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Willmar Tribune.
TH E TBIBUKE PBIKTIXO CO.
WILLMAR, MINN.
SUMMARY OF A
WEEK'S EVENTS
HOST IMPORTANT HAPPENINGS
AT HOME TOLD IN CON
SENSED FORM.
LATE FOREIGN DISPATCHES
Interesting Items of News Gathered
from All Parts of the Globe and
Outlined in the Briefest Manner
Possible.
RESUME OFTHAW TRIAL.
Stanford White, not satisfied with
the wrongs he had heaped upon Eve
lyn Nesbit when she was a girl of 16,
tried to win her away from Harry
Thaw after her return from Europe,
and even pursued her after her mar
nage, according to the testimony of
rhe young wife of Harry K. Thaw at
is trial. She also related an alleged
lot of White and Attorney Hummel
to blacken the character of Thaw.
Answering a hypothetical question
(overing every detail of the testimony
up to this time in the Thaw trial, in
luding Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw's
^rration of her life history to the de
i^ndant, Dr. Charles G. Wagner, su
erintendent of the state hospital for
the insane at Binghamton, N. Y., de
clared on the witness stand that, in
his opinion, Harry K. Thaw did not
know that the act was wrong when he
shot and killed Stanford White. Mr.
Jerome blocked the continuation of
Mrs. Thaw's story, but the "Cafe Mar
tin note" was introduced in evidence.
District Attorney Jerome accused
Thaw's counsel, Mr. Delmas, of trying
to mislead the jury by false state
ments and Mr. Delmas entered in the
record a protest against Mr. Jerome's
"misconduct." Dr. B. D. Evans, alien
ist, testified that he believed Thaw
was suffering from "brain storm" when
he killed White.
The wife of one of the Thaw case
jurors was seized with pneumonia
and there were fears that a mistrial
might result Dr. B. D. Evans con
cluded his testimony, telling of a pe
culiar depression on Thaw's head and
of his strange pulse action.
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.
The senate passed the army appro
priation bill carrying $81,600,000. The
amendment which permitted the gov
ernment to accept reduced rates on
army supplies and permitted officers
and enlisted men to accept reduced
transportation, was defeated.
The president sent to the senate the
new treaty with the Republic of Santo
Domingo. The agreement is confined
entirely to the matter of the collection
of revenues.
President Roosevelt, through Secre
tary Root, proposed to Speaker Can
non and to the chairmen of the senate
and house committees on immigration,
and other Republican leaders in con
gress, that a clause be inserted in the
immigration bill now pending in con
gress which will bar Japanese coolie
labor from the United States. Mayor
Schmitz' delegation favors such a pro
vision.
If the amendment to the immigra
tion bill, proposed by Secretary Root,
excluding foreigners who use their
passports to secure admission to the
United States "to the detriment of
labor conditions in this country" is
accepted by the senate and house and
the immigration bill is passed at this
session of congress, the San Francisco
board of education will rescind its
order establishing the oriental schools
unless the Japanese government
agrees to a proposition for separate
schools which will provide equal fa
cilities for the Japanese children.
The senate passed the bill giving
the government the right to appeal
to the supreme court for a construc
tion of the constitutionality of any
law involved in a criminal suit
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Joy line steamer Larchmont,
bound from Providence to New York
with about 150 passengers and a crew
of 60, was run into and sunk off
Block Island, and all but 19 of those
aboard perished. The survivors were
nearly dead from exposure to the ex
treme cold. Many of the passengers
froze to death in the small boats and
one man committed suicide.
The known dead in the steamer
Larchmont disaster are 138. Fisher
men found many more ice-encased
bodies. The living and dead were
taken to Providence. Only one sur
vivor, a lad, accused the captain and
crew of cowardice.
The Platte river is flooded and part
of the city of Fremont, Neb., is under
water.
Hugh McMillan, brother of the late
Senator McMillan of Michigan, is
dead in Detroit.
Lyndhurst, the country home of
John Wanamaker, at Jenkintown, near
Philadelphia, was completely des
troyed by fire, the loss approximating
$1,500,000.
Burglars stole the valuable Byron
Reed collection of coins from the
Omaha public library building.
The schooner M. V. B. Chase,
thought to have been lost on Dia
mond shoals, was reported at Wilming
ton, N. C, as anchored 15 miles west
of Cape Fear Bar.
Mayor Schmitz and the school board
of San Francisco arrived in Washing
ton in a conciliatory mood to confer
with the president on the Japanese
school question
Fire gutted one of the principal
business blocks in Aberdeen, 8. D.,
causing a loss of $100,000.
The engineer andfiremanof the
Adirondack and Montreal Express of
the New Tork Central road were
killed sad several passengers slightly
Injured when the express crashed Into
the rear of a freight train.
Seven miners were entombed la a
Negotiable securities of a value of
$150,000 are missing from the vaults
of the Savings Bank of New Britain,
Conn., of which Institution the treas
urer, William F. Walker, mysteriously
dropped out of sight in New York.
