Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 26, 1903, Page 3

\ WISCONSIN RIVER IS RISING. Farm Residences Are Surrounded by Water. f Portage, Wis., Sept. 22—The Wis- consin river yesterday reached a stage of 12.2 feet at the government lock, when the city levee on the west side, of the river broke, and the entire district between the Wisconsin river bridge and the Baraboo river, cov- ering a space of six miles, is one sea of water. Seven hundred feet of newly built city levee was washed away. Farm residences in the district are entirely surrounded. Hundreds of acres of potatoes, corn and millet are ruined. A special from Prairie du chien, wis., says that the Mississippi and the Wisconsin rivers have risen twenty-four hours. Crops on low- lands along the Mississippi river above the city are being flooded and many acres of corn are already under water. FALLS FROM GRACE. Institute Patient Returns Intoxicated and Does Some Shooting. Sioux Falls, S. D., Sept. 22. — The Keeley institute in this city was the yeene of an attempted murder. E. E. '‘MePeeka, a one-armed man whose home is at Gary, S. D., and who had been a patient of the institution, abandoned his treatment and took away his effects preparatory to return- ing to his home. He became intoxi- cated, and, returning to the institu- tion, opened fire with a revolver on members of the staff and patients who were seated on the veranda. One of the bullets struck William Skowis, a patient from Inwood, Iowa. Physi- cians state that the wound is not dangerous. McPeeka eluded the of- ficers all night, but he went to police headquarters in the morning and sur- rendered. IRREGULARITIES CHARGED. Recommends Criminal Prosecutions. Des Moines, Sept. 22—A commis- sion of attorneys appointed by the four judges of the Polk county district court to investigate certain charges of irregularities, reported, recommend- ing criminal prosecutions against E. H. Hunter, promoter, banker and poli- tician; Michael Grady, ex-alderman; W. L. White, merchant; Jesse O. Wells, liveryman and _ ex-alderman; R. F. Coffin, county clerk; Fred Cope, @ounty auditor. The charges against Mr. Wells and Mr. White grow out of a recent trial in which it was alleged the jury was tampered with. The two county officers are charged with irreg- ularities in the drawing of jurors. Commission CARS DEMOLISHED. Rock Island Freight Train Wrecked at Northfield. Northfield, Minn., Sept. 22. — The Rock Island north-bound freight was wrecked in the Milwaukee yards here yesterday morning. The wreck was caused by a defective switch. The engine passed safely and kept the track, but the tender and eight cars were derailed. A car of merchandise which was standing on the house track was struck by the falling cars and the end of the car was demol- ished. Of the derailed cars, two, a car of barley and one empty, were demolished and the barley was strewn across the main track and the house track. A wrecking train was sent for and the track has been cleared. TOWN NEEDS NO POLICEMAN. Parkersburg, lowa, Takes Method of Reducing Expenses. Iowa Falls, Iowa, Sept. 22.—A town without a policeman is the unique ex- perience that the town of Parkers- burg, east of this city, will try in the hope of cutting down the cost of municipal government. With faith in the uprightness and sobriety of its citizens, the town council has decided ‘to try and run the place without a peace officer on the town payroll, and accordingly the mayor has been or- dered by the town council to dispense with the town marshal for two months, and if the experiment is found to work satisfactorily the new plan will be tried for a longer period. NEW TRIAL IS DENIED in Katherine Mueller Case Involving Valuable ore Lands. Duluth, Minn., Sept. 22. — Judge ‘Cant denied a motion for a new tria! in the Katherine Mueller case, in volving valuable lands on the Mesaba and which was decided adversely tc Mrs. Mueller. The case attracted much attention last summer. The judge further refuses to certify to the testimony in case of steps for apped! unless the defendants, the Muellers. shall file a stipulation agreement tc have the case argued for appeal at the October term of the supreme court. Burns to Death in Bed. Sioux City, Iowa, Sept. 22. — Maj. Rix, a well known citizen of Dakota City, Neb., who has been an invalii for more than two years, was burned to death while smoking a cigar in bed. He had suffered from a cerebral! tumor and had been demented and helpless’: for some time. His wife gave him a_ cigar to smoke in bed while she wet to a neighbors. The bed clothing caught fire and the man’s body was fearfully charred. Unusual | CROPS NOT SO BAD AFTER ALL. Actual Damage to Corn Is Much Less Than Expected. St. Paul, Sept. 23. — South Dakota | ana Iowa farmers are now willing to revise their corn damage estimates and to authorize the statement that