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Accidental Happenings.

Stricken with an epileptic At while
on the top of a windmill tower near
Anamosa, Ralph Isham lost his bal.
ance anG fell to the ground. fifty fee,
below, breaking his neck and dying in.
stantly.
Four members of a fishing party al
Wunder's lake, near O'Neill, Neb.
were drowned by a boat capsizing.
The big ice house Of the Swift Pack
ing company, containing 5000 tons Of
Ice, burned at Omaha. Loss, $4,000.
A severe wind and rain storm swept
over the central portion of North Tex
as and much damage to property is re
ported.
While In an alcoholic sleep behind
q hedge fence at the Durfee minins
camp at Oskaloosa, Iowa, Richard
Harding was shot and killed BY
friends who mistook his snoring fol
the snorting OF . Wild animal.
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NEWS OF THE WEEK IN EP|TOME
DIGEST OF THE NEWS WORTH
TELLING CONDENSED FOR
BUSY READERS.
Washington Notes.

The president has appointed Gen.
William McMackin as collector OF In
ternal revenue at Topeka, Ohio.
The weather bureau in Washington
announces that all records were
broken by the low meal temperature
throughout the country during the last
two months.
The general land Office has sent out
notices OF the proposed opening of
bids for the sale Of two million feet
of down timber in the Cass bake In
dian reservation in Minnesota on
July II.
President Roosevelt has been pre-
scented with a handsomely engraved
plate of solid gold taken from the
mine near the home of the president s
mother in Georgia. The plate is val
ued at over $500. II is a jamestown
%snugenir.
The census bureau issued a prelimi-
nary report showing that Wisconsin
during The calendar year 1906 pro-
duced 2,311,305 900 feet of lumber. The
report shows a decrease of 2l2, 000, 900
feet ot lumber in that state since the
previous year.
TIE navy department has announced
that the naval militia OF Michigan
would take a summer cruise from Aug.
IL to Aug. 16. The date for the cruise
Of the Minnesota militia has not yet
been fixed, but 1t has been determined
that a cruise shall be taken.
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Crimes and Criminals.

Despondent over Ill health, Peter
Dietrich, a prominent citizen Of Elk
port, Iowa, shot himself.
After shooting and fatally wounding
his wife, from whom he was separated,
Nathan Hale. a farmer of Durant, ]. T.,
fired a bullet into his brain.
An unknown man, who the police
say is a victim of the Black Hand SO.
ciety, was found dead near the tracks
OF the Pennsylvania railroad at Phila-
delphia.
Two hundred men bombarded the
residence of Rev. Vitus naibar, pastor
of st. Vitus Catholic church, at Cleve,
land. following the MONDAY service,
Thirty arrests were made.
Two attempts have been made by
incendiaries recently to destroy the
Summit House block, n of the finest
structures in Creston, Iowa The po.
lice are mamking an investigation.
The mangled body of an unknown
man was found on the railway tracks
at Meadowlands. Pa. His pockets
we're turned inside out. The authori,
ties believe the man was robbed and
murdered.
#. ". Poehn, fifty years old, charged
with stealing s48,> in bonds and ST..
600 in cash from a sister at lndianapc.
lis, was arrested at Wheeling, w. Va.
and taken back To Indianapolis. All
but 81, 200 was found on him.
Because they could not tell him the
address OF q young woman Patrick
Reardon, aged twenty-three, shot
Thomas Morton and M. M. Moorehead
and then committed suicide at Pitts
burg. Moorhead and Morton are at q
hospital in a critical condition.
While Christina Thulin and Lorens
Saestrom of Griswold, Iowa, were re
turning home late at night they were
set upon by three men, who beat then
severely. The young woman was rem
dered unconscious and it is feared
that she was seriously injured. The
assault was entirely unprovoked.
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Foreign.

