Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, September 10, 1904, Page 3

oe Teel rasa tg POTN EIGHT KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK \ FIFTY OTHERS SUSTAIN MORE OR LESS SERIOUS IN- JURIES. THE TRAIN WAS HEAVILY LOADED WAS RUNNING AT ITS SCHEDULE TIME WHEN ACCIDENT OC- CURRED. PLUNGED DOWN AN EMBANKMENT THE DAY COACH BREAKS LOOSE DRAGGING THE DINER AFTER IT. Moberly, Mo., Sept. 7—The south- bound Wabash passenger train which left Des Moines for St. Louis at 6:40 a.m. was wrecked yesterday near Pendleton, Mo., killing eight passen- gers and injuring more than fifty others. Immediately upon receipt of news | of the wreck a relief train was sent out and he dead and more seriously injured were brought back here. The train, which was composed of an engine, baggage and smoking smok- ing cars, day coach, diner and Pull- man sleeper, was well filled, it being estimated by Wabash officials that there were about 500 persons on board. The train was running At Its Scheduled Speed when the accident occurred. The day coach left the track and, breaking loose from the baggage and smoking cars, plunged down an embankment, dragging the diner with it. The Pull- man did not leave the track. The heavy dining car crashed on top of the coach, and the majority of those killed and injured were passen- gers in the latter. There was no one in the dining car it the employes, who escaped with in- juries. MAY BE A BLACK HAND CRIME. italian Lad Disappears and Kidnap- ping May Develop. New York, Sept. 7.—What may de- velop into another Italian kidnapping ease has been reported to the Bronx police. Antonio Laduro, eight years old, son of an Italian employed by a contractor, has disappeared and no trace of the body has been found. He was walking near his home with a younger brother, when two men en- gaged him in conversation. Their ap- pearance alarmed the younger boy, who ran away, and when Antonio failed to return he told of the affair. | There are 5,000 Italians in the settle- ment and all became greatly excited when the news spread. The elder Laduro, in reporting to the police, was inclined to believe, however, that his son was merely lost and that the Black Hand society had nothing to do with his disappearance. OLDEST HOOSIER DYING. Alexander Ferguson Is Now a Hun. dred and Fifteen Years of Age. Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 7.—Alexan- der Ferguson, aged 115 years, and since the death of James Lynch sev- eral years ago, widely known as the oldest man in Indiana, is reported dy- ing at his home near Gilman. Fergu- son was born on Dec. 24, 1/88, in Ty- rone county, Ireland, and was one of thirteen children, three of whom, in- cluding himself, lived to be more than 100 years of age. One of his sisters, Mrs. Bettie Carrolton, died at Frank- ton about < years ago, aged 106. Mr. Ferguson’s wife, whom he did not marry until be was. sixty, is living, aged ninety. They have several chil- dren. WILL WED IN BERLIN, German Crown Prince to Be Married Early in New Year. Berlin, Sept. 7. — The wedding of Crown Prince Frederick William and the Duchess Cecilia of Macklenburg- Schwerin will take place in Berlin, where the visiting members of the royal families can be entertained bet- ter than at the bride’s home. The marriage will probably take place early in the new year. ‘ MANY PERISH IN STORM. Fierce Gale Does Great Damage Along Labrador Coast. St. John’s, Sept. 7.—The mail boat Virginia Lake, from Northern Labra- dor, reports that the seaboard was swept by a fierce gale two weeks ago. Much damage was done to fishery property along the coast, and five schooners were driven ashore, result- ing in the loss of eleven lives. Man Burned to Death. Anoka, Neb., Sept. 7—Henry Toler was burned to death while trying to rescue his wife from flames which en- veloped her as the result of a kerosene explosion yesterday. The woman is also fatally burned. Strike Is Averted. New York, Sept. 7.—The threatened elevated railroad strike here has been averted, am agreement having been veached at a five hours’ conference be- twoon representatives of the company and its employes, is stated except | | governor in 1900 KNIGHTS IN PARADE. Conclave of Knights Templar Opened by Imposing Parade. San Francisco, Sept. 7.