The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-01-10
DOMESTIC,

Two LITTLE daug hters of Mrs. Latour
were burned to death while at play at
Townsville, Ga.
EMBEZZLERs, defaulters, swindlers
and bank wreckers IN the United
States succeeded in stealing SIS, 234,l liz
of other peoples money in 1894, against
$40, 929, 692 last year.
A MOB took Tom Blair from the Jail
at Mount Sterling, KY, and hanged
him. Blair was charged with murder.
The loss of life by railroad disasters
in the United States in 1894 was 3,64S,
against 4, 1908 in 1898. The number of
seriously injured was 1891, against
1864 in 1898.
Two THOUSAND men in San Francis
cos Russian colony who were refugees,
under the cars ukase are exiles no
longer. Some of them are wealthy.
The number of legal executions in
the United States in 1894 was 1872,
against 1876 in 1898 and 107 in 1892
Judge Lynch executed 100 persons, 1877
men and three women, during 1894,
ten less than last year.
THE Miller hotel at Lancaster, KY,
was burned and Edward A. Pascoe and
his child and mother lost their lives.
The total number of persons who
committed suicide in the United States
during 1894, as reported by mail and
telegraph, was 4,3l2, against 4,436 in
1898, 1869 in 1892, 1881 i'll 1891, 2,64O in
1890 and 2,224 in 1889.
Eft received in Boston, Mass,
placed the number of Armenians
slaughtered by the Kurds at Is, 900.
A Train struck a sleigh a half-mile
east of Willard, n. Y, containing Mrs.
Hughes, her son and Miss Larkin, and
all the occupants were killed.
SIXTEEN servants and one guest lost
their lives by the burning of the Della
a house at Albany, n. Y.
DANIEL j. TRUMBIEY, of Bay City,
Mich, cut his wife's throat and set fire
to the house, su~tfocating his baby
daughter. He was believed to be in
sane.
WILLIAM L.. STRONG took the oath as
mayor of New York. He is the first
executive not a democrat in twenty
two years.
FIVE OF the seven children of Jacob
X. Levan, of Obey, Ia, died within
twenty-four hours of diphtheria.
LEVI P. MORTON was inaugurated a
governor Of New York at Albany.
KATHERINE PATTON was killed and
Jennie Harvey and William Thompson
fatally injured by the cars while driv-
ing at Bath, Me.
The state legislatures of New York,
Massachusetts, Maine, Delaware, Mich
igan and Missouri convened, the re-
publicans in the latter state having
control for the first time in twenty
five years.
THE Pittsburgh Railroad Coal Oper-
atorS' association refused TO arbitrate
the wage question and declared a rate
war.
The home OF Daniel White (colored)
near Williamson's Station, KY, was
destroyed by fire and -four children
were burned to death.
INSTRUCTIONS were issued to post
masters at all delivery offices to pre-
vent further overtime claims of letter
carriers.
A CENSUS Office report shows that
of farms and houses possess
more than 90 per cent. of the wealth
OF the country.
LENA LEHMAN and her two children
were suffocated in a tenement-house
fire in New YORK.
THE monthly statement of the re-
celpts and expenditures of the United
States shows receipts during December
amounting to ST., 500. 1886; disburse-
ments, scr, 1876, 400, leaving a deficit for
the month of S. 69, 324 and for the six
months of the present fiscal year S27,-
tG4, 1865.
DURING a carousal on the old Sisse-
ton reservation in South Dakota the
building took fire and two Indians and
- white la were burned to death.
: THE Massachusetts supreme court
decided the sale of ol~eomargarine col
Ored in imitation of butter to be
Illegal, eve though no attempt were
maae To hide it's character.
Tue Crystal Ridge and Cranberry
collicries at Hazleton, Pa, shut down
for an indefinite period, throwing 900
men out of work.
A PARTY of Polish Jews camping
near Brazil, Ind, were charged with
cutting up a dead child's body and
feeding il to bears.