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BOWBELLS, Ward Co., N.
ROBBERS RIFLE STORE.
Men Seun in Iowa Town Are Sought
by Police.
Vinton, Iowa, May 12. Robbers
made a big haul of cash and jewelry
at Dills & Son's jewelry store. Two
suspicious looking characters had
been seen hanging about. I he place and
they are supposed to have committed
the robbery and escaped on a Rock
Island train. The men gained an en
trance tc the store through a rear
window. The safe was not molested,
but the goods in the showcases and
the money in the cash drawers were
taken. The sheriff has sent descrip
tions of the suspects to all surround
ing towns, and a reward of $50 is of
fered for their apprehension.
HANDCAR IS DYNAMITED.
Explosive on Track Injures Workman
Near Bemidji. N
Bemidji, Minn., May 12.—A stick of
dynamite which got on the railway
track in some mysterious manner
blew up a handcar which was being
operated by four men. and Harold
Swanson received a serious wound.
The other men escaped. The car was
being operated at a fair speed, and
when at a point .four miles east of
here it suddenly struck the dynamite
and an explosion of great violence oc
curred. The car was lifted into the
air and dropped in a ditch. An inves
tigation is being made in an endeavor
to explain the presence of the dyna
mite on the track.
FIRE LOSS IS $20,000.
Coal Chute and Cars Burned at Grand
Fork*.
Grand Forks. N. D.. May 12—Tht
Great Northern coal chute building
caught fire from an engine spark late
yesterday afternoon, and before the
fire was under control property val
ued at $20,000 had been destroyed.
The coal chute, section house, five
cars loaded with coal, ties and lumber
of a probable value cf $10,000 belong
ing to the railroad company arc a to
tal, and $0,000 damage was done to
the wood' work in establishment of
Bailes & Perkins, where the fire was
controlled after a GO per c:'r.t lo:--.s on
'.he fr:.me factory bull Jin.
NEARLY DIG OUT OF JAIL.
Three Frisoners Are Caught Working
et Lest Layer cf Bricks.
Wahpelon. N. D., May 12.—Three
prisoners in the county jail tried to
make their escape by digging tr.rough
the wall of the jail. They were dis
covered in the act by the sheriff, who
heard a noise in the jail. When dis
covered they had dug through all but
the last layer of brick, and would have
gained their liberty in another half
hour had they not been caught. The
jail is old and the cement is soft, so
that the work was easy. The only
tools the prisoners had were a couple
of knives and a small file.
BOY LOST OR KIDNAPPED.
Starching Parties Fail to Get Trace of
Hanson Lad.
Woodviile, Wis., May 12.—The fif
teen-year-old son of Andrew Hanson
of the firm of Hanson & Johnson of
thes village is either lost or has been
kidnapped. He disappeared late Sun
day afternoon, and searching parties
have been out. but no trace of him has
been found. When last seen he was
dressed in a licht gray suit and a
brown hat. He was fifteen years old,
has light curlcy hair, blue eyes, and
weighs about 125 pounds.
IS CHARGED WITH KILLING.
Gccrcjc Nelson Bound Over at Black
River Falls.
Black River Falls, Wis., May 12.
The examination of George Nelson,
charged with causing the death of
Oscar Hegg, was held before Justice
Reichenbach here yesterday. Nelson
declared through
his
attorney that he
would call no witnesses in defense,
and he was bound over to the June
term of court in $1,000 bonds,
The
charge being manslaughter in the
second degree. Bail was furnished.
STEAMER IS SUNK.
Log in River Staves Hole in Hull of
the Eagle Point.
La Crosse, Wis., May 12.—Striking
a sunken log in the river at Cassville,
Wis., below here, the steamer Eagle
Point was sunk in nine feet of water.
The crew escaped and saved all valua
ble papers on board. A large hole was
staved in the hull of the vessel. Work
of floating the craft is progressing.
Two Workmen Killed.
Muscatine, Iowa, May 12.—A boiler
at Brown Bros.' tile factory, Craw
fordsvillc, exploded yesterday. Two
workmen were killed and the plant
was wrecked.
Woman in Long Stupor.
Red Wing, Minn., May 12.—Mrs. C,
H. Boxrud, apparently well, fell Into
a stupor in which she has remained
for twenty-four hours, physicians be
ing unable to revive her. Presumably
apoplectic stroke.
Postoffice Robbed.
