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*V' .akuWw' v» 1 i\ SSli to &£ 7fHn, {•.'•- ..-.A'. .. tgiPT* SJK. 10 my WT I s?rSx- adrssi 715: wKsX .Vf'jtf »*. .5-OTPB8® 5 t&m THE STANDARD BY C. C. KNAPPEN, I8SET0N. SCUTH DAKOTA RCWS Of THE WEEK IN EPITOME inportaot Bests at Home 1 a and on Foreign Shores Briefly Told. At the Capital. The Internal revenue department las planned to begin in a short time series of prosecutions for alleged in fractions of the federal revenue laws. The president has reappointed the nembers of the inland waterways lommisslon, thereby continuing by ncecutive action what congress failed lo do during the session. The gunboat Yorktown has been •rdered to leave Puget sound for a jruise to the Bering sea, where she is to patrol the ssal fisheries and to jrevent pelagic sealing. Capt. Fltzhugh Lee, Jr., military lid to President Roosevelt, has been iesignated by the war department to ittend the course at the French School of Equitation at Sauraar, France, this summer. Capt. Archl tald W. Butt, depot quartermaster at Havana, will he ordered to duty at Ihe White House as military aid. Approximately 300.000 acres of land rhlch weie withdrawn in connection with the Lower Yellowstone irriga tion pioject in Eastern Montana, !t»vc been restored to the public do jH-iii and will become subject to sir llement and entry on such dates and ifter such notices by publication as the secretary of the interior may pre icribe. People Talked About. Isaac B. Rich, one of Ihe oldest the itrical managers in the country, died »f diabetes in Boston. He was born In 1827. W. S. Forman of East St. Louis, 111., who was for three terms a representa tive In congress from the old Twenty Irst Illinois district, is dead. Hudson D. Brussie of San Francis to, who waB released on $15,000, fol lowing his arrest on a charge of em bezzlement, is dead of heart failure. Col. John F. Kinnerty, well known *s an Irish patriot, a lecturer and tewspaper man, died at his home in Chicago of an affection of the liver. Rev. John D. Pickles, pastor of St. Paul's church at Lynn, Mass., and one of the best known Methodist clergymen in Massachusetts, is dead, William A. Morgan, once editor of ihe Burlington Gazette and former speaker of the Iowa house of repre sentatives, died at his home in Lake Forest, 111.. William Davis Ely, the oldest alum aus of Yale university and a member »f tlie class of 1S36, died at his home In Providence, R. I. Death resulted from heart failure. Mr. Ely was alnety-three years old. George F. Payne of the George F. Payne company, builders of the new itate capitol at Harrisburg, Pa., and a lefendant in the capitol conspiracy tase. died at his home in Philadelphia. Death was caused by a complication of llseaaeg, Leonard Vernon Howe, 1909, of Min neapolis, has been elected captain of Ihe Yale track team for next year. He won the 110-meter hurdle race in the Olympian try-outs last week and was awarded a placa on the American Dlympian team. The engagement is announced at Hamilton, Bermuda, of Hon. Henry Cowper Gollan, chief justice of Ber nuda, to Mary Louise, the only laughter of James Nelson Morris of Bt. Louis, Mo. The wedding will oc cur in London or Paris, probably in August. Crimes and Criminals.* Nino persons were arrested at Galesburg, 111., charged with violating the local option law. Some of the ac tused are of prominence. Miss Anna Erlckson of Tacoraa, an artist who won more than local re nown for her work, committed suicide by hanging herself to her bedpost. Thirteen persons charged with po •tical offenses were executed in vari ous cities in Russia, of which five were in Ufa, four in Lodz and four in Odessa. Convicted of stealing an old straw hat and a screwdriver from the sex ton of a church at Easton, PaV, Ed ward Whalen was sentenced to serve ten years in the Eastern penitentiary. Anthony Colllgan, formerly a mem ber of the police'of Evanston, a sub urb of Chicago, while crazed by drink shot and killed his wife and then tired a bullet into his own body, dying a few hours later. Frank Irvine, a defendant fn the capitol conspiracy case now on trial at Harrisburg, Pa„ has been removed to the state hospital for the Insane. The ease of the other five defendants will go to the Jury probably Friday. ...-.•At Elcenter, Cal., a number of young ed men overturned a wagon load with Japanese laborers and a party of Japanese were stoned at the rail toad station. Several' arrests have been wade. The trouble appears to ybe due to the surplus of laborers. -Charles P. Oorlett. hcad of the Cor lett Engineering ebmpany, killed his wlfe atid then ended his own life in hotel tn Wllloughby, a Cleveland suburb- The double tragedy is said he the result of Jealousy. Mr. and MA. Corlett "Were well known in ise*. 