the injury done by recent frosts does ‘not exceed 20 per cent and probab:y will be found to be even less. In many sections a careful investigation shows that the damage is much less severe than was at first thought. Railway reports received over Sunday indicate that while the crop in both states is hurt, the damage is less severe than was believed. In the northern section of the Northwest damage estimates are revised as well, and the actual condition of wheat fresh from the threshers is found to be better than was thought. Although almost the entire Red river valley was thorough- ly soaked by the rains, and all of North Dakota and the greater part of Western Minnesota received a thorough drenching, the rains have been followed by almost ideal weather for drying out grain. FIRST WHIPS FATHER, Then Weds Daughter, but Joseph Finally Lands in Jail. Sioux Falls, S. D., Sept. 22.—Joseph Oe and Miss Emma Carpenter of Emery wished to get marriéd without having a family row over the matter, but the young lady’s father was bit- terly opposed to the match, chiefly be- cause of the insignificant name of the intended bridegroom. He did not like the idea of his daughter reducing her name to only two letters. But Oe was not to be defeated in his purpose to marry the girl. He whipped the father of his sweetheart and then took the girl to Ethan, where the cere- mony was performed. The father of the bride then had his new son-in-law arrested on the charge of abduction. SCHOOLMA’AMS MAY STRIKE. Object to Ban on Visits of Young Men. Eagle, S. D., Sept. 23.—At a recent meeting of the school officers of this district aban was placed upon the visits of young men to the school rooms while school was in session. They are alleged to materially inter- fere with the work of the pretty schoolma’ams. Just what the teach- ers will do in view of the action of the school officers is not known, but they may decide to go on a strike until the obnoxious order is rescinded. Foul Play Suspected. Grundy Center, Iowa, Sept. 23.—J. Ff. Haines of this place is lost and relatives are unable to locate him. In company with John Cea he went to Chicago and while there appeared to behave himself as a gentleman, and they started home. While en route Haines left the car in company with a stranger and has neither been seen nor heard of since. He leaves a wife here who is distracted and can- aot account for his strange disappear- ance, and foul play is feared. Last Sawmill Closes Down. La Crosse, Wis., Sept. 23. — The ‘sawmill of the C. L.,Colman Lumber 2ompany shut down Saturday for zood. It is its last season. The mill is the last of the big concerns to go out of the lumber business, the ma- shinery in all the others having been shipped to other points long since. {t was built in 1854, burned twice, and rebuilt again at a cost of $95,000. Only a couple of small mills are left of the dozen institutions once here. Hanged Himself. ‘Helena, Mont., Sept. 23.—Because che rope with which he essayed to aang himself was too long and per- nitted his feet to touch the floor, John Weto, a native of Norway, and with- yut relatives in this country, whipped out a razor and inflicted wounds from which death resulted. No cause is xnown for the deed save that Weto iad a black eye and did not take kind- y to the jokes of his fellow laborers. Unknown Men Go to Prison. Watertown, S. D., Sept. 23. — Two iorse thieves were brought before Judge Bennett and were given a thance to enter their plea. Their real aames they refused to tell, but re- narked that the court could take their iames down as John Doe and Rich- ard Doe. The former was given two rears and eight months and the latter one year and eight months at hard la- vor in the state penitentiary. Minnesota Pioneer Dead. St. Paul, Sept. 23—Edward J. Hodg- son, president of the Security Trust company and a pioneer of Minnesota, lied at 11:30 o’clock last night at the ige of sixty-two years. He had been suffering from a complication of dis- 2ases for Six months and not long ago submitted to an operation. Accused of Theft. Spring Valley, Minn., Sept. 23. — 3heriff Low has under arrest here’ ‘wo men charged with stealing some yarness and other things near Ches- cer, lowa, They gave their names as fohn Wilson and Chester Richardson. Farmer Swallows Paris Green. Amboy, Minn., Sept. 23.—John Per- sins, a renter on a farm two miles south of here, took a dose of paris sreen Saturday morning and died ‘rom the effects of it. He leaves a wife ind one child. No cause is known. THE MARKETS, — Latest Cuotations From Grain and Live Stock Markets. St. Paul, Sept. 23. — Wheat — No. 1 Northern, 88 @ 89c; No. 2 Northern, 84 @ 85c; No. 3, 81@82c; no grade, 74@81c. Corn—No. 3 yellow, 52c; No. 3, 51e; No. 4, 50c; no grade, 47@48c. Rye — No. 2, 50c. Barley — Malting grades, 50@55c; feed grades, 47@5l1c. Minneapolis, Sept. 23.