Dakota Farmers' Leader from Canton, South Dakota • Page 2

4 'J i- A I- 1 11 jfc? "Hi i-p liH tS flu farmers Reader I CANTON, 8. D. ARTHUR LINN, Publisher. ELECTRICAL STORMS ONE PERSON KILLED, AND MANY SHOCKED BY LIGHTNING. Panto in a Sunday Was Struck and Took Fire, but All Got Ont in at Louisville, Ky.

4 ,1. Chicago: Chicago was visited by an electric storm Sunday afternoon which wrought death, caused a panic among 100 Sunday school children and damaged considerable property. T'irce churches were struck by electric bints, one of them, the Memorial German Episcopal, being destroyed. Calvary Presbyterian Church was struck while the Sunday school services were being held. The bolt entered the steeple and tore through the ceiling, causing a panic the children.

Tlje building caught We, but all the children were rescued without serious injury. During the storm lightning demolished one of the steeples of The Lady of Sorrow's church, Jackson Boulevard and Albany Avenue. Joseph Killinn, while resting in a fisherman's hut on the shore of Lake Calumet, was killed h.v lightning, and in different parts of the city while the storm was in progress many other persons received shocks. Louisville, Louisville was visited by the heaviest storm of the season Sunday afternoon. For a few moments the wind blew at a velocity of sixty miles an hour, while the nun, accompanied by hail, fell in torrents.

Many of the streets were flooded, and many cellars were flooded with water. Shade trees in some parts of the city were ruined and other minor damage was done. While the wind was at its height the steamer Turascon broke from her moorings at the wharf. The boat was finally caught by an excursion steamer, and with the help of the life saving crew was towed back to the wharf after a hard struggle. "DRY" SUNDAY AT DALLAS.

Everything Closed Tight fbr First Time in City's History. Dallas, For the first time since Dallas was incorporated, nearly half a century ago, an absolutely "dry day was experienced Sunday. Everything was closed tight, not a saloon, beer garden or other resort was open. The police department did not make an arrest of any kind, and has no record of a single violation of the state Sunday law, which provides that no saloons shall open between midnight Saturday night and midnight Sunday night. INSTANTLY KILLED.

Vouthftil Husband Meets Sudden Death in Chicago Hotel. Chicago: Gcorfje Fleck, 19 years sf age and but recently married, was ac killed at the Great Northern Hotel Saturday. Fleck and his bride, who registered from Louisville, had lust arrived at the hotel. He was unpacking a valise in their room when a revolver which he took from it was discharged, the bullet striking hint -in the mouth, causing almost instant death. Rough Treatment Caused Death Muncie, Promm Pntt, the 4ear-old son of a Hungarian family, lost is life Sunday in a peculiar manner.

The parents, acting on advice of neighbors. buried the child up to its neck in enrtn. The child remained in this position several hours, and was dead when taken out. The boy had been badly scalded, and neighbors told his parents that the treatment resorted to would restore him. I Millionaire Buys Stock Farm.

Lexington, S. S. Brown, the Pittsburg millionaire, Thursday closed a deal for the old Ashland Wilkes stock farm, owned by F. P. Drake, paying 135,805 cash for 307 acres.

It will be used as a thoroughbred breeding farm. Boers Giving Up Their Arms. London: Lord Kitchener reports that the commandos of Van Tonder and Ven Heerdens, with 403 rifles, have surrendered at Veutersdorps. At a subsequent camp concert the burghers sang "Auld Syne" and "God Save the King." Fifth Victim Dies. Illoomiugton, The fifth victim of Thursday's cyclone died Friday.

Miss Rebecca Freeman was prostrated by the partial destruction of her home, and died from heart failure. Training Ship Runs Ashore. Baltimore, The training ship Chesapeake, wjtli navul cadets aboard, wliicn ran aground oil Taylors island in Chesapeake Bay, got oil after four hours and proceeded to Annapolis. Boers Steadily Surrendering. London: A dispatch from Lord Kitcheuer, dated Pretoria, Saturday, June 14, savs that 2,594 Boers have surrendered since Friday, 13, and that everything is proceeding most satisfactorily.

Albert Growing Weaker. Berlin: The couUition of King Albertof Saxony, who has been ill for some time past, continues to be uncertain, but his majesty is steadily growing weaker. Earthquake in Oregon. Newport, Two sharp earthquake, shocks were felt her Sunday night, one at 8 p. m.

and another at 1 a. in. No damage was done. Killed by a Street Car. Cleveland, Arthur Underwood, a prominent member of the Castle Square Opera Company, playing an engagement in this city, and whose home is HI Boston, was struck and killed Sunday night by street car.