Hudson, Wis., May 12.—At 2 o'clock
yesterday morning burglars effected
an entrance into the postoflice at Rob
erts, dynamited the safe, secured $24
in cash and made their escape unde
tected.
Cafl Schurz III.
New York, May 12.—Carl Schurz is
critically ill in his home here. At one
time yesterday he was thought to be
dying, but, rallied and was resting
•more comfortably late last night. Mr.
Schurz, who Is seventy-six years old,
is suffering from a complication of
disorders.
Horse Drags Boy
to
Death.
Wagner., S. D., May 12.—Bud Har
ney, cine years of age, was killed by
t-eing dragged to death by a horse
which bo was riding.
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Notes From Washington.
President Roosevelt has signed the
bill recently passed by congress pro
viding for a delegate in the house
from Alaska.
The state department received the
following cablegram from the Ameri
can consul at Hankti, China: "Im
mense flood in Hunan province. Great
loss of life and property. All foreign
ers safe."
A message was received at the navy
department from Rear Admiral Har
rington, commanding the navy yard at
Norfolk, saying that the battleship
Rhode Island, which ran aground off
York Spit last week, is now lying off
Yorktown, uninjured.
The Panaaia canal commission had
27,000 employes on its rolls during the
month of April. Five thousand of these
were paid in gold and 22,000 in silver.
The number of men at work exceeds
by 9,000 the greatest number the
French company ever had in its em
ploy.
From Other Shores.
The governor general of Ekaterino
slav has been assassinated by six per
sons who fired volleys from revolvers
at him and escaped.
The Barcelona police discovered an
anarchist conspiracy. There have
have been sixteen arrests and eight
bombs have been seized.
The London Daily Telegraph's St.
Petersburg correspondent says it is re
ported that Count Witte may be ap
nointed Russian ambassador at Paris.
The London Times correspondent at
St. Petersburg says he is able to state
positively that Emperor Nicholas in
tends to select future ministers from
the national parliament and that the
Goremykin ministry is merely transi
tional.
The typhoid epidemic is practically
stamped out in Mexico City, only two
cases and one death being reported.
The magnitude of the success accom
plished is shown by the fact that since
Oct. 1 there were 3,372 cases and 788
•leaths.
Archbishop Ireland left Rome,
charmed with the complete success of
his visit. He has gained the friend
ship of the pope, who looks upon him
as an old friend, and the admiration
and esteem of many members of the
•sacred college.
Walter Wellman has received the
consent: of Norway to the establish
ment of a wireless telegraph station
at Hammerfest in connection with his
polar expedition. Mr. Wellman is go
ing to Paris for the purpose of testing
the airship which has been constructed
there for use in the Arctic regions.
The body of a man who ascended to
the second landing of the Eiffel tower
in Paris and jumped off and was kill
ed on the floor below, has been identi
fied as that of August Braun, born in
Germany, naturalized an American cit
izen and formerly a resident of Cincin
nati. Braun's suicide is attributed to
cental derangement.
The results of the French election
are considered chiefly important in
confirming the policy which the gov
ernment has thus far pursued. Out of
50 const it utencies the government
lias carried 2C2 and the opposition 169.
In 155 districts there will be reballot
inprs. The results in colonial districts
have not yet been reported.
It has become known that the au
thorities of San Domingo discovered
a plot to assassinate President Cace
res as he was leaving the theater.
Several arrests have been made. Shots
were exchanged last night near the
city between rural guards and sup
posed revolutionists. The city and
its surroundings are calm now.
Crimes.
Rev. C. Stewart Bain, who is in jail
at Waterloo, N. Y., accused of setting
fire to his church, which was destroyed
March (!. claims that if lie did the deed
it was a sort of Jekvll-Hyde proceed
ing.
Sam Sims, a negro who killed the
horse upon which Constable Lamar
Hendricks, who was attempting co ar
rest him, was riding, was taken l'roni
his captor and lynched near the pub
lic road about six miles west of Jack
son, Miss.
Driven to desperation by suffering
from Bright's disease, Edwin W. Clark
of New York, for thirty years a mem
ber of the cotton exchange and a ipan
3f wealth, shot and killed himself. He
was distantly related to the Vanderbilt
and Duer families.
