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The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-03-25
OTHERWISE

The California assembly passed a
bill making 1t a misdemeanor for one
man to treat another In a saloon.
Norval Baptie. worlds champion
professional ice skater. again was de-
feated by Morris Wood Of New York
at Cleveland in the final contest of the
indoor meet.
The constitutionality Of the New
York public service commission law
was sustained by a unanimous deci-
sion of the appellate division Of the
supreme court.
Pat Grove, former %kidnapper and
later an evangelist, recovered from
his third fall from the water wagon
In Chicago last week. and allowed his
friends to put him on a train for Pom.
tiac. He. was hurried to the santa.
Ram there.
Miss May Irwin. actress, composer
OF q cook book and owner of an nal
and near Clayton. In the st. Law.
renee river, has announced that she
has decided to convert her house on
the island into a hotel and condact IL
next summer under the name Of May
Twins Inn.
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NEWS OF WEEK SUMMARIZED
Important Events at Home and on
Foreign Shores Briefly
Told.
PERSONAL.

c. p. Taft has given 10000 for a
park shelter house at Cincinnati, to be
named after the president.
Former Judge w. w. Hows Of the
Louisiana supreme court died at New
Orleans. aged seventy-five years.
Capt. Henry c. Kelly, one of the ex-
perts who made transportation by
pneumatic tube a success, is dead in
Chicago
Paul Stanley. comedian and COM
poser of the song, "Ta-Ra-Ra Boom-de-
Ay,' is dead at Denver after a linger-
Ing illness.
Henry Clay Cullom, brother of Sen
ator Cullom, died at Peoria, Ill, aged
seventy years. His death was the re-
suit of a p%aralytic stroke.
Lewis McClough, formerly president
" the state agricultural college Of
South DAKOTA, died at New Britain,
Conn, aged seventy-three years.
Lieut.. Herman r. Mitchell, son Of
lormer Senator Mitchell of Oregon,
has resigned his commission in the
army. The action is voluntary, Lieut..
Mitchell desiring to live abroad.
Mrs. Benjamin s. Edwards, eighty
aine years old. daughter-in-law of Min
ian Edwards, one of the early govern
ers of Illinois. died at Springfield, Ill.
Mrs. Edwards was sole %aSrvivor of the
adult witnesses OF the wedding Of
Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd.
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them, for at 8 o'clock the money was
intact and not a man had appeared at
the spot at which II had been left.
Whitla had a score of detectives in
readiness in this city to start a search
for the ~kidnappers as soon as he had
safely secured the boy. Mr.. Whitla
and the detectives left Sharon last
night. A conference is being held in
Sharon and plans are to be made to
attempt to capture the kidnappers
with the boy in their possession.
Whitla believes that the failure TO eff
feet a settlement with him Saturday
night will brighten the kidnappers and
they will not communicate with him
again.
Believes Efforts Useless.
The police Of Ashtabula are unwill-
ing to believe that the kidnappers
have left that section of the country
Although Whitla has instructed them
to discontinue their search, as he be-
lieves 1t is useless, they are attempt
ing to find the hiding place of the
k%idnappers.
The letter from the captors OF Will
lie Whitla came to thee boys parents
in Sharon, Pa, Friday afternoon. In
structions we're given Mr.. Whitla to
go alone to A%shtabula on Saturday
night and place the $4,000 under a
rock at the base of a gorge in the
park at / O'Clock. At 3 o'clock on
the following morning, if the money
was obtained by the kidnappers, they
promised that the stolen boy would be
SEN to the Smith hotel in Ashtabula
unframed.
Letter at Smith Hotel.
In order that there might be no mis-
take made. another letter, it was
promised, would be written to Whitla
under the name of &C. A. White" Sat
urday night. He was to receive this
letter at the Smith hotel in Ashtabula.
The letter was delivered as promised,
but after laying uncalled for for about
half an hour the clerk opened 1t, the
contents were communicated to the
police and a guard was placed in Flat
iron Park, thus running the plan for
the return of the boy.
After FIVE hours of anxious waiting
Whitla went to the hotel to get his
boy. There he was informed that Off
GERS had been on guard at the park all
night and that no one had come for
tie money. Whitla was overcome
when this news was broken to him.
package of money undisturbed.
Later, in company with the detect
ives, he returned to Sharon.
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CANCERS TOLL is APPALLING.
Disease Claims Half as Many Lives as
Tuberculosis.

