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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-05-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN tPITOMt
lmp0rtsnt Evests at Home and on
Foreign Shores Briefly
Told.
From Washington.

A bill appropriating $50, 600 for a
memorial to Abraham Lincoln on the
site Of the Lincoln birthplace In Ken
lucky has been passed by the senate.
The endowment OF schools OF mines
and mining from the proceeds OF sales
Of public lands outside the irrigation
states is provided for by a bill pass
ed by the senate.
The senate has passed bills for the
continuance and maintenance OF the
Porto Rican regiments OF infantry.
aud authorizing the sale OF lands at
the head OF Cordova bay, Alaska, to
a private corporation.
A bill for the appropriation Of $780,
600 will be introduced shortly In the
Brazilian chamber OF deputies for the
purpose OF securing a property in
Washington for a permanent home for
the Brazilian embassy.
The senate has passed a bill to pre-.
vent the dissertation of the flag of the
United States, with an amendment
providing that its restrictions shall
not apply To banners or flags carried
by military or patriotic organizations
authorized by law.
Bids are TO be opened jane 8 at the
bureau Of supplies and accounts for
100, 900 pounds OF tobacco for the
navy. These supplies are TO be in ad-
dition TO the amount already con-
tracted for the fiscal year 1909.
BY the provisions of a bill passed
by the house the secretary OF the navy
is authorized 10 accept and care for
gifts, such as silver sets, presented
10 the vessels of the navy. The ques-
ton of ownership OF such gifts Is now
determinable by law.
The first step by the house toward
a revision Of the tariff was taken Sat
urday, when the resolution to author
lie the ways and means committee to
ait during the ces OF congress and
employ agents to collect data to be
used in preparation Of a bill revising
the tariff was adopted.
The treasury department has re-
arranged the assignments OF a number
of It's special agents, and beginning
July / there will be new men in
charge Of six districts. w. S. Chance
will be transferred from ST. Paul to
Philadelphia, and George t. Black
from FL Paso to st. Paul.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-05-28
THREE KILLED IN CAR CRASH.

Five Others Are Thought to Be Fatal,
ly Injured and IS Hurt In Collision.
Philadelphia, May 26.-Three per
son were instantly killed and at least
five others were SO badly injured
that there is little hope for their re
covery and forty-fve were seriously
hurt in a collision between trolley
cars On Germantown venue last
night.
F~orty-five persons were taken to the
Chestnut hill and Germantown hospi
tails, several miles from the scene OF
the accident, and many were taken
away in automobiles by the wealthy
residents OF the exclusive Chestnut
Hill district. They are treated by pri.
vate physicians and in consequence
absolute detail as to the injured can
not be obtained.
The accident was caused by a car
north-bound jumping the track while
going down a steep hill not far from
Chestnut Hill. The car swung. across
the south-bound track and was struck
by a car on that track. Both cars
were filed with passengers.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-05-28
Otherwise.

The Methodist Episcopal general
conference decided to elect eight new
bishops. but the decision was arrived
at only after an hour and a half Of dis
cussion.
Grover Hayes OF Philadelphia and
Harry Baker OF San Francisco fought
six rounds to a draw before the West
End Athletic club last night. The
fight was fast from start to finish.
Philip w. Gundlach, one OF the
wealthiest men in Southern Illinois,
died at Belleville. H., OF Bright's dis
ease. He was president OF the Gund-
ZACH Drill company and director In
several banks.
The Arkansas legislature failed to
convene. in pursuance to a call issued
by Speaker Allen II. Hamiter while
he was acting governor. and as a re-
suit there will be no extraordinary
session Of that body.
The executive committee OF the Ma
tional Prosperity association Of st.
Louis decided to issue a call to man
ufacturers. jobbing and commercial
concerns in the city to make June 1
employment day" The various con-
Germs win be requested to take back
as many as possible Of their laid-off
employees and to start the wheels NOV.
ing In their factories.
Aaron l. Walthers died at Rock.
well City. Iowa. Of typhoid fever. said
to have been contracted three weeks
ago at a church banquet. His death
Is the second to occur from typhoid
fever which afflicted thirty guests at
a church banquet. The whole town Is
excited owe the contagion.
Temporary officers for the Republic.
an national convention have been Sc
lected by the subcommittee on ar
engagements for the national commit
tee. Senator ]. c. Burrows Of Michi.
gan was selected as temporary chair
] man.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-05-28
THREE MEN KILLED IN FIGHT.
Trouble Between Two Families Re-
suits in Four-Handed Fioht,