In a desperate pistol fight at New
Point, Ind., Pleasant Land was shot
and almost instantly killed, and .his
brother, Winfield Land, v/as shot
through the head, dying a few hours
later. Jeff Williams was shot also,
and is not expected to live. Garfield
A. Williams and William Hare, the oth
er participants in the affair, were not
injured and are now in the county jail
at Greensburg. The trouble followed
a drunken quarrel.
Over 300 citizens of Franklin county,
Miss., including the sheriff, charged
with being members of an alleged
"Whitecap" organization, pleaded
guilty before Judge Niles on the charge
of intimidating government home
steaders, and were each assessed the
minimum fine of $25.
A tragedy was enacted in Preble
county, Ohio. Isaac Mackey, aged
sixty-five, crushed the skull of his
brother, David Mackey, aged seventy
five, with a hatchet, and then took poi
son in an attempt to end his own life.
The assailant died, and his victim sur
vived him only a few hours.
Charged with, having embezzled up
wards of $100,000 from his employers,
Edwin S. Greenfield, head clerk in the
hanking and brokerage firm of Harri
son, Snyder & Son, was arrested in
Philadelphia, and in default of $10,000
bail was sent to the county jail.
Greenfield has made a full confession
and is doing everything possible to as
sist the firm in straightening out its
tangled books.
Aquilla Triplet, wanted at Omaha in
connection with land fraud prosecu
tions, has been arrested at El Paso,
Tex., by a United States secret service
agent from Omaha.
The News of the Week
Jacob Hengri, residing north of Mil
ledgeville, 111., committed suicide be
cause his wife persisted in moving
from the country to Savannah.
An unknown man, who walked dowh
the main street of Hoboken kicking an
American flag along in the dirt, was
mobbed by indignant citizens, clubbed
by a policeman, sentenced by a court
and put to work breaking stones in a
penitentiary before the day was over.
Using a straw to prevent disfiguring
her face, Mrs. Emma Reybert, wife ol
a printer, in the solemn quietude of St.
Philomena church at Cincinnati, com
mitted suicide with carbolic acid. She
died a few minutes after being found,
but her identity was not established
until after midnight. Despondency be
cause of he-- health is believed to have
been the cause of the suicide.
Twenty county jail prisoners, com
posing the squad used in cleaning pub
lic streets at Washington, Pa., went
on a strike which lasted until they
were supplied with their daily allow
ance of tobacco. Heretofore the coun
ty commissioners had supplied the
prisoners with tobacco, but an order
was issued that no more be furnished.
The sheriff appealed to the commis
sioners, who rescinded the order.
Casualty List.
The explosion of the boiler of the
feed and saw mill at Mystic, Iowa,
blew C. Z. Zinn over 200 feet, killing
him instantly.
Orln V. Love, a wealthy lumberman
of Mehoopany, Pa., and his son, aged
eighteen, were drowned in the Susque
hanna river at Meshoppen.
The Indianapolis limited of the Wa
bash Valley Traction line collided with
an express car at Huntington, Ind.,
killing Motorman C. F. Murphy of Fort
Yane and injuring several passengers.
Fire at Yakima, Wash., caused a
loss of $150,000 in the shipping dis
trict. The Northern Pacific freight
depot and the Yakima Produce com
pany were the heaviest individual
losers.
While five men were crossing tht
Montmorency river above the falls
near Quebec, in a boat, one of them
became frightened and leaped over,
upsetting the boat. He managed to
swim ashore, but the others drowned.
A fire causing a loss estimated at
$300,000 occurred in the wholesale bus
iness section of Gay street, at Knox
ville, Tenn. The chief losers are Llt
tlfieled & Steere, candy manufactur
ers, in whose establishment the fire
started McMillan, Hazen & Co., shoe
dealers, and the McBee-Hambright
company, clothing manufacturers.
Domestic.
Word h.r.s been received at Lincoln,
Neb., that W. J. Bryan is quarantined
in the desert on account of an out
break of the bubonic plague, near Suez.
A remarkable case of longevity is
disclosed in a death notice announcing
the demise of Mrs. Betsy Ware, aged
137 years. She lived in Spottsylvania
county, Va.
Chicago's freight handlers are pre
paring to insist upon a geenrai ad
vance of wages for all classes of work
men, beginning June 15. A strike in
volving 5,000 men is threatened.
The board of bishops of the Metho
dist Episcopal church issued an appeal
to the Methodist churches throughout
America, asking for a jubilee gift oi
$250,000 for carrying out the work of
Christianizing India.
