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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-02-20
Domestic.

A Southern Pacific passenger train
was wrecked near Forest Grove, Or.
Three passengers were killed and
eighteen injured.
Two men were fatally burned and
eve or six others injured in two ex,
blossoms at the Monongahela furnace
at McKeesport. Pa.
While at play, knocking icicles from
the caves, Willie Evans. aged seven, OF
Waterloo, Iowa, failed to dodge a
| heavy one, which penetrated his right
| eyeball. Surgeons removed his eye
and hope to ave his life.
The Jefferson county, KY, board of
tax supervision has raised the assess.
| ment of the Southern Pacific company
from 100000 to $4,000, 900. The
Southern Pacific company, which is
Incorporated in Kentucky. has an of.
fee at Beechmont. a suburb of Louis.
Vile.
Caruso Is indicated. Mrs. Hannah
Stanhope, who caused the arrest OF
Enrico Caruso, the Metropolitan opera
house tenor, on charge Of annoying
her in the Central Park monkey house
in New York last year, last week was
fined 1 cen for lntoxication and dis.
orderly conduct.
B. s. McCullic, cashier Of the de.
funct Princeton tIowal Savings bank.
was arrested on the charge Of making
false entries In the banks books. The
bank was closed recently on order OF
the state auditor and a receiver placed
in charge. A shortage of about $40,
600 has been discovered.
Four men blew open the vault Of the
Bank OF Sulphur Springs at Sulphur
Springs, Ark, and secured over 81, 900
In cash, besides notes and other valua.
bles. Oficers reached the scene just
In time to see four men mount their
horses and ride westward. II Is be
lieved they have made good their es.
cape.
Vice President Murphy stated that
the managements Of the Cincinnati
New Orleans & Texas Pacific railway
and Alabama Great Southern railroad
have determined to put into effect on
March 1. 1908. a reduction of 10 pei
cent In the pay Of the president, vice
presidents and other general officials
and employees receiving monthly sal
aries of $3.50 and e
NJ. w. Brest. night Waterman at 8
| paper mill at Kalamazoo. Mich. found
a $500 diamond in the refuse from the
rag cleaning room of the mill. Two
diamonds had already been found In
! the paper mills within two months.
Locked up in a freight car for two
| weeks, without food. a little fox ter
rier was rescued near Sterling. Iowa
| by trainmen who CHANGED to enter the
| car. The dogs ribs nearly protruded
| from its little body and it was toe
| feeble to rise. The car in which the
animal was imprisoned came from the
| steel mills Ut Pennsylvania.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-02-20
AceIdental happen,no,.

Ten of twenty passengers were in.
5ured In a wreck on the Pennsylvania
railroad two miles south of Franklin.
Vile. N. Y. No n was killed. i
Warden Haddox Of the West vir.
ginia penitentiary was killed at Battle
Greek. Mich, by falling from a fifth
story window of a local sanitarium.
A young man. supposed to be Dell
Randell of Devon, Iowa, was u to
pieces by a south-bound train on the
Great Western road at New Hampton,
Iowa.
At Grand ~Cascapedia, a Quebec Dor.
der town. four members OF the family
OF Andrew Campbell were burned to
death by a fire which destroyed their
home.
Fire destroyed the northern section
Of the village of Fredericka, Iowa.
One store. a blacksmith shop, the
town hall and several dwellings were
burned.
Engineer John Lyman OF Hoboken
was killed and 130 passengers were
shaken up when a five-car local train,
bound from Jersey City for Dover
over the Lackawanna railroad, was
derailed.
1. j. Haddeman, a ~tearnster, was
killed by an Illinois Central engine at
Waterloo. Iowa. His wife is too Ill to
be told Of the accident. Heddeman
was crossing the track In a sleigh.
The team was unhurt.
Ten hremen were injured. one prob
ably fatally. by the explosion Of a
gasoline tank of an automobile while
lighting q flre in a garage at Chicago.
The men we're on a ladder almost d.
rectly over the automobile.
Joseph Hitch, a blacksmith of Lohr-
willie. Iowa, was struck down by a VIC
ious horse. which planted It's front
feet on his forehead. crushing his
skull before bystanders could inter
fere. causing fatal injuries.
Charles Cyrane. a journeyman
baker. was burned to death at Read
1uB, I6ss III - 1iS WuiCn uCoIiOySu tiC
bakery Of William H. Berries. He slept
In the building and his charred re-
mains were found in the ruins.
A large rock fell on Charles Haapa-
ia, q miner working in the Champion
mine at Calumet. Mich, breaking his
back. both legs and several ribs.
crushing him to death. A wife and
three children in Finland survive him,
Frederick killer. a German laborer,
was instantly killed about FIVE miles
east Of Billings, Mont. as the result
OF being struck by a fast freight train,
and his companion. who gave his
name as Daniel Schmidt. was perhaps
fatally injured.
While passing a sleigh which was
being loaded with logs at the Esca
naba Woodenware company's camp
Alexander Gordisuk. a teamster. was
struck by q log and instantly killed
The lpe rolled from the top Of the
MAD. striking the teamster ON the
<nd, crushing his skull.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-02-20
TRIES TO WORK SMELL.
Sensational Letters Of Fifteen-Yearoto
Girl Are Read in Will Case.

