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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-06-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN tPITOME
Digest of the News Worth Telling Con.
densed for the Busy
Reader.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Contracts for four torpedo boats
have been awarded, one to each OF
four certain shipbuildings companies.
Representative Rodenberg of I'LL
nois has introduced a resolution pro-
viding for an appropriation Of $500, 900
for participation by the United States
In the Brussels exposition in 1910.
A proposed amendment to the inter
state ommerc Law TO give shippers
the right of appeal to the courts now
enjoyed by the railroads was present
ed to President Taft by a delegation
Of citizens from Spokane. Wash.
President Taft has accepted an in
vitation to address the national con-
ference to be held in Washington in
January to aid uniform legislation by
the states on pure food, child labor,
railway legislation, divorce, taxation
and other subjects.
To bring the coffin containing the
body of William Penn, which now re-
poses in a practically abandoned GEN.
etery in Buckinghamshire, England,
TO this country and have II inferred
on the banks Of the Delaware is the
gist of a movement just launched in
congress.
The general average condition of
crop growth in the United States on
June 1, as based on all the crops re-
ported to the department of agricul-
lure, was approximately 4 per cent be-
low the conditions on June 1 of last
year., but about s per cen better than
two years ago.
Members of the Modoc and klamath
indian tribes have filed a complaint
with the secretary Of the interior
against H. G. Wilson, Indian agent in
klamath reservation, alleging neglect
In the education of their children and
naming other alleged ~,offenses. for
which they ask his removal.
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GALLANT RACE SAVES 600.
Wireless Message Brings Aid to
Stricken Liner.

London, June IA gallant race by
the Princess Irene of the North Ger
man Lloyd and the Batavia of the
neutrality-suspicious. line was all that
saved the 600 souls aboard the Gu
nard liner Slavonia, wrecked Thurs
day noon off the south coast Of Flores
island. in the Azores, according to dis
patches received by the Cunard Of
fees.
When the Princess Irene and the
Batavia reached the Slavonia in an
swer to the latter's distress calls the
Cunarder was rapidly filling and the
passengers were in a wild state of
fright.
The Princess Irene got a wireless
call from the disabled ship Thursday
noon while $50 miles from the scene
of the wreck. The captain of the
Princess Irene ordered the vessel for
ward at top speed.
En- route to the Slavonia the Ba-
tavia vas picked up and informed of
the need of aid and she, too. joined in
the a.
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BANDITS RAKE IN
. $4,000 IN GOLD
Hold Five Men and Two Women
Helpless While They Clean
Out Bunk House of Mine.
HOLD-UP IN YEARS
Unarmed Man Gives Chase-Bandits
Open Fire, WOunding One Of
Their Own Horses.

Telluride, Colo, June 15.-Holding
five men and two women helpless un-
der the muzzles of revolvers, three
masked men early yesterday morning
secured S40,0 900 in gold from the bunk
house of the Nellie mine on Bear
creek and made their escape after a
pursuit that had it's climax in an exhl-
5ition of stage fright on the part OF
the bold gun men. The only casualty
was the wounding of one of the ban
dts horses by one of the bandits.
The holdup was the most daring
country for years.
Walk Right In.
Fred Zanneti, a former employe or
the mine, was arrested late in the
day in Telluride, and is being held
pending an investigation. The ban
dts entered the bunk house without
making any attempt to move quietly.
One of them. who was apparently IA
miliar with the arrangements, walked
unhesitatingly to the switch and turn
ed on the electric light. When the
sleepers awoke they found themselves
gazing into the barrels of six guns,
each man holding two and covering
every occupant of the room.
Make Precise Demand.
Telling every one in the bunk house
to remain in their beds, the spokes-
man demanded the amalgam and Gull
ed ore. Realizing that resistance was
useless, Kent, the manager, told the
man where the ore was hidden.
After warning the five men that if
they were pursued or an alarm was
sounded Immediately after their de-
parture they would shoot and shoot to
kill, the bandits half rolled and half
slid down a steep cut to where they
had left their horses.
Bandits Poor Shots.
Although he was unarmed, Kent
Immediately started On the trail of
the robbers, and he came upon them
while they were dividing the booty,
preparatory to mounting.
Two of the robbers opened fire, but
they were apparently unused to fire.
arms, as the net damage by the
twelve or more shots was the wound
ing of n of their own horses. Kent
beat a retreat and the robbers hastily
rode away. Posses are still searching
for the bandits.
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EARTHQUAKE IN FRANCE.
Several Towns in Southern Part Are
Entirely Devastated.


