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Evening star., 1909-06-28
In Memoriam.

BECK. In sad bnt loving remembrance Of our
darling son and brother. HILTON NJ: BECK
who died six years ago today, June y. 1909
OFT have ] wandered to the graveyard.
Tendrrly 1iavn nursed the flowers;
There beside dear Htons grave
/ have passed many sad hours.
Heaven retaineth now the treasure,
Earth the lonely casket keeps,
And the sunbeams love tn ltnger
Where darling Hilton sleeps.
MAMMA. PAPA. SISTER AND BROTHER.
GIBBONS. In loving remembrance OF our dear
hn ns afs tbs life fe ago
There is no death!
An angel form walks Ger the earth with
He bears our best pest loved loved ones ones away.
And us. though unseen.
The dear immortal spirits tread;
For all the boundless universe
Is life-there are no dead
BY HIS CHILDREN.
GORDON. In loving remembrance Of dear
wife and a loving mother. MARY A. COR
DON (nee Hurd). who departed this life
seventeen years ago today. June %. 1892.
Gone but not forgotten.
BY HER DEVOTED HUSBAND. WILLIAM T.
GORDON. AND DAUGHTERS MAMIE AND
VIOLET
GREENE. In memory Of my, only brother, G.
EDDIE GREENE. who departed this life
four years ago today, June %. 1905.
Never TO be forgotten.
HIS SISTER. L. EMMA GREENE. New York
HOWARD In memory OF my dear mother, MA
TILDA +. HOWARD. who died four years
ago, June %, 1905.
SAMUEL H. HOWARD.
KoEHLER In lTIng TsmspbraPce & Of a'SS on,
June 2s. 1907, and our father. who died June
30 1897. BY THEIR CHILDREN.
MORTON. In loving but sad remembrance Of
MARY V. MORTON. who died fve years ago
today, June %, 1904
Peaceful He thy slumbers.
BY HER FATHER, MOTHER AND BROTHERS
dear friend. MARY " MORTON, who de-
parted this life June %. 1904.
HER LIFELONG FRIEND, MINNIE LUCAS
WRIGHT.
Evening star., 1909-06-28

Mrs. Virginia Perry. wife of DR.. j. p.
Perry. a physician Of Clearspring. Md,
died of consumption. She was a daugh-
ter of the late Joseph Middlekauff of
Hagerstown. forty years old, and was
born in Hagerstown.
Evening star., 1909-06-28
Death of Rev. C. ]. S. MAYO.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
HYATTSVILLE, June 2S.-Word was
received here this morning of the death
of Rev. c. j. 8. Mayo. for ten years rec
tor of ST. Matthew's parish, embracing
Pinkney Memorial Church here and st.
Luke's Church, Bladensburg. Mr.. Mayo
retired from the ractorship of ST. Mat
thew's about three years ago, suffering
from a nervous breakdown He was
placed in an institution for nervous dis
eases in Baltimore county, where his
death occurred. He leaves a wife, two
sons and a daughter. The remains will
be taken for interment to Richmond, Va,
the home of his son Edmund.
John F. Pierce of Cecil county (Md }
has purchased the farm of Mrs Fannie
:. Nnl< f1,.. nun
Evening star., 1909-06-28

Mrs. Charles A. Mum, who was at the
wedding last week at Radnor. Pa. of her
son and Miss Paul, stayed in New York
until the young couple sailed and ex-
poets to join them in Paris the middle
of JULY
Evening star., 1909-06-28

The Countess Won BernStorff, accom-
panied by her daughter and the Countess
Luise- Alexandra, have arrived at their
villa on the shores Of the Starnbergensee.
near Munich, for the summer. Ambas-
sador Won Bernstorff will leave Washing
ton and join his family later in the sea-
son.
Evening star., 1909-06-28

Mr.. and Mrs. Preston Gibson are in De-
troit visiting Mrs. w. c. Mcmillan at her
Crosse Point residence. where she recent
ly gave large dinner in their honor
Evening star., 1909-06-28

Mr. and Mrs. William A. Slater and
Miss Slater are at the Tuxedo Park club
house.
Evening star., 1909-06-28

Dr. and Mrs William T. Harris and
family of Washington will take up their
residence in Providence, r. l., about
July 1
Evening star., 1909-06-28

DR. and Mrs. Edwin A. Locke OF Bos-
ton. the latter Miss Ferguson of this city
and bride of the early winter. have
gone on a two-week fishing trip to Maine.
Evening star., 1909-06-28

