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The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-29
soLoNs TO VISIT ,srHmus.
Congressman Will Examine Need Of
Funds on the Ground.

Washington, Aug. q. - An exami-
nation on the ground of the estimates
for the appropriations for the Panama
canal, submitted by Secretary Taft
for the fiscal year 1909, is to be made
by members of the next congress
who will have in charge the prepare
ton of the sundry civil bill, in which
the appropriation for the canal is in.
corporated.
The proposed visit is the outcome
of suggestion from Representative
James A. Tawney of Minnesota, chair
man Of the appropriations committee
in the last congress. The suggestion
has met with hearty response from
those identified with the commissions
work, who believe that a great deal Of
good will result from heart-to.heart
talk between the congressman who
prepare the appropriation and the Off.
Gals who spend it.
OF particular importance is the pro.
posed visit regarded at the present
time, when the question is now before
the president whether the commission
can lawfully expend during the pres.
ent fiscal year any more money than
was specifically appropriated.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-29
SECRETARY ROOT IS NEW MAN.
Takes MuIdoon's Athletic Treatment
for Nervous Exhaustion.


for Nervous Exhaustion.
New York, Aug. 25. - Secretary OF
State Root, who has already spent
three weeks at the farm sanitarium
of William C. Muldoon, ex-champion
wrestler, near White Plains, taking
Mr.. Muldoon's course of athletic treat
ment for a severe attack Of nervous
exhaustion, expects to complete the
cure in two more weeks. He is now
we'll on the road to complete recovery
and all reason for apprehension about
his health seems to have disappeared.
On the quiet farm among the West
chester hills, so secluded that the
secretary of state was enabled to pass
three weeks there and be visited by
the president of the United States be-
fore his whereabouts was discovered
by the public. Mr.. Root has fleshed up,
put on healthy coat of tan, lost the
drawn, worried look of the early sum.
mer and will go back to Washington
as Mr.. Muldoon phrases it, "the strong
est member of the cabinet, and not
even barring Taft"
During the first two weeks of his
stay he gained pound day, acquir.
ing Herewith such stock of energy
that he was able yesterday to ride
eighteen miles, walk three miles, and
in addition to the usual course of ex
ercise with the big medicine ball, boz
fifteen vigorous minutes with Muldoon,
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-29
news OF WEEK SUMMARIZED
IMPORTANT EVENTS At HOME
AND ON FOREIGN SHORES
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Washjnoton.

A cablegram received at the navy
department from the commandments.
chief of the Pacific feet, dated at 70
kohama, reports that on Aug. IA Sivert
NJ. Wettaland seaman. was washed
overheard from the battleship West
Virginia and drowned. Wettaland en-
listed at ST. Paul in May, 1904.
The recent collapse of several rein
forced concrete buildings. entailing a
sacrifice of lives and property loss
of thousands of dollars, has caused the
technical branch of the United States
geological survey to sound warning
and to urge the immediate revision of
the building regulations of the great
cities of the country.
A significant legal action was be.
gun in the supreme court for the Dis
trict of Columbia by James W. Van
Cleave, president of the National AS
sociation of Manufacturers to enjoin
Samuel Gompers, John Mitchell and
other officers of the American Fedora
tion of Labor and several of its sub.
sidiary organizations from using the
boycott and so.called unfair list"
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-29
MAY INVOLVE all EUROPE
DIPLOMATS FEAR TROUBLES IN
MOROCCO MAY RESULT IN
WIDESPREAD CLASH.

