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THE WAHPETQN TIMES
E. O. KNOTT8, Publisher.
WAHPETON, NORTH DAKOTAi
MEWS or THE AVKK IN EPITOME
Important Events at Home ui o«
Foreign Shores Briefly
Told.
Washington.
Seven Filipinos may receive instruc
tion in the United States military
academy, according to a bill passed by
the senate.
A denial was made at the German
embassy at Washington of the accu
racy of statements recently appearing
In the press alleging that German
firms have been contributing in a ma
terial way to the revolutionary move
ment in Haiti.
The Southern Railway company,
having failed in its efforts to reach an
agreement with its employes in the
matter of a reduction in their wages,
has called upon the interstate com
merce commission and bureau of labor
to mediate under the Erdman act.
The retirement on full pay of any
judge of the United States court who,
has held his commission for at least!
ten years and reached the age of sev
enty years is provided in a bill .intro
duced by Senator Knox which haB
been reported favorably by the senate
committee on Judiciary.
The case of the Duluth and Superior
Bridge company vs. the Steamer
Troy, a suit for damages growing out
of a collision by the steamer with the
bridge acrosg^.the St. Louis river be
tween Duluw and Superior, in 1906,
whereby the bridge was destroyed,
was decided adversely to the bridge
company by the supreme court.
In the will of Charles E. Wood, a
real estate operator of Washington,
who died recently, leaving his estate
valued at more than $1,000,000, provis
ion is made for the establishment of a
sanatorium at Atlantic City, N. J., at a
cost of about $300,000, and which is to
be on the lines a sanitorium at
Battle Creek, Mich.
People Talked About.
William Hildebrand, one of the fore
most civil engineers of the country, is
dead, in New York.
Brig. Gen. Rufus Saxton, U. S. A.,
retired, dropped dead in Washington
of heart disease.
Miss Harriet Hosmer, the sculptress,
died at her home in Watertown, Mass.,
after an illness of three weeks.
Dr. Johannes Fredrlch August von
Esmarch, professor of surgery at the
University of Kiel, Germany, is dead.
Phillip E. Campbell, formerly Btate
treasurer of Missouri and mayor of
Jefferson City, died at his home in
KansaB City.
Charles Brun, the French painter,
whose picture "L'Improvisateur
Arabe" forms part of the Rockefeller
collection, is dead in Paris.
Mrs. Sophia Jacobson fell dead as
she completed an address before the
Free Thinkers' society in Chicago.
Heart dissease was the cause.
W. K. Knight, general counsel of the
Illinois Central railroad in Iowa, and
forerly state senator, is dead at Du
buque at the age of seventy-one years.
Accidental Happemngs.
One person was killed and fifteen
injured," five it is thought, fatally, in a
collision between two interurban cars
near Cambridge, Ohio.
Three persons were seriously burn
ed and twenty others fled into the
street in their night clothes when an
oil lamp in the home of John Gishick
at Pittsburg, exploded, setting fire to
the houBe.
George Mauck and his wife were in
stantly killed at Urban, Ohio, when
their closely curtained carriage was
struck by an Erie passenger train at
a grade crossing. Their ten-year-old
daughter is dying.
Sixteen persons were injured, Ave
of them seriously, at Lakeside, a new
amusement park, at Denver, when a
car on a scenic railway left the tracks
and carried the occupants to the
flooring, ten feet below.
Mrs. Enos Raim, wife of a saloon
man of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, attempted
to pour kerosene upon a balky fire.
The can of oil exploded and she fell
dead into the arms of her husband,
who had run down stairs on hearing
her cries.
With a concussion that shook
houses and business buildings within
a radius of several blocks, broke win
dows and inflicted other damage to
the property, an explosion in the iron
converter building of the Cambria
Steel company at Johnstown, Pa., seri
ously injured four men and practically
wrecked the large building.
Crimes and Criminals.
Mrs. Augusta Strey, seventy-three
years old, committed suicide in Cleve
land by setting fire to her clothing.
Jefferson A. Gunnett, foreman of a
steam roller crew at Columbus, Ohio,
was arrested on the aflldavit of John
A. Porter charging him with selling
fifty bags of cement belonging to the
city to Owen Mahon and pocketing the
price, $25. Gunnett denies ho has
done anything wrong. Rumors of a
big scandal in city affairs are rife.
