Washing
ton and elsewhere.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-12-12

and adopted the motto, with the
people of the fatherland." The princes
then took the oath of allegiance and
the new monarch accepted the homage
of the state officials.
The last hours Of the expiring mon
arch were passed in unconsciousness
and up to the end he gave no sign of
recognizing those about him. 81 The
queen was grief-stricken because he
could not bid her farewell.
Wall of Sorrow Arose.
In the palace court yard in the dim
cold gray mist of the morning stood
crowd Of schoolboys, King Oscars
most devoted friends. Here they stood
for hours. blue and shivering, watch
ing the palace Flagstaff. There also
gathered many old men and women in
rags, such as the king had always
stopped to comfort with mild words
and generous aims when he met them
in the parks or streets, their faces
tear-stained because their loved king
and benefactor was dying. Suddenly
the flag dropped to half-mast and a
wall Of misery and sorrow arose.
Pitiful to Hear.
The old folks clasped their hands
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-12-12

Philip ]. Hauswirth, secretary of
the Society of American Florists, com.
mitted suicide in Chicago by shooting
himself through the heart.
While suffering intense pain, John
Ziegler, a pioneer of iowa City, Iowa.
aged fifty.eight, drank carbolic' acid,
and died after sixteen hours of tor.
ture.
Anthony F. Hatch, ranchman,
pleaded guilty in the United States
court at Omaha to the charge of con.
spiracy to defraud the government of
public lands and was fined 5000.
Charles Heath, prominent farmer
Of Mcdonald county, Missouri, was
convicted of the murder of Clarence
Mosier, school teacher. His pun.
ishment was fixed at forty years in the
state prison.
Leaning back in a rocking chair, his
feet propped against the fender sur.
rounding glowing crate, Julius Keel.
liker of New York, an inventor of silk
dyeing processes, shot and killed him.
self in his room in boarding house.
William Mcintosh of International
Falls, formerly of BTainerd, Mimi,
committed suicide at Winnipeg by
shooting himself through the head
with revolver. He was subject to
melancholy spells.
An east-bound passenger train on
the Southern railway turned over
when it struck broken rail near Ma
rion, Ala, and Engineer Frank Little
was caught under the engine and
killed. His fireman was fatally in
jured. No passengers were hurt
There were evidences of train wreck.
ers. and bloodhounds have been put
on the trail
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-12-12
OLDEST INHAslTANT CANNOT RE-
GALL WHEN CITY WAS TIED
UP so TIGHT.
FEW ATTEMPTS TO tNVAD{ Law
EVEN Y. M. C.. A. CUTS sTEREoPTl-
CON EXHIBITIONS OUT OF
EXERCISES.

New York, Dec. 10. - New York,
which can usually be depended upon
to provide something new and sensa-
tional, yesterday treated its millions
of residents and tens of thousands of
weekend visitors to the novelty Of a
thoroughly "blue" Sunday, the first
and probably the last in the history
of the metropolis. Few had expected
to live to see the day. There have
been more or less dry" Sundays and
Sundays without baseball, but the
memory of the "oldest inhabitant" fail
ed to recall Sabbath here when one
was compelled to choose between the
churches and the parks If he would
see or hear something to entertain
him.
Police Enforce the Law.
Incidentally the police department
demonstrated that it was equally eff
fective in enforcing obnoxious or pop.
ular statutes. The aldermen will meet
Tuesday to modify the ordinances as
far as their authority goes.
There were few attempts to evade
the law following Police Commissioner
Bingham's announcement that all Sun.
day entertainments must cease, in &C.
cordance with Justice O'Gorman's in
depreciation of the Sunday closing act.
Rest Case With People.
The amusement promoters held to
their avowed intention of resting their
cases with the people, confident that
public opinion would demand modi.
fication of law which prohibited all
sorts Of amusement on the Lords day.
The effect of the Sunday closing was
everywhere apparent. Broadway was
deserted except for those who found
nothing better to do than to walk the
streets.
Y. M. c. A. Revises Program.
At the various branches of the
Young Mems Christian association the
usual Sunday programs were radically
changed The stereopticon exhibitions
illustrating scriptural texts and NOV
ing pictures, which have been fea-
ture of the Sunday afternoon meetings,
were suspended for the day. The serv.
ices followed strictly religious lines.
Coney Island was shut up tight and
the few who visited the resort spent
the day strolling the beaches.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-12-12
NIGHT RIDERS RAID A TOWN.
Destroy Property Property Valued at
Over 100000 at HopkinsviIle. XIV.

