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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (April 7, 1910)
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The independent elevator , the prop- erty of the Great Western Railroad company , was on fire several times , but being principally of steel tan ! construction this building has with- . stood the ravages of the flames. Nearly 100 box cars , about half of which were loaded with grain , stand- Ing on nearby tracks , were destroyed A number of small nearby residences . "were only saved by the most strenu- k - ous efforts of the fire departments of Omaha and South Omaha , between , "which places the scene of the fire lies. ' A At 2 a. m. the fire was still burning , fl'l but is under control. , , Great danger was experienced to ' \ liouses in the residence district , . man ; , " "blocks distant , owing to the flying ; i. I , embers. It is reported , but not con- I firmed : , that the Omaha Wool and I Storage warehouse near the X 'e- Schneider-Fowler elevator was de- stroyed. A large quantity of wool and Jiearly 100 automobiles were stored in the building. SHOOTS HUSBAND DEAD. JJcll1cntedlother : Then Kills Her .14 i 1 Year-old Child. IMrs. Delbert Allen , of West Union , N. Y. , the mother of an infant only a lew hours old , Sunday called her1 hus- band to her bedside and shot him . dead. Their 4-year-old son heard the shot and ran into the room to meet he : same fate that befell the father. Mrs. Allen , apparently with an un- -balanced mind , now is under guard at lier home. Her condition , resulting , Jrom : shock and exertion , is so serious that there is little hope of saving herI I life. She is the mother of eight child. I Ten. f , I ITALIANS ARE ENRAGED. I , Threaten to Lynch Motorman : and t Conductor of Trolley Car. i I When ; a trolley car in Philadelphia Sunday struck and seriously injured f 3-year-old : John Taconnelli , in the I Italian district , an enraged crowd at- I tempted to lynch I the motorman and J . .conductor. A rope was secured and . strung over an iron awning pole , but I - the carmen drew revolvers , and , aided by two policemen , held the crowd at bay until reinforcements arrived from a police station. The crew of the . car and the leaders of the mob were arrested. c.iC" . _ . - " : - _ . -Y Theft of Postage Stamps. " * I ; J. Mason Smith , a clerk in the mail I , ing department _ , . of the stock * yards of- . , I I : fice of It. one of the packing firms oi Chicago , was Sunday charged with the theft of . $12,000 worth of stamps. The thefest were said to have covered a period of seven years. . -f- : , ' i . . -1. . . - - t : . : : . Cross Country FligllL I I The French'aviator , Emil du Bon- I nett , Sunday won the "Review of Na _ ture" prize , making a splendid cros . country flight from Savigny-sur-Orge. to' Ferte St. Aubin , a distance of aboul . 68 miles , in one hour and fifty min- ' -u tes. I . . . Another Wage Increase. Although no official announcement . : has been made , it has been reported on good authority that the Delaware and Hudson company has agreed to a . G per cent increase in the wages of its conductors and trainmen. Killed : by a Steer. Garret Woods , a farmer living near Lancaster , Ky. , was attacked by a vi- cious steer Sunday and gored to death , before help could reach him. His two . little daughters witnessed the tragedy. I Sioux City Live Stock Market. : i . : - , Saturday's quotations on the Sioux 9 ! City liv stock market follow : Beeves , 1 650850. Top hogs , $10.75. , ] : Bryan in Porto Rico. . . William Jennings , Bryan arrived at . : : San Juan , . P. R. , Sunday on the steam- . er President. He will be the guest of . \ the governor and will probably remain . . . o i there ten days. A . ' Bank Cashier Arrested. . Ezra . Mayfield , cashier of the I I Bank , ; ' - \ ; r , . of Pine Valley , W. Va. , has been ar- 3 't : ' : ; . rested. He is charged with embez ' zling $10,000 of the bank's funds " . - - , J . . eIiL . . - . - . . _ - . - - - - . . . - . . . . . . . : - - - - - . - - - . . . . . . . . . . - - - . , - - - . _ . _ - . . . . . . . . . , ' . . . . IiL T 'J - - " ' ; I " " - - " - I " - ' - ' - I r : - . . .J " ' ; ! " . . . - = - - j' - , 4- . ! r'ft : . . . " -1- , . . . > . . . - . r" I ' . . . " , . 