Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, March 7, 1903, Page 4

* ference has agreed to an increase in aa it | WARD IS GENERAL MANAGER. Young Man in Charge of Great North- ern System. St. Paul, March 3.—Acccrding to a circular just issued _by the Great Northern Railway com>any, Frank E. ‘Ward becomes general manager of that system, to succeed John F. Stev- eng, recently resigned. The appoint- ment is causing more comment than any other one made in railway circles for some time, principally on account of the age of Mr. Ward, he being only thirty-five years old. Six years ago Mr. Ward was Mr. Hill’s private secre- tary, and at that time he showed such aptitude for the work that Mr. Hill was very much pressed with, his ability, and took this—the first chance —of showing his appreciation. ALUMINUM IN WISCONSIN. Deposit of Clay Is Near Barrington. Waukegon, Wis., March 3.—The vi- ecinity of Barrington is excited over the report that the clay thereaborfts has been found to contain aluminum in considerable quantities. A deposit of clay which it is thought will pro- duce a fair grade of aluminum has been found on the farm of H. H. Mill- er bordering on Randall's lake, about two and a half miles west of Barring- ton. Samples of the clay are now be- ing tested in Chicago to ascertain its value- Miller is reported to have been offiered a large sum for his thirty-nine acres of land. Valuable Found SERIOUS JOKE. “Loaded Cigar Causes a Barber to Lose | Sight of One Eye. Racine, Wis:, March 3.—As the re- sult of a practical joke B. M. Wood- ward, a barber, will lose the sight on one eye. A friend, through a desire to create a little sport, sent Woodward a cigar, loaded with a spring in the shape of a safety pin. The ends of the spring were tied together with a thread, and when the fire of the cigar burned the thread the spring flew out into Woodward's eye, penetrating it a quarter of an inch. The eye cannot be saved and the victim intends to institute a $50,000 damage suit against | the perpetrator of the joke. NO COURT HOUSE. South D, ‘ota County Votes Down a Bond tssue Plan. Bonesteel, S. D., March 3—The elec- tion in this county for the purpese of determining as to whether or not the | covnty should be bonded in the sum of $6,000 tor the purpose of erecting a court house at Fairfax, the county seat, resulted in an overwhelming de- feat for the bond forces. It is reported that illegal votes were cast at the Fairfax polls and arrests may follow. ENDS LIFE IN DESPAIR. | | Becomes Despondent and Shoots Him:- | self Through Mouth. | Minneapolis, March 3. — Christian | Damm, one of the oldest grocers in ‘Sovth Minneapolis, at 11 o’clock yes: | terday morning, shot himself through the mouth with a thirty-eight caliber revolver. Despondency, caused by} Jong sickness and worry ever the ill- ness of his oldest son are assigned as the reasons for the deed. Stock Growers’ Convention. Deadwood, S. D., March 3. — The| citizens of Belle Fourche are active in their preparation for the first an- nual meeting of the Northwestern | Stock Growers’ association, to be held here April 10. A large attendance is} expected and the committees are ar-| ranging for an interesting séries of cowboy contests. | Increase in Wages. Topeka,, Kan., March 2.—Atchison, ‘Topeka & Santa Fe railway wage con-| salaries, effective at once, of 15 per cent for through freight, mixed trains, local freight and work train conduc- tors and brakemen and 12 per cent for passenger conductors, brakemen end baggagemen. Looking for Swindlers. La Crosse, Wis., March 3.—The au- thorities of Galesville are searching for two alleged swindlers who, within the past week escaped with several hundred dollars from farmers in that vicinity. The men took orders fc furniture and pictures, demanding an advance payment. Blaze in Hudson. Hudson, Wis., March 3.—Fire broke out in the basement of Martin Michaelson’s shoe store. It was de- stroyed, with most of its contents. The flames took with it a vacant store to the east. Small insurance. Body Identified. Cedar Rapids, Iowa, March 3.