Destroy Property Property Valued at
Over 100000 at HopkinsviIle, Ky.
Hopkinsville, KY, Dec. 1O-Five hun
dred might riders," masked and heav-
lily armed, marched into Hopkinsville
about 2 o'clock Saturday morning and
destroyed property valued at over
100000 while the citizens, in terror
of their lives, feared to even so much
as open their windows, and the police,
fire department., telephone and tele-
graphic Offices, and even the railroad
stations were in possession of wild
mob shooting right and left.
The flames from burning buildings
in the meanwhile lighted up the city
and the surrounding country until it
seemed, that the whole town was
ablaze.
Windows in the fronts of business
houses and banks on the main street
of the city were shot out, and the en-
tire glass of the front Office Of one
newspapers which had been especially
severe in its concentrations of the
raids of the night riders, and which
was owned by the mayor of the city,
was demolished. Fortunately only two
men we're injured.
The raid of the night riders caught
the city unawares, as for some time
the depredations resulting from the
tobacco war had been of minor ma.
ture, and it was generally thought that
in the dark district" at least the
worst was over.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-12-12
KING OSCAR, MOST LOVED OF EU.
RoPEAN MoNARcHs, PASSES
AWAY.
WHOLE COUNTRY MOURNS Loss
CROWN PRINCE TAKES OATH OF
OFFICE UNDER TITLE OF
GUsTAvE v.

Stockholm, Dec. 10.-Osca- H., king
of Sweden. died at $40 o'clock yester.
day morning. The death of the veneer
able monarch occurred in the royal
apartments of the palace, where, sur
rounded by the members of his family,
including the aged Queen Sophia and
the crown prince, Oscar Gustave, and
high ministers of state, the inevitable
end had been awaited, while outside
the palace great crowds stood with
barred heads and fearful eyes long aft
er the announcement came of the
death of their we'll loved sovereign.
Sweden Bowed With Grief.
The whole country is bowed with
grief, for King Oscar was something
more than ruler of his people and
had endeared himself to them as an
intimate personal friend. When the
flag on the palace was dipped to half
mast there was moan of anguish
from the assembled multitude and
many of them cried, Our dear old
king is dead!"
No national mourning will be pro-
claimed. To-day all the theaters will
open again with the exception of the
royal opera.
Gustave v. Takes Oath.
The succession to the throne of
Sweden now passes to Oscar Gustave
Adolphe, duke Of Vermland, the oldest
son of the late king. At meeting of
the council of state yesterday after
noon the new king took the oath of
Office under the title of Gustave V.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-12-12
RECORD YEAR ON LAKES.
Unusually Heavy Traffic In Iron Ore
and Hoal

Unusually Heavy Traffic In Iron Ore
and Coal.
Cleveland, Dec. 10.-Unofflcial figures
compiled by experts in the iron ore
and coal trade on the Great Lakes
show that-the movement for the sea-
son Of 1907 will be the greatest in the
history of the lakes.
This year the amount of iron ore
brought down the lakes doubtless will
total about 41,500,000 tons. To this
will be added 100000 tons of ore
hauled by rail. Last year the traffic
in ore was $500. 1000 tons, showing an
increase of 100000 tons for 1907, or
between 400 and 500 more boat loads.
This year 17,500,000 tons of coal will
be shipped up the lakes. an increase
of 100000 tons over 1906.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-12-12
PIONEER PRESS IN new HANDS
HILL INFLUENCE Is ELIMINATED
-RETURNs TO POLICY OF !
ITS FOUNDER.