Jumped from Brooklyn Bridge. New York: A young man who was a passenger on a Brooklyn bridge car Sunday evening suddenly left bis seat and sprang over the bridge rail into the river below. The body has not yet been lecovered. He was about 27 yeafe old. si.

Evidently a Suicide. Buffalo, N. The body of John George Newland, 35 years of ag said to be from Minneapolis, was found in an Exchange Street hotel Sunday afternoon with a bullet wound in Ins head. He had been dend several hours. The door of his room was locked from the inside, and it was evidently a case of suicide.

Seismic Disturbances. Syracuse, Sicih Stiong laithipi iKo accompanied bj a sound of derground rumblings, were experienced here Sunday night. The inhabitants of Syracuse became panic stricken. The disturbances did not effect any damage. mm rtlOT AT PAWTUCKET.

Militia Called Ont to Quell the Disturbance. Pawtuckott, R. For the first time In the history of this city bayonets in the hands ot soldiers ordered by the governor of the state to suppress riotous disturbances glistened 111 the streets of Pnwtuckct Thursday. The astonishing increase in the number of lawless ucts directed against the United Traction Company, whose union men have been on strike since June and the inability of the limited police force and deputy sheriffs to suppress the rioting, induced Gov. Kimball to call out the militia.

Numerous scenes of disorder occurred during the day and more thnn a score of people were injured, flue fatally. In the presence of about 1,000 persons and the militia Thursday evening Adjt. Gen. Sackett read the not net. The city was taken possession of by the militia.

A provisional regiment was formed, and to an emergency call promulgated by Gov. Kimball, with Brig Gen. Herbert Stanner command. In the afternoon- orders were issued calling out the Third division of the naval reserves and the machine gun battery. The first disturbance was at the city, line Pursuing the custom followed during the strike, the United Traction Company's cars were started from the Pawtucket Avenue car house near the line dividing Pawtucket and Providence, and on one ear were a number of deputy sheriffs The presence of the deputies on the cars angered the crowd which had gathered, and a itisillade of stones, tin eaus and other missiles followed.

The curs were badly damaged. The sheriff culled on the governor for aid and a company of militia was sent to the scene. The cur then proceeded, guarded by soldiers. The street where the trouble occurred ivas blocked off by the troops, and the troops maintained peace for an hour or more. During this interval cars were run.

The most serious trouble occurred at Pawtucket and East Avenues, where a big crowd was in waiting, prepared to give the deputies a warm reception. Muj. Marnnrd had the First battalion cavalrv as a guard to the cars, the troops being divided by platoons in the front and rear. Before the people turned their attention to the car they cheered the troopers. Immediately after, however, a rain of stones and brickbats and every conceivable missile fell upon the electric car.

When the turmoil was at its height fully a dozen shots were fired from the car through the drawn curtains, all of which did uo damage save one. which lodged hi the neck of Venner Peterson, aged 12 fears. The wounding of the boy sobered the crowd, which, after the car liud proceeded, became more temperate, but nuiuv threats were made to kill a deputy theriff in retaliation. TWO NEGRO BOYS HANGED Mob Wreaks Vengeance on the Murderers of a White Girl. Charlotte, N.

Two negro boys, Harrison and James Gillespie, aged respectively It! and 24 years, who were under arrest charged with killing Miss Benson on a farm in Rowan County on Monday, were tnken from jail at Salisbury, N. early Wednesday morning and hanged ton tree in the railroad yards. Their bodies were riddled with" bullets. The active members of the mob numbered about fifty and wore masks. The militia had been called out by auhority of the governor about midnight, but as everything appeared quiet they had disbanded, when the men suddenly appeared and battered down the jail ioor.

No resistance was made. FATAL ACCIDENT. 'Hayrack Party" in Colorado Results Seriously. Denver, A special from Morrison, seventeen miles southwest of Denver, gays: By the overturning of a wagon on which thirteen students of a Denver high school were riding Friday night ore was kOled, four seriously injured and all the others more or less bruised. The students had gone to Morrisoli for a "hayrack pnrty." They were drivii'g along Turkey Creek canyon on the way honfc when one of the wagon wheels ran off die end of a small bridge, overturning the vehicle.

The hayrack on which they were riding fell npon the children with the foregoing result. MAY GO ON STRIKE AGAIN. Teamsters at Chicago Stock Yards Threaten to Quit Work. Chicago: The stock yards teamsters Again are making threats. They (-barge that the packers have not lived up to the terns of the compromise which closed the big strike, and a call will be issued for general meeting of the union to consider the situation.