Clinton, ILL.,, Feb. 16.-At the close
of the presentation of evidence inethe
contest of the $4,000, 900 estate left by
the late Col. Thomas Smell there came
to light for the first time yesterday the
letters written to the aged millionaire
by Edna Hamilton. the fifteen-year-
old daughter of Rev. E. A. Hamilton,
whose wife, Laura Hamilton, offered
her daughter to the old man for $500
cash.
The child's letters were as sensa-
tional If not as depraved as her moth
er's. The little girl was as keen a
the mother to lure money from the
old man, and every line of the epistles.
most of them written from school, beg
ged for money, with frequent protesta
tons of her love. In one, dated July
Il, Edna wrote:
MY Dearest and Best Friend: /
know you will get me a lot of nice
clothes if / will be your sweetheart.
Mamma says you are going to get us q
home in Bloomington and that we will
all live with you. ! will be so good to
you.
"Please Send Me $780,"
please send me the $3.50 you told
Mamma you would give me and write
me a long letter. | will try to make
you happy. My dresses are getting
shabby. Please send me some money.
/ will be so nice to you. Lots of low
and kisses. PET"
Again the little girl wrote:
"Darling--You are the incest and
best man on earth. / will do all | can
to make you happy. When you told
me you would send me $50 l could
have kissed you a hundred times. /
will try to make you happy as long as
I live. Now l have to go to my German
class. so good-by, with lots OF kisses.
PET"
Asks Diamonds and Money.
Then followed requests for frater
nifty pins. a diamond ring, a plaid silk
dress, more money and more money
In one letter she said:
What makes you think | dislike
you? | think you are the incest man
on earth. | will do anything to make
you happy. | don't show my love
much, but ! do love you. Yours with
kisses. Pet"
Edna Hamilton, until the day her
mothers letters to Col. Smell were
read in court. was a student at the
Illinois state university. She has gone
South with her parents.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-02-20
Annual Flood Spreads Ruin and
Disaster in Path at Pitts
burg and Vicinity.
loss WILL REACH MILLIONS
Thousands Living in Upper Floors OF
Their Homes; Water Receding;
No Casualties.

Pittsburg. Feb. 1S.-The annual
flood of the rivers and small streams
OF this section has spread ruin and
disaster in it's path. The damage ana
suffering is widespread. The loss IN
Pittsburg alone will reach several
million dollars. The danger mark was
reached early Saturday, and the water
continued to raise until oon yester'
day. when it reached thirty and seven
tenths feet. It remained at that
stage for three hours, and the flood is
now slowly receding. The danger
mark in this city is twenty-five feet.
No Fatalities Reported.
A remarkable feature is the absence
of fatalities. AS far as is known
there has been no sacrifice of human
life and this is attributed to the early
warnings OF the local United States
weather bureau.
Live stock has persisted in consider
able numbers and there are many re-
ports of persons having narrowly es-
capped death in an endeavor TO save
LhClI plODtl ~ dlIu NV SboNh'
Miles If territory in Greater Pitts
burg and vicinity is submerged, and
il will be some time to-day before the
water will be back in the channels of
the rivers and numerous small
streams.
Loss Will Reach Millions.
The actual monetary damage can
not be ascertained at this time, but
from all accounts it will run up to
several million dollars.
The suffering caused by the high
water is intense. Thousands OF per-
sons are living in the upper floors of
their homes, using skifs as a mean
of transportation to and fro. The
filled with water. In many instances
the household goods we're not re-
moved owing to a lack of time, and
chairs, tables, pianos and bric-a-brac
are floating about the rooms
Suffering Is Intense.
To add to he suffering of the vic
tins the weather grew cold yesterday
and snow fell. The gas connections
of the houses have been disarranged
and in their present damp condition
life Is made miserable for the unfor-
tunate occupants.
Charitable institutions, making use
of many skiffs and RATS, have been
busily engaged throughout all of last
night and to-day serving hot coffee
and food to the families, most of whom
are at best very poor.
The damage TO the manufacturing
plants of the Pittsburg district is
great.
Flee for Their Lives.
Steubenville, Ohio, Feb. 1S.-Two
hundred people were compelled to flee
through water, and there were many
narrow escapes from drowning yester,
day afternoon at Mingo Junction
| when a cinder bank thirty feet high,
built by the Carnegie Steel company
for protection of lowlands from food,
gave way under the pressure of back
water. Fifty houses in the bottoms
were inundated.
The Ohio river is at flood stage and
| rising. All railroads but one have
suspended train service and many In
dustrial establishments have shut
down because of the flood.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-02-20
DEATH AFTER LONG CHASE,
Man Hunted for Ten Years Hangs
Himself In a Cell.