The st. Paul Pioneer Press, the OLD
est, and for many years the most in.
fluential newspaper in the Northwest
recently passed under the control OF a
syndicate headed by Tams Bixby and
Webster Wheelock, the latter son Of
the late Joseph A. Wheelock, the
founder of the paper. The Duluth
News-Tribune comments editorially
upon the change as follows:
BACK TO THE PEOPLE.
The Pioneer Press of Wednesday.
made brief but significant announce.
ment. It has been known for some
weeks that all the stock of the corpor.
alton held by proxy for Mr.. James ].
Hill had been purchased by other in
terests, and that Mr.. Hill was volun-
tarily down and out so far as the Pho
neer Press was concerned.
Mr.. Hill has not found newspaper,
ownership profitable as a side line to
railroading and has wisely renounced
it. The announcement of the Pioneer
Press is the official notice by its pres.
ent owners of the changed relations Of
that paper to the public. OF the d.
rectors, John H. Barker and Jared How.
familiar names to many, were not re-
elected, and it is stated that all the
stock held by Mr.. Barker and others,
for Mr.. Hill, has been taken by
syndicate composed of Tams Bixby,
Webster Wheelock and sixteen other
residents of St. Paul, two residents of
Minneapolis and two of Red Wing.
Fred G. Ingersoll Of st. Paul now be-
comes president of the company, and
Tams Bixby vice president and gen.
eral manager, the other directors be-
ing E. N. Saunders, Homer p. Clark
and Webster Wheelock, of st. Paul;
L. S. Gillett Of Minneapolis, and John
H. Rich of Red Wing, whose personal
ity and business connections are well
known throughout the state.
This change in the ownership of the
Pioneer Press is matter of more
than passing interest and Importance
to the people of Minnesota. 1t Is its
oldest daily newspaper in the state,'
and nothing has ever been able to
break Its hold upon the older residents
and the more conservative business
element. 1t has always had their con-
fidence and support and has deserved
It.;
But the fact of Mr.. Hills large inter-
est in the property which was known
to many and suspected by more; Gre
ated a prejudice against it in the
minds of the masses.
To hold the confidence of the people
newspaper in the West must be indie
pendent not only in its opinions but in
all connections and be wholly of the
people and for the people. The Pioneer
Press will be greatly strengthened by
this change and will regain the power
which was won for it by its able and
fearless founder, Joseph Wheelock.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-12-12

for Chicago, eighteen for Kansas City
and four for Denver. The vote for
Chicago was made unanimous.
Every one accepted the decision Of
the committee good-naturedly, and the
sixty or seventy Kansas City and Dem
yer boomers declared that they would
came back after it again in 1912 and
would be sure to get it at that time"
The selection of the time for the
convention was compromise between
the first of June and the last of June,
and all were satisfied on that point
also.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-12-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN fPITOMf
IMPORTANT EVENTS At HOME
AND ON FOREIGN SHORES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Washington Notes.

The president and Mrs. Roosevelt
have sent out invitations for the cabi.
net dinner to be given at the White
House on Dec. 10.
A bill to establish postal savings
banks for depositing savings at inter.
est has been introduced by Senator
Carter of Montana.
Senator Proctor has introduced a
bill to promote military education in
the various civil institutions of learn
ing, including agricultural colleges.
The value of the coins executed at
the minis of the United States during
November. 1907. was $35,9G3.26O, of
which s"3,840,0G0 was gold, $4,000, 900
silver and $121,20O minor coins
Representative Garner of Texas in.
troduced bill creating new form of
legal tender, to be called United
States currency notes" and providing
for their printing to the amount of
$50O,00O,OOO.
The senate has received from the
White House the treaty negotiated be-
tween the representatives of the Unit
ed States and certain European coun-
tries as the result of the conference
on wireless telegraphy held in Ber1
lin.
The monthly circulation statement
issued by the controller of the cur
rency shows that at the close of bust
ness. Nov. 30. 1907. the total outstand-
ing circulation was $G5G,218,195,
which is an increase for the year of
$G2,837,G47 and an increase for the
month of $4G,237,73O.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-12-12
LOSES TEAM AND WAGON.

Farmer Escapes From Crossing Acct.
dent With Slight Hurts.
Earnesvile, Mimi, Dec. st. Hor1
gerscn, farmer living near Stock
wood, came near losing his life by be-
ing struck at crossing by Northern
Iacitic train. He was attempting to
drive across the track near the cement
tunnel. Both horses were killed and
the wagon demolished. The man was
also slightly injured.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-12-12
General News Items.

The German Steel association has
voted to reduce on Jan. the price of
structural forms of steel by $3.50 the
ton.
The annual state convention of the
Iowa Congress of Mothers will be held
in Des Moines from Dec 81 to Jan. 8
After existing five days on cactus
diet, DR.. Leon Ebert Landome of Los
Angeles. who began two-week test of
that plant as food, has lost ia
pounds.
After living in the county home at
Pittsburg for three years helpless
cripple, due to broken back sustain.
ed in mine accident. John Leskzi-
etch fastened slowly approaching
death by opening vein in his leg
with safety pin.
A new aeronautical society has
been formed in Berlin for the purpose
of arranging pleasure trips in the air,
both by Siderable and spherical bal.
looms. 1t is stated that the society
has placed an order for dicigible bal
looms in the United States.
Yeast germs at work in the blood is
the strange affliction of Leo Konnel
of Chicago, for whose recovery there
Is said to be no hope. 1t is supposed
that the infection entered his system
through some lesion in the skin of his
hands or face. There are said to be
only three cases of yeast infection in
the blood in all the history of medi.
cine.
An entire village built by the
French during their occupation of the
isthmus of Panama and completely
buried by the dense jungle growth of
twenty years, has been discovered at
Caimito Mulato by the engineering
force that is locating the center line
of the canal in the Chagree division.
Fighting over bale of hay, Roger
a twenty.year-old elephant, seized
LII. his feminine opponent, and hurl.
ed her from the stage at Atlanta. Ga
LII struck sharp corner of the plat.
form and received an injury from
which she died. The victor trumnet
ed loudly for q long time.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-12-12

