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The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-08
FoRTY-oNE KILLED IN WRECK.
Train Jumps Bridge in France and Not
One Passenger Is Saved.

s'o"b SeuPo osi0SS GTdUCS duo INOS
One Passenger Is Saved.
Anglers, France, Aug. 6.-Forty pas.
sengers in third-class railroad car
and the engineer of the train were
drowned in a railroad accident three
miles southeast of this town.
The locomotive of crowded local
train jumped the track when entering
the bridge over the River Loire at Les
Ponts-de-Ce. The stone railing gave
way and the engine plunged into the
river, fifty feet below, dragging down
with it its tender and the baggage and
third-class cars. No othe rcars went
into the water, as the coupling be.
tween the second and the third cars
broke.
The conductor and the fireman were
the only persons whose lives were
saved. They escaped by swimming.
The third-class car was we'll filled
with passengers, but although part of
the roof was blown off by the confined
air 1T sank. not single passenger ex.
tricated himself. and all were drowned
like rats in a trap. The engineer per.
ished beneath the locomotive.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-08
Accidental Happenings,


while milking COW on the farm of
his father, near Charlton, Iowa. Virgil
Bowman was struck by lightning and
killed. N
Ole Olson, a pioneer of Henry coun.
~, Iowa, was killed on his farm NV
falling from load of hay. His neck
was broken.
Henry de Moss died at Knoxville
Iowa, in terrible agony. He got hold
OF the wrong bottle and took a swip
OF carbolic acid.
In wreck Of an excursion train at
Isle Station, Pa, three persons were
Killed outright and a score or more
more or less injured.
Charles Bonier, eighty years of age
OF Buffalo, convicted of the murder of
Franz and Johanna Frehr, was electro.
cuted at Auburn, N. Y.
An explosion in one of the mills Of
the American Powder company at
Avoca, Pa, blew up the entire plant
Fire completed the destruction.
Fire at Ruston, La, DESTROYED the
union railroad station and adjoining
buildings. Before the fire was sub.
;dued 100000 damage was done.
Mrs. NJ. T. Burke, a cousin of Gen.
q. S. Grant, died at La Crosse from
injuries received in a fall recently.
She was seventy-seven years old.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-08
news OF THE WEEK IN tPI1OMt
DIGEST OF THE NEWS WORTH
TELLING CONDENSED FOR
BUSY READERS.
Washington Notes.

Secretary of War Taft has asked
that Rcd Cross organization be form.
ed in the Hawaiian islands.
A poatifical brief has been received
at the apostolic legation in Washing
ton appointing Rev. ID. F.. Feehan biSh-
Old OF Fall River. Mass, as the sue.
cessor TO Bishop Stang, deceased.
Word has reached the state depart
ment that the Chinese foreign Office
is about to take up with the diplomatic
corps negotiations for treaty prohib-
fling the smuggling of arms and am
munition into that country.
The secretary of the interior award
ed the contract for down" timber on
the ten sections of Indian land in the
Chippewa reserve to the J. Neils Lun'
Der company of Cass Lake. at $1S.705,
OF at the rate of $50 thousand feet
foc both white and Norway pine.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-08
STANDARD OIL IS
FINED $29,24o,ooo
JDUGE LANDS IMPOSES THE MAX.
IMUM PENALTY FOR RE-
BATTING.
TRUST MtRC|LtSSlY SCORED
NO BETTER THAN THIEVES AND
coUNTERFElTERs - PUTS
ALTON ON RACK.
TRUST MtRC|LtSSlY SCORED