—Wheat—No. 1 hard, 853-8c; No. 1 Northern, 84 3-8; No. 2 Northern, 81 7-8c. Duluth, Sept. 23. — Wheat — No. 1 hard, 841-4c; No. 1 Northern, 83 1-4c; No. 2 Northern, 80 1-4c; flax, $1.03 3-4; oats, 37 5-8c; rye, 54c; barley, 40@57c. Milwaukee, Sept. 23. — Wheat—No. 1 Northern, 90c; No. 2 Northern, 88@ 89c. Rye firm; No. 1, 571-2 @ 58c. Barley firm; No. 2, 67c; sample, 45@ 64c. Oats higher; standard, 393-4 @ 40c. Corn—December, 50 5-8c. Chicago, Sept. 23. — Wheat — No. 2 red, 811-2c; No. 3 red, 80 @ 81c; No. 2 hard winter, 78 1-2c; No. 3 hard winter, 72@731-2c; «No. 1 Northern spring, 90c; No. 2 Northern spring, 88 @90c; No. 3 spring, 82 @ 88c. Cash Corn—No. 2, 51@51 1-4c; No. 3, 51 @ 511-4c. Cash Oats—No. 2, 3612 @ 37c; No. 3, 36c. Sioux City, lowa, Sept. 23. — Cattle — Beeves, $4.35@5.50; cows, bulls and mixed, $2.25@4; stockers and feeders, $2.75@4; calves and yearlings, $2.50@ 3.75. Hogs, $5.50@5.80; bulk, $5.60@ 5.65. Chicago, Sept. 23—Cattle—Good to prime steers, $5.50 @ 6.15; stockers ‘and feeders, $2.50@4.15; calves, $3.50 @6.80; Texas-fed steers, $3.25@4.65; Western steers, $3.25@4.50. Hogs — Mixed and butchers, $5.50@6.25; good to choice heavy, $5.80@6.15. Sheep— Good to choice wethers, $3@3.65; fair to choice mixed, $2 @ 3; Western sheep, $2.75@3.70; native lambs, $3.50 @5.50; Western lambs,$3.50@5.25. ‘ South St. Paul, Sept. 23. — Cattle— Good to choice steers, $4.25@5; good %to choice cows and heifers, $3 @ 4; good to choice feeding steers, $3.25@ 3.75; good to choice stock cows and heifers, $2.15 @ 2.35; good to choice milch cows, $35@45. Hogs — Price range, $5.40@5.90; bulk, $5.55@5.65. Sheep—Good to choice shorn lambs, $4.25@4.75; good to choice yearling ‘wethers, $2.50@3.25; heavy, $3@3.25; good to choice ewes, medium weight, $2.75@2.90; culls and stock ewes, $2 25 @3.50. CANNOT SAVE THE CONCERN. Lake Surerior Directors Give Up the Struggle. New York, Sept. 23.—The directors of the Consolidated Lake Superior company, after a two-hour meeting yesterday, gave up the attempt to find a plan for saving the properties of the company, which are in the hands of Speyer & Co., as collateral for the loan of $5,050,000 made by the banking house to the company some time ago, and announced that the stockholders of the company were entirely at the mercy of the banking firm, which could sell out the stock of the operating companies in the Con- solidated Lake Superior company at any time they saw fit. With the an- nouncement of this decision came also a practical acknowledgment that they believed that their plans for financing the company to a sound position had been blocked at every point by the great financial interests that are be- hind rival steel companies in the United States. TRAFFIC IS ABANDONED. Roads Between Baraboo and Portage Under Water. Portage, Wis., Sept. 23.—Traffic be- tween Baraboo and Portage was aban- doned yesterday, the roads being cov- ered with from two to six feet of water, and the damage to crops and property by the breaking of the city levee is estimated at $30,000. United States Engineer L. K. Mann of Osh- kosh took charge of the work on the government levee last evening with thirty men. Much apprehension is still felt over the safety of the gov- ernment dike, as the water continues to seep through the bottom in numer- ous places. At Prairie du Chien the Mississippi river rose only sixteen inches since Sunday night, although’ the Wisconsin came up twenty. Large: {tracts of corn north of that city are under water and the damage will be’ heavy. $< _____. ST. PAUL MAN’S GREAT SHOOTING Record Made as Gun Pointer on the Indiana. Washington, Sept. 23. — A bulletin was posted at the navy department yesterday to the effect that Henry Ward Treanor was the man behind the battleship Indiana’s eight-inch gun that put four successive shots through the bull’s-eye on the 17x21- foot target at the 1400 and 1600 yards rarse during the recent target prac- tice of that vessel. Treanor enlisted as a seaman at St. Paul, Minn., in July, 1901, and has been a gun pointer since Jan. 1 last. AGAINST BLACKSMITH SHOPs, They Are Not Allowed on Principal | Businegs Streets. Geddes, S.-D., Sept. 23—The city council has enacted an ordinance prohibiting any person from carrying on the business of blacksmithing on the principal business street. Those now in business on the main street are subject to a fine of $10 a day for each day they continue in business on the street after they have been noti- fied by the city marshal to move else- where. Commission Will Hold Twelve-month Contest. W. W. P. McConnell, state dairy and food commissioner, has decided to be- gin a monthly butter-scoring contest to continue during a year. Samples of butter from all parts.of the state will be scored monthly and experts will offer criticisms for the benefit of buttermakers. Mr. McConnell has not decided on the details of the plan, but