—The twen- ty-ninth triennial conclave of the Knights Templar was inaugurated yes- terday with a gpand parade which brought into contrast the thirteenth and twentieth centuries and recalled the age of chivalry when Richard Coeur de Leon and Saladin battled for possession of the Holy City. With fluttering gonfalons, with richly capar- isoned horses prancing in gay ac- coutrements, ten thousand men marched with nodding white and black plumes, with white maltese crosses on their shoulders, with swords flashing and with the banner of the cross flung to the breeze, over seven miles of the city’s gaily dec- orated and thronged streets. A striking feature of yesterday's parade was the presence in line of the Earl of Euston and several other officials of the Templar order representing the Knights Templar of England and Wales. The business session of the grand commandery began yesterday with a short meeting in the afternoon at which the reports of the grand of- ficers were made. ELECTION IN VERMONT. Republican Candidates will About 30,000 Majority. White River Junction, Vt., Sept. 7— Returns received at midnight indicate that the Republicans in yesterday’s state election elected the head of their ticket by a plurality equal, if not greater, than that returned for Will- iam F. Stickney when he was elected by 31,282 plurality over Senter. Yesterday 175 out of 246 cities and towns of the state gave Bell (Republican for governor) 33,128, Porter (Dem.) 10,122. The same places in 1900 gave Stickney 32,752, and Senter 10,6: Compared with the figures of the election of 1900 the vote of yesterday shows a republican gain of 1 per cent and a Democratic loss of 5 per cent. Tf the cities and towns still to be heard from show similar Republican gains Bell will be elected by a plurality even greater than Suck- ney received. Have SUPERINTENDENT KILLED. Gang of Tough Negroes Charged With Murder. fy Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 7. — The county superintendent of schools of Leon county, has been assassinated. Six negroes have been arrested. One confessed that they were’members of the “Before Day Murder club,” an or- ganization similar to that at States- boro, Ga. All were taken to Live Oak for safe keeping. Innocent negroes are in great alarm. F THE MARKETS. Latest Quotations From Grain and Live Stock Centers. St. Paul, Sept. 7. — Wheat — No.1 Northern, $1.13@1.15 1-2: No. 2 North- ern, $1.10@1.12; . 3, $1.106@1.10. Corn—No. 3 yellow, 52c. Oats—No. 3 white, 31 1-2@32c. Minneapolis, Sept. 7—Wheat — No. 1 hard, $1.173-4; No. 1 Northern, new, $1.13 1-4; No. 2 Northern, new, $1.10 1-2; old, $1.123-4. Oats — No. 3 white, new, 311-8c. Corn—No. 3 yel- low, 53 1-4c. Duluth, Sept. 7. Northern, $1.20 1-2; $1.17; flax, $1.26 1-4; rye, 72c. Milwaukee, Sept. 7—Wheat — No. 1 Northern, $1.15; No.2 Northern, $1.10@1.14. Rye — No. 1, T5c. Barley —No. 2, 58c. Oats—Standard, -- 4c. Corn—No. 3, 55@56c. Chicago, Sept. 7 Wheat — No. 2 red, $1.10 @ 1.12; No. 3 red, $1.07 @1.11; No. 2 hard, $1.07@1.11; No, 3 hard, $1.01 @ 1.07; No. 1 Northern, $1.16; No. 2. Northern, $1,08@1.14. Corn—No. 2, 541-4@541-2c. Oats — No. 2, 31 1-2@32c. Sioux City, Iowa, Sept. 7. — Cattle —Beeves, $3.50 @ 5; cows, bulls and mixed, $2.20@3.25; stockers and feed- ers, $2.75@3.50; calves and yearlings, $2.60@3.25. Hogs—Bulk, $5.20@5.25. Chicago, Sept. 7.—Cattle—Good to prime steers, $5.40@6.10; stockers and feeders, $2@3.75; cows, $1.35 @ 4; heifers, $1.75 @ 4.50; calves, $3.50 @ 6.25. Hogs—Mixed and butchers, $5.10 @ 5.50; bulk of sales, $5.30 @ 5.45. Sheep—Good to choice wethers. $3.50 @4; native lambs, $4@5.75; Western lambs, $4@5.75. South St. Paul, Sept. 7. — Cattle — Good to choice steers, $5@5.50; good to choice cows and heifers, $2.50 @ 3.25; butcher bulls, $2.25@3; veals, $2 @ 5; good to choice stock steers, $2.50 @ 3.10; good to choice stock cows and heifers, $1.50@2.25; good to choice milch cows, $30@40. Hogs— Range price, $5.10@5.35; bulk, $5.15@ 5.25. Sheep — Good to choice lambs, $4.65@5; fair to good, $4.25@4.65; good to choice yearling wethers, $3.40 @3.85; good to choice ewes, $3.sv@ 3.50. — Wheat — No. 1 No. 2 Northern, oats, 321-2c; Hiccoughs for Ten Days. Bridgeport, Conn., Sept. 7. — After hiccoughing steadily for ten days Franklin H. Hull,, seventy-five years old, died last night at his home. All remedies prescribed proved unavail- ing. Gets Job He’s Running For. Pierre, S. D., Sept. 7—Gov. Her- reid yesterday appointed George M. Marquis of Clear Lake as judge of the Third circuit to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Bennett. The appointee is the Republican nominee for judge of that circuit. Prisoners Escape Jail. Pocahontas, Iowa, Sept. 7.—A broth- er of Horse Thief Theesfeld sawed the padiock that controls the cage levers and set at liberty Theesfeld and ‘twe other prisoners., CORRUPTION IN BUTTE. bounty Said to Have Been Robbed of Mundreds of Thousands of Dollars. Butte, Mont., Sept. 6.