Daniel E. Naughton, assistant clerk
of the St. Louis house of delegates,
was found guilty as an accessory after
the fact to the alleged bribery of Del
egates Prlesmeyer and Warner and
sentenced to three month* In Jail and
to pay. a fine of $100,
Mrs. Paul D. Elliser, an aged white
woman who resides at Cayce, S. C.,
was killed by an unknown negro, thq,
motive being robbery.
Walter Holbrook, a well-known
farmer of Shawneetown, 111., was fatal
ly shot by Ferd Norman. The shoot
ing was the result of an old 'grudge.
Frederick J. Brlnnier, aged twentyv
four, attempted suicide in a hotel at
Philadelphia by shooting himself.
Brlnnier Is in a critical condition.
Mrs. Ju F. Matzer, a wealthy resi
dent of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, commit
ted suicide by tying a sponge filled
with chloroform over her face. The
motive for the suicide is not known.
In a desperate battle at St. Louis
with knives and brickbats over a girl,
with three brothers on one side and
two on the other, Edward, Stanley and
John Smith were stabbed. The first
two are seriously injured, the other
slightly.
As a climax to a long series of
trouble between his wife and himself,
George Van Pelt, a tugboat owner and
captain of New York, shot and fatally
wounded their eight-year-old daughter
Ruth last night and then fired two
bullets into his brain. Both will prob
ably die.
From Other 8hores.
Ten persons were killed and a
score more wounded, including several
ecclesiastics, as a result of a riot in
the main street at Teheran during the
passage of a religious festival.
A great fall of snow has blocked all
traffic in the Donets Valley in Russia.
Twenty-one thousand' workmen, fifty
five freight trains and 1,500 teams are
engaged in clearing the tracks.
Railroad traffic in Central Russia is
almost completely paralyzed by a suc
cession of heavy snow storms, which
still continue. Many townB are cut
off from all communication.
The thirteenth anniversary of the
uprising that initiated the war of Cu
ban independence was celebrated last
week by a total suspension of busi
ness, by fetes and extensiy» illumina
tions.
It is understood in diplomatic circles
at Copenhagen that as a result of
pressure from other pAwers, Russia
has abandoned her plan of fortifying
the Aland islands, and that an entente
preserving the status quo in the Baltic
soon will be arranged.
The Italian senate, sitting as a high
court, after ten hours' deliberation
convicted Nunzio Nazi, former minis
ter of public instruction, of embezzle
ment from the state treasury. It sen
tenced him to eleven months and
twenty days' imprisonment.
Ten brigands attacked a Kielce,
Poland, train, hurling three bombs at
it and firing many shots from their
rifles. They killed one soldier and
wounded three soldiers and three
trainmen. They made their escape on
the engine of the train with $10,000 in
gold.
Tommy Burns, the heavyweight
champion, and Jack Johnson, the ne
gro heavyweight, may meet in Eng
land to fight for the championship
within a few months. A syndicate of
British sportsmen have pffered a purse
for a fight between them, to take place
In England.
Domestic.
Former Gov. Richard Yates has an
nounced his candidacy for governor of
Illinois.
Andrew Carnegie has contributed
$125,000 to the Robert Koch institute
for the investigation of tuberculosis
at Berlin.
The A. B. Clark ranch,, one of the
largest in Montana, comprising 20,700
acres, has been sold to W. H. Dye of
Indianapolis.
By an order issued by the Santa Fe
all of the men who were victims of
the retrenching process recently were
put back to work on full time.
Justice Gug, in ttife New York su
preme court, set aside the verdict of a
(jury and fined the jurymen $50 each
for deciding the verdict by the flip of
a coin.
The Missouri Pacific railroad has
surrendered in the anti-pass fight with
the Nebraska state railway commis
sion. Attorney Wagr er sent a tele
gram canceling all annuals.
Thirteen hundred and four ears of
prize-winning corn of the Marshall
county, Iowa, short course school
sold at auction for a total of $515.50.
The price per bushel averaged $39.60.
Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, IB
a patient at the Manhattan Eye, Ear
and Throat hospital in New York,
where he underwent an operation in
tended to relieve him of trouble In the
left ear.
Arrangements have been completed
whereby Nicholas Murray Butler,
president of Columbia university, New
York, is to deliver a course of lec
tures at the University of Copenhagen
next September.
Compliance with the federal law,
effective March 4, which limits to nine
hours the working day of operators,
will cost the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy railroad $155,000 a year, ac
cording to a statement issued by of
ficials' of that road.
Stuyvesant Fish has given up the
light for Illinois Central control. Fri
day he issued a statement which in
effect is a throwing up of the-sponge..
