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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-08-08
Accidental Happenings.

While milking a COW on the farm OF
his father, near Charlton. Iowa, Virgil
Bowman was struck by lightning and
killed.
Ole Olson. a pioneer of Henry coun
ty. Iowa, was killed on his fern by
falling from a 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 swie
of carbolic acid.
In a wreck of an excursion train al
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 al
Asoca. Pa. blew up the entire plant
Fire completed the destruction.
Fire at Ruston. La, destroyed the
union railroad station and adjoinina
buildings. Before the Are was sub.
dued 100000 damage was done.
Mrs. M. T. Burke. a cousin OF Cen.
u. s. Grant, died at La Crosse from
injuries received In q fall recently,
She was seventy.seven years old.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-08-08
STANDARD OIL IS
FINED $29,240,00o
JpueE Lands IMPOSES THE MAX.
MUM PENALTY FOR RE-
BATTING.
TRUST M[RClltSSLY SCORED
NO BETTER THAN THIEVES ANC
couNTERFEITERs - PUTS
ALTON ON RACK.

Chicago, Aug. 6.-Judge Kenesaw M.
| Lands Saturday, in the United States
district court, fined the Standard Oh
| Company of Indiana $29,24O,OO0 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 mount
| 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
pany is the maximum permitted under
| the law, and it was announced at the
| end of a 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 were responsible
for the practice of which the corpora
ton was found guilty were no better
| than ~counterfeiters and thieves, his ex-
act language being:
1--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 mail"
To Swell Dividends.
Judge Lands commenced reading
his decision at 10 o'clock and occupied
the facts in the case, took up the g
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
a 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 mount of the
fine, Judge Lands directed that a spe-
cial grand jury be called for the Eur
pose of inquiring into the acts of the
Chicago & Alton Railroad ompany.
it having been proved in the case lust
closed that the oil company accepted
rebates from that corporation. This
jury is summoned for Aug. Ia.
Fined sss, 4oo, 900 More?
Under the sever indictments still
pending against the Standard Oil CON-
pany an additional fine amounting to
SIS, 400, 900 may 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 be $4,000.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-08-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN EpITOMt
DioEsT or THE NEWS WORTH
TELLING CONDENSED FoR
BUSY READERS.
Washington Notes.

Secretary OF War Taft has asked
that a Red Cross organization be form
ed in the Hawaiian islands.
A pontifical brief has been received
at the apostolic legation in Washing
ton appointing Rev. d. F. Feehan bish'
CD of Fall River, Mass, as the sue
cessor to Bishop Stang, deceased.
Word has reached the state depart
ment that the Chinese foreign once
Ia about to take up with the diplomatic
CORPS negotiations for a treaty prohib'
lting 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 Lum'
Der company of Cass Lake, at $lS,1oo'
or at the rate of 1910 a thousand feet
for both white and Norway pine.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-08-08

\ A locomotive attached to q Wabash
freight train blew up one mile east OF
Sincoe, Ont. The engineer and FIRE
mar were instantly killed. A brake
man, who was riding on the engine
was fatally scalded.
The barking OF a pet dog saved the
life OF Mrs. Frank Bird of Helena
Mont. Mrs. Bird was awakened by the
continued barking of the puppy and
found the house In flames. She rushed
out for assistance and neighbors soon
had the blaze under control.
A quantity of dynamite in a miners
trunk exploded while the trunk was
being handled at the union station In
st. Louis, seriously injuring two men
slightly wounding six others and ere
ating a noise that almost started
panic. Baggageman Warner Sparks
and Hugh Gavin we're seriously In
jured.
With her clothing ablaze and leaving
a trail of fire behind her, Lily Lees OF
Oakland, Iowa, al screaming across
lots to the house of a neighbor. The
~neighboring woman wrapped the girl
In a blanket and extinguished the
flames, but not until the young woman
had been so badly burned that it Is
believed she cannot survive. She had
attempted to hasten the kitchen fire
by pouring kerosene upon it.
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Crimes.

