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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-06-10
WOMAN DIES WITH HER TOTS.
Alleged ~EmpezzIer's Wife FIees From
Qisarace to Death

st. Louis, June s. - Twelve hours
after her husband, John Glaesser, a
cigar salesman had been arrested on
the charge of embezzlement Mrs.
Martha Glaesser was found dead in
bed by the side of the dead bodies of
her children, Annette, a girl eight
years old, and John, Jr., five years old.
The room was filled with gas and the
local police advance the theory that
the mother turned it On. The bodies,
clad in night clothes, were found at 8
a. m. yesterday by the suspects
brother, Nicholas Glaesser. 1t is sup
posed that the arrest of her husband
preyed on Mrs. Glaesser's mind.
Yesterday afternoon Glaesser was
released and the company which caus-
ed his arrest said there would be no
prosecution as Glaesser had been pun
ished severely already. When he left
the police station the police told him
his wife and babies were i'll.
Glaesser was charged with embez-
zling $275.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-06-10
CASUALTIES.

William Donahue and three italian
employees drowned while boating on a
mill pond near Atglen, Pa.
N. l.. Peel, engineer, and f. G. Gair,
second mate Of the British steamer
Northumbria, anchored off Gulfport,
Mass, drowned. Gair had gone to
Peels rescue.
Santa Fe train No. 8, west, known
as the California fast mail, was
wrecked at Peabody, Kan, and H. c.
Thompson, postal clerk, Of Kansas
City, was killed. No passengers were
hurt.
George, the three-year-old son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Ingraham Of Mason
City, Iowa, borrowed his fathers
jackknife, and while playing with it
jabbed It into his eye, completely de-
stroying the sight.
Two thousand feet of the Nevada
grain docks at Port Costa, on the San
Francisco bay, in which all the grain
from California for foreign ports Is
loaded, was burned. The loss is esti-
mated at more than 81, 900, 900.
A ten-year-old daughter of Stephen
Litherland, living near Hazleton, Ind.
is dead from the effects of drinking
concentrated I've eight years ago.
Since the accident the child had been
unable to take anything but liquid
n%ourishment. A tumor formed in her
stomach and caused her death.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-06-10
NEWS 0FTHE WEEK IN tPITOMf
Digest of the News Worth Telling Con-
densed for the Busy
Reader.
WASHINGTON NOTES.

The treasury deficit for the month
OF May is shown to have been s5,453,'
B55, and for the eleven months of the
current fiscal year a deficit of $97..
s58.102 is indicated.
Government officials are agitated
over the discovery OF an obstruction
I'm the Delaware river, in the vicinity
of Fort Mifin, which they think may
prove to be a treasure ship which
went down in 1912.
Maj. Kelly, superintendent OF the
Rosebud Is. d. indian agency, has
been suspended by order OF the secre.
tary of the Interior. The agency will
be temporarily placed in charge of a
department inspector.
President Taft has approved a
change in the naval regulations rec.
commended by Secretary Meyer by
which midshipmen are prohibited
from marrying until the completion
OF the prescribed six years course of
training.
Lieut.. Gen. Macarthur, the ranking
officer of the army, has been placed
on the retired list by operation OF law
on account Of age, and the grade OF
lieutenSnt general ceases to exist in
the army. Gen. Macarthur Is now at
his home In Milwaukee.
Regulations designed to preservs
food fishes in inland waters contigu.
GUS to the United States and Canada
have been signed BY commissioners of
the two governments. Formal ap-
prevail will have to be given the regu-
lations by both governments before
they become operative.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-06-10
|WItLDS RAzOR-EDGtD KNIFE
Mad Hog.Killer Kills Five Fellow Work.
men and Fatally Slabs Three .
Others. -

