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Che Pioneer Press MILLER, SOUTH DAKOTA. There are altogether In Yucatan Beven cities, thirteen towns, sixty-two ruined cities, 143 villages, fifteen aban doned settlements, and 33 haciendas. Scarcely any of these places has as many as 10,000 inhabitants, the popu lation of the great majority falling be low 1,000. American Roman Catholics contrib uted during 1900 for foreign missions $71,230, the amount being sent to the Central Council of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith. The headquarters of the propaganda are in Paris, France, and from there the money is sent to support weak mis sions in all parts of the world. The American contribution is much larger than previous ones. It ian’t against the law in Minnesota to kill a gambler if he has been cheat ing, and will not return the money to his victim. At least, a case at Granite Falls has just been decided to that effect. Dr. Wlntner pulled his pistol and shot a gambler with whom he was playing cards, because the gambler had cheated and refused to pay the money on demand. A jury declared upon oath that Dr. Wlntner was not guilty of murder. • "Future punishment? Let’s not d:s cuss the theological side of it Just now,” said the old clergyman, gently, to his hot-headed young parishioners. “But did you ever think of it from the domestic and family side? When these babies of yours begin to grow up, and you see them Imitating your taults and hampered by your weaknesses, and know that you’re to blame —ah, there’s a kind of future punishment there can be no two opinions about!” He began his trip on the Seine and he is now on the Marne. He will sail down the Yohne, the Saone, the Rhone and its small branches flowing into the Mediterranean. Then he will go od the Loire and end his voyage through France on the Rance, which will con duct him to St. Male, where he will take a steamboat to Jersey. The name of his canoe is Oithona, and is so constructed that it can be wheeled on terra flrma whenever its occupant gets tired of being on the water. • The London Lancet, a high medical authority, says that the habit of self druggging has grown to be a source of nntold mischief. The practice has been greatly assisted by the enormous im provements in pharmaceutical prepara tions. Treating symptoms without medical advice may be temporarily satisfactory, but what if the physical disturbance be the sign of fatal dis ease? A little knowledge, coupled with overconfidence, is a dangerous thing in dealing with the ailments which come in so many forms. Vary ing the adage, it may be said that a man who is his own doctor has a fool for a patient. Some amusing letters find their way into the government archives. One federal officeholder recently made an appeal for screens for the building where he worked, saying that within a hundred yards were three liveryi sta bles, one mule boarding house, one horse sanitarium with operating table, and one fish morgue. He added that his handwriting had been spoiled by the constant endeavor to write and keep oft flies at the same time. He had pasted ten sheets of sticky fly , paper, and while they carried off thou sands of victims they seemed to occa sion no vacancies in the ranks of the survivor-. The pathetic appeal was in vain. "Uncle Sam is rich enough to give us air’ screens, but he is too hard-hearted to do it. During the famous Douglas and Lin coln debate and subsequent campaigns the point was frequently brought out by the supporters of "the Little Giant” that Mr. Lincoln had served only a single term in Congress, but that Sen ator Douglas had enjoyed for years a national reputation. This point, says a writer in Lippincott’s, was urged in a heated discussion between an ardent supporter of Douglas and a German voter who favored Lincoln. Finally the former, thinking to overwhelm his op ponent, said: "Who is this Lincoln, anyhow? Nobody ever heard of him until Senator Douglas brought him into notice by holding a joint debate with him. Senator Douglas, on the other hand, is a great statesman. Why, he has had his eye on the presidential chair for the last ten years’” "Vot is dot you say?” was the reply. "You say Meester Dooglas have hat his eye on der bresldent chair for ten years?” "Yes, that Is just what I said.” "Veil, you shoost tell Meester Dooglas if he • vill keep his eye on dot chair shoost a leedle vile longer be vill see old Abe Lincoln sitting down in it” This closed the debate, amid a roar of laughter from the bystanders. BIG MOVE PLANNED LABOR LEADERS HOLD COKFEK- E.WCE WITH PRESIDENT SHAFFER. OTHER ORDERS MAY TAKE HAND Decided Change in the Strike Prom ised Thnt Will Tell With Greater Effect t pon the Trust nnd .11*1 in Hurrying Final Outcome Moral and Financial Aid From Other Labor Organisations. Pittsburg, Aug. 25.