Chicago, Aug. 6-Judge Kenesaw NJ.
district court, fined the Standard Oil
Company of Indiana s29,240000 for
violations of the law against accepting
rebates from railroads.
The fine is the largest ever assessed
against any individual or any corpora
ton in the history of American crimi-
nal jurisprudence and is Slightly more
than 131 times as great as the amount
received by the company through its
rebating operations.
The case will be carried to the high
er courts by the defendant company.
Oil Trust Is Scored.
The penalty imposed upon the COM
the law, and it was announced at the
end of long opinion in which the
methods of the Standard Oil company
were mercilessly scored.
The Judge. in fact. declared in his
opinion that the officials of the Stand
ard Oil company who We're responsible
for the practice of which the corpora.
ton was found guilty were no better
than counterfeiters and thieves, his en-.
act language being:
We may as we'll look at this situa-
ton squarely The men who thus de-
liberately violate this law wound so.
ciety more deeply than does he who
counterfeits the coin or steals letters
from the mall
To Swell Dividends.
Judge Lands commences readin.
his decision at 10 O'Clock AID occupied
one hour in it's delivery. He reviewed
the facts in the case. took up the argu-
ments of the attorneys for the defense
and answered them. and then passed
judgment upon the company. which he
declared violated the law for the sole
purpose of swelling its dividends. The
court held that the railroads have no
more right to make a secret rate for
shipper than a board of assessors
would have to make a secret assess.
ment on any particular piece of prop
erty.
To Go After Alton.
At the conclusion of his opinion and
after announcing the amount of the
fine. Judge Lands directed that a spe.
clal grand jury be called for the pur-
pose OF inquiring into the acts of the
Chicago & Alton Railroad company,
1t having been proved in the case Just
closed that the Gil company accepted
rebates from that corporation. This
jury is summoned for Aug. IA.
Fined $ee, 100000 More?
Under the seven indictments still
pending against the Standard Oil com.
pany an additional fine amounting to
$SS 400 900 mag be levied should the
company be found guilty. There are
In these seven indictments a total of
4,422 counts. and the maximum fine in
each count would he $4,000.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-08
cANUck SEXES ISLE RoYALE,
Declares It Is British Territory and
Plants the Union Jack.

Declares It Is British Territory and
Plants the Union Jack.
Chicago. Aug CA special to the
Record-Herald from Port Arthur, Ont,
says:
Capt. S. c. Young returned last
night from Isle Royale, in Lake Su.
perior, where he was successful in
planting the British flag, meeting with
no opposition from any quarter. When
asked last night why he had made this
expedition. he Raid 1t was for the pur.
pose OF opening up correspondence
between Ottawa and Washington
which would show that great injustice
had been done to Canada by the agree
ment that gave Isle Royale to the
United States.
Capt. Young claims that Isle Royale
rightly belongs to Canada. The action
OF Young was not known to the Cana
dian government until yesterday, when
1t was officially notified that the island
had been seized in the name of Great
Britain.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-08
OIL TRUST is WHOLLY eAp.
Commissioner Smith Scores Standard
in Report to President.

in Report to President.
Washington, Aug. +. - Significant
revelations are made public in a report
Knox Smith. commissioner of corpora
tons. concerning the operations of the
Standard Oil company In his letter
transmitting the report Commissioner
Smith briefly summarizes his findings
as follows:
THE following facts are proved:
The Standard has not reduced margins
during the period in which it has been
responsible for the price of oil. During
the last eight years covered by this re-
port IS9S to 1909 it has raised both
prices and margins. It's domination
has not been acquired or maintained by
It's superior efficiency, but rather by
unfair competition and by methods
economically and morally unjustifa-
bic. The Standard has superior eff
cheney in running its own business
1t has an equal efficiency in destroying
the business of its competitors.
1t keeps for itself the profits of the
first and adds to those the monopoly
profits secured by the second. Its
profits are far above the highest posi-
bic standard OF IL reasonable CONNER.
cial return, and have been steadily in
creasing. Finally. the history OF this
grea, industry is a history of the per-
sistent use Of the worst Industrial
methods. the exaction of exorbitant
prices from the consumer and the Sc
curing of excessive profits for the
small group of men who over a long
series of years have thus dominated
the business"
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-08
Foreign.

