THE STANDARD BY C. C. KNAPPEN,

8ISSETON, - SOUTH DAKOTA.

NEWS OF WEEK SUMMARIZED IMPORTANT EVENTS AT HOME

AND ON FOREIGN SHORES

BRIEFLY TOLD.

Washington. Harry H. Schwartz of South Dakota

has been appointed chief of the special field service division of the general land otlice.

The remains of Gen. T. J. Wint were Interred at Arlington cemetery in Washington with full military honors.

The controller of the currency has •*>isi]ed a. call for a statement of tile condition of national hanks at the close of business Friday, March -!•.

Plans and specifications for the two new battleships authorized by the last session of congress will be ready for competitive bidding about April 1 if the present, plans of the naval con­structors are carried out. Didders will also be given an opportunity to sub­mit plans of their own.

Foreign. The Russian evacuation of Manchu­

ria is complete. The last battalion of Russian troops has left Harbin.

A Russian squadron arrived at Spit-head. England last week. This is the first visit of Russian warships in Eng­lish waters since before the Russo-Japanese war.

Dr. Jollos, editor of the ltusskl Vie-domsti, was assassinated at Moscow by an unknown youth, who shot him with a revolver as he was leaving his residence. The murderer escaped.

The famine-stricken Chinese have been practicing cannibalism in locali­ties where the distress is most acute. The spread of fever continues, and the heavy rains are increasing the general misery. Spasmodic rioting has occur­red, hut the outbreaks have not been serious.

While Marie Pla, the dowager queen, mother of King Carlos and Prince Alfonse, brother of the king, were go­ing to the theater at Lisbon in an auto-mobile the car ran over a woman car­rying an infant. The child was killed and the woman dangerously injured. The dowager queen was overcome with emotion and wept.

People Talked About.

Daniel V. McDonough, a veteran Democratic member of the Illinois leg­islature, died in Chicago after a long illness.

Henry Clay Barnabee, the veteran comedian, who for years was the head of the Bostonians, received 0,000 as the result of a benefit in Boston.

Judge Samuel Ryan, eighty-three years old, the oldest editor in Wiscon­sin and one of the oldest members of the Odd Fellows, died at Appleton.

Attila F. Mallory, brother of United States Senator Mallory, was found dead in his office at Pensacola, Flu. Mr. Mallory's father was secretary of the Confederate navy during the Civil war.

Thomas Edwin Orr, widely known as a writer and lecturer on farm topics and reputed to be the most expert poultry fancier in the United States, died suddenly from heart failure at Beaver, Pa. 1

Alexander Beaubien, said to be the first white child born in the city of Chicago, lied in that city after a long Illness. Beaubien was born in Fort Dearborn, which was at that time the name of Chicago, on Jan. 28. 1822.

Casualty. Walter Carday and Elecey Farmer

were killed by lightning while working In a stone quarry at Bowling Green, Ohio.

John Gordon, six years old, fell un­der the wheels of a clay cart at Lo-gansport, Iowa. His right leg was ground up.

A great gas well two miles east of Sapulpa, I. T., that caught fire last week is still burning furiously. Work­ers in this field are terrorized.

Two men were killed and three oth­ers were wounded as a result of a bailer explosion at the Brazos Hard­wood Lumber company's plant at Mar-lin, Tex.

A brick building used to manufac­ture muriatic acid at the plant of the General Chemical company on Buffalo river, near Buffalo, N. Y.. was destroy­ed by fire. The loss will be close to $100,000.

Edward Roberts of Lake Linden was killed at Sandusky, Ohio, while work­ing on a dock. A girder at the top of an eighty-foot, derrick broke and he •was hurled to the giound, meeting in­stant death.

Mistaking a gasoline jug for a vine­gar jug, Mrs. Sarah Emery of Sioux City, while preparing dinner, poured gasoline into a pot on the stove. Im­mediately she was enveloped in flames and she died later.

A spark caused by a blow from a ^hammer ignited a quantity of set

• " pieces in the finishing room of the Con--'.Bolidated Fire Works company at Gren-

|2fv^e' and in the explosion one K |man was torn to pieces, a boy and two

girls were probably fatally injured, and ;fleven other persons were burned.

: A steel girder slipped from the top of a power house under construction for the Brooklyn Rapid Transit com­pany to New York and carried away a

, scaffolding upon which a dozen men iwere working. Two of! the seven men Injured will die.