3IEN GRANTED AN INCREASE. . New York Central Makes - a Sweepin Advance. There was real money In AprIl Fools' day purse the New York Cer tral men picked up Friday. After a special meeting of directors , a general order was Issued Increasing by 7 per cent all the pay of all employes on the New York Central lines east of Buffalo who now earn $200 a month or less. Vice President C. F. Daley said that the directors of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern , the New York Central and Big Four would probably take similar action at an ear- ly date. The order goes into effect immediately. Those employes whose demands for a wage Increase are now under ad- visement , namely , the telegraph opei ators , the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the Order of Railway ; Conductors are not included , as a set- tlement with them will be reached on a separate basis. Directly affected are the locomotive engineers and firemen and the entire clerical force. Yard switch- men and yard conductors re ceive three cents an hour ad- vance under a separate classification in accordance with the terms of agree- ment recently reached through the < federal board of arbitration between the western railroads centering in Chi- cago and their yardmen. It is estimated the general increase will cost the eastern divisions of the New York Central lines $2,500,000 a year. SEE TIIEIR HOME : LOOTED. Bride and Groom Tied to Bedposts While Robbers Work. Dr. Thomas F. Gleason and his bride of one day , with the former's sister , Miss Anita Gleason , were compelled to witness the looting of their home at San Francisco , Cal. , Friday after- noon , and while tied hand and foot to bed posts they implored the two rob- bers to spare their wedding prese ts. The robbers , after gathering the silver wedding gifts in a' sack , relent- ed and left the sack in the hall. When Miss Gleason answered the doorbell she was confronted by two men who held revolvers at her head. Her screams attracted her brother and his wife. They joined her in the hallway and also were overpowered and tied to pedposts in an adjoining room. Gleason freed himself and released the two women after the robbers left. DRIVER LOSES CONTROL. Auto Injures Four Persons and Kills : Two Cows. While going at a very high rate of speed on the grand prize race course near Savannah , Ga. , Fr'day night an g.utomobile.in which were Albert M. Ir : Marshall and Harry Noyes , young so- ciety men , became unmanageable , left the : road and struck first a small negro girl , then a negro man and later a ne- gro woman who were on the sidewalk , probably fatally injuring each. Then. ! after killing two cows , trie machine turned turtle , seriously injuring Noyes. Noyes was sent to a hospital. Mar shall was arrested and is at police headquarters , to remain there until the result of the three negroes are in- dicated. PANIC IN A THEATER. fnny Persons Injured in a Stampede for the Exits. Many persons were injured , none seriously , in a panic in the Grand the- .ter at Fort Smith , Ark. , Friday night. Six ! hundred men , women and children became terror stricken and rushed for the doors when the building of Swift & Co. , across the alley . from the thea- ter , caught fire. ' Swift & Co.'s building was destroyed , ntailing a loss of $90,000. * . 1 ' " f Police :7. . . . Chief . } \ilIc : . Assistant Chief of Police William lurphy , of Houston , Tex. , was shot and killed Friday night by Earl Mcr ; Farlane , a former patrolman , wno had been recently discharged from the force. McFarlane was arrested and lodged in - jail. - Adjudged Insane. Miss Lena Hackbatch , of Cedar tills , Minn. , who on Monday confess- ed to having sent poisoned candy to Miss Minnie Luthen because of an alleged wrong done her by Frank W. Urdel , Miss Luthen' fiance Thursday was , adjudged insane. Eleven Men Drown. Eleven men were drowned Friday by the sinking of a fishing boat caught in the heavy storms sweeping the north coast of Portugal. Carpenters Go on Strike. All union carpenters at Ogdensburg , N. Y. , went on strike Friday to en- force a demand for $3 and a nine-hour day , an increase of 50 cents a day. Peary Has Had Enough. Commander Robert E. Peary , who arrIved in Chicago Friday , declared he was positively through with polar ex- I plorations for all time. Fatal Street Duel. In a duel in the streets at Herrin , Ill. , Thursday night , Special Officer Robert Hilton was killed ' by Otis Kear- ney , who died later. Kearney resisted rrest. Call to National Banks. I The controller of the currency Fri- day issued a call for the condition of ational banks at the close business . : March [ 29. ' . - - - . . - - _ . . " - - . . . _ . . - , . . . . ' . = . r - . . ' 0. ' " " , ' - . . - _ _ _ . - . . . . - _ . - " . , . : ; . ' . 300,000 MINERS QUIT \VC ? 