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HERALD-ADVANCE
W. W. DOWKIE, Editor and Publ.^her.
MILBANK,
s. o.
Epitome of the Week.
INTERESTING NEWS C'JMi ILA'I u j,
DOMESTIC.
Iff his ani.ual report Acting Adjutant
general MoKeover says that the aver
ige number of pupils over li years of
life attending military schools during
sho year was ll.tt-H), of which 8,005 re
ceived military instruction.
.JOHN T. WAI.KEH, SON & Co. of Now
Vork, silk importers, failed for S'.JUO,000.
HKNUY M. STANI.KV, the Africm ex
plorer, was greeted by an immense au
lionce on the llth at tho Metropolitan
Jpera-Ilouso in Xew York, it being his
first lecture in this country.
DK. KOSHKI.I. ioKM AN, A prominent
physician and farmer and a veteran of
the Confederate army, was shot and
killed by a colored employe at his homo
near Lexington, Ky.
THK general assembly of the Knights
Labor met at Denver. Col., and Grand
Master Powderly in his report said the
late Now York Central strike had al
most brought the organization to finan
cial ruin, and it developed the fact that
the press of the country was not friend
ly to the Knights.
ClUKK SHiNAI. OFKICKR OltKKt.Y in
his annual report says there has been a
Jocided improvement in the condition
and efficiency of the army as regards
signal practice. At the end of the year
l.Ii.TT miles of military telegraph lines
and 021 miles of seacoast lines were in
operation. There were only fourteen
occasions during the year on which
severe cold waves were not predicted,
W per cent, of all the important cold
waves being noted In advance. In
speaking of tornadoes (Jeneral Greely
said that they were not so destructive to
life as thunder-storms.
HKK KI.'IIANKS, of Mitchell, Ind., was
arrested on the charge of murdering his
sister while he was drunk.
'I UK panic in stocks in Wall street.
New York, caused tho failures of the
following brokers: Decker, Howell &
Co., for $lo,000.000 C. M. Whitney & r* 1
Co„ for S.-JOO.OOO, and Daniel Richmond
for $200,000.
IT was believed that the reccyn explo
sion of the Dupont powder works near
Wilmington, Del., in which ten work
men were killed outright, was caused
by a gang of fire-bugs.
JACK HIM KINO HAM (colored) com
mitted suicide at Noble Lake, Ark., by
taking morphine. This was the first
negro suicide that ever occurred in
Arkansas.
FIKTKKX persons were injured in a
railroad collision near Yarmouth. Miss.
ATTOKNKY-GENKKAI, MIIXKR gaye an
opinion that the anti-lottery law does
not prohibit the "guessing contests"
now much in vogue among newspapers
as a means of advertising.
TIIE fourth annual session of the Na
tional Fraternal congress, comprising
nearly all tho beneficial organizations
in the country, began on tho llth at
Pittsburgh, Pa.
IN a fire in George W. Burnside's
livery at Sioux Falls, 8. II., thirty-four
horses were burned to death.
A LIST of losses from the Gloucester
(Mass.) fishing fleet this year show that
of eighty-six lives lost eighty-five were
Canadians.
A. F. ANDERSON, at onetime the "lead
ing attorney at Tiflln, ()., was sent to
tho workhouse in default of a #20 fine
for drunkenness.
THK Knickerbocker Fire Insurance
Company of New York announced its
intention of going into voluntary liquid
ation. It was probably tho oldest fire
insurance company doing business on
this continent. It was founded in 1787
and had just completed tho 103d year
of its existence.
TIIK financial crisis in Wall street.
New York, camo to an end on the lath,
tho prompt action of the clearing house
in assisting the banks restoring confi
dence.
THK remains of General George Crook
were taken from Oakland, Md., on the
l'ith and interred in the National Ceme
tery at Arlington with military honors.
A
I'ASSKXUKR
train going west on the
Reading road jumped tho track near
Annville, Pa., was thrown down an em
bankment, and seven porsons were bad
ly injured.
THK amount of gold coin and bullion
in the United States Treasury on the
l'ith was SI57.550.331.
AN unfinished house at Marion, Ind.,
was blown to atoms by natural gas
which had escaped from pipes and accu
mulated between the foundation walls.
THK board of managers of the Adams
Express Company decided at a meeting
in New York to boycott lotteries.
EVERY house in the town of Cape
Uracios, La., was blown down by a hur
ricane.