The cabinet of Peru has resigned
and Former Minister of the Interior
Tovar has been charged with the for.
nation of a new ministry.
The British Medical association, in
session at Exeter, practically support.
ed the contention of DIR. Newsholme
that sick people ought to be treated at
public expense.
A shipment of deviled ham from
the United States has been held up
by the authorities at Buenos Ayres
because it is alleged the meat contains
bOrax. The matter is being investi.
gated.
Messrs. Courtney and Schutt, Amer
lean Rhodes scholars at Oxford, have
decided to start a sightseeing enter.
prise in London. If the venture sue.
ceeds in London it will be tried in
Rome next winter.
DR.. Josef Garzourka of BUDAPEST
says American women cross their
legs too much. The practice makes
them nervous, he declares. and gener.
ally undermines their health. DR..
Garzourka is touring the world in the
interest of science.
The examiners in the finals of the
classical school at Oxford have award.
ed honors to three Americans holding
Rhodes scholarships: F. H. Forbes Of
Massachusetts,. first class honors: G..
Q. Vincent of Ohio, second class, and
r. H. Coon Of Nebraska, fourth class
honors.
In the event of the government Of
venezuela persisting in it's recent re.
fusal to recognize the findings of the
Hague tribunal in the matter of the
payment of 100000 to Belgian cred.
1tors. the Belgian government intends
TO take up the question with the Unit.
ed States.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-08
5000 IN FIERCE RACE RIOT
HEROIC MEASURES TAKEN TO
RUN DOWN PERPETRAToR OF
FlENplsH CRIMES. =,

New York, Aug. 6.-Another MUIR
derous assault was added last night
to the police record of recent crimes
against defenseless women and girls.
Last nights victim was Miss Ellen
Bulger, a woman Of middle age, who
was attacked in her apartments in the
Bronx, cruelty beaten and left in a
helpless state. The woman was re.
moved to a hospital, where it was
found that her skull had apparently
been fractured, her face and hands
lacerated and her body otherwise
bruised. There was evidence that the
woman
Made a Courageous Fight.
From what the police were able to
learn from her she was surprised by
smooth-faced stranger, perhaps forty
years of age. He was coatless, and
wore an outing shirt and dark trou.
sers. He escaped.
Just before Miss Bulger was as
saulted, George keetner, a Russian,
charged with attempted assault upon
an eight-year-old girl, was set upon by
a crowd of men and all but killed. The
clothes were torn from his body and
ped in a blanket
Another mob set upon Hylo Saloda.
all Indian palmist. who was similarly
accused. and only the timely interven-
ton of police reserves saved him from
summary punishment.
& mn :. 0,.> 0;ex
The fighting element among the
whites and blacks in the vicinity of
One Hundred and Thirty.sixth street
and Fifth avenue lined up according to
their racial prejudices again yesterday.
this time to settle baseball dispute
and when the argument was ended
fifty persons required medical treat
ment. and of that number two will die.
Probably 5000 persons took part in
the fight. but the 800 policemen who
dispersed the mob after every one was
fought out. got only nine prisoners
and of these two were women.
Police All Join Hunt.
The wave of crime against womer.
and children which has swept over
this city for the last fortnight has
reached stage where heroic meas
ures are being taken in the attempt to
end the lawlessness.
Acting Police Commissioner O'Keefe
issued orders directing every plain
clothes officer in the city to lay aside
all other work and devote himself en-
tirely to an attempt to bring to justice
the perpetrators of these crimes.
He ordered that house.to.house Wis.
it's be made by all officers on regular
beats, and that parents be advised to
keep their children under close super.
vision. He also announced that he
would ask for an appropriation suffi-
cient to add 500 officers to the force.
The dozen or more recent attacks on
children have struck terror into the
hearts of mothers all over the city.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-08

