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\%^wp fi'] L¥#( 8&S§ HWr.. Pfl MWl r# 1^k v% tc r't BY S. 0. DKWELL PIIIKK. SOUTH DAKOTA. NEWS Of WEEK SUMMARIZED vj. i'. ,. -•!-•:..•• .- IMPORTANT EVENT8 AT HOME AND ON FOREIGN 8H0RE8 BRIEFLY TOLD. Washington. The battleship Minnesota has been turned over to the government by her builders. The new battleship Vermont has been placed in commission at th« Charleston navy yard. Senor Don Ramon Pina, the new Spanish minister to the United States, has arrived in Washington. Col. Albert E. Tower, assistant pay master general, has been placed on the retired list of the army on his' own application, after moie than thirty two years' service. The senate adopted a Joint resolu tion authorizing Admiral McCalla to accept a medal from the king of Great Britain and the decoration of the Or der of the Eagle from the emperor ol Germany. H. B. McDonald, chief clerk and par- teal's liamentarian of the United States sen- :1 Jt ate, died in Washington. He had also mm •J &£> been employed as journal clerk position had also been held 7 W \i Sra I'" Mrs. Musicdore Morgan Sayre, sistei of United States Senator Morgan, died at Montgomery, Ala., aged ninetj years. She had been a resident ol Montgomery for seventy-five years. 5}s|| Mrs. Francis Paca Peter, aged nine ty-one, died at her home about sever seven miles from Lexington, Ky. She became angry at the people of Lexing ton before the war and vowed that sh would never visit the place again. Sh« kept her vow and has not been in Lex ington lor forty years. She was a rel This by his father and grandfather. Congress has passed a resolution ordering the printing of a new 250, •^^«00 edition of the book on "The Dis- eases of the Horse," which for several years has held the most popular place among government publications. Peraonal. Signor Gallo, the Italian minister of Justice, died of syncope. Samuel H. Laethe, an octogenarian and reputed millionaire, died at hit home in St. Louis. Ada L. Howard, first president ol Wellesley college, died from pneumo nia at Brooklyn, N. Y. Dr. J. R. Foster, one of the besl known dentists in Wisconsin, died al his home in La Crosse. J. C. Broeksmlt, one of the pioneers in railroad building in Iowa, died al his home in Cedar Rapids. Floyd K. Whittemore. former state treasurer of Illinois and prominent in t&sk politics for many years, died at Spring field, 111. John W. A. Scott, probably the did est artist of note in the country, died at his home in Cambridge, Mass. Ht was ninety-two years of age. Foreign. V(' Eighty-five persons have been bur led by a landslide of about fifteen square miles on the mountain side, near Sedrata. The resignation of Gov. Swetten hamof Jamaica has become an ac complished tffct, and he will leave the •. island as soon as his affairs can bear ranged. Fire broke out in the officers' quar ters at Camp Columbia, near Havana. Two houses, occupied by sixty-five officers,' were destroyed. Lieut. Wil helm and' two prlvftjtes sustained in juries. The ketch Esmeralda, with a large quantity of gquowder on board, was towed into Holyhead, Wal^j. She was found drifting in the IriBh channel in the path of the American liners. Her appearance suggested, the hurried de parture of the crew. Advices from Central China report famine conditions becoming worse. "Middle-aged women are being sold for from $10 to $15 and children for $3 to $4. Complaints have been made! that officials are delaying shipping of flour sent by the foreign relief committee. Beckman Winthrop, governor of Porto Rico, has announced his ap pointment as assistant secretary of the treasury at Washington. This itpfnews came as a surprise and. the gov ernor received a number of telegrams expressing regret at his departure. Criminal. Robert G. Gill, a Cleveland broker, was fined $350-for operating a bucket shop for women iThe Missouri supreme court sen tenced -«ix men convicted of murder ,• to be hanged on April 18. Mrs. Nathalie Dole Latham commit I ted snlclda In Paris. Mrs. Latham Vas f^^p-an American and was. known in Paris iL, ^and New Yorky as a portrait artist. Mi*. :MU»nlev Shermani a wealthy -i"« r$' yip Cleveland nndec-. circnmstances :point to murder. This police ire 'work- i" widow, was found dead in.her home at t^fl'lMC-oh.the theory that the woman was ed with poison ana robbed. %ontfftr 8enator Joseph Burton CfjC Ksnsas will be releasedVon March |i tnm!