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Steam Pipe Explodes While Ar.
mOred Cruiser Is Making
a Speed Trial.
ADMIRAL HAS NARROW ESCAPE
Fourteen Men, All in Fire Room al
Time, Either Killed or Injured;
Great HerOism Shown.

San Pedro, Cal, June "A terri.
BILE accident occurred on board the
United States armored cruiser Ten.
nessee yesterday morning while the
ship was Steaming at nineteen knots
on a speed trial off Point Huenene,
Cal, a steam pipe In the %starboard
engine room bursting under 235
pounds pressure. killing -Four men and
injuring ten others-all of the men in
the compartment at the time. The
explosion, the cause of which is un.
known. occurred only a few minutes
after Admiral Uriel Sebree, Capt. F..
B. Howard n Chief Engineer Rob
ertson had left the engine o on
a tour of inspection.
Six Men Are Dead.
Four of the men were killed instant
ly and two more died at San Pedro
upon the arrival here of the Tennes-
see.
There We're fourteen men in the
fire room when the tube, which is
four inches in diameter. blew out,
driving a torrent of scalding steam,
hot dust, cinders and ashes through
the ashpit and showering the half
naked men. A blast of white steam
from the ventilator told those on deck
of the accident. and Lieutenant Com.
mander S. S. Robinson, the navigator.
instantly sounded a general alarm,
dropping twenty lines of hose ready
for instant use in case of fire.
Show Great Heroism.
Within the fire DON the surviving
seamen were fighting for life. Two of
the men were stricken dead at their
posts. Two others crawled or were
dragged into the adjoining fire room
and died almost Immediately. The
surviving seamen. all of whom re-
ceived injuries, showed the greatest
heroism in aiding their unfortunate
mates.
Admiral Sebree himself escaped
death or serious injury in the fated
fire pit by a mere moments time. He
had left the room where the explo-
sion occurred not fifty seconds before
the fatal blast. Several of the crew
behaved with heroism and will be re-
ported to the department later when
full particulars are known.
Calls It a He'll Hole.
ut was a hell hole said one of
the surviving n "Everything
seemed all right, when, without any
warning, the shower of hot cinders,
steam and oShpc hDrcf ont of tho fro
hole. The boys dropped all over the
room and none of us knew what had
happened. Those Of us who were able
to scramble to Jul feet opened the
door when the compartment cleared,
and we began dragging the boys out
An official investigation of the acci.
dent has been ordered.
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ANTI-TAFT MEN WON'T BOLT.
Does Not Have Expected Effect.
Recall Statement When They Find 1t

Does Not Have Expected Effect.
Recall Statement When They Find 1t
Chicago, June g.. - Representatives
of the "allies" last night recalled their
statement that they will bolt the Re
publican national committee so far as
the presentation Of evidence to sup
port the claims Of anti-Taft delega-
lions from Southern states is concern
ed There is evidence that the an
nouncement made Saturday night
upon the authority of Representative
James Francis Burke. manager for
conference with Senator Hemenway
Of Indiana, J. B. Healing of Indiana
and others identified with the cam
paign being made by the allies" Gre
ated d~issension. Some of the other
spokesman for the allies" declared
the announcement to be i'll advised.
and they busted themselves yesterday
10 counteract its effect.
1t is generally believed that the an
nouncement made Saturday night was
designed to test public sentiment and
to influence the Taft forces to a com
promise proposition, submitted to the
committee Saturday just prior to ad-
journment. That the effect was not
what the "allies" expected was admit
ted yesterday by a number of men
who had knowledge of the entire pro-
ceeding.
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General.