intends to offer prizes probably from $2 to $5 for those whose butter scores the highest i nthe monthly tests. At the close of the contest probably all contestants that have sent in samples six or more times and have received an average score of 93 or more, will receive a di- ploma of merit signed by the dairy and food commissioner. Mr. McConnell says that contests held in past years have proved of great benefit to creameries and but- termakers. With reference to the last contest Mr. McConnell says: “During the contest it was observed that butter made by certain methods would keep loonger than that made in the ordinary way. It was decided: to call for five-pound jars of butter in ad- dition to the regular twenty-pound tubs, and these jars were scored when the butter arrived, then placed in storage and in thirty days scored again. Then a samplewa s analyzed to determine of the percentage of wa- ter, casein and ash had any effect on the keeping quality of the butter. “The condition of thé milk or cream when it arrived at the creamery and the skill used in making the butter have more to do with the keeping quality of the butter than the chemi- cal composition. The samples that showed good keeping qualities were made from cream ripened to a moder- late degree of acidity, and the sample ‘which had the largest amount-of but- ter deteriorated the most. Those hay- ing from 10 to 11 per cent water kept ‘the best.” FIRST CHURCH IN THE STATE. St. Peter’s at Mendota to Celebrate Its Semi-Centennial. Fifty years ago, Sept. 29, 1853, the old stone church that stands on the high bluff overlooking Mendota and opposite Fort Snelling was finished and dedicated to its uses. It was the first Catholic church in Minnesota and the first pretentious building to be erected by any denomination. Mgr. Ravoux, a misionary priest, supsrin- tended its erection and delivered the first sermons that were heard from its pulpit. i Mer. Ravoux is still living and it is hoped that he will be able to partici- pate in the exercises that mark the ‘completion of a half century during which the old church building has sheltered its parishioners. St. Peter’s church isa strongly built edifice of yellow sandstone taken trom near-by quarries. The workmen who built it dd their work so thor- oughly that it yet stands without ap- parent damage from the winters and summers of a half centtry. It is the central point in an immense parish that embraces a large portion of Da- keta county. People come each Sun- day from distances of twenty miles to worship in it. ‘Its interior is little changed and is much the same as when it was first opened. The old church is one of the landmarks of the Minnesota valley, and in the early days sheltered Sioux, Dakotah and white alike, under the ministration of missionary priests. The half century anniversary of the old church will be celebrated with solemn’ ceremonies. Asm any of its former pastors are still alive and can can be present they will attend the service, and with them many prom- inent dignitaries of the church in the Northwest. CREAMERIES PAY OUT MILLIONS. Dairy Industry a Big Factor in the State’s Prosperity. Reports sent by creamery inspectors to the dairy and food commission give some interesting statistics concerning the creamery business in Minnesota. W. W. Wall, secretary of the commis- sion, has compiled the data sent in by the inspectors for the year ending Sept. 1. At present there are 681 creameries in operation throughout the state, and 420,000 cows see to it that they are supplied with milk. These are not all the cows in the state, for there are more than 500,000 more whose milk is not sent to the creameries. During the year there were 54,000 armers and others who patronized the creameries. The daily milk receipts at all the creameries aggregated 5,400,000 pounds, rom which 278,000 pounds of butter were made every day. The total yield of butter during the year was 76,000,000 pounds. This was sold by the creamery companies for $17,- 500,000, o which $12,500,000 went to the patrons of the creameries. TO TEST NEW LAW. South Dakota Fire Insurance Com- panies to Fight. Pierre, S. D., Sept. 23.