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The Dickinson press., 1894-12-15
SEVEN ARE DROWNED
SAD ACCIDENT IN BUCHANAN
COUNTY. IOWA.
Twelve People Looking for the Rod
les Of Two children Who We're
Drowned Go Through the Ice and
Five More lives Are Lost.

Oelwein, Iowa. Dec. 12.-I.ittleton, a
little town in Buchanan county, fur
nfshes II story Of wholesale drowning.
Two children, George and Hannah
Cook, aged nine and twelve respective
ly. went skating yesterday on IL mill
pond some distance from the main
part of town. The children failing to
return at Il reasonable time the moth
er became alarmed and Went in search
of them. but could nit find them. She
returned to the town and gave the
alarm. A crowd gathered about the
pond about dusk and many of the
people ventured OH the ice. Ii sud
denly broke through precipitating
twelve persons into the river. OF
this number, in the darkness of COM
ing night, seven were rescued. The
bodies Of five Others in addition to
the corpses Of the tive children, We're
found to-day under the ice some dis
tance below the scene of the drowning.
The names of the victims are Fred
Hanks, John Morton, George Roberts,
G. II. Hanks, George Il. Cook. Han
nah Cook.
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Commit the murder. as Hayward had
threatened to xiii him and his wife If
he refused. He says that Hayward
has alread, killed two men. and that
.e was planning to marry an Eastern
girl who has 100000, then kill her
end her parents. BliXt says tllllr Hay
ward had planned to burn the Ozark
apartments next spring, even if every
person in it perished. BliXt said that
Hayward got himunder his absolute
control by inducing him to set fire to
Y barn merely to have fun with the
fire department, and then told him
that he could have him sent to the
penitentiary. =
Minneapolis, Dec. 12-If what is sus-
pected could be proved as fact,
Claus Blixt, the self-confessed mur-
derer Of Catherine Cling, is Il yeritable
Bluebeard. Theodore Anderson, q
veterinary surgeon, formerly of Can
non Falls, Minn., where Blixt once
lived, says that Blixt's wife died very
suddenly, and foul play was suspected,
but nothing was ever done. Blixt
married again, and in a short time his
second wife died suddenly. Rulnors
of foul play We're again afloat, but
the affair finally died out. Not long
since Blixt's brother Oscar was mur-
dered near Huron,'S s. D., and robbed
Of 81, ,185. Anderson suspects B!ixt of
the crime, but BliXt claims that he
was sick in Minneapolis at the time
Of the murder.
A Night of Terror.
Murderer Blixt passed veritable
night of terror. He would pace up
and down the small cell, ringing his
hands and weeping; then he would sit
down on the bench and with both
hands clenched to the ends Of his seat,
he would sway his body from side to
The Dickinson press., 1894-12-15
MINNESOTA SCHOOLS,
suDt. Prend rgast submits His An.
nMal Report.