81ns and Sinners. The body of Thomas Martin was found in a lot at Brunswick, N. J. It Is believed he was robbed and mur dered. Louis M. Koch, a well known club man of Toledo, shot and killed him self at his home. The motive is not known. The Bank of Jalisco, in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico, was swindled out of $51,000 by one of the cleverest swindles ever worked in that coun try. The dead body of Anna Luchinslti, nine years old, of Standard, Pa., was found in a box car. Her throat indi cted that she was choked to death alter having been outraged. Charles Williams, a young negro who found the dead girl, is being detained. Word reached the City of Mexico that bandits attacked a pay train on the way to the Las Grandes mines, near Balsas, in the State of Guerrero. Of the escort of four men three were killed and one wounded. Four thou sand dollars were stolen. Rurales are in pursuit of the highwaymen. After lying in v&it for nsarly slue hours, Sarah Konet, a young Russian trained nurse, shot and killed Dr. William Auspitz, a physician, in the vestibule of an apartment house in New York. The woman declared she had shot the physician because he had wronged her. Twenty years in prison were meted out to Patrick Mullen at Fernie, con victed at V'innippf? on a charge of manslaughter. Mullen was arrested at Great Falls, Mont., about a month ago. He got Into a scuffle at a dance with Angelo Orlando, and during the fracas Orlando WHS killed. Mullen fled to the States, but was traced by the police and brought back. In a fight, between fifteen Checotah persons and citizens of Eufaula, Okla., on tlie streets of Eufaula. F. M. Woods, deputy constable of Eufaula, and Joseph Parmenter of Chekota were shot. Woods probably will die. Paimpntor's wound is not dangerous. The, trouble started when Woods at tempted to disarm Pnrmenter. About fifteen shots were fired in all. From Abroad. A prize of *4.000 has been offered by Marmengaude of Paris for the first aeroplanist who remains in the air for thirty minutes. The Victorian cabinet has adopted a program for the state's reception of the American fleet. The Americans will have free transportation on all the railroads during the visit. Lloyd C. Griscom, American ambas sador to Rome, has notified the state department that ...e municipality of San Marino has ratified an extradi tion treaty with the United States. The international miners' congress at Paris adopted resolutions in favor of the nationalization of mines, but upon the condition that miners be secured in their right to preserve their union organizations. The Portuguese chamber of depu ties adopted the reply to the address of King Manuel on the opening of the cortes, and a vote of confidence in the government's ability to carry out the program announced in the king's address. The expiration of the ultimatum is sued by Gen. Snarski, demanding in demnity for damages suffered by Rus sian subjects at the hands of Persian bandits, finds the Russian foreign of fice without definite information as to the outcome of the negotiations. The heirs of Antoine Siger, the mayor of Fort de France, Martinique, who was assassinated April 29, dur ing a political encounter, have enter ed a civil suit for damages in Paris against the governor of Martinique. This action has been taken at Paris because the governor cannot be sued in the colonial courts. .. Otherwise. K. J. McCormick, a well known at torney at Watertown, N. Y., has been arrested on a charge of forgery. J. W. Pilklngton committed suicide at Mobile, Ala., by shooting. Worry over financial matters, it is said, was the cause. After a campaign of extraordinary bitterness the voters of Sedalia, Mo., rolled up a majority of 848 against local option. The American Piano company with an authorized capital of $12, 000,000 has been incorporated at Trenton, N. J. District Attorney John B. Moran of Boston nas been informed by his physicians that he is suffering from tuberculosis and that he must imme diately seek a different climate. He will do as they order. The famous French novelist, Paul Bourget, advocates the return to the old Mosaic law as a punishment for murder. Murderers should pay the penalty for their crime with their own lives, according to Bourget. A posse of farmers and constables who had searched the woods near Newton for