More than half a million dollars'
worth of securities were taken from
the vaults of the Savings bank of
New Britain, Conn., by the missing
treasurer, William F. Walker, accord
ing to a statement issued by the board
of directors.
At the wedding of Carl Gifford and
Lena Pence, at Russiaville, Ind., a
charivari party exploded 32 pounds of
dynamite near the house. The build
ing was damaged and several guests
fainted.
Fire in Cramp's shipyards at Phila
delphia destroyed the patterns of a
number of battleships, and several
firemen were Injured.
The body of Willard D. Barr of
Lawrence county, 111., an orchardist
whose mind became unbalanced when
his wife deserted him a month ago,
was found on the banks of the Wa
bash river after a search of three
weeks.
Prof. John A. Brashear of the Alle
gheny observatory announced a dis
covery of one of the greatest sun
spots ever called to the attention of
astronomers.
Pulajanes attacked and burned two
towns in Occidental Negros, P. I., and
killed six of the constabulary. Twohe
American teachers, W. K. Batchelder
and Walter J. Ise, are reported to bepel
missing.
The federal grand jury at Cleveland,
O., returned indictments against eight
contracting companies and firms on
the charge of violating the eight-hour
labor law in connection with govern
ment work.
Fire at Crary, N. D.,. destroyed
seven business houses, among them
Boe's opera house, and several resi
dences, causing a loss of $50,000.
Edna May, the America actress, is
engaged to marry Oscar Lewisohn,
son of Adolph Lewisohn, of New York.
Nine blocks of residences occupied
by employes of the Cotton Belt shops,
several storehouses, the Third Avenue
hotel and the Riverside Methodist
church at Pine Bluff, Ark., were de
stroyed by fire.
Three persons were killed and sev
eral others injured by an explosion of
gas in Los Angeles.
Two men were killed and others in
jured when a locomotive boiler blew
up on the Ontario & Western road at
Luzon, N. Y.
Rodolphe Julian, the noted art
teacher, is dead in Paris. He was 66
years old.
The St. Albert hotel, one of the
oldest In Charleston, W. Va., was
ruined by fire. The loss will be $60,
000. J. H. Crouse, of Baltimore, a
traveling salesman, leaped from a
window and was fatally injured.
Judge William B. Teasdale, of theof
circuit court, died at his home in Kan
sas City, Mo., of cancer, aged 51
years.
The safe in the Citizens' bank at
Yeddo, Ind., was blown open by five
men and $1,200 was secured.
Policemen James Wright and James
Barrett, of Middlesboro, Ky., shot and
killed each other in a.raid on an al
leged gambling resort
The Western Union Telegraph com
pany announced an increase of ten
per cent, in the wages of its operators
at the principal offices.
An epidemic of meningitis has ap
peared among the cattle of Morgan
county, Illinois.
Frank E. Grimes, ex-state treasurer
of Kansas, who recently voluntarily
paid the state $9,000 to covered an al
leged shortage found under his admin
istration, stopped a movement to have
the legislature reimburse him.
Frank Wayland Higgins, former gov
ernor of New York, died at his home
in Olean, N. Y.
M. Pobiednostseff, former procura
tor general of the holy synod, is seri
ously ill of influenza.
An official bank messenger, while on
his way to a Moscow bank, was beset
by ten armed men and robbed of $25,
000.
The new battleship Vermont, built
by the Fore River Shipbuilding com
pany, was formally turned over to the
government at the Charlestown navy
yard.
President Stickney told a Minnesota
legislative committee that he sold wa
tered stock of the Chicago Great West
ern and intended to sell a lot more.
Warren Beekwith was granted a di
vorce at Mount Pleasant, la., from
Jessie Lincoln Beekwith, a daughter of
Robert T. Lincoln and a granddaugh
ter of Abraham Lincoln.
The breaking of an Ice gorge in the
Loup river near Columbus, Neb., caus
ed a flood in which a family of four
drowned.
The last will of Count John A.
Creighton of Omaha is missing.
A severe earthquake shock was felt
at Alhama, province of Murcia, Spain.
The Kansas senate passed a pure
food law already approved by the
house.
One man was killed and 40 persons
had perilous escapes in a fire in
thea
financial district of Philadelphia. Sev
eral were injured.
Charles Tait, mayor of Kingston, Ja
maica, died at the public hospital as
a result of injuries sustained at thetn.
time of the earthquake.
Three men who blew open the safe
in the post office at Erie, Kan., and
escaped with $100 in stamps and
money were captured at Thayer, Kan.
Grover Lockwood shot and killed Jo
seph Snyder and his wife Elizabeth in
Buffalo, N. Y., and then killed him
self.
American exports of iron and steel
manufactures for 1906 aggregated
$172,500,000, an increase of $30,000,
000 over 1905.
Chief Master at Arms W. H. Bel
knap and three seamen, on behalf of the
the crew of the battleship Louisiana,
presented to Mrs. Roosevelt at Wash
ington a large silver loving cup as a
token of their admiration.'