The men say that the conditions at the yards are worse than before the strike of two weeks ago was called. They say their positions are in danger, that many of the men have been' unable to get work, and that the barn superintendents who were discharged because they refused to take out the strikers' wagons have not been reinstated. Unknown Negro is Lynched. Newport News, The body of an unknown negro was found hanging to a twee on the Brierhcld road, near the city, Thursday. Investigation by a coroner's jury showed the negro had been lynched.

St. Louis Official is Accused. St. Louis, A bench warrant for Henry Besch, former city registrar, was issued Wednesday afternoon at the instance of vhe grand jury, charging misconduct in office. Illinois River Overflows.

Havana, 111.: The Illinois River has raised eight inches here since Wednesday night and is going out over the -bottoms. The river is still rising fast. Intense Heat In New fork. New York: Five deaths us the result of the intense heat were reported in Greater New York Friday. A thunderstorm, accompanied by copious rain, relieved the atmosphere Friday night.

At 3:30 o'clock in the afternoon the thermometer stood at 88 degrees. Double Missouri Tragedy. Trenton, Ralph Lord, a local charactcr, at midnight shot and killed Mi's. Arvilla Worrell, of whom he was jealous, and then shot himself through the lungs, and will die. River Pirate Shot by Officer.

Steubenville, After a battle be.ween l'eter Sloviusky and Raymond Culver, river pirates, who had stolen a boat at East Liverpool, and Constables lames Chamberlain and Johnston of Brilliant. in the high weeds along the Ohio River, Sloviusky was fatally shot the constables and ho and his partner into custody. Falling Wall Kills Laborers. St. Louis, Eight negro laborers in tearing down a wall of the old liatatonuin at Pine and Twenty-first Streets were buried by falling oricks.

Three were killed. CONSPIRACY CHARGE. Writ Issued Agninst Irish Parlla nientarlons. Dublin: At the instance of Lord de Freyne, a writ has been issued against a large number of members of the Irish parliamentary party ou the charge of, conspiracy in connection with the tenant troubles on the de Freyne estate, County. Among the defendants lire John Redmond, John Dillon, W.

J. O'Brien, J. G. Swift, MacNelll, Connor, O'Kelly mid the members of the standing committee of the United Irish League, which includes Michael Davitt and a number of-the former members of parliament. The Freemen's Journal is also a defendant.

Lord de Freyne seeks atl injunction and damages. Forty farms ou Lord de Freync's estate were sold by the sheriff Feb. 10, of the present yenr, the tenants having refused to pay rents. A large number of other "clearance sales" were then pending as the result of the "no rent campaign" at that time being carried on by the United Irish Laud League, and it was said that mnuy hundreds of other tenants wereto be proceeded against. John Iteitmoud at the time said the country thereabouts was alive with police, and that fifteen representative public men of the district had been imprisoned merely for taking part in meetings of a "peaceable nature.

He attributed ail the trouble to the government's refusal to permit legislation giving power to the government to buy out the Irish landlords, and thus restore the land to the Irish people. Altogether, thirty writs have issued in the de Freyene action. The action is really tnken bythe Landlords' Association, and it is the beginning of a struggle of the organized landlords against the United Irish League wnich is feared to be severe and far reaching, as the landlords have ample backing. John Redmond, in an Interview, frankly admitted that thid was the biggest move the landlords had yet undertaken against the Irish national movement. JONES ON THE STAND.

Accused Murderer of Hey wood Testifies fbr Himself. Detroit, William M. Jones formerly of Lincoln, who is on trial charged with the murder last April ot George M. Heywood, with whose wife it has been proven he was intimate, took the stand in his own behalf Friday afternoon. "Did you on the morning of April 10 kill George Heywood, or were yon in any manner connected with his killing?" was the last question he was asked by.

his George M. Monaghan be-fore the afternoon adjournment. "Did I kill George Heywood I certninly, did not. I was in my room all. night until called in the morning," was dear and emphatic answer.

Jones roomed at the Haywood home and it is the contention of the prosecution that he arose dnring the night, stole ont of the house mid murdered Heywood, who was on his way home from a party. Jones denied that he ever made threats against Mrs. Heywood as she claimed in her testimony. He also denied Mrs. Heywood's statement that he made threats against Heywood.

WIPED OCIT BY FIRE. Alexander City, Almost Entirely Destroyed. Opelika, Alexander City, a place of 1,500 inhabitants, was Friday night wiped away by fire, the loss reaching at least $750,000. A light wind was blowing, and with firece rapidity the fire spread from building to building until the entire town was a seething maaSv of flames. The town has no waterworks.