Railroad men of Chile have struck
for better wages and phorter hours.
All trains are stopped.
Dowager Queen Margaret OF Italy
has offered a cup as a prize for a sue
cessful balloon passage of the Alps.
Sir Charles Mark Palmer, Liberal
member of parliament for the JarrOw
division Of Durhem, England, is dead.
Deportation to the hot climate of
Quintara Rio was the punishment
melted out TO twenty-five r~ingleaders
of the textile mill strike at Orizaba,
Mexico.
A proposal has been made in the
French chamber Of deputies to sus-
pend temporarily the duties on wheat
and flour, owing to the rise in the
price Of bread.
Carl Rupert Nyblom, one of the
eighteen members of the Royal Swed-
ish academy and formerly a professor
in the University of Upsala, died in
Stockholm at the age Of seventy-five
years.
The Russian minister d commerce
has decided that foreign laborers shall
mt be allowed to work in the Russian
PORTION OF the Island Of Saghalin with
out the consent Of the governor gener-
al OF the island.
According to a dispatch from Rome
The pope adopted vegetarianism last
January, hoping to defeat his perpet-
dal enemy, the govt. He has not suf-
fered since, and he attributes his con
dition entirely to his diet.
lni view Of the possibility of trou-
bic with the disconnected wine grow
ers of the south of France and the re-
fusal OF the local troops to obey or
ders, the government is considering
the advisability of transferring the
Northern garrisons to the south and
the Southern garrisons to the north of
France.
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.29 ARE KILLED IN
FURIOUS STORMS
cLoUpsURsTs, ToRNADoEs AND
ELECTRICAL STORMS SWEEP
WIDE AREA.
IMMENSE DAMAGE IS CAUSED
HOUSES AND BRIDGES DEMoL.
IsHEp AND GROWING CROPS
DESTROYED.

Chicago, June II. - Twenty-Five
known dead and forty persons injured
constitute the list of casualties re-
sulting from storms of tornado severi'
ty which swept over Southern Illinois
and Indiana and Central Kentucky.
These fatal v~isitations came in the
shape of cloudbursts, high winds and
electrical disturbances.
The property damage will reach
many thousands Of dollars.
Crops Are Destroyed.
Houses were swept away, bridges
demolished and thousands of acres OF
growing crops destroyed.
Gradyville, KY, was the worst suf.
ferer. A ]cloudburst deluged hat vii
lage Of $50 persons shortly after mid
night and twenty-one persons were
drowned.
At New Minden, H., a tornado kill
ed five people and injured half a dozen
others.
Tornado Strikes Town.
At York, H., on the Wabash river,
three persons were killed and thirty
injured by a tornado which descended
upon the town last night.
Much Damage in Iowa.
Des Moines, Iowa, June IA doz-
en- families are homeless, several per-
sons are injured and property is dam
aged to the extent of $25 900 as a re-
suit of a tornado that passed through
Pleasant Valley late yesterday after
noo
Throughout Marion county the dam
age to growing crops was large. The
rural telephone lines are down.
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General,

Pearl Wight of New Orleans has ac-
cepted the post Of commissioner Of in
ternal revenue, to become effective on
Dec. /.
Directors Of the American Smelling
and Refining company have voted to
increase the quarterly dividend on the
common stock to 2 per cent.
Several vidette torpedo boats Of a
new type will shortly be tried 1T
Cherbourg, Fance. They carry only
two men and make sixtten knots.
A general advance in the price of
meats has been announced in Pitts
burg. Beef is most affected. The in
crease in price to the is
from 5 to 10 cents a pound.
Johnson r. Morris was sentenced to
two years Imprisonment and fined
Sc, 100 in the United States court In
st. Louis for selling oleomargarine
without paying the government tax.
The New York senate ~concurred
with the assembly In passing the So
called public utilities bill over the
veto Of Mayor Mcclellan of New York
city. II goes now to Gov. Hughes for
final approval.
Considering the health OF tho pupils
OF the public school to be Of great i'm.
portance, the Boston school commit
tee has decided to appoint a corps OF
trained nurses, whose duty 1t shall be
to safeguard the children.
George T. Angel, the venerable
founder OF the Society for the Proven
ton Of Cruelty to Animals. has sent
a check for 81 900 to Miss Flavia Ros-
sol, of Butler. Mo. for the best drama
tization of the story BLACK Beauty
Two young women students OF the
Northwestern university at Chicago
have been dropped from the class in
geology on the charge Of '~'crihbing'
during a recent test. An appeal was
issued calling OF the students to re-
frain from dishonest methods.
The Philadelphia & Reading Rail
| way company filed a bill in equity in
| the common pleas court in Philadel-
phia attacking the consuitutionality of
| the 2-cent fare law enacted by the re-
cent legislature. Other railroads in
the state are expected to take similar
action.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-06-13
Say Orchard Had Motive.

