Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1894-04-19

the street at st. Louis by an unkA- OVID
negro. There was no provocation.
William f. Colt was acquitted at De.
caturs ILL.,, of the charge Of numbering
Milton Bond
Charles Andrews, disappointed in
love, killed himself at Rock Island, Ill.
He was fifty years old.
Fifty Alabama court officials have
been indicted for making fraudulent re-
turns.
ID. w. b. Brown has been convicted
OF an attempt to assasslnate w. A.
Maekey It Wooster, Ohio.
Charles Marks was shot 10y a man
named Brock at a dance 1t Abingdon,
Ill. Marks is not expected to live.
The governors of Montana and
Wyoming have a little quarrel over the
aSe OF a murderer.
Joseph Shade, who died suddenly
and mysteriously at Fort Steilacoom
asylum, Washington, was poisoned
With atropia.
Police Judge Jones and Marshal Bow,
n an of Barbonrville, Ky, were in
dicted for the murder Of William Reed
err.
During n quarrel at Catherine, Ala,
Bob Shields, q prominent farmer, was
killed by Tom Bains, a negro. The
assailant fed. AposJe is after him.
Trial of the Haugheys and others,
charged with wrecking the indianapolis
National bank, will be begun at In.
~dianapolis this week.
At st. Louis, Henry Enregard shot
and fatally wounded Emma Strahl, his
sweetheart, and attempted suicide.
They quarreled at a ball.
William Woodfll passed forged
notes for several hundred dollars or
the First National Bank at Madison Ia.
and escaped, DESERVING his family.
The Rev. Clement w. Lewis, the col.
ored pension swindler, was sentenced
at Chattanooga, Tenn, to twenty-eight
years Imprisonment.
At Middlesboro, Ky, Hon. Mitchell
Alexander, a prominent citizen and ex-
member of the legislature from Clay
bourne county, suicided by hanging.
An attempt was made last night at
Huron, Ohio, TO wreck the Atlantic eX-
press on the Lake Shore road. A large
number Of ties were piled between the
rails on the bridge r the river.
James Smile, insane, suicided by
diving head first from the elevated
railroad station at Forty-second street,
New York city. 1t vas his fourth at
tempt.
At Scranton, Pa, by incendiary fire,
the rockingham Arcade, N of the
finest four-story business blocks in the
city was completely destroyed. Loss,
100000.
Jack Bellows was held to await the
action Of the grand jury on a charge
of murder at Fort Dodge, Iowa. He
vas allowed bail in $4,000, a practi-
cally ~prohibitory amount.
Z. ID. Smith was arrested at Laramie,
Wye. 1t is alleged that Smith en-
bezzeled 5000 Of government funds
while he was postmaster at Jewell,
Kan. The prisoner was taken to To-
peka.
Miss Mary Bell, seventeen years old,
daughter Of q prominent farmer at
Valparaiso, Ind, shot and killed her.
self. She was a student at the high
school, and no cause is known for the
act.
At Fresno. Cal, the sensational sec
ond trial Of Richard s. Heath for the
murder Of l.. B. McWhirter, lawyer
and politician, came to an end, the jury
being unable to agree after being out
thirty-one houre, standing ten for con-
viction and two for acquittal.
At the Baptist Mission church at
Wewaka, the capital OF the Seminole
Indian nation, ar Indian boy named
Frank Short was carried to the third
story window by three boys whose en-
nifty he had incurred and hurled to
the ground, the fall injuring him so
badly that he has since died.