Rear Admiral and Mrs. Thomas O..
Selfridge have arrived at the Barnacle.
their summer place. on the East shore at
jamestown, r. ].
Evening star., 1909-06-28

Gen. William F. Draper. former ambas-
sador at Rome. with Mrs. Draper and
their daughter. will be in London for the
next three weeks and lnen go on a long
automobile tour Of France and Italy.
Evening star., 1909-06-28

Another Washington visitor at a rela-
tive's home in Detroit is Mrs. Henry c.
Fitch, for whom her sister, Miss Cam
pau gave a tea last week
Evening star., 1909-06-28

Miss Mary Bonadona. daughter of Mr..
Ignatius NJ. Bonadona and Mr. Joseph l..
Battaglia will be married at the brides
home June 80. A reception will follow
from 3 to II. The couple will leave that
evening for an out-of-toWn trip.
Evening star., 1909-06-28

Capt Won Livonius, the German mill
tary attache at Washington, and Mrs.
Livonius are now in Berlin and will visit
relatives during the captains annual
leave Of absence.
Evening star., 1909-06-28
Marriage Licenses.

and Mrs. Robert Shepard and fam
We gone to Narragansett Pier.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-06-03
NEWS OF GREAT NORTHWEST|
FATAL ACCIDENTS At WINONA.
School Teacher Takes Acid BY Mistake
and SomnambuIist Is Killed by
Train.

Wlnona, Mimi, June 1. - Two fatal
accidents, with peculiarly distressing
FEATURES, ushered grief and sorrow
INTO two Winona homes yesterday.
Mlstaking phial containing car.
ooiic acid for a castor oil bottle, Miss
Mabel Kirst, aged twenty-five years,
GRAINED the contents while in her
home.
Inc young woman held her nostrils
TO make the medicinal dose less disa-
greeable, and for that reason several
ounces Of the deadly poison had been
taken into her stomach before she
realized her mistake.
Physicians, hastily summoned,
worked over the girl, but she died in
terrible agony several hours later.
Miss Kirst, who was teacher in
the school at Plainview, had come
home to spend Sunday with her par.
ents.
Fred Sieboldt, aged forty-five, som
nambulist, was found at daybreak
lying between the rails in the North
Western yards His arm had been
cut off and the victim apparently bled
to death
Sieboldt had been known to walk in
his sleep, and the accepted theory is
that he walked from his home to the
railroad yards and there lay down
with his arm lying across the rail
The protruding member was cut of
by an outgoing freight train.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-06-03
IS COOlLY Slain
BY HOLD-UP men
lowan Ignores Order to Hold Up
Hands by Robbers on
Freight Train.
SHOT AND DUMPED OFF TRAIN

Hampton, Mimi, June 2.-when Joe
Rood, an Iowa man, who, with his
brother, boarded a freight train at Oel-
WEN, Iowa, to go to Minneapolis in
search OF work, refused to throw up
MS hands at midnight Sunday near
tnls city, he was shot twice He died
yesterday morning One of the bullets
penetrated his skull and another en-
tered his abdomen.
The hold-up men are believed to
nave gone on the train to Minneapolis.
Dump Wounded Man From Car.
After the shooting the two robbers
dumped their wounded victim. who
had fallen across the railing of the
Oil tank car upon which they were
riding, from the car. They kept Jim
Rood on the train at the point of a
revolver until they felt it was safe to
let him go; they told him to skid
doo,' and he fed. coming to this city
His brother crawled to a nearby farm
house for aid and was brought here
The Rood brothers were at one end
of the oil tank and did not notice the
approach of the other man on the car
until they heard a gruff command ia
throw up their hanrs. Jim, the young
er man, promptly yielded to the rob-
bers. He sad yesterday morning thai
he could not understand why his
brother did not do so. as the latter
made no movement of resistance.
No Chance for Life.
With no moments of grace in which
to obey the order, and though he had
made no attempt al combat, Joe ROOD
was shot down. and his assailants, be
lieving him dead, dumped his body
from the moving cars. They roNhcf
the younger brother befor -" tho
final leave of him.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-06-03

A company has been organized In
Sweden for the production Of radium,
and large tract of land where the
precious metal Is supposed to be
found in paying quantities has been
secured and work will commence at
once. The country will watch with
interest the efforts OF the company to
produce this metal, which few years
ago was worth million dollars q
pound.
The 18th and 10th. OF June the
Schubert Mems chorus, the most not
ed of Austria. will give concerts in
Stockholm. The chorus consists of
$50 members from the musical and
professional circles OF Vienna. The
club will arrive by special steamer at
Stockholm, and will give two con-
certs. They have already appeared
in Paris, Bosnien, Switzerland and
Herzegovina. The proceeds of their
concerts In Stockholm will be turned
over to the city for various philan-
thropic purposes. Adolf Kirchl Ii
honorary choir master, and Prof.
Hans Wagner is active director, both
men being considered the most
prominent musicians of their country.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-06-03
SWEDEN.