Edward Schiriman, the man charged with the shooting of Ida Potter to death on Main street at Danbury, Conn has returned, having failed to find their man. R. A. Gromley, thirty-five years old, of Detroit, Mich., committed suicide in his room at the Auditorium Annex in Chicago. No cause could be as signed by the hotel employes for the :t. A fine of $10,000, the maximum penalty, was paid in the United States district court at Portland, Me by George F. Torry, the WaterviHe mail order house proprietor. The sentence was imposed recently by Judge Hale for conspiracy to'defraud the government of postage on second class matter,- FATAL FIRE IN FLOODED PUNT :iSS Two Workmen Are Killed by Ex plosions in Morris Pack- ing Establishment. LOSS NEARLY HSlf A MILLION Plant Is Surrounded by Raging Torrent and Work of Fighting Flames Was Difficult. Kansas City. Mo., .Tune 14.—1Two la borers lost their lives, two others were seriously injured and property loss estimated at between $250,000 and $350,000 was r.iusfd hv twoAvnln sions, followed by a fire, in the pack ing house of Morris & Co., at the riverside, in Kansas City, Kan., yes terday. The force of the explosions, which were felt all over both Kansas Cities, ruined tlio cold storage build ing, and the fire that followed de stroyed the smoke house. The loss on meat destroyed is not known. Explosion Starts Fir? An explosion of sewer gas resulted when a worker in one of the cold storage departments lighted a match. This was followed by another and much more serious explosion caused by the igniting of a quantity of am monia, and a stubborn fire soon start ed. The Morris plant is located near the channel of the Kaw river, and being in the center of the flooded district, is in a swift current, of water from six to eight feet deep. This condition made the task of fighting the fire most difficult, and it required five hours to control the flames. The loss of meat in the fire was enormous. The coolers were packed to their capacity, as the flood had in terfered with railway traffic long be fore the water shut the plant down. RIVERS AGAIN RISING. Heavy Rains Send Kaw and Missouri Up Rapidly. Kansas City, June 13. Unusually heavy rains fell yesterday in Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and Iowa, and the weather bureau predicts that the Kan sas and Missouri rivers will again reach the high stage of Wednesday night. At 6 p. in. the Missouri here had fallen slightly, but had risen at St. Joseph and continues to rise there. The Kaw fell about six inches yester day and was stationary last night. At Topeka the Kaw is rising rapidly. The weather bureau predicts that the new flood at Topeka will slightly exceed that of Tuesday. All of the tributaries of the Kaw are very high and more rain is threatened. CRAZED FROM HUNGER MAY DIE Man Is Locked in Freight Car for Sev en Days and Nights. New York, June 14.—Crazed from want of food and water. Chester A. O'Connell, a machinist of Bath Beach, was rescued from a freight car in the Harlem yards yesterday and taken to Lincoln hospital, where it was said he might die. O'Connell was working in Jackson ville, Fla., and losing his job crawled into a freight, car laden with potatoes to make his way back to New York. While he was asleep in the car the door was locked and the car started northward. For seven days and nights he was locked in the car. THAW STAYS IN JAIL. Pending Application for Transfer to Some Other Asylum. New York, June 14. -Harry K. Thaw will remain in the Poughkeep sie jail pending an application of his counsel to Justice Dowling of the su preme court for a change of the order committing him to the state hospital for the insane at Matteawan. This de cision was rendered by Justice Mor schauser of Poughkeepsie, after hear ing arguments of counsel in this city yesterday on a motion tx transfer the prisoner to any state asylum other than an asylum for insane convicts. LABOR MEN HAVE PLANK. Want Anti-Injunction Stand In Repub lican Platform. Chicago, June 14.—President Sam uel Gompers, Secretary James Morri son, John Mitchell and several other members of the executive committee of the American Federation of Labor have arrived with a tentative anti-in junction plank, which they will en deavor to have incorporated in the platform of the Republican party. President Gompers expressed confl dence that he and his colleagues would secure the Insertion of the plaink. SH sfife* Artist Is Drowned. New York, June 14.