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rlartie Asks for RearaGme0e.

Philadelphia, Nov. 25.-Counsel for
F. Augustus Hartje of Pittsburg,
whose appeal for a divorce from his
wife, Mary Scott Hartje, was refused
by the superior court on Thursday,
has filed with the prothonetary of the
court petition for a reargument of
the case. The superior court has ad-
journed until Dec. and the petition
viii be handed the judges when the
court reconvenes.
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DISCHARGED Man Kills Foreman.

st. Louis, Nov 25.-In full view of
5000 workmen at the American Car
company plant Ernest Hraziel, dis
charged employe, shot Foreman Will
lam Schruek to death and then, with
his back against wall and with his
revolver leveled, defied arrest until
he was overpowered by policemen
through strategy almost half an hour
later. Foreman Schruek had dismissed
Hraziel for incompetency
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Fined $1,000 for Peonaae.

Charleston, w. Va, Nov. 25.-Fed-
eral Judge Keller has fined David
Howell, police officer for the Thacker
Coal and Coke company, $1,000 and
costs on the charge of conspiring to
hold persons in peonage.
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FOOD PRICES ADVANCING.
Railroad Strike In India Becomes
More Serious.

Calcutta, Nov. pa British regi-
ment has left Fort William for Asan-
sol, Bengal, the junction of the East
Indian and Bengal-Nagpur railroad,
where the railroad strikers are loot
ing cars. Government business is al
most at standstill. Simla, the off,
cial capital, is isolated. Steamers are
unable to sail, as they lack both coal
and cargo, The prices Of provisions
are rapidly rising here.
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FRANK p. SARGENT.

night and has been confined to his
bed ever since His physicians dag
nose the case as that of a blood clot
on the brain. His condition is such
that nobody is Permitted to see him
except his nurses and physicians.
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HIS CONDITION CRITICAL.
Commissioner OF immigration caraent
Seriously III.

Washington, Nov 25.-Frank p.
Sargent, commissioner general of i'm
migration and naturalization, is crit
ically i'll at his home in this city. He
returned from New York on Thursday
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CLAIMS ECAN'S FEE
FOR DEFENDING MRS.
0'GRADY IS $4,000
Bar Association Offers Thi,
Evidence in Attempt to Dis
quality Attorney.

Sioux Falls. S. D., Dec 21.-Aftes
having been in progress several days.
the hearing has been concluded before
Judge Jones. of the state circuit court.
In the case involving the affirming ol:
overruling OF the action of CountS
Judge Bailey in appointing a guardian
for Mrs. Julia Ann O'Grady, charged
with having murdered her aged hus-
band. John O'Grady.
The Minnehaha County Bar associa-
tion instituted the case when it was
learned that Mrs. OGrady had em-
ployed Geo. W. Egan. well known
criminal attorney. late of Logan. Ia.
put now of Sioux Falls. and that she
had transferred al! her property and
practically all OF her cash to Attorney
Egan.
County Judge Bailey decided that
Mrs. O'Grady was incompetent to man
age her affairs, ard appointed w. L.,
Baker, we'll known Sioux Falls bank.
er, as her guardian. Attorney Egan ap-
pealed the case to the state circuit
court.
The testimony submitted On the ap-
peal before Judge Jones was practically
the same as that offered when the case
was before County Judge Bailey. with
the exception that new testimony was
offered to the effect that Attorney Egan
had entered into "a contract with Mrs.
O'Grady, by the terms of which he was
to receive fee OF $4,000 for defending
her when she is tried on the charge
OF having murdered her husband.
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SLAIN
SOUTHERN COLONEL
DYING IN A HOvEl

Deadwood, S. D.. Dec 24.-Through
The finding of some letters and doe
uments old and worn, that had laid
for years in his little hut he calls home,
the secret of the life of James Hull,
known to every one here as "Swill'
Barrow Jimmie" owing to the strange
way in which he has gathered his food
for an existence has become known.
Hull has been resident here for over
20 Years and is one of the city's char
cluse, although he is educated and
well read. Recently he was taken i'll
and the physicians who attended him,
seeking information of his relatives,
came across the papers that led to his
life story.
They told of his love for a south
ern girl during the civil war, in Vir-
ginia, While he was a colonel in Lees
army. and of her sudden death at
the hands of bullet from one of
Hulls soldiers during a fight near
her home.
The old mans diary showed plainly
that he had resolved to attempt to
foget with a sordid existence, which is
now fast drawing to q close.
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MRS. MOLINEUx-SCOTT
on VAUDEVILLE STAGE