—The -county rand jury, which has been in session ver since Dec. 28 investigating cor- ption in the county offices, made a partial report yesterday in which only three county officials escaped accusations. The chief charges are against Commissioners W. D. Clark, M. P. Haggerty and Pat Peoples, As- sessor Dan Brown and Road Commis- sioner W. H. Matthews, who are ac- cused of having been in a conspiracy to rob the county. About thirty in- dictments have been returned against various officials. BLACKSMITH EARNS $50,000. Aged Des Moines Man Retires After Forty-Six Years at Anvil. Des Moines, Sept. 6. — After ham- mering at the anvil in one shop in Des Moines for forty-six years H. H. Swope, known as the pioneer black- smith, has retired at the age of sev- enty-six years with a comfortable fortune of $50,000. As he sta aside and saw his old smithy torn down to make room for a modern sky scrapt the tears rolled down his cheeks an his gray head shook with emotion. He had not missed a day at the anvil in nearly half a century excepting the three years he followed the federal flag in the Civil war. AUGUST BREAKS RECORD. , Tonnage Through Soo Ship Canal Far Heavier Than a Year Ago. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., Sept. 6. — The statistical report of the Soo ship canal for August shows a _ record- breaking month. The total tonnage was 4,194,886, nearly 250,000 tons heavier than for August last year. The total to date, however, is nearly 8,000,000 below last year at this time, and it will be impossible to equal the record of last year by the time the season closes. The total tonnage for the season so far is a trifle under 15,- 00,000. The general decline in iron tf the decrease. MUCH LAND TAKEN. Pouth Dakota Land Office Has Good August Record. Pierre, S. D., Sept. 6—The records of the land office in this city show that filings were made on 157 quarter- sections of land in the month of Au- gust in the Pierre office alone, while the other districts covering the sec- tion of the state west of the river did as much or more. This means that in the Pierre district alone 25,120 acres were taken up, which is five sec- tions over a township. The returns from the other land districts no doubt fwill show that three times that mount was disposed of in August. KILLED WHILE HUNTING. ‘Roy Cooper of Glenham, S. D., Dies Instantly. Evarts, S. D., Sept. 6.—Roy Cooper of Glenham, S. D., was shot and in- stantly killed while hunting thirteen miles north of that town near Hun- ter’s ranch. He was standing in a buggy with Harry Scott, and seeing the dogs on a point called Scott to stop quick, grabbed his gun by the barrels and started to pull it toward him out of the buggy. The hammer catching in some manner discharged the gun. The charge entered the neck, severing the spinal cord and jugular vein. NOW ALL IS DARKNESS. Is Stricken Suddenly Blind. Sioux City, Iowa, Sept. 6—The un- asual and pathetic spectacle of a man being suddenly stricken blind was witnessed at Correctionville yester- day. John Kastner had just finished his breakfast and started for the barn. In the middle of the lot he stopped, a pall of darkness descended upon him and he began groping wild- ly in the path. The stricken man lost the sight of one eye by accident a few years ago and he has been afflicted with granulation for some time. An lowa Man DOZEN WOUNDS IN FIGHT. Two South Dakota Finns in Serious Conflict. Aberdeen, S. D., Sept. 6—Stephen Thompson of Savo township was dangerously stabbed in a fight with Theodora Marikama and brought to the county hospital here. He has twelve cuts in different parts of his body. The largest one is over the right lung, which required thirty-six stitches to close. His condition is serious. Marikama was spirited away by friends and left the country. Officers are ‘search- ‘ng for him. Both are Finns. FIX SCALE OF COAL MINERS. Montana Employes Get Same Wages But Conditions Change. Helena, Mont., Sept. 6—A agree- ment between the coal mine operators of the state and the United Mine Workers of America for District No. 22 has been concluded. The agree- ment is to take effect on the first of October and continue for one year. In the matter of wages there has been no change, but there have been changes in the conditions under which the mines are to be operated. vireles early in the season, together | fith the strike is the supposed cause | is supposed to have) TOP OF HER HEAD BLOWN OFF. Young Lady Victim of a Shocking Ac- cident. Duluth, Minn., Sept. 7—Mamie Pfau, a@ young woman in the