Justice Robert Cortese of Paterson,
N. J., an active enemy of Italian law
breakers, was killed by an infernal
machine he received by mail.
A Jury in Kansas -City returned.*
verdict finding Albert M. Crone guilty
of murder in the second degree for
killing Bertha Bowlin, his former
sweetheart, and fixed his punishment
Rejection of a proposal to reduce
war expenditure caused the reslgna
tion of the Dutch cabinet
Overseer Voliva, faced by a revolt
in Pacific coast towns, dropped his
project for a new Zion City in the
northwest.
Col. John Kinnane, head of the dry
goods house of Kinnane Bros, of
Springfield, O., died in that city after
a week's illness. He was 53 years old.
MI
Standard Oil officials at New York
announce a raise of one cent a gallon
for kerosene affectlne the whole of V"-"'""
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The illness of many miners at Brad-
vill and Snydertown, nea Latrobe, have filed"
Pa.,e following a typhoidr outbreak,
threatens to closa the mines.niifk.nl
Harold S. Van Buren of New York,
American consul at Nice, France, died
at the latter place.
American sailors were clubbed by
the Cuban police in a clash at Santi
ago. Troops stopped the affray.
Frank Tilton,, fo 33 years editor of
the Green Bay (Wis.) Advocate, is
centre, ot gra„. .and
domain and the Interests of large and
President Alfred Walter of the Sea
board Air Line died at New York.
King Edward opened the second ses
sion of the second parliament of his
reign.
A patient in the marine hospital at
Cairo, 111., has anaesthetic leprosy.
Shippers of Kansas City, St. Joseph
and Omaha have filed complaints
against the Rock Island railway in the
matter of through rates to the At-holz
lantic.
One person was killed and two oth
ers were overcome by smoke in a fire
in the Waverly house, a family hotel
in Charlestown, Mass.
An infernal machine was discovered
in a chimney of the house occupied by
Count Witte, the former Russian pre
mier. The machine was timed to ex
plode after the family had retired for
the night.
Edward W. Reidnauer, a baker, and
his four children were burned to
death at Allentown, Pa., in a fire
which destroyed their home.
John Wachter, a pioneer business
man of the upper Mississippi valley,
died at La Crosse, Wis., aged 73 years.
George A. Taylor, one of the first
settlers of central Kansas, died at
Junction City, Kan., of heart failure,
aged 70 years.
Rabies is epidemic among the sheep
of western Wisconsin, according to a
report of Dr. Henry Roome, represen
tative of the United States department
agriculture.
The last water coming through the
break in the Colorado river- was shut
off after a long and hard struggle by
the Southern Pacific Railroad com
pany.
Sentences ranging from 14 to 20
years were passed by Judge Goss
against the Sawyer bank robbers at
Minot, N. D.
Secretary Hitchcock appointed W.
Scott Smith as superintendent of the
Hot Springs reservation, Arkansas, to
succeed Martin A. Esiele, resigned.
Fire broke out in the big Coliseum
on Wabash avenue, Chicago, and did
$40,000 damage before it was got un
der control.
Vice Admiral Topete, it is stated,
will be made admiral of the Spanish
navy in place of the late Admiral Be
ranger.
The deaths are announced at Carta
gena, Spain, of Vice Admiral Sanchez
Ocana and Rear Admiral Martinez II
lescas.
John McClellan, a Dowieite teacher
at Showers Corners, Ind., was injured
in an attack by the schoolboys be
cause of his religious belief.
Vice Admiral Hairi Pasha died sud
denly and mysteriously in Constanti
nople a few hours after the revocation
of his appointment by the sultan on a
battleship commission.
The schoolship Saratoga was severe
ly buffeted by a gale at sea and was
forced back to the Delaware in dis
tress with the boys working hard at
the pumps.
Packing plants in St. Louis and Chi
cago, as well as those in East St.
Louis, may be seriously affected by a
decision in the United States criminal
court at St. Louis, barring rendering
works from city limits.
Seven coal-laden barges and three
empty barges were sunk in the Mis
sissippi river at Memphis, involving a
loss of $40,000.
The Japanese government ordered
the evacuation of Manchuria, leaving
behind only sufficient troops to guard
the railway.
Miss Maud Slater, of Kansas City,
killed Dr. E. H. Merwin, who she said
had hypnotized and wronged her, and
then committed suicide.
Sir William Howard Russell, editor
of the Army and Navy Gazette, is
Duluth—Claimin*
riitu& liuuu ior an years eauor oi There was a considerable rush at the
small cattlemen and the shall
President Bonilla of Honduras said
expected an invasion by the Nica
raguan army and was prepared to re
it.
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Government policy in regard to the
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sosin
and the effect of protectionsheepmen,
of stock retaineo hi residence there since sub
men upon the homesteaders, were con
sidered at a public hearing before the
senate committee on agriculture.
dead, He was 86 years old. He was
famous war correspondent and wha^"the"'charff7^^'w,' ZZn
battle ot Bull Run.