—The conference of the labor leaders at the offices of the Amalgamated association yesterday was the leading feature of the strike during the day. The officials of the or ganization all seemed pleased with the way things were moving, and one of them said somewhat mysteriously: "In another six days you will see a decided change in the strike that will tell with greater effect on the trust and aid in hurrying the final outcome of this struggle.” Just what this change is to be w’as not said, but it was inferred strongly that the coming event hinged upon the conference that was taking place. Two sessions were held by the conferees be hind closed doors. After the adjourn ment of the first session none of the participants would give out any in formation of the proceedings further than to say that the leaders had been called together for the purpose of hav ing the situation thoroughly explained to them and to have some action taken looking to the aid of the strikers morally and financially by all of the organizations represented. There were present at the conference beside the Amalgamated officials, John Mitchell, president of the Mineworkers of Amer ica: J. W. Jenks, member of the in dustrial commission; Ralph M. Easley, secretary of the National Civic Federa tion. and Henry M. White, general sec retary of the United Garmentworkers. Who]*- Situation Discussed. When President Shaffer was seen at his home last night he said in reference to the day’s meeting that it was not a preconcerted one, but just happened. During the meeting, however, the whole strike situation was discussed. There was nothing of importance ac complished. Mr. Shaffer said no ar rangement had been made to submit a new peace proposition to the corpora tion or a further proposition for arbi tration, providing, however, that he did not know what individual act the conferees might take in the future. No mention was made of the miners or o|her trades taking ac tion. It is believed that as a result of the meeting another effort will be mad£ to induce the United States Steel corporation to enter another confer ence. The strikers make the claim that very little actual work has been done by the combine in any of its plants since the strike began, and that what product has been turned out has been of inferior character. Notwithstand ing this the steel officials declare them selves well pleased with the condition of affairs and say all the mills started are working satisfactorily and turning out good product. TERRORIZED A TRAIN. Woman and Two Sons Have a Crasy Fit. Corning, N. Y., Aug. 25. Passen gers on Erie limited No. 5 had a lively experience between Elmira and Corn ing last night. After the train left Elmira a woman started running through the train screaming that some one was trying to place her under an anasthetic. She fought off her imag inary foe with a big jack-knife. With her were her two sons, aged fourteen and seventeen, who were afflicted the same as the mother. The passengers w’ere terrorized and the trainmen had the greatest difficulty In restraining them. When the train reached here the woman made a dash with her hand, smashed a large plate glass in the car vesUbule and jumped from the train, follow'ed by the two boys. They ran a block and then rushed into the Corning club, where the woman, bleeding and bruised, screamed for help. The clubmen believed that mur der was about to be committed, and scattered in all directions. The woman and her sons were finally caught by the police and .1 doctor dressed her numerous cuts and bruises The wo man and her sons evidently had taken some strong medicine which crazed them temporarily. They were appar ently all right and proceeded to Chi cago later. CONVICT VISITS DYING FATHER. Governor of Indiana Given a Life Prisoner a Ten Days' Parole. Michigan City, Ind., Aug. 25.—John Fleming, a life convict in the peniten tiary, has been given a ten days' pa role by Gov. Durbin in order that he may visit his dying father at Kokomo. The officers have full confidence that he will return at the end of ten days. This is said to be the first case on record where a life convict has been permitted to leave prison. ARREST FOR MURDER. Father and Son in Custody os the Charge of Killing a Neighbor. Middletown, Ohio, Aug. 25. Henry Geppart and his son Donald are un der arrest for the murder of Wesley Wells. All are farmers. The trouble arose over a quarrel on account of the use by the Gepparts of a path through the Wells farm. Wesley Wells tried to stop them with an axe and they fired on him. The Gepparts surrendered. WOX’" STAXD FOR IT. Dr. Rodernund Warned Against TrlMitu With Smallpox. St. Paul, Mnn.. Aug. 25. "lf Dr. Rodermund undertakes to cut any of his caperf around St. Paul he will be hustled to the pest house and kept on a light diet. We shall not be in any hurry to let him out either. He may defy the law n a small town, but In St. Paul he will have to abide by the ac cepted theories of common-sense physi cians.” This is the way Health Commissioner Ohage looks at the Appleton. Wls., physi cian who smeared himself with smallpox virus, afterwa-d attending his patients and wound up by eating the pus from a smallpox postile. Dr. Rodermund