11K. : Miners : Quit Work In Bituminous Coal Fields. Three hundred thousand organized ! miners of the bituminous coald fields of Pennsylvania , Ohio , Indiana , Iowa : , Missouri , Kansas , Oklahoma and Ar . kansas quit work at midnight Thurs- day pending settlement of a new wage scale. Officers of the United Mine Worker of North America declared that the walkout was not a strike , but merely ; a suspension of work because no wage scale had been made to replace the old scale , which expired with the month of March. . . The miners demand an increase of pay in some instances of 5 cents a ton and in other instances of more , with certain changes in working condi- tions. Confidence was expressed by the op erators that there would be no gen- eral coal famine , large supplies of : fuel having been stored in anticipation of the walkout. While the miners predict that the suspension will be cut short by a prompt signing of wage scales , some of the operators maintain that the mines may be kept closed for a month or longer. The first settlement came in an an- nouncement from Brazil , Ind. , the center of the Indiana block coal field , where the men's demand for a 5-cent increase was granted. President Lewis , ' before leaving to visit the centers of the different min- ing fields , made the following estimate of the number of miners affected by the suspension of work : Western and central Pennsylvania , 100,000 ; Ohio , 47,000 ; Indiana , 18- 000 ; West Virginia , 10,000 ; Illinois , 72,000 ; Iowa , 15,000 ; Michigan , 3,000 ; Kansas , Arkansas , Texas and Okla- homa , 25,000 ; Colorado , 5,000 ; west- ern ' Kentucky , 5,000. Total , 300,000. HERRICK'S FEE PRUNED. New York Attorney's $9,000 Charge for Services Cut to $90. D. Cady Herrick's fee of $9,000 for nine days' service as referee in the Eleventh avenue litigatian between the city of New York and the New York Central railroad was cut to $90 Thursday by Archibald Watson , the corporation counsesl. Mr. Herrick had already been paid by the railroad , which then sent a bill to the city. Mr. Watson thought the aill excessive , and offered to com- promise at $5,000. The railroad re- fused , whereupon the corporation counsel cut the bill to the $10 a day allowed by the law. BRIBE STORY RELATED. : : Mississippi State Senator Tells of Ac . o. cepting $ G45. State Senator Theodore Bilbo ap- peared before an executive session of the Mississippi senate Thursday night and told in detail a story of accept- ance by him of an alleged bribe of $645 ! from L. C. Dulaney. a planter , to change his vote from former Gov. Vardaman to Leroy Percy for United States senator. The story said to have been related by Bilbo to the sen- ate is almost identical with that al- ready published when the charges were made public and denied by Du. aney. , Another Bomb Explodes. ' The explosion of a bomb in the basement of an East Thirty-ninth street tenement in New York Thurs- day shook the structure to its founda- tions , shattered every pane of glass in it ; and created a panic throughout the entire block. Police attribute the ex- plosion to Black Hand operators. Tnsj sts on Going to Jail. Former Probate Judge John T. Gale , of Columbus , 0. , who was in- I dicted Wednesday on three counts charged with giving bribes to George E. } Woods , applied at the court house Thursday ' to gve himself up. He in- sisted on going to jail , saying he would ask no man to go his bond. Higglns Jury Disagrees. The jury at Greenup , Ky. , disagreed in the trial of Mrs. Sarah H. Higgins , 60 years old , charged with having hired Fred Ferguson to assassinate William Culbertson , a railroad agent , last July. The woman will be tried again in June. Given Time to Plead. Albert Wolter , of New York , the 9Tyear-old youth accused of the murder of Ruth Wheeler , a stenogra- pher , began a fight for delay Thurs- day when 'arraigned. He was given twenty-four , hours' time in which to plead. Federal Court Clerk Dead. John R. Green , for nineteen years clerk of the supreme court of Missouri , died at Denver , Colo. , Thursday. 'He went to Denver from Jefferson City last September , hoping his health would be improved. He was 51 years old. - . - Marie . Corclli 111. Marie Corelli , novelist , is seriously ill I of pneumonia at her home , Mason- : -croft Stratford-upon-Avon , England. Her : condition has given rise to con siderable alarm. i Eight Years for Bigamy. Emil von Muejler , "the marrying r count , " was sentenced at Jersey City , N. J. , Thursday to eight years' imDrls- onment for bigamy. I . , . , . . ' . . " . - - - - . . . - . - - - " . . . . . - - - - - , . - . . - - . . - . . . . ' - - - . - " . " - - . - . - . - . - ' ' - - - - . . . . . . . . . - . - - - - - - - . . - - - - . - . _ - - - - . . . - - - - - _ - ; o I : o fheNebrasl : News of Ihe , . In Concise , Week - State t NewsIn Form _ UNABLE TO SOLVE CASE. Jury Finds Kacria Came to Death