William C. Owen, a Shakespearean
como'lian who had appeared in compa
nies with Booth. McCullough, Forrest
and Mrs. Fisk. died in New York. He
was sixty years old and had been on
the stage for forty years.
EllKtibeth Gates, 114 years old, said
to be the olderst. person in the state, is
dead at Brunswick, Ga. She had been
married three times *'.nd leaves four
children, twenty-three grandchildren
and nineteen great-grandchildren.
R. M. Smoot. who was in the plot
to kidnap President Abraham Lincoln
and who sold to John Surratt the boat
with which it was intended to convey
Lincoln across the Potomac, died at
Fort Smith, Ark., aged seventy-three
years.
C. H. Mead, general foreman of the
car shops of the Iowa Central railway
at Marshalltown, Iowa, has been ap
pointed master car builder of the Pan
ama canal zone by George D. Brook,
superintendent cf motive power and
mcchi aery
An epoch in the history of irrigation
in the West was reached when water
was turned into the first section of the
interstate canal near Whalen, Or. The
portion of the canal operated is forty
five miles long and cost about $600,000.
The two remaining sections will cost
about the same, and the reservation
reservoir and lateral systems, which
ere being constructed by the govern
ment, will bring the total expense up
to $3,500,000. An area of approximate
ly half a million acres will be reclaim
ed.
Consumption, due to illness con
tracted in the Philippines, caused the
death in a New York hospital for con
sumptives of Nicholas D. Moylan, who
laid claim to the distinction of having
fired the first shot in the engagement
of Admiral Dewey's famous squadron
'n Manila bay, which ended in the de
struction of the Spanish fleet.
The business of James A. and Will
iam H. Everitt, the seedmen oi
dianapolis, who recently announced
that a combination of 100,000 farmers
had been formed to hold their wheat
until it should bring $1 a bushel, has
passed into the hands of a receiver.
A full-blooded African negro, Jamei
Augustus Wilson of Calhoun, Ala., has
been chosen as one of the speakers at
the Wesleyan university commence
ment exercises at Middieton, Conn.,
this June.
Florence and Byron Finley of Mon
roe, Iowa, aged forty-five and sixty
years, respectively, have been commit
ted to the state hospital for the in
sane. They had an hallucination that
everybody was gambling and that hun
dreds would be killed in a melee tc
follow. They have been supported'by
a millionaire capitalist of the i same
name.
PAPER TRUST
IS WIPED OUT
GOVERNMENT SCORES SIGNAL.
VICTORY IN ITS FIGHT
AGAINST TRUST..
OEEICERS PAY THEIR FINES
TRUST THROWS UP ITS HANDS
AND JUDGE SANBORN
ISSUES DECREE.
St. Paul, May 13.—The paper trust
has surrendered to the f-.-v.eral govern
ment.
By withdrawing their answers yes
terday to the petition for an injunc
tion filed by the government in the
United States circuit court, the trust
practically confessed itself guilty of
•restraining and monopolizing trade
contrary tc- the Sherman anti-trust
law, and in an order of much interest
to newspaper publishers and other
publishers throughout the country,
Judge Walter H. Sanborn registered
another victory in the campaign
against the trust by directing a de
cree to be rendered to dissolve the
paper trust and to grant all other re
lief demanded.
Purged of Contempt.
Three of the defendants—B. P. Nel
son of Minneapolis, C. J. McNair of
Cloquet, Minn., and A. C. Bossard of
Grand Rapids, Minn., also paid fines
of $100 each, thus purging themselves
of contempt in declining to testify or
to produce the trust records.
Although the same defendants were
also sentenced to imprisonment some
months ago and were then released
upon giving b?.il, they will probably
escape furthe.,- punishment in view of
their action yesterday morning.
Before Judge Sanborn the govern
ment moved for the entry of the man
date received here by Clerk Henry
Lange, from the United States su
preme court, which had upheld, on
March 12 of this year, the decision of
Judge Van Deventer of the circuit
court, adjudging the defendants guilty
of contempt, fining them $100 each,
and ordering them imprisoned until
the were willing to testify.
Withdrew Answer and Paid Fine.
Thereupon Attorney James G. Flan
ders, for the defense, announced that
his clients would withdraw their an
swers, and that the three defendants
guilty of contempt would pay their
fines. Tb.e fines were paid at once.