The statistical bureau has given
out report as to population which
contains the following interesting in.
formation: The total population OF
Sweden at the close OF 1908, was g.
429,600, which is an increase of 51,s87
people during the year. The relative
and actual Increase in population is
greater for the year than any wear
since 1898. OF the whole population
1,332,097 live in the cities. The popu-
lation OF Stockholm is 339,5s2, with
an increase Of 2.122 during the year.
During the year the percentage of in
crease OF population was $50 per
thousand, and in the cities 1915 per
thousand. During the year emigra-
ton fell OF from the 22,97S Of 1907 to
1927. OF all cities Of over 10000.
Sundsvall alone shows decrease, re-
porting 80 less population than a
year ago. The proportion of women
and men is 1,045 of the former to
every 1000 of the latter.
The will OF the Stridbecks, OF Karls-
krona, provides for the following
philantErop,c donations; to Pauvres
hontcux of tie city, 10000 crowns; to
the home for incurables, 5000 crowns:
to the common boys school, 1000
crowns, the rent OF which is to be
used to help needy students; to the
orphans home, 5000 crowns; to the
churches at Aspo and Hasslo, 5000
crowns, the rents to be used for the
relief of the poor widows and chill
dren; to the Lund and Danielson
funds. $4,000 crowns, the rent to be
distributed annually among the poor.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-06-03
EXPLOSION ON A DREDGER.

Engineer Killed and Two Others "a
tally Injured Near Wausau, Wis.
Wausau, Wis, June 1.-Joseph Sci
lers of Mondry, Ind, an engineer, was
killed and William Bry of Milladore,
Wis. aged twenty-five, and another
man we're fatally injured in boiler
explosion on . dredge in the Little
Eau Pleine river. near Dancy, a VIII
lage a short distance south OF here.
A defective boiler was the cause.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-06-03
order Re.tored in Peru.

Lima Peru. June FOLLOWING the
exciting events Of Saturday. when
hands of revolutionists attacked the
palace and seized President Leguia
only to be charged by the government
troops and compelled to liberate the
president. order was completely re-
established yesterday.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-06-03
DROWNED IN POST HOLE.
Baby Falls Into Excavation and !.
Found Dead by Parents,

Minot, N. D., June 1.-THE two-year-
old son of Peter Borros, near Berthold,
fell into a post hole in his fathers
back yard and was drowned in water
collected there. He had been playing
with dozen companions and fell in as
the others left the yard.
The parents found the child after
two hours with it's head in sixteen
inches of water. The hole was four
and a half feet deem
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-06-03
Attended His Own Funeral.

Gas City, Ind, June 1. - Elias B.
Burns, who knowing death was near,
called his preacher and his friends to
his bedside three weeks ago and had
his funeral service. died yesterday.
HIS body will be buried without fur
Their services, as he requested. He
was eighty -eight years old.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-06-03
OLD SAWMlLL BURNS.

Machinery Made Ready for Shipment
Damaged Beyond Repair.
Eau Claire, Wis, May 81. = The
old Sherman sawmill was struck by
lightning and burned to the ground.
The machinery had been taken apart
and was ready for shipment to Sagi-
nav, Mich, but the fire damaged it
beyond repair. Wicks Bros. of Sagi-
nav had just purchased the machin-
cry from the O. H. Ingram company.
The total loss is $4,000, with no in
surance
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-06-03
RELIEF WORK AT LANGDoN.
Citizens Raise $4,000 for Sufferers b,
Tornado.

Langdon, N. D., June 2. - Twenty
thousand dollars has been contributed
locally to the relief fund for the suf-
ferers from the tornado that struck
Langdon Saturday evening, killed five
people, injured twenty others, demol-
ished seventeen houses and wrecked
and damaged thirty others.
About thirty barns and fifteen head
of stock were lost.
The storm lasted five minutes and
did $4,000 damage.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-06-03
DIES BEYOND CENTURY MARK.
Oldest Woman in st. Paul Expires at
Aue Of 1903 Years,

V8S VI loo ISdfs.
st. Paul, June /. - With her mind
lucid until a few hours before her
death, Mrs. Liza Fletcher died at the
age of one hundred and three years.
Mrs. Fletcher was the oldest woman
In st. Paul.
She was born in Scotland and locat-
ed in ST. Paul in 1849. Her husband
was drowned before any children
were born, and she began to earn a
livelihood for herslef. For many
years she was employed in the home
Of J. Mayall when the latter was an
extensive property owner in the city.
Afterward, owing to advanced years.
she was admitted to the poor farm.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-06-03
FRIEND SLAIN IN DEBAUcA.

Man Accused Is Charged With Killing
Comrade During Drunken Argument.
La Crosse, Wis, June 2-Otto Burg
mann is in custody, awaiting a pre-
liminary hearing, accused of the muir
der of his bosom friend, James Math-
ews. at Burr Oak Wis. The men, it
is charged. had spent the Sabbath in
a carousal, and were driving home in
buggy when they got into an argu-
ment. Drawing a revolver, Burgmann,
1t is alleged. shot Mathews dead. Both
men are alleged to have been drunk.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-06-03
Hangs ssh to Raftsrs.

St Paul. June 2. Joseph Brink
man, fortytwo years old, sent his
wife to the cemetery yesterday to dec
crate the grave of her first husband
and then hanged himself from the
rafters OF his barn. Financial troubles
and domestic entanglements are said
to be the motive.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-06-03
langdon Hit Hardest.
Reports from over the state Ia
ght indicate that outside of Ian
n and Ynci1outi thAra wae M In
STRANGER KILLED BY TRAIN.

|sody OF Unidentified Man Held by
Coroner It Anoka.
Anoka, Mimi, June IAN unidsn-
|tlned man, believed to be about thirty
|nve years Of age, was killed by pas
|aenger train at Fridley station. He
stepped from . track upon which a
freight train was approaching directly
40 front Of second train. which he
mad not seen. The body was brought
mere and the coroner Is investigating.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-06-03
SUIT TO RECOVER MINERALS.

Northern Pacific Land Grant Attacked
by Government.
Helena. Mont, June I. - United
States District Attorney Freeman mas
instituted suit in the federal court to
recover from the Northern Pacific
Railway company all lands within its
grant which are mineralized. The
exact amount 10 not known.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-06-03
IN THE SCANDINAVIAN NORTH
Cleanings Of Important Neuos Of Norway, SsOeden
and Denmark, yifh Occasional Comments.
NORWAY.

NORWAY.
The well known missionary, Skrefs-
rud, has suffered stroke OF paralysis,
and is in a helpless condition at San
thalistan.
Four hundred thousand barrels of
frozen herring, valued at 100000
crowns, have been exported from
Haugesund to England and Germany
during the past season.
Rev. Christensen Of Stavanger, who
Is married to sister of Bjornstjorne
Bjornson, has handed in his resigna-
ton as pastor of the "Domkirken"
congregation. He was born in 1888.
A company now being organized at
Bergen will engage in business and
engineering pursuits in China. 1t will
assume the business of the China
General Engineering Co.," Of Shang-
hal.
Some of the representative men of
Bergen have sent a petition to the
church department, asking that the
government devote 10000 crowns to
the restoration and decoration of
Haakonshallen.
The committee in charge OF the
plans for the great exposition of 1914
is holding regular meetings and
shows a spirit of earnestness that
augurs well for the ultimate success
of the ambitious undertaking
Specimens of flint tools and weap-
ons, like axes, arrows and knives, etc,
supposed to have been used $500
years before Christ, we're recently
found near the home for boys at
Garnes, near Bergen. The Bergen
museum is excavating in the hope of
making further discoveries.
A dispatch from the Hague says
that the court OF arbitration, to which
was referred the adjudication Of the
Grisebaa boundary dispute between
Norway and Sweden, will make
journey to the scene OF the disputed
territory next July and hence will not
render a decision before August.
Three hundred Russian school
teachers will visit Finland, Sweden
and Norway the coming summer. In
Norway they will make trips to Trend
HEN, Gudvangen, Vossevangen and
Christiania, and will be given royal
welcome at each place. They will not
travel in one body, but in groups of
fifty.
Director Meldahl of the mechanical
works of Fredrikstad, a competent
engineer, is working out plans for a
tunnel under Glommen between Krak-
eroen and Fredrikstad. The idea of
attempting such tunnel has aroused
deep interest and the authorities of
FYedrikstad have asked for further
particulars as to the matter.
of Norway In February, 1909, were
1,255,622 crowns, as against 1,272,8O7
crowns in February. 1908. The total
receipts from April 1, 1908, to March
1, 1909, were 16,407929 crowns, as
against 15,4G3 337 crowns during the
same period the preceding year. The
traffic on the new Bergen railway has
increased rapidly.
The number of emigrants from
Norway that have sailed from Trend
hjem during the first quarter of the
year 1909 is 2,124, which is nearly
three times as great as the number
that left from the same point during
the first quarter of 1908. The princi.
! pal reason for this increase is the
return 81 prosperity in America. The
panic of 1907 kept ever 80 many Nor.
wegians from leaving for the New
| World In 1908.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-06-03
Mail Train n Wrecked.

Topeka, Kan, June 2. Santa Fe
train No. 8, west, known as the Cal
ifornia fast mail, was wrecked at Pea
body, and H. c. Thompson, postal
clerk, of Kansas City, was killed. Nc
passengers were hurt.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-06-03
Two Drowned.

Gulfort, Mass. June IN. l. Peel,
engineer, and e. G. Gair, second mate
of the British steamer Northumbria,
anchored off Gulfport, drowned last
night. Gair had gone to Peels rescue.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-06-03
BOAT FATAL TO ONE
Railway shop Foreman Meets Death

Railway shop Foreman Meets Death
and Compaion Has Narrow Escape.
Duluth, June l. Peter Ressar,
foreman of the Great Northern shops
at Superior, Wis, was drowned In
Cass lake by the capsizing of the
boat from which he was fishing with
Abe Shaw of Proctor, Mimi.
Shaw was rescued by Ressar's son
as he was going down for the third
time. Ressar's body was not recov-
cred.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-06-03

One Killed In Wisconsin Explosion.
Milladose. Wis, June Lone man
was killed and two so badly hurt that
doubt Of their recovery IL entertain
ca IA Z boiler explosion In the drain
ase district In Marathon county, near
this place.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-06-03
YaIe student IN Trouble.

/. Chicago, June 1. - A man who says
ne was q student at Yale and has
wealthy relatives IN the East was ar
rested here yesterday on the charge
OF shooting two women In a disorder
y resort. He IL twenty-four years old.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-06-03
FISH THIEF LOSES BLOOD.
Minot Man Shoots Robber But n,
CrawIs Away,

Minot, N. D., June g. Edward
Smith of Minot watched hts fish box
Sunday morning and be fore daylight
saw a man stealing some suckers. He
fired shotgun at near range, but the
man crawled away and can't be found.
The fish were worth cents. Blood
was found on planks near where the
man was SEEN
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-06-03
,..,r.rce Man KiIIs SELF.

Jn1uTdH6C WITT 49,
Evansville, Ind, June /. - A. F.
ctinsel. an insurance man OF Mount
carmel ILL.,, committed suicide In the
e. George hotel yesterday.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-06-03
MANS HEAD SEVERED.
Killed While at Work Under Trail
Another Man Injured.

NnotHeT WdH THJUTed.
Duluth, June 2. Adam Morrow of
Duluth was instantly killed and New
ton Ensign, also OF Duluth, was in
jured by gravel train In the North
ern Pacific pit two miles west of Carl
tor yesterday. Both were at work un-
der a train at car repairing, and the
train started Unexpectedly. Morrow's
head was severed.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-06-03

Knute Berge, pioneer resident of
Alliance township, died at Flandreau
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-06-03

Articles of incorporation have been
fled for the First State Bank Of Nor
ristown, Corson county, with a capital
Of $4,000. The incorporators are w.
l.. Hale, F. r. Ginther, G. r. Schmalle,
all Of Lennon.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-06-03

The building permits issued In Aber-
deem during the past month aggre-
gate $4,000 in value. 1t is believed
H,500,000 worth new buildings will be
constructed this year.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-06-03

Edmont G.. Johnson, chief chemist
at the Western Portland Cement
works at Yankton, died suddenly,
aged thirty-two. The remains were
taken to his old home at Girard,
Mich, for interment.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1909-06-03

Fire at Aberdeen destroyed the
warehouse, buggy shed and barn OF
the ]. B. Moore Furniture company.
Three horses and large quantity of
furniture were burned. Loss $4,000,
Insured