Two men were blown to pieces and several thousand dollars' worth of property was destroyed when the Glaze mill of the Austin Powder com­pany at Fall Junction, Ohio, exploded.

Twenty-four persons were injured, some seriously, and a two-story build ing occupied by a 5-cent theater, with moving pictures, was wrecked at Greenfield, Ind., by an explosion ol natural gas.

Fire at Pino Bluff, Ark., swept over the entire plant of the Bluff City Lum­ber company and destroyed several small buildings owned by the com­pany. The loss is estimated at from $70ii,U00 to $750,000.

K y n e r N e l s o n , a g e d t e n , o f S c r a n t o n , w h i l e v i s i t i n g h i s u n c l e , T h o m a s L a r ­s o n . a t l i o o n e , I o w a , h a d h i s r i g h t f o o t c r u s h e d b y j u m p i n g f r o m a N o r t h W e s t e r n t r a i n . A t t h e h o s p i t a l h l . -f o o t w a s a m p u t a t e d . '

Criminal.

'Three girls who ran away from their homes in St. Louis were arrested in Chicago. The girls said tliev came to Chicago to go oil the stage.

Ward M. Snyder, said to be a son of Nicholas Snyder, a millionaire oil ope. rator of Pittsburg, was indicted by a federal grand jury on a charge of big­amy.

August Johnson, an industrious woodsman living at Ontonagon, Mich., attempted to commit suicide by slash ing his throat with a pocket knife. De­spondency is given as the cause.

William Robinson and Perry Smith, two negroes, pleaded guilty in St Louis to having murdered John H. .M Osborne last December, and were se teneed to ninety-nine years in the p-itentiary.

Dominic Fergetto, an Italian miner at Loretto, Mich., was shot and fatally injured by an unknown party. He was shot from ambush. The police of­ficers suspect several, but no arrests have been made.

Binding a handkerchief over his eyes to hide the approaching train, Oscar Nylen of Canton, 111., laid across the rails at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, and the train passed over him, severing thu head from his body.

Dr. William Linder, a prominent physician of Union, S. C\, was shot and instantly billed by Lucy Litzey, who walked into the physician's office, closed the door and fired a bullet into his hack. The woman was arrested.

James Haley, a railroad laborer, is lying in the city hospital at Billings. Mont., dangerously wounded, the vic­tim of the knife of James E. Brenn . > a barber. The assault occurred in an all-night theater, and for a short time pandemonium reigned.

George S. Mc-Reynolds, formerly a prominent, member of the Chicago board of trade, wis sentenced to an indeterminate term in the penitentiary on the charge of removing from his elevators grain on which warehouse re ceiptes had previously been issped.

While rummaging in an ash heap in a gully at Houghton, Mich., close to town a young boy discovered the naked body of an infant child, which had been strangled to death by a thick string and thrown down the gully, wrapped closely in old clothing and a Finnish newspaper.

Morris Heitli, a Jew, was mortally wounded, Edward Maymon, a negro, was shot and seriously hurt and a race riot was begun at Kansas City as the result of a fight between Maymon and Andrew Johnson, also a negro, in the Jewish quarter. Johnson fled, with a great crowd in pursuit. A policeman fired two shots at him, but he escaped.

General. A tornado did considerable damage

at Chaiiute, Kan. No one was hurt. An extraordinary session of the Pan­

ama national assembly has been called for April 15.

Gen. Kuroki will represent the Japa­nese army at the Jamestown celebra­tion in April.

The Nebraska legislature has pass­ed a bill prohibiting child labor in all its forms, including working in the beet fields.

Spinal meningitis has broken out in the Puget sound navy yard at Seattle. There are several cases on the train­ing ship Philadelphia and at the re­cruiting office.

Gov. Deneen sent a memorial to the Illinois legislature suggesting a gen­eral celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln, Feb. 12, 1909.

Provision'for legislation through in­itiative by petition and an optional referendum stands at the head of the list of important bills passed by the Maine legislature which has just ad­journed.

A. L. Sutton, chief of the bureau of exploitation of the Jamestown Expo­sition company, tendered his resigna­tion at the request of the board of gov­ernors, upon charges filed by a tourists bureau.

A run started on the Licking county bank at Newark, Ohio, from no known cause, and continued in spite of the announcement of the directors that tb" bank could pay all deposits. Busi­ness men came to the rescue.

