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The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-12-18
Chicago Police Believe Bomb
Thrower Designed to Wreck
the Coliseum.
WORK OF W0UlD-Bf RtfORMtR
Plan to Prevent First Ward Ball
Against Which Much Opposition
Has Been Made.

Chicago, Dec. IA - Two buildings
shattered for a block around by the
terrific explosion of a bomb in an al
ley in Wabash avenue near Sixteenth
street, last night. At first it was re-
ported that several people had lost
their lives in the ruins, but after
searching until after midnight the po-
lice stated that they believed all had
escaped. The wrecked buildings ad
join the Coliseum, where the First
ward ball. the annual revel against
the holding of which this year much
opposition has been made, is sched-
uled to be held tonight, and the pO-
lice are working on the theory that
the unknown bomb thrOwer designed
to wreck the Coliseum in order to
stop the ball.
Was Heard for a Mile.
The report of the explosion was
heard for a mile. The congregations
of Grace Episcopal church and of the
Open church and guests of several
nearby hotels rushed to the streets in
a panic. A two-story frame building
at 1913 Wabash avenue, which adj
joins the south wall of the Coliseum
annex, Immediately collapsed and
took fire. The fire leaped across an
area and spread to another frame
building, which was also wrecked.
Properties of the Coliseum stored in
the two buildings added fuel to the
flames. Crowds of excited people, be-
lieving that the great stone structure
of the Coliseum had been blown up,
rushed to the scene
Intended for Coliseum.
That the bomb was intended for the
Coliseum and that it was an effort of
some would-be reformer to make i'm
possible the holding of the ball to-
night, the police express little doubt.
Another theory is that the bomb
was thrown as another chapter in the
gamblers war;" which has been
marked by the firing Of a series of
bombs. The First ward ball has long
been a source of contention between
reformers and the promoters of the
annual festival.
Recently the pastor Of a church in
the neighborhood sought and failed to
I'll an injunction to prevent the
holding of the ball On the ground that
it was prejudicial to the morals of
the community.
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Domestic.

Mclaughlin Bros. OF st. Paul, won
every first prize for French coach
stations at the International live
stock exposition in Chicago.
The Mid-Western Manufacturers
association, composed of representa-
tiyes Of manufacturers associations
Of ten states, was organized in Chi
cago.
Capt. Robert Hanna, U. s. A., re-
tired, died suddenly in the Office Of
DR.. George E. Brewer in New York,
when just about to submit to an ex-
animation by DR.. Brewer.
A montrous rabbit hunt, in which
twenty men and boys participated,
and which resulted in the slaughter
Of 278 rabbits, ushered in the first
heavy fall of snow In the vicinity Of
Albion, Iowa.
A discharge in bankruptcy was
granted in New York to Mrs. Caroline
Leslie Carter Payne, the actress. Ac-
cording to her schedules, Mrs. Payne's
liabilities amounted to $194,418 and
her assets to $57.926.
The chair factor: of Haywood Bros.
& Co., at Gardner, Mass, the largest
factory of this kind in the country,
will go on full time Monday. For the
past eight months the factory has
been running five days a week.
Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans, re-
tired, now on the lecture platform,
does not desire the people OF Los
Angeles OF elsewhere to make him a
present of a house or anything else,
il such thing Is contemplated.
Stewart M. Brice Of New York, a
former councilman and son of the late
United States Senator Calvin S. Brice
of Ohio, was after a hearing before
a commission and a sheriff's jury, de-
clared insane and incapable of manag-
ing his W affairs.
Capt. Augustus F. Rogers, assistant
superintendent Of the United States
coast and geodetic survey and one OF
the oldest officials In the employ of
the government, died of heart trouble
at his home in San Francisco. aged
seventy-nine years.
That the American Publishers as
ISOLATION has a right to maintain a
fixed price for copyrighted books, but
has no jurisdiction over the price of
copyrighted books. is the effect of a
decision handed down by the court
Of appeals at Albany, N. Y.
Police Judge Alex MCGOWAN of
Butte. Mont. made an announcement
10 the effect that hereafter all DRINKS
would be f,ned so. Heretofore they
have been fined only S.. but, accord
inx to tho court. the sum has been
insumcient to act a. q deterrent
AGAINST i~ntoxic1tion.
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The East Side bank Of Portland,
Or, vas robbed by three masked men.
It is understood they secured about
&c. 500.
James Page, who has been watch
man at the Des Moines postofice for
thirteen years, was arrested on a
charge of robbing the mails.
e. J.. Smith, cashier of the defunct
Rocky Ford State bank, was found
guilty at La Junta. Colo, of receiving
deposits after he knew the bank was
insolvent. The minimum sentence is
five years in the state ~penitentiary.
Eight indictments charging alleged
members of the night rider band OF
Reelfoot Lake with murder in he
first degree were returned by he
grand jury at Union City, Tenn. All
of the men indicted are under arrest.
Charles A. Eckstromer, Swedish
vice consul in st. Louis, committed
suicide by drinking cyanide of potash
um. A card found beside him bore
only the name Of the drug. Eek
stromer, It is known to his friends,
had been losing lately on the races.
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NEWS Of THE week N tPlTOMf
Important Events q Home and %
Foreigs Shores Briefly
Told.
From Washington.