August Overpeck of Baltimore, Md,
of the Niagara gorge, preparing to
leap into the river.
Two men were seriously wounded in
a fight with four Italians who held up
a ndmber Of section men in a bunk
house in the railroad yards at Red
Lodge, Mont.
w. II. Richardson and George Will
son, police detectives, were shot by an
unknown burglar at Council Bluffs,
Iowa. and probably will die. The MUIR
derer escaped.
Rendered temporarily insane by the
heat, Henry Baumayer Of Evansville,
Ind, a mechanic forty years old, made
an attempt to kill his wife and two
children and then killed himself.
Mike White and Shorty Green, al
legged leaders of the mob that lynched
the negro Frank Bailey at Usage,
Okla, were held to the federal grand
jury for murder in the first degree.
Nuncio Sergius was arrested in Phil
adelphia on a warrant issued at the
instance of his brother, Emile Sergius
Of New York, charging him with the
theft of antique jewelry valued at
$780, 00.
John Lockert Of Guthrie, KY, was
severely whipped by unknown persons
until his flesh was gashed and a por-
ton of his clothing cut into the flesh.
He Is In a p~recarious condition. The
men told Lockert he had done too
much talking last year about the time
the tobacco plant beds were scraped.
After quarreling with her husband
at Little Rock, Ark, Mrs. William
Blackburn waited until Blackburn left
the house and then attacked her
twelve-year-old stepdaughter, beating
her to death with a broomstick. Sen
timent Is high against the woman.
She will be taken to Hot Springs for
~safekeeping.
Samuel j. Jones of Butte. Mont,
who is visiting relatives In Menomi-
nee, Mich, jumped into Menominee
river. He was rescued by his wife,
with whom he had quarreled, and who,
surmising his intention, followed Jones
to the river. After a heroic struggle,
in which Mrs. Jones was aided by
some fishermen, the brave little wo-
man succeeded in rescuing her hus-
band.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-08-08

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 DR.. N~ewsholme
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 1t 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. II the venture sue
ceeds In London II will be tried in
Rome next winter.
DR.. Josef Garzourka OF Budapest
says American women cross their
legs too much. Tie 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
Cd honors to three Americans holding
Rhodes scholarships: f. III. Forbes of
Massachusetts,, first class honors: G..
G. Vincent of Ohio. second class. and
r. H. Coon of Nebraska, fourth class
honors.
In the event of the government OF
Venezuela persisting in its recent re.
fusal to recognize the findings OF the
Hague tribunal in the matter OF the
payment of 100000 to Belgian cred
itors, the Belgian government intends
10 take up the question with the Unit,
cd States.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-08-08
OIL TRUST IS WHOLLY BAD.
Commissioner Smith Scores Standard
In Report to President.

In Report to President.
Washington, Aug. 6. - Significant
revelations are made public in a report
submitted to the president by Herbert
Knox Smith, commissioner of corpora
lions, 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 (1S98 to 1905) it has raised both
prices and margins. It's domination
has not been acquired or maintained by
its superior efficiency, but rather by
unfair competition and by methods
economically and morally unjustifia-
BILE. The Standard has superior eff
cheney in running it's 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. It's
profits are far above the highest posi-
BILE standard of a reasonable CONNER
cial return, and have been steadily in
creasing. Finally, the history Of this
great 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 Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-08-08
MAG|LL AND HIS .
BRIDE INDICTED
CHARGED WITH CAUSING
OF THE BANKERS FIRST
WIFE.
SIX COUNTS AGAINST EACH
CROWDS FOLLOW The PhiS'
ONERS IN THEIR WALK TO
THE JAIL.

Clinton, H., Aug. 4.-The grand jury
which has been investigating into the
death of Mrs. Pet Magill, the hrst VIE
of Fred Magtll, a banker, who with MS
second wife is in Jail here, having been
brought back from California to an
swer the charge of having caused the
death of Mrs. Pet Magill, yesterday
returned one indictment against Ma
gill and one indictment against Mrs.
Faye Graham Magill.
The indictments were exactly alike,
each containing six distinct counts
The six counts in each are as follows:
That Mrs. Pet Magill was murdered
by the administration of strychnlne
poison; that the murder was done by
arsenic; that she was smothered with
a quilt; that she was strangled TO
death by chloroform; that she commit
ted suicide as the result of a compact
and agreement with the defendants
and by their advice and counsel; that
her death was caused by the defend
ants. by some means unknown to the
grand jury.
Followed by Crowd.
Magill and his bride of four weeks
were in the crowded court room when
the indictments were returned.
AS soon as the indictments were
filed the prisoners were hurried out OF
the court room and locked in an ante
room with the sherlff's wife, where
they remained until court took a re-
cess. AS the prisoners, escorted by
the sheriff and his wife, came out OF
the court house a thousand men, wom-
en- and children surrounded them,
eager to see Magill and his wife. Sew
eral men called out, Hello, Fred!" to
which Magill replied, but neither OF
the prisoners paid much attention to
the crowd that followed them during
their walk of Ave blocks to the Jail.
Ask Early Trial.
During the afternoon session Judge
Cochran sustained a motion to quash
the sixth count of both indictments.
He o%verruled the motion to quash the
other indictments, holding that they
were good.
The defense Immediately filed a mo-
ton to consolidate the two cases, so
that both husband and wife would be
tried together, and the court took this
under advisement.
The defense then asked that the
cases be set for trial as speedily as
possible, and Judge Cochran announc-
ed that Nov. 9 would be the earliest
possible date, but after considerable
argument of this subject the judge ad-
journed court until to-day, when he
will decide whether the trials shall be-
gin next week or in November.
The defendants were then arraigned
and pleaded not guilty.
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General News Items.