A SPECIAL census agent finds that
there are 5,500 Indians in the State of
Washington.
MARY and Ann Meyers, two old maids
who lived at Hartford, Conn., were
found dead. Neglect and old age was
the probable cause of their deaths.
A MEAT market at Middleport, NT. Y.,
was burned and Joseph Spalding, who
lived on an upper floor, perished in the
flames.
AT the depth of twenty feet a well
digger a4 La Harpe, 111., found some
curious woodon and clay images of
quaint design.
JOHN HECK was burned to death in a
fire which destroyed the Hamilton
Hotel and other buildings at Higgs, Cal.
D. G. GAMI'UKI.L, OF Merriam, Kan.,
was struck by a train at a crossing and
instantly killed. He was 70 years of
age and a prominent temperance lect
urer.
JAMES B. MCSLOY andS. Benson were
killed by an engine at Erie. Pa., and
Ilenry Sutter, on learning of tho death
Of McSloy, who had been a warm friend,
•hot himself fatally.
Ar Orange, N. J.. Robert Kerr, aged
85 years, shot and fatally wounded Mrs.
K noble, aged 30, because she refused to
marry him, and then blew out his own
brains.
M. 8TA.ti.KV loft Now Vot i.
for bis lecture tour through'
'•'j. v.. i.
!IKN
the
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A k11:i :i*„ n. destroyed ..
dozen 'jf the prinr Ij.al stores and hou-rs.
'1 UK tue ci, hi of John Lanahan, of
WesleyviiIPa., was burned to death,
and the mother was .so ,•» 'ly burned
us fo be cr u,iiI'd for lit
Ili.'jtti SMI'I II, one of t:. 1! rrows gang
Of train robbers, was sentenced at Jack
son, Miss., to life-imprisonment.
VVII.UAM Osnou.v, an aged man, was
killed by the cars at .FelTersonville, I
while carrying home some medicine for
a dying daugh tor.
A SOUTHKU.N PACIFIC passenger train
broke through a trestle near Salem,
Ore., and five persons were killed and
nearly 100 injured.
TIIK Knox County Savings Hank at
Mt. Vernon, O., snsjenJed.
THK base-bail war is practically over,
the Players' League having virtually
gone out of existence.
JRIHIK DAVID MCLKAM, ex-president
of the Savannah (Mo.) National Hank,
was sentenced to two years in the peni
tentiary for defrauding depositors out of
SI 00.000.
.JACOB STROKIJKI., a farmer living near
Saginaw, Mich., drank a pint of whisky
on a wag--r and dropped dead a few min
utes after.
COMMODORK GF.OKOK IH.WF.R, chief of
the naval bureau of equipment, in his
annual report says that during tho year
sixty-five vessels were either wholly or
partially equipped at an expenditure of
fcC'lKi. Its*!.
A (.AlUiB deposit .if copper om was
found near Mellen, Wis.
THE Wertheimer buiiding in Nan
Francisco was burned, causing a ii-sof
&!50,000.
IHFI Kansas City Packing Company
at Armourdale, Kan., failed for J?."5.iM)0U.
GoVKit.Nou FIFKK decided not to
pardon Oscar \V. Neebe, who was con
victed in Chicago in 1880 of participa
tion in the Haymarket riot with the
other Anarchists.
THK National convention of the
Woman's Christian Temperance I'nion
met in Atlanta, Ga., on tho 14th, Miss
Frances E. Willard presiding.
THK excitement among the Standing
arrival of their long-looked for Messiah
has subsided and no trouble was antici-
THE business failures in the United
States during tho seven days ended on
the 14th numbered 260, against 215 the
preceding week and the correspond
ing week last your.
THREE workmen were blown to pieces
by a premature explosion of dynamite
in a stone quarry at Omaha, Nob.
TRAINS col 1 ided on the Pennsylvania
road at New Florence, Pa., and tho
wreck took fire and one Pullman car
was burned. Two persons were killed
and eighteen injured.
THK business portion of the town of
Burton, O,, was destroyed by fire.
CONSUL CONNOI.LV in a report on tho
wool-growing industry of New Zealand
says that the number of sheep exported
last year with and without wool
amounted to 1.UK4.-.131. The value of
imports from tho United States during
1S8K was SI 712.ISO. and tho exports
were valued at $1.7o0,8rt0.