The depot of the Central of Georgia Railway was burned, with- all its contents. The telegraph office, two hotels, postofflce, saloons, livery stable, practically all the end eight residences, together with numerous law aud other offices were destroyed. On account of the fact that the telegraph and telephone offices have been destroyed it is Impossible to obtain information regarding the fire. STAYS SAVES A WOMAN'S LIFE. Man Stabs Wife Nineteen Times, bnt Fails to Kill Her.

Laporte, But for the stays of her corsets, Mrs. Julia Koshkoskie of Michigan City would have been stabbed to death Wednesday night by her husband. They were married a year ago, but soon separated. The husband has been jealous, and repeatedly threatened her life. Wednesday night he waylaid her aud stabbed her nineteen times with a pocket knUe.

The blade was deflected by the stays. Her screams brought assistance, aud the assailant fled, but was pursued and captured. There were threats of lynching by the crowd which gathered, but the police landed the man in jail. The woman's condition is critical- Farmer Shoots. His Wife.

Brainard, Vincent a wealthy Bohemian farmer, living miles north of here, Friday shot his wife, fatally wounding her. Fbr some time past the couple have been estranged. One bullet entered her arm, the other the back of her liead. Slavik disappeared and has not since been seen. King Praises the Boers.

London: King Edward held a special court at Buckingham palace Friday. The king took occasion to express his senti.ments ou the subject of pence more fully than heretofore, and the tactful recognition which he made of the sterling qualities of the Boers will doubtless aid in the work of appeasement in South Africa. Kentucky Raises the Quarantine. Louisville, The quarantine order issued against Indiana on account of smnllpox and suspended for ten days on May 30 was further suspended Tuesday until July 3 by the Kentucky state board of health. The matter will likely be dropped entirely.

Shoots and Kills. Stepson. Peoria, Joseph Baker shot and iustantly killed his stepson, 18 years-old, and seriously wounded another son who attempted to save his brother. The crime was committed at 11:45 Wednesday night and Baker was captured by the police at 5 o'clock Thursday morning. Mahsud Tribe on Warpath.

Calcutta: The Mahsuds have attacked nud captured two military posts on the Wazaristan. frontier. The tribe consists of 30,000 warriors, and it is feared that they may all go on the warpath. Woman's Death a Mystery.i Columbus, The body of I-ouisa Schaffer, a domestic 32 years old, was found in Franklin Park, in the eastern section of the city, Thursday morning. The police are proceeding on the theory that the woman was murdered before her body was in the park.

Arrests are expectcd soon. Woman Dies of Fright. Urbana, 111.: A severe wind storm swept Champaign County Wednesday night, inflicting serious damage to residences and barns. In Champaign Mrs. Martha Haivortfi died from fright, nansed b.v the hurricane.

WEEK'S HAPPENINGS NEWS OP THE WEEK IN A CONDENSED FORM. fo Get Rid of the Grass HoppersProf Saunders' Plan for Exterminating the Certain Insects to Spread Disease. Am Armour special says: Prof. D. G.

Sautfders of the State Agricultural College is working in Charles Mix County in an effort to exterminate the grasshoppers which infest sections of that county. The plan of operation is tr infect the hopper with a fungus Horlocker went to the house Wednesday evening about 5 o'clock to notify Puck about some branding that was to be done Thursday. The door whs iopen and he entered, but he found no one there he would have gone away but for the fact that he noticed a little blood under the bed. He pulled down the covers, and was horrified to find two dead Puck and Ostrander. Puck's face was calm, and there was not the sign of a wound oil it.

He had been 'shot in the ear. Ostrnnder's fnce was besmeared all pver with blood. Evidently the murderer had shot Puck first the noise protjably awakened Ostrander, and ns ho sprang up or he was shot in the face. There was no sign of it struggle apparent. Both liieu were covered with a tarpaulin and bed clothes.

The sheriff, -coroner and undertaker left for the scene of the murder at noon. The murder created great excitement. The roundups will watch all strangers. If the object of the cpminals was to escape, they are ou their way to Canada. ALFALFA CULTURE.

1 Farmer Experiments and Learns that it Flourishes In Gnmbo. A Pierre special says: G. W. Lumley, on his ranch just east of the city, ten years ago sowed two fields in alfalfa, one on gumbo, about a mile back from the stream. For the first year thfe sand land showed the best growth, and the gumbo did not make much of a showiug.