Next the government, through its
counsel, Frank B. Kellogg, moved the
court for a final decree in behalf of
the government, and a perpetual in
junction against the continuance of
the unlawful combination and conspir
acy in restraint of trade. Judge San
born granted the order.
The whole proceeding consumed
about fifteen minutes.
LONE RANCHMAN A SUICIDZ.
Found Dead in House With Bullet
Through Heart.
Helena, Mont., May 13. Morrison
E. Wilson, a ranchman living alone on
Upper Yellowstone river above Liv
ingston, was found dead in his house
with a bullet hole tnrough his heart.
From a note found in his cabin it
was evident that he had shot himself
with suicidal intent, as he declared in
the note his intention of taking his
life. He killed himself with a rifle.
He was well-to-do, but had no family.
He had been acting queerly of late.
FIERCE FIRE BURNINQ.
Many Sawmills and Other Property
Destroyed.
Butte, Mont., May 13.—Sand Point,
Idaho, advices state that a destructive
fire is burning within a few miles of
that place. Sparks from the engines
of Great Northern trains started the
fire, which has now burned beyond all
control.- The ranchers are making ef
forts only to save their movable prop
erty. Many sawmills and many thou
sands cf feet of poles and posts have
already been destroyed.
STAND ON HIS HEAD TEN YEARS.
Montana Culprit Tells Sentencing
Judge He Can Do It. I
Deer Lodge, Mant., May 13—"Thank
you, judge. I could stand on my head
for that long," said George Water
man on receiving a sentence of ten
years in the state penitentiary.
Waterman pleaded guilty to a charge
of assault in the first degree. He was
accused of having shot Durrell Whit
craft at a race track dance last New
Years.
100 in the Shade at Havre.
Helena, Mont., May 18.—Unusually
warm weather for may is reported all
over Montana. Havre reports a tem
perature of 100 in the shade, which Is
a recor brer.ker.
Held for Manslaughter.
Black River Falls, Wis., May 13.
George Nelson, who is charged with
the killing of Oscar Hegg, was ar
raigned yesterday. He waived exam
ination and was bound over to the
circuit court for manslaughter in the
second degree. He furnished bail of
$1,000.
Killed by Horse.
Iowa City, Iowa, May 13. John
Griffin of Oxford was killed by the
kick of a horse yesterday. He was a
wealthy farmer.
Philadelphia.—In ,an old trunk
Which was the property of Mrs. Anita
McMurrow, who was notorious as
"Countess de Bettancourt," and who
uied suddenly, were found pawn tick
ets for more than $50,000 worth of
Jewelry which had been pledged to &
New York pawnbroker. Receipts and
tereonal notes of liabilities also were
found, In which the broker made him
self personally responsible tor the
sfe return of jewels lo&psd to New
IliiSiSIIISSS: 7
GEMS RENTED TO SOCIETY
IS DOWNED BY A PARTY VO.
SENATOR BAILEY'S NON-SUSPEN
SION AMENDMENT TO RATE
BILL IS DEFEATED.
Washington, May 12. Senator
Bailey's son-suspension amendment
applying to orders of the interstate
commerce commission as covered by
the railroad rate bill, which ha§ oc
cupied so much of the attention of the
senate in connection with that bill,
was yesterday adversely disposed of
by the decisive vote of 23 to 54, prac
tically a party vote.
An amendment offered by Mr. Ray
ner confining the court review to con
stitutional questions was also voted
down.
A number of other amendments of
fered in the main by Democrats and
by Senator La Follette were rejected-.
The only, amendments accepted were
those. offered by Senator Allison
striking out the phrase "fairly re
munerative" in the provision allowing
the interstate commerce commission
to fix rates limiting the operations
of orders of the commission to two
years and making the interstate com
merce commission the defendant in
suits challenging the rates fixed by it.
After passing 320 pension bills the
house yesterday devoted much time
to considering a point of order made
by Mr. Tawney (Minn.) against an ap
propriation for a new steel floating
dock in the naval appropriation bill.
The chair held the point of order well
taken in a carefully prepared opinion.
PANIC AT A CIRCUS.
Exploding Gasoline Lamp Sets Fire to
Main Tent.
New Rochelle, N. Y., May -13.—An
exploding gasoline lamp set fire to
the main tent of a circus here last
night and caused a panic in the audi
ence. Many persons were bruised and
slightly injured, while one of the cir
cus employes suffered a broken teg.