His statement was mailed to the
stockholders of the road, and offered
to return proxies to those who desire
them.
If news brought to Victoria, B. C..
proved to be correct, Vancouver isl
and will see a stampede this summer
unequaled since the days of the Klon
dike gold rush. On the beaches of
Wreck bay, at Sidney inlet, on the
east coast, a bank of sand has been
found wondrously rich in gold.
nor
MIM
WAS
HATCHTD EAST
Italians in Six Cities Were Con
nected With the Killing of
Father Leo.
SIX SUSPECTS ARE CAPlURfD
Letter to Son Written by Denver Priest's
Assassin Contains Cine
to Conspiracy.
Denver, March 1. Chief of Police
Michael Delaney said yesterday that a
letter written by Giuseppe Alio to his
son, which was found in the cell occu
pied by Alio while in jail at Colorado
Springs, contained proof that men in
six cities in the United States were
connected with him in the killing of
Father Leo Heinrichs.
Almost at the moment that he made
this statement came news that'six ar
rests had been made in Eastern cities
of men suspected of being accomplices
of the murderer.
Six Arrest* Made.
J. Vanni was arrested in New York
yesterday, charged with being the
chief of the society, while in Pittsburg
Orestos Sodi, Tomasso Calabreso,
Orestos Malavui and Malio Tolmel
were locked up for being implicated
as members of the society. The po
lice of New York and Pittsburg say
they 'have evidence which connects
these men with the killing of Father
Leo.
Arrests have been made in four cit
ies, but because the police of these'
cities are shadowing other men, no in
formation is given out as to who the
arrested men are..
Plot Hatched Elsewhere.
Chief Delaney said that he was not'
sure whether Alio was merely a tool
of the anti-clerical society, to which
he said all these men belonged, or
wether he was a ringleader.
AUo's letter to his sou was fouaJ
concealed in the blankets of the cot
in the Colorado Springs jail. Its con
tents translated, it is asserted, indicate
that Father Leo was the victim of a
plot hatched outside of Denver, and
that Alio came here to commit the
murder, which was to be the signal
for others.
All Is Not Yet Told.
Until all the arrests haVe been made
which the police contemplate Chief
Delaney said he would not give out al^
the particulars in the case.
That insanity will be the plea offer
ed in defense of Alio was the positive
statement of Baron G. Tosti, Italian
consul, who, in comany with Former
Consul Corre and Attorney Widdi
combe, visited the prisoner in the jail
yesterday.
MAIL CONTRACT GRAB FOILED.
I
Steenerson and Stafford Are Active in
Blocking Steal.
Washington, March 1, In connec
tion with the report to the house yes
terday of the postoffice appropriation
bill by the committee on postofflces
there were interesting disclosures re
garding the most remarkable contest
that has taken place in a committee
of congress during the present session
over the details of legislation. f!
The controversy was over a proposi
toin for changing the weighing period
of mails carried on railroads, the effect
of which change would be materially
to increase the compensation of the,
railroads for mail carriage. The cir
cumstances under which the matter
was submitted to the committee and,
the test vote, showing a tie, which was
broken by one member changing his
vote, were attended by what was said
to be almost riotous demonstrations
by the members who favored or op
posed the change in legislation.
By a vote of lO to 8 the proposition
was defeated.
The representatives on the postoffice
committee from the Northwest lined
up against the proposed increased pay
to the railroads and vigorously com
bated the introduction of the item
making the change. Representatives
Steenerson of Minnesota and Stafford
of Wisconsin were active and aggres
sive iQ preventing the increase.
It is estimated that if the item had
been carried into the bill and agreed
to by both hquses it would have in
creased the compensation for railway
mail carriage approximately $2,500,000.
Negro le Strung Up.
Houston, Tex.,' March 1. Charles
Scott, a negro, aged eighteen years,
was found hanging to a tree at Conroe
yesterday. The negro's feet had a
placard attached to them with the
words: "Warning to negroes found
prowling In white folks' houses."
Scott had been arrested and placed
under bond on a charge of attempting
an assault upon Miss Alloy.
Five Babes, at One Birth.
Steubenville, Ohio, March 1. Five1
perfectly formed-children were born
here yesterday to Mr. and Mrs. George
Campbell. Three of the babies died
within an hour after their birth. One
boy and one girl will live, it is said.
Accused of Raising Bill.
Brainerd, Minn., March 1. Fred
Walhapter and Ed Brooks, accused of
having passed a raised bill on little
Annie Van Sickle in her father's can
dy store, were turned over to Deputy
United States Marshal Rider.