This the conditions are reversed. The field on the gumbo, of about twenty acres, stands thick, standing thirty inches high. That on the sand partly died out last winter, and he has been compelled to reseed a large part of it, while that which is left will not in any way compare with the gumbo tract. Ransom Trespassing. A Pierre special says: The drift of cattle in thp winter storms is to the south, and results in a large uumber of cattle on the range between here and the Black Hills landing on the Rasebnd reservation every winter.

For several years there has been friction in regard to the gathering of these cattle on the Indian lands, and this year a charge of 50 cents per head is being made for the privilege of rounding up the stock which has drifted across the line. Will Serve His James Murphy of Egan appeared before Judge Carland of the United States court in Sioux Falls, and withdrew his motion for. a new trial on the charge of selling liquor to Indians. He was convicted. of this offense by a jury during the April term of the federal court.

He was fined $100 and sentenced to a term of sixty days in the Moody County jail at Flandreau. For an Iowa Colony. A Pierre'special states that articles of incorporation have been filed for the Homestead Improvement Association, Pierre capital, $10,000. The purpose of the company is to bring settlers to the range country and start them to homesteading. It is practically for the formation of a colony from northwestern Iowa, which will be located in Stanley Comity this summer.

The Fourth at Garretson. The) citizens of Garretson held a mass meeting and decided that Garretson should celebrate the Fourth of July this year. Committees were appointed and a large fund has already been subscribed. The best speakers possible will be procured and several bands will be engaged to furuish music. A committee is preparing a rousing program for'the day.

3,200 Acres Filed on in One Day. for that purpose and then tnrn him loose among the hopper fraternity and in that way spread the disease which is so fatal among thein. Grasshoppers have troubled the farmers of Charles Mix County in certain sections for a number of years. They were so destructive last year that the county commissioners secured the services of Prof. Saunders to exterminate the pests if possible.

TRAGEDY IS A MYSTERY. George Pack and George Ostrander Found Dead In Their Bed. A Sturgis special states: Thursday morning William Horlocker and John Titnmohs arrived in Sturgis from White Owl, which is about eighty miles from here, to report the murcjor of George Puck of Sioux dty, and George Ostrander in the ranch house on Red Owl. 1 hundred acres of government land was filed on in the l'ierre land office Thursday of last week, twenty claimants having takep homesteads that day. Ten others filed for the first three days of the week, taking 4,800 acres from the public domain Since the first of the month.

Crops Looking Well. A Lake Preston special says: Crops never looked better, and prospects for a bumper crop were never more encouraging than at the present Recruiting fbr the Navy. Arrangements have been completed for the opening of a recruiting office in Sioux Falls for the purpose of securing men for the United States navy. Old Resident Dies. 0 At Huron Wednesday evening occurred the death of Chas.

Love, an early and highly respected resident. Mr. Love was about 60 years of age, and was a member of Company H. Ninety-second Illinois infantry. He and his family formerly lesided in Rochelle, 111.

New Trolley System. A Dcadwood dispatch says: It is now expected that the new trolley system which is to run cars between this city and Lead will be in operation in months. Heavy Shipments from Texas. There is a heavy movement of Texas cattle at the present time to the ranges of South Dakota and Montana. Nearly 700 carloads of cattle will go to Fallon, and they are being rushed through at more than passenger speed.

The cattie are mostly white faces, 2 years old, aud will be held on the ranges for two years before marketing them. Drowned While Swimming. A Sturgis special says: Frank Wilcox, aged 16 years, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil-iox of Fort Meade, was drowned in Betty's Lake, near here, at 5:30 o'clock Wednesday evening while in swimming.

A GOOD GROWING WEEK. South Dakota Report Shows Very Favorable Conditions. A Huron special says: The crop report from the Huron station of the agricultural department for the week ending June 0 is ns follows: The temperature during the week averaged slightly above the normal with generally seasonable warm afternoons and cool nights. It was a -good growing week. Fair to generous well distributed rains occurred the middle of the week and were very beneficial.

Wheat, oats, barley, rye and continue in thrifty condition nud are making satisfactory growth, bnt there a small percentage of the late sown that is weedy. Rye and early barley are heading and wheat, oats and late barley are either stooling nicely or already well stooled. Corn planting is practically completed and generally the stand is goqd, but cutworms are reducing the stand in some fields aud in some instances necessitating replanting. The crop is doing well, but the nights were most too cool for best results in growth. Cultivation is becoming general.