Sioux Falls. S. D.. Dec. 21.-The an,
nouncement. just made here. that Mrs.
Roland B. Molineux-Scott will on FRI,
day evening, December %. in the Ma
jestic Family theater in this city. make,
her first public appearance in the West
In song recital. preliminary to making
a northwestern and southern tour. will
be received with the keenest interest:
throughout the East, as well as in the,
West, where the matrimonial troubles
OF Mrs. Molineux-Scott yet are fresh;
IN the public mind.
1t will be remembered that immedi-
ately following the second trial and ac-,
qutttal OF her first husband, Mrs. MOI
ineux came to Sioux Falls, and after
residing here for a year xr more? Nsls
granted divorce. Some. time after.
wards she married Wallace ID. Scott
one of the Sioux Falls attorneys who
had represented her in her divorce pro-
ceedings
Mr.. and Mrs Scott and their little
son returned to Sioux Falls from New
York city early in the fall. She will
be supported by Walter Howe Jones
and company. She already has been
booked for other cities through her
manager for the coming tour. Conrad
l.. Holmes. of this city.
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WATER WAGON IS
CANTEEN'S RIVAL

Fort Mckinley, Dec. 26.-As a rival
to the army canteen. enlisted men of
the United States troops stationed at
this point have formed the Water
Wagon club
Members of the club pledge them
selves to drink nothing stronger than
water and the regulation coffee. They
refuse intoxicating liquors, and obli-
gate themselves to use their influence
to prevent others from drinking intox-
icants. Already the canteen proprietors
report a number OF desertions from
their regular ranks.
The club is formed on the same plan
AS the club of the same name in the
Twenty-frst United States infantry
land the 'Up-the-Pole" clubs at Fort
Meyer, Va. and Fort Seward. Alaska.
1t was organized by Mr.. Dunmore.
army department state secretary of the
Y. II. c. A., who is native OF Phila-
delphia. All the officers are enlisted
men.
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OLD AGED DAKOTA
WOMAN PUT POISON
IN BREAKFAST FOOD?
Father and Son Are in Jail ans
Accuse Each Other-..
Mystery Deepen..

Miller. S. D.. Dec. 24-Charged with
the murder OF his mother and to be cast
I'm Jail with his father, who is charged
with the same crime. with the fear tina,
his father may kill him at the first op-
portunity, is the unpleasant predtca-
ment In which Fred Kammel finds him
sell as he comes with the sheriff from
mis- home northeast of here to be placed
behind the iron gates.
NO one believes that young Kammel
poisoned his mother. himself and the
house dog. unless it is his father. who
swore out the warrant for his arrest
The weird scene Of the morning after
the poisoning. when he gained con-
seriousness after deathly spell of sick
ness on the floor. as he gazed upon the
:ghastl face of his mother as she lay
'oead beside him, haunts his every mo-
ment, and now to be cast in the cell
with his father, Of whom he has q
natural fear. is almost unbearable.
u the father is guilty of putting the
poison IN the oatmeal that killed the
mother, then he was most ungrateful to
a devoted wife. 1t seems that while the
two quarreled Mrs Kammel living
with her son half mile from the old
man. man. she would go and clean up the
mouse and make it pleasant for her
making sure to be gone when he re-
turned. The old lady carried a bullet
in her hip. received at the hands of
the old man several years ago, said to
nave been an accidental shot.
Besides fearing for his own life IL
placed in the cell with his father, the
young man believes that the old man
will commit suicide.
There are some who believe that the
old man is entirely innocent of the
charge of putting the poison in the oat-
meal, and that it was done by the
aged woman herself. though they cam
not understand Why she would poison
her son, who had befrended her. There
seems no motive for the son to poison
her or for her to poison the SON.
The old man cannot speak English.
being German, and has to have an
interpreter TO talk for him. This will
make his examination tedious and long
drawn out.
The son speaks English we'll.
Both the old man and the son have
good farms and will be able to nut un
Il strong defense
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CAN0vA BANK LOSES
$1,000 BY ROBBERY

Canova, S. d., Dec. 2l.--Whilc the Of
ficials of the bank refuse to say any
thing with reference to the matter, 1t
is reported on apparently good author
ity that the Canova bank. which few
weeks ago was robbed In sensational
manner by five or six expert cracks
men, will suffer loss of about 81. 300
above the amount of the insurance car
ried. The robbers secured over $1,000
In cash from the safe which they
wrecked with nitroglycerin.
1t appears that while the banks loss
was fully covered by insurance, there
was clause in the policy exempting
the insurance company from the loss of
any money which was not locked up
inside the money chest inside the safe.
At the time of the robbery $1,000 was
chest, and this sum the insurance com.
pany refuses to make good under thu
clause referred to.
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EDITOR SUES SIOUX
FALLS MAYOR FOR
$4,000 DAMAGES