(ke JfeU at Irontob, Mo., where %4SC? he is serving a six-months sentence tor sipr before the postoffice de aS attorney -for an alleged «0impan£ of. St Loidis. V-TShortaied -ij -i-y*? wa?2*-f^.v The railroad station at Wllburton, I T.. was blown to pieces when robber* dynamited the safe. They secured only 7 cents. M. A. Conley, formerly a member of the Illinois legislature, was sentenced to three years in prison for burglary committed at Salt Lake. Burglars forced an entrance into a store in St. Louis and got away with 15,000 in checks, $500 in cash and ibout $350 worth of merchandise. James Crichton, an artist, twenty seven years of age, whose home is ID Washington, D. C„ committed suicide In New York. Crichton shot himseli In the head. Suffering from insomnia and fearing that eventually he would become in sane, Dr. I. L. Pine, one of the leading physicians of Tama, committed sui cide by shooting. Henry Woolering, eighty years old and wealthy, committed suicide at Tama, Iowa, by firing a bullet through his head. Ill health is thought to have furnished the motive for the act. Sam Kranbe, a prominent business man of Houston, Tex., was assassi nated while leaving a house with offi cers where they had been searching for men who had assaudted Kranbe the night before. Casualty. Fire at Leroy, III., destroyed eleven business buildings, causing a loss of 175,000. Mrs. Jacob Tumbridge was run over by a street car on Brooklyn bridge, New York, and killed. Fire at Dubuque destroyed the build ing occupied by the Dubuque Harness and Saddlery company. Loss, $50,000. The Carnegie library, municipal building and fire hall at Sault Ste. Marie were destroyed by fire. Loss, $36,000. Two young sportsmen, while on an excursion to Mount Santo Angelo, slipped and fell to the bottom of the mountain. /Both were killpd. While a wake was in progress in Milwaukee the funeral decorations caught fire from a candle and caused a panic among the mourners. A passenger train ran into an open switch at Enid, Okla., and was derail ed. The fireman was killed and sev eral passengers were injured. While engaged in harvesting ice near Maron, Mont., J. H. White was struck by a string of cars and was so badly injured he died four hours later. Hans Drella, aged thirty-five, a fac tory hand, was killed by a fall from the top of a stepladder while oiling machinery in Smith's box factory at Clinton, Iowa. Owing to the extreme slippery con dition of the sidewalks at Menominee, Mich., a large number of serious acci dents have occurred. At least twelve persons have sustained broken arms or legs. Twenty cakes of blasting powder exploded at a grading camp in the out skirts of Kansas City, Kan., with such force that it "broke window panes within a radius of twenty-five miles. But one person, a woman, was in jured. She was not fatally hurt. Section men on the Clover Leaf railway found Joseph Hobson sitting beside the tracks near Granite City, Mo., trying to bandage up the stumps of both feet. He had been riding the bumpers of a freight train. He lost his hold and fell between the wheels, both feet having been severed. By the explosion of 1,000 pounds of dynamite in the store house of the Richards colliery, near Mount Carmel, Pa., two score of persons were Injur ed, one of them, Lewis Dowie of Mount Carmel, fatally. The explosion caused damage to the extent of $150,000. The cause of the explosion is a mystery. Domestic. The Iowa legislature has passed a bill prohibiting contributions by cor porations to political campaign funds. The Kansas legislature has passed a* bill which makes it unlawful tor high school pupils to belong to frater nities. The Iowa legislature enacted a law to punish wife deserters. It provides for a punishment not to exceed one year in the penitentiary. Sauerkraut manufacturers of Illinois, New Yeork, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and Indiana met at Toledo, Ohio, and effected a permanent organization. Edgar E. Robinson of Oconomowoc. Wis., won the university oratorical contest and will represent Wisconsin in the Northern Oratorical league contest. A i'u W. C. McClure of. Saginaw. Mich., has bought for $90,000 twenty-eight thousand acres of timber land in Lin coln and Polk counties, in Oregon, ad joining the Siletz reservation, James E. Burke, Democrat, so-called "blacksmith" mayor of Burlington. Vt., was defeated by the Republican candidate by 95 majority. Mayor Burke has just finished his fourth term. Frank Billps, a rural mail delivery man working out of Nez Perce, Idaho, south of Spokane, is the possessor of an arctic owl, which he will send to the Smithsonian institution. He shot tlxe bird on the Donaldson, ranch. The placing on passes of a condition that the bearer shall ride at his Own risk does not absolve common carriers from responsibility for gross negli gence, according to a decision Just ren dered by. th$. supremel' court of Ten neasee.. Gov. Hanly of Indiana has signed the bill under which the state will take char-re of the grounds in which lis located the grave of Nancy Hgnks Lincoln, mother of Abraham Lincoln. The governor will appoint a commls sion to tafee charge of tfce grounds and maintain them- SSS8SfeSS?