Mrs. Mercedes Donovan of Mem-
by a robber
The supreme court at Topeka, Kan., teten^t*SSLT^
has finally dismissed the cases against ambiance and
Chauncey Dewey and his cowboys for
the killingr of*the. Berry-family..
State Senator Howard Robb
Arkansas died at Arkansas City.
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of held in Wash
ington.
John P. McManus, editor of the
Pilot Rock (Ore.) Record, shot and
killed a gambler named Robert Estes.
The Russian famine relief commit
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tee appealed to the American people as the Y. M. C. A. Dramatic club ore
ns Peasants.
physician of Chicago, contracted ery
sipelas while nursing his wife, and
died.
All the evidence on which was
based the complaint of Attorney Gen
eral Julius Mayer against the Ameri
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the state to investigate the land in
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MINNESOTA NEWS
Interesting Heme Gathered In the
Gopher State
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estate overrules~ the" decision of Judge. Hallam,,
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United States land offlce, provided he
umieu oiai.s lanu omce, provided he
ject to the swamp land act. The no
tice of contest must be accompanied
by an affidavit from two witnesses,
stating that the lands are high and dry,
not subject to periodical floods and
that it is good agricultural land.
question and if they report that it is
fit for agricultural purposes the cases
probably will be allowed to go by de
fault
Not Legally Dead.
Winona—An old murder mystery Is
recalled by the action begun in the pro
bate court of this county to declare
Charles Farnholz legally dead.
It was in May, 1899, that Mr Farn
left his home near Lewiston to
"visit for a couple of weeks with rela
tives near Fountain City. He left word
with neighbors to look after his stock
until he returned. Two or three
months later the neighbors wondered
why he had not returned and wrote to
his relatives at Fountain City for in
formation. They replied that they had
not seen him and supposed that he was
still at his farm. It was then recalled
that some time after he had left his
farm the nude body of a man, with
the face cut off, had been found in a
marsh, near Fountain City.
The man evidently had been mur
dered and every means of his identi
fication removed. The friends and
relatives of Farnholz then believed that
the murdered man was he and that he
had been murdered across the river
from Winona for the little money he
had on his person. But the mystery
was never cleared. As nothing since
has been heard of him, his relatives
now have made application to the pro
bate court for the appointment of a
guardian for his son, which action will
have the effect of declaring the father
legally dead.
Mad Dog.
Minneapolis—A dog, supposedly mad,
that was shot at the corner of Ninth
avenue and Fifth street south by Pa
trolman J. McDonald, is the only
dog ever chased by an automobile.
This particular canine started oper
ations at the corner of Third street
and Nicollet avenue. He snapped at
several pedestrians and finally suc
ceeded in biting a couple of women.
The crowds on the streets at the time
became panic stricken and Patrolman
McDonald was summoned to kill the
animal. He flred once and the bullet
barely grazed the brute's head.
Suffering from this wound the dogto
tore down Nicollet avenue as fast as
he could. The patrolman was quickly
distanced. Seeing an automobile pass
ing the officer asked the driver for a
lift, and soon was speeding after the
dog. Down Fifth street south the ani
mal ran with the puffing -buzz wagon
in full pursuit, but it was not until
ninth avenue was reached that the of
ficer caught up. Patrolman McDonald
jumped out at that place and with a
single shot killed the fugitive.
Nearly Ready.
Washington—The navy department
is informed by the Newport News
Shipbuilding Company that the first
class 16,000-ton battleship Minnesota
is complete excepting a matter or ord
nance equipment, and will be delivered
to the government at the Norfolk navy
yard on the 27th inst.
The Fore River Shipbuilding Com
pany, Quincy, Mass., has arranged to
deliver the battleship Vermont, a sister
ship to the Minnesota, to the navy de
partment at the navy yard, Boston,
Mbnday next. The Vermont also lacks
certain ordnance equipment. Her first
commander WHJ be Capt. W. P. Pot
ter, at present chief of the bureau of
navigation, navy department.
News Notes.
St. Paul—It is proposed to spend
$1,000,000 on the state's semi-centennial
exposition next year.
Mankato—Mrs. Harry Footner was
badly burned while shaking down the
ashes in a coal stove. The coffee pot
on the stove overturned, the hot con
tents running- over her head and
shoulders.
Rochester—Four Rochester men have
to Decorah, Iowa,
gone to Decorah Iowa in ordsr to
save a prisoner from a possible state's
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St. Paul—Andrew Jackson, 19 years
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at the government land opening last the Duluth & Northern Minnesota and
fall are not swamp lands, twelve set- Minnesota & North Wisconsin railway
land in the locacontests
land offlce
1,36d0 acres are involved.d The stattek auf
thorities have been notified and will
be given sixty days in which to give
notice if they desire a hearing. The
land opened last November is located
near Beaver Bay, in what is known as
township 57, range 9 township 58,
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the companies will have to pay a 4 per
centt gross earnings tax to th.e state
of Minnesota for the taxes of 1905.
It is claimed that there is due from
the former road for this tax $3,906.66
and from the latter, J3.557.91.
Each of these roads had paid a tax
on the basis of 2 per cent of the gross
earnings for the year in question.