Philadelphia, Feb. 1S.-After being
pursued for more than ten years by
detectives, the search taking them
three times around the world, Karl
Rapp, who was being held here to
await a further hearing charged with
setting fire to a factory and dowelling
In Rosswag, Germany, in 1898, was
found dead in his cell at Moyamen.
sing prison, having committed suicide
Ivy hanging himself.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-02-20
CANDIDATE KILLS SELF.
III Fortune Pursues PENNSYLVANIA Al
derman.

Newcastle, Pa, Feb. 18.-T. p. Will
Jams, for many years an alderman in
this city and a candidate for re-elec.
ton next Tuesday, committed suicide
at his home here by firing a bullet
through his right temple. Williams
was arrested a few days ago charged
with extortion and had given bail for
court. This and the failure last
month of a brick manufacturing com
pany in which he was largely inter,
ested, it is said. worked heavily on his
mind.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-02-20
CALLS DEATH ACCIDENTAL.
coroner's jury Passes on Killing Of
William Hackett In Scuffe.

Brownsville. Mimi, Feb. 16. =
c~oroner's jury decided that the death
of William Hackett. aged twentynine
years. was accidental. Hackett had
been auarreling with his brother in the
Yahn saloon. and Yahn sought to put
the combatants out. In the struggle
which ensued the men fell to the floor.
Hackett's head struck upon the ce-
ment floor and his skull was fractured.
He died a few hours later.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-02-20
WAR TOO HELLISH."
Ambassador Says Japanese Know Of
No Break With America.

New York, Feb. 1~S.-Declaring that
war between the United States and
Japan would be "the most inhuman
event in the worlds history and was
"too hellish" to be thought of, Baron
Kogoro Takahira, the new Japanese
ambassador to Washington, said yes
terday upon landing in New York
Japanese people know absolutely
nothing of a break in the cordial re-
lations which have been historic be-
| tween the two nations. Talk of war,
Baron Takahira declared with much
emphasis, was utterly unintelligible to
| gested, 1t was spread broadcast to
serve the commercial ends OF some
newspapers.
Some Matters to Fix Up.
The new ambassador said there
| might be some matters pending in
Washington which would require his
attention, but they were not serious.
AS to the cruise Of the American fleet
to the Pacific ocean, he regarded it
purely as a naval e on a
grand scale, designed to show to the
world at large that America has a
wonderful naval power which can be
dispatched anywhere at a moments
notice, "in support Of a legitimate
cause, which always is at the bottom
Of American diplomacy"
Baron Takahira leaves for Wash
ington this morning at IL o'clock to
present his credentials to President
Roosevelt.
Warm Fried Of Roosevelt.
He is a warm personal friend of
Mr.. Roosevelt, and is looking forward
to his meeting with the chief execu.
tive with a great deal of pleasure.
The baron Is returning to the Ameri.
can capital after an absence of two
years spent in Rome as ambassador
to Italy. The baron left Washington
as minister, and was subsequently
elevated to the rank of ambassador
He was one of Japan's ENJOYS at the
Portsmouth peace conference.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-02-20
JIM r o %lNJuNcTIoN.
Suit Against the Cars Is Started In
Oklahoma.

Guthrie. Okla, Feb. 1S.-Suit was
filed in the United States circuit court
late Saturday night asking for an in
junction against the railroad compa,
MES to restrain them from carrying
into effect the "Jim Grow" law. The
petition states that it is in violation
Of the enabling act, which provides
that there shall be no distinction in
the state On account OF race. color,
etc.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-02-20
WOMAN FROZEN TO DEATH.
Snow Drifted Over Mrs. Peterson
When She Was Overcome.