Trouble Between Two Families Re-
suits in Four-Handed Fight.
Brook Haven, Miss, May civil
liam Hilton and his son, Thomas Hill
ton, and Benson Nation, all farmers
residing rear this city. are dead, and
Thomas Nation, father of one of the
men killed. is probably fatally wound
ed. the result of a four-handed fight
In the roadway near the Nation home
late yesterday.
The trouble between the families
originated when the elder Nation was
badly beaten during an alteration
with a negro farm hand, an employee
of the Hiltons.
When Hilton and his son were re-
turning from town yesterday and
were passing the Nation home. the
elder Nation, II is alleged, renewed
the trouble. Aiming himself with a
shotgun, the younger Nation ran to
his fathers assistance. A fusillade Of
shotgun and pistol shots followed,
with the result as stated.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-05-28
A|RShIP BURSTS; SIxTttD HURT
Ten Thousand Spectators Stricken Dumb
With HOrrcr-Aeronauts Escape
Death.

Oakland. May 26.-The great Nor.
rell airship, the largest ever con.
structed, burst on its trial trip when
300 feet in the air above a crowd OF
10000 spectators at Berkeley yester-
day.
The sixteen men who made the as
cent with the big craft were dashed
10 the ground and every one of them
more or less injured. Broken legs and
arms and internal injuries were suf-
fered by most of them, and it is be-
lieved that two will die.
The accident was a most spectacu-
lar one. A great crowd had gathered
about a vacant lot where the big gas
bag had been inflated with $780, 900 GU
bic feet of illuminating gas to watch
the trial of the airship.
Ship Has Sixteen Passengers.
Sixteen persons made the ascent
five OF them engineers in charge OF
he five gasoline engines. several
newspaper photographers, the invent
or of the airship. c. A. Morrell, and
an Australian %aeronaut, who against
the orders of Morrell climbed onto
the rigging just as the ship lifted
from the ground.
All of these persons were injured
and their escape from death was al
most miraculous.
Rising slowly under the power from
five gasoline engines, the great air
ship lifted TO a height of probably 300
feet. Suddenly there was a ripping.
roaring sound and the forward end OF
the airship tilted downward.
Crowd is Panic-stricken.
The great aerial craft began to set
tie slowly 10 the ground. The occu-
pants of the airship hung desperately
to the rigging, while the crowd of 10
600 persons were panic-stricken be.
fore what appeared to be impending
disaster TO the sixteen men. AS the
airship settled toward the ground sew
eTal OF the men leaped and were seri.
Ously injured. Others stayed with
the craft until it reached the ground,
and they, too, were injured by the
heavy engines and the superstructure
of the airship.
The injured are all doing well.
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Casualties.

Hope for the schooner ]. II. Chaffee.
which sailed from Perth Amboy, N. J..
for Boston April 9, with FIVE men on
board, a been abandoned. The
schooner should have made the trip
within q week.
The war department has been adj
vised that the damage done by the re-
cent storm at Fort Crook, Neb., will
amount to 500. 900. Authority was at
once given to make necessary repairs.
A passenger train on the Missouri.
Kansas & Texas railroad collided
head-on three miles north Of Musko-
gee, Okla. with a through freight.
Two trainmen were killed and fifteen
passengers injured.
The finding Of an overturned sail
boat at Sandusky, Ohio, indicates that
three young men. Arnold Wiedemann,
William Schaefer and Fred Lam
brecht, were drowned in Sandusky
bay. A severe squat came up an hour
after the boys had started out.
AS a result OF the explosion of an
old four inch cannon which was being
used to fire a salute to the passing
Atlantic feet at Eureka. Cal. m man
was instantly willed. three women and
one boy dangerously and a dozen more
slightly injured.
William ]. Breen Of Butte was
whirled to death In the betting OF the
Boston & Montana shelter at Great
Falls. Mont. Every bone in his body
from his hips up vas broken. his neck
being broken in several places. Every
stitch Of clothing was torn from his
body, and when picked up only his
shoes and stockings remained.
Three persons met death and anoth
err was fatally injured In a crossing
accident one mile north of Flora, Ind.
when q Pennsylvania railroad passen
ger train struck a carriage, hurting
he occupants into the air.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-05-28
PRIEST STABBED BY cRAzED MAN
Congregation Is StarteIed BY SUDDEN
Attack on Pastor.