The breaking Of a cable plunged an
elevator down five stories in the Ely
& Walker Dry Goods company's build.
ing in St. Louis, killing John Ward
and fatally injuring Paul j. Grots.
Leaking gasoline in boathouse OF
James Pryor & Sons at Houghton
Mich, caused the destruction by fire
of two gasoline launches and two boat
houses. The loss is about $4,000.
Fire of unknown origin totally de.
stroyed the Post Lambert stampmill,
sawmill and camp buildings. in the up.
per regions of the Mount Baker min
ing district in Washington. Loss, $780,.
900.
Stella, Wash, was practically de.
stroyed by fire. Among the buildings
burned were two hotels, two saloons,
wharves. mills, warehouses and hospi.
tails. The loss is estimated at $780,.
900
In an early morning fire at Memphis,
originating on the eleventh floor of
the Memphis Cold Storage company's
building, which was in the course of
erection, one fireman lost his life and
two were seriously injured. Loss,
100000.
While fifteen employees of the Madi.
son Car and Foundry company were
eating their lunch under a newly built
freight car at Madison, ILL.,, the car
was set in motion and two men were
killed. two fatally injured and two
were seriously injured
Thrown from wagon and his skull
crushed. Robert Teel, farmer living
near Columbus, Iowa, died two hours
after being picked up. His horses
ran away and in an effort to control
them he was thrown from the wagon,
striking his head against stone.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-08
NEGROES TOWN BURNS.
Village Is Alleged to Have Been De.
stroyed BY lrate Farmers.

Winona. Mimi, Aug. 6.-Porteryille.
newly organized village just across
the river in Wisconsin, the inhabitants
OF which are negroes, was completely
DESTROYED by fire. 1t is reported that
the fire was started by Wisconsin
farmers, who were incensed at the &C.
ton OF the negroes in building up a ne
gro village In the vicinity. The build.
ings were flimsy structures and the
loss is small
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-08
Leader Advises the Use Of Guns.

Duluth, Aug. 3. - One working day
has passed since operations on the
range, following the settlement Of the
ore dock strike, were begun by the
United States Steel corporation and
the independent mines, and no serious
disorder was reported. The industrial
sky over the range is not cloudless,
however, for the sullen attitude of the
followers of the Western Federation
of Miners indicate an attitude of des-
peration, which was somewhat inten-
sified by vitriolic address delivered
by Petriella, the strike leader, in
which, while counseling peace, he adj.
vocated the use of guns to maintain
what he said was their right to sell
their labor where they could to the
best advantage. 49,.
Advises Violence.
In this address Petriella gave the
governor twenty-four hours in which
to grant the men justice" at the end
of which time he advised the men to
be ready to strike the head off any
man who tries to crush you; if not as
American citizens, do it as human be-
ings." Whether at the end of twenty
four hours anything will come of this
is awaited with anxiety and the Off.
Gals are prepared. All of the special
guards who have been in Duluth dur
ing the past few days were rushed to
the range. 1t was said that $50 men
were in the party and they will aug
ment Sheriff Bates force of deputies
in case there is any trouble.
Give No Pretext for Clash.
This was made clear to them when
they attempted to march from Hib.
bling to the meeting at Chisholm,
where Petriella made his violent
speech. Otherwise the officials will
handle them gently in order that there
may be no pretext for a clash
Reports received here yesterday in.
dictate that mining operations were re.
sumed heavily in both Hibbing and
Eveleth districts. Thomas D. O'Brien.
former state insurance commissioner,
and Harvey Grimmer, executive clerk
to Gov. Johnson, who visited the range
towns yesterday as personal represent.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-08
HURLED FROM TRAIN DIES.
Man Thrown From Platform Gets "a.
tai Injuries,

Monroe. Wis, Aug. 4.-Edward Flan-
merry of Argyle died at Brownton yes.
terday from injuries received in being
pitched down high embankment
while riding on the platform of a Mil.
waukee road passenger train. Farmers
who heard him calling for help found
him two hours later. Both legs were
broken, and his head, back and hip
were badly injured.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-08
Domestic.