Boise, Idaho, June Hilary Or.
chard made four admissions Saturday
on the stand 70 rthe prosecution in the
trial of w. d. Haywood for the murder
of Gov. S~teunenberg of Idaho, in
which the defense claims to have
thrown light on his motive for killing
Steunenberg and of his relations with
the mine owners as opposed TO the
Western Federation of Miners. The
defense intimates that Orchard vas a
spy of the mine owners, committing
crimes to throw the federation into
disrepute.
Harry Orchard admitted that since
his Imprisonment he has been writing
a story Of his life.
Admitted by Orchard.
The defense claims it is from this
embellished story, not from his simple
recollection of facts, that he is test.
flying.
Orchard admitted that he has sc.
cured money since his incarceration
in prison. The defense intimates it
has come from the mine owners, who
were interested in his deeds.
Orchard admitted he would have
been a rich mine owner if Gov. Steu.
nenberg had not driven him from Ida
no. In this the defense sees a motive
for his act in killing the governor.
Orchard added the crime Of arson
to his long list of admitted acts Of out
lawry.
Defense Is Satisfied.
When court adjourned Harry Or
chard, the chief witness for the prose.
cution, heaved a sigh of relief that
seemed to come from the bottom of
his soul. For four days he has been
on the witness stand relating a story
of crime unparalleled in the court his
tory of the country. The last two days
he has been under the merciless cross.
examination of attorneys for the de
tense, and though he has borne up
wonderfully and his story in the main
remained mistaken the ordeal was
more than any human being could
have withstood unmoved.
The defense processes to be salts
fed.
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made an explicitly detailed confession
of the murder of Frank SteunenDerg
by an internal machine. This comics
sion opens the way for his W conVic-
ton and execution for the offense. he
swore that the assassination OF Steu-
nenberg was first suggested by hay
wood, was jointly plotted by HAYWOOD
Mover. Pettibone and himself, was
financed by Haywood and was exc
cuted by himself after the failure OF an
attempt in which Jack Simpklns haa
participated.
Victims Number Eighteen.
Orchard increased the total OF his
own murdered victims TO eighteen, de-
tailed the circumstances under which
he tried to murder Former Governor
Peabody, Judge Goddard, Judge GAP
bert. Gen. Sherman Bell, Dave Monat
and Frank Herne. incidentally ne
confessed to a plot to kidnap the child
OF u of his former associates. Then
under cross-examination by the De
tense Orchard confessed TO the guilt
OF sordid social crimes, OF deserving
his young child and wife in Ontario,
fleeing to British Columbia with Hat
tie Simpson, the wife OF another man,
and committing bigamy by marrying a
third woman at Cripple Creek.
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Was Hired for Bloody Work.

Boise, Idaho, June ALFRED Hors-
ley, alias Harry Orchard, the actual as
sassin of Frank ~Steunenberg, went on
the stand yesterday as a witness
against William ID. Haywood and con-
fessed a long chain of brutal, revolving
crimes, done, he said, at the instiga-
ton and for the pay of the leaders OF
the Western Federation of Miners
Orchard confessed that as a member
Hill and Sullivan mill in the Occur
d'Alenes he lighted one of the fuses
that carried fire to the explosion;
confessed that he
Set the Death Trap
in the Vindicator mine at Cripple
Creek that blew out the lives OF Supt.
Mccormick and Foreman Beck; con-
fessed that because he had not been
paid for his first attempt at violence
in the indicator mine he had been
treacherous to his associates by warn
ing the managers of the Florence &
Cripple Greek railway that there was
a plot to blow up their trains; con-
fessed that he fred three charges OF
buckshot into the body OF Detective
Lyle Gregory of Denver. killing him
instantly; confessed that for days he
stalked Gov. Peabody about Denver,
waiting a chance to kill him; confess
ed that he and Steve Adams set and
Discharged the Mine
under the depot at In%depdence that
killed fourteen men, and confessed
that, failing in an attempt to poison
Fred Bradley OF San Francisco, he
blew him and his house up with a
bomb of gelatin.
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Two boys, Emery and Raymond Le-
nome, were drowned at Ontonagon,
Mich, while playing on a log boom.
Miss Jennie Whitney, daughter Of a
pioneer Of Hardin county, instantly
was killed in a runaway e EldoTa,
Iowa.
Alexander Boyd of Cool Spring, Pa,
accidentally shot and killed his daugh-
ter Helen, eight years old, while
cleaning a shotgun.
Sucked into a mass OF shelled corn
at the top Of an elevator, Roy Davis,
fifteen years old, met death by suffo-
cation at Waukee, Iowa.
A passenger train was derailed rear
Dubuque, Iowa, and five persons were
injured. Spreading rails are supposed
to have caused the accident.
Fire caused $4,000 damage to bust
s buildings at Atlanta, Mo. The
.Jlanta hotel was burned, several
guests having narrow escapes.
Three lives were lost and thousands
Of dollars damage was done in a fire
In Newark TUrnverein hall at Newark,
N. ]. The financial loss was about
t25, 200.
Conowingo bridge, a structure a mile
in length over the S~usquehanna river
near Port Deposit, Md, was practical
ly destroyed by fire, probably of incen-
diary origin. The loss is about $685.
900.
The bursting OF an air motor at No.
Ia colliery of the Pennsylvania Coal
company at Wilkesbarre, Pa, killed
two men, fatally injured two others
and caused minor injuries to eight
more.
Fred Moory, vice president Of the
Franklin National bank and city coun-
Gilman, was drowned at Franklin, o.
His wife was rescued. High water
had washed out a bridge and they at
tempted to ford a stream.
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INp"HS tHN
Objectionable Clause.
stump PuIler Rrcaks Lea.