nunl Report.
st. Paul, Dec - The advance
sheets Of the eighth biennial report of
the state superintendent Of public in
structiOD was received to-day from
MIR. Pendergast. They contain some
interesting matter for the public on a
question vitality important to the well
fare of the state. Some extracts from
the reports arc given here
The number enrolled in the public
schools entitled to apportionment has
increased from 2:3':.,22 2233 222l in 1892 to 275,-
1868 in 1894. The number not entitled
shows In this time but Il slight in
crease, from 81, 100 to G7,393. The av-
erage daily attendance in common
districts was: 1892, 53.379; 1898. 9G,-
SG7, and in 1904, III. 1.49G The census
Of persons between the ages Of five
and twenty-One in 1894 w:Ss :jIO,417.
The amount of the permanent school
fund in 1892 was $40, ,132, ,SG7; in 1891
1t is $1O,712,12O. showing that the cd
ucatiOnal interests Of the state have
materially advanced during the past
two years. Notwithstanding the pre-
vailing hard times with the wide
spread stagnation in business. No.
where has there been any general fall
ing Off in appropriations or expcndi-
lures, but q decided gain is noticeable
III every county.
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Personal Mention.
Victoria Vokes, the actress, is dead in
London.
Major-Gencral Stephen Il. Rurhridge
died in New York. He will be buried
in Arlington National cemetery.
Capt. Mckenzie, of the Cleveland fire
department, has fallen heir to one fifth
Of Il $;13;;s.CNO fortune.
Capt. Edward Webster. IL pioneer of
Kansas City, Mo-. who had inaugurated
all of the fairs held in that city, died
at Denver.
Eastern publishers have engaged Joa-
Quin Miller to write history of Ha-
wall, to be illustrated by George Part
tngton, San Francisco.
FL. 0. Have,neycr, Of the sugar trust,
issued a statement in which he attacked
the president for his recommendations
regarding sugar.
Rev. DR. Henry NJ. Storrs, who de-
Tended Prof. Briggs before the presby-
terian general assembly, died at Orange,
N. j.
The estate Of the late William II. Wal
thers Of Baltimore, valued all the way
from $5,OOO,OOO to $10,OOO,OOO Is to be
divided between the son and daugh-
ter.
William II. Adams, "Oliver Optic"
who is now seventy three years old,
has, during his loDg term of author
ship written 1876 books and 1000 news
paper stories.
Mrs. Philip Sheridan is said to b.
almost the only widow of a great war
chief who has absolutely declined
purses, funds and any such testimonials
after his DEATH
Rabbi Wise, known by Hebrews all
over the country, will resign the presi-
dency Of the Hebrew Union college at
Cincinnati. He founded the college and
has served as president, without pay.
for nineteen years.
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CONGRESS-,
The Senate Higgins Confederation Of
the Nlcarssruu Canal Rfll

The Senate DeRins Confederation Of
the Nicarisssua Canal Bill.
Washington, Dec. 10. Mr.. Harris
(Dem., Tcnn.,. president pro TEN,
called the senate to order in the ab-
sence of Vice President Stevenson,
who has not yet returned from Ashe-
vile, N. c.. where se is with his fami-
~. Senators Hill. Blackburn and
Carey We're in their seats for the first
time this session. Mr.. Call Dem..
Fla) presented Il resolution setting
forth that the independence Of the
Island of Cuba is an object of great
Importance to the United States, and
requesting the president to commence
negotiations with Spain for the rec0g-
milton of the independence of the
island and for the guarantee of the
United States of the payment of such
Il sum OF money as shall be agreed on
between the United States a:nl Spain.
The resolution went over until to-
morrow. Mr. Call also presented q
resolution declaring that the further
prosecution of the war between China
AMI Japan will not lie advantageous
10 the peace OF civilization. and tlat
the Interests of the world require that
all governments shall mite in nego-
tlating with Japan and China co' the
termination of the war. Without d,s
cussion the resolution was refereed TO
the committee on foreign relations.
The senate. on motion of M. Morgan,
took up the Nicaraguan canal bill. The
bill was read at length, ond Mr.. Mcr-
gan made Il speech in behalf of the
bill.
The house devoted the day under
the rules OF the business r,,ort. Il
from the District nf Columbia com.air-
tee. Several bills of purely local i'm
nortancc were passed ana IL rcsou-
ton adopted setting aside the .lird
Saturday in January for eulos.cs on
the life and character of Marcus h.
l.islr late repres alt:,iivc fro;. the
Tenth Kentucky district. \ ;oin' res.
0llltion was also passed to pay the Of
liccrs and employees of the house ard
senate their salary for the present
month on Dec. 20
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tails to be proved to give his brother
over to the lanCman His story ia