Berlin, Aug. 27.-While the Euro
peans in Morocco are fighting desper-
ately for life against the fanatic
tribesmen, possibilities of serious
complications among the nations Of
Europe are causing the greatest anx-
iety to diplomats in the continental
capitals. Constant conferences are
being held in the various cities by
representatives of the foreign. bureaus
of the governments, and every dis
patch from Africa is scanned with Sc.
lines.
Mutual charges Of breach of faith,
as far as the maintenance of the AL
geciras convention, are made openly
in the French and Spanish papers,
though the governments themselves
have thus far carefully refrained from
criticism of one another.
Break AIgeeiras Treaty.
In Germany the chief interest cen
tiers in the methods employed by the
French in the subjugation of the out
breaks, while the principal attention
nature of speculations as to whethe!
that country is going to fulfill what
France claims is it's duty in the mat
ter of putting down the uprising.
Events of the week have led to
peculiarly significant situation in the
Moorish kingdom and in Europe ger
orally, the nations most vitality coz
cerned being France. England, Ger
many and Spain, while Russia and
Italy, as participants in the Algeciras
conference are more or less directly
interested in the outcome.
Among the officials here the Moroc-
can situation is being regarded as a
possible disrnpter of the Algeciras
convention, inasmuch as the procla-
nation of revolution in that country
is certain to be followed by fresh on
slaughts by the natives on the Euro
peans, and this in turn by reprisals.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-29
OMAHA RAILROAD
IS FINED $4,000
JUDGE PAGE MORRIS IMPOSES
PENALTY FOR GRANTING
REBATES.
ROAD WILL TAKE An APPEAL
ATTORNEYS IN REeArING CASE
WILL TAKE IT TO HIGHEST
COURT.

Minneapolis. Aug. "a. - Judge Page
Morris in the federal court yesterday
pronounced sentence of a fine of 500.
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 fine Of $4,000.
Following the sentence a 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 advisability 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 100000, 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 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
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-29
Crimes.

Because she refused to lend money,
Agnes Dogan, thirty-eight years old,
was shot and killed by her brother
John in Philadelphia.
j. d. Uzzell, the negro editor who is
responsible for much of the recent
race trouble in the eastern part of Vir-
sinia, was taken to Norfolk under a
strong guard and locked in the Jail.
Traffic Manager Mcmillan of the
Huntington Electric lines of Los An.
geles, was fined 5000 or 300 days in
jail for operating cars without a
proper fender. The motorman and
conductor of the car were fined 500
each.
James Ruckner, negro, was hang.
ed at Asheville, N. c., for an assault
on his stepdaughter. 1t is said that
this is the first time in the history of
the state that negro has been hang
ed for such crime against one of his
own race.
Frank P. Van Horn, for years a
trusted employe of the Jackson, Mich,
postoftice. now superintendent of car.
riers. has been arrested on a charge of
offering the mails. Decoy letters
containing marked bills were sent
through the mails. Later an envelope
which had contained the bills was
found on Van Horns desk.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-29
CRY EARTHQUAKE
THOUSAND IN RIOT
EXPLOSION SHAKES EARTH AND
SAN FRANciscANs ARE PAN.
lc.STRIckEN.
KNIVES ARE USED IN RIOT
ITALIANS FIGHT WILDLY TO GET
OUTSIDE - TWO KILLED IN
EXPLOSION.

Oakland Cal, Aug. 27.-An explo-
sion occurred Saturday at the Du-
pont-Denemoures powder works at So
branto, on the bay shore, sixteen
miles north of Berkeley. There were
three shocks. Two persons were
killed and many injured. The whole
plant was set on fire. The shock of
the explosions was 1elt in all the
cities around the bay.
The dead are Richard Thompson
and William E. Doane. These two
men were working in the mixing room
when three tons of nitroglycerin ex-
ploded, destroying the buildings of
the powder plant. The wash house.
the nitroglycerin mixing house and
the acid separating house were
wrecked, as was also the large acid
tank. The loss is $4,000.
Thousand in Panic.
San Francisco. Aug. 26-When the
1000 employees of the California Fruit
Gamers association, who work in the
big establishment of the company on
Wanness avenue, in this city. felt the
shocks they thought there was an
earthquake and rushed into the
street.
During the stampede a number of
persons were thrown down and tram
pied upon. So far as known no one
was killed, but at least thirteen were
badly bruised.
Seven Italian women were removed
to the Central emergency hospital.
Three other women were taken to
their homes and three more who were
injured were treated at the canneries.
Use Knives in Riot.
When the shock of the explosion
was first felt several men-Italian en-
ployes-went into the street to inves-
tigate the cause. On re.entering the
building they stated it was an earth
quake, and this caused stampede.
On attempting to get outside some
drew knives and wounded several
persons. Others jumped into a chute
used to send cans to a part of the
establishment and were landed in
heap at the bottom.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-29
Personal.