The top of the main tent was de
stroyed, the local fire department
managing to check the fire just be
fore it reached the tent containing
the menagerie. There were about
2,000 persons in the tent when the
blaze started.
FRENCH DUEL ENDS AS USUAL.
Legislator and Count Exchange Two
Pistol Shots.
Paris, May 13. Lucien Millevoye,
editor of the Patrie of this city and a
Nationalist member of the chamber of
deputies, fought a duel with "pistols
yesterday with Count Mathieu du
Noailles as a result of the exciting
street encounter which took place be
tween them May 9 when M. Millevoye
broke his cane over the count's head.
Pistols were used and two shots were
exchanged at twenty-five paces, but
neither man was injured.
GIRL'S BODY FOUND IN LAKE.
Mystery in Disappearance of Mary
Jayna Solve* at Wak.-f".ll, Mich.
Iron River, Mich., May 13. The
mystery surrounding t' disappear
ance of Mary Jayna, a si. een-year-old
girl living at Wakefield, Gogebic coun
ty, has been solved by the finding of
the dead body of the girl in Sunday
lake. There was an apron tied about
the head, but no evidence of strangu
lation or foul play. It is thought that
she jumped into the lake with intent
to commit suicide. She had been
missing four weeks.
TRUSTEES DROPPING OUT.
Hornblower and Straus to Quit the
New York Life.
New York, May 13.—Following the
announcement of William B. Horn
blower's resignation as trustee of the
New York Life Insurance company,
comes the statement, published yes
terday, that Oscar Strifus, former
United States minister to Turkey, will
refuse to stand for re-election to the
company's governing board. Mr.
Stra,us has been a trustee for many
years.
COMBINATION DIET FATAL.
Girl Dies of Eating Strawberry Shor^
-cake and Spinach.
Richmond, Ind., May 13. Miss
Clara Reckers, twenty years old, is
dead as a result of poisoning, caused
by a combination of spinach and
strawbery shortcake. Coroner T-'ark
ley held an autopsy and found that a
chemical change had taken place from
the combination of foodstuffs, thus
producing ptomaine poisoning.
Carl Schurz Is Worse.
New York, May 13.—Carl Schurz,
the noted publicist and former secre
tary of the interior, continues critical
ly ill. He is suffering from a compli
cation of diseases, and while it was
thought early yesterday there had
been an improvement in his condition
It was felt last night that the patient
had lost some ground.
Bribery Charge Fails.
Topeka, Kan.,. May 13.—Charges of
bribery and corruption against Jame3
S. Gibson, county attorney at Kansas
City, Kan., will, it was decided yes
terday, be withdrawn. The evidence
was insufficient to sustain the charge
Fairbanks Has Birthday.
Washington, May 13.—Vice Presi
dent Fairbanks was fifty-four year?
old yesterday. He spent his time pre
siding over the senate in one of the
busiest days of the session.
vHe
'ceived many congratulations.
re-
York society people, who had rented
them for various periods.
Letters from noted men In thia
ciuntry and from a former king of
Spain also were found in the trunk,
as well as $6,000.
John McMurrow, the woman's son.
who is known to have quarreled with
his mother shortly before her death,
was arrested. It is believed by the
coroner, however, that Mrs. McMurrow
died of he^rt disease.
Y
CZAR WANTS TO
AVOID fRKTiON
HOPE OF FRIENDLY RELATIONS
BETWEEN CZAR AND THE
DOUMA STRONG.
IS REAL NICE TO PRESIDENT
MOUROMTSEFF IMPRESSED WITH
CZAR'S INTEREST IN PROB­
LEMS OF THE DAY.
St. Petersburg, May 13.—The hope
of the establishment of friendly rela
tions between the emperor and the
national parliament was further
strengthened yesterday by the audi
ence granted by Emperor Nicholas at
Peterhof to Prof. Mouromtseff, the
president .of the lower house. Prof.
Mouromtseff returned from the audi
ence apparently much impressed by
the emperor's earnest interest in the
problems of the country. Though the
radical hot heads had been praying
that Prof. Mouromtseff would lay
down the law to the emperor and
make a scene, the half-hour's conver
sation was skilfully guided by the
sovereign and the parliamentary chief
so that friction was avoided.
Czar Was Courteous.