Bryce Hinton has been enjoined by the district court at Albia, Iowa, from hereafter conducting a saloon. 1: is the general belief that there will be no attempt to violate the court's orders, as Hinton has been dead for several months. He died shortly after the suit was instituted.

Samuel Greenman of Kansas City has brought suit for $6,000 damages against Rev. Max Lieberman, rabbi of Kanesses Israel temple. Greenman says the rabbi approached him while he was praying in a loud voice and struck him, saying be was praying too lojid.

BONILLA WON'T ^ STAY WHIPPED

DEFEATED HONDURAN PRESI­

DENT IS REORGANIZING HIS

ARMY.

MEXICO Will NOT INTERVENE

DIAZ REFUSES TO JOIN UNITED

STATES. IN JOINT INTER­

VENTION.

Washington, March 31.—News that Costa Rica had recognized the provi­sional government of Honduras lacked official confirmation up to the close of the day and was accepted with re­serve.

At leaBt sixty days will be required for the election of a president by the provisional government in Honduras and the establishment of a new admin­istration on such a basis that it can command the general recognition of the world powers.

Bsnllla Wants More of War. This delay necessarily will make

condition# in Central America even more uncertain, according to Latin-American diplomats, who have ad­vices that President Bonllla has no thought of giving up the fight, but Is busily reorganizing his army in the hope of reversing his former defeats.

Capt. Fullam, commander of the gunboat Marietta, reported by cable from Puerto Cortez that everything was quiet on the north coast of Hon­duras.

Will Not Intervene. Mexico City, March 31. — Mexico

will on no condition join the United States in a joint intervention between Nicaragua and Honduras," was the positive declaration of Minister of Foreign Affairs Mariscal at the for­eign office yesterday.

"This government is ready at any time to join the United States in offer­ing its good offices in friendly media­tion, but will go no further. Should President Roosevelt decide to inter­vene he will he obliged to act inde­pendently, ns far as President Diaz is concerned."

GRAFT FIGHTERS ARMED.

"Gun Play" in Attempt to Rescue Ruef Feared in San Francisco.

San Francisco, March 31.—The sen­sational statement that every person openly identified with the prosecution of the alleged grafters and bribers is carrying a revolver concealed; that several of the more prominent are em­ploying each a bodyguard, and that an attempt to rescue Abe Ruef by force is not unlooked for, was made yester­day by one of the chief investigators.

He also said, and it was subsequent­ly confirmed, that Elisor Biggy has given orders to Ruef's seven guards to "shoot Ruef tirst, the others after­ward," if an attempt to rescue the in­dicted man by armed force is made.

RAILROADS MUST BACK DOWN.

Only Way Strike Can Be Averted — Knapp to Offer Mediations.

Chicago, March 30.—The controver­sy over a wage scale between the gen­eral managers of the Western rail­roads and their employes in the train service cannot be abitrated. and the only way in which a strike can be averted is for the officials of the roads to make terms with the men. This is the ultimatum isssued by the repre­sent aatives of the two unions involved in the difficulty after a meeting had been held last night to consider the action of the railroads in asking the federal government to intervene and endeavor to bring about a aettlement by mediation.

Strike Hinges on Meeting.

Chicago, March 31.—Whether or not there is to be a strike of the employes in the train service of the Western railroads hinges on a meeting to be held here to-day at. 11 o'clock between two federal government officials and the representatives of the unions and the railroads. This meeting was brought about by the general mana­gers of the railroads, who appealed to "Washington for a settlement of the difficulty under the terms provided in the Erdmann act.

TOO MUCH PUBLICITY.

High Prelate Says That Is One Reason Ireland Is Not a Cardinal.

Rome, March 30.—A prelate holding a high post at the Vatican explains that the omission of the name of Arch­bishop Ireland from the list of those to be appointed cardinals at the next consistory was due in part to the nu­merous and repeated recommendations made in his behalf.

The pope, declared, said the prelate, that the worst enemies of Archbishop Ireland were his best friends.

Stage-struck Girls Caught. Chicago, March 29. — Three girls

who ran away from their homes in St. Louis were arrested here yesterday and will be held to await advices from their homes. The girls said they came to Chicago to go on the stage.