Rev. George A. Peltz, D. D., promi-
nent clergyman and one of the organ
izers of the jamestown IN. " Chau
tauqua, died at Philadelphia, aged sew
enty-four years.
George Foster Talbot, prominent as
an abolitionist before the Civil war;
died at Portland, Me-, aged eighty
three years. He was delegate to the
Republican convention in 1860 that
nominated Lincoln.
The Massachusetts state. medical
board has announced that Miss Kath-
ryn T. Driscoll of Medford Hillside
has passed the examinations. She is
now the youngest woman physician in
Massachusetts. DR.. Driscoll was
twenty-one years old in May. She is
graduate of the Boston College of
Physicians and Surgeons.
Rev. Charles Carroll Miller, who
was friend of President Mckinley
and the late Senator Alger. and who
held position in the interior depart
ment, died at Cadillac, Mich. He was
seventy-seven years of age. During
McKinley's first term he declined the
post of minister to Brazil. Rev. Miller
preached for forty years in Baptist
churches in Michigan and Wisconsin.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-29
Casualty.

Little Helen Green, five years of
age. of Des Moines, tripped and fell
into tub of boiling water. She was
terribly scalded, but will recover.
A gasoline tank in a motor boat in
the Spacette river at Liverton, r. L..
exploded, causing the death of two per-
sons and seriously injuring five others.
An automobile containing party of
five persons from Bristol, Conn.,, col.
lded with the New York Pittsfield ex.
press at Ashley Falls crossing, near
Great harrington, Mass. Three of the
motoring party were killed and the
other two probably fatally injured.
Fire swept the amusement grounds
at Steeple Chase Island, Conn, caus-
ing 100000 damage and creating some.
thing of a panic among the 10000 Wis.
ftors. No one was seriously injured
Six structures were burned, including
the grandstand and bleachers on the
baseball diamond, where 5000 per.
sons had gathered for the Chicago.
Bridgeport game.
The village of Hubbell, ten miles
from Hancock, Mich, was nearly
wiped out by fire. which spread rap.
Idly on account of a high wind. TWEEN.
ty-two dwellings, four stores the Bis.
marck hotel, the postoffice and the
coal sheds, trestles and coal piles of
the Calumet and Hecla Mining com.
pany were burned. The loss is over
100000.
Lucille Marshall, the two-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Mar.
shall of Des Moines overturned not
of hot coffee on herself. She was bad.
ly scalded. but the doctor thinks she
will recover.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-29
FLAMES CAUSE $3.50, 900 DAMAGE.
Property Valued at 100000 Is De.
stroyed at Cincinnati.

Cincinnati, Aug. "a. Fire which
threatened the entire block bounded
by Hunt and Broadway streets and
East Court street last night caused
damage estimated at 100000. The
fire started at the plant of the Eagle
White Lead company at No. 1880
Broadway, and spread rapidly to adj
joining buildings.
Among the buildings destroyed
were the B. A. Kenger grocery ware
house, Edna Smelling company, Morri-
son & Snodgrass Planning company
and E. Roberts Lumber company.
The firemen succeeded in saving the
large plant of the Krehbil Printing
company and several other buildings.
in the block. At o'clock this morn
ing the fire was under control. The
origin is not known.
Pitteburg Has s25o,ooo Blaze.
Pitnburg, Aug. 23.-Two fires YES.
terday. due to the explosion of gaso-
line. in clothes pressing establish.
ments caused damage estimated at
$3.50, 900 and for time threatened the
entire East end section of this city
The first fire broke out shortly before
noon in the plant of the Club Pressing
and Cleaning company. The three
story brick building was destroyed
and fourteen employees were rescued
from the windows by firemen.
The second fire was more ser;nns
and before 1t was controlled seven
buildings were wiped out. The blaze
started in the Enterprise Pressing
company's shop and spread with great
rapidity. The flames leaped fifty feet
in the air. Between the burning
block and the handsome East Liberty
market house only a narrow lot inter.
vened. This building escaped, how
ever, but for scorching of the east
side and the shattering of the win
dows. Four firemen were hurt.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-29
FIRE LOSS IS $75o,ooo.