Marseilles, June Is. - From IS to
100 dead and 100 injured is the esti-
mated total casualties as the result
Of the earthquake which devastated
several towns and villages in the
southernmost part of France, particu-
larly in the departments of Herault
and Bouches du Rhone.
Great suffering is reported from the
remoter places, owing to a lack of
bread and the ne~cessaries of life, be-
fore the arrival of assistance.
May Be Many in Ruins.
The casualties may be greatly in
creased, as the ruins have not been
entirely searched. The villages of
st. Cannat and Rognez were complete
ly demolished by the earthquake, and
Lambesc, which is twelve miles from
AK, suffered heavily. According to
advices received here a number of
wounded are still imprisoned in the
ruins. and soldiers are working des-
perately to rescue them.
Survivors are sleeping in tents and
the streets are impossible. In many
places they have been torn up and
are encountered with masses of rocks.
Houses, public buildings and churches
were crumbled to pieces. Among 9TH
er villages seriously damaged are
Vauvanargues, Venelles, Pelissanne,
Puy Ste. Reparde and Arguilles.
The victims at st. Cannat and Rog-
nee were horribly mutilated. There
were evidences that several of the
victims had lived for hours imprison-
ed by the debris before they died. The
people rushed into the streets when
the first shock occurred, crying out in
terror. Many of them returned to the
rescue of their families.
Again 81 aiken.
Paris. June 14.-The work of res.
u among the villages in the south
of France which suffered from the
earthquake continues, but owing to
the fact that communications are
greatly interrupted details of the dis.
aster are few. There were slight seis-
mic shocks again yesterday morning
in various districts, but no damage
was reported.
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BLOCK fluBUSTtRING NOW
Revenue Cutters on Watch for Vessel:
Supposed to Be Carrying Arms
to Venezuela. Z

Beaufort, N. c., June 15.-With two
evenue cutters, the Seminole and the
Pamlico, on watch, with a northeaster
running off the coast and great seas
making the inlets connecting the
North Carolina sounds with the At
lantic ocean impossible for anything
but the strongest craft, the chances
Of the success of a filibustering expe-
dition from these waters directed
against Venezuela are today very
small.
Saturday afternoon the cutter Pam
leo left her headquarters at New
berne, N. c., under instructions from
the treasury department to get in
touch at once with the ancient side
wheel steamer Nanticoke, which is
suspected of flibustering intentions.
The treasury departments activity
was invoked because of persistent ru-
mors that ex-PTesident Castro's
friends were planning a hostile ex-
petition against President Gomez's
government. 1t was alleged that ten
or fifteen thousand stands of arms
had been shipped from Belgium to
America for this expedition.
Secret service men and other
agents discovered that two vessels
suitable for filibustering purposes had
been sold by g New York ship broker
age firm to unknown parties.
Both were in the vicinity Of Nor
folk, and n was found to be the old
side-wheel steamer Nanticoke. The
name OF the other cannot be learned.
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CRIMES.

Murad Bey. editor and proprietor OF
the Constantinople Mizan, has been
sentenced to life Imprisonment at
hard labor for participation in the rev.
dictionary movement of April 13.
Frederick Fl. Brigham, head book
keeper Of the Merchants National
bank of New Haven, Conn, was ar
rested charged with embezzlement. 1t
Is said the shortage will reach $40,-
BOO.
A burglar fed before a broom WELD.
ed by Miss Alice Kelly, seventeen
years old, and jumped through a sec
ond-story window at Chicago, when
he was discovered by the girl in her
bedroom.
Formal action was taken at Mercer.
Pc, by William F. McDermott of Chi
cago. brother of Mrs. Helen Boyle.
now serving twenty-five year for the
abduction of Willie Whitla. to obtain
her release from the penitentiary at
P%ittsburg.
Joseph Floria, an italian. was ar.
rested at Albany. N. ", after he had
called at the residence of Bishop T,
M. burke of the Catholic diocese,
where he is alleged to have made a
threat that he would shoot the bishop.
Bishop Burke was in Troy at the time.
W. lie returning nome from a picnic
at P;ttsburg in company with Mrs,
Fannie Rodgers. Charles F. Frohman
was a~ssassinated. Five shots were
nr.d at Frohman from ambush. -four
of them taking effect. Mrs. Rodgers
was arrested, charged with being an
accessory to the murder.
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LINER SLAVONIA
COMPLETE WRECK
Big Cunard Steamer Strands OIL
Flores Island, in the
Azores Group.
PASSENGERS ARE ALL RESCUED
Taken Off in Safety by Princess Irene
and the Batavia, Which
We're Nearby.