by Suicide or Foul : Play. After a session of five hours , hear- Ing testimony in the August Kaderia murder case , the coroner's jury at Kearney brought in a verdict that he < met death by two gunshot wounds in- flicted either by himself or by some < party unknown to the jury. Fred Kaderia , a brother , on the wit- ness stand , told a straight story that cleared himself fully. Drs. H. S. Bell and J. P. Norcross held an autopsy and reported that the man was mur- dered and that either of the two wounds inflicted would have caused instantaneous paralysis and that he could not have inflicted a second af- ter inflicting the first. Three wounds on the side of his head had been in- flicted by some blunt instrument and were the result of a hard blow. Kaderia's body was found lying in a field north of Riverdale last Friday. He had been missing for fifteen days and no effort was made by his rela- tives to locate him. There was no blood on the rass where Kaderia lay. Kaderia generally carried some mon- ey with him and two or three rare foreign coins. Hs pockets were emp- ty when the body was taken charge of by the sheriff. Kaderia had been a party in a law suit a few weeks pre- vious in which one of his neighbors was the defendant and this neighbor found the body. Kaderia was well fixed financially and no excuse can be offered for his committing suicide. HORSE TIHEF CAPTURED. Silver Creek Marshal Arrests Man : for Stealing Team in Iowa. Charles Bowers , a young man sup- posed to have been living since his birth north of Columbus , Platte coun- ty , was = arrested in Silver Creek by Marshal Lucas on advice from Sheriff Her , of Merrick county. He was charged with having in his possession a team of bay horses that did not be- long to him. When Marshal : Lucas arrested him he made a dive for the wagon , but did not succeed in reaching it. When the wagon was searched a 38 caliber , 8- inch Colt revolver was found under the seat. Also a bottle of strychnine was found. People in Silver Creek had read with interest the story of a scour of the : country by Deputy Sheriff Thomas and Detective Devreese , of the Omaha police force , in search of a man al- leged to have stolen a team from John P. Peterson , of Honey Creek , Ia. , de scribed to be a bay team , one with two white feet and the other with four ' white feet. Harry Letton . Gets Appointment. Adjt. Gen. Hartington has appoint- ed Harry P. Letton assistant chief en- gineer of the National Guard. The new engineer will take a special course at the Fort Leavenworth sshool at the expense of the government , by reason of the appointment. Fish Car to Northwest. Fish Commissioner O'Brien and Game Warden Guilus left Tuesday with the state fish car for the north- western part of the state to plant fish. The plant amounts to 80,000 small fish and 3,000 yearlings and 2-year- olds. Fire Takes ; : Old Landmark. Fire starting from a spark from a assing locomotive totally destroyed the Union Pacific storehouse in the west end of the yards at Columbus. This building is one of the landmarks of Columbus , as it was the original Union Pacific depot , built in 1866. Rohmer Tircd of Living. J. D. Rohmer , of Calhoun , hung himself Tuesday in his brother's barn on his farm three miles northwest of Calhoun. He was 84 years of age ; had been ill a long time and was de- spondent over his life. . Steer Six Feet High. A steer which weighs as much as a big team of , horses is the property of Dan > Dunovan , living three miles from Chapman. To be exact , he tips the scales at 2,620 , is 4 years old and stands : over 6 feet high. Horses Found , Robbers Gone. The team of horses that was stolen from Peter Sibbers , six miles south of Bloomfield on March 20 , was found . Wednesday five miles . northwest of Pierce. Nothing has been seen of the bbers. Engine Shaves Automobile. Both F. M. Wilkinson , an automo- bile driver , and a passenger , narrowly escaped death near the city of Axtell as they were leaving that place. They had rounded a turn , in the road and were crossing the railroad track when an engine , running "light , " crashed into the car , taking the radiator and , the front of the auto almost com- pletely off. . . . . . . . - ' - - - - ' - - - - - - - HAS CIVIL WAR RELIC. Paper Published at Vicksburg , \1159. : : , in 1803. I W. M. Williams , of West Point , Is the possessor of an interesting rellc of the civil war-a copy of the Dally Citizen , Vicksburg , Miss. , issued on < Thursday , July 2 , 1865. It is printed < on the back of an ordinary sheet of wall paper , four columns wide. It is filled with fiery denunciation . the hated "yanks" . and breathes a spirit of intense sectionalism. The