did this to prove Ms contention that the en tire theory of contagion is at fault. Dr. Ohage is a firm believer In the vir tues of vacclnetlon and, as such, is not disposed to permit any trifling with the law’ which makes vaccination compulsory with patients that are exposed to small pox. He said that all he requires in Dr. Rodermund’s case is his statement that he has exposed himself to smallpox and that will be sufficient excuse for taking him to the pesthouse. "Vaccination has been demonstrated, thousands of times over, as an effective means of preventing the spread of the disease,” said Dr. Ohage. "and we do not intend that any one shall come Into St. Paul and defy the ordinary rules of health.” Dr. M. J. Rodermund addressed the St. Paul Anti-Vaccination society at Central hall. Sixth and Seventh streets, last night. The doctor’s talk was informal and fol lowed a written paper by Mrs. Laura Little of Minneapolis on the evils of vac cination. WITHOVT A I’EXXY. Woman Deserted by Her Husband in Wlnonn. Winona, Minn., Aug. 25.—The largest ed by her husband in a strange city, and without a penny, was the condition of Mrs. John Schlosser here this morning, Schlosser, who is a carpenter, came to Winona with his wife early in the w’eek in search of em ployment. They stopped at a hotel. On Thursday he told his wife that he would go out to Clear Lake, S. D., and when he secured employment he would send for her. Thursday afternoon he left the place without saying a word, and that was the last she saw of him. She became uneasy later in the day and made In ouiries at the depots. It was there learned that he had purchased a ticket for Devil’s Lake, N. D. The woman did not have a cent of money, and in company with a Winona woman she attempted to secure enough to follow him. Failing in this, she told her story to Mayor Stewart and he furnished her with a ticket to La Crosse, where she says she will be able to get the money and will then follow him. Ml RDEIt AT HIHHIXG. Former St. Paul Waiter In Killed by h Bartrntler. e Duluth, Minn.. Aug. 25 William Car son. a former waiter and bartender in various St. Paul and Minneapolis saloons and restaurants, was shot and instantly killed to-day at Hibbing by John King, the bartender in Hartman & Co.’s saloon. The trouble arose over the payment for a drink. King will be brought to Duluth to-morrow for a preliminary hearing. LOG riRAIES. Raft Onaera Report Several Loaaea of Lok*. La Crosse, Wls.,Aug. 25—Raft owners on the river report log pirates are again at work. Wednesday night a launch and two men took a large portion of a raft above here, and last night thieves held up a watchman at the point of a rifle several miles from any town and after securing valuable logs made off with them without being identified. ENGINE EXPLODES. One Is Killed and Others Seriously Canby, Minn., Aug. 25. A steam threshing engine belonging to Sam Watkins exploded while threshing on the farm of C. L. Christenson, near Porter, Minn., and instantly killed Mrs. Christenson and severely injured her young daughter, Lars Christenson, John Anderson and one of the assis tants at the machine. SKI LLS AXD RELIC S. An Ancient Mound at Trempealeau Opened by Minonn Men. Winona. Minn., Aug. 25. Desert mound at Trempealeau has just been excavated by John Dye and others of Winona, with the result that seven skulls, presumably of moundbuilders, and many broken bones and relics have been found. FAVORS PARIS GREEN. Farmer Feeds It to His Mnles aid Takes It Himself. Buffalo. Minn., Aug. 25.—Barney Mc- Keag, whose place is a few miles from here, committed suicide by taking paris gieen. He attempted to'murder his daughter-in-law with an axe and tried to feed his mules paris green. Two Country Fires. Grand Meadow, Minn., Aug. 25. A fire occurred on the farm of Alex Brown in Racine township. A setting of grain and the separator of H. Ra bine were burned. A large barn, a hoghouse and a milkhouse w ere burned on the farm of Ed Rutledge, near High Forest. It is thought children set the fire while playing about the barn. Holl’s Poet office Robbed. Sheldon, lowa, Aug. 25.—The postof fice at Hull was broken into and about 1300 worth of stamps and |SS in cash were taken out of the safe. There seems to be no clue to the robbers. Injured. FIVE MEN KILLED DESPERATE PITCHED BATTLE. FOIGHT IN THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAINS. WOMAN, or COURSE, BEHIND IT Returned Volunteer Soldier and n Comrade Renew a Quarrel With Neighbors and Murder All of Them Men Had Little Chance Against the Soldiers—Posse Will Go After the Murderers. Williamsburg, Ky., Aug. 25.