Fergus Falls, Mimi, Feb. 16. - The
body of Mrs. Martha Peterson, who
disappeared from her home at AS
bury during a heavy snow torn ten
days ago, has been found in a drift in
a railway cut a short distance from
her home. She had been drinking
and had lain down beside the track
and had frozen to death, the snow
gradually drifting over her and bury
ing her.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-02-20
BANK TELLER HELD.
Minneapolis Man Must Answer for
$3,450 Shortage.

Minneapolis, Feb. 16.-Ater having
worked his way up from Office boy to
custodian Of large sums Of money.
Adolph Stamwitz, paying teller of the
Minneapolis Bank Of Commerce, is
charged with having taken $3,450 OF
the funds belonging to the institution.
He has been found over to await the
action of the grand Jury.
Irregularities In the banks accounts
were discovered by National Bank Ea
tminer G. HI. Bosworth.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-02-20
Resolution Ordering Suits Start
ed Is Favored by Senate
m
WOULD GIVE SETTLERS CHANCE
vo Hope for Passage of National Drain
age Law at This Session;
Repay Settlers.

Washington, Feb. ia subcommit.
tee of the senate committee on judi
ciary yesterday decided to take favora-
BILE action on the Tillman resolution
%nstructing the attorney general to in
stitute suits to compel railroads in the
Northwest to open t. settlement lands
granted them by the government. The
department OF justice. however, will
Iraft a new resolution or bill covering
The subject in order that all phases of
The alleged violations by the railroads
Of conditions prescribed by the govern
ment in making the grants may be
prosecuted.
Manipulated by Railroads.
II is intended by the committee that
the resolution or bill to be reported
shall authorize the attorney general to
bring proceedings not only to compel
the railroads to open these lands to
settlement, but to forfeit title in cases
steaders or other would-be purchasers
have deliberately conspired to defeat
the purpose of the government in ced-
ing the lands.
The idea of the government in max
ing grants was to bring about the con-
struction of railroads and facilitate the
settlement of new country. Congress
fixed the prices at which the lands
should be sold to actual settlers. This
price was not to exceed $3.50 an acre.
Information was presented to the ju.
dietary committee showing that rail
roads, instead of disposing Of the land
to bona fide settlers, had so manipu'
themselves are now in possession of
large tracts of land.
Drainage Chances Poor.
Advocates of the passage of a ma
tional drainage law at the present ses'
sion have practically given up hope of
success. The opposition by Speaker
Cannon and other Republican leaders
to any measures increasing public ex'
penditures which can possibly be post.
poned to a further time is so strong
that bills such as those providing for
payment out of the federal treasury in
aid of a national drainage policy are
regarded as having small chance of
passage.
The house yesterday passed a bill
which was reported from the commit
tee on public lands by Representative
Volstead authorizing the return of
money that has been paid by home
where it appears that the railroads
of public lands in all cases where,
through no fault of the person making
the payment. title to the lands failed.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-02-20
DUKE IN THE FAMILY.
Theodore Shonts Becomes Father-in.
Law Of de Chaulnes.

: New York, Feb. 18.-Miss Theodore
Shonts. daughter OF Theodore p.
Shonts, formerly chairman of the
isthmian canal commission, was mar
RED at noon Saturday to Emanuel
Theodore Bernard d'Albert de Luy-
mes, due de Chaulnes, Of Paris. The
wedding took place at the home of the
brides father.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1908-05-14

Everything that shouldn't b warm
In England Il warm says Samuel q.
Blythe In An American IN London. .
In Everybody's Magazine. ~and every.
thing that should BE- warm Is cold. The
houses are catacombs. always except
Ing those few hotels In London where
they have steam heat. which Il. Of
course. due to the advance OF Ameri-
can civilization. Engiishmen say they
do not feel the cold Everybody else
feels It, for II Is the meanest cold In
the world. Extended observation leads
to the conclusion that the reason the
English do not feel the cold Il that
they are desensltIzed. sort OF refriger-
ator-beefed, so to speak.
This Is not the main point The
reason the English sblver around In
cold. damp rooms. trying to make them
selves believe a few hunks Of camel
coal IN a crate furnish all the heat re-
quired by the most delicate, Is that
somebody, In ancient days. who
couldn't get anything to warm himself
BY. did the next best thing and de
clared he didn't feel the cold and didn't
need IRE anyhow. other EnglIshmeu
heard Of II. and this idea has been
fetish ever since
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1908-05-14