Albany, N. Y, March 23.--"'The in
crease in cancer disease in the State
of New York is little short of appall-
ing. II now takes yearly toll of half
as many lives as tuberculosis"
This ste rtling declaration, proved
r. Gaylord, chief of the Buffalo state
cancer hospital, in a report to the
health department.
DR.. Gaylord declares the average
death rate for cancer per 100, 900 pop
ulation for 1906, 1907 and 1908, taken
collectively, is seventy-six,; showing
an increase in thirteen years, from
1896 to 1909 of 2S.8 per cent. The
average death rate per 100, 900 for
1906, 1907 and 1908 for tuberculosis 10
1853, showing a decrease in the last
thirteen years of 81 per cent.
I'VE well understand why tubercu-
losis is decreasing" says DR.. Gay
lord. 1T is the result of our knowl-
edge of the infections OF the disease
and of the o well organized war
fare which is being opposed to 1t. Our
knowledge OF the nature of cancer as
a disease is in it's infancy, but 1t Is
rapidly advancing, and the outlook to-
day offers a very bright hope that in
the future we shall understand ans
combat the disease by methods based
on tie present experimental re-
search"
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CHEMICAL EXPLOSION COSTLY.
Minneapolis Drug Company Calls Loss
500, 600.

Minneapolis, March 81. - Damage
estimated by the owner at 500, 900
was done the stock and fittings of the
Minneapolis Drug company by an ex-
plosion of chemicals on the sixth floor
of it's plant and the consequent break
'ng loose of a thorough sprinkling
system over all six floors.
Though forty women employees on
the third floor rushed from the build
ing in a panic, no grave injuries are
reported. The explosion is said to
have occurred when John c. Walker,
4 chemist, opened a container of bari
um, a supposedly ~non-explosive sub
stance.
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SPOIL PLANS FOR RETURN OF BOY
overxealous Police Spoil Arrangement
Between Father and ki~dnappers.

Overxealous Police Spoil Arrangement
Between Father and k%idnappers.
Cleveland, March 23.-But for the
bungling of a secret letter intended
for James P. Whitla, in an Ashtabula
hotel Saturday night, Billie Whitla,
the Sharon boy, would be safe in the
arms of his distracted parents.
All night $4,000 in bills lay be-
meath a rock In Fiatiron Park, Ashta-
bula, left there by Mr.. Whitla under
instructions from the kidnappers.
AT 3 o'clock yesterday morning
Whitla returned to the rock there,
hoping to find his money zone and in
its the place the signal that his son
would be returned to him in the Smith
house, Ashtabula, within the hour.
But the money, untouched since he
had deposited II there at 9 o'clock Sat
urday evening. was still there.
Police Spoil the Plan.
Whitla was instructed in a letter
from the kidnappers to leave the
money In Flatiron Park Saturday
night. If no detectives were about
the kidnappers promised they would
secure the money and deliver the boy
safely to the father in a hotel at Ash
tabula at 8 o'clock yesterday morn
ing.
Whitla deposited the money as re.
quested, but the Ashtabula police
learned of the plans to pay the ran.
som INC went to the park. The kid,
nappers are supposed to have seen
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TANKS BLOWN UP;
CITY IS FLOODED
City Reservoirs at Parkersburg,
w. Va, Are Wrecked
by Dynamite.
NO Clue TO THE MISCRfANTS
Three Persons Killed and Many Build.
ings Swept Away-Water
Famine Threatens.

ParKersburg, w. Va, March 21.-An
entire section of the city was swept
away before a deluge of water at $50
yesterday morning, when two i'm
mense water tanks, located on the
heights above the city, and from
which the city's water supply is fur
nished, were wrecked, supposedly by
dynamite.
So far the bodies Of Walter Wag-
gle, wife and child, have been taken
from the ruins and the search for 9TH
ers is continuing.
The property loss has been placed
at 5000, 900.
Water Famine.
Added to the death and horrors is
a threatened water f anime. The
city's entire water supply was con-
tanned In these tanks.
An awful deluge of water came
without a moments warning, and
when the great majority IF the occu-
path were still asleep and utterly
helpless.
The first buildings to be caught in
the rush of water were the st. Johns
Lutheran church and the summer
school building, both being complete
ly wrecked.
Path Of Ruin.
Altogether over forty houses we're
caught in the torrent, all of which
were wholly or partially wrecked,
leaving a complete swath through
that portion of the residence district
of the city affected.
No clue has been secured as to the
possible perpetrators of the outrage.
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Peace in Balkans Assured.

