Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1895-05-23


intoxicated Indiana youths shot and
Killed Paul johnson. a companion,
without cause ut Bedford. Ind.
James Main. aged 10 years, commit
ted suicide ut Clinton, Ia. by cutting
his throat. He was Respondent be-
cause of i'll health.
William III. WadGlc poisoned his
three children and then himself at
Atlanta. Ga. None lived more than q
few minutes.
Mrs. Walls was murdered at pur-
cell, O. H.. and her body nearly crcmn-
ted. George Richie her sweetheart. is
under arrest.
/ Clara Ford. who has been on trial
ut Toronto charged With the murder
last October of Frank Westwood in
Paritlale. Ont, WAS acquitted.
Frank Pierce. aged ~. has confessed
that he set many fires in Indianapolis.
The Hotel Dcnnison fire was one of
them.
Detectives find that some high off
Gals of the l.ehigh Valley road are i'm
picated in gross frauds upon the COM
pany.
james Taylor. Dave Echols and Ed
Eolllncn. all white. We're killed as
The result of an attempt of the latter
tn arrest the former near Durant. Ark.
William Bothonf WAS arrested in
Denver. Col, charged With obtaining
$4,000 in mining deal under false
pretenscS. G.. II. Wheeler. q Nest Nil'-
Sinia capitalist is the complainant.
City Treasurer Jacobs. whose term
3 J1tt
Mont. committed suicide by shooting.
1t was found lie had Il shortage OF over
SJn.DUO.
Judge Fdmufclc of the ST. Louis.
Mo-. criminal court has instructed the
May grand jury to make a thorough
I investigation of the alleged election
frauds last November.
The body of Rufus Choatc. agcd is.
sou of wealthy real estate man of
Buffalo. who had been missing for
-four months. was found in the hayloft
of the barn lie had shot himself.
William y Farmhouse was indicted
nj New Orleans. La. for importing
lottery tickets. 1t is a test case. the
first under the Hoar law, passed by
( the last congress.
Harry INcliar. who was formerly in
the dry goods business i'll Logansport,
Ind. WAS assaulted and robbed of S315
shortly before midnight. Hearing a
noise he Went to his barn and was at
tackled aud left in a dazed condition.
Foreign.
German newspapers are condcmning
American dried apples.
Count ISnlnoky. Austrian minister
of foreign affairs. has resigned.
ODonovan Rosa is fired bodily out
of the British house of commons.
Twenty members of the band of
rebels at Villas, Cuba commanded by
Quintin Bravo, have surrendered.
/ Russia, France and Germany are to
increase their naval forces in the
China seas.
The dowagcr duchess of Roxhurshe,
n widow of the sixth duke OF RoX-
hurghe. who died in 1879, is dead.
Additional adviccs received here
from Maujng:l regarding the victory
of the French on the Betaobolla river
show that the 1lovaS lost 300 men.
John Laurence Toole the we'll
known English actor, is suffering from
paralysis and will retire from the
stage.
The price of sugar has been ad-
vanced y cent pound by retail and
wholesale at Halifax owing TO the rise
in duties by the dominion government
Cesar Wilde was released on bail
in London after furnishing personal
bond for $4,000 and two sureties in
$G.250 each.
The German rcichstag definitely has
definitely passed the Baltic and North
sea canal feStivity credit of 100000
marks. the Social Democrats alone Op-
posing it.
King Humbert of Italy has signed n
decree dissolving the chamber of dep
uties and fixing May 2G as the date
for the election of new deputies. The
second ballots will BE taken on June
.. The new chamber will assemble
Aug. 9.
The Japanese minister here has in
formed the French minister of foreign
affairs. NJ. lIanotauX, that deferring
to the friendly advice of France, Rus
STA and Germany, Japan has renounc-
ed its claim to the permanent posses
sion of the Lao Tung peninsula, in.
Guiding Port Arthur.
Othcrwixc.
The Midway PlaiSance will be re-
produced at the Atlanta exposition.