LONG DEADLOCK IS BROKEN
Foraer Gov. Bralley, Republican, Elect
ed Senator by Kentucky
Legislature.
Frankfort, Ky.,'March- 1. Amid
'scenes of wildest excitement on the
floor of the house of representatives.
Former Governor William O'Connell
Bradley, Republican candidate, was
yesterday elected to succeed James B.
McCreary in the United States senate
for a term of six years, beginning
March 4, 1909. He received sixty-four
votes, barely enough to win, and waB
enabled to gain victory through the as
sistance of four Democrats who have
throughout the session voted againBt
J. W. Beckham. Their sudden rally to
Bradley took the Beckham men com
pletely by surprise.
Try to Break Quorum.
The completion of the first roll cali
showed Bradley 64, Beckham 60,
Blackburn 1. James 1. Before the
speaker could announce the result the
Democrats obtained a recapitulation
and attempted to break the quorum by
leaving the hall, but came back accom
panied by Beckham, who authorized
the withdrawal of his name and re
leased the Democrats from the primary
nomination pledge to him, in the hope
that some other Democrat woufd be
named who could defeat Bradley. The
four bolting Democrats were surround
ed by lifelong party friends and urged
to withdraw their support of Bradley
and elect' James McCreary or any
Democrat they might name, but they
remained obdurate, declaring that the
propqsition came too late.
Refused to Change.
The Democratic leaders promised a
caucus to select a candidate, to which
the'name of "Beckhdm would not be
presented, but the recalcitrants re
fused all offers, and the result could
not be changed.
There waB great disorder in the
chamber during recapitulation, the
Republicans demanding the speaker to
announce the result and the Democrats
seeking to delay, hoping to induce one
of the Democrats to leave Bradley.
In a speech accepting his election
Bradley thanked the speaker for his
fair and impartial rulings.
BOMB8 FOR TWO RULERS.
Shah of Persia and President of Argen
tine Republic Targets for Assassins.
Teheran,' Persia, March 1.—Moham
med Ali Mirsa, shah of Persia, narrow
ly escaped death at the hands of an
assassin yesterday, A bomb was
thrown at the shah' automobile, in
which it was supposed he was a pas
senger, the explosion killing three of
the vehicle's escorts amLwounding thq
chauffcur and a score of bystanders.
Fortunately, the shah had taken the
precaution to send his automobile In
front of the vehicle which he occupied,
and to this foresight probably owes his
escape from death.
Two Bombs Thrown.
Two bombs were thrown, but the
first exploded in the air and did no
damage. The second, however, struck
the ground only a few feet from the
automobile and tore the vehicle to
pieces. The assassins believed the
shah was in the motor car, which was
a closed one, but which it developed
carried no passengers.
When the explosion occurred, the
shah's carriage was some distance in
the rear of the automobile, and the
ruler immediately left his carriage and
took refuge in a nearby store, where
he quietly remained until a detach
ment of troops arrived and escorted
him to the palace. No arrests have yet
been made.
Hurl Bomb at President.
Buenos Ay res, March 1.—Dr. J. Fi
gueroa Alcorta, president of the re
public, early last evening wap the ob
ject of an abortive attempt at assas
sination at the hands of a native of
Argentina. He hurled a crude bomb
at the president aB the latter alighted
from his. carriage in front of his resi
dence. The missile did not explode.
The miscreant, who is believed to be
insane, was arrested, and three other
persons who were acting in a suspi
cious manner also were taken-into cus
tody by the police.
Act of a Lunatic.
Dr. Alcorta was not at all perturbed.
He considers the action that of an in
sane man. As soon as news of the oc
currence became public all the minis
ters, the chief of police, high officials
and many personal friends hastened
to the president's house and congratu
lated him upon his escape.
Regis, who threw the bomb, refuses
to give any information concerning his
action, though he denies that he was
the emissary of any one.
The outrage is not believed to have
any political significance.
Favor Fowler Bill.
Washington, March 1.—By a vote
of 11 to 5, three members being pres
ent and not voting, the house commit
tee on banking and currency yester
day authorized its chairman, Repre
sentative Fowler of New Jersey, to
report to the house the Fowler curren
cy bill, with the recommendation that
it pass.
Doctor Takes Change of Venue.
Grand Forks, N. D., March 1. Dr.
John Fawcett, accused of causing* the
death of Lillie Schmochel by an illegal
operation, took a change of venue yes
terday to another justice, asd his pre
liminary hearing was continued to
Wednesday.