In 1873 the legislature passed an
act providing tha the St Paul Still
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the settler going on the
should pay a gross earnings tax
of 1 per cent* for the first three years,
2 per cent for the next seven and 3 per
cent thereafter. The two roads above
referred to come under the provisions
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good faith and shall have act and were required to pay a
taxthis
of 1 per cent up to 1901 and 2 per
cent up to and including 1908.
Street Car Earnings.
Minneapolis.—Gross earnings of the
Tiwin City Rapid Transit Company for
1906 sowed an increase of 18.61 per
cent and net earnings an increase of
the preceding year,
to the annual report of the
company, jus issued Th gross earn
ings were $5,644,988.34 and the net
earnings were $3,107,379.62.
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The passenger earnings of the com
pany for the entire system, embracing
the street railway properties of St.
Paul, Minneapolis and Stillwater, with
their interuriban lines, were $5,592,079.
24, which, figured into nickels, shows a
total of 111,841,585 fares collected.
Fight With WildCat.
Bovey.—Dolo Grandeovitch, a Hun
garian miner, -was badly clawed in an
encounter he had with a wild cat which
attacked him in the woods near here.
Grandeovitch had gone to the woods
to cut firewood, and when evening
came started for home. As he walked
along the trail he was suddenly
pounced upon by a wildcat, which
knocked him down and severely lacer
ated him about the body with its sharp
claws.
Grandeovitch undoubtedly would
been killed but for the timely arrival
of other woodsmen, who chased the cat
away.
Strike Iron on Farm.
St. Cloud.—Marcus J. Maurin and
Sibert J. Peters of Cold Springs, this
county, claim to have discovered iron
ore in paying quantities on the old
Neid farm three miles south of their
village. They have secured a num
ber of apparently rich specimens and
will send them to an assayer to be
tested. It is the general belief that
iron exists in the hills south and west
of Cold Springs and further explora
tions are being made.
Death to 261 Dogs.
Minneapolis.—Death at the muzzle
of a policeman's revolver has come to
261 dogs in Minneapolis since Feb. 6,
when the shooting began. This is the
total made up by Police Superintend
ent Frank Oorriston from the figures
submitted to him by his precinct cap
tains. This Is an average of thirty
two dogs a day, and if the crop holds
out, the 550 mark should be reached
before the slaughter is over.
Rolling Mill Burns.
Vesta.—The Vesta roller mill iburned
the ground. The loss is estimated
at $15,000. The mill was built dur
ing the summer of 1904 and was owned
by Charles A. Fleming. The fire or
iginated in the engine room and was
not discovered until the whole building
was enveloped in flames.
Young Gets the Money.
St. Paul.—Gov. Johnson signed the
bill recently passed by the legislature
appropriating $50,000 for the use of
the attorney general in conducting the
litigation against the railroads.
.News Notes.
Barnesville.—Walter Fofier, who
came here recently to work as a ma
chinist in the Great Northern shops,
received word of the death of an uncle,
James Chambers, a member of the
English parliament, who left him $60,
000. He started at once for London
to claim the money.
St. Cloud, Minn.—'Mary Frances Pol
lard, the 9-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. John Pollard, of Mayhew
Lake, was killed by sustaining a brok
en neck and then suffocating. Playing
about a straw stack with her brother,
the latter fell from the top of the
stack and struck her.
St. Cloud—Because the concerns en
gaged in granite finishing find it im
possible profitably to do the quarry
ing and polishing of the stone, a move
ment is on foot here for the organiza
tion of a company with a capital of
$200,000 which-will take entire charge
of the quarrying of the stone.
Wadena.—Mrs. Joseph Maisner, the
wife of a farmer living north of this
city, met with a peculiar and seri
ous accident. As she was passing
through a shed at the rear of her
house a scythe which had been hung
there dropped from its fastenings and
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from Ireland a year ago.
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by doing a water board job itself In
stead of letting it by contract.
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Browns Valley.—An unknown Indian
partly buried in snow has been found
dead about three miles from this place.
Bovey.—George Zarich, an Austrian
about nineteen years old, was crushed
dea
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FI8HINQ BOATS BRING IN 22 ICE-
COVERED BODIES.
TWO OF THEM ARE WOMEN
8urvivors of the Larchmont Disaster
and Many Corpses Are Taken
to Providence—Inquiry
Is Started.
Block Island, R. I.—Block Island
had a brief respite Wednesday from
the scenes of death and suffering
which followed the collision off Wateh
Hill, Monday night, between the Joy
line steamer Larchmont and the coal
laden schooner Harry Knowlton. The
survivors of the wreck had been car
ried to the steamer Kentucky, which
was to convey them to Providence for
medical treatment.
Fifty bodies also had been placed
on board, and as the vessel steamed
out of the harbor, those who were left,
on shore returned to their homes,!
many of them to recover from the
fatigue caused by their long vigil on
the beach.