The pastors in the various churches
at Joplin, Mo-, Sunday morning offered
prayers for rain to dispel the drouth.
Three hours later a heavy d%ownpour
began.
Mrs. Mary Park Is dead and eighty
others, comprising almost the entire
population OF Van vleet. Miss, are Ill
as the result of eating pork which had
become poisoned.
James Farrell, a well known horse.
man, died at Clinton, Iowa, in terrible
agony as the result Of CHAMBERS con
tracted from a diseased horse. Physi.
clans state that such cases are ex-
tremely infrequent.
r. Mcclellan & Co. Of Seattle was
the lowest of FIVE bidders for the con-
struction Of what will be the largest
government dry dock In the country.
to be located at the Bremerton naval
station, Puget sound.
Harry Phillips Of Jacksonville, Iowa.
has a curiosity in the form of a four.
legged chicken, which was Matched
early last week. The two extra legs
stick out from the rear of the body
and are complete in every particular.
In excavating for a at Seneca
Falls, N. Y, workmen dug up the skel-
eton of a prehistoric animal that is
likely to arouse much interest among
scientists. The skeleton shows a body
formation of an animal, with legs and
feet like those of a giant bird.
In return for kindness shown his
wife during her illness and death
Louis Showers OF South English, Iowa
wined Mrs. II. l.. Elliott Of Fort
Dodge his entire fortune of $4,000
worth OF Iowa land. Notice of his
death has just been received.
Rev, w. r. Smith was stricken with
apoplexy in the pulpit OF the Presby
terrain church at jacksonville. Tenn
He had been dwelling on the uncer
tainty OF life in his ermon and had
Just uttered these words: 1T may be
the last time I will ever speak to you,'
when he began to totter. Friends rush
ed to the pulpit and caught him. He
died q few hours later.
Announcement has been made OF the
engagement Of Miss Edith Root, only
daughter Of Secretary Of State and
Mrs. Elihu Root. to Lieut.. Ulysses s
Grant. III, u. s. A., son OF Mai. Gen
Frederick Dent Grant
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-08-08
Were Ready for Trouble.
POWERS ACT PROMPTLY.
France and Spain Take Up Morocco
Trouble.

Paris. Aug. 4. - The French and
Spanish governments are acting in
concert and with great promptness to
meet the situation that has arisen in
Morocco. A warship of each Of these
powers is now in the harbor of Casa
blanca, and three French and one
Spanish man-of-war are on the way to
Morocco. France has proposed to
Spain the immediate landing OF Span
ish and French troops at C~asablanca
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-08-08
HURLED FROM TRAIN DIES.
Man Thrown From Platform Gets Fa
tai Injuries.

Monroe, WIS.,, Aug. 4.-Edward Elan
merry Of Argyle died at Brownton yes
terday from injuries received in being
pitched down a 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.
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Reception for Lenqworths.

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 Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-08-08
Dock. Workers Return to Work.