Tight Lid Put On.
Brownsville, Minn., March 1.—The
lid has been nailed down in this vil
lage as a result of the aplication of
the new state liquor law by the county
authorities.
HMDS WW OFFIY
NINE-HOUR LAW
n*"
MeansEmptoyment of Thous*
It ands of Additional Men—
Close Small Stations.
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SEE RETURN Of PROSPERITY
Railroad Men Say There Are
Idle Freight Cars—Expect Sad
den Change'for Better.
Washington, March 3.—The Ameri
can railways have made arrangements
to comply with the provisions of the
nine-hour law. The operation of the
law will mean the employment by rail
road companies of several thousand
additional operators and the closing of
a large number of small stations on
the principal systems. The operating
officials of the railways believe that
this is the only way that they poBsi
bly can meet the situation. During
the hearing by the interstate com
merce commission some astonishing
statements were made by the operat
ing officials oif important railways.
Pushed Hard for Cash.
A good many lines, owing to a re
duction in their revenues and to their
inability to command the cash neces
sary to meet their pay rolls, have been
forced during the past four months al
most to the point of asking for re
ceivers. Most of the railway officials
attribute the difficulty to the unfor
tunate banking situation which de
veloped last September.
One railway official ventured the
statement that in the country to-day
there were 300,000 idle freight cars,
and one line which he instanced was
declared to be hauling empty cars
backward and forward because it had
not yard room or sidings to accommo
date them.
Return of Prosperity.
Not a single official, however, ex
pressed the belief that the present in
dustrial depression would be lasting.
They practically uniformly express
confidence that the return of prosperi
ty will be almost as sudden as was the
coming of adversity, and in their argu
ments as to the enforcement of the
nine-hour law they pointed out to the
commission that such a return of pros
perity might seriously embarrass them
in complying with the law, because it
would render it difficult to command
the services of competent operators in
sufficient numbers to-meet the needs
of prosperous conditions.
RATHER HAVE WED BROTHER.
Man 8ays Wife Intimated He Was
Not Her "Affinity."
Grand Forks, N. D., March 3.—"If I
had seen your brother first I would
never have married you," declared
Mrs. Mortimer Fuller back in their
Ontario Iiome to her husband, William
Fuller, according to his testimony in a
divorce suit in the district court. Wil
liam testified that she added many
other unpleasant remarks, and finally
he sought a farm in North Dakota,
leavhjjr her behind. Judge Templeton
granted the divorce.
BOYS INVADE CLUB HOUSE.
Example to Be Made of Young Winona
Vandals.
Winona, Minn., March 3.—A score
or more of boys are implicated in the
breaking into of the club house of the
Meadow Brook Golf club here and de*'
stroying property valued at about (200.
Several of them have been arrested
and the others will be taken into court
this morning. The interior of the club
house waB defaced, the lockers broken
open and considerable* operty taken
away. An example is to be made of
the boys to prevent future depreda
tions.
BABY'S BITE 8ERIOU8.
May Cost 8outh Dakota Mother Her
Life.
Lead, S. D., March 3.—A bite by her
Infant child, in a rage over punish
ment inflicted by the mother, may, cost
Mrs. John Zurloh of this city her life.
Mrs. Zu'lch is now in the hospital,
where the surgeons are trying to save
her life.
The baby caught his mother's little
finger in his mouth and bit it. Blood
poisoning resulted from the injury.
IT8 OWN RANGE.
Yankton Company Will Construct a
Place to Shoot.
Yankton, S. D., March 3. —Coompany
M. South Dakota national guard, will
commence the construction of a rifle
range. The pit will be constructed of
cement and will have range stations at
100, 200, 300, 500 and 1,000 yards, each
equipped with telephone connections
to the pit. There will be competitive
shoots between companies of the First
battalion each month.
IMMIGRANTS COME AGAIN.
Little Abatement, However, In the
Outward Rush.
New York, March 3.—The tide of
immigration is beginning to swell
again. The Hamburg-American liner
Amerika brought here 840 steerage
passengers yesterday, the record for
the year. On one day last week there
were between 2,000 and 3,00.0 immi
grants on Ellis island.
There is little abatement, however,
in the the rush of the alien labor ele
ment from our shores.
SHOWS UP TllE PAPER TRUST
S'"-?
President Ridder of Publishers' Asse*
ciatioa -Lays Evidence Be
.. fere President...