Rev. 8. A.. Coffman, who murdered
his wife two weeks ago. died in the
city hospital at Fairmont, W. Va, from
nervous collapse.
The American Anti-tuberculous
league, composed OF physicians and
laymen from all parts Of the country,
whose purpose is the stamping out of
the white plague" held its annual
convention In st. Louis.
Daniel Ritchey, aged ninety years.
Is dead at Corning, Iowa. He was a
veteran OF the Black Hawk war. He
kept a hotel in Adams county, Iowa,
In 1866, and when John Brown and
Jim Lane were running slaves north
into Canada his hosiery a a rendez-
vous for them.
J.. J.. Hill has announced to the as
ISOLATED boards Of trade OF Saskatch-
evan that as soon as the gaps in Brit
ish Columbia are closed and a line
built to Calgary it Is the intention to
extend the Great Northern system
from Winnipeg to Calgary and through
Northern Saskatchewan and Alberta.
Jacob Fishel Of Nashville, Tenn,
has Just sold to Virgie McBrand. pres.
ldent Of the Chicago Numismatic So
ciety, a SO gold token issued in 1S49
by the Cincinnati Mines and Trading
company, MI. McBrand paying $1,75o
for the piece. There are but two 9TH
er specimens Of the token In exist.
ence.
Judgement on a forfeited bail bond
Of 500 was entered in New York
against Kingdom Gould. who was not
In court when the charge against him
Of automobile speeding was brought
IN for trial. A bench warrant was is
sued for Mr.. Gould's arrest, but the
police learned that he had sailed a
week ago for a six weeks vacation IN
Europe.
A number Of influential English
women, including the countess of Jer-
sey, Mrs. Humphrey Ward and several
prominent writer's and social reform
ers, have started and organized a
movement to oppose the granting Of
suffrage to women.
Former President Grover Cleveland,
who has been confined to the Lake
wood hotel for two months with an at
tack OF rheumatic govt and acute in
digestion, had sufficiently recovered
from his illness to return to his home
in Princeton. The trip was made in a
J touring car.
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Dead Exceed q Score and
Other Fatalities Are Report.
ed in Stricken Region.
DfSOlAnON IS WIDESPREAD
Vast Property Damage Is Done by Fu.
rious Gale Tha: Sweeps Over
Number of Counties.

Omaha, June .. - Latest reports
place the known dead in the Southern
Nebraska tornado on Friday evening
at twenty-three n possibly twenty
five. with three or four points yet to
hear from, and a correspondingly
large list of injured.
With every line Of communication
by wire closed to the stricken points,
it has been well nigh impossible to Sc
cure details of the destruction
wrought by the tornado, but sufficient
has been received to show that it is
the worst of its kind which has ever
visited the state, both in loss of life
and destruction of property.
AS meager reports come in the as
ualty list grows. each succeeding re-
port from the different towns adding
from one to three dead and several in.
jured.
Oesolation Is General.
Homeless and helpless, more than
200 people, farmers and their families.
have sought refuge in such homes as
were not in the path of the storm or
were fortunate enough to escape with
out serious damage. Not a head of
live stock is left in the wake of the
tornado and crops are utterly destroy
ed.
Between Byron and Deshler the
greatest loss of life occurred, twelve
persons being killed outright and a
number receiving injuries from which
they cannot GOV The injured
have been cared for in the best man
her possible. but many are still in a
critical condition and cannot be
moved 20 hospitals.
Four Counties Hit.
The storm was general throughout
at least our counties. Fillmore. Web
ster. Franklin and Thayer, on the
southern border of the state, and
reached over into Kansas. from where
reports of great destruction are COM
ing slowly. The towns of Carleton,
Fairfield. Deshler, S%hickley, Geneva.
Frankling. Ong and Riverton are
among those visited by the storm.
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From Other Shores.

1t is reported from Vienna that the
emperor and empress of Russia will
pay a return visit to Windsor in the
autumn.
A large barge laden with Chinese
prisoners has been capsized in the
Amur river and e%ighty-nine persons
we're drowned.
One fatal case OF bubonic plague
has been officially reported at st.
Thomas, D. w. l., and two suspected
cases are being watched.
Henry Farman. the British aero
naut. has renewed his challenge to
the American a]eronau.s, the Wright
brothers, for a match for $4,000. He
expressed surprise that his original
challenge was not accepted long ago.
state that the Brazilian training ship
Benjamin Constant, which is on a voy-
age to Yokohama, picked up twenty
shipwrecked men or Wake island, a
possession of the United States in the
Pacific ocean
King Gnstaf Of Sweden and queen
arrived at Berlin last week AMI were
met by the emperor and members of
the royal family. The route TO the
castle was lined with troops and the
royal visitors were greeted enthusi-
a~stically all along the way.
Three girls and eleven men were
sentenced to death by court-martial at
Warsaw for attacking a post car at
Sokolow, on the Vistula railroad, last
January. A bomb thrown at the car
and railroad employees, and after the
car was wrecked the safes were loot
ed.
According TO a special dispatch re-
ceived at the City of Mexico floods
have wrought great damage in the
neighborhood Of the city Of Pachula
the last few days. Eighteen people
are said to have been drowned and
the village Of Pachula entirely wiped
out. The flood was occasioned by a
cloudburst.
Twelve gendarmes, while attempt.
ing to arrest a striker at Vigneux,
France. were surrounded by 200 Of the
workmen. Believing .h.y were III
danger Of their lives, the gendarmes
used their weapons. Reinforcements
of both narties soon reached the scene
and in the fight with revolvers two
workmen we're killed and six wourd-
ed. Four gendarmes were wounded.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-06-12
TRAGEDY IN HIGH LIFE.
Cleveland Man Kills Wife and Self as
Result Of Jealousy.