tails to be proved to give his brother
over to the hangman. His story is
necessarily disjointed and all through
it lie was prompted from time to time,
yet his utterances 80 tU show that he
has hut one version of 1t to give and
also suggests that if Harry Hayward
is the man that Adry paints him he
will presently go to the witness stand
and tell the actual truth of the matter
to the end that his brother may suffer
the same fate that is waiting for him.
Harry Hayward has been taken
from the Minneapolis jail and placed
in Jail at some other town. The neces-
sity Of his removal arose from the
disturbed condition of public
sentiment in Minneapolis. There
was 10 actual danger at any
time that there would really be
hostile demonstration against the
that 1t would tend to allay excitement
If he were removed for time.
Not only in Minneapolis, but in St.
Paul, the murder was the sole topic
of conversation in the resorts where
men consrcsate, and the tone Of the
people of Minneapolis was at least
mcnacing. Every one agreed that
lynching would be q most desirable
thing, if it were not for the reflection
it would cast OH the good name Of the
community, and it was much easier to
temporarily take Hayward out Of
town than to reckon with the uncer-
tainty of crowd gathering about the
place of his confinement.
st. Paul, Dec. 11.-Harry Hayward
is in the st. Paul jail. but care is
taken that he and his brother Adry
hold no communication.
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Unfortu nnte Even,..

Miss Mary Miller was killed in a run
away at Presumption. ILL.,. her body
being dragged five mites.
The Manhattan building in New
York city, occupied by art students,
was partially destroyed by fire.
The first rain for four months fell in
Arkansas, putting out TIC forest fires
which had done great damage.
Robert Halliday, of Creston Iowa,
aged IA killed himself by swapping at
his head Il revolver that he thought
was unloaded.
The big coal breaker at the Latin
Coal company ut Latin, Pa, was burn
ed. The loss will probably reach $780,
600.
The Eastern Illinois Nashville limit
ed ran into coal train at Beecher.
The passengers escaped with shaking
up.
w. ROdman Winslow, forty-six years
old, q lawyer, fell from an eight-story
window ut tile Scvilla apartment house
in New York and was instantly killed.
Three Chicago scenic artists and four
assistants fell from Il scaffold in a
Memphis theater and were seriously
injured.
A Delaware and Hudson train went
over an embanklnent into Lake Cham
plain. Two passengers were drowned
and several injured.
A. L. Chrisman. living fourteen miles
from Red Oak, Iowa, was badly hurt
by a kicking horse, which also smashed
lantern, starting fire that burned
house, barn and several valuable
horses
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on trial at indianapolis on charge of
robbing the New Albany Qnd) post
Office of $500 in cash and $4,000 in post
age stamps in October while the post
master was at dinner.
Mrs. Hannah Williams of Indianapo-
lis, who was returning with her hlls-
band and young son from European
trip, committed suicide by jumping
overheard from the steamship Ohio
while it was in mid-ocean.
While on a drunken stampede
through the town of Mlxey, Ca, Linn
and Harry Williams Riordan and
Moncrief fell out over some old mat
ter of difference. The Williams boys
were pitted against the other two and
shot them dead.
Arthur Echneder, restaurant en-
plOye, shot and killed Hermann SchrOc-
der, fellow employe. and probably
fatally wounded Katie Burkhart, at
New Orleans. The latter and Schroeder
were in the kitchen courting Schnei-
der, a rival for the girls affections,
fired by jealousy. entered the room and
shot the pair.
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NO FRAUD,
Answer to Charges Against II south
Dakota Company.