The scene of death and suffering
seemed to have shifted. The life savers
returned to their stations, which but
an hour before had been filled with
the dead and with those few who had
©scaped with their lives. The Ken
tucky's smoke was still visible across
ttie sound, however, when a little fish
ing schooner came hurrying in before
the wind with her flag at half-mast.
A moment later a second fishing boat
was seen heading in sh^e, also flying
the signal of death from her masthead.
A third schooner and then a fourth
sailed in, each with a half-masted flag.
When the vessels reached shore,
life, savers and others were waitin&,
tired as they were, to care for
theclearedSodra
dead as they had cared for the living,
and to prepare for shipment to Provi
dence the additional victims of one of
the most horrible disasters that has
ever occurred off the New England
coast.
As soon as the fishermen were with
in hailing distance the captains shout
ed their news ashore. The sea had
given up at least a portion of its dead,
and the seamen had gathered in 22
bodies, two of them the bodies of
women. The little life saving sta
tions were once more turned Into
morgues. As on Tuesday, the surf
boats were run out and the dead were
placed on the floor, side by side, to
await the arrival of another steamer
to carry them to Providence.
The bodies brought in Wednesday
afternoon were, with one exception,
fully clothed, and in addition had life
preservers strapped to them. This
fact leads to the belief that the vic
tims, unlike the others who drifted
ashore, had remained on board the ill
fated steamer long enough to fasten
the lifebelts about them.
Early in the day it seemed appa-ent
that few more bodies would drift on to
the beach and a small fleet of fisting
vessels went outside to search the
sound. Most of the bodies were found
drifting to the northward of the is-be
land. All were encased in ice andof
were kept on the surface only by the
life preservers.
The first of the schooners to reach
port carried the steering wheel of the
steamer and six bodies, two of them
women. The second boat hadfivemen
on board. Then followed the other
schooners, the first with five bodies
and the second with six.
New London, Conn.—United States
steamboat inspectors of this district
have begun an investigation of the
collision in which the steamer Larch
mont was sunk off Block Island. The
investigation comes within the juris
diction of New London district and
not in the Providence*" district, as pre
viously reported.
SENATE PASSES APPEAL BILL.
Government May Carry Criminal
Gates to the Supreme Court.
Washington.—The senate Wednes
day passed the bill giving the govern
ment the right to appeal to the su-son,
preme court for a construction of the
constitutionality of any law involved
in a criminal suit.
The District of Columbia bill, car
rying nearly $11,000,000, was passed
after an hour's consideration.
The bill establishing an agricultural
bank in the Philippines, was taken un
for consideration.
Cleveland Contractors Indicted.
Cleveland, O.—The federal grand
Jury Wednesday returned indictments
against eight contracting companies
and firms on the charge of violating
the eight-hour labor law in connectioh
with government work.
Bad Fire in North Dakota Town.
Devil's Lake, N. D.—Fire at Crary,
this county, Wednesday destroyed
seven business houses, among them
Boe's opera house, and several resi
dences, causing a loss of $50,000.
Immense Sun 8pot Discovered.
Pittsburg, Pa.—Prof. John A. Bra
shear of the Allegheny observatory
announces a discovery of one of the
greatest sun spots ever seen. He says
electrical disturbances will be experi
enced throughout the country about
Thursday night.
Great Grandson of Hamilton Dies.
N^walk, Conn.—Schuyler Hamil
ton, great grandson of Alexander
Hamilton, and son of Maj. Gen. Schuy
ler Hamilton, of civil and Mexican war
fame, died Wednesday.
Serenaders Use Dynamite.
Kokomo, Ind.—At the wedding of
Carl Gifford and Lena Pence, at Rus
siaville Tuesday night, a charivari
party exploded 32 pounds of dynamite
near the house. The building was
damaged and several guests fainted.
Wage Increase for Telegraphers.
New York.—An increase of ten per
cent. In the salaries of telegraph oper
ators at the company's principal offices
throughout the country was an?
nounced Wednesday by the Western
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The interparliamentary peace party
of the Danish rigsdag sent an invita
tion to the corresponding parties in
Sweden and Norway to attend a Scan
dinavian interparliamentary peace
convention in Copenhagen this year.
The Swedes answered that they are
not &oing to attend any such gather
ing this year. But they propose that
a joint committed representing the
Scandinavian countries be appointed
to prepare plans for joint action at
some future world's inter-parliament
ary peace congress. The Swedes think
they ought to be represented by ten
members in such a joint committee.
The peace party in the Norwegian
storting held a caucus and resolved
to accept the invitation to the pro
posed peace convention in Copenhagen.
At the same time the question of as
serting the neutrality and integrity of
Norwaj means of treaties was dis
cussed and the exejutive committee
of the peace party was instructed to
consider this matter and then present
it for discussion at some future peace
party caucus.
DENMARK.
Tablets of beer will soon be placed
on the market in Denmark. They are
the imention of Engineer Meardt, who
has been experimenting for se\eral
years with the object of solidifying
beer. One pound of the tablets will
make one gallon of beer, which will
cost only one cent a bottle. The quality
of the beer is excellent, and different
kinds, including' ale and stout, can be
manufactured in this way.