did you ever know" said the hyp-
notist as be played with a curious, gilt
tering hypnotizing machine Of crystal
and silver, did you ever know that
hypnotism Is practiced among lnsects7'
'No.v
well, It IS fact. A queen bee can
hypnotic her whole hive whenever she
wants to. She makes a curious hum
ming sound. and within a moment OF
two every bee IN the colony falls into
a hypnotic trance.
The deaths head hawk moth Is also
a hypnotIst Of great power. This crea-
ture, indeed, makes its living out Of
hypnotIsm. Entering a hive, It makes
sound not unlike the queen bees
note. and. the bees Immediately sink
ing into sIumber, the moth proceeds to
plumber at It's leisure. New Orleans
Times-D Democrat.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1908-05-14

Turkish hOrseshoes are simply a IA
plate OF iron with hole IN the middle
In bis volume OF Personal Adven
lures Col ]. P. Robertson describe.
the extraordinary method Of preparing
the horse to be shod-
The farrier takes a good long rope
doubles 1t and knots loop at the end
to about the size Of good large horse
collar. This is put over the horses
head after the manner OF a horse col
lar, the knot resting on the horses
chest
Then the two ends OF rope are
brought between his legs. Each rope,
then taken BY a man. Is hitcbed on to
the fetlocks Of his hind legs and
brought through the loop In front; then
BY a hard. steady pull the hind legs are
drawn up to the fore legs. and the
horse falls heavily on his side.
All four feet are then tied together
By the fetlocks, the horse Is propped
up on his back, and the farrier sits
quietly down beside him. takes or all
the old shoes and puts on new. When
the work is finished the horse Is united
and allowed to get up.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1908-05-14


smali branches OF wood. and I win
cook dinner right beside this big rock"
II did not take long TO start a fne
blaze and put the potatoes TO roast. and
as soon as they were cooked. and all
sat down ON the sled with their feet
ON the warm shawl. and ate the hot po-
tatoes and the little sandwiches which
Aunt EAfh had brought Then there
were sos6e nice mince turnovers and
big red apples
Aunt Edith put the fire out very
carefully. and Doris and Laura fasten-
ed an apple to branch OF tree.
"Some winteriovlng bird may be
glad TO ind It," Aunt Edith said.
Now l know just what a winter
picnic Is" said Laura. happily. as they
trudged toward home.-Youth's Com.
panlon.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1908-05-14

An inqulring person in England
came upon a veteran soldier summing
himself In front OF public house in
Devonshire. and began to question MIN
about his campaigns and the leaders he
had fought under Did you ever see
Wellington asked the person, finally.
Ibid I ever see wellington repeat
ed the veteran, with a superior smile.
why, I wos lying on the ground at
Waterloo when card the sound OF
'osscs 'oofs. and then voice called
out. Is that you, saundersT
II knowed the voice in an hinstant--
IT was the Dock OF wellington.
Eyes, SIR says /, most respectful
"'Come ere says the dock.
II riz reluctant from the ground, for
/ was tired out.
~ want you should go back 'ome.'
e says
"'WhyT says I.
"'Becos you're killing too many
men, says e.
And back 'ome WENT concluded
the veteran, shifting his game log
into a more comfortable position.
The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1908-05-14

A miner in Alaska made a strange
discovery not long ago. lie found a
cave In the side OF mountain and en-
tered 1t for exploration. The mouth OF
the cave was small. the sides being %
granite. just beyond the entrance was
solid HIGHLANDER. FROM the ceiling
OF which were hanging hundreds Of Ice
stalactites- The rays from the miners
lamp made these stalactites glisten like
FURNISHED silver. and the effect was
wonderfully beautiful 1t was like n
fairy palace. but the miners admira-
ton suddenly turned to alarm. for at
one side Of the chamber be saw a great
black bear. sitting partly upright Be
Ing unarmed. except with an ak. the
man determined to leave the bear In
undlsturbed possession. when something
IN the appearance OF the brute arrested
his attention. and he then saw that II
was dead-frozen solid In a big block
OF ice. He struck the block OF Ice with
his ak. and part OF II fen away, carry
ing one Of the bears fore legs with II.
When he picked up the les. II erumbled
like rotten wood The cave Is consid-
cred one OF the eurloslties OF the neigh
borhood. and It has been visited BY hun
dreds OF people.
H.uk Gh.a~xw Ksanfww~.