—The only remaining body in the morgue in this city taken from the Clifton hotel ruins has been positively identified by relatives as that of A. P. Johnson, a merchant of Orion, Ill. Killed by a Snow Plow. Benson, Minn., March 3.—A double- header snow plow. struck a hand car three miles east of town, killing Charles Boyle, a section man. The deceased lived at De Graff and leaves @ wife and several children. s Om cccccedesencceccesereosecoee | Milwaukee Road Increases Its Sched- | | whose headquarters are in this city, BATTLE IN DEEP MINE. Montana Miners Dispute Possessior of the Lower Levels. Helena, Mont., March 4.—There*was a fight in the depths of the Pennsyl vania mine at Butte last night be tween employes of the Amalgamated Copper company and _ those of the Montana Ore Purchasing company, Or F. Augustus Heinze, in “which the former were put to flight. | Without the slightest warning a large force of Heinze’s employes invaded the 600 and 700-feot levels of that mine, and by threats and drove about thirty Amalgamated men from their work. There were seventy- five men in the invading party. A number of explosions of powder in timidated the Amalgamated men, who took to the higher levels for safety. Amalgamated officials claim their men were driven out of ground that was Last December Pennsylvania case. erty. a UNFORTUNATE FAMILY. Trouble. | | Some time ago George Davis of this | city was brought from camp sick with the smallpox. at once quarantired at the home of | tle baby daughter of the latter are all down with the disease, and the little one is very flangerously sick with it. | They have had no help except the old | grandfather, and the health authorities | will take the matter in hand. There | are a few other cases in and around | the city, and great care is being taken | to keep it from spreading. TOBACCO GROWING. Wisconsin Farmers Hope to Develop New Crop for Profits. Black River Falls, Wis., March 4— | | A committee of the City Advancement | association has been away investi- gating the tobacco culture, and its re-| port at a recent meeting was so en- couraging that there is no doubt but | the farmers will‘engage in the culture | this year to a much larger extent | than last year. It was demonstrated | last year by those who tried it that it | was the best-paying crop on the farms. | If enough can be induced to engage in | it, warehouses will be built and an | assorting station established. MORE LOCAL TRAINS. | ule in South Dakota. Sioux Falls, S. D., March 4. — The | state board of railroad commissioners, | has been advised by General Manager Williams of the Milwaukée company that it has decided to run daily passen- ger service over several sections of its road in the northern part of the state where a tri-weekly service has here- tofore been in operation. These lines | are between Milbank and Sisseton: be- | tween Andover and Harlan, and be-| tween Aberdeen and Edgerly. LEAD CITY FIRE. | Brettell Block Was Burned, the Loss | Being About $10,000. S. D., March 4. — Fire de-| Lead, loss of about $10,000, with insuranée of $2,000. There were two storerooms on the first floor, the contents of which distinctly excluded from the rights of | Heinze by the supreme court decision | in the celebrated | The explosion of | powder is said to have done consider. | able damage to the slopes and timbers | in the Amalgamated company’s prop: | stroyed the Brettell block, causing al | | { | In the Senate. St. Paul, Feb. 25.