The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-05-27
NEWS IN BRIEF.
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dcnscd Form.
4 dispatch from Bonne Tcrre. Mo-
saws. Gen. James X. Mccormick Is
| dead, ased seventy-three years.
The strike of tanLcrS and curriers' M
| Chicago has been officially declared on
| by the several unions involved.
Cambridge university (EnglandI, by
a vote of LIS to &C.,. rejected the
~proposal to confer degrees upon Wo-
men.
III. Il. Rose n Co. wholesale mil
liners of PittSburg, We're closed ny the
sheriff on executions amounting 10
$4,000.
The leaders of the ~tailors' strike eS'
innate that 22.OOO workmen are now
out in New York, Brownsville. Brook
Ign and Newark.
The duke of Buccleuch unveiled at
Westminster Abbey u memorial bust
OF Sir Walter Scott III the presence OF Il
distinguished assemblage.
Benito Lopez, seventy years Did. was
hanged in the state prison At Folsom
Cal. for the murder of George Wash
burn. Il wealthy ranch owner,
The secretary of the interior has au-
llltI lLsu Al toilia't i" th
school building at Mount Pleasant In
dian school, i'm Michigan, TO cost $40
600
The president has decided upon the
appointment of &. {. Tuthill OF Column
bia City, Ind, as United States COM
missioner for Alaska. with headquar-
tiers at Sitka.
Matthew Idnin, one of the Oldest
residents Of Chicago, and one OF the
founders Of what is now h Lafiin-
Rand Powder company, is dead, aged
nincty-four years.
Announcement has been made that
the Third National Bank of New York
has decided to retire from business,
and transfers its accounts 10 the Ma
tiOnal City bank.
Judgements by comics sion We're en-
tered in the superior court at Chicago
against Richard ii. Southgate. man
ager of the Auditorium hotel for sums
a~ggrcgating SS9.1S9.
While attempting to arrest q negro
at Wetaug, Ill. Officer :. T. Detricks
of Ullin was fatally shot. The officer
fell. but. lying on lis side. shot the
negro five times, killing him.
James Il. EuStis, eX-ambaSSador to
France, and for twelve years n sena-
tor from Louisiana, announces his in
tention of becoming head of the law
firm OF Jones Il Gown of New York.
f.. :. FleiScher, a well known real es-
tate man of Pittsburg. was robbed and
murdered while on his way home
shortly after midnight. After robbing
Fischer of his money and valuables his
nSSnilnnf thInuV him aNA. tho hriI On
into the ravine ninety feet below.
Wesley IclebOke of Grant county,
Okla. i'm a fit of jealousy killed Joe
Hajck While he WAS visiting the girl
for whose hand they We're rival suit
Ors. The sheriff found IelcbCke and
arrested him. On his way TO town
Zelebcke died in great agony beside
the sheriff in the buggy. after having
confessed that he had swallowed
strychnine.
George HobsOn has been recorder of
Hamilton county. Ohio. for six years
previous 60 entering on his duties last
September as clerk of the courts. 1t
has since been ftrnd that he was
short 100000 as recorder. Now the
experts find that he is already short
S23,4tt4 as clerk. although he has held
the Office only six months. His trial
begins Monday.
An explosion of gasoline ut st.
Louis resulted in the death of Mrs.
Ada Mohr, thirty-three years old. her
eighteen-mOnths-Old baby and Hugo
Howard. fifteen months old. Mrs.
Bessie Howard and William Howard,
Der ~five-year-old son, were probably
fatally burned, while Max Gumpert
and Henry Surman We're badly burned
in attempting to rescue the unfOrtun-
nate victims
T~heosOphists have closed Il deal by
which forty acres of land AT Point
Iona, Cal, were added to their hold
ingS. which now include more than
half n square mile in the choicest sit
uation on the bay. Their temple, to
be erected on this tract, will cost at
least S2JO.OO0, and improvements con-
templatcd will cost $4,000 more.
They have already expended SjO.OOO
on the property.