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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-29
OMAHA RAILROAD
IS FINED $4,000.
JUDGE PAGE MORRIS IMPOSES.
PENALTY FOR GRANTING
REBATES.
ROAD Will TAKE AN APPEAL
ATTORNEYS IN RELATING CASE
WILL TAKE 1T TO HIGHEST
COURT.
ROAD Will TAKE AN APPEAL

! Minneapolis, Aug. "a. - Judge Page
Morris in the federal court yesterday
pronounced sentence of a fine of $780,
900 upon the Omaha road, which was
convicted last April of granting and
paying rebates to the Spencer Grain
company on fifty carloads of grain
shipped from Minneapolis to the Head
Of the Lakes. H. NJ. Pearce, former
| general freight agent of the road. the
only one of three personal defendants.
to be convicted with the road, was
given a fine Of $4,000.
Following the sentence bill of ex-
ceptions was drawn up by the attor-
neys and Judge Thomas Wilson, coun-
sci for the Omaha, gave notice of an
appeal which will be taken at once.
He offered formal motion for arrest
of judgment before the sentence was
passed.
Indicted Last Fall.
The Omaha road was convicted in
April on an indictment returned by
the federal grand jury the preceding
fall. 1t charged the road with repay
ing elevation charges on fifty counts,
each count covering the rebates on one
separate carload of grain shipped to
the Spencer Grain company. Judge
Morris has spent some time in consid-
ering the adyisability of filming the
company the minimum or maximum
fine allowed by law on each count, and
for several days this week the matter
was argued by the attorneys for the
road and for the government.
1t was in the judges power to fine
the road as high as $1.00O,00O, placing
the maximum upon each count. But
in the sentence yesterday he recog-
nized the fact that, although fifty cars
were shipped they were sent on only
seventeen separate dates, making, in
his opinion, only seventeen distinct Of
lenses and not fifty.
Will Stand as Precedent.
He devoted considerable time in
passing sentence to explaining his po-
sition on that point. His decision will
stand as a precedent IN similar cases
in the future.
The court held that the payment of
the refund in one check or ten made
no difference in the number Of offenses
against the law, as the offense was
completed when one check was re.
ceived. The sentence was thus on the
entire case rather than on any partic-
ular count.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-29
Foreign.

Japan and Russia are planning the
establishment Of wireless Geographic
connection with Siberia The new
line is expected to cut in two the
present telegraphic tolls.
The japanese government has
placed an order for an 18,0OG-ton bat
tleship with the Fairchild Shipbuilding
company at Glasgow. The new vessel
will be one of tho most formidable
armed ships Of war afloat.
The peace conference now In SEES
sion at The Hague has decided upon
the exclusive use Of tine Hebrew
tongue as the official medium OF COM
munication for future congresses, as
well as for all publications.
The legislative eomcil of New Tea
land rejected the bill providing for
the election of an upper house by the
house Of representatives, according to
one 1T the clauses of which women
electors, we're to be eligible to election
as members nf the upper house.
When the Canadian branch Of the
royal mint begins making coins at Of
tawa in November 1t will have to start
with metal purified In the United
States because there are no smelters
or refners In Canada capable of reduc-
Ing gold and silver ores sufficiently for
coinage purposes.
According to the Berlin Mardeburg
Zeitung, three Americans have offered
the proprietor Of the famous and an
cient dwelling house at Goslar. known
as the Brusttuch, $125,O00 for the
building. The Brnsttuch is curious
old house of the sixteenth century, re-
stored in 1870. 1t is adorned with
satirical wood carvings.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-29
IS cRAzED BY STRIKE.
Operator, necessarily TeIegraphing,
Is Sent to Asylum.

Fort Dodge, Iowa, Aug. 23.-Crazed
by the telegraphers' strike, James
Werbka, twenty-four years old, who
claims to have been for three years
in the employ of the Western Union,
was taken in charge by the police
yesterday He was unable to tell
where his home was or whether or not
he possessed friends. With any OBJ
ject that he is allowed to take he
keeps up an incessant telegraphing.
He was sent to the state hospital at
Cherokee, pending an investigation as
to his home and friends
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-29
FIRE LOSS is $3.50, GOO.

Shift Of Wind Helped Firemen to
Overcome Blaze In Cincinnati.
Cincinnati. Aug. 25.A shift of the
wind aided the firemen in their efforts
to overcome the fire that started In
the Eagle White Lead company's plant
Thursday night, and Ave hours after
the flames we've discovered the fire
was under control. after wiping out
property valued at $3.50 900. driving,
hundreds OF tenement dwellers from
their homes and laying waste several
acres Of ground. 8
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-29
BURNED ALIVE AT LA CROSSE.