«S^S8B«5rS^wR!5W?T8^Ps'v .iirfeHiSiKiyK SPOONER GETS JOB FROM HILL TO BE GENERAL COUNSEL OF ALL HILL INTERESTS AT $50,000 A YEAR. RESIGNATION IS EXPLAINED St. Paul, March 8. The secret of United States Senator John C. Spool er's resignation from the upper houaa has been brought to light. The famous Wisconsin solon, whose recent retirement from the United States senate caused a profound sen sation politically, has doffed the sena torial toga to accent the important post of general counsel for James .T Hill's interests, including the Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Chi cago, Burlington & Quincy railroads, as well as the Great Northern Steam ship company, the Northern Steamship company and the other varied Hill in terests, of which the ore lands, both in Minnesota and other states, constitute a factor. Assume Duties in May. Senator Spooner will assume his new duties on May 1, the day when his retirement from the senate takes ef fect. It is said that, at Senator Spooner's request, Mr. Hill had determined to withhold the official announcement un til April 1, but now that the news has become public it is probable that Mr. Hill will take immediate steps to issue the circular which will proclaim Sen ator Spooner's appointment. About six months ago Mr. Hill per sonally approached Senator Spooner and proffered to the Wisconsin solon the position of general counsel. Headquarters in New York. It is said tliat Senator Spooner ac cepted the same, but with the condi tion that he be given until May 1 be fore assuming his duties. To this President Hill agreed. From what can be learned at this time, Sen ator Spooner, after entering the Hill services, will 'Tobably make his head quarters in N^w York, where he will personally direct all of the higher legal policy of all of the Hill interests. It is said that Senator Spooner's sal ary will be $50,000 a year. The position was first offered to EUhu Root, who declined it. MURDER BILL IS $10,000. Estate of Slayer Is Sued by Estate of Slain Girl. Davenport, Iowa, March 8.—A novel lawsuit has been filed in the district court here. Last September Harry Drenter of Summit, Iowa, shot and killed Grace Rose, a pretty school teacher at Summit, and then took his own life. In the present suit A. L. Stone, administrator of the estate of Miss Rose, seeks to recover $10,000 damages from Drenter's estate, on the ground that Drenter was responsible for the death of Miss Rose. RAILROAD SHOWS PLANS. Northern Pacific Would Improve Du luth-Superior Bridge. Superior, Wis., March 8. The Northern Pacific railroad has submit ted to the government engineers for approval plans for double-tracking the railroad bridge between Superior and Duluth. In double-tracking, improving approaches and spans the company will expend approximately $500,000. Besides the Northern Pacific, the bridge is used by the Great Northern, Omaha and South Shore roads. GIRLS STEAL GOLD WATCH. Northfield Pair Are Sent to State Training School. Faribault, Minn., March 8. Cora Sellers, aged sixteen, and Gertrude Emmiott, aged twelve years, both liv ing in Northfield, were brought before Judge Buckman in this city, charged with stealing a gold watch from a lady's room in Northfield. They pleal ed guilty and both were sentenced to the state training school at Red Wing. 1 EX-COUNTY CLERK SUED. Crawford County (Wis.) Taxpayers Claim They Were Victimized. Prairie du Chien, Wis., March 8. Suit to recover over $1,000 in fees, said to have been illegally collected, was brought before the circuit court against Former County Clerk W. S. Allan. The action was brought by a number of taxpayers for sums collect ed during his four years as clerk of Crawford county. Elevator Burned. Hendricks, Minn., March 9. The farmers' elevator at Hendricks burn ed to the ground. Its capacity was. 40,000 bushels and it was the largest elevator of the fiye in town. Loss is $10,000. -v Head Paralyzes Arm* 4 Dubuque, Iowa, March 9. Earl Newsome, thirteen years old, was sud denly stricken with paralysis as the result of sleeping with big arm under biB head. The weight of the head stopped the circulation of the blood, causing the arm to lose its vitality. To Rebuild Factory. Marshfield, Wis., March 9.