Chairman Payne Of the ways and
means committee presented to that
body his resignation.
Gov. John A. johnson has been ap-
pointed a member of the staff OF Gen.
J. Franklin Bell, who Is to have
charge OF the inaugural parade on
March 1.
A bill providing for the establish
nent of a tariff commission of seven
members to fix the rates of duties on
al imports has been introduced in
the house.
Gov. Magoon Of Cuba declared last
week that the American troops will
be completely withdrawn from the
island in less than ninety days after
the Inauguration C. the recently elect
cd president.
Secretary Of Agriculture Wilson has
declared that flour bleached by nitro
gen peroxide is an adulterated food
and cannot be sold in the District Of
Columbia or any of the territories or
transported in interstate commerce.
The president has accepted the
resignation Of Second Lieutenant Cal
vim P. Titus, Fourteenth United
States infantry, to take effect July Is
next, In order to engage in business.
Lieut.. Titus, when a private in the
Fourteenth infantry, was the first mar
to scale the walls of Pekin in August,
1900. during the Boxer troubles.
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Castro in Berlin.
WARNS TEDDY OF INSECTS,
African Traveller Tells President Of
Their Poisonous Bites.

Washington, Dec. 16.-J. O. Thomp-
son of Richmond, Ind, who has spent
much time in Africa, was introduced
to the president yesterday by Repre-
sentative Bede Of Minnesota. Mr..
Thompson told the president that his
greatest danger in Africa would
come from poisonous insects. He said
that the bites of some of these had
been known to produce blood poison.
The president asked Mr.. Thompson to
write him all the information he had
at hand on this subject.
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From Other Shores.

Prof. William Ireland Knapp, form
erly of Yale and Chicago university,
died in Paris.
Proclamations of the secret revolu'
tionary organizations have been post
ed condemning the shah to death for
violation of the constitution.
The fire which broke out at lie
Moule, Guadeloupe, caused consider
able distress among the poorer peo'
pie. Sixty houses were destroyed
There was no loss of life.
A dispatch to the London Times
from Teheran says the Nationalist at
Meshed, a holy city Of Northeastern
Persia, have routed the garrison and
seized the government Offices.
A revolution has begun in Salvador
under the leadership Of Former Vice
President Prudencio Alfaro. The cit
les of A~huachapan, Usutulas and San
tana have been captured by the revo'
lutionists.
1t is announced in Paris that Mulai
Hafid, the new sultan of Morocco, has
definitely accepted the Algeciras act
and the attendant conditions laid
down by the powers for the recogni
ton of his %sultanate.
A strike has occurred in the Cola,
huaso mines near Iquique, Chile.
Police were sent out to restore order
and were compelled to retire, several
of them being killed or wounded.
Troops have been dispatched to their
relief.
1t is learned in London that ].
Pierpont Morgan was the purchaser
Of the King Charles I. copy of the
Cambridge Bible, which vas sold Oh
Thursday last at the disposal sale OF
the library of Lord Amherst of Hack.
ney. The price paid was $4,000.
The most violent demonstration in
years marked the performance at the
Coincide franchise in Paris of DC.
tave Mirbeau's lie Foyer" a venom
Gus satire on the upper classes. The
police elected rioters only after a
prolonged fight. in which n police
man and a number Of spectators were
injured.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-12-18
FISH HATCHERY is FAVORED.
Fish Commission Endorses Minnesota
Project Sought by Tawney.