TIIK report of a Now York commercial
agency showed that tho legitimate busi
ness of tho country was the largest ever
known and that trade had not. been af
fected by the flurry in Wall street
They said that the demand for money
was largely due to the unprecedented
volume of business thus far
COMMISSARY GENERAL DI: BARRY
states in his annual report that 52 50fi,
01(5 was expended for the needs of the
subsistence department of the army
during tho fiscal year.
IN a collision between gravel trains
on the Lackawanna & Western road at
East Buffalo, N. Y., John Swombosky
was instantly killed and nine others
were injured, three of them »tally.
MA.IOR-GKNKRAL SCHOKIKI.D, com
manding the army, in his report to the
Secretary of War recommends the in
crease of tho military force of tho coun
try to 30,000 men.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
JOHN MEYERS, one of the wealthy cit
izens of Lugansport, Ind., died from the
effects of a rat bite.
MRS. WACIITER, the Whitehall (Pa.)
faster, had on the llth gone 221 days
without tasting food.
OFFICIAL returns from tho Iowa elec
tion show the success of the entire Re
publican ticket by pluralities ranging
from 300 for Railroad Commissioner to
2,800 for Secretary .of State.
OFFICIAL returns from the recent elec
tion in California give the Republicans
four of the six Congressmen, making
the delegation the same as he previous
one.
TIIK Alabama Legislature convened
on the 12th.
WYOMING'S first State Legislature
met at Cheyenne on the l'ith. There
wore forty-nine members, nine of whom
were Democrats. W. R. Schnitger, of
Cheyenne, was elected president of the
Seriate, and O. P. Kellogg, of Cook
County, was chosen speaker of the
IlAuse.
THE golden wedding of Mr. and Mrs.
Nicholas Fisher, of Elkhart, Ind., was
celebrated on the l'ith.
TIIE returns from all the counties in
Indiana give tho following as the result
of tfre recent election: Matthews
(Dem.), for Secretary of Stute, 283,881
Truster (Rep.), 214,302 Blount (Pro.),
11.934 Pr indie (Peoplo's), 17,851
Matthews' plurality, 19,579.
OFFICIAL returns from the recent elec
tions show that the Democrats elected
the entire fourteen Congressmen in
Missouri and eleven of the thirteen in
Indiana. In Pennsylvania the Con
gressional delegation stands eighteen
Republicans and ten Democrats.
EDWIN BOOTH, the great actor, was 57
years old on the 13th.
TIIK 77th birthday of Allen O. Thur
man was celebrated in Columbus, ()., on
the 12th, prominent persons from all
over the country being present. Mr.
Thurman has lived in Ohio seventy-one
years.
I-IIACUCS 1 IIONO, a Pres-
!'i
n minister of Jackson, Mich.,
tic.-ci on the street of heart, :1 ure at
Hatcln Creek, Mich He was 07 years
d'i and had been in tho ministry forty
years
THE Prolub:'."!: par.v M: i
having faile.1 i ti:e
poll the per cent, vote requisite un
der tho Australian law to preserve tho
party's official standing, have deter
mined to adopt the name i National
party and to embody addii.-u. i. issues
in their platform.
THK ollicial returns show that Patti
•on (Dem.) was elected Governor of
Pennsylvania by 10,554 plurality. Tho
Republicans elected the remainder of
the State ticket by pluralities ranging
from 22,.865 to 25,401.
DA.NIKT, S. APIM.KTON, head of tho
publishing firm of I). Apple ton & Co.,
died at his home in New York, aged GtJ
years.
IT was estimated that '26,000 b:illota
were th'own out fm alleged defects in
tiie recent election in Indiana.
FOREIGN.
A i.vitoit tobacco factory valued at
$200,000 was burned at Madrid, and 10,
000 men wore thrown out of employ
ment.
A FKRKT no i capsized in the river
Wagg, near Hi/.ince, Austria, and fifty
five passengers were drowned
OVKIS 300 Jews expelled from Russia
sailed from Bremen for tho United
States.
TKN persons wnrekil'.rd in a cop
between a passenger tram and a fr
train near Taunton, Eng.
GHKAT damage lias been done
Welsh and Irish coasts by violent, gaies,
and shipping has suffered severely.
KINO 11 R*I UF.UT, of Italy, has refused
to ask the usual appropriai
heir to the throne, saying tl
try is too poor.
PUKSIDKN Hon RAX. of Honduras, was
forced by Sanchez to evacuate Tegucig
alpa. the capital, and temporarily se
up his government at Taniara.