eA.A"sSNA W. "Atku1hNu IL SOuth
Dakota Company.
New York, Dec. 12-The directors of
the Harvey Peak Tn Mining, Milling
ard Manufacturing company, to-day
fled answer III the United States cir
cult court to The charges of fraud by
Cha'les Il. Fletcher ant, Il number of
other Englishmcn WHO became con
Eected Will: the company under tho
belief that III due time tue investment
would pay enormous dividends. The
company failed several months ago
and tle British investors lest several
million dollars, they allege, through
fraud Oh the part of Samuel Inter
never and other directors, who. it ia
charged. lsed the cnmpany's money
for their own advantage The answer
Is in the nature of denial of each
an every charge of fraud. conspiracy
or the transastfon Of any business by
the directors that would lead to fraud.
1t adds that the value OF the COM
pany's properties in North Dakota is
large, and that the hills are rich in tin
ore
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side, wholly obijvious OF everything
but his intense mental agony. His
mOans We're heart-rending.
Early this morning Blixt wanted to
see the chief, and that tireless official,
who has scarcely had time to sleep
since the murder, soon arrived.
BliXt wanted to see him and 80 over
his confession again, but finally plead.
ed to see his wife. He did not want
to see any one but her, and his wish
was that he may be placed some
where where no one would have &C.
cess to him. Il want shave, bath
and change of clothing after I see
my wife, Mr.. Chief" said Blixt pit
eously. ''rhen want to pray to God
with her that be will forgive me for
this terrible crime. I want her to
pray here with me that He will for
give me-"
Agony was depicted upon his fea-
lures and the scene was truly pitiful.
After the chief had talked to him
for some time, he asked Blixt IL there
was any persons he wished to see.
He asked that he might see his father,
John Blixt, his brother, Andrew, and
the Chief of Police at Cannon Falls,
Mil.n.. his old home. The chief said
he would send for them ut once.
Says It's . Fake.
st. Paul, Dec. 12.-Harry Hayward
is still in the Ramsey county jail. He
has not yet made any confession, and
is not likely to. w. r. Hale, his at
torney. arrived from Minneapolis this
morning, and ut once was admitted
to his cell. From the window of the
Judge of probate's Office, in the court
house, he could be seen in earnest con-
versation with Hayward.
Hayward is conducting himself in
peculiar manner. All yesterday he
was making considerable noise in the
corridor of the Jail, singing and laugh
Ing. He also Joined in the religious
exercises conducted in the building,
and Joined heartily in the singing Of
hymns.
He had some conversation with one
Of the prisoners in jail after he read
the paper this morning containing the
confession of Blixt. Hayward said to
him: '"This whole story of Blixt is a
fake from top to bottom, and is made
to save his own neck. l will give
something which will paralyze that
whole galaxy of detectives and GRIM
inals, but l will wait until the proper
time comes"
The Dickinson press., 1894-12-15
CURRENCY PLAN.
Secretary Carlisle Explains the Dc
tnIln l,f Hih New Scheme

Secretary 0arI1Hle EXplatnA the De-
tailx of His New scheme.
Washington, Dec. 12-Secretary Car
Isle appeared before the house COM
mittee OH banking and currency to-
day to present, in detail. the features
Of the new currency plan proposed In
his annual report and indOrsed in the
presidents message. There was much
interest In the hearing. as it was felt
that Mr.. Carlisle would lend q more
popular interest to the subject than
had appeared in the formal report.
The crowd in attendance made it
necessary to use the large room Of tho
committee on ways and means. Be-
sides the full membership of the COM
mittec, Senator Romero, the Mexican
minister, and many members of con-
gress were present. Mr.. Carlisle
adopted an easy, conversational style
Of address. He said he was ready to
answer questions from the committee
as we'll as elaborate his own views.
He took up each section of his recent
recommendations.
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Criminal, i,oinx.

Jack Phenis, deputy United States
marshal was killed by an outlaw In the
Usage country, Indian Territory.
Mary F.. Jones of Paw Paw Mich,
who protected her property with RI
fle was convicted aud fined So and
costs.
Quimby Buff, IL young Ohio farmer
invited his neighbors to Il popcorn So
cial and committed suicide in their
presence.
Carl Il. Be;lrdslcy, only child Of Sem
ator Charles Dcardsley of Elklart, Ind,
has disappeared from Ann Arbor, Mich,
where he was attending the University
Of Michigan.
A negro killed A. Il. Leigh, a farmer
near Newman, Ca, and had a revolver
drawn to shoot Mrs. Leigh, but Lila,
q daughter seized her fathers shotgun
and drove the man from the house.
Hardin, on trial in the United States
court at Fort Smith, Ark, charged
with murder. was acquitted. He was
one of the Cook gang He is a brother
in-law of Bill Cook.
At the Dalles, Or, Otis Savage, the
young man who was charged with rob-
bing the Pacific Express Of $4,000 on
Oct. Is, was to-day found guilty.
Henry Bash, stockman ef Pecos
County, Tex, brings news to San An
tonic Of the murder of Lotus Poldert
and son, by Mexican outlaws. Poldert
was q prominent sheep man.
Toronto detectives arrested George
ID. Armstrong on the strength of teie
gram from Pinkerton's detective agen-
cy, Chicago. The prisoner Is wanted
in Anderson, Ind, for embezzlement.
Zeke Allerton. living near Roanoke
Nd, beat his wife into insensibility,
cut her head and face and klOcked
her upon hot stove, and Is under
bonds awaiting the outcome of her in
juries.
Kittie Lansing Adams, aged Is, has
applied at Valparaiso, Ind, for di-
vorce from Charles Adams. aged II, to
whom she has been married six months.
She alleges cruel and inhuman treat
ment.
Word was received at st. Louis that
the Cook gang was going to rob q
Santa Fe train near Red Rock, 0. T.
twenty-five marshals accompanied the
train, but the robbers failed to put In
an appearance.
George Jones of New York city is
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ln 1t SeclcYs