Cleveland, June 10. - Charles p.
Corlett, head of the Corlett Engineer
ing company, killed his wife and then
ended his own life in a hotel in Viii
loughby. a Cleveland suburb. last
night. The double tragedy is said to
be the result of jealousy. Mr.. and
Mrs. Corlett were well known in
Cleveland society.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-06-12
Sins and Sinners.

Chasles T. Muir, paying teller Of the
F9vty<eocnd street branch Of the
orn Exchange bank in New York, COM
United suicide In the basement OF the
bank. He was short in his accounts
over $4,000.
Amanda Wettengel, daughter Of
Harry c. Wettengel, a millionaire re-
tired coal operator. was mysteriously
shot at Pittsburg while seated in q
lawn swing. Her condition is said to
b dangerous.
The race riot which occurred March
II at Providence, KY. had a SEQUEL
last week in the l%ynching Of Jake Nc
Dowell, a negro who had confessed to
being one Of q party Of negroes who
killed q travelling man and wounded
another.
Hartman E. schnabel, a pioneer wire
manufacturer Of Chicago, committed
suicide last week. He is said to have
lost more than $780, 600 in the recent
advance OF cor prices. This fact is
believed to have caused him to end
his life.
Two sentences Ct eighteen months
Zach Ia the government prison at At.
1auta, O.. to run consecutively, in ad.
ditiop to y fine Of 1880. were impos.
"a IN the United States court at Will
mlnkton, Del, by Judge Bradford on
6rugh L Armour, convicted Of violat
tho oleomafgarine law.
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Fails.

Danbury. Conn. June 1O.-A posse
of farmers and constables who had
searched the woods near Newton for
Edward Schiriman, the man charged
with the shooting Of Ida Potter to
death on Main street here Saturday,
returned last night, having failed to
find their man.
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Casualties.

Lightning set of twenty-six tons OF
dynamite on the Panama canal, kill
ing two Americans.
Gust Nelson. an old timer and we'll
known rancher OF Montana, is dead
from the effects OF the kick OF a
horse.
The distributing depot Of the Gin
cinnati Oil Works company at Gin
cinnati was destroyed by fire. Loss,
$500
The greater portion OF the Erie
foundry. at Erie. Pa, N of the larg-
est of its kind. was bdrned. mourning
. loss Of nearly 5000, 900.
Clarence Strain, twenty years old,
. resident OF fremont. Iowa, Is dead
from a bullet wound in the forehead
accidentally inflicted by boys who
were hunting.
An entire family, consisting OF Will
lam Eidleman, his wife and their two
children, were drowned in Pensauken
creek, below Riverton, N. j., by the
capsizing Of a small rowboat.
A boiler tube in the engine room
Of the American liner st. Louis ex-
ploded while the steamer was enter.
ing the roadsted at Cherbourg. Three
liremen were seriously injured.
Mrs. Amanda Ottolenduy OF New
York vas killed when an automobile
carrying wen persons fell over the
embankment on Magnolia BLUM, Seat.
tie. The remainder Of the party were
slightly hurt.
Lake Superior claimed ono more
victim when Gustaf Varebrook, a mem.
Der Of Marquette's 1re department,
was drowned while fishing. He was
swept of the rocks by the high seas.
: John Kerwin was killed and j. ].
Smith fatally injured when a skip
dropped 225 feet with them down a
mine shaft ear Dubuque. Iowa. A
detective brake caused the accident.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-06-12
MAKES HoeOEs PULL WEEDS.
Mayor Fights Dandeiion Pest by Put.
tim "Vau" Prisoners at Work.

Iowa Fails. Iowa, June 10. - The
unique spectacle of a battle between
the hobo and the dandelion has been
presented in this city the past few
weeks as a result of Mayor Bryson's
crusade against the weed pest. In
hope of Kidding the parks and streets
of the dandelions he decreed that all
buns or hoboes who We're under fine
should work out those fines under po-
lice guard by digging dandelion roots.
AS a result there has been a splendid
harvest of the weeds.
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FIGHT BATTLE ON STREETS.
checotah Persons and Citizens Of Eu
faula, Okla, in Fatal Conflict.