OOmeSIlcs
After years Of litigation the estate
of Alva Bradley Of Cleveland, valued
at about $5,000000, has been divided
equally among the heirs.
Dueling in Cuba will no longer be
tolerated by the provisional govern.
ment in consequence of an encounter
recently between two Cuban journal.
lists.
Harrison Grey Fiske has announced
that early in October Mrs. Fiske will
visit the cities and towns of the
Southern states, appearing in different
roles.
The maiden voyage of the Lusitania,
the largest ship afioat, the new steam.
ship Of the Cunard line from Liverpool
to New York, has been fixed for
Sept. Z.
Harvest hands are so scarce at Ma.
rion, Ohio, and surrounding country
that farmers are forced to pay 81 q
day and furnish cool beer instead OF
water to drink.
German-American day was success
fully observed at the Jamestown ex
position witI prominent members Of
the German Alliance from all parts O,
the country present.
The severe drouth on Long Island
has produced a new industry, that Of
selling water to the farmers whose
cisterns and wells have become dry
The farmers are paying 10 cents q
barrel for water, which they have to
haul themselves.
Charmed by his voice, Mrs. Freder
lex R. Hoyt, the young widow OF Cal
ifornia mining man, now in New York
has given up $250,00O fortune tc
marry i. Humphrey Duffey, oratoric
singer. Announcement of the mar
tiage which took place on June q
has just been made public.
A fight between a robin and a rec
squirrel took place on the lawn in
front Of the First Methodist church al
Montclair, N. j., in which the robin
came of victorious. Striking will
wings. beak and claws, all at on,
time, the bird bowled the little ANNA
over and over.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-08
Reception for Lonqworths,

Honolulu, Aug. Ga reception was
given last night by Gov. Carter to Mr..
Straus, secretary Of commerce and
labor, and Congressman and Mrs.
Nicholas Longworth. Five thousand
people attended.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-08
Crimes and Criminals.

William Nelson, a negro, was eve
cuted in the electric chair in Sing Sing
prison at Ossining. N. Y, for the muir.
der of Lizzie Norman.
Miss Pearl Warning was shot and in
stantly killed at Leesburg, Ohio, by
Orb Anderson, whom she refused to
marry. They were engaged.
United States Marshal Hendry has
arrested several persons at Honolulu
charged with counterfeiting ten-dollar
gold pieces. The coins are of good
quality, but lack weight.
For shooting Frank Finley, who died
later as the result of the wounds
Night Watchman Baumgardner of Vim
ton, Iowa, was arrested, charged with
second degree murder and held in ST.,
600 bonds.
Helen Bailey Trowbridge, reputed
to be an actress and attached to the
Peoples Stock company of Chicago,
was found dead in her room in a Pitts.
burg hotel. She had cut her throat
with razor.
Laura NJ. Carter, the woman who be.
trayed Chester B. Runyan, the paying
teller of the Windsor Trust Company
of New York, who stole $50, 900, to the
police, has been indicted for receiving
stolen goods.
James Reid, colored, was lynched
at Grisfield, Mo. Little more than g
dozen hours before he had crept up
behind Policeman John A. Daugherty
and fired bullet into the latter's
brain. Daugherty died instantly.
After having deserted his wife and
baby and fled with another woman,
Louis Malkus, former labor commits.
sioner of Louisiana, and Miss Inez
Ellzey met death in the wreck of the
steamship Columbia, which was sunk
off the California coast.
The stage leaving Ukiah, CAL. for
Witter Springs was held up by lone
bandit and eighteen passengers were
relieved of their jewelry, money and
other valuables. A few minutes later
second stage coach from Ukiah came
into view and the robber proceeded to
line up its ten passengers with the &C.
cupants of the first stage.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-08
hiecouahs for a Week.

Des Moines, Aug. 6.-Arthur J. Jun
kin, prominent society man here,
has hiccoughed for week. All efforts
of physicians to stop the seizure have
failed. Junkin is in a serious condi-
ton.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-08
HAIRPiN PIERcEs BRAIN.
Iowa Girl May Recover From Peculia,
Accident.

Atlantic, Iowa. Aug. Awhile Miss
May Name of Noble township was play.
ing with number of girls in the ward
she bumped her head against a most
with sufficient force to drive a com.
mon wire hairpin into her skull to the
depth OF two inches. penetrating the
brain. She was unconscious for three
hours, but it is thought she will re.
covor