Boston, June S. Afrightful tragedy
was enacted in the plant of the North
Packing and Provision company at
East Somerville Saturday, when John
Murphy, a pig sticker," suddenly be-
came a raving maniac and ran amuck
among more than a hundred of his fell
low workmen, killing five almost in
stantly, fatally wounding three others
and slashing several more before b"
was overpowered.
Panic in Killing Room.
There was a panic among the en-
ployes in the killing room, on the sew
enth floor, when Murphy began his,
deadly work. All hands rushed for
the doors, with the maniac in close
pursuit, brandishing the razor-edged
knife, about ten inches in length.
which he used in his work Of slaugb-
tering hogs.
Down the stairs he pursued the
crowd of yelling workmen, slashing
vigorously as he overlook first one
and then another.
An italian grabbed an iron bar go
ing down the stairs and knocked Muir
ply to the floor with it, but he was up
in an instant and cut several more be-
fore another blow from the bar
stretched him on his side and the bar
drODDad from his hand
Captors Beat Slayer.
But he was still conscious and, stag
gering to his feet, ran into the ham
smoking department, on the third
floor of the building. Here he was un-
able to breathe, and as he tried to get
away from the ~suffocating place he
was jumped upon by a dozen men,
borne to the floor and captured.
Some Of the workmen were so en-
ragged by the fearful scene that they
had witnessed that they lost their
heads and administered a severe beat
ing to Murphy before the police could
get him away.
Murphy had been acting queerly of
late. He is a married man with three
children. He has worked for the COM
pany five years and has always been
regarded as a sober, steady and indus
trious man. He is short, stocky and
powerfully built. From his occupation
of cutting heads off swine he had ac-
CURED a fierce dexterity with the nine
inch knife.
In a padded cell at the Somerville
police station Murphy allowed no one
to approach him yesterday, and after
hours of raving he began to pray. To-
day he will be given a hearing.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-06-10
CRIMES.

A. r. Stinsel. an insurance man OF
Mount Carmel, ILL.,, committed suicide
In Evansville. Ind.
Onaferio Chiramente, the Italian
charged with the murder of b. Label
la, a wealthy italian merchant of New
York was convicted OF murder in the
FIRST degree at Tampa, Fla.
Milton Boyce, organist in the Sa.
cred Heart Catholic church, a rich
congregation at Cincinnati, Is in the
county Jail. following his arrest on a
warrant charging forgery.
A man who says he was a student
at Yale and has wealthy relatives In
the East was arrested in Chicago on
the charge Of shooting two women in
a disorderly resort. He Is twenty.
twenty-four years old.
The unwritten law scored a victory
at Hattiesburg. Miss, in the case of
G. L. Crosby, charged with the. muir
der of ]. r. McShan, when the jury
brought In a verdict of not guilty.
Crosby found McShan in the woods
with his wife and killed him with a
shotgun. Crosby was cheered as he
left the court house.
John II. Wood. former president of
the Matthews National bank of Mat.
thews, Ind. was released from the
federal prison at Leavenworth after
the expiration of a term of six years.
He was convicted of making loans in
excess OF the amount allowed by law.
Max Emmerich. a bookkeeper in
the Capital National bank OF Indian.
apolis, a disappeared. Frank ID.
Stalnaker. president OF the bank
made a public statement that an e
animation of Emmerich's books
shows he was responsible for a cash
shortage of $4,000.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-06-10
PERSONAL.

G.. M. Sheppard, general assistant
In the traffic department OF the New
York, New Haven e. Hartford rail
road. died at New Haven from acute
gastritis.
David NJ. Parry, for twenty-seven
years president of the Parry Manu-
featuring company Of Indianapolis,
has resigned to take up another line
OF business.
The marriage Of Miss Beatrice
Thaw of %Pittsburg. to Dor Francesca
Thaw, daughter of Alexander Blair
Theodoli Of Italy took place at the
Thaw residence in Rome.
John III. Gregg, a prominent grain
dealer of st. Joseph, dropped dead
following a game of golf at the Coun-
try club. Mr.. Gregg was apparently
in good health when he began the
game.
Col. James NJ. Wakefield is dead at
Louisville at the & of ninety-nine
years. So great are the numbers of
his children and his children's chill
dren that from Shelbyville, KY, alone
a special train will bear only kim
folks to the funeral.
That a permanent memorial to
Abraham Lincoln will be erected on
Government Square, Cincinnati. was
practically assured when 1t was ON.
cially announced that Mrs. Frederick
H. Aims had signifed her intention
70 give $780, 900 Of the $3.50, 900 re-
CURED to provide for the memorial
contemplated.
DR.. John M. Bischoff, blind organ.
list of Washington who lost his sight
when two years old, Is dead. For the
last ~thirty-ive years DR.. Bischoff has
been organist of the First Congrega-
tional church in the capital city, anu
was considered one of the greatest
composers and organists of this coun-
try, among his compositions being
Good Night. Sweet Dreams" I'm
answered" and "Bob-o-Link."
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-06-10
Dispute Ends Fatally.

Little Rock, Ark, June s. - Adolph
Topf, twenty-eight years old, a con-
tractor Of Argenta, who was shot by
Policeman George Carr of the Argenta
police force Saturday night, following
a dispute over a dog license, died yes.
terday morning. The coroner's jury
returned a verdict that the killing was
unjustifable. Carr is in Jail.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-06-10
ARRESTED FOR MURDER.
Anonymous Letter Writer Declares
Frank Keller Killed Or. BjnkIey.

sNhfN''y WV SSSfSt -
Frank Keller Killed Or. BinkIey.
Chicago, June Con the strength
of an anonymous and accusing letter,
the police are holding Frank Keller,
aged twenty-three, in connection with
the deathof John T. Binkley, the aged
Evansville Ond.) physician, supposed
to have been murdered at the Well
ington hottie.
The letter, which was signed "One
Who Wants Justice" told the police
that the day after B%inkley's death the
writer overheard Keller telling an
other man that he had got some easy
money" at the Wellington hotel, but
had to kill an old man to get it.
Keller strenuously denied the accu-
sation, declaring that he had never
used the language quoted, nor, he said
did he know any employe of the hotel.
Il am inclined to believe Keller's
story" said Capt. O'Brien, but we
will take him before the various en-
ployes of the hotel before releasing
him"
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-06-10
STEAMER AND FERRY COLLIDE.
Both Boats Are Damaged and Passen-
gers Are Speedily Landed.

New York, June 6.-The Metropolis
tan line steamer Yale, plying between
New York and Boston, was in COLI
the Lackawanna ferry boat Bremen.
The Yale was only slightly dam
aged, but the Bremen's side was bad.
ly stove in and part Of the upper
works carried away.
Panic among the passengers on the
Bremen was checked when it was
seen that the boat was in no danger
of sinking. The passengers from both
boats were speedily landed.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-06-10
Buffalo Man Sees Young Wife
Throw Self Into Water Near
Brink of Cataract.
QUICKLY JUMPS TO RESCUE
Struggles Desperately for Over an Hour
TO Save Wiie's Life, but
Without Success.

Niagara Falls. June 8.-Louis Cohen
OF Buffalo saw his young wife leap
into Niagara river between the Sec
ond and third Sister islands yesterday
afternoon, only $50 feet above the
brink of the cataract. Without a mo-
ment's hesitation he followed her,
caught her hand and made a desper-
ate struggle to save her.
Mrs. Cohen probably died in her
husbands arms. Before it was posi-
bic to bring efficient help an hour had
passed, during which time Cohen was
making frantic attempts to reach
to him, he felt the twenty-mile cur
rent carry him against a tree stump,
which he caught with his free hand.
Waits Long for Help.
He shouted for help and word was
carried to the reservation police, but
nearly an hour elapsed before officer
James Martin, accompanied by Repre-
sentative James S. Simons and three
ONANl hiNh Will IopS0.
They threw the rope three times be-
fore it dropped within Cohen's grasp.
When he caught it he was too weak
to tie 1t about his own or his wife's
waist. When Cohen finally caught the
rope the men on shore began to pull
him to land, but within fifteen feet of
the shore he lost his grip on his wife's
body and it was carried down stream.
Cohen's first words when resuscitated
we're: my wife is out there. Go and
get her. She is dead. She died in
my arms"
Daring Men Save Body.
A crowd skirted the Goat Island
shore looking for the body, and Cohen
Joined them, insisting hat the body
must have stopped short of the cata-
rae and might be rescued by men
daring enough.
William Barnett and Hugh Brown,
two Of the searchers, finally saw the
body held fast by a rock about 100
feet above the brink of the cataract.
Without ropes they waded into the
stream and with great difficulty
brought it to land. Life was extinct.
Cohen, who recovered quickly from
the shock, says that worry over the
care of her baby depressed his wife
and probably caused her death.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-06-10
Farmers Roadr Not for Sale.

Grand Forks, N. d., June ct is
stated on good authority that the 500
railway made an effort to purchase
the Farmers railway, running north
from Devils Lake, with a view to
building a line to connect the Ken
mare and Minot lines. The Farmers
road could not be purchased, how
ever. 1t is operated in connection
with the Great Northern.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-06-10
Attempt to Free Farmer.