—John McGreer, a landscape artist, sixty-nine years of age, who until recently lived in Chi cago, was drowned in the Hudson river yesterday as the result of an ao cident. Explosion Fatal to Three. Lexington, Ky., June 14. While working yesterday on the railroad near Paragon, Noah Fugate and Oban-i Ion Parry were killed and Tolman Triplett fatally Injured by an explo sion. CHICAGO INVADED BY NOISY CROWDS Delegates and Marching Clubs Arrive for National Repub* lican Convention. CONTEST ON SECOND PLACE Vice Presidency Most Interesting Feature of Preliminary Work—Confer on Platform. Chicago, June 1C.—With flags flying, bands playing and crowds surging, the usual Sunday calm of Chicago gave way yesterday to the many noisy demonstrations which usher in a na tional convention. State delegations and marching clubs, slow in arriving, passed into Ciie city throughout the day, and there was an incessant din of brass, bands, marching men and ex ploding enthusiasm. It was an ideal summer day, with bright skies and a cool breeze from the lake which gave promise of good convention weather, but despite the Inrush of strangers there was an undercurrent of feeling that the multitude was not as great and the enthusitasm not as feverish and overwhelming as in the time past. Hotel Men Disappointed. It was observed that some of the ar riving state delegations were stripped to a strict business basis of delegates and alternates, without the usual quo ta of lung shouters. This brought the cancellation of hotel rooms in goodly number until some of the large hotels threatened legal proceedings for this unexpected diminution of revenue. The headquarters of the presiden tial candidates were full of activity throughout the day. But while these scenes were going on before the eys of all, the more important work of preparation on candidates and plat form was being gone over at private conferences in the upper chambers of the hotels, where few were admitted and little was made known. Confer on Platform. One of the chief conferences of the day was upon the platform, and while this was rather informal it brought about, the clear understanding that the document as already drafted, in accordance with the views of the pres ident and Mr. Taft, would go before the convention in substantially its present form. The vice presidential contest con tinues to be the most enigmatical fea ture of the preliminary work and the delegates are as much in doubt as at any time since the contest began. The Dolliver element appears to be making the greatest advance, and this gave rise yesterday to reports that the Dolliver movement was now as sured of success. The friends of oth er candidates were far from admitting this and began maturing plans for de cisive action. INSANE WOMAN MURDERS SIX. Husband and Children Are Killed Woman Commit Suicide. Cadillac, Mich., June 16. Seven teen-year-old Fred Cooper, the last liv ing member of a family of eight per sons, lies in Mercy hospital with but a fighting chance for life, while the bodies of the other seven members of the family, all slain by the wife and mother, who afterward committed sui cide, lie in the morgue, the object of morbid interest by thousands of townspeople and farmers from the surrounding country. The boy says that all he remembers of the night's dreadful occurrences in the Cooper home is a vague recollec tion of hearing a revolver shot. It is the supposition that the shot he heard was the one that killed his brother, who lay beside him in bed. It is sup posed that his mother immediately afterward sent the bullet into Fred's head. Mrs. Cooper was once confined in an insane asylum, and for some time has been brooding over that fact that Cooper was out of work. A few days ago she is reported to have said she would "end it all." SICK OF THE HINDUS. British Columbia Commissioner Would Deport 1,000 Orientals. Seattle, June 16.—A thousand Hin du residents of British Columbia will be deported to India if the plan of W. L. McKenzie King, deputy commis sioner of labor for the province, is ap proved by the Dominion government. He says there are 1,000 East Indians in Vancouver, New Westminster and vicinity out of work and living by beg ging. Of this number 300 are willing to be deported. Under the law the minister of labor has the necessary authority to order the deportation of the other 700. |fge ilS |H AUTOMOBILE DUCKED.