Those financial Investigations are
very interesting" 'They are" an
swered the man who is selfishly ambi-
itous. only there are too many ex-
plantations Of how the trick was done,
and nothing reliable about what the
next good things will be."-Washington
Star,
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-12-12
HOTEL BURNED.

Old Landmark at Elk River Is De.
stroyed by Fire.
Elk River, Mimi. Dec. 8.-Riverside
hotel was destroyed by fire early last
evening. The structure was an old
landmark. having been erected in 1851.
1t was valued at $1,000. and with the
contents the loss aggregates $4,000.
There was $4,000 insurance on the
building and furniture. Fire caught
in the third story.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-12-12
Foreign.

Gen. Luis Saenz Pena, ex-president
of the Argentine republic, is dead. He
was born in 1880.
Reginald Post, governor OF Porto
Rico, has been renominated to that of.
flee by President Roosevelt.
No less than $4,000 rifles and revo,.
vers' as well as several pieces of ar.
tillery, have been shipped from Ant.
werp to Portugal recently.
Ralph Smith, M. P, British Colum.
bia, will move in the Canadian parlia.
ment legislation similar to the Chinese
exclusion act to prevent an influx Of
all Oriental immigration into Canada
The newspaper Derniere Heure Of
Brussels has opened a subscription
for the purpose of buying in the Jewels
Of the late Queen Henrietta of Bel.
GUM, which were left by her will to
her daughter, Princess Louise. and
later seized for debt.
Florence Nightingale, the English
philanthropist, has been decorator
with the Order Of Merit by King Ed.
"ssAN' OhO 10 Iu0 uTSI woman tn rl.
ceive this distinction, which to the
present time has been bestowed upon
nineteen men. each Of marked emf.
nence.
That Japan is not only planning to
outdistance the United States in the
struggle for the commerce of the Pa.
cihc. but already has driven the
steamship lines Of every other nation
out OF the Chinese trade, is the state.
ment of Henry l. Paddock. United
States consul at Amboy, China.
The government of Austria. Hun.
gary has issued a caution against emf.
grafton to the states Of Missouri and
Mississippi. unless reliable informa.
ton is at hand from Austrian sources.
This action has been taken on account
Of complaints made regarding the
treatment of Austrian workmen in
those states.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-12-12
CHICAGO GETS THE MEETING.

Republican National Convention Will
Be Held There June 16.
Washington, Dec. lO.-Chicago was
selected as the place, and June 16 the
time for the meeting of the Republic.
an convention next year. This deci-
sion by the Republican national COM
mittee followed long and hard fought
contest between the advocates of Chi.
cago and those of Kansas City, Den
yer, coming in at the end with a for.
midable but not important effort to Sc.
cure the convention.
The ballot showed thirty.one votes
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-12-12
caxeln Kills Miner.

Houghton, Mich, Dec. 10.-August
vickstrom was killed by falling ground
in the Mesnard shaft of the Quincy
Mining company. Other workmen es.
capped, but Vickstrom. who was the
last of the party to leave the drift, was
caught by tons of rock and earth.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-12-12
Crimes.

Mrs. B. E. Hunt. aged thirty, re.
spondent because her husband desert.
ed her. committed suicide by inhaling
gas i'll Chicago.
Crazed with jealousy. Ray Howard.
Fort Des Moines soldier, fired a bull.
let at his former sweetheart, Miss
Mabel Adair. who had Tilted him, but
missed his aim and killed her sister.
Mrs. Martha Pickering Howard ia
under arrest
While insane. Miss Adelia M. Johns.
ten. daughter of farmer of Marshall.
town. Iowa, attempted to set fire to
her fathers house. She then drakn
quantity of concentrated I've. He.
ro!c efforts saved her. She was adj.
judged insane and taken tn the state
hospital.