There is still some flax to be sown. The growing flax is generally in thrifty condition. Potatoes and garden stuff made fine growth. In some fields early potatoes are in blossom, but bugs are reported numerous. Grass is making rapid growth, pasturage is excellent, prairie grass is unusually luxuriant for the time in the season, aud range live' stock continues to improve in condition.

The outlook foi hay, and winter pasturage ou the ranges, is unusunlly bright. Millet sowing is still in progress and the growing millet is making fine growth. On the whole, the prospect for fruite is fair. The foliage of trees and shrubbery of all kinds is luxuriant. OFFICERS ARE INSTALLED.

Grand Chapter Royal Arch Masons Adjourns at Huron. A Huron special says: The South Dakota grand chapter of Royal Arch Masons adjourned Wednesday evening after installing the following officers: Grand high priest, Ed S. Ames, Hot Springs grand deputy high priest, Samuel H. Jumper, Aberdeen grand king, Geo. O.

Sioux Falls grand scribe, John Ivt Kuenewsky, Redfield grand treasurer, Bernard. C. Lennox grand secretary, Geo. A. Pettigrew, Flandreau grand chaplain, John Babcock, Sioux Falls grand lecturer, B.

F. Ives. Huron grand captain of the host, A. C. Biernattski, Salem grand principal sojourner, Eugene R.

Erwin, Lead grand Royal Arcli captain, John E. Hippie, Pierre grand master third vail, Edgar D. Brookman, Vermillion grand master second vail, S. A. Brown, Sioux Falls grand master third vail, D.

A. Douglass, Spearfish grand sentinel, Frank Kunerth, Sioux Falls committee on correspondence, F. G. Lovey, Webster. There are over 1,700 members in the state, and one death in every 100 occurred during the year.

Gnmbo in Manufacture. A Pierre special says: E. Ray was among a party from Platteville, in this city a few days ago, and aftei looking over the gumbo hills, thinks they can be made of material profit, if he is not mistaken in the quality of the material. Gumbo, or a clay which closely resembles it, is being mined near Platteville and shipped to Chicago where it is treated by certain processes, after which it is used in the manufacture of fancy cornice work. Mr.

Ray took back with him samples of gumbo from the hills here to give it a. test, nud if it proves to be what he thinks it is in this line, investigate- thoroughly the possibilities of the Missouri River bluffs. Will Stay in the Philippines. An Armour special says: Miss Fannie Hausgr, who went from Aberdeen to the Philippines to marry John H. Kpp, whom Gov.

Lee bounced from the offce of commissioner of insurance in this state, and in a short time parted from Mr. Kipp, is still in Manila, and has just passed a civil service examination entitling her to a clerkship in the islands at $1,800 per year. She speaks Spanish, and with that salary can get along very well without thb assistance of the man who she journeyed 10,000 miles to marry. Dies ftom Bullet Wound. A Yankton dispatch says: John Soggc, the 17-year-old son of Jorgen Soggc, of Center Point, died here Tuesday at the Sacred Heart hospital.

His death WHS due to a bullet wound received accidentally while he was rifle practicing. The rifle was discharged by a small boy while it was learning muzzle up, against the deceased. The. bullet entered the back in the region of the spinal column and there was little hope of his recovery the first. Has Rare Disease.

A Sioux Falls special says: The South Dakota friends of John W. Harden, a former resident of Jerauld County, and who was once a prominent candidate for dnited States senator, will be grieved to learn that he is a physical wreck. His affliction is of an extremely rare character, being known as weeping paralysis. He cannot carry on even the post commonplace conversation without weeping like a child, making it difficult for a listener to distinguish what he Oats Is Heading Ail excellent rain fell at Tyndall Wednesday. 1 It will do wonders for small grain, which is beginning to spindle.

Some fields of oats show heads. The grain would have been short if it had not been for the timely miosture. Corn is doing well. About one-half of the farmers have been through their com once, and are beginning a second time. The fruit crop bids fair to be one of the best the state has raised.

Charged with Horae Stealing. An Aberdeen special says that two alleged horse thieves from North Dakota have been captured at Leola and will be brought to Aberdeen fdr safe- keeping until the sheriff of Sargent County arrives with extradition papers, Admitted to the Bar The supreme court Tuesday admitted Franklin F. Grant of Frederick on a certificate from the supreme court of Iown, and Herbert O. Noble of Bonesteel on a certificate from the supreme court of Illinois. Finds Boy's Body in River.

The body of a boy was found in the river at Yankton Monday and is being held for identification. Two boys are missing up the river, supposed, to have been drowned. One of the missing boys was a son of John Scherer of Tyndall and the other was a son of Grandpree of Chamberlain. New Elevator at Garretson. Anew elevator is being erected at Garretsou by the Atlas Elevator Company of Minneapolis, Minn.