||p| Marshalltown, Iowa, June 18. While driving his automobile over the built dike road which borders Dewey lake, on the soldiers' home grounds, a part of the road near the edge of the water,caved in, throwing the au tomobile Into three teel of water and pitching the driver, Dr. N. E. Mighell, headlong after it. The machine bur ied its nose in the mud, but aside from being partly submerged it was not hurt. Dr. JVtighell was water soaked, but escaped uninjured. SNATCH TOTS AND fOR WOMEN fROM FIRE Lives of 130 Children and Help less Old Women Threatened by Fire in "Home." MANY MIRACULOUS ESCAPES Teachers and Attendants Display Rare Heroism in Rescjiing the Inmates. Minneapolis, June 17. Scores of lives were threatened and many mi raculous escapes made at a fire which threatened lo destroy the Home for Children and Aged Women yesterday afternoon. The children had just fin ished dinner aud were filing oul of the building when fire was discovered by Aliss Klizubeth Taylor, resident teach er. She turned in an alarm at once and with the aid of other teachers and maids hurried to the assistance of the old ladies, many of whom were in their rooms. Several of the most uoo(] wo'iicii to b0 ojit*'*!?*} from the building. On the second floor is located the nursery, and here were, twenty small children, ranging in age from three months to six years. Display Rare Heroism. The teachers displayed rare heroism in ihe rescue, of the old people and the children. The fire broke out in the third floor, which is occupied by the older boys and the help. A defective flue, which ignited a straw tick, is held responsible for the fire. In a short time the entire floor was a blaze and in spite of the ahle work of the department the upper part of the building was destroyed. The home sheltered a hundred children and thirty a'jed women. Had the fire started at any time when the children were all in the building there would have been heavy loss of life, owing to the helplessness of the inmates. The loss is estimated at $5,000, most of which was caused by fire. URGE TEMPERANCE WORK. World Meeting Is Opened at Saratoga. N. Y. Saratoga, N. Y., June 17.—A world's temperance convention assembled here yesterday to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the organization of the first temperance society. The congress yesterday adopted resolu tions calling upon the International Sunday school convention to retain the quarterly temperance lessons in Sunday schools. It also petitioned the Democratic and Republican national conventions to insert planks in their platforms declaring for local option in the District of Columbia and the territories. WRIT IS REFUSED PATRICK. Lawyer Says He Is Victim of Plot to Plunder Rice Estate. New York. June 17.—The applica tion of Albert H. Patrick, who is serv ing a life sentence in Sing Sing pris on for the murder of William Marsh Rice, an aged Texan millionaire, for a writ of habeas corpus, was denied by Judge l.acombe in the United States circuit court yesterday. Patrick set up the claim that his conviction and sentence to death, which has been commuted to life imprisonment, was a result of a conspiracy to plunder the Rice millions. Millionaire's Son' Starving. St. T.ouis, Mo., June 17.—William T. Eiwen, who claims to be a gradu ate of the University of Vienna and the son of a millionaire. Went into the police station yesterday and asked lo be sent to the workhouse so he could get something to eat. Eiwen had Jiml stood in a long line of applicants for a job as dishwasher in a restaurant and had failed. Over $50,000 Given U. Baltimore, Jnne 17.—Prof. William H. Welsh of the Johns Hopkins hospi tals last night announced that Henry Phipps of Pittsburg and New York has made a large gift to the Johns Hopkins hospital and university for the founding of a psychiatric clinic. Anti-betting Law Stands. J-ittle Rock, Ark., June 17.—The su preme court yesterday decided that the Amie anti-race track betting bill was constitutional, holding against the defendants in the case of The State vs. Simon and Snyder, who were charged with betting on a race. Gov. Dawson Has Tuberculosis. Charleston, W. Va., June 17.—The physicians of Gov. Dawson of West Virginia have informed him that he has developed tuberculosis. He left last night tor Asheville, N. C., where he will spend at least three or four months. Drinks Acid and Dies. Minneapolis, June 17.—August Han son, fifty-one year sold, a carpenter formerly employed at the Soo railroad shops, committed suicide last night by drinking carbolic acid. Financial mat ters is thought to be the cause, that made him commit suicide. "W-f Ball Player's Leg Broken, Osceola, Wis., June 17. While playing ball at Star Prairie Sunday with the Osceola and Star Prairie nines, Marian Heald of Osceola broke his left leg below the knee. of s« mmm Belief That Some One Outside of Familv Killed Cooper Family at Cadillac, Midi. Cadillac, Mich., June 17.