Sioux Falls, S. D., Dec. 2s.-Mayor
Crank NJ. Pillsbury, of this city, has
been made the defendant in a suit for
damages in the sum of $4,000, the
plaintiff being Mark d. Scott, editor
OF the Sioux Falls Journal, a local
weekly newspaper.
The commencement of this action
grows out of the recent acquittal of
Editor Scott in the state circuit court
Of the charge Of criminal libel, which
was preferred against him by Mayor
Pillsbury. 1t is probable the damage
suit will be tried at the next regular
Term OF state circuit court. which
will be held in Sioux Falls next May.
In his complaint Editor Scott al
teges that the charge OF criminal libel
made against him by Mayor Pillsbury
injured his good name and reputation,
and he demands that he be awarded
judgment in the sum of $4,000 for
the injury done him by the mayor.
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MASKED MEN KILL
800 HEAD OF SHEEP

Sheridan, wyo.. Dec. ga band
Of eight or ten masked men descended
upon u sheep camp belonging to Wais-
ner brothers, Of Sheridan, killing 500
head and burned the camp wagon
and outfit. The herder was driven
away at the point of a rifle.
The sheriff was summoned from
here and followed the tracks of the
mounted raiders until they were
merged into main thoroughfare,
when the trail was lost. While their
identity is not known, it is believed
they are the same men who COM
mitted a similar outrage on another
Waisner camp year ago. The cattle
men say the Waisners have their
sheep on the other side of the boun-
dairy line agreed upon between cattle
and sheepmen. AS it is government
land, the Waisners claim the right to
use it. The ranchmen of Powder riv-
er valley are very bitter against the
Washers. who have 20 bands of sheep
I'm that lOca1ity
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FINAL PROOFS FOLLOWED
RY MARRIAGE LICENSES

Pierre, S. D., Dec. 26.-The Final
proof business in the country west Of
the Missouri river is being rushed
along these days. and incidentally with
that business the marriage license
clerks of Hughes and Stanley counties
are working overtime to lit out the
desire as soon as final proof is Of.
fered. The day which does not bring
a demand for one or more licenses
in both counties is considered as lost,
and the record has gone as high as
and three on the same day in Hughes
county. all of them granted for people
from the smaller towns in Stanley
,co::at,l- .yho have in each cas-. ~ .
tor the other just perfected final
proof on Il homestead
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CONDUCTOR ACCUSED OF
BOX CAR ROBBERlES

Deadwood, S. D., Dec M-Boxcar rob-
berries that have been mystifying the Bur-
ilngton railroad officials since last sum-
mer, seem likely to be solved before long.
Local authorities. at the instlgaton of the
railroad. arrested David c. Mincer, who
for nearly a month has been employed on
the B. & NJ. as a freight conductor, run
ming from Edgemont where the thieves
seemed to have their rendezvous
M!ncer had been under suspicion for
some time and when his Edgemont house
was searched. large quantity Of wearing.
apparel which the road claims was taken
from it's cars, was found. while similar
goods We're located at the home Of one Of,
Mincer's acQuaintances
Mincer was formerly in the employ Of
the Northwestern railroad running to
ohadron, Neb. He refuses to talk and is
now out Oh bonds awaiting trial.
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Low WAGES THE
CAUSE OF SCARCITY
OF SCHOOL MA'AMS
Higher Salaries Will Produc,
Teachers, Says Dakota
Educator.