Five Have Narrow Escapes and One
Dies in Burning Dwelling.
La Crosse, Wis, Aug. 25-One life
was lost and five other persons had
narrow escapes in the destruction by
fire of the home of Mrs. Mary Ker-
sters
With much difficulty Mrs. Kersters
and four of her children were taken
out of the burning structure, but her
Oldest boy, Fred, aged eleven, could
not be reached by the firemen, and
refusing to jump was burned to death
before the eyes of his mother and a
large crowd Of spectators.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-29
ARE DUckED WITH BABIES.

Women and Children Caught in Crash
Of Small Dock.
y Green Bay, Wis, Aug. 25.-Fourteen
persons, including three women hold
ing babies in their arms and number
of young women and men, were
thrown into Green bay by the breaking
of a small dock at Bay Beach, a sum-
mer resort near here, last night. Sew
eral narrowly escaped drowning. The
men in the party rescued the women
from drowning. sf5
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-29
New Church Opened.

Glenwood, Mimi, Aug. 30 % The new
$4,000 Congregational church here
was used for the first time on Sunday.
1t will be formally dedicated on Sept.
10, when several former pastors and
ministers from neighboring towns will.
take part in the service. ar.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-29
Talk Coarse: Are Mhinned.

Duluth, Aug. %. Patrick McDon
nell, a well known contractor Of this
city whipped two lumberjaclss- esd
put them to flight in a local cafe last
evening because they had used coarse
to the young woman cashier,
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-29
Suicide of Young Woman,

Darlington, N. D., Aug. IS. Miss
Myrtle Day, aged nineteen years,
daughter Of 3. 7. Day, residing with
her parents south Of Darlington, com
mitted suicide by drinking carbolic
acid. It Is supposed parental objec.
ton to her receiving a young mans
attentions was the cause for her act.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-29
TRAGEDY ENDS IN QUARREL.

Hoosfer Murders His Wife and Cuts
His Own Throat.
Crawfordssille Ind, Aug. 25.Otto
w h y three years old, muir
ldered his wife. Laura Walker, yester-
day by cutting her throat from ear to-
ear. Walker then slashed his own
throat and is in a serious condition.
Domestic trouble was the cause.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-29
SONS INHERIT SIS EACH.
Contest Will of Mother Who Leaves
Estate to GrandchiId.

La Crosse, Wis, Aug. 23.-Because
Mrs. Julia 1rohock, an aged woman,
left her $4,000 estate to her homeless
granddaughter, Georgia Trilby Fro
hook, whom she had mothered for
years, George and Fred Frohock of
this city have instituted contest of
their mothers will. The instrument
was drawn by Circuit Judge J. J..
Fruit, and the sons received only SIS
each, called a remembrance" in the
will.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-29
RouTs FORCES OF SULTAN.
Washington Is Informed That Defeat

Washington Is Informed That Defeat
is Complete.
Washington, Aug. rs. Information
has reached the state department by
cable to the effect that the bandit Raj
suli has completely defeated the large
force sent against him by the sultan of
Morocco in the effort to secure the re-
lease Of Caid MacLean.
According to the report the impor-
tant Moorish city of Alcazar, which is
distant only two days by caravan route
from the city of Tangier, Is in great
danger.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-29
CITY RAILWAY OFFERED.
George Teitsworth of Twin City Com.
panv Is Backer of Project.

0eUT9e IeIesWUTeT OF IWIH CI1y OO1n.
pany Is Backer of Project.
Bemidji, MINI, Aug. 23. - A street
railway system for Bemidji is propo-
sition which. has been made to the city
by company of capitalists who ap-
peared at meeting Of the city council
last evening and made application for
a franchise to construct, maintain and
operate a complete electric street
railway system within the limits Of
the city of Bemidji.
The parties who propose to put in
the railway system are Carl Gowraa Of
Grand Forks, George Teitsworth of
Minneapolis, who is connected with
the Twin City Rapid Transit company,
and A. A. Garter of this city.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-29
Miller Fatally Hurt.

Grand Forks, N. d, Aug. 25.-Louis
Mellun, a miller employed by the Rus.
sell-Miller Milling company, was prob
ably fatally injured early yesterday.
His head caught under pulley on
which was a fast revolving belt.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-29
Attempts Suicide Twice.

GAINESVILLE, Wis. Aug. 20 Dreading
i've years sentence in the state
prison for burglary, Thomas Catoran,
Spaniard, unable to speak English,
twice attempted suicide in the county
Jail last night.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-29
Killed n Pistol Duel.