—A temporary restraining order issued yesterday by the United States court was served on State Insurance Commissioner Per- ‘kins on complaint of several fire in- surance companies in a suit to test the state “anti-compact” insurance law. The order is returnable at Sioux Fells Oct. 3. A BREAK IN M’LEOD. Long Record of Good Crops Followed This Year by Partial Failure. Tt has been the boast’ of the people of McLeod county that not since grasshopper times, back in the seven- ties, has the county known a crop failure. In the sense of any wide- spread disaster to farming interests this is true, and only a very few times has there been even a partial failure of any crop. These many years of fatness have made of it an ideal agri- cultural community. Large, comforta- ble homes, big barns, good school houses, neighborhood churches, cream- eries and every accessory of comfort and plenty abound in every township. Many farmers send their children to high schools and colleges, have money in the bank and practically all are out of deb‘. This year will break the long record of their abounding prosperity, but they can stand it, and, if need be, drop in a few dollars when the hat is passed in behalf of poverty. The long- continued rains have made the season a bad one. Few cut hay enough before harvest to feed their stock through the winter. A little was cut and put up in poor condition after harvest, but thousands of acres of hay land, from which an immense yield* was promised, are now flooded. Serious distress on account of a hay shortage might, however, be averted could the farmers rely on the usual amofint of corn fodder. With a larger acreage of corn than usual, the prospects are that the crop will be of the least value, for over 75 per cent of the fields were so flattened by the windstorm of Sept. 7 that harvesting the stalks with a binder is a task next to impossible, even were it possible to operate a ma- chine in the dreary stretches of mud and mire of which corn, as well as other fields, are composed. To cut corn by hand is out of the question. As to wheat and oats, many stacks were uncapped by the wind and are wet and growing badly. Every poorly built stack is in the same condition. Nearly all of the wheat in McLeod county, if threshed before the rains set in, would have graded No. 1. Lit- tle of it will ever get that grade now and much of it will not get No. 2. Threshing has barely commenced. Ma- chines are stalled or mired here and there, unable to move on account of the mud. On the whole there seems to bo a fair prospect that unless there is an open winter a large amount of thresh- ing will go over till spring. Potatoes, which are a light crop, are rotting in the ground. But the gentle dairy cow, the shorthorn steer with his bulging sides, the roliicking porker and in- dustrious hen sound no note in the song of discord just now coming from McLeod county farmers. There are thousands of them in each class, and though some of them may have to get off the farm owing to half-filled hay mows and granaries, enough will be left to feed the people, with some to spare. MINNESOTA CROPS. Conditions As Reported by the Weath- er Bureau. Following the general rain of the 7th there were rains in some parts of the state every day in the week. In the afternoon of the 11th a general rain set in which continued over into the 12th; in much of the southern third of the state these rains were phenom- enally heavy, as shown by the follow- ing readings of government fain gauges: St. Paul, 5.20 inches; Min- neapolis, 5 inches; New Ulm, 4.62 ches, and Montevideo, 3.05 inches. ere is only one instance in the thir- y-three years’ record at’ St. Paul where the amount measured at that point was exceeded in the same num- ber of hours. The amount of damage by the floods of water to rail and country roads and grain in shock and stack can hardly be estimated. The low lands are full of water, and many fields are flooded so that shocks and stacks are standing in water. In the ‘extreme north and at points in the south the water on the 9th and 10th was dry enough for some shock thresh- ing, but in most of the state very little work in the grain was possible. Late flax cannot be cut, and that which was cut recently is lying on the ground very wet. The ground is so wet that the. moving of threshing machines eannot be attempted for some time. Some early corn has been cut, and more is ready as soon as the soil is dry enough for the binders to work, but a great deal of late corn will be in danger of being frosted. The cutting of a heavy second crop of clover is de- layed. Potatoes continue to rot, not only before they are dug, but also af- terward. Plowing is being done, but many fields are too soft to plow. Forestry at Farm School. The state school of agriculture will open Oct. 5. It is expected that the attendance will exceed 500 this winter, which is the largest in the history of the school. The registering of stu- dents has already begun, and names are coming in fast. One of the important extensions to tbe curriculum is a college course covering four years’ work. Forestry will be one of the subjects pursued in this course. Twenty-seven students have already enrolled, and many more are expected. EY Work on the new boys’ dormitory is progressing rapidly. It is a large building, with seventy-six rooms. It is expected that the building will be com- pleted by Jan. 1. 2 X, —* WANTED TO SEE ROOSEVELT. ~ Suspicious Character Held Up at Oyster Bay by Secret Service Men. Oyster Bay, N. Y., Sept. 23.