Eufaula, Okla, June 9.-In a fight
between fifteen Checotah persons and
citizens of Eufaula yesterday on the
streets Of Eufaula, F. M. Woods, dep
uty constable of this place, and Jo-
seph Parmenter of Checotah were
shot. Woods probably will die. Par
m%enter's wound is not dangerous.
The trouble strted when Constable
ter. About fifteen shots were fired in
all.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-06-12
Another Murder Mystery in Paris.

Paris, June 8 With the mystery
of the murder of Adolphe Steinheil
and his mother-in-law, Nine. Japy, yet
.unsolved. the police have been on.
fronted by a new mystery in the dis
covery of Auguste Remy, a wealthy
retired banker, seventy-seven years of
age. stabbed to death in his mansion
in the Rue de la Peppiniere. Money
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Kills Wife and Self.

Chicago, June 10.-Anthony Coli
gan. formerly a member of the police
of Evanston, a suburb Of Chicago,
while crazed by drink shot and killed
his wife yesterday and then fired a
bullet into his own body. dying a few
hours later.
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PICK TEAM TO GO TO LONDON.
Committee Names Athletes Who VIII
Represent America.

HCpISSSlt ~ tSos
New York. June 10.--To represent
the United States in the Olympian
ame which will be held in London
next month seventy-siX men, the pick
of the countrN's athletes. were last
night selected as the American team
by the American Olympic team com
mittee at a meeting in the Astor
house.
\ review of the entry lists indi-
Gated that in all departments Of sport,
with the exception of rowing, the
United States will have an excellent
chance OF capturing a creditahle
share OF events. Indeed the outlook.
in the opinion of many prominent ath-
letic authorities. is that nothing but
sickness or injury to star men can
prevent the American team from
bringing home the major honors of
the olympia.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-06-12
RISING WATER CAUSES PANIC.
Residents Of Kansas City Move to
Higher Ground.

Kansas City, June 9. - The steady
rise of the Kaw river yesterday caus-
ed almost a panic in North Topeka
and the Armourdale section of Kansas
City. Kan. There was a rush of families
to remove their household goods from
their homes to higher land. Packing
houses and other establishments in
the bottoms removed the contents OF
the easements to upper floors.
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Arrested for Liftinu Lid.

Galesburg. H.. June lO.--Nine per-
sons were arrested here yesterday
afternoon charged with violating the
local option law. Some of the ac-
cused are of prominence.
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BaIloonist Is Killed.

Springfield, Ill, June 9.-Luther Ed
ward Jones, twenty-seven years of
age, balloonist, attempted an ascen-
sion at Mildred Park yesterday after
noon. AS the balloon rose the para
chute swung Jones through the air,
his head striking the limb of a tree,
crushing his skull and killing him in
~Stantlv
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-06-12
Rob Fergus Falls Store.

Fergus Falls. Mimi, June 6. - A
daring and successful burglary was
perpetrated here last night, the jew
elry store of NJ. H. Call being enter
ed and jewelry to the value of be-
tween 500 and $500 taken.
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cunbost Sent to Rerino &C.,

Washington, June 9.-The gunboat
Yorktown has been ordered to leave
Puget sound June Is for a cruise to
the Boring sea. where she is to patrol
the seal fisheries and to prevent pc
lagic sealing.
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pruauist Kills Self.

Black River Falls, Wis, June 9. =
Ben Werner, a druggist of this city,
tool. his life this noon by shooting
himself through the head. He had
been melancholy for a long time, but
for what reason 10 not apparent.
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Ground Under Wheels Of Train.

st. Paul. jane 9.-An unknown man
was run ccwA by an Omaha passenger
train at Hazel Park last night. The
body was horribly mangled. Both
legs were cut off and the head crushed
to a pulp.
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RACE RIOT ON WATERS.
Negroes Take White Girls Places and
Hotel is Dynamited.

West Baden, Ind, June 7.-On ac-
count of the substitution of negro
men for white girls as walters at a
large hotel here, trouble between the
races has arisen. Last night two
sticks of dynamite were exploded un-
der the corner of. a hotel where the
negro walters are housed, but no one
was injured.
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Ejohteen Die From PLAQUE.