Liberty, Nc, Aug. % John Porter
Stollings and William ]. Sewer, farm
ers living near Chandler, engaged in
q pistol duel yesterday, which resulted
in the death Of Stollings. The TRAGEDY
was the elimination Of ali old feud,
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-29
To Prohibit Bucket Shops.

Fergus Falls, Mimi, Aug. %. - An
anti-bucket shop ordinance was intro
duced at the. city council meeting here
last night and given its first reading.
It is very drastic and aims to wipe out
everything in the line Of option trad
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-29
Miners. sin Enton,hed

Wilkesbarre, Pa, Aug rs. -Four OF
the miners who were Thursday caught
in the cave-in at No. IA tunnel OF the
Pennsylvania Coal company near
here, are still entombed, and it is be.
lieyed they are dead.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-29
General News Items.

The Baltimore & Ohio railroad has
ISSUED orders that all employees who
drink liquor while on duty will be dis
charged.
Delegates from nineteen employers
| associations met In New York to
form general federation OF organiza.
tons of employers.
The National Harnessmakers' asso.
citation, In session at Columbus, Ohio.
adopted resolutions calling for reduc-
ton OF the tariff on hides and raw ma
terial.
Five torpedo boats won five-mile
race from the same number of torpe-
do boat destroyers off Newport, R. 1.
1t was the first race Of the kind ever
attempted.
The largest order for equipment
ever placed by the New Haven rail-
road has recently been distributed
among several firms, calling for $12,-
100000 worth of rolling stock.
With an attendance of about 400
delegates, the American Institute of
Banking, formerly known as the
American Institute of Bank Clerks,
held Its fifth annual convention In De-
stroit.
b The affairs of the Pope Manufactur-
ing company, which recently went
into the hands of friendly receiver,
are to be investigated by committee
of creditors representing $4,000 900
81; CT the firms indebtedness.
Gov. Harris Of Ohio has extended to
the chief executive OF each state in
the Union an invitation to appoint
three delegates to attend a national
conference to be held at Columbus
NoV.}12 under the auspices Of the Ma
tional Tax association.
A 100000 filtering. plant will be
constructed at Escanaba, Mich. For
ten years the city has been visited an
nually by serious typhoid fever cpl
denies. Health authorities have
agreed that impure water was the
cause. XII
Mayor Rigdon OF Warsaw, Ind, has
declared his intention Of ostracising
4 thirtv.vear.nIa edrmnt = Who ~, annaar 49,,
hafora MIN waa ordara 80 hapts sI1 -
Srn, ~ n1a.x ~ !. ~
informed thatsif he returned he would
ana ,vSri I on ma 'stras SIS = 50 es11e
80 IS & 3. - =. ,'sss.
"a Gov ". = Frear has been inaugu-
rated as chief executive OF Hawaii.
hs pIo.n.ses 9 se'..ement Or the agri-
cultural land question n the interest
OF the nolders q smal tracts. Mott
: mn. mas quallned as secretary OF
ne serI'1 y. 8. =. Hartwen az chief
3usslce 8 'ne supreme court, and
Iudse ~ 5aliau as associate Justice.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-29
RUNS TRAIN TO RAINIER.
Duluth, Rainy Lake G. Winnipeg Road
viii Soon BE CononJa+a

WI o0O1f DC OUlTIPTete.
Rainier, Mimi, Aug. 23.-The Duluth.
Rainy Lake & Winnipeg has reached
this place. Hundreds of people from
International Falls came up on a sspe-
cial train that was the first to run into
this place after the rails were laid.
The ballasting trains have reached
Ericsburg and two weeks more will
see the road in shape to run passenger
trains the entire length of it's road.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-29
Hotel Is Burned.

Rainy River, Ont, Aug. %. The
Union hotel Of Rainy River burned
down last night. No insurance was
carried. Part Of the household goods
were saved.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-29
DAVID ROSE InTERPosEs.
Says Attorney General Smith Should
Drop Franchise Suit.

- 0E0P FTdIIGTIfSt 0UIe,
Milwaukee, Aug. 25. - Declaring
that the complaint of the attorney gen
eral in the action to annul the fran.
chises Of the street railway company
does not state cause of action, For
mer Mayor David S. Rose, one of the
many defendants, has brought injunc-
ton proceedings to restrain the exam
ination set before Court Commissioners
Joseph G. Donnelly on Monday. The
State of Wisconsin is asked in the
proceedings to show cause why the
complaint should not be dismissed.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-29
Epidemic Of pistennner.