—The senate was in session morning and afternoon yes- terday. Nine bills were introduced and eight were passed. The afternoon session was devoted entirely to gen- eral orders. Of the twenty-three bills on the lst, twelve were recommended for passage. Senator Torson introduced a bill to prohibit the sale of unhealthy and adulterated products. The measure codifies and amends existing laws, provides for additional help for the ccouléee fies ob ipowden| dairy and food commissioner. A state veterinary board of health vested with power to condemn do- mestic animals afflicted with con- tagious and infectious diseases and to quarantine those that have been ex- posed is provided for in a bill intro- duced by Senator Dart. Those having the care of imbeciles that have grown feeble on account of old age are prohibited from commit- ting them to insane asylums in a measure introduced by Senator Som- erville. In the House. The house held both forenoon and afternoon sessions yesterday. Bight bills were passed, and twenty-four on general orders were considered in | committee of the whole. A bill providing for a state board of Smallpox Brings Unusual Amount of | o<+oopathic examiners and for licens- ing osteopaths was introduced by Rep- Black River Falls, Wis., March 4.— | resentative Stevenson. The house committee on roads and the lumber | bridges reported to the house without He was | recommendation the bill by Repre- sentative Nyquist which appropriates | his mother, and now his mother and $1,000 to each county to aid in the con- two sisters, a brother-in-law and a lit-| struction of roads and bridges. In the Senate. St. Paul, Feb. 26.—Senator Somer- ville introduced a bill which provides that Whenever a person is sent to any of the asylums for the insane (or to the school for the feeble-minded, the county from which the patient is sent | shall pay to the state $78 a year to- ward the support and maintenance of | that patient. Senator Smith introduced a meas- ure defining habitual criminals and providing that on being convicted of a felony they shall be imprisoned in the state prison twenty-five years. Bills were introduced in both branches of the legislature appropri- ating an additionai $50,000 for the Minnesota exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase exposition. In the House. Two bills requiring telephone com- panies to connect their lines with the lines of other telephone companies and deliver messages for them were introduced in the house. The house passed under suspension | of the rules the bill by Representative were lost or seriously damaged. George E. Brettell died two years ago and left the building to the Odd Fel- lows, to whom the estate was prepar- stroyed. CROOKSTON FIRE. Heavy Loss by Dry Goods and Furni- ture Firms. Crookston, Minn., March 4.—A dis- astrous fire occurred here which de- stroyed property to the value of $100,- 000. It started in the Chabot depart- ment store; The three-story brick block was gutted and the Woodmen’s block next door, containing a férnittre store, was badly damaged. from electric wires in the display window of the Chabot store. FIRE AT ABERDEEN. First National Bank Building Was Scorched—Loss, $20,000. Aberdeen, S. D., March 4. — The First National bank building was dam- aged to the extent of $10,000 by fire, which started from an unknown source in the basement. The Gamble-Robin- son Commission company, which occu- pied the basement, lost $3,000 and oth- er tenants lost probably $7,000, mak- ing the total fire loss about $20,000. New City Officers. Moorhead, Minn., Mareh 4. — The liquor license has been fixed at $1,000 by the city council. This is $500 less than it was last year. H. E. Roberts was elected city clerk, the only old of- ficer retained. Canton, Minn., March 4.—E. C. Boyd was found dead two miles from town County Superintendents Will Meet. Bismarck, N. D., Margh 3. — State _ Superintendent Stockwell announces a meeting offcounty superintendents of the state at Ellendale March 17 5 ' by the side of tlte road. It is supposed he became lost while on his way home and died from exposure, as it was a very dark and coldn, rainy night, It started | and supervision of paroled prisoners. | ing to turn it over when it was de-| | | Deming appropriating $5,000 for the relief of famine sufferers in Norway and Sweden, Denmark and Finland. Mr. Morley introduced a bill in the house increasing the salary of the | state dairy and food commissioner, re- organizing his department and fixing the salaries of his assistants. The bill also makes more stringent regulations for the sale and serving