—A sus- picious character giving his name as Samuel Swenyon, was held up by the secret service officers at Sagamore Hill late yesterday afternoon while making an effort to see the president. He was turned back io the village, shadowed, stopped at Oyster Bay and searched, and later placed on a train for New York. He was unarmed and appeared to be a harmless crank, pos- sibly a religious fanatic. He arrived here on the 3:19 train yesterday af- ternoon, but did not have a return ticket to New York. After examining him thoroughly the officers were con- vinced that he was entirely harmless and that he was neither an anarchist nor a socialist. He readily acceded to the suggestion of the officers to leave the village. They accompanied him to the station and he bought his own ticket to New York. He left on the 6:07 train, shaking hands with the officers before he entered his car. At no time did he appear to be excited, except when one of the officers at Sag- amore Hill told him that if he returned he was liable to be shot. He left the Hill in a hurry. He answered all questions in a frank and straightfor- ward manner, and bore every evidence of heing an unsophisticated foreigner, touched slightly, perhaps, with relig- ious fanaticism, who had been induced to come here merely by his curiosity. BURLINGTON FLYER HELD UP. Robbers Blow Open Express Safe, but Are Frightened Away. St. Joseph, Mo., Sept. 23.—The Bur- lington flyer from Omaha was held up at Dillon Creek, a few miles north of St. Jeseph at 11 o'clock last night. There were.four of the train robbers. One is said to have flagged the train with a red light. As soon as the engineer stopped the train, he and his fireman were covered by one of the men, while the others proceeded to the express ca and demanded that the door be opened. The express messen- ger refused to comply. After shooting at the car the robbers pried off the door of the car and climbed in. The messenger commenced shooting, but was quickly overpowered, after which the robbers turned their attention to the safe. A charge of dynamite was placed against the door and exploded. The safe door was blown off, but in the explcsion one of the robbers was badly hurt. Passengers on the cars, hearing the noise, rushed out of the day coaches and to the express car. The robbers seeing that there was too many imen to attack, fied into the fields along the track and escaped. Po- licemen and dcputy sheriffs to the number of fifty were at once taken to the scene of the hold-up, armed with riot guns, but the robbers were gone. The hills are being searched. STORY OF PERSECUTION. Alleged Methods of Chicago Labor Leaders. ¥ Chicago, Sept. 23.—Additional light was shed upon the methods of the labor leaders in their fight upon Painting Contractor John M. Stiles by the testimony presented yesterday to Judge Chytraus in the hearing of a pe- tition for an injunction against the As- sociated Building trades’ officers and the ailied unions. Revelations of thuggery, presumably by union repre- sentatives, and propositions to settle labor strikes on Stiles’ buildings on the pay:aent of $5 for each man by the ‘painting contractor were among the things that came to the surface through the cross-examization of Fore- man John Haas by Attorney Bloom- ingston. SOLD AS SLAVES. Chicago Factory Inspector Finds a Number of Children in Bondage. Chicago, Sept. 23.—Practically sold into bondage as white slaves, three children were yesterday found by Chief Factory Inspector Edgar T. Davies in Chicago. Their relatives are said to be their enslavers. According to the inspector they have been com- pelled to work thirteen hours a day. One hundred dollars ar, the money earned-by each child, is turned over to their families. The inspector says two of these violations of the child la- bor law were found in the shoe shin- ing parlors of James Rumal. BLOODHOUNDS ARE USED To Run Down the Murderers of Or- lando Dexter. New York, Sept. 23. — Dispatches from the scene in the Adirondacks of the murder of Orlando Dexter, a New York Millionaire, say that footprints have been found all around the cot- tage and about the point in the road where Dexter was shot from ambush as he drove along. Bloodhounds are being utilized and arrests are expected soon. It is “intimated that persons other than disgruntled poachers are concerned in the murder and a sensa- ‘tion possibly may grow out of the affair. PbS TIELEL 5 A OE , Brown County Lets Jail Contract. New Ulm, Minn., Sept. 23.—The con- tract for the new. Brown county jail was let, the construction to Cronan & Ruhimann of New Ulm, and the steel work to the Pauly Jail Company of St. Louis. It will cost about $20,000. om Instantly Killed. Houghton, Mich., Sept. 23. — A. M. Cowling fell down the hold of the Hold of the Osceola last night and was instantly killed. He was vice president, of the local lodge of the International Longshoremon’s association.