Grand Jury Keeps at It. San Francisco, March 29. — Twelve

witnesses were examined yesterday by the grand jury iA its investigation of bribery and graft during a session which lasted from 2 o'clock in the aft­ernoon until after 6.

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MANY KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK TRAIN DERAILED AND WRECKED

COACHES ARE HURLED IN

EVERY DIRECTION.

Col ton, Cal., March 30. — A disas­trous wreck occurred near here yes­terday, when a passenger train ran into an open switch while going at the rate of forty miles an hour. Ten ot the fourteen coaches were derailed.

Twenty-six persons are known to have been killed and the list will total much higher than this number.

The injured number about 100, many of whom will die.

Smashed Into Splinters.

The wrecked coaches were hurled in every direction. Four of them were smashed into splinters. Most of the dead were Italians who occupied the smoker and day coach. The dead were terribly mangled. The injured were carried to this city.

But two Americans are known to have been killed, although several of those among the injured will undoubt­edly die within a few hours.

Pullman Passengers Escape. Out of about eighty Pullman passen­

gers there were but two who sustained serious injuries. The three Pullman coaches and the diner, which were on the rear of the train, did not leave the traclc. The occupants of these cars were practically unharmed. The Flor­ence Roberts Theatrical company oc­cupied one coach, which was hurled from the tracks and both ends of it crushed in by impact against the oth­ers. But two members of Miss Rob­erts' company out of a total of twenty-two people were injured.

No Warning of Danger. The derailment of the train was

caused by the crev. of a switch engine leaving a switch open at this point. There was absolutely no warning of the impending catastrophe. The engi­neer saw the signal of the open switch when but a few rods distant from it and had no time to sound even a whis­tle of warning, much less to reverse the throttle or set the brakes. He called to his fireman to jump, and they both leaped wildly from opposite sides of the engine.

THAW UNDER FIRE.

Examined by Insanity Commissioners for Two Hours.

New York, Marcn 30. — Harry 1\. Thaw for two hours yesterday submit­ted himself to a running lire o? ques­tions from the three men appointed in­justice Fitzgerald as a commission in lunacy to determine his pnesent state of mind. The examination was con­ducted behind closed doors, and when at 5 o'clock an adjournment was taken until 10 o'clock Saturday morning no one connected with the hearing would discuss the details of the inquiry.

Thaw Is Confident. Thaw went willingly and confidently

before his judges, and when the two hours' secret session was concluded his attorneys appeared with smiling faces and declared they were more than satisfied with the course of the proceedings.

It is stated that during most of the two hours Thaw was before the com­mission yesterday afternoon the notes and letters which he has written to his counsel since the trial began were under consideration. It was said that. Thaw answered the questions calmly and went into lengthy explanations of some of the notes he had addressed to Mr. Delmas while his trial was in progress.

SULTAN IS COURTEOUS.

Assures French Minister That Order Will Be Maintained.

Tangier, Morocco, March 31. — The representative of the sultan of Moroc­co, Mohammed El Torres, yesterday called upon the French minister, M. Regnault, and also on the commander of the French cruiser Jeanne d'Arc. with both of whom he had courteous interviews. He asssured the French minister that measures had been taken for the maintenance of order and for the security of the Europeans in Morocco.

RIPE PEACHES IN SOUTH.

Fruit Matures Month Ahead of Time in Louisiana.

New Orleans, March 31. — Ripe peaches, gathered months ahead of time, were picked yesterday in Pla-quomine parish, Louisiana. The mild­est. winter in thirty years was the cause of the peaches ripening in March, and samples of the fruit will be saved for the Jamestown exposi­tion.

CANNON IS IN HAVANA.

Speaker and Party Are Being Enter­tained by Officials.

Havana, March 31. — The steamer Bluecher, with Speaker Cannon and his congressional party on board, ar­rived here yesterday morning from Colon. The visitors were received by Gov. Magoon. Later the congressmen were shown the city in a special street car by Gov. Nunez and Mayor Carde­nas.

State-wide Bill Passed. Lincoln, Neb., March 31.—The sen­

ate yesterday passed the state-wide direct primary bill. The bill, which will go to the governor to-day, does away with state, county and city nomi­nating conventions.

Raises Telegraph Rates. Chicago, March 31.—The Western

Union Telegraph company has an­nounced a new scale of telegraph rates, representing an Increase, in some cases, of 20 per cent, effective April 1.