FIVK MII,i,ION dollars' worth of new'
discovered pine timlx*r is the res
the Candadian (iovernmont expeditioi
of exploration that has returned from
tbe
Rock Indians in South Dakota over the i Quebec.
northern portion of tho Province of
THF. British torpedo cruiser Serpent
foundered off the coast of Spain, and out
of a total of 270 souls on board only
three wero saved.
QIIKKN EMM V has boon appointed
regent to govern Holland during the
illness of King William.
SINCK Mr. Balfour returned to En
gland from his Irish tour his guard of
defectives has been,increased.
II. M. WAXZKR Co., sewing-machine
and lamp manufacturers at Hamilton
Ont., failed for 5200,() )0, and J.
Gendron, Hour merchant at Sherbrooke
Que., failed for $125,000.
THE rebellion in Honduras, headed
by General Longinos Sanchez, was
practically ended, the revolutionary
forces having boon utterly routed 1.
the army which President Itogran had
gathered from all portions of the coun
i tiy.
I ADVICES from Zanzibar say that t.ho
i Sultan's decree ahoiishing the siav
trade was almost a dead letter, tho
Arabs persisiing in the traffic under the
very eyes of the authorities.
I RKOI.NVLD BIRCH ALL, who decoyed
Frederick. C. Heuwall, a fellow count
man. from England on a pretense i
helping him to learn farming in Canada
and murdered him on February 17 last
in a swamp near Woodstock, Ont., was
hanged in tho jail-yard at that placc on
the nth.
MR. JOHN D. DKLLII.e, tho Ameri?an
Consul at Bristol, Eng., died in tha
city.
LATER NEWS,
The Dally Railway Wreck.
KANSAS CITY, NOV. 17.—Early this
morning a freight train of six cars and
an engine of the Kansas City, Wyan
dotte and Northwestern, just entering
the city from Beatrice, Neb., plunged
through a bridge and down into the
muddy depths of the Kaw river near its
m'juth in Kansas City, Kan.
No one knows yet how many persons
were on board, but there may have
been anywhere from a dozen up to thir
ty, and so far as the names are known
of those rescued the list of saved com
prise only four members of the train
crew and one or two colored men who
were riding across the bridge. The list
of killed so far as known is as follows:
Fred Allen, iireman, Lawrence, Kan.,
Henry Coleman, Will Crawford, llenrv
Williams.
Call For Arm*.
CASSF.LTON, N. D., NOV. 17.-GOV.
Miller is here and is keeping the wires
hot between here and Bismarck. He is
receiving dispatches from the capita]
which are somewhat alarming. People
of Mandan call for arms and ammuni
tiou, and say that an attack by the In
I dians may be looked for at any moment,
Roving bands of armed and painted
i warriors are roaming the prairies, and
settlers are leaving farms and ranches,
It is very likely that tho state militia
will be called out. I he governor leaves
on the early morning train for Bis
marck. There is much excitement and
alarm all along tho line of the Northern
i Pacific.
I THE panicky feeling of the stock
markets has been arrested and on the
lTth a general firmer feeling was estab
lished and as a consequence there was
a general advance in the price of stocks.
THE British courts on the nth grant
ed a decree of divorce to Capt. O'Shea
against his wife, it being considered
that tho charges made against Mr. Par
nell and Mrs. O Shea were proven,
TH,: pay car of the International &
I Great Northern road, while running at
high speed, dashed into the rear of a
passenger train on the main track near
Kyle. Tex., on the 17th. Some twenty
or more passengers were injured, but
1
REV. DR. H. M. DKXTKR, editor of tho
onsregationalist, of Boston, died sud
denly at his home in Now Bedford, aged
00 years
no one was killed.
A NEC:no named Sandy Wallace was
lynched near Como. Miss., on the 17th,
for criminal assault upon Mrs. Frank
Houston.
ON the 17th at San Salvador, a treaty
of peace was definitely signed between
Guatemala and Salvador.
is binding from date.
1HL TWO DAKOTAS.
A CHURCH ON
WHEELS.
for the
lilshop Walbpr'n Cut lie«lral
North IH.
There has just b''on completed at tho
works of the Pullman Palace Car Com
pany in Chicago a novel creation tho
only church on wheels in tiie world. It
is constructed according to the ideas
if Rt.- Rev. Wiliiain D. Walker. Epis
copal bishop of the diocese of North
Dakota, and is intended for use in tho
small villages along the railroads in
that section of tho country. In appear
ance the exterior of the church differs
but little from the ordinary Pullman.