—Sheriff Sutton has received reliable informa tion concerning a pitched battle about twenty miles from here in which five men were killed by Wes Mays and George Golden. Mays was a former resident of Whit ley county, and who has just returned home after having teen discharged from the volunteer army service in the Philippines. The dead are: Blake Logan and two sons and two neigh bors named Wilson. Mays is said to have had trouble with Logan before he went into the army, May’s wife being behind it. Ac cording to the story that was brought here from the scene of the killing Mays came back from the army with a Steel Shirt, Hi tie and Pistol. Golden is a former comrade of Mays, who accompanied him back from the Philippines and who made May’s quar rel his own. They reached May’s former home on Tuesday and at once hunted up Logan and renewed the quarrel. In the pitched battle that followed none of the men had any chance against the soldiers, and they were all killed. The dead men were dragged into the house and for forty eight hours Mays and Golden refused to allow any one to enter the place. The neighbors were terror-stricken and made no effort to secure the bodies of the dead. A posse has been made up here to go to the scene of the killing to arrest the men who did the shooting and to bury the dead. The scene of the kill ing is aeross the mountains away from either railroad or telegraph station. It is one of the most desolate places in Eastern Kentucky. BRITONS MAKE A CAPTIRE. Entire Boer Convoy Hounded I'p In the Valley of the Vital. London, Aug. 25. —Lord Kitchener re ports to the war department that a British column which was moving up the valley of the Vaal found tracks of a big Boer trek near Kalkoenblach. After a hard gallop of twelve miles and sharp fighting the British captured the entire Boer convoy and eighteen pris oners, in addition to much ammuni tion, wagons and cattle. The column covered sixty miles in twenty-seven hours and brought in everything ser viceable of what had been captured. Among the prisoners taken were the landdrost of Bloemhof and Dutoit, a telegraph operator, who had a com plete wire tapping apparatus. MILLIONS IN BEETS. United States Will Furnish Enough for All Demands. Chicago, Aug. 24. ln a statement taken from a report to his govern ment, William Wyndham, British con sul at Chicago, says that the United States will shortly be able to produce from beets the $100,000,000 worth of sugar imported annually. Consul Wyndham has given the subject close attention and declares that the ad vantages in this country are as good, especially in Colorado, Nebraska and Illinois, for the development of the beet as in any of the countries of Elf rope or Asia. LOSS OF LIFE FEARED. Terrific Waterspout Does Great Damage in Kentucky. Owensboro, Ky„ Aug. 25. Reports have just reached here of a terrific waterspout on Barnett's creek In Ohio county. A number of houses were washed away and much livestock drowned. The Rough river, into which Barnett's creek flows, is backed up for ten miles by the floodwater. It is feared some lives were lost. The local ity is remote from telephone and tele graphic communication. Ohio county is a small county about thirty miles in land from Owensboro. ATTEMPTED LYNCHING. Policeman Opens Fire and the Mob Disappears. Lebanon, Ky., Aug. 25.—An unsuc cessful attempt was made early yes terday morning to lynch Dan Hotten and Charles Shipp, who are charged with murder. The mob called at the house of Jailer Jackson Clayton, but his wife refused them the keys to the jail. They then went to the jail and began to batter the doors, when Po liceman Brerit, secreted in a coal shed, opened Are. The mob returned the fire but no one was hurt. They then dispersed. CHASED RY BLOODHOUNDS. Negro Who Killed a Woman While Attempting to Assault Her. Chattanooga. Tenn., Aug. 25. Mrs. Charles Williams, wife of a prominent farmer of Franklin county, Tenn., was shot and killed yesterday by Henry Noles, a negro who attempted to crim inally assault her. After shooting Mrs. Williams the negro wounded her little son slightly on the head. Sheriff Stewart and a posse with bloodhounds are In pursuit of the negro. it is thought he will be caught and possibly lynched in a few hours. romance eno, „ Palmyra, Wis., Aug 25 a case of attempted murder rUi '* I occurred here yesterday aftPrn’ UicW * 1 the residence of Alfred Wat" M 1 served as a realistic ending of®** j ma nee of a few months mZ ~** I right lies at the sanitarium I bullets through his body m clos* n ! Imity to the heart, and Ella CartS his wife, lies at the home of I grandparents with a bullet in her k . He can live only a few hou™ she is expectr ’ to recover, her Ing saved by her corset steel, destroyed much of the force of ihe let A few weeks ago this mere eighteen years met and loved i? Etta Strike, a pretty girl o f and was married shortly after™ They lived together at the home of y, parents for a few weeks. Troub. arising, they separated, she going u lowa and he remairlrg here* the trouble appeared to be settled Mrs. Cartright returned to Pal™?! yesterday, stopping at the Watson res. idence, where she was met by her hu»- band. The tragedy occurred shortly after the arrival of young Cartright when a fusils de of bullets was heard No further explanation of the trazed, la given. 6 7 LIND OUT OF POLITICS. Pledae Given When the Partnerahi. W’an Formed With Jndae I'aelaad * St. Paul, Aug. 25.