follow- ing are extracts from the paper : "We lay before , our readers in this issue an account of Lee's brilliant and successful onslaught upon the abol - tion hordes , etc. " This refers to Lee's raid through Virginia and Marylar and the writer concludes the para- graph thus : "Today Maryland is ours , tomorrow Pennsylvania will be , and the next day Ohio , now midway , like Mohammed's coffin , will fall. Success and glory to our arms , God and the right are with us. " Another interesting item is : "The great Ulysses , the yankee generalissi- : mo , surnamed Grant , has expressed his intention of dining in Vicksburg on Sunday next and celebrating the Fourth of July by a grand dinnei Ulysses must get into the city before he can dine in it. " TO DIVIDE CUSTER COUNTY. Sallaway Citizens Back of Project to Create Five Counties. At a meeting held at Callaway re cently R. E. Brega , John Moran , W. C1. Keyes , II. H. Andrews , G. H. La- fleur , E. W. Rusk , Charles Humphrey , tf. E. Schneringer and Will M. Durfi were elected as delegates to attend the ( county : division lines convention to be held at Grand Island. It is thought that a five-county cut has been prac- tically decided upon , and if these lines ; are adopted they will throw a portion of Broken Bow in the county with Ansley and the other portion in the county with Callaway. Sargent , Ans- ley Merna , Oconto and Callaway will be the prospective new county seats. In the campaign last year lines wert drawn favoring Broken Bow and giv- ing that city a territory'which would always give it a county seat , but the citizens of Broken Bow , it was learned , , will fight division on any lines , and I now no mercy will be shown it and it will be thrown in two counties if the present plans are carried out in the coming convention. RUSIIVILLE . BOYS QUARREL. rill Weslovcr Shot by Leland . Dale in Struggle for Revolver. The shooting of Will Westover , son of Judge Westover. of Rushville , Fri- day ni-ht in front of Joe Warren's store : by Leland Dale , a son of Horace Dale was the result of some rough play between school chums. West- o\'er was going to punsh Dale for throwing some rotten bananas and oranges the night before. Dale was \ \ illing to take the punishment , but is he uas dressed for a dance he wanted the boys to let him off till next day. Westover-advanced to grab him , when Dale pulled out a 3S-caliber re- ' ) lver and said he would shoot. West- OVl'r grabbed the gun and Dale pulled the trigger. The bullet passed through 'estover's hand shattering one of the igers and slightly penetrated his breast about the heart. The wound in the hand is the most serious. Dale , who is quick-tempered , surrendered to the sheriff and is now in the county jail WEST POINT TO TEST CORN. jriciillural [ Class of High School U Have Charge of the Experiments. The agriculture class of the Wesl Point high school has made arrange- mEnts to test seed corn for the farm- ers of that section. Much trouble Is being experienced in securing seed corn that will germinate properly , the bulk of last year's crop being entirely unfit for seed. The high school class will do this \ ' ; ' " ark " " for the farmers free of charge , and will guarantee their tests to be correct. This move , originated by Su- perintendent Campbell , is much ap- preciated. Two Bootleggers Fined. Ben F. Shultz of Curtis , was founc guilty of the illegal sale of liquor on two counts. He was fined $500 on the first count and sentence was suspend- ed on the second. Jess Cronk , who pleaded gu'lty to seven counts , was fined $400 on the first cbunt and sen- tence was suspended on the other six county until next term of the district court. Fruit Damage Exaggerated. Ray Hesseltine , an expert fruit grower of Peru , says that the fruit crop has not been damaged as much is reported. He says that all present indications point to plenty of fruit in the vicinity of Peru. Newspaper Changes Hands. The Orleans Chronicle changed hands last week , Horace Phelps as- suming the editorship in the place 01 J. F. Albin. - - , . . . . - - ' . , _ . - . . - - - - ' . - - . " . . , . , - . . - . . . . . - ' , . . - . - - r.