Chicago. Dec. 12.-Oflicers O'Donell
and Almendinger ut II o'clock last
night arrested Il man at 49G LIZ Sale
avenue whom they claim is Samuel
C. Seclcy, who is wanted in New
York for the cnlbezziament Of S354..
900 from the National Shoe ana IA,atf-
er bank. in which Institution he was O
bookkeeper. The prisoner stoutly as
serted that his name was Frank J,
Dale, and that he had been in Chicago
two weeks
The Dickinson press., 1894-12-15
A MOCK MARRIAGE.
Jacobs Forged q Degree of Divorce
From His First Wife,

HOaH I'M" = AE1t "1Hcs
Milwaukee, Dec. Nv. G. jacobs.
under arrest here for his participation
In a mock marriage, is not Pietzel the
St Louis insurance swindler. Jacobs
was unable to get a divorce from his
legal wife In Kansas City, but wanted
to marry Mrs. Buck of Chicago. He
disappeared, leading his wife to be-
lieve that he had been killed. Mrs.
Buck refused to live with him until
he had secured a divorce, SO he got a
copy of the Oklahoma Territory court
papers and forged judgment of d.
vorce. Fearing discovery If he had q
minister marry him, he conceived the
plan Of q mock ceremony. The police
have released JACOBS, Mrs. Buck and
Harvey, the bogus preacher.
The Dickinson press., 1894-12-15
The RentIess Shifting.

Minneapolis, Dec. 12.-W. b. Meth
ven was accidentally killed this morn
ing at the interstate elevator at the
corner of Twenty-third avenue and
the great Northern tracks, southeast.
He was in the basement Oiling the
shafting. The right side of his coat
caught in the shaft. drawing him with
relentless force until his arm and head
were drawn around it crushing his
breast. Death must have been almost
instantaneous.
The Dickinson press., 1894-12-15
nETTER RoosT HIGH.
Had Time OF Year for Our Friends
the Turks.

Had Time OF Year for Our Friends
the Turks.
Vienna, Dec. 12.-All foreign diplo-
matte action at COnStantinODle has
been suspended in consequence of the
exchange Of views which on the in.
itiative of Great Britain is proceeding
between the Berlin treaty signatory
powers with view of talking joint ac-
tion on the Armenian question. The
porte is very anxious at this turn of
affairs and has appraised the sultan
Of the exchange of views taking place
among the powers. In consequence of
this, the Turkish ministry, assisted by
Kiami', Said and Cllakir Pasha sat
continuously from noon, on Saturday,
and was still in session at noon yes
terday.
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BETWEEN TWO DAYS.


j. J. Lundlam Decamped From sioux
Falls, Leaving Creditors.
Sionx Falls, s. D., Dec. Z. j. ].
Lundlam, who came here from Coun.
Gil Bluffs some time ago and went
Into partnership with l.. A. Inwood
ir conducting the Ninth Street hotel,
silently stole away late last night,
leaving nothing to remember him by
except several hundred dollars Of
debts. Mr.. Inwood says Lundlam
beat him out of several hundred dol
lars through the partnership deal.
lundlam, according to Mr. Inwood, 10
general agent of tile Masonic. Benevo-
lent Association or Chicago, and his
sudden departure from here will at
once be reported to that association.
The Dickinson press., 1894-12-15
Factnry Fire.