Albany, N. Y, June 6.-Contending
that his wife, Mary Farmer, in a con
fession given in the death chamber at
Auburn prison, just before she was
el%ectrocuted on March % last, exon
Grated her husband from completely in
the murder of Sarah Brennan at
Brownsville, Jefferson county, coun-
sci for James d. Farmer, who was
jointly convicted with his wife, asked
the court of appeals to set aside the
verdict and granted a new trial.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-06-10
ENDoWM FOR STATE U.
Carnegie Foundation Admits Three
Universities

New York, June 8.-The University
of Wisconsin, the University Of Min.
nesota and the University of Toronto
have been admitted to participate in
the professors allowance system of
the Carnegie foundation for the ad-
vancement of teaching, according to
announcement made here last night.
This decision was reached at a re.
cent meeting of the executive commit.
tee and was made known last night by
the secretary.
These are the first station institu.
tions admitted to the endowment.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-06-10
Cholera Is Epidemic.

st. Petersburg, June S.-St. Peters
burg is on the eve of a new and Sc
rious epidemic of cholera. according
to the published views of the chief
sanitary physician of the city. d..
%Ivanoff. Twelve cases of cholera We're
reported Saturday and nine yesterday.
These were spread in practically all
quarters Of the city, indicating that
the infection is general.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-06-10
Satisfied With Strike.

Baltimore. Md, June 6.--Both sides
are apparently entirely satisfied with
the strike conditions in the shops
along the line of the Baltimore &
Ohio, inaugurated in the Mount
Glare shops, this city, in protest
against the introduction of the piece
work system.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-06-10
DOCTOR TELLS MANY STORIES,
Man Suspected Of Killing Wife In
wolves Self by Contradictions.

Chicago, June S.-Dr. Fl. Cleminson
further involved himself in a maze of
contradictions and denials yesterday
when he denied he had ever assailed
the character of his wife, Norah Jane
Cleminson, for whose murder he is he.
ing held. This, coupled with the
statement of his parents - Mr.. and
Mrs. Isaiah Cleminson-that the de.
ceased was "a good woman" threw a
new light on the mystery and made
the possibility of suicide seem more
remote.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-06-10
CALLS BOY OUT; KILLS HIM.
Preachers Son Says Dead Boy Talked
About Him,

Nashville, Tenn, June 6.-Shortly
after s o'clock last night s~ixteen-year-
old Edgar Serber was called from his
home in West Nashville and killed in
the street by ifteen-year-old Jesse
Mcpherson. The slayer used a re-
repeating shotgun and fired twice,
blowing off the top of his victims
head. Mcpherson. who is the son Of
Elder Joseph Mcpherson, minister OF
the Church of Christ. was arrested
shortly after the tragedy and is now
confined at the police station.
Talking OF the tragedy last night he
admitted that he went to Serber's
home to kill him. saying that Serber
had been talking about him.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-06-10
Forced to Free prisonere

Coalgate, Okla, June S.-Tom Big
bee, the county jailer here. was at
tackled by two prisoners and COMPEL
ed to liberate all the prisoners, eleven
in number, including two charged with
murder. Two charged with minor of
lenses refused to leave the Jail.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-06-10
KANSAS FAMILY HELD UP.
Noel Thomas of Winfield Fatally
Wounded in Defense Of Wife.

"ouhoeu IN OeIense OF wire.
Winfield, Kan, June S.-As the re-
suit of a holdup in South Winfield one
highwayman is dead and Noel Thorn.
as, a Winfield resident. is fatally
wounded.
Thomas was accompanied by his
wife and two children when confront
ed on the street by two armed men.
Mrs. Thomas started to run and sew
eral shots were fired. Thomas was
shot three times.
Following the shooting, one of tie
robbers was found dead within. forty
feet of where the holdup occurred,
with two bullet holes in his body.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-06-10
SAYS PITTsBuRG Is DOOMED.
Henry c. Frick Declares Gary. Ind,
Was Death kneH Of Smoky City.

P%ittsburg. Pa. June 6. - Henry C.
Frick, in a statement last night, said:
II wish to serve notice on the capt.
talists Of Pittsburg that this city is
doomed as an industrial center unless
the moneyed men get together and ad-
minister a dose Of financial medicine.
when the United States Steel cor
poration broke ground for Gary it
practically sounded the death knell of
P%ittsburg."
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-06-10
THAW MUST STAY IN ASYLUM.
Appellate Division Sustains Lower
Court, Denying Habeas Corpus.