BOSS RUEF DRAWS $1,200 A MONTH

FRISCO GRAND JURY GETS TWO

SENSATIONAL BITS OF EVI­

DENCE.

ACCUSE TELEPHONE OFFICIAL

RUEF CLAIMS THAT HE IS THE

VICTIM OF A GIGANTIC CON­

SPIRACY.

San Francisco, April 2.—Two sensa­tional pieces of evidence in the brib­ery and graft investigation were ad­duced before the grand jury Saturday.

Three members of the executive board of the Pacific States Telephone company, E. S. Pillshury, Homer S. King and Timothy Hopkins, testified that they had no knowledge whatever of the alleged bribing of supervisors to vote against the award of a competi­tive franchise to the Home Telephone sompanv, and that If bribery was com­mitted it was "up to" Vice President Louis Glass, whom the grand jury has already indicted on nine counts.

Ruef Paid $1,200 a Month. The second sensation came when E.

S. Pillshury, who is a director of and attorney for the Pacific States Tele­phone company, testified that. Abra­ham Ruef, indicted political boss, has been for more than two years on the private pay roll of that corporation and has been paid regularly $1,200 a month.

Mayor Sclunitz issued a statement denying the charge made by the prose­cution that he is endeavoring to cause the resignation of a certain number of supervisors in order to fill their places with men who would frustrate any at­tempt to revoke those public service franchises which they are accused of having awarded as a result of bribery.

Conspiracy, Says Ruef. In an interview Ruef, lor the first

time since his capture at the Troca-dero. denounces his persecutors, de­claring that lie is being kept in a pri­vate prison, in violation of all legality and precedent, and announces that, he will produce in court affidavits, sworn to before his capture, proving that the acts of the prosecution are parts of a conspiracy and that every newspaper in San Francisco is denouncing him as a grafter and a rascal because these newspapers either are privately sub­sidized or were unable to wield the in­fluence in administration affairs they craved.

EMBASSY IS RUINED BY FIRE.

Ambassador Griscom Is Burned While Fighting Flames in Rome.

Rome, April 2. — While Lloyd C. Griscom. the American ambassador, and Mrs. Griscom were returning from the Easter services at the American church yesterday they saw smoke vis­ing from the roof of their home, the Palazzo del Drago. Mr. Griscom hur­riedly entered the building and found the servants were unaware that the palace was on fire. The ambassador led the way to the attic. Flames

«burst forth as he opened the door and 'burned his hand and singed his eye­brows. When the firemen arrived the beams, which were put in place centu­ries ago, were burning briskly. The roof over the attic collapsed, causing the center portion of the ceiling of the magnificent ballroom to fall. The fur­niture and paintings were quickly re­moved, but not before several of the latter, notably one of President Roose­velt, were damaged.

After working two hours the firemen succeeded in checking the blaze. The loss is estimated at fl0,000 and is cov­ered by insurance.

WHOLESALE MURDER.

Man Stabs Sister, Kil ls Her Husband and Wounds Several Neighbors.

Alexandropol, Armenia. April 2. — A series of brutal murders was perpe­trated here by a man named Kara-petyants, who lately had been without employment and was relused further board and lodging in the home of a married sister.

Karapetyants, with a stiletto, mor­tally wounded his sister, killed her husband, mortally wounded a nephew and niece, killed a neighbor who an­swered their cry for help and mortally Wounded the wife and mother of this neighbor. Then he committed suicide.

31 CROSSTIES ON TRACK.

Wreckers Cause Disaster and Louis-ianians Are Aroused.

New Orleans, April 2.—Train wreck­ers chained thirty-one crossties at "in­tervals of a few yards across the rails of the Louisiana Southern railway south of New Orleans and caused the wrecking of a local passenger train. There were no serious injuries in the wreck.

Drowns Self and Children. Dover, N. J., April 2.—Having fas­

tened their garments securely tq, her own, Mrs. Otto Britting carried her two little children into Shongum lake, where all three yere drowned. Her act is ascribed to mental trouble.

Negro Is Lynched. Durant, I. T., April 2—Jim Williams,

colored, charged with criminal assault on Lillie Wisener, white, near Colbert, I. T., Saturday afternoon, was lynched at Durant last night by a mob of 1,000 people.

AREWILIING TO CONCEDE IIIIIE LABOR CHIEFS WILL MODIFY DE­

MANDS IN INTERESTS OF

PEACE.