Belgrade, March 23.-Peace is re.
garded as assured. 1t was semi-ofn.
cially stated last night that the powers
today will invite Servia to declare the
question OF the annexation of Bosnia
and Herzegovina settled and to dis.
arm and discharge its r~eservists.
Furthermore. it is said that the
servia government will accede TO this
request, thus opening the way for di.
rect negotiations between Austria
Hungary and Servia for a commercial
agreement.
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DEPUTIES STAND BY PREMIER.
Indorse French Governments Atti
tude in Postal Strike.

Paris, March 21.-At the conclusion
of a stormy debate, which lasted
from 8 o'clock yesterday afternoon
until midnight, the chamber of depu-
ties adopted a sweeping Endorsement
of the governments attitude concern
ing the strike of state employees. The
vote was 36S to 211.
The improvement in the strike stu,
alton yesterday, due to the partial dis,
tributioh of mail and the opening of
some lines of foreign communication,
was more apparent than real. The
number of state employees on strike in
Paris was greater and the tie-up in
the provinces was constantly extend
ing.
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Manoled Under Car Wheels.

Minneapolis, March 21.-An uniden-
tilted man was mangled and killed
beneath 500 Line train No. 108 in
Minneapolis yesterday. He stepped
off the train just as it was starting
after coming to a full stop for the
junction, and slipping Oh the icy bank
rolled under the wheels.
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Fuoitive Cashier Returns Money.

Comanche, Okla. March 81. = John
the fugitive cashier of the
First National bank, who left Monday
night with more than $4,000 of the
banks money, returned $4,000 yester-
in a letter written in Denver.
He said he was intoxicated when he
left. and that he had no intention of
stealing. He will not be prosecuted.
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MCDONALD is GIVEN LIBERTY.
Missouri Requisition Against Mime
apoIis Millionaire Withdrawn.


Minneapolis, March 21.-H. w. Nc
Donald, the millionaire Minneapolis
lumberman, who has been imprisoned
in the Hennepin county jail because
of a charge of bigamy made against
him by a Missouri woman, was re-
leased late yesterday afternoon, after
Gov. John A. Johnson had received
word that the requisition from Gov.
Hadley of Missouri had been with
drawn.
Belle Hamilton accused Mcdonald
of having married her in Canada in
1908 and brought suit against him in
Minneapolis last fall. When the suit
was settled out of court last Deem
Der and Mcdonald turned over to her
mineral holdings said to be valued
at $4,000 and considerable cash, it
was supposed that the case was over.
But last Monday Mcdonald was ar
rested on requisition papers sen by
the governor of Missouri.
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COLE RESIGNS AS PRESIDENT.
VIII Retire as Executive Head Of oil

viii Retire as Executive Head Of OIL
yer Company.
Duluth, March 19.-Thomas F. Cole,
president of the oliver Iron Mining
company, a subsidiary of the United
States Steel corporation, will send in
his resignation today. His
it is generally believed, will be ". J..
Olcott, president of the Duluth, Mes
sabe & Northern. also a United States
Steel subsidiary.
Mr.. Cole is a multimillionaire and
prominently identified with several
valuable copper mining companies.
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sHlPLoAD OF ALIEN sPuDs.

Philadelphia. March 23.-Sixty thou
sand bushels of foreign potatoes. the
largest consignment ever brought to
Philadelphia, were landed by the
steamship Buenos Ayrean from Glas-
cow and. Liverpool. The tubers came
from England, ireland and Scotland,
and the shipment was made possible
BY reason of the short crop in the
United States. other liners are due
here with big shipments Of potatoes.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-03-25
Farmers Fight Pure Milk Law.

Waukesha, Wis, March 23.-At a
meeting of 500 milk shippers from
Milwaukee, Waukesha and other coun-
ties It was decided to fight the Mil
waukee ordinance which forces farm
ers shipping milk to the city to have
certificates that their cattle are free
from tuberculosis. They will fight a
state law on the same subject.
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Good Timee in the Hills.