of oleomar- garine or other substitutes for but- ter. In the House. ‘ St, Paul, Feb. 27—The house passed by a vote of 80 to 25 the bill prohib- | iting any common carrier from rais- ing its rates without the consent of the railroad and warehouse commis- sion. Representative Graham introduced two’ bills intended to facilitate the financial operations of the state. One authorizes the state treasurer to bor- row from the various state funds any surplus they may have to supply a deficiency in the revenue fund. The other measure allows the state board of investment to, make temporary loans to an amount not exceeding $600,000 to tide the revenue fund over any period of stringency, pending the collection of taxes. , Fosseen’s bill, known as the Brack- en bill, recodifying the laws relating to the state board of health, was made a special order for Thursday after- noon, March 12. Chinnock’s bill to repeal the for- feiture of the Hastings & Dakota land grants, an act passed in 1895, was killed in the house. In the Senate. Senator Someryille introduced a bill authorizing the state board of control to appoint a state agent for the aid The senate decided to place on gen- eral. orders Senator Stephens’ bill providing for a state tax to insure crops against syclones and hailstorms, notwithstanding the fact that the ju- diciary committee had reported the bill for indefinite postponement. The senate passed without, opposi- tion Senator Stephens’ measure to €x- terminate grasshoppers. The senate passed without a dis- senting vote Senator Wilson’s bill re- pealing the corrupt practice law. In the House. St. Paul, Feb. 28.—The house yes- | terday passed nine bills and consid- ered the sixteen measures on general orders. Representative Joel E. Gregory of St.” Paul yesterday introduced a bill providing for publicity in the award of contracts for new buildings, repairs or improvements at institutions under the state board of control. Mr. Bennett’s me bill provides that no person may\do any hunting, in any organized township on any’ land not his own, without the permission of the owner or occupant. the bills passed were: rd 0 tion and Teonsing"of surveyors; pro viding that counties shall pay judg ments against cities and villages hav. ing no money with which to pay the same, and withhold the amount from taxes collected; making it illegal to re- quire railway engineers or firemen to be on duty for more than fourteen con- secutive hours. : In the Senate. ‘The following bills were passed: _ To authorize the laying out of roads in the unplatted portion of villages; to require village treasurers to enter orders not paid for lack of funds in record books, and to pay them in the order in which they are entered; to amend the law concerning the election of town officers; to authorize the is- suing of bonds ty organized towns for the purpose of building roads; to pro- vide for the election of vice chairmen of boards of county commissioners. Both houses adjourned until Mon- day. In the House. St. Paul, March 3.—A bill authoriz- ing the use of voting machines at all elections in Minnesota was introduced in the house yesterday by Representa- tive George W. Armstrong of Minneap- | olis.: The bill provides for a state voting machine commissign of three mem- bers, whose duty it isto examine and test the various types of voting ma- chines presented, and decide which ‘ones meet the requirements of the law. A nof-partisan state board of rail-| road and warehouse commissioners, nominated at the primary election and elected by the peaple, is provided for in a bill introduced yesterday by Rep- resentative A. L. Cole of Walker, chairman of the house committee on elections. Representative Cole resolution taking a step toward lim- iting the franchise in Minnesota. The resolution seeks to prohibit non-tax- payers from voting on bond issues. In the Senate. Senator Rieke introduced a Dill to regulate the establishment and main- tenancé of public libraries. The meas- ure is a codification of existing laws, with several amendments. Senator