'1 he car is sixty feet long and ten feet
wide. Its interior is finished in oak
after the Gothic style. At one end is a
room devoted to tho bishop's use. Tho
main body of tho car-church contains a
chancel, altar, lectern, baptismal font,
a b.shop's chair and a cabinet- organ.
There ar» sen's for about seven ty peo-
)-omul a I'etrilled l!ilv.
Some railroad workmen while exca
vating in the neighborhood of Commis
sioner Ray Smith's ranch, about one
mile from Tigerville, in the Black
Hills, S. I), unearthed a coffin contain
ing the remains of a miner named Pat
rick Fitzgerald, butied about seven
years ago. The cotlin was accidentally
broken open, when the body was found
to be in a petrified condition. It was
again luirii dja few hundred yards from
its original location, and a few days
after it \\a* ^:s.-,.vn i thai ti.e crave
had teen .Med.
A Ulu Per Cent.
Prof, r'hephard of the agricultural
college a* Brookings, S. D., has been
ai.alyzmg sugar beets raised on the col
letre farm. From six varieties of beets
he gets an average of 15 per cent, of
Mijtr From two varieties ho secured
lt.N percent., and from a variety, the
sed of which was sent from the Oxnard
farm at Grand Island. Neb., he ex
tracted 20 per cent. As 12 to 14 per
cent, is the usual product, it will be seen
that the beets store more sugar in this
climate and soil than anywhere else in
the world.
Great Or© HerN.
Sumples of red and brown hematite,
from thallis, S. D., the new town site
upon the White river near the mouth ol
Corn creek, are said to assay from 0C
per cent, to nearly pure iron. It was
hoped that the great beds of ore. from
six to twelve feet in depth, which lie
exposed along the White river would fur
nish the iron required for ail the uses
of tho Hills mines and the production
of tin plates in abundance. The or«
beds were staked out for a distance o.
eighteen miles along the course of th
river.
Th'rty-Four Ilorae* Ito-intm!
Fire broke out in George W. Burn
side's transfer and livery barn atSiou^
Kalis, S. I)., and twenty-five horses it
the lower basement were burned, b»
sides many valuable vehicles The fire
spread, consuming the Electric Railwaj
Company's car shed and the Riverside
loarding stable. In the Riverside barn
nine horses wero burned. The total
lo^s to the various proprietors was
mated at 525,000.
Engineer ifrown'* Great Feat.
Engineer Jacob Brown, of Huron, whe
started from Forest City with a corps oi
men to run a preliminary railway sup
vey from there to Black Hills, has
rived in Pierre, S. 1). He performed
one of the most remarkable feats of rail
road engineering on record. He set
stakes along about 175 miles of survej
and returned a distance of 150 miles it
seven days' time, making fifty miles
each day.
ICUHII by a Ilojr.
Gust Cartright, with his wife and
child, lived in a cabin near Rockford,
N. I)., where the husband worked s
claim. During tho absence of the fathei
and mother a large Newfoundland dog
attacked the child and ate its head off
The father came in soon after
killed tho dog with an axe. Th
had beco'ne insane.
Short New* Itonn.
Atamect
service offl"
The United States signal
at Huron. S. D.
weather map.
will publish a dailj
I he I, nited S'atei Government is
Srn1i:r?nns
a?t:o ,raphici4l9ur 01
A party of thirty-eight Menr.onites
om Russia have arrived at Yankton
O. I),
Wiid geese are plentiful on the Peoria
bottoms near Pierre, S.
IJ-uel County, N. I.,
bitter feud, the result of a county-'a!
and th
VOt"
WaS
c" /.:.}lnUy Property moved from
Gary to Uear Lake, a hamlet
geographical center of the
For: i
1^ or
to Pierre S T» V"®
or^ini/V^Tf
The treaty
011
FATAL SMASH-UPS.
B.v.ral Hallway Collisions In Which a
Xmiitnr ut laves Ar. Lo»t anU Many
Person* Hurt.
Pinsiii U«.H. Pa.. Not 15.-Tho third
section of tho western express on the
Pennsylvania railroad ran into the
second section near New Florence,
causing the death of two persoics and
the serious injury of eighteen others.
The dead are: Henry M. Minott. iitf
Court sU've'. P- -ton. Mas* Mr^. S. II.