SWEDEN.
Hundreds of farms are advertised for
sale In Skane.
The Sverge banking company
$555,000 during the jear 1906.
Many Polish Jews are doing a thriv
ing business as peddlers in the rural
districts of Skane.
The number of bills introduced in
the riksdag was 32 in the first and 172
ln the second chamber.
M. P. Knutsson of Almarod sold
about 60 acres of fine land, located
near the Skifarp sugar factory, and
the price paid was $221 an acre, which
seems to be the present value of well
cultivated land in the fertile plains of
Skane.
The Svaneholm estate, Svaneskog
parish, near Karlstad, including for
ests, farms and manufacturing estab
lishments, has been sold to J. Bryntes
of Ertemark, for a consideration
of $60,000. Mr. Bryntesson made his
money digging gold in America.
Five of the most prominent butter
exporters in Gothenburg have issued a
public protest against the business
methods of the Skane butter export
union, asserting that the union has
occasioned a reduction of the price
of Swedish butter in the English mar
ket which amounts to about $200,000 a
year.
Count B. Moerner, Swedish consul
at Sidney, Australia, stopped at Mel
bourne on his way to the above place,
and the Melbourne Swedish club gave
a dinner'in bis honor. In an address
which he made on that occasion he
mentioned two Swedes, Thunberg and
Salander, who accompanied Captain
Cook when he discovered Australia
He expressed the hope that two monu
ments, hewn out of Swedish granite,
may soon be erected in memory of
those men, and the local Swedish paper
endorsed the suggestion with enthus
iasm.
In the midst of a violent snowstorm,
late in the evening of Jan. 5, an In
tensely bright flash of lightning illu
minated the city of Sandhamn, and
it was followed by a deep, long rum
bling of thunder. Sala and Karlstad
had regular thunder storms at the
same time.
The temperature prevailing in south
ern Sweden during the early part of
January may be inferred from the fact
that a good deal of plowing was done
at that time by the farmers of Skane.
The city council of Lund has re
solved to build a market hall at Mar
tenstorget. It is estimated that the
bwlldiog will cost about $50,000.
Information from high sources de
clares that King Oscar intends to abdi
cate in favor of Crown Prince Gustaf
on June 6, which will be his golden
wedding anniversary. Advices from
Carlsruhe are to the effect that the
crown princess, who is visiting her
parents there, is seriously ill.
The labor organizations of Malmo
have lt.OOO members, and a movement
is on foot to have every member con
tribute a certain sum a day to the
giant strike fund.
About 70 delegates attended the first
Swedish woman's Social Democratic
congress, which was held at Stock-
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SCANDINA VIAN NEWS
Principal Events Gathered In the
Old Scandinavian Countries
Almost 1,000 pheasants were killed
during the open season on the Ska-following
bersjo hunting grounds, Skane.
Major Bror Cederstrom has invented
a new -bayonet which is attracting the
attention of the department of war.
The city council of Upsala has re
solved to invest $108,000 in a proposed
railway between Upsala and Enkoping.
The number of persons who emi
grated from Sweden in 1906 was 18,-only
687, as against 17,341 in 1905 andbrush.
15,283 in 1904.
A new steamship company has been
organized with a capital stock of $175,
000 at Oxelosund, and three steamers
have been bought in Germany.
About 4) hotel keepers and restau
rant keepers from Central Sweden
held a convention at Karlstad and or-Norwegian
ganized a union.
A man at Hoganes keeps on bathing
in a temperature of 10 degrees below
the freezing point. When he gets out
of the water his hair freezes, but he
only seems to enjoy the sport
It has been demonstrated that the
sale of Swedish butter in England can
very materially increased by means
advertising in local English) pa
pers.
The harbor directors of Malmo have
designated the Malmo & Warnemnude
line as the best railway car ferry line
between southern Sweden and Ger
many.
On the LiOfnes estate, a property be
longing to the city of Orebro, is a
family which has lost six children in
the course of two years, all of them
having died from tuberculosis. Four
children are still living.
It was reported from Karesuando
that the vaccine sent from StocWiolm
to northern Sweden proved to be ab
solutely worthless, and that the local
authorities had to procure vaccine from
Finland in order to obtain results.
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A gypsy family which were expelled
from Sweden and intended to return
to Germany by way of Denmark, were
not permitted to land on Danish soil
and had to return to Sweden, where
they were taken directly to Germany
Sweden has decided to send the new
armored cruiser Fylgia. of 4,600 tons
to represent her at the naval review
to be held in Hampton Roads on the
occasion of tha- opening of the James
town exposition. It will belhe maiden
voyage of the warship, which, probably,
will be commanded by Capt. Lindberg,
chief of the Stockholm naval station.
Among the officers will be Prince Wil
helm, second son of Crown Prince Gus
tav. Several Sw edibh naval cadets are
on board the vessel, as well as a repre
sentative commission appointed to
study the United States.