employ of a large department store as a milliner, was accidentally killed at Boulder lake, twenty miles west of here, yes- terday while with a party of eight who had gone out to spend Labor Day on the river which enters into that body of water. The members were all seated in a boat when a duck was seen in ‘the distance. James McMil- lan, employed by the Western Union Telegraph company, raised his gun to take a shot at it when the trigger in soMe manned became caught and tlfe full charge was received by the young woman, blowing the top of her head off. McMillan was almost crazed by the shock and could give only an in- coherent description of the tragedy when he appeared at Duluth police headquarters after a long drive with one of his companions. The parents of Miss Pfau are prostrated, but are not disposed to blame the slayer of their daughter. DEATH IN “LIVE” WIRE. Ten-Year-Old Bay Is Killed by Electric Shock. Minneapolis, Sept. 7.—Arthur Tols- ma, the ten-year-old son of John B. Tolsma, was killed by electricity on a “live” wire with which he had come in | contact at Eighth avenue and Seventh street south at 6 o’clock last evening. The boy was on his way home and was carelessly passing over a “live” | electric wire which was grounded dur- | ing the electric storm, when suddenly |coming in contact with it he was hurled to the ground. As he fell to the earth he grasped hold of the wire, which sent the deadly current through | his body until he was extinct. CIRCUS CROWD IN PANIC. ' Horses Leading Parade Break Away and Trample Spectators. La Crosse, Wis., Sept. 7—The run- away of a pair of circus horses through a crowded! street yesterday caused great excitement during the parade, but no one was seriously in- jured. A pretty pair of white horses leading the parade and driven tandem became frightened, broke away from their driver and dashed down several blocks before they were stopped. ; Women and children rushed to get away, but several were knocked down and trampled upon. EXPLOSION KILLS FIVE. Threshing Engine Boiler With Deadly Effect. Bricelyn, Minn., Sept. 7—The boiler of Pete Daly’s thresning engine ex- ploded three miles north of town at 7 o’clock yesterday morning, killing Pete Daly, Chris Sunde, James Sey- mour, Abe Foster and Willard Gallyon. Their limbs were torn off, the bodies thrown twenty rods and mangled. ‘ine explosion set fire. to wheat stacks. Abe Foster’s body was partly burned. The rear half of the engine was thrown forty rods into the field. George Hal- verson was injured. Explodes LIFE CRUSHED OUT BY CARS. Farm Hand Is Run Over Near Wilson Siding. St. Paul, Sept. 7—Zewert Olson, a farm hand who worked at New Brigh- ton, was run over on the Soo tracks near Wilson Siding, four miles ngrth of New Brighton, about 3 o’clock yes- terday morning. His body was badly mangled and it was only late yester- day that the body was identified as that of Zewert Olson by D. McCullum and N. C. Naughton, farmers living near New Brighton. GO TO LAUNCH MILWAUKEE. The Late Senator John L. Mitchell’s Daughter to Be Sponsor. Milwaukee, Sept. 7.—About twenty Milwaukeeans, who make up the launching party that will be present at the christening of the cruiser Milwau- kee, which is to be launched at San Francisco on Saturday next, left for the West last night. Miss Janet Mitchell, daughter of the late Senator John L. Mitchell, will break the bottle of wine and name the vessel. BLACK HILLS CROP GOOD. Wheat Will Average 18 Bushels and Oats 50 to Acre. Deadwood, S. D., Sept. 7—The first returns from the different threshers in the valleys of the foothills have been averaged up so that the crop of small grain for the season is known. The oats will average about fifty bushels to the acre and wheat will go about eighteen. The wheat is a\fine quality. There has been no rust in the Hills. TWO’ IOWA GIRLS MISSING. Both Believed to Have Been Lured From Home for Immoral Purposes. Mason City, Iowa, Sept. 7. — Anna Allen and Pearl Rogers, pretty girls of fifteen, went to a grocery Saturday night and have not been seen since. The Iowa Central ticket agent says a man bought two tickets for Grinnell and took the girls on the midnight train south. It is supposed he was a St. Louis agent decoying young girle to immoral resorts there. In Minnesota. State News of the ‘Week Briefly Told. Hugo Johnson, son of State, Ser.ator C. H. Johnson of St. Peter, was killed at Wentworth in a railroad accident. James Anderson, aged fourteen, fell into the wheat bin of an elevator at Madison Lake and was smothered to death. Emil Fredine, who lives near May- nard, had