Washington, Dec. 16.-Representa-
tive Tawney is interested in the prof.
ect for a government fish hatchery at
Homer, south of Winona, on the Mis-
sissippi river. The United States fish
commission is favorable to the enter
prise and an estimate covering an ap-
preparation of $4,000 for it will prob
ably be made during the present ses-
sion. The hatchery is to be devoted
largely to the propagation of the fresh
water mussel in the interests Of the
shells utilized in the pearl button in.
dustry.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-12-18
Seizure of Guard Ship by Dutch
Results in Violent DEM
OnstratiOns.
CASTRO GROWING UNPOPULAR
People Are Hostile to President-Sev'
eral Seriously Injured in
Riot-One Dead.

Caracas, Venezuela, Dec. 16.-Wher
news of the capture of the Venezuelan
coast guard ship Alexis by the Dutch
cruiser Gelderland became known in
Caracas a big crowd at once assem-
bled in the Plaza Boliver and demon.
started in support of the govern
ment.
Then a crowd of citizens, including
a large number of students, went to
the Office of Eel Constitutional, the or.
gan Of President Castro, and INDUCED
in a counter-demonstration.
The feelings of this crowd were
plainly hostile to Castro and to the
policy adopted by Acting President
Gomez, who has issued a decree plac.
ing the republic in a state of defense.
Pitched Battle Fought.
A pitched battle ensued between
he employees of the paper and the
crowd on the streets. Many shots
were exchanged and the fighting last
ed for five minutes. Several men
we're wounded and one has since died.
The police were summoned. and
when they appeared on the scene,
armed with rifles, the crowd dis
persed.
The news hat the republic had
been placed in a state of national de
Tense against Holland ran through thu
city like wild fire, and in a few mo-
ments there was an enormous crowd
In front of the Yellow House, the ex-
ecutive mansion, to greet Acting
President Gomez.
Speeches were made demanding
that all political prisoners be set at
liberty n that the existing govern
ment mOnOpolies be abolished. The
threatened danger from without had
a double effect on the people; they
demanded measures of protection, but
at the same time they insisted upon
the termination of one of the most I'M
popular courses of the Castro admin
istration, the maintenance of govern
ment monopolies in the necessaries of
life.
Foreign Minister Paul replied on
behalf of the acting president. He
exhorted the people to trust Gomez
to solve the difficult problems con-
fronting Venezuela.
The hostile demonstration at the of
fees of Ell Constitutional is taken as
an evidence that the appropriately of
President Castro is growing in inten-
sity and is spreading among the peo-
pie.
Castro in Berlin.
Berlin, Dec. 15.-President Castro
of Venezuela and the members of his
party arrived here last evening. The
train reached Geological Garden sta
ton, on the edge of the city. m
what later than expected, but it was
awaited by a dense crowd of people
who had gathered out Of curiosity.
Castro will visit DR.. Israel today,
when the question of an operation will
no 6ociIo5 ,pcp
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-12-18
WoIuast Outfiahts AtteIl.

Los Angeles, CAL, Dec. lad VOL
CAST of Milwaukee outfought Abe At
tell, the featherweight champion, be-
fore the Pacific Athletic club here
last night. The fight went ten rounds
with no official decision permitted I'D,
der the law.
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LAND ARRESTS UPHELD.
Supreme Court Reverses Verdict Of
Colorado Court.

Washington, Dec. 16.-The supreme
court of the United States yesterday
in the main reversed the verdict Of
the United States district court for
the district OF Colorado, discharging
from custody several persons who
were arrested on the charge Of con-
spring to defraud the government by
entering timber and coal lands in Col.
orado contrary to law.
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SURRENDERS II POLICE.
William Crandail Says He was a For
ger and Was Converted.

Chicago, Dec. 13.-Declaring he had
been converted while On his way to
commit a robbery. William Crandall
walked into a police station last night
and asked to be arrested. He said
he was wanted at Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, for forgery. Two revolvers
with which he had equipped himself
for the robbery he turned over to a
charity worker. The police have in
formed the authorities at Cedar Rap
ids.
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Dentist Kills Doctor.

Hazlehurst, Miss, Dec. 12.-Dr. A.
S. Pitts, a prominent physician, was
shot and killed late yesterday at his
Office here by DR.. Thomas Birdsong,
a dentist. Nothing can be ascertained
as to the motive.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-12-18
Earthquake In Sicily.

Messina, Sicily, Dec. 11.-Severe
earth shocks at Mount Albano yester.
day created a panic among the PEG
nile. The church and q number OF
public and private buildings were
badly damaged.
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Four Children Die In Flames,

Ottawa, Ont: Dec. 15.-Near Haw.
thorne, eight miles from Ottawa. the
four young children of w. j. Scharffe,
a farmer, were burned to death in
their beds yesterday morning, while
the parents looked on, unable I'd give
o;I
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Mrs. Gould Denied Jury Trial.

