Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1892-03-31
Il WICKED WORLD.

LOUIS HEGENAN, the notorious, is again
in the laws clutches in Minneapolis.
SEVEN Chicago couneilmen are indicted
for boodling.
+. l.. GoDKIS, editor OF the New York
Evening Post, is arrested on a charge OF
criminal libel.
FoUR men are arrested in St. Paul on the
charge of being members of an organized
gang of thieves.
The legalizatiop of the recent big coal
combine is said t have been brought
about by. extensive bribery in the New
jersey legislature.
LIEUT.. j.. T.. DoDGE, of the Fourteenth in
fantry, appointed from Minnesota. is
arrested, charged with burglary at Hanni-
bal, No, and duplication of pay accounts.
+. Z. ELcoS is in Winnipeg, en- route TO
the Turtle mountain district in search OF
Tascott, who is reported to be living with a
band OF Indians near Killarney.
THE safe in Calvary Baptist church, New
York was robbed of &, 900 in money and all
the valuable silver and communion service.
Later an unknown man returned the sill
serware to DIR. Satterlees, the pastor.
AT yew York, John II. Hartford was
sent to the Eln.irs Reformatory for embez-
cling 1900 from his employers, Smith d
Stills, wholesale grocers. He was a fire.
auentey of the Guttenburg race track, where
he lost the monsy. lie formerly conduct
ed a grocery store in Waterbury, Conn.
FRANK MckEES, q laborer, has been ar
rested at Chicago for pounding his wife 10
death. She died after being beaten with
clerched knuckles at intervals for seven
hours, the husband desisting when the
wife would become helpless and resuming
when she revived. The cause was drunk.
enBess and jealousy.
4. GoRpoy MURRAY has been suspended
as chief OF the Highlanders' association,
Chicago, pending an investigation OF
charges preferred against him. There are
several counts, all relating to his official
acts except the one concerning his chal-
lenge to F. Erskine McMillin to fight a
duel.
Miss NORA DENSE. a young woman liy.
Ing with the ,amily of Thomas Seigle. at
81 Creole street, Indianapolis, drank a half
pint of whisky, presumably to steady her
nerve, and then fired a bullet from a re-
volver into her brain, causing death in a
few minutes. Miss Denise was disap-
pointed in a love affair. Her parents reside
Rt Union City.
While the Dorchester, Mass, High
School battalion was drilling in the Town
Hall Monday evening, a rush was made by
outsiders to get into the hall. This the boys
prevented, and when they came out were
pelted with snow and ice. VIM. J. Lynch,
i8 years old, was struck on the head with a
piece of ice, Knocked down, and he died.
The police have the matter in hand.
LANsoN Bios, Caicaso Board of Trade
commission men. said their loss by the
kiting operations Of their two clerks, Smith
and Whitaker, amounted to S59, 600. About
$3i. 0dO was lost on wheat, and the remain
der is now said TO have been taken in old
cash. Neither Of the culprits have yet been
arrested,
VIRGIL n, BUTLER was murdered near
Sarages Creek, Bryan county, 20 miles west
Of Savannah, Ga. Buffers body was found
in the road riddled with buckshot. Sixty
four shots were found in the dead mans
breast and the wad ofthe gun was sticking
10 the lapel OF biz coat. Suspicion rested
on three brothers, John, Judge and Cyrus
Sherman. with whom Butler had quarelied
about the firing ofa strip of woods. They
were arrested and are now in Jail.