Johnson’s . measure estab- lishing an eight-hour day for nurses and attendants at hospitals for the in- sane was laid over until March 5. Senator Wilson introduced a bill es- tablishing a 4 per cent gross earnings tax on railroads. The bill provides that every railroad, now or hereafter doing business in the state, in lieu of all other taxes on real estate, roadbed, rolling stock and other property, shall pay in 1905, and annually thereafter, 4 per cent of its gross earnings. THE MARKETS. Latest Quotations From Grain and Live Stock Centers. St. Paul, March 4——Wheat — No. 1 Northern, 77@77 3-4c; No. 2 Northern, 76 1-2c; No. 3, 75@751-2c- Corn—No. 8, 88@40c. Rye—No. 2, 471-2c. Barley —Malting grades, 45@60c. Flax—No. 1, $1.121-2. Oats—No. 3 white, 33@ 34e. Minneapolis, March 4——Wheat—No. 1 hard, 787-8c; No. 1 Northern, 77 7-8c; No. 2 Northern, 76 5-8c. Duluth, March 4.—Wheat — No. 1 hard, 77 1-8c; No. 1 Northern, 76 1-8c; 711-8c; flax, $1.11 1-2; oats, 34c. Milwaukee, March 4. — Wheat—No. 1 Northern, 801-4c; No. 2 Northern, 79@79 1-2c; May, 771-8c. Rye steady; No. 1, 51@52c. Barley steady; No. 2, 64c; sample, 42@59ec. Chicago, March 4.—Wheat — No. 2 red, 75@77ce; No. 3 red, 70@75 1-2c; No. 2 hard winter, 71@73c; No. 3 hard winter, 68 @ Tic; No. 1 Northern spring, 791-2 @ 80c; No. 2 Northern spring, 77@79c; No. 3 spring, 70@77e. Corn—Cash, No. 2, 44¢; No. 3, 411-2@ 421-4c. Oats—Cash, No. 2, 341-2 @ 35c; No. 8, 341-2c. Sioux City, Iowa, March 4.—Cattle— Beeves, $3.50 @ 5; cows, bulls and mixed, $1.75@4.10; stockers and feed- $2.50@4. Hogs, $6.50 @ 7.10; $6.75@6.90. Chicago, March 4.—Cattle—Good to prime steers, $5.25 @ 5.80; cows and heifers, $1.40 @ 4.75; calves, $2.25 @ 750; Texas fed steers, $3.50@4.25. Hogs — Mixed and butchers, $6.90@ 7.30; light, $6.60@6.95. Sheep—Good to choice wethers, $5 @ 5.50; fair to choice mixed, $4 @ 4.75; sheep, $4.75@5.50; Western lambs, $4.75@6.80. South St. Paul, March 4. — Cattle— Good to choice steers, $4.50 @ 5.50; good to choice cows and heifers, $3.25 @4; veals, $2.50@5.50; good to choice feeding steers, $3.75 @ 4.25; good to choice stock steers, $3 @ 3.25; steer calves, $2@3; good to choice stock zows and heifers, $2.25@2.75. Hogs— Price range, $6.40@7; bulk, $6.70@ co choice fat lambs, $5.50@6.25; fair to good, $4.75@5.25; good to choice yearling wethers, $4.65@4.85; heavy, $4@4.50; heavyweights, $3.40@3.85; culls and stock ewes, $1.75@2.75. FOR LIBELING GEN. DAVIS. Editor, Manager and a Reporter of Manila Newspaper Arrested... Manila, March 4.—William Crozier, editors ‘Mr. Kenrly, manager, and Mr. Green, a reporter of the American, have been arreested on the charge of libelling Gen. Davis. .When Gen. Davis expressed his partial disapprov- al of the findings in the Maj. Glenn case the American published an edi- torial charging Gen. Davis with a de- sire to curry favor with the adminis- tration in the hope of being selected to succeed Gen. Miles in the com- mand of the army, Gen. Davis referred the article to Gov. Taft. introduced a} No. 2 Northern, 741-8c; No. 3 spring, | Oats steady; | standard, 35 1-2@36c. Corn—May, 46c. | ers, $2.75@4.25; calves and yearlings, | bulk, | Western | .80; mixed, $6.65@6.80. Sheep—Good - ‘the sidewalk and broke his leg. Ex-County Attorney P. P. Smith died of heart disease at his home near Lake Wilson. The city hall at Fisher was destroy: ed by fire, which originated by a de fective flue. Faribault county is being canvassed very thoroughly for a fund for the famine sufferers. Mrs, Rhoda Aldritt Leach of Lake Minnewashta died of heart failure, aged sixty years. J. A. Jelly, auditor of Dakota coun- ty, resigned. Peter A. Hoffman was eloctog his successor. Mrs, Edward Dowling died at her home in Cook’s Valley, near Wabasha, after a lingering illness. | bE Re ag: | Chancey, the nine-year-old son of N. H. Miller, who was kicked by a horse, died at Royalton. William Denzen, a well-known farm- er of Buckman, is dead. He had lived in the county twenty-five years. Word has been received that An- drew Carnegie will donate $10,000 for a library at Marshall, under the usual conditions. A Northern Pacific train killed Joh Betner, who was walking on the track between Willow river and Sturgeon lake, near Duluth. | Mrs. A. E. Sawyer died at Hunter | hospital at Faribault from the effects of a surgical operation. Her husband | and two daughters survive her. She was sixty-three years of age. k The Duluth Stone company filed ar- | ticles of incorporation. The capital | is $50,000 and it is proposed to man- ufacture crushed rock for concreat, | building and paving material. The dredge companies of the Great | Lakes have formed what is to be | known as the Great Lakes Tug Pro- | tective association. Tire purpose is to | co-operate with the tug trust in fixing wages. The Winona County Old Settlers’ as- sociation elected the following offi- leers: President, Thomas Simpson; treasurer, Edward Pelzer; secretary, Mathew Marvin; historian, Dr. L. H. | Bunnell. The Oxford mills near Cannon Falla burned recently. Loss, $8,000; insur- ance, $5,000. The origin of the fire has not been determined. About $4, | 000 had recently been spent in improv- | ing the plant. A reunion of settlers was held at | Montevideo. L. R. Moyer acted as toastmaster and the evening was spent in reminiscences of pioneer days and the hardships that followed the Sioux massacre. | Charles Snyder, who was arrested at Duluth on the theory that he was one John Keogh, who is accused of the murder of Abraham Abrahamson near Mountain Iron, turns out to be wholly innocent and is not Keogh. John Jones, a Milwaukee road | brakeman, fell between the cars a ‘half mile west of Alden and was in- stantly killed. His home is at Aus- tin. Both legs were Severed and he | was otherwise mangled. | ‘Word has been received at Morris lof the death in San Diego of Prof. B. |'T, Buckland, who resigned the super- |intendency of the Morris schools a |year ago and last August went to | California for his health. J. Nye, recently a resident of Wells and for several years superintendent of schools of Faribault county, died ‘at Inkster, N. D., of acute Bright’s dis- | ease, aged fifty-nine years. He had been | grand master workman of the A. O. U. W. in Minnesota. | James J. Clark, who was making his first trip as a brakeman for the Chi- |cago Great Western, was thrown from |the caboose by a covered bridge near Zumbrota and severely injured. His ‘home is at Eagle Grove, Iowa. The five boys implicated in the, at- ‘tempt to destroy one of the cottages | of the training school at Red Wing by fire have been transferred to the St. Cloud reformatory. be Whittier re- fuses to make public/their names. The way freight train on the Chi- cago Great Western road ran into some freight cars between Zumbrota and Pine Island. The engineer and fireman jumped and no one was in- jured. The wrecked cars were piled so high the telegraph wires were cut out. Representatives from the high schools of St. Charles and Spring Val- ley debated the question, “Resolved, that United States senators should be elected by popular vote.” Spring Val- ley had the affirmative and won. A hearing was held at Austin on the motion for a new trial in the Bell man- slaughter case. The new trial is asked for on the grounds that the evi- dence in the former trial was insuffi- cient, and the judge made an error in his charge. OPERA COMPANY TO BE IN THE TWIN CITIES. —_——. The musically inclined in this part of the country will be delighted to learn that Manager L. N. Scott of the Metropolitan opera houses in St.’Paul and Minneapolis has completed ar- rangements with Manager Henry W. Savage for a season of grand opera in English by his famous company. The season is to be of four weeks’ dura- tion and will be played in alternate weeks in both cities. It will open at the Metropolitan opera house Min- neapolis on Monday eine Mebane 16, with the presentation of Verdi's always welcome “Il Trovatore,” one of the most popular operas ever writ- ten. Gounod’s “Faust” will be pre- sented the latter part of the week. The following week the