his arm so badly mangled in a threshing machine that amputation was necessary. Elmer Tutz, aged six, son of Adam Tutz of Caledonia, fell forward from a loaded wagon and a front wheel passed over his chest. His condition is crit- ical. Shaw Hoss Kung, chief oracle and one of the last of the grand medicine priests of the Ojibwas, died at White Earth at the age of eighty. A few years ago the old chief became a Cath- olic. J. S. Hedditch died at Park Rapids of apoplexy, aged 75. The remains were taken to Clinton, Wis., his for- mer home. He was vice president of the First National bank. The large barn on the Isaac Free- man farm near Spring Valley was struck by lightning and burned to the ground, together with three head of horses, eight stacks of grain and farm- ing utensils. The Great Northern will erect a new building at Willmar to house the big office force, and will also build an eat- ing hoise near the railway station. The estimated cost of the former is $4,000 and of the latter about $3,000. The stateprison is running all its binder twine spindles at full capacity in order to increase the output next year. The warehouses are being filled with fiber from the Philippines and Yucatan. . Nels Nelson, one of the pioneer citi- zens of Northern Minnesota, is dead at Two Harbors. He was born in Den- mark and was 42, When 18 he came to America, first settling in the East- ern states and later in Minnesota. Willmar’s fourth annual street fair and carnival will be held Sept. 14, 15, 16 and 17. The T. I. Cash Carnival company will furnish the free street attractions. Col. William M. Liggett will act as judge of the cattle exhibit. A girl about eighteen years old step- ped off the local train on the Great Northern at Evansville before it stop- ped and struck her head against a beam of a coal shed. The blow killed her instantly. She boarded the train at Brandon. No means of identifica- tion have been found. The body of George Eddy was brought to Elk River from Milaca for burial, members of the Foresters’ lodge of that place accompanying the casket’ and acting as_ pallbearers. Eddy died of heart failure. As mar- shal of Milaca village he put several rowdies in jail and the exertion proved too much for him. York Station, eight miles north of Two Harbors, was the scene“of anoth- er serious accident, as a_ result of which Luke Gragoosh was perhaps fa- tally injured. Both his legs were broken between knee and ankle, his left ear nearly severed from his head, a deep gash made on the back of his head and internal injuries inflicted. He was walking south on the track and was struck from behind by an ex- tra ore train. A. P. Blagik ,deputy game warden of Winona, has been engaged for two weeks in putting back into the Missis- sippi thousands of fry fish thet have been caught by the falling waters and left in pockets. From some of these pockets drains were cut to the river, down which the fish could go, and in others the fry wera removed by sein- ing. About 6,000 fry were captured and placed in Lake Winona to im- prove the fishing there. Former Postmaster E. E. Price of Marcy postoffice at Highland has been arraigned on the charge of sending in- accurate statement of the number of stamps canceled at his office, with a view to increasing the compensation. Mr. Price furnished a bond and was released from custody. By Price’s re- port for the month of January it ap- peared that the amount aggregated $61.55, when in reality it should have been only $34.35. Postmasters at fourth-class offices are allowed the to- tgl face value of the stamps canceled, so that by reporting more cancella- tions than actually occurred at his of- fice Price was adding to his income. Mrs. Charles Edison, residing about a mile and a half north of Pine Island village, committed suicide by hanging. She made a loop out of some cloth and fastened it to a doorknob. In a semi- sitting position she then strangled to death. Her husband was in the gar- den and when he returned to the house had difficulty in opening the door. Using forte, he succeeded in pushing the door far enough to admit him and was horrified to find that his wife had taken her own life. * Preparations are being made for the county fair at Aitkin on Sept. 14 and 15. ‘ A delegation of Knights of Pythias (colored) from Minneapolis, filling five railway coaches, picnicked at Carver recently. Mrs. P. D. Matherson of Kasson died at St. Mary’s hospital at Roches- ter, where she underwent an opera- tion. She was highly esteemed at Kasson. : B. M. Hungerford of Aitkin has fin- ished threshing 100 acres of oats and