N0"'V DN'JT"S ''"DS"S W.T.
New York, June 6.-Harry K. Thaw
must remain in the state asylum for
the criminal insane at Matteawan, un.
der a decision rendered yesterday by
the appellate division of the supreme
court in Brooklyn. Thaw's applica.
ton for a writ of habeas corpus re,
leasing him from the asylum was dis,
missed by a justice of the supreme
court several months ago. He then
appealed to the appellate division
which sustained the lower court and
dismissed the suit.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-06-10
Condemned Murderer Lynched.

Tallahassee, Fla, June s. Mike
Morris, colored. under sentence of
death for the murder Of the sheriff of
Leon county, was taken from the
county Jail here yesterday morning
and lynched. Morris lately had shown
signs of insanity.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-06-10
Places Tot on Track

Chicago, June S.-Mrs. Nellie White
vas arrested here yesterday for plac
ing her o~ne-year-old baby on a street
a track. The child. was removed
from the track before a car passed.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-06-10
Forest Firees in New Brunswick

st. Johns, N. b., June s. = Forest
fires are raging in several parts of the
province and already have done much
damage. A number of villages are
threatened with destruction.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-06-10
GETS o N SENTENCE.
Chauffeur Goes to Penitentiary for
Killing Little Boy.

New York, J'ne Ga sentence Of
not less than eve nor more than
twenty years in Sing Sing prison was
imposed upon William Darragh, a
chauffeur, whose automobile ran down
and killed Ingvaard Trimble in this
city on March 81.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-06-10
universaIists to Mee,.

st. Paul, June 6. - The Minnesota
convention of the Universalist d-nom-
jnation will be held in st. Pauis Uni
yersalist church June Is to II.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-06-10
ONE KILLED, MANY INJURED.
Train on Oregon Road Bridge PIunges
From Bridue Into River.

From Bridge Into RIVER.
Eugene, Or, June S.-Engineer Ford
was instantly killed and fourteen
trainmen and passengers injured
when a train Of six cars on the Ore
gon & Southeastern road ran off the
Row river bridge, five miles from Cot
tage Grove, Or. The entire train is
now half submerged.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-08-13
ANOTHER BIG ARTEs|AN WELL
Has No Effect On Other Wells In That
District,

The Walla Walla Union gives the
following account concerning the latest
artesian we'll:
Following quickly OH the news
that new artesian we'll flowing 600
gallons to the minute had been
drought in" on the Blalock fruit farm
zones word from College Place that
Friday afternoon water was struck by
those putting down we'll on the
grounds of Walla Walla college, says
the Union. The water is now gushing
four feet in the air. 1t was only
question of a few minutes until the
earth about the we'll was flooded to
depth of several feet. The fire in the
engine was put out and there was q
regular river ooursing its way through
valleys to the Walla Walla river.
Late last night laborers were still
working trying to cap the flow. which
is one of the largest struck in the
valley. Word from the Blalook farm
last night was TO the effect that the
new we'll was not affecting the flow
of water in any of the wells on that
farm. This is almost unparalleled as
in many instances where second
artesian we'll is put down the flow
from the first one is weakened con-
siderably.
There was no indication of water
in the we'll drought in" yesterday
and the men were pounding away in
rock almost as hard as flint when sud
denly they broke through into the
the pocket aud the water gushed up.
So forceful was the flow that the
tools were lifted from the we'll and it
was impossible to sink them. Pieces
of rock as large as medium sized
| pebble were thrown to tho surface.
The Athena press. [volume] (Athena, Umatilla County, Or.) 18??-1942, 1909-08-13
H. c. CASE ELECTED
Comes From Kalama, WASH, Where
He Has Been Head of High
School for Three Years.

The school board this morning met
and elected Professor Fl. g. Case of
Kalama, WASH. to the to the office
OF principal of the Athena High
school.
Word was received from Prof.
Howard that he was unable to obtain
his release from North Yakima, and
the toard considered three applica-
tions, those of Prof. A. l.. Clark, for
nineteen years at Astoria; Prof. Corey
of Colorado. who is in the city today,
and Prof. Case, who was the success
full applicant.
Prof. Case was in the city Saturday
and made formal application for the
position. He has teen principal of
the Kalama high school for three
years, and was reelected for this year.
The newly elected principal is 3S
years of age, is a graduate of two
colleges, and has had 10 years. exper-
lence as principal aud superintendent
of schools in the middle west. He
has wife and five children and is a
member in high standing of several
orders.