-- ' , . , . . . " - - ' " : ' - - . . . . . , - . --t . II' CHICAGO PIE MAN POISONED. - - j ' Coroner's Jury Finds A. J. LIood'S ; Died from Eating Drugged Mea.t. Alexander J. Moody , the wealhy Chicago pie man , whose death on Feb- . ruary 20 was attributed to ptoinalno- l poisoning , really died from the effect. of arsenic , was the startling assertion made by Coroner Hoffman. That the- 1 poison was contained in hamburger- steak eaten by the decedent seems. clear to the authorities. Moody : Inher . , ited a fortune from his father who was the founder of the pie firm of Moody : & Waters. Moody occupied a fine residence In the city and owned ! a summer residence in Wisconsin and. a farm In St. Charles. The remain'ng- . portion of the steak was taken to Dr Walter Haines , the chemist whose- name is familiar in the Swope case at Kansas City , for analysis. The ! att r. . . In a report to the coroner stated the- meat contained enough arsenic to hav & - killed a half a dozen persons. The kid- neys , heart and stomach of the dece- dent , according to the coroner , also showed pronounced traces of poison. Detectives have kept a close watch on all who might shed light. A year a Moody : is said to have narrowly es- caped poisoning in soup. The servant who had previously tasted it , was later seized by cramps. Moody is said to have carried insurance of $15,000 in fa vor of his wife. Her maiden name was- Anne Olson , and married twenty-five- years ago. SENATOR ALLDS FOUND GUILTY Verdict on Bribery Is 40 to 9- Move to Probe : Grafting- After seven weary weeks of Inves tigation the New York Senate has con- victed Senator Jotham P. Allds , of Norwich , of accepting a bribe of $1,000 to influence bridge legislation. The vote against him was overwhelming 40 to 9. By the unexpected move of sending in his resignation Allds re- lieved the Senate of the painful duty of expelling him. The resignation was sent on the advice of his attorneys , who were convinced that he had lost and who desired to put the blame oa political interference with the Sena- torial jury from Washington and else- where. There is every indication that Sen- ator Benn Conger , who accused Allds in an effort to defeat him as majority leader , will be expelled within a month , unless he resigns in the meantime. A resolution for a committee to . prepare charges of bribe-giving against rrnS. was offered. Nor will this end \ _ , matter. The proposition for a general investigation of all sorts of bribery charges will undoubtedly be present- ed and can hardly fail of passage. Ex-Senator Allds declared that he would seek vindication from the Sen- ate verdict and $100,000 damages froni Senator Conger in the civil courts. GIRL ACCUSED OF POISONING. Catherine Manz Clings to Story ol Strange Man. Pleading not guilty and waiving pre- liminary examination , Catherine Manz , the 16-year-old : girl who is accused of _ . . . ' , murdering her sister , by strychni ' I poisoning , was lodged in jail at cp' ton , Ohio , to await the action of Ide grand ; jury. That body will not con- ene until May. 't The girl has clung to her original story of a mysterious man who gave her two supposed quinine tablets , one of which she claims her sister took ac- identally. She gave the man's name as "Murray" and stated he lived in Canton , but the police have been un- able to trace him and express the be - lief that he is a myth. The girl's father and other relative : , who disowned her in the first shock of the tragedy , have now come to her aa- sistance and engaged attorneys for her defense. A special grand jury may be summoned to consider the case , but this action probably will be forestalled by a lunacy inquiry. The girl's rela- tives claim that her brain has beer affected ever since a fall received IE : irly childhood. Family L.o.tu Two in Fire. Two children were burned to death in i the residence of George Rowe in Washington , Pa. , and the mother and three other children are suffering from shock and smoke inhalation. Katherr - . r- ine and Sarah Rowe are dead and fne injured include Mrs. Rowe and three other children , Jennie , Louise and Ma- : rion. Lilesville , X. C. , Svrept by Fire. Lilesville , forty-five miles east of Charlotte , N. C. , was nearly wiped from the map by fire. The fire is believed to have been of incendiary origin. The loss will reach $250,000 , with insignifi- cant insurance. Prairie Fire Burns n Girl. While playing in the yard : of her home > at Banner City , Kan. , the 6-year- old daughter of Jacob Fiedley was ught by a / prairie fire and Burned to death. Chiltl In Frozen on Prairie. During a blizzard the 6-year-old boj of Nicholas Kozala . a homesteadar near Rushville , Neb. , wandered from home and was frozen to death. The bod- was found on the prairie. Band of Gypsies Drowned. A caravan of fifty gypsies broke through the ice on Cheremenetzki lake , near Luga. Russia. Of the m , women and children all but a few . wet . drowned. Twenty-live , Burn to Death. " ' Twenty-five women and children were burned to death in a fire that de- stroyed the state cotton warehouse at lilwara in the district of Rajputana India. - - . ; I . . . - - - - . . . - _ . - - - - _ . . ---r i
