The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1907-06-07
Accice ntaI Happenings.

Accidental Happenings.
Fire in the building occupied by
Oaks & Calhoun at Rochester. n. v.
caused damage amounting 10 about
| $l00. GOO.
The steamer Mahanna reports that
while in the storm on Lake Huron
Seaman Bert Cole was washed over.
board and drowned.
The French cruiser Chanzey, which
went ashore on n Of the Saddle ISL
ands May 20, will prove a total loss
and has been abandoned.
c. E. Arnold, a well known capital
list and mine owner of Missoula. was
instantly killed in a runaway accident
At the Success mine at Wallace.
An interurban electric car was run
into by a train on the Glover Leaf road
at a crossing at Granite City. Ill.,, and
thirteen laborers on the car were in.
tured.
Jack Miller, foreman OF the electric
light company of Menominee, Mich,
was severely burned about his face,
arms and hands by an electric current
while repairing a motor.
BY the explosion OF several hundred
pounds Of powder at the storage house
Of the Farnsworth mine, near Sulli-
van, Ind. two boys were blown to
pieces and several others we're serious.
ly injured.
Anna Beltz. an eighteen-year-old girl
Of North Liberty. Iowa, after chewing
gum, was seized with commissions.
Her throat was badly burned and she
may die. 1t is believed that the gum
gum was poisoned. The whole affair
Is a mystery.
Curiosity proved disastrous to Chas.
Fnrman, a travelling salesman OF Man.
chester, Iowa. Furman found a dyna-
mite cap. and thinking it was a rife
shell he picked at it with a toothpick.
An explosion occurred which cost Fur.
man one finger and badly shattered
bis hand.
The steamer c. F. Bielman and her
consort, the barge McLachlan, bound
from Duluth to Cleveland with iron
ore, ran on a reef in Lake Huron, a
mile and a half of Port Austin, Mich,
in a heavy snow storm. The Port Aus
tin life savers succeeded in bring
ashore the crews of both vessels.
Arthur Woods was asphyxiated and
Everett Hall was rendered unconscious
in a peculiar manner lei the mouth
of the tunnel Of the Billings & North
ern road near Stanford. Mont. Wood
had charge of a gasoline engine and
Hill was his helper. They used a
small house built over the engine as
. sleeping place, and in some way
fumes from~the engine got into the
place while they were asleep and SUI
Domestic.
Gov. Hughes has vetoed the New
York teachers' bill which sought to
euualixe the salaries OF the women
school teachers Of New York city with
those Of male teachers.
The scout cruiser Birmingham, n
or the latest types Of fast battleships
Of the United States, was successfully
launched ct the yard Of the Fore
shipsuilding company at Quincy.
Mass.
The strike Of the journeymens car
penters OF Newark, N. j., which began
May /, has just ended in . complete
for the men. The strike Was
Tor . D eight-houT day and 80 cents m
hour.
A search by John G. Fsrr. a farmer
Of Milan, Kan, for his son. Jay g.
Farr. who disappeared three months
ago. ended ii the morgue OF the Uni
OF Kansas at Lawrence. where
the father found the body In the dis.
eecting room. Young Farr was killed
by q train ct Perth. Kan, March g..
A romance which began over a half
century ago culminted at Buffalo. N.
y. In the marriage ofssJudge Isaac Has
call Of Omaha to Mrs. Potria Hudson
Of Buffalo. The bridegroom is seven
ty-stx years OF aae and the bride is
They we're playmates and
lovers IN . little town near Punalo.