The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1898-10-27
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plead not guilty and demanded a jury
trial.
hon. w. q. Temple, democratic orator
Of the Black Hills will address the citi.
zsns OF Lake county at the opera house
Friday evening next. Mr.. Temple Is q
lawyes OF prominence in the Hills and
has been engaged with the state railroad
COMMISSION in fighting the Injunction
cases. When he talks on the railroad
question he knows thoroughly what he
Is talking about.
Brookings county officers took back
from this point this morning an ugly
character whose name we could not
learn, who was wanted for committing
rape at Volgs. He had also kicked his
wife out OF the house and has shown a
VICIOUS disposition generally. The Brook.
ings county authorities had wired to in.
tercept him here yesterday, but failing
to put in sn appearance at this point or
Wentworth, Conductor Joe O'Brien
who went east on the evening freight
last night was notified to look out for
him. He boarded Joe's train at Colmsn
and was turned over to the marshal OF
Egan who returned him to this point.
Sioux Falls dispatch, 25: Contrary to
expectations, Rev. T.. Howell Richards,
who pleaded guilty yesterday to sending
obscene literature through the mails,
didn't receive q ~penitentiary sentence.
At o'clock this afternoon Judge Car.
land called Richards before the bar and
fined him $1,000, ordering the defendant
committed to the county Jail till the fine
WAS paid. In sentencing Richards the
court said that the charge to which the
defendant had pleaded guilty WAS a eeri.
Gus one, but in view OF extenuating cir.
cumstances the sentence would ''be
made as light as possible" Almost ae
soon as court had adjourned Richards
paid his fine and left for the east. &
Madison people will be i~nterected in
learning that during the past week OF
two the long-distance telephone with
headquarters at Cotfey l. Larkin's Office
has made extensive connections. Previ
GUS to this time the system has had con
nections with only q small portion ol
this state and western Minnesota, bu'
now has connection with Minneapolis
St. Paul, Fargo. Aberdeen, Watertown
Sioux Falls, Sioux City and intermedi
ate points. The line has just been ex
tended from Madison to Howard anC
will soon be connected with the lines II
Mitchell and the southern part OF The
state. The old phones have been take1
out and now the entire system Is sup
piled with Bell phones aud works tinel,
everywhere. Beginning about the mid
die OF June, % messages were transmit
tea ut this Office, in for thu
month, July and August, 81 mes
sages each, aud in September III
messages, at a total earning OF sl45.35
While the number of messages have no.
varied 60 much from month to month
the receipts have steadily increased q
the rate OF about sl5 per month, chow
ing the result Of the further reaching
out in the use of the long distance tele
phone by ito patrons. Its recent con
lnsction with all the large cities allow
noted will add very materially to the IN
crease Of business ia this office.
There was q good attendance at tn
W. G. T. U. meeting yesterday afternoon
at the home OF Mrs. Hubbell. Excellen
papers we're read by Mrs. Daniels ant
Mrs. Carey, one for and the other agains
the suffrage amendment, and an sn'ma
ted discussion followed In which nearl
all present took some part. The pr'cl
pal objection to equal suffrage was tina
bad and ignorant women would vott
and that suffrage would make q woma'
coarse and unwomanly and lead her I
neglect home duties to participate !
political affairs and Gauss trouble
families. This position was supporte
by quotations from Nj. Buckley an
Bishop Vincent, the reader stating tbs
abe had brought authority from Meth
odist lights because she expected sgoo
many Methodists to be present Whe
Mr.. Buckley's name was mentioned
good Methodist sister Indignantly 81
claimed. Mr.. Buckley don't know any
: thing" Possibly she was think'n
about the book that he wrote twent,
i've or thirty years ago against highe
education for women. IN which b
, claimed that a college education woul
ruin a girls health and unfit her Il
, motherhood. The advocates OF equ'
'o,Fraoa referred to the testimony {