—The cor oner's jury which investigated tlie death of Daniel Cooper, the wife and five children, who were found dead in their home at this place last Satur day, has failed to fix the responsibility for the murders, it was stated on Saturday that Mrs. Cooper, the and mother, had shot to death husband and live children and had taken her own life in a like man ner. It was stated by relatives that Mrs. Cooper was insane and that she had several times threatened to kill her family and herself. The coroner's jury found yesterday that there is a possibility that the crime was committed by some one outside the family, although there is no present clue to the identity of the supposed assassin. Only one member of tne Cooper family is left alive, Fred, a son, aged fifteen. He was shot through the head when the others were killed and the doctors say his mind will always be a blank even if he should recover from his wounds. FARMER KILLS HIMSELF. Feared He Would Be Biamed for Criminal Operation. Macomb, 111., June 17. Darius Hicks, aged fifty years, a farmer and stock raiser, worth $100,000, commit ted suicide yesterday by shooting liimself through the temple with a rifle at his home, half a mile north, of Blandinville. He left a letter in which he say? an illegal operation had been perform ed a few weeks ago on a married woman who for a wo years had been his housekeeper, his wife being dead. Tlie woman is in a critical condition, ill a hotel at Keokuk, Iowa. In the letter Hicks alleges he is not respon sible for the operation, but says he feared he would be blamed. INDIAN KILLS HIMSELF. Exchanges Shots With Policeman and Then Shoots Self. Valentine. Neb., June 17.—A Sioux Indian by the name of Thompson shot and instantly killed himself on the Rosebud reservation Saturday after noon. He had been accused of horse stealing aild an Indian policeman was after him with a warrant for his ar rest. When they met shots were ex changed and the fugitive's horse was shot from under him. Seeing that he was about to be captured, the Indian put the revolver in his mouth and fired. He had served a term in tlie penitentiary for horse stealing. BEE FARMER CREMATED. Bachtlor Who Lives Alone Msetr Death in Fire. Chatfield, Minn., June 17. Clark Monette, a farmer residing four miles from this village and an expert In bee culture, was cremated in his home early yesterday morning. His brother discovered that the house had burned and search of the ashes re vealed only a few bones and a watch that was identified as the property of the missing man No one saw the fire'and there ia no evidence that, would in any way give a clue as to the cause. THAWS ARE AT PEACE. Evelyn Visits Harry and Will Not Seek Separation. Poughkeepsie, N. Y„ June 17.—Eve lyn Thaw again visited her husband in-jail here yesterday. She took din ner with her husband in Sheriff Chan Irr's room in the court house. New York. June 16.—Evelyn Thaw arid her husband have become recon ciled and will not be separated, ac cording to a statement made yester day by Daniel O'Reilly, Evelyn Thaw's counsel. CAUGHT AFTER MERRY CHASE. Old 8oldler Arrested for Embezzle ment of $10,000 in 1904. Knoxvllle, Tenn.. June 17. Pres ent I. itoynlon, an old Union soldier, was arrested here yesterday and i* hold for the authorities in Manitowoc, Wis. Me is charged with the embez zlement of $10,000 of United States bonds and also with grand larceny. The crimes are alleged to have been committed in 1904, aind Boynton has since been leading the officers a mer ry chase. LEARNS HUSBAND IS DYING. Chippewa Falls Woman Told of Fight" Wlth Hold-up Men. Chippewa Falls, Wis., June 17. Mrs. John E. Englart has received word that her husband had been fa tally shot at Elizabeth, Pa., by mem bers of a gang of hold-up men whom he, in the capacity of detective, was trying to arrest. He corraled four of a gang in a wood chopper's house, and they opened fire .on him. He killed one of thpm before he was struck. SHOOTS AT WAR CHIEF. Demented Man Calls at Ministry and Tries to Kill. Gen. Plcquard. Paris, Jun® 17.—A man named Bel langer, while waiting to see Minister of War Picquart at the war ministry with the professed object of present ing a petition to him, suddenly thrust his band into his pocket and began: firing shots from a revolver. Two of the bullets lodged in an upholster ed chair and another in the man's arm. Bellanger was arrested. He is believed to be demented. ijf.'if && I iA. 'V. Tft WIT