New York. June 13.-Through a pri-
vate cable message news reached
New York that the Cunard liner Sla-
vonia, bearing 10 cabin passengers
and 300 passengers in the steerage,
stranded off Flores island, in the
Azores group. The vessel, which left
this port Of Naples on June 3, is al.
most a complete wreck, but thanks to
the timely aid rendered b. North Ger
man Lloyd and Neutrality-suspicious.
liners, which were near by, every pas
senger, according to the best reports
here, was taken off in safety.
The list of cabin passengers on the
Slavonia, as given out by the Cunard
liner, contains no addresses, but the
irst-class passengers are practically
all Americans, among them fifteen or
twenty in a Coolas' tourist party.
Is Dangerous Place.
Flores island, off which the Slavonia
stranded, is the most westerly of the
Azores group, with dangerous and
precipitous cliffs. The laundering of
the vessel there a be easily imag-
ined, but by good fortune the Princess
Irene and the Batavia, which left New
York on June 5 and June 3, respect
lively, were close by and rendered
prompt assistance.
The Slavonia is a twin screw steam
ship of 1906 gross tonnage, is $40
feet long, with a 50-foot beam, and is
90 feet deep. Her commander is Capt.
A. G.. Dunning. The vessel is compar-
atively new, having been built at Sun
derland, England, in 1903.
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GREAT PREACHER LAID TO REST.
Thousands Pay Reverent Tribute to
Edward Everett Hale.

Edward Everett Hale.
Boston, June 15.-Under the gold
domes of the auditorium of the South
Congregational church, where for Sc
many years Edward Everett Hale
broke the bread of life to his people,
there gathered yesterday the great
Unitarian family of Boston to pay
a last tribute to the earthly form of
the great leader of Unitarianism, the
preacher, author, philosopher and
friend of all mankind, while at the
same time a host of friends and ad-
mirers of DR.. Hale gathered at the
Park Street Unitarian church to lis
ten to eulogies by clergymen of many
creeds. Throughout the city from
sunrise to sunset flags were floated at
half-mast by order of the city's chief
executive.
The body of DR.. Hale lay in state
from 10 until 1 o'clock in the South
Congregational church, and was view
ed by thousands. The body was then
taken to the Forest Hills cemetery,
where the burial services were strict
ly private.
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MOURNfD BY WHOLE COUNTRY
Rev. Edward Everett Hale, Philan'
thrOpist, Author and Divine
Passes Away.

Boston, June 1.-THE morning light
was breaking as the venerable Rev.
Edward Everett Hale. D. D.. chaplain
| Of the United States senate, Unitarian
divine, philanthropist, author, jour
nalist and lover of peace, breathed his
last yesterday in his home In Rox-
bury. At the bedside were his wife,
his daughter, Miss Ellen d. Hale, and
his son, Philip L. Hale, the artist. Two
other sons, Arthur Hale of Washing
ton and Prof. Edward Everett Hale,
Jr., of Union college, returned home
last evening.
On his return from Washington a
few weeks ago 1t was reported that
DR.. Hale was not in good health, but
he soon regained his activity and un-
til Tuesday attended meetings and re-
ceived friends. Wednesday night,
however, he showed signs of distress,
and, rapidly weakening, passed peace
fully away in the early hours OF the
morning.
Whole Country Mourns.
II seemed yesterday as If the whole
country joined in mourning the loss
Of DR.. Hale. Messages expressing sor'
row and esteem poured into the Hale
household, one of the first being from
President and Mrs. Taft.
AS an author DR.. Hale's fame rests
on his short stories, such as "The Man
Without a Country" as an instigator
of the general uplift, the work of the
two great organizations, the Lend-a-
Hand club and the Kings Daughters,
will always add to his renown; as a
minister and pastor, his half century
in the pulpit of the South Congrega-
tional church and his preaching in
wise spiritual inspiration; while as a
historian his writings have become
authorities.
Great Life Work.
It was DR.. Hale who, twenty years
before it's consummatiOn, predicted a
worldwide peace tribunal; 1t was DR..
Hale who upheld Garrison and Phil
lips in their anti-slavery work; it was
DR.. Hale whose benevolent counsel
brought comfort to the sick and
wounded soldiers on the battlefields Of
the Civil war, as a member of the a n
itary commission, and it was DR.. Hale
who gave to the world the famous
stanza:
Look up and not down;
Look forward and not back;
Look out and not in;
Lend a hand"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-06-17
MUST G CASE.
Calhoun Prosecution Rejects Defense
Proposal.