Marshfeld, Wis, June IL. - Gust
Sieg, a workman employed on the
Consolidated Farm company's land a
few miles from here, sustained a COM
pound fracture of the leg. The COM
pany has just bought a new stump
puller which operates by means of a
cable. Sieg stepped toe near this ca
BILE at the moment when it was pulled
taut, and in breaking at that instant it
struck his leg.
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LONG LINE.
Merged Company to Build Along Lake
Michigan Shore.

"CI SS'lRoiJ ~ 1S''S WV
Michigan Shore.
Manitowoc, Wis, June II. - The
merging of the Sheboygan Traction
company with the Milwaukee &
Northern Traction company, which
has just been contaminated, is said to
be a prelude to the merging of the
latter company with the Manitowoc &
Northern Traction company and the
extension of the latte rhine to She
boygan via Silver Lake.
Eventually, it is believed, that the
line will be extended northward to
Green Bay and will become n of the
most important interurban roads in
the state.
The merger will give the new com
pany a direct line north from Milwau-
kee along the lake shore to Two Har,
bors, taking in all the lake shore cities
and villages and will make it's total
mileage 100 miles.
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ORCHARD GIVEN
HARD GRILLING
HAYWoop's COUNSEL CONTINUE
ATTACK ON ORCHARDS TIES
TiMoNY.
MORE GRIMES ARE ADMITTED
ORCHARD TAKES STAND AND
coNFEssEs TO WHOLE DIA-
BoLlcAL STORY.
MORE GRIMES ARE ADMITTED

Boise, June 6. - Through James
Hawley, senior Of the group OF prose
cutors. Idaho yesterday made the onen-
ing statement against William d. Hay-
wood, whom Ii charges with he muir
| der of Frank Steunelberg, and then
| began the presentation of testimony,
The opening statement was a sweep
ing arraignment Of the leaders OF the
Federation of Miners, who were
charged with plotting wholesale muir.
der and with hiring assassihs III a
giant conspiracy to destroy opposition
by terrorism, to control the political
destinies Of the communities covered
by their organization and 70 perpctu-
ate their own power within the organi-
zation.
Left a Trail Of Blood.
1t is charged a widespread c~on.pird-
cy dating from the North Idaho dis
turbances fifteen years ago and reach
ing down to the murder of Frank
~Steunenberg. Hawley declared that
whenever, in the mining sections Of
the coast states the federation had
been in control it had left a trail of
blood to mark its operations. OF the
hired ~assassins he cried: ITO them
murder became a trade and assassina-
ton a means of living"
Counsel for the defense opened fire
before the statement had proceeded
ten minutes, and the repetition of OBJ
jections from them led to three or four
sharp exchanges.
Dot Records With Exceptions.
They dotted the records with excep-
ly got an agreement whereby they
could protect their rights as to the en-
tire opening statement. Judge Wood
permitted the wide scope in the open
ing statement on the assurance of Mr..
Hawley that the state later could show
the existence of the conspiracy that it
charged.
Eight witnesses were examined.
They yer all from Caldwell and
those who did not tell o. the crske it.
self were called TO tell OF
Seeing Harry Orchard.
who went TO the town as Thomas Ho-
gan, at various hotels and around the
S~teunenberg home. and to show that
two months before the crime John L.
Simpkins. a member of the executive
board of the Western Federation of
Miners, had Joined Orchard and had
lived with him for several days in the
same room.
The defense objected to practically
all the days testimony, except that re-
lating TO the death of Steunenberg,
on the ground that it was immaterial
and in no way connected with the de-
PENDANT.
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KIDNAPPED GIRL IN ST. PAUL.
Parents Planned Abduction of Their
Daughter.

st. Paul, June IL. AS suspected
from the first, the sensational abduc-
ton of Sister Borromae, the novice
kidnapped from st. Clements Catholic
school at Duluth on Friday afternoon
by two men, is purely a family affair.
The young lady, whose real nam is
Emily Digle and whose parents reside
at $50 East Seventh street, was kid
mapped by her father, Edward Digle,
because he did not wish her to be-
come a nun. The only way open to
prevent it seemed to be carrying her
off from the school.
Miss Digle arrived in st. Paul yes
terday morning with her mother and
father.
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Train Kills Girl.