Shift Of Wind Helped Flremen to
Overcome Blaze In Cincinnati.
Cincinnati, Aug. ga shift of the
wind aided the firemen in their efforts
to overcome the fire that started in
the Eagle White Lead companys plant
Thursday night, and five hours after
the flames were discovered the fre
was under control, after wiping out
property valued at $75O,000. driving
hundreds Of tenement dwellers from
their homes and laying waste several
acres of ground
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-29
THE CRY is mo ARBITRATION"

President Small optomistic Over Out.
look in TeIepraphers' Strike.
New York, Aug. q. - S. j. Small,
president of the Commercial Telegra.
piers union, arrived in New York
yesterday morning from the West.
He was met at the railway station by
a large delegation of the striking tie.
legraphers.
In the afternoon Mr.. Small attended
meeting Of the striking telegra.
piers, where he was received with
enthusiasm. Mr.. Small gave out an
optimistic statement regarding gener-
al strike conditions, in which he said:
I'VE have fully IS per cent of all
the commercial telegraphers in the
United States on strike. This applies
to small and large cities. Thousands
of one-man Offices are closed.
I'VE have started to raise a large
fund, two of them in fact. One of
these is for the benefit of the strikers
and the other is to be expended in
propaganda work in favor Of govern.
ment control of the telegraph.
Much has been published about ar
bitration, but the cry from coast to
coast is No arbitration
In the face of the statement of the
president of the striking unionists,
both the Western Union and the Post
al Telegraph companies emphasize
their declarations that the situation
is improving daily.
0nen Nav FIR RAaea
Chicago, Aug. 26.-The leaders of
the telegraphers' strike yesterday
opened the way to peace negotiations
with the telegraph companies by or
dering the election of a peace COM
mittee" Of fifteen. Voting will begin
to-day in every center where the op-
orators are on a strike.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-29

BY the overturning of an elevator
cage at the tipple of the Sonman Shaft
Coal company, near Johnstowr. Pa
five miners are dead and six injured
The men killed fell 400 feet to the
bottom of the shaft.
John Worden Of London, Eng. a
grand opera baritone "roughing it. as
a deck hand on the steamer John
Harper, in port at Sandusky, Ohio, fell
through hatchway into the hold,
struck on his head and was instantly
killed.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-29
Name Didn't Matter.

Johnny" said a friend of the fam.
lily, what is the matter with your sis.
ter, Emmeline?"
"Nothin' at l know Of" returned
the young hopeful.
why, I noticed her going around
with a handkerchief held in front of
her mouth all the time"
Well" said the wise young man
spreading his legs, SISTER is one o.
these Cherristyun Sciunces, yer know,
She says she is got errors on the
mouth. but I calls 'em fever blisters."
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-29
GO TO PACIFIC IN DECEMBER.
Sixteen eattleships Will Compose
FIeet-Destroyers Also Go,


Oyster Bay, N. Y, Aug. 25.-The At
lantic battleship fleet will start for the
Pacific next December, according to an
official statement issued last night by
Secretary Loeb at the direction of
President Roosevelt. The statement
was made following a conference yes.
terday afternoon between the presi.
dent and representatives of the navy
department. The fleet will consist of
sixteen battleships and will start some
time in December, going through the
Straits Of Magellan and up to San
Francisco and will probably also visit
Puget sound. The destroyer flotilla
will leave for the Pacific about the
same time as the fleet. but will not &C.
company it,
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-29
Domestic.