barley, the first crop on ground brok- en last spring. The barley yielded 40 bushels an acre and the oats 60. Frank Pierce of Sauk Center has been arrested, charged with having assaulted a sixteen-year-old son of James Coyle. He pleaded not guilty and the case will come up for trial at St. Cloud. County Attorney McCaughey and Sheriff Brown of Kasson were in a runaway while on their way to Man- torville. McCaughey had his leg brok- en and Brown had three ribs broken’ and was injured internally. Application for a third rural free de- livery route out of Fosston has been Granted. The new route will pierce the country south and east, twenty-five miles in length, ahd will. serve a popu- lation of 600. The service will begin about Sept. 15. The seven-year-old boy of Mrs. An- drew Moe of Leroy, who was bitten by} a rattlesnake ,has almost entirely re- covered. The physicians were delayed fully an’ hour and the poison had made great headway, but on their arriva', through special efforts, the boy’s life was saved. Arrangements are being made for a street fair and carnival in Hastings by the Cash Carnival company of St. Paul from Oct. 5 to 8. A street fair association has been organized with the following officers: President, J. P. Griffin; vice president, W. E. Beerse; secretary, H. C. Heinsch; treasurer, John Heinen. A fall of snow, the first of the fall, occurred at Virginia last week. It lasted but a short time, but was suffi- cient to convince one that summer in the range country is a thing of the past. Crops, flowers and garden pro- duce were damaged in the country im- mediately surrounding Virginia, and heavy frosts are reported from other western Mesaba range points. Sheriff William B. Butchart of St. Louis county is dead. Sheriff Butch- art was born in Wellington county, near Guelph, in Canada. On his arriy- al in the United States he first located at Marquette, Mich., and came to Du- luth in 1878. He is survived by his wife and three sons. He was a mem- ber of the Foresters, United Work- men and Knights of Pythias and sev: eral other secret societies. The McLeod county commissioners metsin special session and appointed a committee consisting of the chairmen of the board sof supervisors in the several towns and the mayors of cities and villages, each to be assisted by two others, for the purpose of solicit- ing relief funds for the tornado suf- ferers of the county. The funds are to be disbursed by a central committee of five. Hutchinson city has already raised $1,200 to aid in rebuilding houses and providing the necessaries of life for those in need. Te give an idea of the destructiveness of the storm, it may be said that thirty farms in four townships were swept f ev- ery building. Elk River is developing into a po- tato market second to none in the po- tato belt. More potatoes are being marketed here than at any of the sur- rounding towns, and the price has been uniformly higher. The price to- day, 23 cents, is some lower than has ruled for two weeks, and is the very top of the market. Potato men here say they expect lower prices the re- mainder of the season. The market is declining and will soon reach 20 cents here, but at that figure the re- ceipts will be heavy. The stock is about evenly divided between white and red and is mostly nice, large tubers, free from rot, sunburn and scabs, " Earl Knox, a popular Swanville ath- lete, lies at death’s door as the resul of a bicycle accident. He and a frien! were riding in from the country short- ly after dark, and while traveling at a high rate of speed Knox’s wheel veer- ed slightly from the path, striking a largé wheel road scraper which had been left by the roadside. He was thrown against the scraper, the full force of contact coming on the back of his neck, near the base of the brain. Friends carried him to his home un- conscious, where an examination re- vealed a slightly injured spine and a bad case of concussion of the brain. He is unconscious most of the time, but hopes of his recovery are enter- tained. A spirit of improvement has struck the villdge of Swanville. Through the efforts of citizens the contracts have been let for the ditching of the “big marsh,” as it is called, and this will probably be accomplished before win- ter. The Commercial club has already under advisement plans to see that the roads leading across the marsh are made available for traffic, thus giving the countryside east, and naturally tributary, a permanent way of getting into the village at all times o% the year. These improvements will neces- sitate an outlay of more than $3,000. ove