Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1892-12-29
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GENERAL DOMESTIC NEWS

Dun's Trade Review reports
domestic business healthy. with. T;
heavy gold outgo toward Europe.
Great distress is reported il
western and northwestern kansas a.
Il result of the cold weather.
| Frauds in the weighing of sugar
for bounty have been discovered, Sc
government officials of .ttlantac say
Dan Folman, charged with robbcr,
at Dallas. jumped from a train OF
which he was being taken to prison
and escaped.
The celebrated trotting stallion
STEAMBOAT, was sold in New York
last week at auction for SAL, 900. He
has record of 2:O1l.
lSusan Porter. the fasting woman of
Burlington, died Saturday. She had
been tifty-two days without food and
drank nothing but two cups of tea
in that time.
Three children of Marcus White of
Wavcrly, Tenn, were locked i'm the
house Friday night by their parents.
The house burned and the children
persisted in the flames.
VIM. II. Humphrey entertained the
people in New York hotel by antics
based on his erroneous belief that he
had swallowed his false teeth. They
were found behind his trunk.
a machine has been invented for
painting the interior OF the Chicago
exposition buildings that will do as
much work in day us forty men. a
spray is thrown from pipe by means
OF an electric motor.
Ey-Clcrk German. of Colorado
Springs, on Wednesday, confessed a
shortage of $1,000. and intimatcs that
others are guilty in the city's robbery
beside himself. He charges that
$4,000 is missing beside what he took.
The Indiana state law requiring
the railroads to post the arrival and
departure of trains has been declared
constitutional by the supreme court.
Ii is said that it will cost the rail
roads :l,000,000 to comply with the
law.
Henry Smith. the ll-ycar-old son
of Samuel Smith of New Haven
pointed a shotgun in play at two
younger brothers Friday and pulled
the trigger. The gun. as usual, was
loaded. One boy was instantly killed
and the other fatally wounded.
The Pacific Short Line Bridge COM
pany commenced the work last week
of building 81 100000 bridge across
tie Missouri river at Sioux City.
The bridge will be Il combination
wagon ard railroad bridge and will
be completed July |, ls93. 1t is TO be
an independent toll bridge open to
the use of all railroads.
The jury in the case of Francis
Settler vs.. the Omaha road. after
being ont sixteen hours at West
superior. returned a verdict for the
defendant. Settler sued for $4,000
for injuries To Ills infant son, who
was run over and lost an arm and leg.
The Jury in its finding lays the blame
to the mother for ncglecting the
baby and allowing it to play on the
track.
Mrs. Wharton. 81 years old. of
Brooklyn. met with horrible death
Friday night. She was alone in her
apartments preparing the evening
meal. when the stove proved unsatis-
factory and She poured kerosene on
it. No sooner had she done this
than the flames sprang up and
ignitcd her clothes, which were
burned entirely from her body and
she died in great agony.
On Thursday Mrs. S. Kyle LOCKER.
of Viola, Wis. whipped to death her
siA-yeir-old Stcpdallshtcr, because she
asked for something to eat. When
Mr.. LOCKER. who was absent at the
time, came home, he asked for his
daughter and was told by his wife
that she did not know where the girl
was. He Immediately commenced to
search and found his daughter in a
closet dead.
One of thelargest purses ever offered
for two pugilists was hung up last
week for Pugilists Jack McAulitfe
and Dick Burge by the Concy Island
Athleticclub. The sum offered is a
purse of $4,000. This latest bid com
plctely oyertops the $4,000 purse of
the Crescent City club, New Orleans,
and created Il big sensation in sport
ing circles. The agreement stipu-
lates that both men are to fight at
1873 pounds for the championship of
the world.
The first $4,000 of the Worlds fair