—The offi cers of the Roddis Veneer company have announced their intention of re building in Marshfield .fiitaoirjf burned down two weelcs ago. DULUTH IS 10 GET BIG STEEL PLANT "PITTSBURG OF THE WEST" IS TITLE GIVEN DULUTH AX BAN. QUET TO EXPERTS. AMBITIONS TO BE REALIZED Duluth, March 10.—"The Pittsburg Df the West" was the title bestowed Dn Duluth in many speeches made last night at a banquet given the Unitnl States Steel corporation's committee Df experts at the Commercial club. The gathering was notable for the presence of men eminent in the iron and steel business, both in the East and West. It was largely attended by Duluth business men, all of whom evidently were impressed by the cer tain knowledge that a steel plant for Duluth has gone far beyond the spec ulative period and that the building of the plant is merely a matter of ways and means. Practically Absolute Assurance. The experts investigating the mat ter will make no statement until they have formally reported to the board of directors of the corporation, but it was evident last night that those who are best informed have practically abso lute assurance that the plant will be built that it will be built soon, and that it will be constructed on a scale of such magnitude as will constitute the most important single industry in the state. An investment of $10,000,000 in a plant that will turn out upwards of 250,000 tons of steel every year and svill employ upwards of 2,000 men will be the hostage given by the iron and steel interests to the State of Min nesota. Hopes to Be Realized. The banquet afforded occasion for much felicitation offered by President Thomas F. Cole of the Oliver Iron Mining company and the other chiefs of the mining industry upon the pres ent realization of their ambitions for making Minnesota as great'a steel manufacturing state as it is an iron producing state. It was made clear that the propsition for the (establish ment of a steel plant here has been practically settled. The banquet last night was in the form of a congratulatory gathering upon the impending realization of the iiopes of the people concerned. NORTH DAKOTA MAY WITHDRAW Members in Farmers' Exchange Are Dissatisfied. Minneapolis, March 10. Dissatis faction has been shown by the North Dakota members of the Farmers^ ex change since^ the annual meeting of stockholders began here, and threats of withdrawal of all the members in that state are frequently heard. Prominent stockholders from the state assert that they may withdraw if they can do so without great loss, as they say they believe the progress of the association has not been satisfactory. The North Dakota men were partic ularly chagrined at the failure to pass a resolution allowing each share a vote, as many of them had come to the meeting well armed with the proxies of their neighbors. USE DYNAMITE ON GORGE. South Dakotans Fight Ice With Ex plosive. Pierre, S. D., March 10.*— Thursday night, the rush of ice at the railroad bridge across the river carried out the false work under the span of the steel bridge, but it was ready to bear the strain and has not been injured in any way. Several derricks were carried down by the rush, but the openings made in the bridge let most of the ice through. Yesterday afternoon ice began gorg ing above the bridge, but is bej^g blown out with dynamite, and no se rious trouble from that cause Is antici pated. CHURCH ROBBER IS CAUGHT. One Man Is Arrested, but Second Es capes. New Ulm, Minn., March 10.—After a long chase through the river district of this city and out into tile country, Chief of Police Klauz captured John Harkins, a church robber, who had sold some silver plate to a local junk dealer for 60 cents. Harkins' compan ion escaped during the chase by sepa rating from his mate, but the entire region has been warned by telephone to watch for him, and his capture is regarded as certain. Flames Raze Hotel. Faulkton, S. D., March 10.—The Ho tel Best and contents were com pletely consumed in an early morning fire. The cause of the fire is supposed to -have been a defective flue. The loss on building and. contents is esti mated at $10,000. 1 41 Mayor In Race. Again. RiDDing, Minn., March 10.