Proposal.
San Francisco, June 13.-The taking
OF testimony In the Calhoun cas- alb
ruptly terminated yesterday, the de-
Tense announcing a desire to submit
the case TO the jury without argument.
The prosecution, however, opposed
this and arguments will be begun next
Monday.
When the courts decision was an
nounced Mr.. Heney stated that the
people had no further testimony to
offer and there was a prompt submits
sion of the case by Stanley Moore, one
of the attorneys for the defendant.
Mr.. Heney rejected a proposal to
submit the case without argument, de-
claring that the proposal made by the
defense was intended as an effort to
influence the jury.
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DOUBLE TRAGEDY.

PeddIer Shoots Fruit Dealer and Then
Kills Himself.
Des Moines, June 13.-After quar-
re!ing over an account with Herbert
Todd of the wholesale fruit firm of
Todd & Kraft. Moses Rice, a Hebrew
peddler, fired three shots into Todd's
body at s o'clock yesterday morning.
An hour later Rice was found dead,
having taken an ounce of carbolic acid
with suicidal intent. Todd was taken
to the hospital, where he is not ex.
pected to live.
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BODY IN DISUSED TUNNEL.
Possible Murder Mystery Is Revealed
in Shaft Beneath Saloon.

Chicago, June 15.-The police have
another death mystery they call the
tunnel murder" The body of a man,
m~iddle-aged, fairly we'll dressed, six
feet tall, slender and of refined APP
pearance, was found at the bottom of
a ffty-foot disused tunnel shaft at
Eldridge court and State street. The
mouth of the shaft is covered with
an iron cap. 1t is in the basement Of
a saloon, the keeper of which says
the shaft has not been oepned for a
year. The body was found in a foot
of water, fifty feet beneath the street.
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FarefeII to RockhjU--

Pekinig, June Is. - w. w. Rockhill
the retiring American minister to
China, was received in farewell audi
ence yesterday by the regent, Prince
Chung, who expressed very cordial
sentiments toward Mr.. Rockhill and
the United States.
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ADD BLAcKMAII TO CRIMES.
Federal Authorities Eager for Heavy
Penalties in Black Hand Cases.

Columbus, June Is. Charges Of
blackmail may be brought by the
state against members of the Marion
Black Hand conspiracy, with a penal
ty of twenty years in the pe~nitentiary,
against eighteen months provided by
the federal statutes. Federal authori-
ties will not surrender their prisoners
until after they have paid the penalty
for violation Of the postal laws, but
they are ready to assist in the prose-
cution Of state cases by furnishing
evidence, information or testimony.
1t is felt that the federal penalty Is
wholly inadequate to meet the case.
An effort probably will be made to re.
move its limitations by making it
broader and with a possible maximum
penalty of twenty years.
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DRIVE BEFORE TRAIN.
Third Member of Party, Woman, Seri.
ously Injured.

Marion, Ind, June 15.-Burr Moore
and his brother-in-law, Ora Raypoltz,
were instantly killed and Mrs. Burr
Moore seriously injured when the rig
they were driving was struck by a Bic
Four train a mile north of Marion.
Mrs. Moore is now in the hospital
with a broken leg, crushed arm and
internal injuries. The party drove in
front of the train during a rain storm.
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Kills F~ather.in-iaw.

Webb City, Mo-, June 12.-Following
a quarrel with his wife, RUDE Under
wood, t~hirty-five years of age, last
night shot and killed his fa%ther-in-law,
j.. =. Small, sixty years old. at the
latter's home here.
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Women Attack Thief.

New York, June 12.-Caught as he
was leaving the Church of st. Andrew,
Duane street and City Hall place, with
a golden chalice and paten under his
coat, James Brady was nearly killed
by a crowd of infuriated women.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-06-17
Child browns In Cellar.

GAINESVILLE, Mimi, June Is. - The
two-year-old son of Tony Diemert of
Georgetown was drowned last Thurs.
day by falling into a cellar filed with
water.
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ITALIAN sLEEDS TO DEATH.
Hit by Shotgun, Dies Before Medical
Aid Comes.