1t is reported on Wall street that
E. H. Harriman's loss in the present
stock slump exceeds $32,0O0.0O0.
Robert A. Pinkerton, head of de
tective agency, died on board the
steamship Bremen on Aug. ~ at sea.
He was on the way to Germany for
his health.
The Chautauqua closed at Webster
City. Iowa.. A local association has
been formed with capitalization of
$4,000, insuring the permanency of
the movement.
Francis Rea MacMillen, the Ameri-
can violinist, whose genius has at
tracted attention both in this country
and abroad. is reported in cable ad-
vices to be lost in the Alps.
S. H. Howard, diemaker in the en-
ploy of the Waterloo Gasoline Engine
works at Waterloo, Iowa, was found
dead in bed, having doed suddenly
during the night from no apparent ILL.,
ness.
Oscar Watkins has just brought to
Atlantic, Iowa, what he considers the
largest cucumber ever raised in that
part of the state. 1t is II IL inches
long, 8 inches in circumference and
weighs 81 ounces.
The left arm of Mrs. Osmond Tweed
of Hanlontown, Iowa, who lost her life
in cyclone of week or more ago,
has been located in grove at the
Petersburg farm. 1t was identified
by means of a ring upon a finger of
the left hand.
Edward Cox of Williamstown, N. Y,
months ago suffered a stroke of pa.
ralysis that left him speeches.. The
doctors thought clot had formed on
the brain and they said Mr.. Cox would
never recover the use of his speech.
Yesterday Mr.. Cox sat on a CARPET
tack. He swore and was cured.
Overseer Wilbur Glenn Voliva at
last has turned his back upon Zion
City, the scene of so many of his
troubles. The leader of the Zionists.
without announcing his destination,
SeoA WI Aoi NAS AOW uOLlO vi HIS IalCn.
full followers. This new home, the
faithful admitted. is near Las Vegas,
San Miguel county, N. Mex.
1t is proposed to erect a million.
bushel grain elevator at Lewiston,
Mont. 1t is estimated that $4,000
acres are growing grain in the Judith
basin this season, promising an aver
age yield of forty bushels to the acre
This is about so per cent increase
over the acreage last year, and it is
anticipated another so per cent in.
crease will be made next year.
Announcement is made by the Can.
ton, Ohio, citizens committee having
in charge the final arrangements for
the dedication of the Mckinley mon.
ument that the ceremonies positively
will be held Sept. 80 and that Presi.
dent Roosevelt will be there. A fund
OF $4,000 is being raised by Canton
citizens to entertain the city's guests
on that occasion.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-29
Operates on Own Sons,

Beloit, Wis, Aug. q. - The two
sons of DR.. D. R. Connell-Arthur.
aged twelve, and John, aged four,
were stricken with appendicitis yes
terday and were promptly operated
upon by their father. Both are do.
ing we'll.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-29

Eight injured by Runaway Car.
Pittsburg. Aug. 27.-Eight persons
were more or less seriously injured
when a trolley car got beyond control
on steep grade on Shady avenue and
ran into an open switch.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-29
Ten Killed in Collision.

Contras, France, Aug. 27.-Ten per-
sons were killed and twenty-five in.
jured in a head-on collision yesterday
between an express train bound from
Bordeaux for Paris and a freight
train. The accident was caused by a
misplaced switch.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-29
LUNATIc is MAN.EArER.
chases Travelling Man in an Attempt
to Bite Him.

chases Travelling Man in an Attempt
to Bite Him.
Fergus Falls, MIMI, Aug. q. -
Charles Anderson. who claims to be
from Minneapolis, was committed to
the insane hospital in this city from
Detroit yesterday. Anderson had been
drinking heavily. It at first was
thought that he was suffering from
delirium tremens. and he was allowed
his liberty after being confined for a
short time in Jail. He soon developed
a man-eating mania and chased a
travelling man for several blocks. en-.
deavoring to bite him, whereupon he
was taken into custody and commit.
ted,
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-29
TRAGEDY ENDS IN QUARREL.

Hoosier Murders His Wife and Cuts
His Own Throat.
Charlottesville, Ind, Aug. 25.-Otto
Walker, thfrty-three years old, muir.
dered 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.
The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1907-08-29
Aged Man Kill. wife,

Tulsa, I. T.. Aug. 27.-Dock Barnes
aged ninety-six, }illed his aged wife
at their home eight miles southeast
of Tulsa last night. No attempt has
yet been made to arrest the old man