Salisbury, Mo-, May 26. - The Rev.
Father Joseph F. Lubeley. aged thir-
ty-three years, pastor of st. ~Joseph's
Catholic church Of Salisbury, was
stabbed twice with a p~ocketknife and
perhaps fatally injured in church yes
terday morning by Joseph Schuette,
a prosperous farmer living near here,
who is believed to nave become sud
denly demented. The stabbing occur
red in view of 400 worshippers, many
of them m The injured man
was taken to a nearby residence,
where his wounds were attended ia
by physicians. His condition is criti-
cal.
Immediately after Father Lubeley
had finished high mass he started to
leave the church.
Attacked by Maniac.
At the door he WIS rushed upon
suddenly from behind by Schuetter
who stabbed him twice, telling him.
The first blow from the knife struck
the priest in the temple and the sec
ond cut a deep cash in the neck, just
missing the jugular vein. The crazed
man was about to stab the priest a
third time when Mrs. Barbara Ginter
and John Gates, both members of the
church, caught his uplifted hand. In
the struggle which followed Schuette
stabbed Mrs. Ginter in the hand and
inflicted a painful cut on Gates arm.
A dozen men came to the aid of Mrs.
Ginter and Gates and o~verpowered
Schuetts. Struggling and fighting, he
was taken to jail.
1t is believed Schuette, who has
been a devout member of st. Joseph's
church, became suddenly deranged,
and the attempt on Father Lubeley's
life resulted.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-05-28
Ordinances Attack Saloons.

Chippewa Falls. Wis, May 20. -
Four stringent ordinances relating to
of saloons have been intro
duced in the city council. The ordi-
nances provide for the closing Of sa-
looms at IL o'clock at night on week
days and all day Sunday; prohibit
selling liquor and having screens in
doors and windows during closing
hours.
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Admits WRITING TO Girl.
GOVERNMENT SUES ROAD.
Would Prevent Consolidation With q.
& M. and Take Away Trolley,

q M. and Take Away Trolley.
Boston, May "a. - A bill in equity
to restrain the New York, New Ha-
ven & Hartford Railroad company
from exercising any control over the
Boston & Maine railroad and to sepa-
rate the New Haven road from the
various trolley lines it has acquired,
was filed in the United States circuit
court here yesterday by United
States District Attorney Asa p.
French, acting for the federal gov
eminent.
The bill in equity was brought I'M
der the Sherman act of 1890, and
charges that the New Haven road ac-
CURED numerous trolley lines and is
attempting to control the Boston &
Maine railroad in restraint of trade.
Would Become Monopoly.
The petition claims that if the New
Haven road is not restrained from
holding the trolley lines and voting
stock of the Boston & Maine road
a situation will be created with re-
spect to the transportation instru-
mentalities and facilities of New Eng
land which will eventually enable the
New Haven company to control for all
time the interstate transportation not
only among the New England states,
but between such states and the sew
eral other states Of the Union.
The defendants in the bill are the
New Haven company, the Boston &c
Maine Railroad company, the Consol-
idated Railway company and the
Providence Securities company.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-05-28
ACCUSED;
RESIGNS PULPIT
Mother of Young Girl Makes
Complaint Against Leaven-
worth Clergyman.
SHOWS LETTERS PASTOR WROTE
Admits the Charge and Tenders Resig.
natiOn-Was Popular and
Leader in Reforms.

Learenworth, Kan, May "a. - A
sensation was caused here yesterday
when it was announced that Rev.
Robert A. Ellwood, pastor of the
Presbyterian church Of Leavenworth,
had yesterday rendered his r~esigna-
ton to the elders Of the church. The
resignation, which was accepted. was
admitted by the elders TO be the re-
suit of charges preferred against the
pastor by the mother of one Of the
young girls In his church choir.
She had presented the elders with
letters which her daughter had re-
ceived from the pastor, who has a wife
and a child. He came to Leaven-
worth three years ago from Whining
ton, Del, and has been very popular.
He declined to make any statement
yesterday.
Admits Writing TO Girl.
Rev. Elwood's church here was one
OF the oldest and most conservative
in the city. Since coming here the
pastor has been the leader in many
reforms started here.
Rev. Elwood, when confronted with
the letters, admitted that he had
written them and offered to resign.
The elders agreed to accept the res
ignation and let the matter drop with
that action. One Of the elders later
declared there was nothing criminal
in the letters.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-05-28
Famine Fatal to 10000.