Deadwood, S. D., March 23-Figures
for February, just completed by
Treasurer Corum, show that Lawrence
county had better collections than at
any time in its history. Over $780,
600 was conected by the county,
which is $4,000 better than the rec.
ord.
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Sentenced and Fined

New York, March 23.-Francis Pal
mieri, president of the Cooperative
Securities company Of this city. who
was convicted of using the mails to
defraud investors. was sentenced to
three months in the p%enitentiary and
to pay a fine of $3.50.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-03-25
Costs ESQ to Give Pike AWAY.

Pepin, Wis, March 23.-Wisconsin
Game Warden %Sprichtman arrested
Louis Malmquist for taking pike out
of his nets and giving them away to
a farmer. He was tried at Maiden
Rock and fined $50 and costs. This
is Malmquist's second offense. The
farmer was also arrested, but his trial
was postponed.
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Alleaed swindler Goes Free.

Eau Claire. Wis, March 23.-Harry
A. Gowdy, charged with obtaining
money by false pretenses in an adj
vertising enterprise, was discharged
in the circuit court on the ground that
the alleged false representations made
by him were not the inducing cause
Of the complainant parting with his
money.
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KIDNAPPED
BOY IN CLEVELAND
Police Arrest Man, Give Him
"Third Degree" and Get
on Trail of Boy.
WHOLE SECTION RANSACkfD
Millionaire Uncle Assumes Charge OF
Search-Father Refuses to
Publish Letter.

Cleveland, March 21.-At midnight
the police Of this city were expecting
to find within a short time little VIII
lie Whitla, son OF the rich attorney OF
Sharon, Pa, who was kidnapped from
his school there Thursday. They then
had under arrest a man with whom
the boy had been seen in a down.
town hotel as late as 9:15 o'clock last
night. according to reliable witnesses.
This man was given the third de-
gree" for several hours, and, it is
said, admitted that Willie Whitla,
with others of his captors, was in a
lonely suburb of Cleveland.
In a fast automobile, a squad of de-
tectives started for this point at II
o'clock, but their search was without
result. The officers returned and re-
ported they had been unable to find
the boy at the address given.
Porter Gives the Clue.
According to the police, the man
who furnished them with the infor-
nation is Henry Ball, a porter in a
local restaurant. Ball told the officers
that a friend who lived at the Hotel
Benway, on Ontario street, met him
or the street Thursday night. The
friend had the boy with him, saying
he was the soH of a Mrs. Satchell.
and asked Ball to take the child to
business place near the Erie depot,
where the boys father would meet
him. Ball received 81 as emune
ton, he says. He failed to find the
father and then proceeded to visit all
the hotels, in the hope of locating
him. Not succeeding, Ball took the
child back to the Hotel Benday and
left him. 1t was TO this hotel that
the police went last night.
Frank III. Buhle, the millionaire un-
Gle of Willie Whitla, arrived here last
night from Sharon and Immediately
assumed charge of the hunt for his
nephew.
Captors Use Big Words.
Sharon, Pa, March 20.-J. p. Whit
la, father of the missing boy, last
night made this statement:
mere lS nO tTulH III the S|lSVSldUu
rumor that my son has been found,
and | hope that the papers of the
United States will discount the story,
which might tend TO discourage fur
Their search"
The lawyer and his close friends
and assistants in the kidnapping In
vestigation refuse to give out for pub
licity the letter received from the kid
nappers. 1t is said, however, that the
letter contained some striking SEN
fences in addition to those made pub
lie. One alleged remark is: Our per-
capabilities are as keen as yours, and
we have brains to help u.s." 1t threat
ened instant death to the boy should
the letter be made public or shown
to detectives, according to reports
here. 1t Is also intimated that the
letters contained something which
had to do with the method in which
the money was to be paid owe to the
kidnappers.
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FOUR DROWN IN FLOOD,
Frantic Father Searches Three Days,
but Finds Only One Body.

put T'noS oniy Onc 6ooy.
Spencer, S. D., March 10. Mrs.
Herman Fickens and her three chill
dren a girl Of five years, a boy of
three and an infant, were drowned in
the swollen Vermillion river when a
light wagon in which they were jour-
neying to a new home farm was swept
from a bridge by the flood which
was flowing over the floor Of the
structure.
A passing farmer discovered the
drowned horse and the overturned We
hicle. A few minutes later the father
of the little family arrived at the
bridge and was appraised of the trag,
edy.
Frantic with grief, he searched con
t~inuously for three days, but only the
body of the little girl was recovered.
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MURDERED ON BUSY STREET.
Man Stabbed to Death by Companion
In Lima, Ohio,