Neenah, Wis, Aug. %. Not less
than a hundred horses are afflicted
with distemper in this city. This dis
ease is now epidemic and is known
among horse doctors as typhoid infu.
enza.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-29
PRIMARY VOTE is CLOSE.
Official Count Is Needed to Decide in
- - MiSeissippi

~ Memphis, Aug. %. ~. It It may take
the official count to decide the result
of Thursdays primary election in Mis-
.sissippi for the Democratic guberna-
5torial nominations. Returns are being
received slowly and the official count
probably will not be given out until
Monday. The returns at hand indicate
that Noel and Brewer are running a
close race.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-29
MISSES FOOTING; KILLED.

Wan VINO ties to Catch Train "for
Little Ride" Meets Death.
Waterloo, Iowa, Aug %. Will
Miller was instantly killed at Sumner
last evening while attempting to board
a moving freight train on the Great
Western. In leaping upon the car he
missed his footing and rolled under
the wheels of the cars. His head was
completely severed, one arm and both
legs were cut off and the trunk was
mutilated beyond description.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-29
People Talked About.

Arthur A. Housman OF the stock
exchange firm Of A. A. Housman & Co.
of New York died at his summer home
Ia Babylon, L. I.
Prof A. w. Starbuck OF the college
OF dentistry, state university Of Iowa,
has. resigned, to take a post In the
Colorado Dental college at Denver
William f. Mosser, millionaire
tanner of Clearfield county, Pennsyl-
vania, died at Spokane, Wash. He was
Interested In various tanneries
throughout the United States.
Rev. b. G. ApplegartA, pastor of the
Park Avenue Baptist church, Roches-
ter, has been appointed secretary of
the American Baptist Missionary So
ciety. Or. Applegarth's work Will be
In the northern states.
Michael Dallett, for many years
identified with. the Red D steamship
line, the founder Of which was his
father, the late John Dallett, died in
Philadelphia OF heart disease. He
was sixty-three years old.
Frau Frances Won Bredow, daughter
OF Senator Newlands of Nevada and
wife of Lieut.. Leopold Won Bredow Of
the Cuirassiers of the guard, formerly
attache of the German embassy at
Washington. died in Berlin after
long illness
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN EPITOME
DIGEST OF THE NEWS WORTH
TELLING CONDENSED FOR
BUSY READERS.
WASHINGTON Notes.

Attorney General Bonaparte has
ruled tina. natives Of British India
cannot be classed as whites, and there
fore are ineligible to citizenship.
President Roosevelt. has approved
the sentence Of dismissal from the
navy Of Chaplain Jones, who was re-
Gently tried by court-martial for finan-
cial irregularities.
The monthly statement Of the col
lections OF internal revenue shows that
for July, 1907, the total receipts were
$24,926,S2S, an Increase over July,
1906, OF $1,52s,96O.
Two hundred Of the latest machine
guns are to be turned over by the ord
nance bureau of the army to the coast
artillery as being specially adapted to
the maneuvers Of that branch Of the
service.
The public health and marine hos
pital service has received adyices con-
firming the report of the appearance
of cholera in China, but has had no
details. Cholera is also reported to
have broken out In Southern Japan.
Naval guns for coast defense are
new feature in the plans Of the Joint
defense board which has been brought
to make use Of these guns by the fact
that there are not available at present
At the places where they are needed
sufficient number Of high power
gums OF the coast defense type.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-08-29
Crimes and Criminals.

IA tramp who assaulted Alma White
head, The fourteen-year-old daughter
of Rev. Whitehead, at Turnersville,
I nhss was captured in a swamp near
Wick.
sE7s Two men hired horse and wagon
from VIC. Irvine Of Butte. Mont saw.
ing they wanted it to haul some fur
niture. They were surprised by OFF,
Ger Mcmillan in the Northern Pacific
yards, loading the wagon with pota-
toes from a freight car. They bolted.
Robert r. Gill. cashier OF the Staple
ton National Bank Of Stapleton, S. IL;
4 has been arrested, charged with being
short in his accounts Nth the bank
according to an announcement made
by directors OF the bank Saturday
The shortage is said to amount to-
1 about SIS 600.
Criminal and civil suits against cap
ito1 contractors and former state Of
s f1cials OF Pennsylvania will be institu-
ted in the DaupEin county court as.
B: soon as the legal papers can be pre-
Z pared. The indictments will be pre-
scented to the grand jury at the Sep
\ TENDER session.
ottavio aprovitare an Italian
3 wanted at Des Moines on the charge
1 81 numbering his cousin Ottolio Screen
vino on Aug. 12, was captured at Mar
alltown, Iowa, by the local police
after an exciting chase. Oficers from from
|. Des MoinesS positively identified La.
provitare yesterday afternoon. He
was taken to- Des Moines.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-09-07
Sees FATHER DIE
ACROSS THE SEA
REMARKABLE VISION OF NEW
YORK THEOLOGICAL STUDENT
PROVES TO BE TRUE.
PARENT 5000 MILES AWAY
Awakening from g Dream, Rev Henry
Rolling Saw His Sire's Death
bed and Also Heard
His Voice

