Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-02-07

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mon the books found this SUM missing
from the lsaa account. The examination
has not proceeded far, and there VIII
doubtless be other disclosures. Inc depos-
its amount to 500, 600. The directors now
| believe that Abbott intended to skin the
bank of the $500, 900 ofthe miscellaneous
securities in che vault at the time OF MS
flight, and to take them to Canada IN order
to force the bank to compromise Win MIN.
The funeral services at Berlin over the re-
mains of DR.. Lasker at the new synagogue.
were participated in by 5000 persons.
Among those present were Leyetzow and
Alderman, president and vice president OF
the reichstag; former ministers Bermutn
| Camphausen and Delbrueck, municipal
councillors and town councillors OF beiiih,
| leading representatives of the Conservatives
and clerical parties, including Windthorst,
and representatives of the University OF Der
lin. at IL the relatives of the deceased took
places in front of the catafalque. Students
oficiated as a guard OF honor. After the
services DR.. FRANKIE, chief rabbi delivered
an Grafton, drawing q picture OF Lasker's
life.
at Minneapolis, the oath inst. the dead
body of G. III. Stetson, q well-xnown con-
tractor and builder, was found in a shed on
his premises, corner of Fourth street n
Filth avenue north, by one of his sons.
According to the statement of those most
familiar with the facts in the case, Mr.. Stet-
son left his home early in the morning, pro-
ceeded to the woodshed, where he adjusted
q small rope about his neck, threw one END
over a rafter in the building while standing
upon a box, and a ter completing his pre-
parations, showed the box away with his
feet, and soon died from strsngulation. I'LL
health and mental depression.
In the trial in Milwaukee OF Peutz and
McCellogh, two young men, for an attempt
to murder Andreas, the street car driver, in
November last, Judge Hamilton in the cir
cult court decided that the confessions of
the prisoners taken shortly after their ar
rests could be admitted as evidence against
t! EN-. The defense attempted to prove that
the confessions were forced from the pfis
oners by the detectives, by threats of phys
ical violeEce.
Harry Lee OF Cincinnati, travelling under
the name of Andrews, was arrested at To-
ronto by Detective Hazen of Cincinnati.
Lee was a clerk of Woodrough e McParlin.
commission merchants of Cincinnati, and
forged the name of the firm for $40, 600.
When arrested be was in the COMPANY CT q
woman, XII own in Cincinnati as Bessie. Lee
will fight extradition through the various
courts.
Frank Eutner OF F~ranconia, on returning
from Saltwater on the evening of the 2Sth
inst, was attacked by three men and
Knocked out of his sleigh, but succeeded in
driving off his assailants and escaped. His
team ran away to Marine, without doing
any damage, while Eutner was Obliged TO
walk home. Ii is thought the party mis-
took their victim for Sam Judd.
Denver, COL, Special Telegram: = mother
lynchine is threatened at West Las Animas,
where two horse-thieves are likely to suffer
death at the hands of q mob. Lynchngs
are becoming as common iE some portions |
OF the state as they were in early days. The |
fact that murderers are hardly ever sem |
tehced to death there is thought to have
something to do with it.
Frank Williams and John Gray, who
shot and killed Orion Kuriz, In a saloon
row at Roaita, Col.,N were taken. from iail |
by masked men end hanged TO the ras;ers
ofa log shanty near by. Gray died game,
but Williams pleaded for mercy, claiming
he shot in selEdefense.
The death watch has been placed upon
William Conroy in the tombs, New York
city, whose execution is fixed for Feb. 8.
Tor the murder of Peter Keenan,, whom he
(Conroy1, while 8 policeman on daty aad
diunk, shot and dubbed to death.
Col. j. g, Kasey. ex-treasurer Of Bedford
county, Va, has fled the state leaving an
Indebtedness of $50, COO fer his bondsmen TO
meet. Kasey was late candidate for the state
senate on the coalition ticket. II is report
ed that he has gore to Canada.
Henry HitIson, Jesse James nephew
killed James Foley at Fort Worth recently.
Burglars took $4,000 from a Chicago u