Angel, sua 1 v. i nty-Iirst street. Wash
ington.
The collision occurred about 6 o'clock
during a dense fog. '1 he second sec
tion was being held for orders on ac
count of a freight wreck, when the
third section came thundering along at
a high rate of -veed and crashed into
thi rear car of the second sec
tion. Th:s c, was the "Bis
cay," the Washington sleeper, and
was well filled with passengers.
All of the killed and injured were in
this car. A special engine and car, with
several physicians on board, weru sent
from this city to the scene of the wreck
immediately after the report reached
the city.
The fireman the engine that
crashed in the rear of the second No. 9
says that the operator in the Nineveh
Block tower is reponsiblo for tho dis
aster. The fireman claims that their
tr.tin entered the block on a white, or
clear track signal, while second No. 'J
had not yet left the wesl i n end of ae
block at New Florence.
TIlllKK KM.I.K.I) IN M:n
N!
A
Driii'yt'K, la.. Nov. 15— A rear-end
collision occurred on the Chicago, St.
Paul & Kansas City road at Eliton,
Minn., Friday moinivg. A sowth
Iniuud freight-train was standing on
the main tr ick while tho engine ran
ahead for water. Another freight came
alon and ran into the caboose of the
first train. Two cars and the engine
were badly damaged. Conductor Pen
niman, Fireman Rolf and Hrakeman
Callahan of the second train we-e in
itantly killed.
COLLISION LV VIRi.lM A.
anc
mothoj
Gold In Hear Gulch.
Dave Mills and Charlie Finch bav
struck it rich at Mineral Hill, S.
about three miles west of Bear Gulch.'
Iheir mine is called the Gold Hank,
and some of the ore assays over 5:i 00
per ton. '1 he vein is a fissure runnina
down through the porphyry, and carriej
free jrold. The find had created erea
excitement.
Ru'HMO.VK, Va., Nov. 15. A collision
af freight-trains occurred Friday morn
ing near Ford's Depot, Dinwiddie Coun
t.\ on the Norfolk & Western road.
The engines came head-end together,
totally destroying both, derailing and
piling sixteen cars on top of one anoth
er. The engineers and firemen of both
Bngines jumped. One train hand was
killed and five severely injured.
WHAT THE FIGURES SHOW.
Official .Majorities of the .Successful Can
didates in Illinois.
SrnixoFiicLi". 111., Nov. 15.—Official
returns have now been received by the
Secretary of State from all the counties
except Cook. As tabulated these give
the vote on the Slate ticket as follows:
For State Treasurer -Wilson, 2.V!,:S27
Amberg, 2.0 210. Wilson's majority
outside of Cook County is 3,UX7.
For Superintendent of Public Instrue
"Raa'n, TOO Edwards. 2 I".T2.'5
Raal/s major!!v outside of Cook i y
lh.'.77.
Complete ufiieial returns from all the
counties in the Northern Grand di
vision except Cook County show that
A. H. 'laylor (Rep.) received 97,2411
votes for Clerk of the Supreme Court
for that division that E. Stoskopf
(Dem.) received 70,(520. and thai II. A.
Uaines (Pro.) received 0,221.
In the Central Grand division c..Tn.
pl«.»te returns for Clerk of the Su
preme Court give E. A. Sniveiy (Dem.)
107,'J52 James J. Finn (Rep.), 8t»,5*ll,
and George C. McFadden (Pro.), 7. Jlrt.
Sniveiy s majority over Finn is 1\371.
In the Southern Grand division the
vote for lerk of the Supremo Court
was: 1
heodore Trombley (Rep.) 59,65*:
Prank W. Havill (I)em.), 00.242 T. S
Marshall (Pro. i,205. HavilPs majJr
Ity over Tromlev, 5S4.
THE KEYSTONE"STATE.
Paulson's Plurality Tor Governor Over
16.001* The Kett of the htaLe Ticket
t-Ie ted Uy tue i:«|,.il.licans Ollicial
Congressional Majorities.
ILiKKisiH Ho, Pa., Nov. 15.—The offi
cial returns show that Pattison (Dem.)
was elected Governor of Pennsylvania
by Hi,554 plurality. The Republicans
elected the remainder of tho State
ticket by pluralities ranging from 2"
to 25.4^1.