—Judge Ueland, lav partner of John Lind, declares that un der no circumstances will th» former governor re-enter the political field. Judge Ueland, it appears, exacted a I written pledge from Mr. Lind before 1 the professional copartnership waj 1 formed that he would not take any 1 active part in politics. When the idea ’ of a partnership between the two men ! was first considered Judge Ueland In dicated very plainly that if Mr. Lind had not concluded absolutely to keep out of politics there was no use at all in discussing professional relationship. Mr. Lind assured his friend in the most positive manner that it was his intention thereafter to keep as far away from politics and politicians as possible. A FAMILY QI AKREL Results In Death of One and the Se rious Injury of Another. Butte, Mant., Aug. 25. As a result of a family quarrel John C. Kimball Is dead, his wife, Gussle, is in the hos pital with a bullet wound in her chest, and Frank Yechout, the father of the ' woman, is in jail, charged with doing part of the shooting. The persons were j walking together yesterday morning when Kimball drew a revolver and began shooting at the woman. Yech out then shot Kimball. The Kimballs had not been living happily together. SEEKS A PARDON. Thomas J. Riley Who Deliberately Murdered a Butte Banker. Helena, Mont., Aug. 25.—Thomas J. Riley, who killed Patrick Largey, a Butte Banker, four years ago and who is serving a life sentence for murder to the second degree, is seeking a pardon. He has written a long letter to the state beard of pardons reviewing his case and urging favorable action. He says petitions will be secured In Butte. His crime was premeditated and there is little prospect of a pardon. SEIZED GIN AND DOG. Other Evidences AKslnst Game Law Breakers Not Found. Albert Lea, Minn., Aug. 25. After waiting for the opportunity Game Warden Kroessin of this county has had J. M. McGrane, Thomas Clement and F. W. Kahler of this city and C. L. Fink of Bricelyn, arrested for vio lating the game law, and he has seixed a dog and gun. The parties were in a field with guns and dog and were shooting, but the warden did not se cure any of the game. EVIDENCE OF MURDER. Bloody Wagon Spoke Found is Ward’s Cabin. Deadwood, S. D.. Aug. 25 —The Law rence county commissioners yesterday offered a reward of $250 for the capture of W. H. Ward, the alleged murderer. The searching party at the Ward cabin found the clothes of Kirk Shepard stowed away in a barrel, and a wagon spoke was found near the house cov ered with blood. This settled the ques tion of the murder of the second brother. Would Kill a Whole Neighborhood. Huron, 8. D., Aug. 25. Thomas Tonjaw, released from the penitentiary a few weeks since, where he served a term of two years for assault with in tent to kill, was arrested In Lake By ron township a few days since. The board of Insanity has adjudged him in sane and he will be sent to the asylum at Yankton. He deliberately drove & farmer and his family from their home and took possession of the place, threatening to kill the whole neighbor hood. lowa Lodge Coufrew. Clear Lake, lowa, Aug. 25.—Tts fra ternal congress has just closed an In teresting two days’ session in this city. There were presennt delegates from the grand lodges of Yeomen, Fraterna Choppers, Modern Brotherhood of America, Red Cross, Knights of the Maccabees, Ladies of the Maccabees and Woodmen of America. Several fine addresses w’ere delivered and the best methods of fraternal insurance were discussed. Sew Hello Quarters. Faulkton, 8. D., Aug. 25.—The new telephone exchange building is abou finished and the office will be moveo to the new quarters in a few days. sMy TOBE The presence mission of four the first rep rest tically unknov Europe, and the Dalai Llama, rt psrsuaded to h locked upon as tiers which hav out of "The For be let down to A Buria fron Akhorambo At< -has gained the Llama of Thibt October and w: j peror. He retu ceeded in perst to send a specii burg to open this country. I rived under th I and has been r I dorff. It consi | <f whom is th | secretary. It I I ter from the I | Czar. The Russian importance to doubt properly In the extensi toward the Inc France. The tablishment o tions across th pire and the India from th as practically The present that Russia hi to Thibet—foi try of 651,50* population esi it is an unkno intrepid advet it at great pe i is in central A by the Kwei Cgg ONLY AUI east by Chii the almost Mountains, mlr. The m separates T and Easteri from Russk came subjec enteenth ce of the Yang other large for the mos The reasi called “The reinforced i upon the W two years 1 tlve of torti to his govt In 1899. M serve to rer unlike any at the pre what may some fashii theocracy— I religious hl temporal p Hgion of tl tlve of all evil. “I 1 I Minor, live I in Europe, morin to 1 I fairly well I aaid a vel I nowhere ii I people so I <x>nside?<*d I This relig! | sary Asiat I hanuuedai) j highly Ido I hlsm. Bu I ably lively I ties and 1