Watertown. S. D.. Dec. 23.-SpeakinI
Aefore an audience of 200 school teach
ers and officers here Professor j. Il. Or
lander. of Pierre. chairman of the state
exaAatnins board. department of public
instruction, declared that the average
low wages paid public school teachers
was responsible for the shortage in the
profession throughout the state, and
not the increased severity of the exam
nations as has been generally supposed
to be the cause.
He said South Dnkota needs over
5000 teachers to keep her schools open.
Only 3.671 persons wrote the fall eX-
amipations for teachers certificates.
and it took three calls to get this many.
and i'll the end 43 per cent failed The
situation is desperate, and the trouble
is with the wages. He said:
Origin Of Trouble.
"You will have to go back to about
1898 to FIND the starting point of the
present shortage. On account of the
at the prevailing low wages of S25 and
$50 per month. They thought it was
sood money. The salary thus fixed
remained low until very recently, and
it is not now high enough to attract
teachers from the ranks of stenogra-
piers. clerks and hotel mattresses.
In some parts of the state they are
offering from $50 TO $40 a month for
a three months term Think of it! The
average term the state over is n trfle
under seven months, which at $40 per
month is $3.50 a year. Teachers are
forced to pay about 81 per week for
board. also institute expenses, and 9TH
er smaller items. What has the teacher
left at the end of the year?
II wish I could make every school
officer in the state hear me that we
are crppling our educational system by
our nis'gardly pay for what should be
some of the highest and would soon
become the highest skilled labor tv. the
ct q y,
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FARMER BECOMES
A MAN OF TITLk

Chicago. Dec. 26-George William
Northedge. Of Marinette, Wis, will
hereafter be known as Sir George Will
liam Northedge.
From an obscure farmer on a little
homestead at the foot of a lake in Mar
inette county, giving no indication of
ancestral eminence he rises at one
leap to a position of affluence and hon
or He is the sole heir to an estate
valued at $1.1S5,000 i'll Montreal and is
one of rs heirs to the biggest fortune
in England. An advertisement inquir-
ing for information as to the where
abouts of the son of Colonel wm
Northedge of the United States army
was the means of locating him.
Reading the paper in his Wisconsin
home ne recognized the name of his
father and the news was disclosed that
wealth is awaiting him.
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ARREST HUSBAND
IN POISON CASE:
~ He ACCUSES SON

Miller S. D.. Dec. 23.-Gustave KAN
Alel has been arrested on complaint
made by Coroner Willis, charging him
with the murder by poisoning, of his
wife. The old man is now in Jail. His
hearing has been set for next Tues
day.
Soon after being brought here Kam-
mel swore out a warrant for the arrest
of his son. charging him with the crime
of poisoning his mother, and the sheriff
has started into the country to make
the arrest.
kammel. the elder. is 73 years old,
and the dead woman was 70. They had
not lived together for some time and
proceedings for Il divorce had been
commenced.
Mrs. Kammel lived with her son and
both We're poisoned by eating oatmeal
in which arsenic or strychnne had
been placed. The woman soon died,
and her son lowered between life and
death several hours. Suspicion i'm
mediately fell upon the elder Kam-
mel because Of the trouble with hiS
Wife
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DROVE HOME WITH
CORPSE AS COMPANION

P,ankinton, S. D., Dec 2G.--William
'G-ebe, a pioneer farmer of this vicinity,
;dropped dead While driving home. John
Williams, driving home at midnight.
found the team and wagon i'm a grove
near the roadway. An examination
disclosed the body of Grebe i'm the
wagon. with the head hanging over
the wagon box and resting on one of
the front wheels.
Thinking Grebe was intoxicated Will
!iams lifted his head into the wagon
hex and drove the team and wagon
TO the little town of SSticlney. where
iiJ was discovered that Cirebe was dead.
When last seen alive prior to start
,ing for home. he had been drinking
lleaVilN.
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SIOUX FALLS BOY
ARRESTED FOR ASSAULT
ON MARRIED WOMAN

Sioux Falls. S. d., Dec. 2o.-on COM
4-.saint o. Mrs, Quincy, aged "a, who is
employed in a Sioux Falls restaurant,
Ira Wheeler, q young man, has been
arrested on the serious charge of GRIM
inal assault.
Mrs. Quincy alleges that the crime
was committed at about 2 o'clock in
the afternoon in back room of the
restaurant where she is employed. She
charges that Wheeler overpowered her
and then gagged her with a towel
SO she could no. give the alarm and
summon to her assistance other en-
ployed in the restaurant, Who were in
AN adjoining room.
The preliminary examination of
Wheeler will be held within the next
few DAYS.
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ERE DAMAGES a
CHRISTMAS DISplAN

Elk Point. S. D., Dec. 23.-At a reg
llar meeting of Elk Point Lodge No.
3, A. +. & A. NJ. the following officers
We're elected for the ensuing year:
Worshipful Master, George A. Stein
Deck; senior warden, William Homer;
junior warden, B. Il. Baker; secretary,
John Coverdale; treasurer, William A.
SchaetZel.
Fire was discovered wednesda,
evening in the display windows of tn.
Union County Investment company.
The window was filled with Christmas
toys and decorations which became ig-
nitcd from a gas lamp used in lighting
the windows. The fire was Immediately
extinguished with but slight damage,
excepting to the toys and decorations,
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wATERTowN TO HAVE
NEW CHAUTAUQuA GROUNDS