To the Constitutional Democratic
members of the house who awaited
him at the Constitutional club, Prof.
Mouromtseff spoke only briefly, laying
especial emphasis on the emperor's
courtesy and his thorough knowledge
of the sentiment in parliament and
society. Prof. Mouromtseff said polit
ical questions were not gone into.
The burning subject of the reply to
the speech from the throne probably
will not be reached at to-day's session
of the lower house. The time will be
taken up with the election of officers,
the adoption of necessary rules of
procedure and the appointment of a
committee on credentials.
Take Up Agrarian Problem.
A commission to investigate the
agrarian problem perhaps will be ap
pointed also. Both the vice presi
depts will be Constitutional Demo
crats, the peasants, though at first in
sisting that they be given one place,
having been unable to agree upon a
candidate. The vice presidents prob
ably will be Prof. Grodeskul of Khar
koff, and Prince Dolgovoyoukoff.
NOT PERPETUAL RIGHT.
Water Permit, Court Decides, Doesn't
Bar Other Users.
Deadwood, S. D., May 13.—In the
circuit court yesterday the suit
brought by John S. Wilson against
the Columbus Consolidated company
and the Black Hills Brewing company,
to enjoin them from using the water
in the McDermott shaft and also for
damages for water already used was
decided for the defendants. The plain
tiff alleged a permit from the grantors
of the water right, but the court held
that this permit did not constitute a
perpetual use of the water.
MISSING BOOKS FOUND.
Accounts of the Mutual Life in Pos
session of District Attorney.
New York, May 13.—According to
the Herald some of the account books
of the purchasing and supply depart
ment of the Mutual Life Insurance
company, which disappeared during
the legislative insurance investiga
tion, and which, it is believed, will
throw much .light on the large dis
bursements made by Andrew7 C.
Fields, when he was head of that de
partment, are now in the possession
of District Attorney Jerome, and will
be used by him in his inquiry before
the special grand jury.
CHICAGO WOMAN ATTACKED.
Duplicate of Ivans Case Occurs With
out the Fatality.
Chicago, May 13.—Another fiendish
attack on a woman took place last
night—this time in a West side alley,
almost in the shadow of a church. The
victim, Mrs. Maud Edwards, is in a
precarious condition as the result of
brutal maltreatment at the hands of
a man who escaped after his fero
cious act.. The affair has many feat
ures in common with the attack on
Mrs. Bessie HollIsterv killed by Rich
ard Ivens.
FLASH COMES WITH QUAKE.
Indiana People Frightened by Earth's
Motion.
Petersburg, Ind., May 13.—Two dis
tinct earthquake shocks were felt at
12:40 a. m. A low rumble was heard
in the west and buildings quivered,
windows rattled and dishes rocked.
Many people jumped from their beds
in fright. The shocks were of a few
seconds' duration and the first was
preceded by a vivid flash similar to
lightning.
Was Shs Worth It?
Sioux City, Iowa, May 13.—Broken
hearted because of the attentions paid
his wife by rival admirers, Jes3e
Smith startled the throng of rev.elers
In a dance hell, at Yankton by taking
carbolic acid and dying there.
Frost Does .Great Damage.
Baltimore, May 13. Late advices
from all sections of Maryland indicate
that the frost Thursday night was the
latest of such severity known and
that tomato and ottyer vines, and even
corn suffered severely.
It is proposed by the Norwegian
government that a law be passed by
the storthing placing Swedish citizens
on the same footing as other foreign
ers in the matter of owning property
and depriving them of former privi
leges. This is in line with a similar
proposition in Sweden
and
has.been
agreed to by both governments.
plaint against the commander of the
regiment, Cel. G. W. -Ascham, for vio
lation of the miJMrv regulations, and
the matter has bee-...tpkon under con
sideration by the L15II:
-court-martial.
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ERS HURT.
Columbia, Mo., May 13. Several
hundred University of Missouri stu
dents engaged in a fight with show
men from Cole Brothers' circus at
midnight Thursday night, and as a re
sult Maynard McDole, a freshman
from Craig, Mo., was shot in the head
and is in a critical condition in the
hospital here and several others are
slightly hurt.
A body of about 500 students as
sembled at the court house and
marched to the evening performance
of the circus on the fair grounds north
of town. They demanded a 25-cent
rate of admission, which was granted.
