The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-01-03

mas day, Miss Miller, of Youngstown,
Pa, ended her life.
JUDGE WALL. of Leadville, says that
there is no law in Colorado prohibit
ing a man from burning his own honse.
WHILE eating Christmas dinner at
the home of a friend in Rockford, H.,
Henry K. Evans was taken i'll and died
within a few hours.
CHARLES EDWARD DUFFEE, the ball
player, better known as Home Run
Dutfee," died at Mobile, Ala, from con
sumption.
NEARLY 1000, 900 feet of lumber and
twenty loaded railway cars were de-
stroyed by fire at Burlington, VT, the
loss being $50, 900.
MANY farmers and merchants were
financially ruined by the failure of the
Citizens stock bank and Slater savings
bank at Slater, Mo.
THE state normal college for girls at
Livingstone. one of the most prosper
ous institutions in Alabama, was
burned.
A HEAVY snowstorm ragged from Ne
braska to the Atlantic coast.
EDWARD K. CARTER, for t~wenty-nine
years a clerk in the National bank of
commerce of New York, confessed to
embezzling $50, 900.
WILLIAM :. WHITMAN, of WinooSki,
VT, shot and killed his wife and two
boys and then committed suicide. Do
mestic trouble was the cause.
A. W. ALTON, of New Jerusalem,
Tex, when arrested in New Orleans
=, no tha nln ,~rn Of ,rrn,;tv pnsI h,
was on the way to Washington to kill
the president.
EIGHTEEN persons were seriously in
jured in a collision between passenger
trains at WaXahachie. Tex.
ALIX failed in an effort to lower her
record at Los Angeles, trotting a mile
in 2:O51s. The 2-year-old Directly
paced a mile in 2:OS.
The largest single mail ever brought
across the Atlantic arrived in New
York on the steamer Majestic. 1t va
in 1.672 bags.
ANNIE FREEZE, a 15-year-old girl, was
abducted from the home of her grand
father near Hicksville, O., by unknown
persons.
A MAIL pouch destined for Hartford
and containing 600 letters was stolen
from the depot platform at New Haven,
Conn.
DAN MCDONALD and Will Carter (col-
cred were lynched by a mob near
Meridian, Mss, for killing Jacob
Copp, aged IS years.
STATE teachers associations Of Hi
nois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, In
diana, Nebraska, South Dakota and
Kansas held their annual meetings.
EX-CAPT. STEPHENSON, of New York,
the first of the police officials convicted
as a result of the LeXow investigations,
was sentenced to three years and nine
months imprisonment and fined 81 1000.
THE visible supply of grain in the
United States on the Goth was: Wheat,
So OIL 900 bushels; corn, S,S3S, 900 bush
els: oats, 1900, 600 bushels; rye, 452, 900
bushels: barley, 1906, 900 bushels.
FIVE white boys were fatally burned
in a suburb OF Richmond, Va, by an
explosion of gunpowder.
WILLIAM BLAKEsLEY, of Sacramento,
Cal, supposed by his parents to be
dead for thirty years, g~laddened their
hearts at Trenton, n. j., by letting
them know he is alive.
MADELINE POLLARD's attorneys pro-
pose to follow Breckenridge on his lee
lure tour and attach the receipts.
a PRAIRIE fire swept over a large
area in the southern part of IN" coun-
ty, o. T., and a number of farmers lost
everything they owned and barely es-
capped with their families.
The old capitol building at Atlanta,
Ga, was burned, the loss being 500, 900.
ALIEN WILLIAMSON and Will Perry,
two young men living at CoalbuIg,
Ala, fought for the hand of Mamie
Bell and both were killed.
The worst blizzard in years swept
over the western and eastern states.
Along the Massachusetts, coast many
ships were wrecked, causing great loss
of life. and in the cities of Boston and
New York much damage was done by
the storm.
BURGLARS broke into the home of
Henry Fecker, at Piqua, O., and car
ried off his savings, amounting t. $4,-
$50.
JOHN W.. FOSTER, eX-secretary of
state, has consented to go TO- Japan to
aid the Chinese representatives in
bringing about peace.
FARMERS and robbers engaged in a
desperate fight near Salem, o., and
two of the former were shot and one
of the latter.
The bank at Somonauk, ILL.,, was en-
tered by burglars, who robbed the sale
of IS, 100 and a large amount of valua-
bles.
JOSEPH BIDwELL and William Find
ley, farmers of Union county, were
killed near Columbus, o., by "a Pan
Handle train.