Watertown. S. d.. Dec. 23.-Backed
by the Business Mems union of Water
town, the Watertown Chautauqua asA
sembly, Incorporated, has decided to-
build an assembly ground at Yokota on
the north shore of Lake Kampeskal
Arrangements have been made to erect
h building to cost approximately $5,0O0S
land for a program to occupy ten days;
next July. The Dakota Town Lot CONT
,pany will give the company ample
ground which will be laid out as a
park surrounding the new building.
and the ST. Louis road has agreed to
put on electric cars between the sum-,
mer resort and Watertown. This solv-
ing of the transportation problem re-,
moves the obstacle which has blocked
a chautauqua at Lake Kampeska for
several years
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YOUNG DAUGHTER OF
MILLIONAIRE ELOpEs

Wilmington, Del, Dec. 23-A1:ss
Madeleine Dupont. aged 20 years, the
Oldest daughter of Alfred I. Dupont.
the millionaire president of the Dupont
Powder company, eloped from here. to
Washington with John Bancroft, 21
years old, son of John Bancroft. sec.
retary of the Joseph Bancroft & Sona
company. The couple were married by
Rev. DR.. d. c. Mcleod. Presbyter-
ian minister.
A further sensational feature is that
the bride. after the ceremony, wrote a
letter from Washington to her mother.
Mrs. Bessie G. Dupont, the divorced
wife of Alfred I. Dupont. in which she
said she would not have eloped had
her mother shown her proper sym.
pathy. A disagreement with her moth
er. it Is declared was the direct cause
Of %hS elopem "a
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KILLED WHILE DRUNK:
SALOON KEEPERS SUED

Canton, S. D.. Dec. 20.-Action has
been commenced against two saloon
keepers at Hudson, this county, n',S1< by by
the widow and minor children of Leslie
Lowell, who was killed by the cars at
that point some weeks ago. The action
includes as defendant the Western
Surety company. of Sioux Falls, the
saloon mems bondsmen.
The complaint alleges that Lowell
came to his death as a direct result
of intoxication, caused from the liquors
sold him by the defendants.
Both saloon men are preparing to
make determined fight in the matter
The amount sued for is $4,000 each.
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FARMER SHOOTS
DIVORCED WIFE:
THEN KILLS SELF

Hot Springs. s. D., Dec. 2S-Temporarily
insane from jealousy. T. B. Lock. a prom
tnent farmer. followed his divorced wife
to her home at Marietta, few miles
west OF Edgcmont. and last night muir
dered her. after which he ended his OWE
life by sending bullet into his brain.
Three weeks ago Mrs. Lock secured Z
divorce from her husband in Colorado
leaving there Immediately for South Da.
kota. and marrying man named Collins
of Marietta. Her first husband soon found
out her abode and followed her. He plead
ed with her to give up Collins and return
Ito him. but she refused. He then shot her
, Sheriff Clark. OF this city. was called tc
the scene of the murder and suicide early
this morning
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SIOUX CITY SANTA
CLAUS SENDS REAL
MONEY TO EDUCATOR

Elk Point. s. D., Dec. 23.-County
Superintendent of Schools II. E.
agreeably surprised Wednesday even
ing when. on opening letter post
marked Sioux City," he found three
bills-a $40, SO and 81, $31 in all.
neatly folded in a sheet of legal cap
paper. The envelope was addressed to
County Superintendent of Public In
struction, Elk Point, 8. d. On the page
OF the letter was the following:
use for educational work in coun-
ty"
All were written in capitals on a
typewriter.
Superintendent French will probably
use this money for the library fund
of the small districts Of the county
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LAND GRAFTERs CONVICTED
IN KANSAS CITY COURT

- Kansas City. Mo-. Dec. 24.-H. c.
Wayatt, of Lawton. okla, was found
guilty of conspiracy to defraud the
government of land in the Rosebud
reservation in South Dakota. by a jury
IN lhe federal court here yesterday. The
or fine of $4,000 or both. Sentence
was deferred
Wyatt was charged with inducing old
soldiers to enter homesteads on the
reservation land and then sell re-
iinanlshments nn.a ,lsi for about $500. Wyatt
ana MS confederataes then sold the re-
linquishments for from 500 to 5000.
several quarter sections of land were
disposed Of before the government
made the arrests