Chicago, April 2. —Marin A. Knapp. chaitman of the interstate commerce commission, and Charles P. O'Neill, commiss ione r o f l abo r , who came t o Chicago to try to effect a solution of the controversy between the conduct­ors and trainmen and the railroad managers, held a series of conference* yesterday and last night, first with one side and then with the other, and at their conclusion Mr. Knapp said they were progressing, but nothing definite had been accomplished. It was said that the labor chiefs intimated to the commissioners that they were willing to concede something from their orig­inal demands in the interests of peace, bu t wha t conces s ions t hey wou ld m a k e were not disclosed.

Railroad Managers Firm. The railroad managers, on the other

hand, are said to have declared that they would grant nothing more than they have already offered their em­ployes and that the recent vote of the men in favor of a strike was not a fair criterion of the feelings entertained toward the proposition of the rail­roads. They asserted that most of the passenger conductors were willing to accept the advance offered and voted for a rejection of the terms against their own better judgment. Grand Chiefs Morrison and Garrelson, of the labor organizations, denied that any influence was exej'cised among tin­men in order to secure a vote favora­ble to a strike. A joint conference be­tween the managers and union leaders may be held to-day, although it is said that it will depend largely upon the at­titude of the managers.

GRAPE SHOT SUBDUES RIOTERS,

Troops Are Terrifying Roumanian Peasants Into Submission.

Bucharest, April 2.—Field guns load ed with grapeshot, according to the of­ficial reports, are winning against the revolutionary peasantry, whose arms are mostly hay forks and scythe blade:; The insurgents were able to hold their own against the troops at closn quarters, and even without cavalry (•barges, doing terrible execution with long-pronged forks and scythe blade* strapped to long poles, but the slaugh­ter since the troops used artillery ap­pears to be terrifying them into sub mission.

Restore Stolen Goods. It is semiofficially stated thai in

many districts the peasants are im­pairing the damage done to properr. and restoring stolen goods u> thoii owners. Disturbances are reported from Put.na , in Moldavia, and nianj cases of plundering, incendiarism and armed conflict in Walhicliia.

TERMINALS AT ASTORIA.

Harriman Said to Be Spending $700. 000 for Land.

Portland. Or., April 2.—The Orego-liiiiii says that the sale of between inn and 500 acres of land lying alonu Youngs bay, near Astoria, Or., is being closed and the purchasers are believed to be the Harriman interests. The price to be paid is approximately $7no. 000.

It is understood the property is tv. deep water terminals for the Pacific Railway & Navigation company, now building from Hillsboro to Warrentou and Seaside.

COMPLAIN OF BRAZIL.

Russian Colonists Send Letter to Gov­ernor of Baltic Provinces.

Rigi, Russia, April 2.—The govern­or general of the Baltic provinces Lieut. Gen. Baron Moeller-Sakomelsky has received from Russian colonists in Brazil a letter complaining of the diffi cult position of the colonists and tin unfair treatment of them by Brazil ians, and asking him to prohibit emi gration to the South American repub­lic.

Riga is the starting point of a large stream of emigrants to Brazil.

Furnace Blows Up. Youngstown, Ohio, April 2. — Steve

Zramski is dead and Frank Helsingei is thought to be fatally burned as the result of an explosion at the Lowell ville furnace, eight miles east of here

President at Church. Washington, April 2. — President

Roosevelt attended Easter services at St. John's Episcopal church yesterday. The services were conducted by Rev. Roland C. Smith, the rector.

New Church at Sioux Fells. Sioux Falls, S. D„ April 2. — Tin

committee in charge of securing hidt for the erection of a $40,000 Baptist church has fixed April 11 as the date when bids will be opened.

Dead of Apoplexy. Prescott, Wis., April 2. — Christian

Most, in his sixty-seventh year, died suddenly of apoplexy. He was born in Germany. He left a wife and several brothers and a sister.

Tornado Hurts Number. Bradyville, Iowa, April 2.—A torna

do swept the country in this vicinitj yesterday, demolishing several farm houses and many outbuildings. A number of persons were injured, but it is believed that all will recover.

Drainage Work Ready. Fergus Falls, Minn., April 2. — A

large aiaount of drainage work is to b< done in the flat country west anc northwest of here during the coming summer, and the first (fitch contracts of the season were let Friday.