They occupied seats together through
out the main performance and main
tained an orderly behavior, occasion
ally giving Missouri yells and songs.
After the performance a number of
the leaders demanded that they be al
lowed to remain during the concert
which followed. Showmen armed
with tent poles drove the students
from the tent, striking several of
them. This incensed the students and
they ran to a siding near the Wabash
railroad statioli, where the circus train
was preparing (o depart. Here a bat
tle ensued between the circus em
ployes and 250 students, in which
bricks were thrown, shots were fired
and tent poles wielded vigorously by
both students and showmen. The-stu
dents say the circus men were the ag
gressors.
IS KILLED IN QUARREL.
Itasca County Homesteader Is Shot by
Neighbor.
Duluth, Minn., May 13.—As a result
of a quarrel between two homestead
ers living close to Laurel postoffice,
about twenty miles west of Interna
tional Falls, In Northern Itasca coun
ty, Fred Hemming died yesterday and
Albin Johnson, in charge of Deputy
Sheriff Connors, is on his way to
Grand Rapids, where he will be held
to answer to the charge of murder. On
Saturday evening both men returned
from Laurel, where they had been
drinking to some extent throughout
the day, and at which place they had
some dispute over a trifling matter.
Hemming stopped at. his home and
took supper. After supper he went
to the home of Johnson, as he stated,
to have it out with him. He entered
Johnson's house and immediately re
newed the quarrel and struck at John
son sevefal times, whereupon it is
said, Johnson took a revolver from
the mantle and shot him three times.
Hemming is said to have been of a
quarrelsome disposition. He came
from Hibbing a few years ago. John
son always has borne a good reputa
tion and seemed to be a peaceable and
industrious citizen, and is well
thought of by those who knew him.
After the shooting Johnson was ar
rested and brought before Justice
Erickson and bound over without
bonds to await the action of the grand
jury.
FUGITIVE SHOT TWICE.
Daring Desh for Liberty" in Montana
Is Futile.
Missoula, Mont., May 13. After
making a daring dash for liberty and
eluding the officers for over a week,
Mike Makalius, who escaped from the
Deer Lodge penitentiary, hns been
captfired near here and is ncrtf in the
county jail with a bullet wound
through his arm and another in his
thigh. Makahus was captured near
FoTt Missoula by a colored rancher
named Golden, who had been told to
look out for the escaped convict, Mak
ahus resisted arrest and tried to get
away from Golden, whereupon the lat
ter shot him twice with a rifle, the
shots striking him in the wrist and
thight.
HOLES SHOT IN PARSONAGE.
Farmer Is Alleged to Have Riddled
Home of Pastor.
Aberdeen, S. D., May 13. Deputy
Sheriff Hazle was called to Gem town
ship last night to arrest a farmer
named Anton Salberg, who, it is al
leged, had been terrorizing the neigh
borhood, and who was held to await
the result of an examination as to his
sanity. Salberg, it was chargedv had
been threatening the people in the
neighborhood in which he lived and
had riddled the house of Rev. C. M.
Grimsrud, a Lutheran preacher, with
bullets. Salberg accuses his neigh
bors of stealing from him.
Two Drowned.
Iowa City, Iowa, May 13.—William
N. Thornburg and Miss Elizabeth Og
den of Linden, Iowa, are thought to
have been drowned last evening while
on their way home from a picnic up
the Iowa river. Their boat was found
floating bottom up below a break in
the dam. The bodies have not been
recovered.
.Trampled to Death.
Hpuston, Minn., May 13.—Lightning
struck a new barn belonging to Joe
.Orr yesterday morning. In attempt
ing to get the horses out Mrs. Orrwa3
trampled to death. One horse and sev
eral head of cattle were burned.
Died While Eating Supper.
Wheaton, Minn., May 13. Peter
Friend, an old resident of Graceville)
dropped dead in the Ideal restaurant,
in this city, white eating supper.
Heart failure is supposed to be the
cause.
The corporal alleges that his applica
tion for discharge, made In proper
manner at the expiration *f his term,
wa3 denied by Col. Ascham.
The Swedish dweld
ed to' rrr]"r\ n i Ti"'t to
'secure contrrl cf 'the writarpower
rights owned by private parties. The
object is to obtain power for national.
railways, some of which eventually
will be converted into! eie^tr'c I'nes
It is suggested thrt 5 000,000 kroner too
appropriated fcr the pu-pose.
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