New York, Dec. 13.-Katherine
Clemmons Gould was denied in the
appellate division of the sup.eme
court yesterday a trial by Jury in her
action for divorce from Howard Gould.
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VANIsHES FROM STEAMER,

Prominent Elk Mouno (Wis.) Citizen
Dissarears From SIS. Oceanic.
Eau Claire, Wis, Dec. 12.-Anton
Rosenberg, a well-known citizen of
Elk Mound, sailed three weeks ago
on the steamship Oceanic of the
White Star Line for Europe. A letter
received yesterday said that when
the boat reached Southampton Mr..
Rosenberg was missing. His hat, coat
and vest were found in a toilet room.
No further clue was given.
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Kills Employer for $2.25.

Kills Employer for $2.25.
Cleveland, Dec. 15.-After an argu
ment over 1925 in wages Frank Ross
an italian laborer. shot and killet
John Clifton, an excavation contract
or. the police say. Ross escaped.
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HANsBRoUGH HAS RELAPSE.
North Dakota Senator Is Taken to AS
bury Hospital in MINNEAPOLIS,

Minneapolis, Dec. 13.-United States
Senator H. C. H%ansbrough of North
Dakota, who has been i'll in Mime
apolis for a number of days, had a
decided turn for the worse yesterday,
and he was removed to Asbury hos
pital. While in Minneapolis he suf-
fered an attack of an old trouble,
which affected him ear, and his condi-
ton has become worse, so that it was
decided to take him to the hospital.
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SAD END OF WEDDINGS JOKE,
Bridegroom Dying From Tuberculosis
Resulting From EXPOSURE.

Resulting From Exposure.
Des Moines, Dec. 15.-As the re-
suit of a wedding joke Joe Bergstrom
is dying of consumption, and Satur-
one month.
On the wedding night friends kid
mapped and tied him to a tree, where
he remained for several hours until
found and liberated by a minister.
Exposure brought on consumption.
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Accidental happenings.

Tom Tampe, a miner in the New
port mine at Ironwood, Mich, was
torn to pieces by . descending skip.
Jonathan N. Randolph, ffty-lve.
years old, . contractor OF Plainfeld,
N. J., was struck and fatally injured
~ an automobile.
While crawling through q fence
while hunting. Wilbur G. Ferguson. a
farmer Of near Agona, Iowa, acct
dentally shot and killed himself.
Rev. r. H. 6idbotham. aged thirty
four years. q missionary recently re-
turned from Korea. died at LApeer,
Mich, from burns received in q gaso-
line explosion.
Mistaking q package Of oxalic acid
for one containing salts, Mrs. Demon
nth, wife Of Nicholas O. Demorath, a
prominent attorney Of Kewanee, H.,
swallowed . spoonful and died from
the effects.
Two girls, Mabel Van Buskirk and
Elva james, said to be from Burn
ham, Pa, were found asphyxiated in
their rooms at Harrisburg, Pa. The
police authorities say indications
point suicide.
The nitro1glycerin tanks Of the In
dependent Powder works exploded at
Webb City, Nc. One man is known
to have been killed and several seri-
ously hurt. The explosion was felt
over = radius OF fifteen miles.
Grimes.
w. J. Doran, q solicitor. was hit On
the back Of the head and knocked
senseless and robbed Of $50 at Mason
City, Iowa. Two arrests were made.
-Four men and one woman, alleged
diamond robbers from Chicago, are
under arrest at Winnipeg. They were
captured while trying to rob Porte &
Markle, jewelers..
Wholesale indictments were re-
turned BY the grand jury ct Mason
City, lows, against i've residents Of
Mesorvey, who are charged with con-
spiracy and With resisting an ohicer.
The trouble grew from = feud among
omcials II that place.
Altan merrill Is dead at Carmi. ILL.,,
aftsr haying his skull crushed with
ii u - the result Of his action in
taoslNg Prof. Roy Stun. . local
ocho@xx teacher. NcRilf knocked Stunts
~ Qll thsse times Il s~uccession. The
t6ah4kk, angored, se1ssd N u and
eru1M96 his toFmentoEis had
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wonderfully clear and sweet voice
laid down my book to. listen. The
words came distinct and Beautiful:
"Flow gently, sweet Alton. among thy
green braes-
Flow gently; I'll sing thee song in thy
praise
Could it be Little Watts singing In
such voice? While l locked and lis
tened | saw Little Watts coming from
a we'll at the back of the house with a
pail of water.
could not restrain my curiosity. AS
he came near my window asked.
who is that singing?"
MY sister Elise" he answered eager
ly, his face beaming.
"She has wonderful voice." ! said.
Hasn't she, thought" exclaimed Lit
tie Watts, with more enthusiasm than
| had ever before seen in him.
did you ever hear any of those big
singers?' he went on.
Eyes"
"Can they sing any better than she
can?"
We'll, they are much older than your
sister, and of course they are highly
trained. How old is your sister?"
sixteen
Before many days | and others in
our neighborhood sat in the scantily
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A slip Of The tongue is worse than
that of the foot.-Spanish Proyerb.
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Hiah Stakes.