Mombasa, British East Africa, May
26.-More than 10000 deaths have re
suited from the severe famine prevail
ing in the Usoga province of Uganda
The government Is feeding $4,000 o.
the natives. Crops are failures.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-05-28
.Petev DALEY Dead.

Chicago, May 26. Peter f. Daley
for thirty years one of the best known
and best loved comedians on tbs
American stage, died of pneumonis
yesterday Ia his apartments at the
Auditorium.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-05-28
Three Persons Drowned.

Cumberland, Nd, May 24.-It Is re-
ported from Alaska, w. Va, that a
stage coach was swept down stream
at a ford near Williamsport, Grant
county, yesterday, and the driver.
two passengers and the team were
drowned.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-05-28
aucket shops Knocked Out.

Albany. N. ", May 23.-After Sept.
1 It win be a felony to conduct a
bucketshop in this state. Gov. Hughes
signed without comment yesterday
Senator Cassidy's bill amending the
penal code to that effect.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-05-28
M'DERMoTT HAS PAID UP.

Former State Oil Inspector Settles
Under Examiners Report.
st. Paul. May 26.-The account of J.
A. McDermott, former state oil in
spector, was closed Saturday by the
payment to Attorney General f. T.
Young Of $4,705.20, the additional
shortage reported in his accounts as a
result of the second examination by
Public Examiner Schaefer.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-05-28
Cheese Factory Burned.

Osceola, Wis, May 26.-The cheese
factory belonging to William F. Koch
at Cedar Lake was totally destroyed
by fire. The loss is $4,000. partially
covered by insurance. The origin Of
the fire is unknown.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-05-28
Killed In Collision.

Chicago, May go. c. Bartholo-
new of Denver was killed in a COLI
sion between an electric car and an
automobile yesterday. Two other &C.
cupants of the automobile were seri-
ously injured.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-05-28
Killed a Rail Gam.

Pittsburg, May 23.-In the midst On
an exciting game Of baseball In Hazel
wood yesterday, Ralph G. Barr, aged
eleven. one OF the players, was struck
over the heart by a hard hit line drive
and died almost Immediately.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-05-28
FaII. Into slulee; Breaks Leo.

Anoka, Mimi, May 24.-Another ac-
cident happened yesterday at the Lin
coin mill dam. when A. c. Bachmann
fell head first into the sluice. He got
OF with q broken leg.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-29
FLIES SPREAD DISEASE.

A New York physician has been trap
ping flies all summer in order to YER
ify his theory that flies and not hot
weather are chiefly responsible for the
prevalence of intestinal diseases He
has compared the record of his cap
lures with that of last year and with
the health departments mortality fig
ures.
The fly season opened earlier this
year than last but reached it's height
in the month of July. as it did last
year. and the largest weekly number
Of deaths from stomach troubles re-
ported last year conceded exactly with
the largest catch of flies. A noticeable
decrease in the number of deaths cor
responded with the catch OF much
smaller number of flies. and the doctor
concludes that be has proved his case
There isn't much room to doubt the
statement that flies have great deal
to do with the dissemination of dis
ease germs. and the sick. especially
typhoid fever patients, should be close
ly watched.
War upon the mosquitoes in the
southern ports has prevented many
epidemics- of yellow fever i'm the past
few years, while the slaughter of rats
prevented the spread OF bubonic plague
in San Francisco only a short time
ago We cannot get rid of the flies.
but we can screen them out OF the sick
room and by due diligence keep them
out of the family larder.
The modern physician OF the first
class is a scientist. and his field is
worldwide There are many men Civ
ing their lives to study the origin of
various diseases and their prevention
while others use all their talent and
energy in trying to prevent the spread
OF epidemics. The medical profession,
above all others, is keeping a step in
advance, as we reach higher plane
of civilization. According to the phi
losophy of Plato the man afflicted with
disease should die and 1t is said that
the sons of HypOcrates would only
treat external disorders. but in this
twentieth century we have a better
system of philosophy and a phalanx of
physicians standing between us ana
possible harm.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-29