—It is an nounced that Mayor Ansley will be a candidate for re-election and that a fourth ticket to support him will be placed in the field. Found Dead In Room. St. Paul, March 10. —W. J. Muhs was found dead in a room at the Great Northern hotel. He was dress ed and^the room was filled with gas and the gaB jet was open. It is sup- poBed that Muhs' death was acciden tal. 1'..%^ *},.¥'*\ HARM wiintu ON Hill MAGNATE TO ASSIST NORTHERN PACIFIC REORGANIZATION PROBE. New York, March 10.—Harriman in terests are preparing to aid the Phila delphia committee of Northern Pacific stockholders in the approaching and inevitable investigation of the Hill Morgan reorganization of that road. Revenge is back of the purpose. Hill and Morgan, by what the Harriman side has stigmatized as double dealing, plucked more than a score of millions from the iron fist of the beetle-browed Harriman. Harriman Will Tell All. Information as to the beginning of the Harriman-Hill feud has been ob tained here. The correspondent was referred to Former Judge R. S. Lov ett, head of the legal staff of Harri man's road, the Union Pacific. From these offices and other sources enough was gathered to make it certain that Harriman will not hesitate to tell all he knows concerning the Hill-Morgan reorganization of the Northern Pacific when the court of inquiry shall call him to the stand. The feud dates back seven years and every day since its beginning has added to its bitterness. Stocks Depreciate. Conservative estimates say Great Northern stocks have depreciated in value in the last four months about $140,000,000, while Northern Pacific has run a good second, with a shrink age amounting to nearly $190,000,000. WAR WITH SPAIN BOUGHT. Wild Story That United States Senate Was Bribed to Declare War. London, March 10.—A Madrid corre spondent of the Telegraph says that as the result of much inquiry he is able to confirm the story told by the Ha vana Diario de la Marina regarding the bribery of the United States sen ate to declare war on Spain. He says official proofs of the story are now in the national archives at Havana. He adds that he is informed the amount paid the intermediaries was at least $6,000,000. MAY ABANDON DAKOTA. James J. Hill Says He Will Build No More Ships. Yokohama, March 10. By March 11 it will be decided whether the wrecked steamer Dakota will be salved by its owners, the Great North ern Steamship company, or be handed over to the underwriters. New York, March 9. If the Great Northern steamship Dakota is lost, as now seems almost certain, James J. Hill will not replace the vessel. He said yesterday that he did not expect to build any more ships under the American flag. WAGES RAISED WALK OUT. Hello Girls at BilliiVgs Not Satisfied With New Scale. Billings, Mont., March 10. The operators in the employ of the Bell Telephone company in this city walk ed out of the local offices last evening without having given any notice or cause for such action. The scale of wages of the girls was raised recently, and, although not officially, it is said that the operators are dissatisfied with the new scale. SHOOTING JUSTIFIED. Man Who Shot Teaser Set Free by a Jury at Waupaca. W&'Kpaca, Wis., March 10. John H. Twadel, and the habit of snoring have been vindicated. Twadel, an in mate of the veterans' home here, about Christmas time shot a room mate who teased him, with others, be cause he Indulged nightly in the snor ing habit. Self-defense was the plea of his lawyers and the jury freed him. STRIKERS MOB CARS. Violent Outbreak Occurs at Water loo, Iowa. Waterloo, Iowa, March 10.—An out break of street car strikers occurred in the shop district. Beer kegs, planks and ties were placed on the tracks, stones were thrown and win dows of cars broken. A number of non-union employes of the company were struck by flying missiles and injured. ROB GENERAL STORE.. Burglars Get Thirty Watches and $40 at Anita, N. D. Crookston, Minn.,' March 10. A long-distance message brought the in formation that robbers broke open the general merchandise store at Anita, N. D., last night and secured $40 in cash, besides about thirty watches. Up to a late hour no trace of the rob bers had been found. Judge Dick Is Dead. Beaver Dam, Wis., March 10. Judge James J. Dick, judge of the Thirteenth judicial circuit, died at his home here of cirrhosis of the liver. FAMOUS SOLDIER. Man Who Had Remarkable Record for Bravery Passes Away. Marshalltown, Iowa, March 10. Former Mayor Nelson Ames, who was a captain in the Civil war, with a re markable record for bravery, died last night He commanded Battery G, First New York light artillery, in the famous charge at Peach Orchard dur ing the battle of Gettysburg, when the Confederate guns were silenced after a Confederate victory seemed as1 sured. .gr jr 1 $3* ... fit" v"a?tH'T JK ,* V^x .