Stella - An exciting bridge game!
BeIla-Very: we played for each 9TH
er's oks-Harper's Bazaar
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of the town were white with snow
when the sun came out the next morn
ing.
Elise came at o'clock. Little Watts
pulled himself up on his pillows TO
meet her and welcome her.
There was no sign in his eyes or
face of sorrow in his heart at this end
ing of all his own hopes and plans for
the future. He met Elise with smile
and with fearless eyes. For moment
she thought it must all have been a
mistake about his being so i'll.
"Now 60 and sing for me- he SAID
after few minutes.
They rolled his bed to the door that
he might see her at the new piano
Elise sat before it with streaming eyes
and sang the little ballads and the Old
songs he had loved SO well.
"rhere was one" he whispered
..about the shining shore and my Fa
ther hath many mansions Won't yo'
sing that, Elise?'
She sang it with trembling voice. ant
while she was singing Little Watts
looked up with wide open eyes as j
he were gazing at something wonder
full that he could not see and theI
| sank back. his eyes closed forever
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again when Elise wrote the letter that
told when she would start for home.
Little Watts brought me the letter to
read.
Il shall reach home about the last
day of October" she wrote. "You need
not send me any more money. am
afraid you have sent me too much now.
It is time for me to begin paying it
back to you. You must be here next
year and at home working and earn
ing money for you. If I'm not too
tired. shall sing for you and mother
the very night come. I'm so anxious
to show you how we'll your money has
been spent!''
She was delayed little and came on
the third day of November. 1t was on
the afternoon of the first day of that
month that the man whose duty it now
was to give out the papers said to me:
Little Watts didn't show up for his
papers this morning. It's the first
morning he's failed to come since I've
been here. l wonder if he's sick?"
mot that know Of" ! replied. 1T
was terribly stormy morning. you
know"
"The weather has never made any
difference with him before. He's been
on hand the first one many a morning
worse than this. Poor little chap.
How he's escaped pneumonia as long
as he has is Il wonder to me-"
,Ia hoI Shnnn
days First rain and then snow had
| fallen nearly all the time A fierce cold
wind had swept down from the noun
| tains. The barren town had never
seemed so gloomy and cheerless and
desolate to me as it did now.
At noon went to see Little Watts.
His mother came to the door and said
briefly and in low tone, for Little
Watts was in the next room and the
door was open:
Hes real sick The doctor is afraid
it's going to be pneumonia. I've tried
to keep him in the last three days. but
he would go out. You see why"
| Her eyes were full of tears as she
pointed toward the corner of the room
There stood a shining upright piano
with stool of crimson velvet be
| fore it,
''He made the first payment on then
Yesterday" Mrs. Watts said. HE was
so anxious to have them here fo
Elise"
"Well, he's perfect little hero. Mrs
Watts" said under my breath, bu
heartily. II believe he will be able t
fight off even the pneumonia for th'
sake of Elise"
He was worse the next day.
Hell never be any better said th
doctor in the afternoon when me
him coming out of the shabby littl
house.
In the evening Little Watts said in
whisper:
She'll be here in the morning, won
she?'
"At O'clock" said.
; "Then I'll hear her sing again" h
answered.
. The wind died away in the nigh
, The skies cleared. All Of the distaI
ranges. the nearer hills and the street
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books. and you may use any that you
like to read"
A small, thin faced woman came to
the door and looked inquiringlE from
me to Little Watts.
He rose and said: Mother, this IS
Mr. Hart of the Leader. You've heard
me speak about him.
$50 / have" said Mrs. Watts quick
". "The Leader folks are real good TO
nv boy. sir. He tells me about it, and
I'm very much obliged"
The window of my room looked out
upon the house which the Watts fam
lily occupied. A day or two after their
arrival was sitting in my open win
dow. The windows of the other house
were also open. and through them
came the sound of some one singing IN