company will move to St. Paul where, at the Met- ropolitan in that city, will be pre- sented Wagner’s “Lohengrin” and Balfe’s/“Bohemian Girl.” Again in Minneapolis, the week beginning March 29, the company will present on. Sunday evening a grand sacred concert at which will be sung, in ad- dition to a complete concert program enlisting the services of the entire company, Rossini’s beautiful Latin hymn, “The Stabat Mater.” For that week the operas are to be Bizet’s “Carmen” and Wagner's “Tannhau- ser.” The follewing Sunday night the week will open at the Metropolitan in St. Paul with another sacred concert with Gounod’s delightful St. Cecilia Mass for the principal number and a concert program totally different from that sung on the previous Sunday. The operas for the last week in St. Paul will be Verdi's. magnificent “Aida” and Flotow’s tuneful “Martha.” The prices which have been arrang- ed for the engagement are no higher than those which are usually charged for dramatic entertainments. There are 110 singers and an orchestra of thirty picked musicians , and seven of the largest sized baggage cars of ~cenery. WOMAN NEARLY STARVES. Crippled by a Fall She Is Unable to Seek Help. Northfield, Minn., Feb. 28. — Mrs. Esther Stensen, who lives alone ii a humble cottage pa the Cannon Vatiey right of way, was found yesterday by Chief of Police Ramage in a half- starved condition and scarcely able to talk. It was learned that she fell on the ice near her home Saturday and so injured her hip that she’ was un- able to walky She managed to drag herself into her room, and has been on the floor without assistance and no food but a crust of bread since that time. The woman has been a charge of the city fur some time. She is now receiving the best of care and will doubtless recover. FATAL END OF A QUARREL. Station Agent Shoots and Kills a Grain Buyer. Sioux Falls, S. D., Feb. 28. — H. E. Stegald, agent of the Illinois Central Railroad company at Benclare, east of here, yesterday shot and instantly killed Frank Bowen, a grain buyer of that place and owner of the town site. Stegald was arrested and brought here. The men quarreled the previous night over a car demurrage. Bowen returned to the station yesterday to secure some express packages, and while signing for them the agent shot him. killing him instantly. A second shot severely wounded Bowen's twelve-year-old son. Baa ERR SEB eee RICH WOMAN IN COURT. Charge Is Made That She Has Stc\n Wood for Fuel. La Crosse, Wis., Feb. 28. — Magda- lena Spies, a prominent La Crosse woman worth a fortune in her own ‘right, was yesterday arrested, charged with the theft of an armful of wood from the firm of -Hynne & Crosby. She owns many of the business blocks in the heart of the city, and among them is the building occupied by the plaintiffs. Mrs. Spies was at one time prominent in social circles, but of late had led a retired life. She was @ prominent figure in court circles some years ago in suits over logal property. M BLIZZARD IN DAKOTA. Railroads Are Hindered and Tele~ graph Won’t Work. Aberdeen, S. D., Feb. 28. — The snowstorm which set in’ Thursday night developed into an old-fashioned blizzard and'‘is growing steadily worse with no signs of cessation. Stock will suffer by exposure. Huron, S. D., Feb. 28. — Snow has peen falling here since early yester- day. The snow is very heavy and has interrupted railroading. Telegraphic communication is difficult, particularly east, west and south. The storm Ts general over the state and is sure to be disastrous to stock on the ranges. ‘FATAL NOOSE ORDERED. Contract Is Let for the Scaffold in the Jail- Yard. Duluth, Minn., Feb. 28. — Sheriff Butchart has given an order to a local hardware firm to furnish the rope with which to hang Charles EB. L. Hei- derson, the condemned negro mur- derer who killed Ida McCormick. ‘The rope is to be made especially for the purpose by a firm in Missouri. The sheriff has also awarded a contract for the construction of the scaffold. It will he erected in the jail yard. “HE CASTLE SQUARE GRAND: