The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1910-10-27
Or. Crinpen testified in his own be-.

Seventy-nlne men gave JuelE H'cS
10 save the forests Of the west.
The last notable speech OF Dolliyer
In the senate was a defense of the at
titude Of insurgents.
1t ia suggested that Associate JUS
tice White Of the supreme court may
be elevated to chief.
The West Indian hurricane has hit
Florida a fearful blow, causing loss OF
life and property.
The Boston and Maine railroad VIII
Eot interfere in the politics of the
state hereafter, says it's president.
The interstate commerce commits
sion made an order that the long and
short haul rule must be adhered to.
A Kentuckian who pleaded guilty
to murder was tried, convicted and
sentenced to be hanged, all in six
minutes.
Rhode Island republicans renomi-
mated present state officers and en-
dorsed the administration of Presi-
dent Taft.
The validity of the Carmack amend
ment to the Hepburn rate law is be-
ing tested in the United States SUI
preme court.
The government has authorized the
Spanish minister at Lisbon to enter
into relations WITH the provisional
government.
Announcement was made Of a gift
OF $3.50, 900 by John D.. Rockefeller to
the medical department of Western
Reserve university.
luigi Lucheni, who assassinated
the emperor of Austria in 1908, COM
mitted suicide in his cell in the pris-
on known as lEvecha.
The duty on lumber imported from
Canada will be waived by the United
States in the interest Of the Mime
sofa forest-fire sufferers.
United States Senator Nelson w.
Aldrich, who, with the members of
his family, las been in Europe for a
month, returned Las week.
English bankers have agreed to ex-
tend the period of negotiating cotton
bills Of lading under the present sys-
tenn from October 81 to December 81.
Secretary of State Knox has return
ed TO his desk at the state department
after spending nearly all summer at
his country home at Valley Forge, Pa,
The Missouri Pacific Railroad com
pany was fined from $40 to $25 each
on four counts for violating the six
teen-hour law in the federal court in
ST Louis.
The English government has invited
Field Marshal Lord Kitchener to be,
come a member Of the committee on
imperial defense and Lord Kitchener
has accepted.
The population of Omaha Is 124, 096,
as compared with 102,555 in 1900 and
140.452 in 1890. The increase from
1900 to 1910. therefore, is 21,541, or
21.n per cent.
Superior Judge Walter Bordwell
has ordered the empanelling of a
special grand jury of thirty men to
investigate the dynamiting OF the Los
Angeles Times building.
John ID. Rockefeller has given to
the Rockefeller institute for medical
research an additional So, {, 900
bringing his donations to this institu
ton up to an aggregate of SO, 000, 900
Thirty-six cigar factories out of the
thirty-eight belonging to the Manu-
f~acturers' association will open their
doors at Tampa to all cigarmakers
willing to work OF the manufacturers
terms.
Seventy-seven men heroically gave
their lives in their effort to subdut
the disastrous forest fires which rag
ed in the west during the latter par
of August. according to figures giver
out by the forest service.
Joseph NJ. Huston of Philadelphia
architect of Pennsylvania state
capitol, was sentenced to imprison
ment for not less than six months
nor more than two years in the east
ern penitentiary at Philadelphia.
The t~wenty-first annual report o.
the Great Northern railway says that
Improvement in conditions during the
fiscal year ending June 30 last result
ed lin the largest earnings for one
year ever reported by the company
Announcement was made at Cleve
land Of a gift of $3.50, 000 by John d
Rockefeller to the medical department
OF Western Reserve university. TIL,
gift, which is a personal one, Is mad,
conditional on the raising of $3.50,
00e more by the university,
Another chapter was added to tn,
history OF aviation when the French
dirigible balloon Ciement-Bayart
made the voyage from Compeigne Il
London in the remarkable time Of ST,
hours, a journey requiring sever
hours by the fastest express trains
Acting Secretary of state Alvey A
Adee. who has ridden over much o
this country and Europe on a bicyci,
without mishap. was injured while rid
ing In Washington when he attempt
ed to avoid running over a yellow dog