The snow has at times been very fa
vorable for fox hunting in northern
Skane this winter, and many are the
foxes that came out of the game minus
their lives. The way in which they
are caught Is interesting. When the
tracks of a fox are found ln a neigh
borhood a number of hunters surround
the tract where the animal is known to
be, and a dog who knows his business
is put on the tracks. The fox is started
and is bound to come within range of
one or more of the hunters. The farm
ers claim that this is the best way
to get rid of the nuisance. A fine fox
skin is worth at least two dollars this
winter, making the fun profitable to
those who indulge in it.
NORWAY.
The temperance people of Kristian
sand are going to try to make that city
"dry."
Preparations are being made for ex
porting 100,000 tons of ore a year from
the Meldal mines.
Wellman's mast at the North Cape,
for wireless telegraphy to Spitzbergen
was broken down during a recent storm
as though it had been a clay pipe
stem.
A journeyman painter has told the
about Heinrich Ibsen: Not
long before the death of the poet the
painter was doing some work on the
stairway of the house in which Ibsen
was living. While he was thus en
gaged Ibsen came to him with a paint
brush which he had broken and asked
him if he could repair it. "I am do
ing a little painting myself just now,"
said the poet. It took the -workman
a minute or two to repair the
"I thank you," said Rjsen, and
handed the man 10 kroner ($2 70) for
his trouble.
The statistics of the bureau of
navigation show that 63 new steamers
were built in Norway last year, having
a tonnage of 59,000. At the same time
29 new steamers were built abroad for
shipowners, and the com
bined tonnage of these was 83,000.
Finally, 35 steamers of 44,450 tons were
bcught abroad by Norwegians. The
average tonnage of the steamers built
abroad was 2,862, that of those built in
Norway only 937, making the former
three times as large as the latter Only
9 small sailing vessels were built in
Norway, and 59 were bought abroad
All of them Were built of iron or steel.
Of all the new ships added to the mer
chant marine of Norway only 24 per
cent, were built at home. The com
bined tonnage of the steamers that
were discarded was 44,400 tons, and
that of the discarded sailing vessels
was 80,500 tons. Of the former, 57
were sold abroad, of the latter 16 per
cent. At the beginning of this year
76 steamers were in process of con
struction in Norway. The tonnage of
the largest one, which is being built in
Bergen, is 2,735, and the tonnage of 24
others exceeds 1,000 in each case. Only
six small sailing craft are in process
of construction. The whole number of
ships building in Norwegian shipyards
is 82, and they have a combined ton
nage of 60,000.
The central statistical bureau of
Norway has published an interesting
review of the movement of the popula
tion of the country. In 1349, that is,
immediately before the Black Plague,
or Black Death as it was called in
Norway, the country was supposed to
have about 300,000 inhabitants. The
plague cut the number down to 200,000,
and not until about the year 1500 did
the population again reach the 300,000
mark. From the latter date the growth
was more marked, the numbers being
400,000 in 1600 and 500,000 in 1666, in
cluding 50,000 persons In Jeuttland,
Herjedalen and Bohuslan, which were
ceded to Sweden. Exclusive of these
provinces, Norway is supposed to have
had 440,000 inhabitants in 1665, 504,000
in 1700, 883,000 in 1800, 2,243,000 in
1900, and 2,310,000 in 1905. During the
past 30 years 425,000 persons have
emigrated. During the years 1815-1865
the population increased more rapidly
than in most European countries, but
since the latter date Norway has oc
cupied a comparatively low mark. The
average increase for Europe, excepting
Turkey and the other Balkan states,
during the years 1815-1865 was 0.75
per cent, annually, but for Norway 1.23
per cent. From 1865 to 1885 the popu
lation of Europe increased 0.82 per
cent, annually, that of Norway only
0.69 per cent. From 1885 to 1902 the
population of Europe increased from
345.300,000 to 408,900,000, which was 1
per cent, a yea_*. while the increase of
that of Norway was only 0.92 per cent.
The Sleipner, a steamer owned by
parties in Bergen, which left New
castle Dec. 22 with a cargo of coal,
bound for Oporto, Portugal, has never
been heard from since that date, and
it is supposed to have been lost'with
all on board. The crew consisted of
17 men, three of whom were Swedes
and the rest residents of Bergen.
A stone ax which is supposed to
be 4,500 years old was found in a wood
box at the Kristiansand normal school.
No one can explain how it got there.
Several localities in Norway were
visited by thunder storms Jan. 25. The
disturbances extended as far north as
Tromso.
Rev. Musaus has been transferred
from Manger to Brevick, though he is
63% years old, while it is customary
to transfer no pastor who has passed
tShe age of 60 years. Two members of
the cabinet voted against the appoint
ment, namely, Otto Jensen, minister of
the church, and Minister of War Ols
son.
Johan Thorsen, a shipowner ln
Haugesund, has donated $33,000 to the
city of Haugesund for the benefit of
needy unmarried women. Mr. Thorsen
has given away altogether about 1150,
000 during the past two years.
Fredrik Parelius, a law student, has
been appointed to a Judgship la Congo
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