Mar Stabbed to Death by Companion
In Lima, Ohio.
Lima, Ohio, March 23.-D. w. VIII
liams Of Bellefontaine, Ohio, was stab
led 10 death On the most prominent
street here Saturday night. The MUIR
DER was witnessed by four pedestrians
ard the murderer escaped by knocking
down two of these witnesses, who at
tempted to stop him. Bloodhounds
have been placed on the trail, and 1t
is thought that the murderer will be
found.
Williams and his murderer were
walking along the street together at
the tine Of the attack.
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Volcano in Eruption.

San Salvador, Republic Of Salvador,
March 20.-Izalco. a volcano in Saliva.
dor known as the lighthouse of the
Pacific" is reported to be in violent
eruption. Izalco is ten miles north of
Sonsonate.
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CANNED GOODS KILL WOMAN.
Husband and Three Children Also ~
at GaIva, Iowa,

Galva, Iowa, March 23.-Mrs. John
F. Koplin, a we'll known woman Of
this place, is dead, and her husband
and three children are critically sick
as a result Of ptomaine poisoning
caused by eating canned goods.
Mrs. Koplin died after an illness of
two days. The husbands condition is
very critical indeed, but it is thought
that the children may cover.
The entire family was taken with
cramps in the bowels and fits of vom-
iting.
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Carrie Nation Returns.

New York, March 23.-Jack Binns,
who has been acclaimed the hero of
the spectacular wreck of the steam
ship Republic; Carrie Nation, who has
been abroad pursuing her life work Of
fighting the saloon and Sir Andrew
Frazer, a prominent official in British
colonial service in India, were pas
sengers aboard the steamer Baltic,
which arrived here late yesterday.
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prors Dead in Church.

Chippewa Falls, Wis, March 10. =
Jacob Rheingan dropped dead in the
German Lutheran church at Eagle
Point Sunday. The deceased was born
in Germany about seventy years ago
and had resided in this country forty
years.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-03-25
kUna Wronu Man.

Chicago, March 81. = Policeman
Alexander Scott last night shot and
killed Joseph Finn, a laborer, whom
he mistook for Pickles" Gilroy, a
man being sought by the police.
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shock Alarms VILLAGERS.

Reggie, March ia strong earth
shock was felt here yesterday. 1t was
especially severe at Pellaro and other
small villages along the coast, caus.
ing great alarm among the Deonla.
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BLOW CAUSES LOSS or SPEECH.
Ten-year-old North Dakota Boy Is
Learning to Talk Again.

Grand Forks, N. D., March 21.-As
a result of being kicked by a mule,
the ten-year. old son of Jacob Bisbee
of Devils Lake must learn to talk
w again. His skull was broken and
a successful operation was performed
to take out pieces of bone. The part
of the brain affected was the faculty
of talking, and the nurses at the hos
pital have commenced to teach the
boy to speak.
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Bishop Gillespie Dead.

Grand Rapids, Mich. March 81. -
Bishop George d. Gillespie of the
Protestant Episcopal diocese of west.
ern Michigan, died early yesterday
after a long illness.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-03-25
Drunken Husband Beat. wis.

Armour, s. D., March 20.-Mrs. EN-.
NETT Phelps, who was brutality beaten
by her husband, Is under a physicians
are Police Justice Beddow SEN
fenced the drunken husband to thirty
days in jail.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-03-25
Bound Over for Theft.

Cass Lake, Mimi, March 21.-John
Carmody was arrested at Bena yester,
day charged with grand larceny. He
was given a hearing and bound over
to the grand jury.
The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-03-25
Half Toothpick IL Fatal

Baltimore, March 23.-Half a tooth
pick swallowed nearly a month ago
was responsible for the death of Will
liam F. Murbach. Blood poisoning re-
suited.
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Embezz.ement Is charoc.

Duluth. March 23.-Frank E. Hall
was brought here from Eveleth, charg.
ed with having embazzled $500 from
the Eveleth Steam laundry.