New York, June 9. Eighteen
deaths have resulted from the plague
in La Guaira, Venezuela, according to
James P. Moffat, American consul at
La Guaira. who reached there yester-
day from Santiago.
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news OF THE WEEK N fPToMt
important Events 1t Home and OF
Foreign Shores Briefly
Told.
People Talked About

Hildebrand Fitzgerald, business
manager and one Of the proprietors Of
the Philadelphia Item, is dead.
Nathan Stein, widely known as a
wholesale clothier. died at his homo
IN Rochester, N. Y. aged eighty
years.
Consequent upon his resignation
handed in several months ago because
Of i'll health, President r. H. Jesse,
for many years head of the Missouri
state university, has ended his come
ton with the institution.
A document has just been
Cd in the once Of the city registrar Of
Ot. Louis which shows that Gen. U. S.
Grant in 1859 applied to the city Of
6t. Louis for a position as county en-
gineer and was refused the place.
Bishop Edward Wilson of the Re.
formed Episcopal church died at his
home at Methuen. N. J.. He was born
In Liverpool, England. in 1920 and
came to America in 1870. Bishop Will
sol retired some time ago on account
Of Ill health.
w. w. Aston, Jr.. has adopted the
role Of temperance reformer. He pre-
sided at a meeting in London of the
E~emi-teetotal Pledge association,
whose members bind themselves to
drink alcohol only at their midday and
evening meals.
Rev. Columbus Polk Goodson. pas
tor Of the Highland Park Presbyterian
church OF Warsaw, Ind. and Bertha
Irene Chapman. daughter of Rev. Dr..
]. Wilbur Chapman, the evangelist,
married at Warsaw. the father Of
the bride oficiating.
Francis V. Kossuth, royal Hnngari-
IN minister of commerce, has notified
Emil Zerkowitz, the American CORE
spondent Of the royal Hungarian m,f
u Of commerce, of his appointment
rs commercial counsellor in this coun-
try. Mr.. Zerkowitz has been three
years in the United States and seeks
to strengthen the pleasant relations
between this country and Hungary.
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Iowa NEGRO Is Convicted.

Des Moines, June Tin the crimi-
nal court last evening it took the
jury juts one ballot to convict Frank
Brown, a negro, of attempted assault
upon Mrs. Mary Mann, a white WON
an.
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Two Canoeists Drown.

Winnipeg, Man, June 8. - William
Mckay and Albert Boisean, who have
been missing for a week, met their
death in the waters of Nepigon river.
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ANNA AND HELIE MUST WAIT.
Cannot Be Married at Once, Say Her
Attorneys.

Paris, June 9.-The attorneys for
Nine. Anna Gould said yesterday that
various matters had delayed the mar
rage of their client to Prince Helie de
Sagan, but that the ceremony would
occur within a month. The presence
Of George Gould, Nine. Gould's broth
er, at the marriage is pr~oblematical.
as business interests demand his pres
ence in the United States.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1908-04-09
Reopen Rcd River Lands.

Washington. Representative Stee-
nerson has secured favorable report
on his bill to restore to entry aud
settlement large tract of ceded Red
Lake land which was withdrawn two
years ago pending investigation, with
= view to the esta blishment of drain
age works thereon. The Investigation
was made, and it was found that re-
elimination by drainage would cost
more than 81, 900, 900, which congress
was not disposed to provide at this
time, even though the appropriation is
made reimbursabls from the sale of
reclaimed land.
There has been q demand from that
section for the rsopening of this land,
some of which can be cultivated WITH
out drainage, and the bill was intro
duced in response to that demand.
1t provides for payment in accord
ance with the terms of the Red Lake
treaty, with the addition of cents an
acre, to cover the cost of the drainage
survey
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NEWS Of MINNESOTA,
Hsavy Demand.

tJOavy demand.
Fish Hatchery II applica lions for
Ash fry continue to come Is at the
present rate, tho state win have to
provide moro hsh hatcheries Is the
opinion Of s. +. Fullerton, superri1n-
tendent Of fisheries OF the state. He
says that for some time thew have
been receiving applications It the
rate Of fifty q day and there viii be q
demand for much more than the
state can supply even if the hatcheries
are worked to their limit. The limit
for pike fry at present 10 500, COO, 900.
Four crews will start soon for the
purpose Of gathering spawn. The
largest CATCH is expected at Tower.
They have for many years attempted
to catch spawn there, but the opera
lions Of the lumber companies have
intertered and the catch has been
very small. But the recent decision
of the district court gives the fish
commission free use of the river dur
ing tho spawning season and they will
try this year to make the best use Of
their opportunity.
Another crew will be sent to Fond
du Lac on the St. Louis river, another
to Gull Lake and Z fourth to Pine
River.