Washington, ttarch3WHennanRid
der, president of the- American News
vpaper Publishers' association and edi
tor of the Staats Zeitung of New York,
called upon President Roosevelt and
Attorney General Bonaparte Saturday
in connection .with his fight against
the white paper trust. Mr. Ridder laid
before the attorney general at the de
partment of justice evidence to Show
that the paper trust IS violating the
Sherman anti-trust law.
At the White House Mr. Ridder took
up the question of urging congress to...
repeal the duty on white paper and
wood pulp, from which the paper is
made. Some months ago the president
told a committee from the publishers'
association that he favored a repeal
of the duty, but whether he will can
the attention of congress to the sub
ject in a special message is not defi
nitely known. Mr. Ridder said ho
could not talk about what the presi
dent had said.
BOY'8 TOY T8 DEADLY.
One KiHad, One Dying and Two Oth
ers Badly Hurt by Explosion.
Minneapolis, March 3. Four-year
old Clifford Ekelund, son of C. A. Eke
lund, is dead, his eighteen-year-old
brother Herman probably fatally in
jured and Conrad, aged eight, and
Richard, aged eleven, seriously, but it
is thought not dangerously hurt by the
explosion of a large bottle of potash,
with which they were playing in the
attic of their home shortly before 6
o'clock last night. The roof of the
house was partly wrecked and the
upper windows broken by the force of
the explosion. The damage to the
house will not exceed $200.
NINE ARE HURT.
Spark Ignites Powdered Sulphur Caus
ing Explosion.
New York, March 3. Nine em
ployes of the National Sulphur compa
ny's mill in Brooklyn were badly burn
ed and lacerated by an explosion of
sulphur in the company's plan. A
driver of a truck was struck by
a section of the roof which was blown
off the building. The factory was de
stroyed by fire with a loss of about
$100,000.
Nine employes were at work in the
milling section, grinding the sulphur*
when it is supposed a spark from one
of the grinding machines ignited the
powdered sulphur, causing the explo
sion.
BIGAMIST IS SENT UP.
Archie A. Moore Sentenced to Two
Years and a Quarter at Stillwater.
Warren, March 3. Judge Grin
deland sentenced Archie A. Moore of
Ada, Minn., to two years and three
months at Stillwater for bigamy.
Moore thought he had a divorce, and
he niarried a young girl seventeen
years old. His first wife turned up,
having been refused a divorce in Dako
ta, and now Moore suffers the penalty.
RIBS BROKEN BY WOMAN.
Mrs. Mae Murray of Des Moines May
Die. FrcM Fist Fight.
Des Moines, March 3.—As the result
of a fist duel with another woman.
Mrs. Mae Murray of this city has three
broken ribs and may die. As yet she
has filed no information against ber
opponent. The fight was over a slight
ing remark concerning Mrs. Murray.
She has refused ilius far to tell the
other woman's name.
SCALD KILL8 CHILD.
Tot Pulls Teakettle Upon Himself and
Is Fatally Burned.
Wajrren, Minn., March 3.—The three
year-old son of Joseph Durand of Ste
phen, while standing on a chair, pulled
the teakettle upon himself and was so
badly scalded that he died a few min
utes later.
Smallpox Closes Hotel.
Chippewa Falls, Wis., March 3.
The James Semple hotel in Durand
has been ckraed by order of the board
of public health, the proprietor having
contracted smallpox. The guests were
allowed to depart after they had been
thoroughly fumigated. The school
board has ordered all the pupils in the
school vaccinated.
Assembly at Waseca.
Waseca, Minn., March 3.—Arrange
ments have been completed and a lo
cal organizations formed for the pur
pose of maintair. '^g a permanent Chau
taqua assembly at this place. The as
sembly tills season will be held during
the first week of July.
Three Killed in Fight.
Evelyn, Ky., March 3.—Three men
were killed and a fourth mortally
wounded in a fight with revolvers, fol
lowing a quarrel in the lumber camp
of Congleton & William S. Brothers,
on Rose creek, near here..
8even Terrorists Hanged.
St. Petersburg, March 3.—The seven
'terrorists who were condemned to
death by a court-martial for complicity.'
In a plot against the lives of Grand
Duke Nicholas Nicolaievitch and M.
Chtcheglovitoff, minister of justice,
were hanged at daybreak Sunday.
Reuterdahl Quits Fleet.
Callao Peru, March 3.—Reuterdahl.
author of the recent attack on Ameri
can battleship construction, has quit
the fleet will returne to "rrove his
charges.''