Glencoe, Mimi, June 15.-An Italian
named Rocco, n of a large gang of
Italians who are at work along the
Milwaukee road, was accidentally shot
in the leg yesterday with a shotgun
by q fellow workman and bled to
death before medical aid could reach
him. The Italians maintain that the
shooting was accidental.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-06-17
MEAT INSPECTION ONLY A FARCE
Inspector Resigns and Demands In
v~estiu5tion Of Packing Plant.

ve~stigStion Of Packing Plant.
st. Louis, June 12.-After eighteen
months service as a United States
meat inspector in East St. Louis pack
ing houses, J. F. Harms has resigned
and has written a letter to Secretary
OF Agriculture Wilson demanding an
investigation of the meat inspection
system at the National stock yards.
Harms: who has gone to his home in
Fremont, Ohio, asserts that he resign
ed because he could not tolerate the
conditions he saw, and that inspectors
in charge of the bureau of animal in
dustry are too lenient with the pack
ers.
He says no animus prompted his
letter.
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Are Unfit for Use.

ITO illustrate: On April 1, 1909.
Drs. Graham and Stingley retained
and condemned eleven beef c~arcasses
for emaciation. On April 2 Drs. Clan
cy and Meaders released six of said
carcasses to the packers. The re-
naming five were tanked and destroy
ed.
81 have e animals in a dying con-
dition dragged into the killing beds
and marked u. S. inspected and pass
ed"
Harms cited several specific in
stances of lax Inspection methods. de.
claring that meat condemned by sub
inspectors has been later released TO
the packers by higher officials in the
service.
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Brand Is Meaningless.

After asserting that United States
inspected and passed." as it appears
on products of all the packing houses,
is meaningless because of the made
quacy of the inspection, Harms says
in part:
"The inspection at the National
stock yards, Illinois, is costing the
people approximately $4,000 a year,
and it is not actually worth 81 to
them; for when the word is passed
from the inspector in charge on to
the Inspectors actually doing the work
on the floors that they are getting too
many condemned animals and to
change the grading, what does that
mean? II means that the whole thing
is rotten and a farce.
Mr.. Secretary, the packers are get
ting today from 20 to so per CEN Of
what ought to be condemned and de-
Stroyed.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-10-28

Do the people of Virginia want to pay
double costs for the holding of an cleo
ton each year? Do they want to pay
for holding their own election and also
pay for holding politicians election?
mat is what Democratic Legislature
is going to try to bring about That is
what legalized primary means; and
an effort will be made at the next meet
ing of the Legislature to legalize the
primary elections. The politicians are
getting tired of paying the expenses of
the primaries and they want to shift
the burden upon the taxpayers. The
legalized primary will cost the people
about thirty thousand dollars each year.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-10-28

Col. B. o. James, of Richmond, at a
meeting of the Democratic State Exec
utive Committee on Friday last was Sc
lected to fill the vacancy on the Demo
cratic ticket caused by the death of d.
Q. Eggleston, Secretary of the Com
monwealth, and who was a candidate
for reelection. Following his selection
by the State Committee, Governor
Swanson appointed Colonel James to
fill out the unexpired term of Mr.. Egg
gleston, and he was immediately induct-
ed into that office.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-10-28

In freight wreck on the Virginia &
Southwestern, near Orlean, 10 miles
east of Big Stone Gap, Va, on Satur-
day, Frank Groseclose, engineer of an
eastbound coal train, was killed and
much damage was done to equipment.
A section foreman loading rails on
car had put out signal half mile dis
tsnt, which GroseclOse answered, but
failed to stop his train, which struck
the car of rails and the engine overturn-
ed, MASKING him to death.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1909-10-28
Prosperity Galore.

10 addition to the order for fifty more
otthe heaviest type of freight locomo-
tives placed last week with the Ameri-
can Locomotive Company, the Balti-
more & Ohio board of directors at a
meeting on Monday authorized the i'm
mediate ordering of 1909 steel hopper
cars and 1000 steel underframe box
cars. This brings the total new equip
ment now under construction for this
road to ITO locomotives, $500 refrigera-
tor cars, 1000 coke cars and 4, 900 hop-
per cars, all to be of the largest capac-
ity possible
Coal shippers will learn of the big
order for steel hoppers with much re-
lief, as also of the continued great ac-
tivity in the company's shops In putting
the present equipment in best possible
shape for immediate service. Some
SIS, 900, 900 for new equipment shows
the Baltimore and Ohio's faith in the
permanency Of business demands.