• 7 SEEK 10 SEPARATE EVELYN AND HARRY RUMOR OF AN ESTRANGEMENT BETWEEN THAW'S FAMILY AND HIS WIFE. THAW DEFENSE RESTS CASE ATTORNEY DELM/VS SO NOTIFIES DISTRICT ATTORNEY—CAUSES SURPRISE. New York', March 8.—Another dra matic chapter was added to.the trial ol Harry K. Thaw yesterday when the mother of the defendant took the wit ness stand to contribute what she might toward saving her son. Mrs. Thaw's story before the jury was brief. Mr. Delmas limited her examination to the change she had noted in hei son's condition following his return from Paris in 1903, after Evelyn Nes bit had told him her life story, and District Attorney Jerome conducted a short and ineffectual cross-examina tion. Mother Breaks Down. Twice during her recital of the events which had caused her to fear that all was not right with her son, Mrs. Thaw was unable to proceed. She told in a motherly way of her so licitude for the boy. "He told me a wicked man—probably the wickedest man in all New York had ruined his life." It was not until some time after he had offered this explanation that she learned the story of the young woman who was to become her daughter-in law. At the end of Mrs. Thaw's examina tion court adjourned until Friday morning, a death in Justice Fitzger ald's family causing an abandonment of the Thursday sitting. Defendant Rests. New York, March 9.—There was an other quick turn of the cards in the trial of Harry K. Thaw late yesterday when the defense announced that it had concluded to rest its case. The district attorney was perhans the most surprised man New York, for it had been understood that when Justice Fitzgerald resumed the bench Friday morning at 10:30 the Thaw at torneys would call one or two alien ists. The sudden decision of'the defense came after a conference of Thaw's lawyers in Mr. Delmas' office late yes terday afternoon. May Annul Marriage. New York, March 10.—There were many rumors current yesterday of a serious estrangement between Harry Thaw's family and his wife, arid of the reported desire of the former to bring about a separation of the young couple in the event of a verdict ac quitting Thaw of the charge ,pf mur der. Young Howard Nesbit, brother of Mrs. Harry Thaw, is quoted as say ing: "The countess of Yarmouth has said that she will not return to England until her brother and my sister have been separated. Tried to Warn Sister. "I did not know of this until my re turn from Pittsburg last Sunday. As soon as I arrived here I went to the Hotel Lorraine to warn my sister, but Mr. Delmas would not let me see her alone. I did not want any of the law yers present when I talked to her. be cause t.hey would probably deny it. "I am sure that if my sister knew of the plans which are being made against her she would assert herself at once, and not remain passive, as she has been so far." May Annul Marriage. It has also been a matter of com ment that as two experts have de clared Thaw to have been insane at the time of his marriage, the cere mony might be declared void and an nulled. Under this rule the will and codicil, in which Mrs. Thaw is left the main portion of her husband's es tate, are also void. Defense Rests. The defense in the Thaw cases rest ed yesterday immediately after the convening of court, and an adjourn ment thereupon was ordered until Monday morning at 10:30 o'clock. Dis trict Attorney Jerome said that his witnesses were not ready, and it was upon this representation and with the freely granted consent of the defense that the adjournment was taken. Evelynl Thaw Subpoenaed. District Attorney Jerome returned at once to his home and began prepar ing his campaign of rebuttal testi mony. Almost his first rpove was to have a subpoena served upon Mrs. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw requiring her to produce in court any letters she may have in her possession written by Stanford White. The district attorney had notified May MacKenzie to be present in court Monday, prepared to go upon the witness stand. Denied a Rehearing. St. Paul, March 10. Thomas B. Clement, the aged Faribault banker who was convicted of misappropriat ing funds of his bank, has been denied a rehearing by the United States cir cuit court of appeals, how sitting in St. Louis. Two Perish in Blizzard. Sydney, C. B., March 10. 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