A crew of twenty men is at work on the building aud when completed it will have a capacity of 20,000 bushels. rt I In the town of Leon, Iowa, confined fot the greater part of the day in an invalid's chair, reposes one of the makeri of great history daring the last century. He is Francis Varga, and he was Louis Judge Advocate General during the- Hungarian revolution in 1840. Varga, during the six months of his short reign, sentenced 200, noblemen to the block, and within two hours from the pronouncement ef the sentence the prisoners were dead. He was the court supreme, and from verdict there was no appeal.

I am wiHins to die, and I will die happy," says Varga. "True, the things we fought for that beloved old country were never realized, but here, in this New Hungary, we have had liberty and freedom This is truly" the home of the free. I America as I once loved Hungary." FRANCIS VABGA. Alfred B. Purlnton, who died a few days ago at aged oa rears, was a veteran of the war between the States, and played an important part in the capture of Jefferson Davis.

He had in his possession at the time of his death a button which he cut from the TUbber coat worn by the President of the Confederacy when Mr. Purinton A. 8. PUBINTON. waa possessed of a copy1 of the official war records containing the report of Cel.

B. D. Pritchard of the Fourth Michigan cavalry of the important capture. Mr. Purinton was a second lieutenant of Troop of the Michigan regiment, and was in the party from that regiment which effected the capture.

Lyman Beecher Todd, who died in Lexington, the other day, was a man of varied experiences both as a physician and a citizen. Dr. Todd was in attendance on President Lincoln at Ford's Theater when he received his fatal wound by John Wilkes Booth and at his bedside when death came. The aged people of Lexington had been looked after by Dr. Todd for many years, he forming what he termed the Century Club, and on all persons over 90 years old ne called weekly and sent flowers and delicacies.

At one time there were as many as fifteen of these persons in Lexington and he was very proud of his club. DB. TODD. M. Van Dervelde, the leader ef the Socialist party in Belgium, whs was under arrest for, a time during the recent rioting in Brussels, although an advocate of the partition of wealth, is a millionaire.

He is a lawyer in Brussels, is a docter of laws, and is professor in the school for higher studies. He is 36 years old and has been in Parliament for a number E. VAN DEBVELDE of being for several sessions the youngest member. His arrest was due to mistaken identity, end after his release he addressed the inobs and asked theip to desist from violence. Dr.

Oronhyatekhe, who has been reelected supreme chief ranger of the Order of Foresters at Los Angeles, is a full-blooded Mohawk Indian, who has received a thorough college education and who is a remarkably capable man of affairs. Oronhyatekha was born in Canada sixty years ago and deserted his home place when a child. He was leducftted through the benevolence of a New Yorker who took an interest in his story, and the Indian has proved a 'valuablt accession to the civilized ways of white man. He has been a leader ot the Foresters since 1881. OBOKHYATEKHA.

Judge H. Remley, whose decision that hard cider must be classed as whisky, under the Iowa law has given rise to much dispute And some misunder standing, does not, course, includ sweet cider in hia judgment, as wai mistakenly stated Judge Remley's ml. ing was based os the evidence thai the grocer in the case had actual! sold hard cider, and that men who juiMu: LtitLEr. draak It became intoxicated. Furthermore, it is asserted that the stuff was analyzed by a chemist, who found that it contained 6 per cent of alcohol.

Judge Francis B. Baker, who was tendered a banquet and reception by the bar of Illinois, Wisconsin and Tndinnn at Chicago, was recently elevated to the federal bench to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge' Woods. Judge Baker, prior to his appointment, was a member of the Supreme Court of Indiana, and previously to that had been a prominent lawyer of Indianapolis. He is a JUDGE UAKEE. graduate of the University of Michigan.

The advance guard of an exodus of Roumanian Jews has started for this country. New industrial laws, which exclude Jews from every department of industry in Roumasia, will go into effect In September. BOTH SIDES AEEFI1 NEW ELEMENT ADDED TO THRACITE COAL WAR. Strike of the Bituminous Miners In the Virginias Adds New tions-Situation as It Now till Working for Peace. This is the sixth week of the great coal strike in the anthracite districts of Pennsylvania, and a solution ot the difficulty, which is daily affecting a larger number of people, apparently is as far off as ever.