~
Duluth, Mimi, Aug. 2.-Shortly be-
for 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon the
ore dock workers who have been on a
strike for recognition of the union
and a raise of pay voted to return to
work. Neither Of the issues raised by
the men we're granted by the Duluth.
Missabe & Northern railroad. and the
men will return to work this morning.
Their status will be the same as 1t
was the day they voted to strike. All
of the employees will be taken back by
the company without prejudice, and
the pay they have been receiving I'M
der a verbal agreement with the COM
pany, which would not have expired
until Oct. 81 next. will continue.
Free From Disorder.
The strike lasted about two and a
half weeks and was n entirely free
from any disorder whatever. There
were numerous conferences OF the
strikers, and at three OF them letters
setting forth the position of the COM
pany were read. The last was deliv-
clto W Tic ulSh gCobSIudJ h1oi ~
The railroad officials adopted a
kindly one in this final letter. stating
they were willing to treat with their
men individually or by committee on
an open shop basis, and the men real
izing evidently hat unless they &C
cepted the terms offered by the COM
pany they would not be able to get
back their old jobs, voted to return to
work.
News Causes Rejoicing.
The news of the ending of the dock
strike was flashed to Eveleth, Hibbing
and Nashwauk, the three storm CEN
tiers of the mining region, where trou-
BILE might originate, and the news was
received there with rejoicing. Every.
thing at these points was reported
quiet.
A report received here late yester-
day from Eveleth stated that the
Adams-Spruce mine, a large Steel cor
poration property, would start opera
lions to-day. The settlement of the
dock strike paved the way for a re-
sumption of mining on the range, and
while the Steel officials will proceed
10 do business, they are a~pprehensive
OF trouble as soon as work is begun.
Warned by the Governor.
Petriella, the strike leader, sent a
telegram to the governor yesterday
stating that strikers willing to leave
the country had been refused payment
of their June wages; that armed dep
uties prevent the men from meeting
in their own halls, and that unless i'm
mediate measures are taken by the
governor the men will be compelled to
go into a bodily conflict to safeguard
their rights.
The governor replied to Petriella
hat the Steel officials deny the
charges and that any resistance of the
kind threatened would call for armed
interference by the state.
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hiccouuhs for = Week.

Des Moines, Aug. 6.-Arthur J. Jun
kin, a prominent society man here,
has hiccoughed for a week. All efforts
Of physicians to stop the seizure have
failed. Junkih is In a serious condi-
ton.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-08-08
HAIRPIN PIERcEs BRAIN.
Iowa Girl May Recover From Peculiar
Accident.

Atlantic, Iowa, Aug. while Miss
May Name OF Noble township was play
ing with a number of girls in the yard
she bumped her head against a post
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 1t is thought she will, re-
cover.
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This Week Will See End of Strike.

Duluth, Aug. 6. - A News-Tribune
special from Hibbing says:
The third week of the strike on
the Mesaba range, which was engi-
neered by the Western Federation Of
Miners, probably will see the last
of the conflict. 1t is believed by those
who have been constantly in touch
with the situation that the next seven
days will witness the elimination of
the struggle. The crisis is past, and
no further trouble of a serious nature
is expected unless something unfore-
seen occurs"
The Western Federation Of Miners
statements in the foregoing must not
be construed as indicating that it will
abandon the purposes which gave
birth to the strike.
Miners Not ~Disheartened.
On the contrary, the leaders are en-
tering into the third week of the labor
difficulty with renewed vigor.
The federation on the range Is now
led by the national secretary. G. E.
Mahoney. He has prepared several
thousand circulars which will be given
to every miner, urging them to con.
tinue the conflict with the Steel cor.
poration. He advances the claim that
the federation Is gathering new re.
cruits every day. The federation is
preparing for a big labor conflict two
years hence, following the presidential
election.
About 1000 miners. it is expected,
will return to work Monday morning
Quiet Now Prevails.
Within a few days all of the open
pits of the Steel corporation will be
shipping so per cent of the ore mined
by that corporation on the Mesaba
range. The Independents are working
all of their open pits.
In the Eveleth-S Sparta Virginia dis.
trict the miners will resume work In
the underground mines. The situation
on the Mesaba range east of Chisholm
is more satisfactory than In the Hib
bing and Chisholm districts, and near
ly all of the local deputies have been
discharged from further service. In
order to maintain the peaceful status
that prevails at the Hibhing-Chisholm
district, deputies imported by the
United States Steel corporation, under
Sheriff Bates, will remain on duty.
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BATTLE IN STREETS OF SEOUL.
Battalion of Koreans Mutiny Against
Disarmament Order.

Seoul, Aug. 3.-A battalion of Ko-
real troops mutinied yesterday morn
ing against the disarmament order
and engaged in a fight for several
hours with the Japanese troops near
the consulate quarter with rifles and
a machine gun. Unverifed official re-
turns place the number of killed and
wounded at sixty Koreans and forty
Japanese.
About 5000 men willingly disband-
ed. At s o'clock yesterday morning
the minister of war read the rescript
of disarmament to the higher Korean
officers at the house of Gen. Hase-
gaMa.
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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 a v~itriolic 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.