Following are the official majorities
of Congressmen in this State
.,lii1Kham/ 7 QTX 1". Wrtjrht u-x,
6.r,w m. Hopkins, It].": Tf
'19 1,VV!v"rton-
O'Neill, ..
Ii. McAk'or, I)..
4 Kcytmrn, 11
6. HariiH-r, K
6 Kubinson, K.
7. Allowei).
K Muteiili r.I)
8. Hruner. I)
1'J. Biusius, it
11 Amernian,
K .JIM IS. Atkins* 11. It «(,u
11.4IK1 rj. Meitzhoovcr, 7J0)
4,105.31. Si-ull, K
'-'i Uurr. u
I'aizcU. K...
11 I»
St.ank. K ..
la. Keilly. I)
14 Kite. It....
i i
j.s. Knbbs, 1)...
thIeNi1^NAi,",I''S'
is}
enjoying
'-anv issod
near thi
county.
formation that s,5oo Norwegians wil'
co„e over and settle in western Soutli
Dakota next spring.
huU
Xov"
th0lr
the directors „f
th(
Duluth Pierre & Black Hills Con,pan!
it was decided to push the work at Lth
ends of the line, with the object of »m-
fr In ALor!loeB
.. Parly tho spring.
.ilas Burton, a Yankton County (S
IM farmer, has raise 1 a Hubba
that weighs flfty-four
pounds.
squash
halt
and
coroPan.YHuron,
Of dynamite broke i
ce rushed down
has been
or.anued, headquarters in tc
houth Dakota. It wil
known as the Valley Land and IrrLa
.V York City, president.
argo
finally, when tha
and
bout, of thepontomTrSj
main chan
swept away four
e in tU«
DAI
''-Among
the instructions issued to United States
supervisors before th« recent elec
tion was one requiring them
hrown°P
rCCOrd
°f
aU
s
reports show that the
number of ballots thrown out av
eraged seven to the precinct
making a total of about 20,000. This
tssrist4""*"•«•* b»n„,
to Iho
u
Birchall hangec
I xactttloi, of the M,^
rer
the Woodstock, Ont., j.,,
Death t'aln ly.
M""-4I..
WOOLS I'.H K, Ont., Noy ,.
lUr«'hall who decoyed Frtl(le
well, a follow countryman f.
land on a pretense of helnir
learn farming in Canada and
him in a swamp near here
w
in tho jail-yard at this pla'COi.t
Friday.
His death,so far,., ...,id
be
was painless. Six minutes after'
weight jerked his body into th."
physicians pronouueed hi ode."
post-mortem discovered thatd
been caused by strangulaiK
usual s 'atutory terdict vu*
the coroner's jury.
The hanging was first set &
o'clock, 1 it by Bin-halls own
was done half an hour earlic
he had breakfasted he sat
.smoking cigars and chatting
Sheriff Perry. The latter w*
Hirehall was net. He. wemt
amusement in the fact of ts'
ill's sorrow for him.
Birchall was dres- i
flannel shirt, dark striped trot
slippers. At his throa he
tasty black tie. The enmina
eompanied to the scntfold
Wade, who has been constant
tendance on the prisoner since
Other members of the proces
George Perry, Hirehall",s gU
Prison InspectorChaniherlain.
was perfectly cahn and clic
luted each member of the pari
entered his cell. Atnen? 1
tators v. n Arthur heel
Montreal, a friend of Bi
Oxford. :ium sal 11 tod
oner, who advauced ana ki-.ec
on tho lips, the tears runn1
Lee tha
Ill
's cheeks, whfi" li i
not change a muscle of Ins co»
lSirchuli mounted tha steps of
fold with an unfaltering trca
the religious exercises wti
Hirehall joined heartily, bein
larly emphatic in his "am,
the surrounding buildings ov
the jail yard were hundred*
who were thus enabled to
tho last act of the Ucnw
edy. Hirehall repeated tht
prayer after liev. Wade while
w as being put around his neck
mitted to the hangman in 1
matter-of-faot way. There wa
ly wearied look in his eyes, V
doomed man's legs were beii
with a strap Hirehall «tc
his head erect, looking
before him, and offering
jection to the hanging
erations. Toward the conclus.
Lord's prayer He v. Dr. Wad
was filled with deepest ang
broke. He stepped forward a
Hirehall, saying: "May Gdln.
on you," and retired a few i
supreme moment was at hand.