New York.-Rev Henry Rolling,
now taking special. course as a
medical missionary in the New York
Homeopathic Medical college. has had
an experience which may result in
the postponement Of his actual labors
after bis graduation until he can be
induced by several psychical societies
in the larger cities 20 describe the re-
markable mental condition into which
be fell when h. saw. as in a vision,
his father a. the point OF death when
his father was 1000 miles away The
deathbed scene was corroborated two
weeks later in every detail in a letter
from England
DR.. Rolling received his theological
education in England and was or
dained in the established church He
was appointed eUrate or St Andrews
parish IN Rochester. where Rev. AL
gernon S. Crspsey was the rector Dr.
Rolling said:
My father was Godfrey Rolling Of
Bedfordshire. England. and between
US the tie OF consansuinity was
strong After particularly arduous
day ] threw myself on the bed ex-
hsusted Tell into a slumber. from
which VAS awakened by a vivid pic
ture. sat up ia the bed and saw my
father as distinctly as / ever saw him
in my life. and heard him call out.
Ny boy. my boy, ! am dying, Two
weeks from that day a letter came
from England telling OF the death Of
my father at the exact hour and day
when I had seen him and with the ad-
ditopal Information that just before
he breathed bis last he had seen me
standing n his bedside"
Further describing his experience,
Or Rolling said.
The picture that was presented to
me was that OF my father lying in
bed IN a room ] did not recognize. I
could tell by the general furnishings
that 81 was England / saw all my
relatives there except nay sister and
wondered why she was absent NJ
such n moment.
The scene was as sharp and plain
as n I bad been in the auditorium OF
playhouse watching the actors on
the stage saw my father sink back
on the pillows and knew that he
was dead
Then my second self or whatever
you see sc 90 call a.. seemed 20 re-
solve itself back into my material
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-09-07

body and ! awakened. arose from the
bed and cried out that my father was
dead. / was told that was suffering
from nervous prostration and should
return 10 bed. / obeyed and fell
asleep for about eight hours. When I
got up the vision OF my father came
TO me in my waking hours with
greater vividness than when / saw
IL In my subconscious state.
The letter announcing my fathers
death told us that the family had re-
moved from the old homestead TO an
other house ia Bedfordshire. which I
never had seen. Subsequent inquiry
showed that the room as I saw it in
my strange mental condition was pre-
cisely as it was in fact My sisters
absence. as ! learned at the same
time. which made a marked impress
sion upon me. was due TO Illness"
Or. Rolling came to the United
States with Bishop Sullivan. whose
ecclesiastic title was the colonial
bishop of the Church OF England.
His first experience was among the
Hudson bay Indians. He had no
superstitions and did not believe in
haIlucinations except those that came
from an impaired digestion. so that
his subsequent experiences. attested
as they were by documentary evil
denoe. are all the more startling.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-09-07
Wed at Il; Parents Consent.

Knoxville, Tenn.-Will c. Richards
and Ella Brock. children OF IA years.
We're united in marriage in the pres
ence Of their parents by Justice John
W. Brown at the home Of the girls
parents, MIR and Mrs Isaac Brock,
near Thorn Grove. Knox county. They
are said 90 be the youngest couple
ever granted a wedding license In
Tennessee. Willie Richards called at
the county clerks Office in this city
and asked Cor the license. but 1t was
denied when the ages were told. He
went away and returned in 4 short
while with the written consent OF his
mother and the girls father. They
will live with the boy-groom's mother
for a while at least.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-09-07
PEI Lizard GUARDS sleeoens.

Middletown. Conn.-The conductor
of a freight train that passes through
here daily told of a pet lizard four
inches long that has lived In the ca
boose for the last year. Just as coon
as one OF the crew lies down to sleep
the lizard crawls upon his bosom. and
when a fly. mosquito. or other insect
comes around II is caught by swift
movement of the lizards tongue. The
conductor says that no netting or
blinds are ever necessary To keep out
such insects when the lizard is about