Minneapolis, Dec. 12.-The factory
Of the Compa Board Manufacturing
company, situated at Forty-fourth av-
enue north, near the river, was total
ly destroyed last night by a fire Of
unknown origin which broke out in
the boiler room ut 10 O'clock Loss,
$4,000; insurance, $4,000. The fac
tory is owned by the c. A. Smith Lum-
ber company and was established a
year ago.
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Henderson. Ky, Dec. IA fight oc-
CURED last night at country dance
near Geneva. Fifteen male partici.
pants became intoxicated and engaged
in fight with axes hoes and clubs.
Two men, named Grimes and Heron,
were killed and several badly wound
o6
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Editor Moaitt Freed.

Bismarck, n. d.. Dec. THE pre-
liminary examination of w. =. Moi
fit, editor Of the Bismarck Settler,
who is charged with criminal libel of
Frank Donnelly and f. S. Allen, the
case growing out of the late election,
was held this morning and resulted In
the discharge of the defendant
The Dickinson press., 1894-12-15
AGAINST Kneebs.

Chicago, Dec. 9.-The board of ap-
peals Of the American Trotting asso-
citation, which has been in session for
the past three days. completed its
work to-day and adjourned. A de-
cfsion was handed down declaring
that the m..re at Wakefield, Neb., de-
clared by Kneebs and his representa-
tives to be the bay mare Bethel, is not
the mare Bethel. Kneebs is now in
prison in Germany charged with using
the mare Bethel as a ringer" AS q
defense he asserted that Bethel was
In this country. The board has now
upset his claim by his decision.
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Sentenced MT Duluth.

Duluth, Minn.. Dec. 1.-THE crimi.
fals convicted at the November term
Ut the district court were sentenced
to-day: Alfred johnson. for incest,
was given term Of eight years and
four months in state prison at hard
labor. Mary Johnson. for the same Of.
tense, was sentenced to the state pris-
on on the reformatory plan, which
means minimum term of five years.
Williams Mattson, who was convict
ed Of assault in the second Degree
was sentenced to two years and four
months at saltwater
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LIBELED GOV. SHELDON.
1'hi" IL a Charge Upon Which n Pom
ulint Editor Ia Arros<aI

aberdeen. S. d., Dec. 12.-W. f..
hldd. editor of The Aberdeen Star, the
fopuflst newspaper of this city, partly
owned by United States Senator KYLE.
was today arrested on an Indictment
found by the grand jury. now in ses-
sion. charging him with criminally H.
beling Gov. Sheldon. Kidd asked until
tomorrow to plead, and was released
on furnishing bail of S4OO. The arti-
Gle containing the alleged libel was
published in the Star Sept. G. and was
ut the time severely criticised by Gov.
Shcldon's many friends in this CITY
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New nond in the Ore rratt,

Duluth, Minn.. Dec. 12.-The Duluth,
Mississippi River & Northern road.
which will probably lANdle the ore
of the Malloning mines at Hibbing,
OIL the Mcsaba. has given a contract
to the Wells & French Car Company
of Chicago for 80 ore cars, to be
done by Surinr
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Ashland's Frauds.

Ashland, Wis, Dec. 9.-Taking of
testimony was begun to-day pefcre
Judge Foster in the case of the al
legged election frauds at Morse. Chair
man Leasia. of the Ashland county
board of supervisors. is one Of tnvse
implicated.
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Christie Must Hang.

Helena, Mont, Dec. IL. - The su-
preme court today denied new trial
to Calvin Christie. alias Charles ].
Black. formerly of st. Paul. convicted
OF the murder of Mrs Lena Cunning
ham. near Kalispell. He will be
hanged Dec. II.