When Kadcl.ffc, the 'l'oror
man, pulled the black .tap 0
all's face the latter said. Ion
for every one to hear: "\W1I.
shake hands before 1 go',1" Tl
dumbfounded KadchtTe for a
Then he thrust forth h:(
shook Hircliall's hand.
Then stepping ba' ii
the cord connecting with tin
tho weight above. John IVr
of the sherilT, and acting for
was standing three or fuur
the left. He gave the si]
tho bolt was drawn out '1
was jerked in an uhliijt
tiou. It moved around for a
onds with itn own momentum
ly hung straight down. A
shudder ran through the fram
a blood-curdling sight was
The hands clasped and uneia
vulsively, the nails entering
and causing the bioud
the legs drew up and straight
There was every indication tha
was being slowly stratified.
was not broken. Two minutes
bolt was withdrawn HirchaliV
sixty stroke* per minute. At)
six minutes bo was pronoun
IBlrchall's crime was tbe kiiil
Henwell February IT last iu a swaiu.
County, Canada. Hirehall came
early in the summer of isssto bt-ron
but. Uniting the work hanicr an
smaller than he lead been U'J to
stuyed In Wmulstock. Birdiall
Kreut deal about uristoi'iats n
wllh whom he claimeil 10 be
or connected. His wife seemed
8
in what he did. These two U^appi'i'
fall as Quickly as they liad IHIM', 1
tain unpaid bills. When a man
in February last for the murder oft:
whose body was fnuml in the
SL'rt
l.l'.'S
i i Stone.
It
.. 7,H0"i
.. 7.im
1'.'0
3.rs
3,
mi a
W.Iimji. Slewart. it
(iuicNpi,.. d!
I.AM •»•. Stone. K
l-4M -T 1 JII-wold. It!
it.
Sum
4,&tt
REJECTED 26,000 VOTES
Effect of the Australian Hallot at
ltecent Kle. oi. i., Imlia,,*.
the
^1™
thrown out arid
wild ttl6 CIIUHPH
board!
tbt ref0P the
election
appointed in
and thf l"'r'cinets in the State.
r..t„r„„d
to the circuit clerks and which are
known to number about 6.000. These
ficrures indicate that 26,000 votes were
lost in the frlwrtion.
The New Fi*K.
A
v e a y
TraeV has issued an order increasing
the number of stars on the National
ensign and Union Jack to forty a""
IMVO new stirs are added, one each
Nouh Dakota, South Dakota, Mon
Washington and Idaho. The stars
arranged in six rows, the top row
taming eight stars and the other
rows containing seven stars each
Fatally Injured.
PKM\ Ind.,NOV. 15.- George C.Trowveil,
a prominent and wealthy rosiden
this clt
was thrown from hhl
8
Princeton the people were made aw
Ur.-t time that liircball had return''1'
Against Hirehall there were HCM
4et,c« which, while not makinf?
ere all consistent one witt
and together were certainly strung
cipai witness was a young 1
named IXm-las K. Pelly. who
l",
out on the Briiauuic with Mr._
Hirehall and Henwell. Pelly ami
made arranxeuientH in England
interest in a horse ranch or farm wb
claimed he owned in Canada. A
Pelly, Hirehall had represented thi-
1
a mile and a half from Niagara
Weil's father, a retired Hritisli
pay 4S5U) for an interest in
thl"
soon as his son should
Canada that he was satisllod with
Young Pelly also had paid Hirehall
on condition that he was to have e
on the farm with a small share in
1
Monday, February 17, Henwell a:
had taken tho Grand Trunk
9 :j
vision train to go to the alleged
That night Birchall returned
plaining that Henwell had
ther, probably intending to call n
Out. The two men, however, were
off at Kantwoed station and go acr»"
in a direction which would tane
swamp. Birchall was
subsequent!}
turn alone. Two days later Henwell
found In tbe swam p. I
The
Official Vote In ladl*'"1,
INKIANAPOI.IS, Ind.,
i
official returns of the Indian
wero finally received by
for
of
Friday and reqeivod fatal injuries.
buKlry
lh
of State Friday, and the V'
pluralities as they
record officially
itana,
are
con
five
Br°
s-
lows: Trusler, Secretary
(1
,1||t
10,57!) Henderson, Auditor.
C»all, Treasurer, 20,501
of the Supreme Court, 2b"
Attorney-lieneral, 20,2'J6
Clerk of tho Supremo
Vories, Superintendent '*islici®
struction, 20,814 Peelle.
at), 87a.