mornings newspapers that the presidents
return to Washington has been fastened
by his desire to direct and invigorate the
campaign from the White house. IL this
Is true, If his unmatched political skill Is
10 be superimposed upon the authority of
Senator Crane and Mr.. Hitchcock. IL Is
idle 10 talk of preserving the aloofness of
the White house for the sake Of its dig
nifty. H.will do Ike office not whit more
harm II he should deliver his passionate
eulogies OF Mr.. Taft to an audience direct
instead OF through the newspapers OF a
Monday morning.
What would be thought OF Mr.. Bryan
II i'm the White house. under similar cir
cumstances. he should organize a cam
paign and issue daily Instructions to the
electorate? Ii may be that we shall even
tualiy come 10 this procedure and find il
perfectly natural and proper. But the
novelty of it will. we believe. offend for
some time to come. AS for Mr.. Taft. one
cannot but be sorry for him.
The New York Sun perhaps the most
bitter of the newspaper foes of Mr.
Bryan. and a Taft shouter to the full
extent of its ability. exposes the hy
pocrisy of Roosevelt in its usual direct
and forcible manner. II says:
This particular remittance from great
and sinister moneyed interest TO a sup
plant statesman was somewhat, as IL
now appears, of the nature Of campaign
Foraker wanted the $4,000 10 help buy
a newspaper to promote certain political
interests and support certain policies.
Standard Oil. through the benevolent
ArcIbold. complied with prompthess and
pleasure. Subsequently, in a conmunica-
ton which Mr.. Hearst has put I'm artful
Juxta position with the $50 600 incident:
Standard Oil. through the accommodating
Archbold gave Foraker some plain hints
as 10 its desires respecting legislation.
This was between six and seven years
ago. before Standard Oil mad become 50
very sinister.
Readers of Mr.. Roosevelts franticaliy
virtuous denunciation Of this intimacy be-
tween sinister wealth and suppliant
craftsmanship will search their memories
for parallel If they search long enough
they may discover one. They will note
however. an important break in the simli-
tude between the two transactions
The difference is this: Archbold's $50
GOO was returned to Archbo,d and Stand
ard OIL. whether or not Archbold's politi-
cal suggestions were accepted by For
aker.
But in the other case. row magnifi-
Gently historic, there is no ground what
soever for believing that Harriman's $780,
600 ever found its way back TO it's sim
lister source.
The list might be indefinitely ex-
tended. but the above quotations are
sufficient to show the deep resentment
of thinking people at the course of the
president. The presidential hide is
thick. however. and we shall probably
be called upon to endure many more
outbreaks during the remainder of the
campaign.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-29
TREAcHERY IN POLITICS.

The troubles of Senator LaFollette of
Wisconsin are about to begin. The
recent state convention was dominated
by Governor Davidson and Senator Ste
phenson, both of whom were put In
office by LaFollette. The convention
turned down the Wisconsin reform pro-
gram and gave a fiat-footed endorse
ment to the national Republican plat
form. Indeed, Governor Davidson is
on record as saying that there should
be no revision OF the tariff at all. go
ing far beyond the attitude OF the
standpatters at the present time The
Republican platform declares for an
extraordinary session Of congress TO
revise the tariff in case Taft is elected
and the candidate has pledged HIM
self 20 that effect. Perhaps Governor
Davidson. with full knowledge of the
fact that the revision will be up in
stead of down. has concluded that tar
iff tnkering by the friends of the
tariff would have the effect Of making
bad matter worse. In view of the
past performances of the Republican
party. II may be his point is well
taken. but In the meantime what be-
comes of the reform principles in Wis
consin? Were the Republican leaders
in the Badger state In earnest. or
were they merely playing politics?
Governor Davidson and Senator Ste
phenson have gone over 10 the camp of
the stand-patters and are In COM
rlete control Of the party In Wisconsin.
and the news has been sent out from
will have TO fight for his seat in the
senate when his present term expires.
No tariff reform next year or any other
year az the hands OF the Republicans.