Already the strike has cost the mine owners, miners, business men of the anthracite region and the. public generally the vast sum of The operators still remain unmoved and unbending. The strikers remain hopeful determined. The public suffers, with, the prospects growing greater each dag that their sufferings will become and more disastrous. The magnates have over half dollars invested in their mines, and jet many of these mines are being flooded and ruined because, while willing to pay the wages of 4,000 coal and iron police, to protect the non-union men they are assembling in the coal regions, the operators will not grant the increase asked by the miners.

Hence the negotiations brought about by the National Civic Federation were broken off and the country is forced to witness a struggle, the end of which may mean ruin to many industries and to millions of people. The situation now may be briefly summed up: Every mine of any consequence In the coal regions is tied up. Many of them are being allowed to fill with water men cannot be obtained to pump them. At others clerks', bosses and nonunion men are trying to run the pumps and over these a force of 4.000 iron and police ore keeping guard. The Pcnntylvania law makes easy the formation sf this private army.

By it mine owners go to the big cities, hire bums, ex-conricts, discharged policemen, drunken tailors, the riffraff of the streets and the lodging houses, and bring them their mines. The operators put bad them, place weapons in their ha thus the "coal and iron polic What the Fight Means. The fight now seems to be a waiting one, victory to belong to the side which tan hold out the longest. On the face it, it would seem as though under circumstances the strikers would lose. But appearances sometimes dereive.

The strikers are united, firm and determined. They can live on little. They have the sympathy of the business interests throughout the anthracite region. They will have the material aid, when asked for, if organized labor everywhere. Fully 48,000 of them have left the coal Gelds since the strike began and have (ound work in other thus enabling the union leaders to better care for those who remain.

On the other hand the cessation of work means a loss to the coal carrying and toal mining roads of $10,000,000 a month. This is a considerable itenj' even in an age like this, when men millions. Perhaps the roads nfl other month may come to consida 1'he miners seem determined to out until they win. For the uatXn it is not now a mere fight for 5 per cent it is a fight for the future and a fight foi their existence. Stubborn as are the operators, the miners are equally resolute.

With their own resources they feel confident that they can remain out foui months. Meantime a new element has entered the soft coal strike in two Virginias, where nearly 20,000 men are idle because of the refusal of bituminous operators to grant an increase in wages. If this strike succeeds if President Mitchell and the other leaden In the United Mine Workers' Union succeed in cutting off the supply of soft coal to the eastern markets, thereby forcinf the shutting down of mills and factories and railroads, they feel confident that enough influence will be brought to beat apon the operators to compel them to make such concessions as will end both strikes. The two mine 4,000,000 tons of coal monthly, and this, with the output of the soft coal regions of this State, supplies most of the eastern trade. By cutting this off, the industries of the East would be paralyzed.

But pressure would be brought to the operators that a settlement long be deferred. Peace Not Yet All hopes for a settlement of the He have not, however, been Under instructions from President Roosevelt an investigation into the whole matter is being conducted by Carroll D. Wright, United States Commissioner of Labor. It should, however, be stated that Mr. Wright is not clothed with the jurisdiction of an arbitrator, nor can Mr.

Roosevelt take any official action. The President, however, can informally seek relief from the present situation and he. Is now employing every resource in his power. Meantime President Mitchell holds in abeyance the call for a national convention of all coal miners, in which the question of a national strike is tp come "lV This is the measure of last resort. 8PEEDING UP TRAINS.

Railroad Men Making Many Changes in Their Schedules. Railroad men are interested in watching the development of the idea that increased speed on passenger trains is being called for by the public. Along with the announcement of the 20-hour traint by the New York Central and Lake Shore comes the further announcement of filter trains than ever before for otherj tions of the country. The new daily 20-hour flyer service over the New York Central Lake Shore is knoiwn as the "Twentieth Century" train, and only passengers for, Ch ago and points west thereof are carrie on the west-bound train. This train is illuminated by both electric and: Pintsch light, and the entire equipment is the finest the Pullman Company can furnish.

A railroad man in discussing the situation as shown by these and similar, changes in the Northwest and West gave it as his opinion that the next year or so would see fa decided move up in the running time.on all'the principal lines of. the country. ROOT DEFENDS GEN. WOOD. Upholds His Action in Paying Money to F.

B. Thnrber in Cuba. Secretary Root has given out a semiofficial statement upholding the action of Gen. Wood in the payment of several thousand dollars to' F. B.

Thurber foi the distribution of literature while he was Governor of Cuba Secretary Root explains that Gen. Wood had complete authority to the expenditure from the Cuban revenues, and that in his judgment the expenj" tures were perfectly proper. It the interest of Cuba to have the ture circulated, and Thurber and Export Association had merely acted as distributing'agents in the United StatMj.