Milwaukee, Wis, June IL. Lydia
Quasi twenty years old, was killed
by a North-W Western train near the.
Folsom street bridge. The girls head
was cut of and her body was horribly
mangled.
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Negro Nearly Mobbed.

Indianapolis, Ind, June 11.-Taking
umbrage al being called a niger
James Hicks, eighteen years old. col
ored. threw a rock at a passing street
car late yesterday afternoon, strikW z
two girls, and came rear being mob
bed for his act.
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PEABODY is THREATENED.
Former Governor o: Colorado Gets
Anonymous Letters.

Kansas City, June 9.-James Fl. Pea,
body, former governor OF Colorado,
who is here on business, said last
night in an interview that since the
Haywood trial in Boise began he had
received several anonymous letters
threatening his life. He said he Rad
paid no attention to the letters, be-
cause they evidently did not come
from responsible sources.
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KILLED IN CAR WRECK.
Switching Brakeman Is Hurled Be-
meath Wheels OF Train.

Waterfowl. s. D., June s. Bert
Clements. aged twenty years. was
instantly killed in the switching yards
OF the Minneapolis & st. Louis road.
He, was employed as e switching
brakeman. The head a on which
Clements was riding left the track and
the lurch threw him between the two
head cars. the second of which passed
across the body, killing him instantly.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-06-13
Red WING for Lutherans.

Marshalltown, Iowa, June 1.-THE
sixty.sixth annual session of the Evan
gelical Lutheran synod at Roland yes
terday chose Red Wing, Mimi, as the
next meeting place and elected Rev.
C. j. Eastwood of Jewell, Iowa, presi-
dent.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-06-13
POSTMASTER GETS RAISE.
Mail Receipts Increase Pay and Show
City's Growth.

Thief River Falls, Mimi, June IL
F, H. Kratka postmaster of Thief
River Falls, has received word from
the postal authorities of Washington
that after the first of July his salary
will be $4,000 a year. This is. a raise
OF 500 a year and is based upon the
increase in the gross receipts Of the
Thief River Falls postofice during the,
last year
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Train Wreckinn Tried

Jort Dodge, Iowa, June 11.-Samuel
S. Crandall OF Dayton is under arrest
here charged with having made two
attempts to wreck trains on the
North Western road.
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Bull Attacks BOYS.

S~heboygan, Wis. June 11.-One boy
was fatally injured and his brother
seriously hurt, the latter in an attempt
to save the life of the former when
he was attacked by a vicious bull.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1907-06-13
Death Under Wheels.

Cakes, N. d.. June Hilary Viii
son, ~four-year1old son of George A.
Wilson, while attempting TO catch a
hitch" was run yer and crushed to
death by a wagon loaded heavily with
trick.
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crchart Given Hard Griline.

Boise, Idaho, June g.. - Counsel for
William d. Haywood continued their
attack on the testimony of Harry Or
chard at both sessions Of the trial yes
terday. To the extent that trafic with
the other side" in the wal OF labor
and capital in Colorado was d~iscredita-
Bile, they succeeded in ~discrediting
the witness.
Employed by Detective.
Taking up the admission that Or,
card made on direct examination that
he has been t~reacherous to his com
rades in Cripple Creek by tipping on
a train wrecking plot, they developed
the fact that Orchard had entered the
employ of d. c. Scott, who had charge
of the railway detectives. He said
that he had agreed to report to Scott,
but that he was lying to him, in
tending TO make reports to him and
never did make reports.
The defense also tried to show that
because he stood in with the other
side Orchard was never molested by
the militia in Cripple Greek during the
strike.
More Grimes Admitted.
Orchard admitted that Scott had
told him that if the militia interfered
with him he was to send for him, and
that the militia DeVer did interfere
with him or search his house.
More crimes, great and small, were
admitted by Orchard yesterday. The
Cripple Creek woman with whom he
committed bigamy had three sons; Or.
chard stole high grade ore from a
messmate; he stole two cases of pow.
der from the indicator mine; be stole
powder to make one of the bombs
thrown into the indicator coal pile
and he told a lie.
Orchard stood the test and strain
well and held tenaciously to the story
he related yesterday and the day be-
fore.