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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-10-03

Jap Fulmer, Dan Devipo anil ~,
terday. 'y yes
Mrs, viii Abbott came ovsr sou,
Waueay Friday for a short visit 1v;tt
relatives. WIFI
may Lee went down to Milbank spp,
DAY evening to visit a few DAYS witt
relatives. VIII
Miss Bertha Olson went M 10 Anao.
yer Monday to spend some time with
relatives. Will
m n Ella and Florence Comfy Went
to Bristol Friday to visit a few do-'
with friends. N"Ss
Miss Mary McGovern arrived FROM
Miibank Tuesday evening to spend q
day in the city.
For Sale-A child's go-cart. Inonire
OF Mrs. H.. F. Denton, owe Peterson,s
hardware store.
' Dr. ID. M. Halvorson, of Garretson. !.
mere this week visiting his sister, Miss
Alice Halvorson.
Fred Stone was over from Bpt,or c..
urday and made these pious headouar,
tiers a friendly call.
Archie Flanders came oyer from Pier.
pont Monday for a few days visit with
friends in this city.
The Misses Pothea and Agnes Peter.
son were e from waubay Saturday
visiting Webster friends.
Capt. Watson returned Wednesdsv
night from a trip to Chicago with stock
for Kramer & Compton.
miss Ida Kreiger has accepted a NOS.
ition in the dry goods department. OF
II. G. Tegtmeier's store.
Mrs. Maloney and son came up from
Waubay Monday evening to spend a
day with Webster friends.
Hon. Thos. H. Null, of Huron, popu-
list candidate for judge Of this circuit,
YVES in the city this week.
MRS. G. E. Brooks and Mrs. Martin
Sorenson went to Butler Saturday to
spend the day with relatives.
Miss Sina Nelson arrived from st.
Paul Friday evening to spend the win
ter with relatives i'll this city.
French, w. G. Warner and ]. J.
Adams formed a party bound for the
duck passes lear F.. Sisseton.
Mrs. Jean Bleser and Mrs. Will
Abbott came up from Waubay Tuesday
for a short visit with relatives.
miss Alice Halvorson and Miss Taylor
have returned from Andover where they
spent a few days at their farm.
John Durick, who is having a wrestle
with typhoid-pneumonia, is reported as
getting the best of the struggle.
Miss Annie Johnson came down from
Bristol Friday to spend a few days with
relatives and friends in this city.
Miss Della Kendall returned Thurs
day evening from and extended visit
with relatives in Lincoln, Nebraska.
T. J. Dyke returned from the city
this morning. He left VIM. Egeland
in fine shape, everything considered.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-10-03
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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-10-03
BLOOD AND SKIN DISEASES
CANCERS AND JUNIORS

As Syphilis, scrofula, structure. gleet,
cured.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-10-03
PAQESIS OR BRAIN FAC

Which is marked by a dull heavy pain on
top and back of the head: pains radiating
from the spinal cord, hot and cold flashes,
irregular action of the heart, Indigestion
pains, frequent urination. dark spots and
glimmers before the eyes, an Indescribable
misery across the center Of the body perma.
nently cured,
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-10-03

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Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-10-03
RAILWAY TIME TABLE.
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway
H. D. DIVISION.

All persons having stock in my pas
ture will please call and settle pastur-
age bills and remove stock on Tuesday,
Oct. 8th. DR.. j. l.. Harris.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-10-03
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webster Market.
Thursday by j. w. Abbott.

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wv ....,..''''''' or q 30 :.
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i.3
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Recommendations. $500 per ton
About Webster, Webster
P.ople and Webster Visitors
i NJ tfseshing to do yet.
M. W. Small for your lumber.
Cease was over from Lily Tues
ana Guimont was in the city yes
by,
|. couuty commissioners met yes
By.
= C~urrence, of Lily, was in town
ssy.
ne latest eastern fads at the City
Snry.
1 Miller was over from Langford
udsy.
y Kelley came up from Aberdeen
Erisy.
". Paul, of Waubay, was in town
urdsy.
fsC Quackenbush spent Tuesday
vsabay.
nuk Burns came down from Gro
Monday.
/. Maynard drove over from Wau-
Tuesday.
n. Halvor Olson, Of Bristol, was in
D Saturday.
A Freborn, of Ortonville, was in
b Saturday.
Bill Wanted--At the City Bakery;
Npr week.
b to E. W. Small for your lime,
ent and posts.
lis Genevieve Molyneaux was down
q Bristol Friday.
b toA. Small for the Stpdebaker
CONS and buggies,
n G. Hegen, of Lily, was a Web
visitor Monday.
William and Carl Dahl were over
)! b Lily Saturday.
Us. Fred Ingeberg, of Bristol, was
OWn Wednesday.
pOcorS Karn and Freeburn came up
pa 0rtonville Friday.
8. and Mrs. John Dunn were over
n Watertown Monday.
Elarauteed A No. / salt at $1.45 per
b, at Fksdal Bros.
he old furniture store has all the
styles in baby cabs.
Robert Martyr, of Andover, made
Fster a call Saturday.
FlS Emma Schultz came up from
inlay Tuesday evening.
ts Minnie Johnson spent Sunday
her parents i'll Bristol.
= and Mrs. Il. w. Cutting, of Wan
were in town Monday.
y and Mrs. G. E. Turpena drove
no Waubay Wednesday.
y Nettie Byron and brother were
from Bristol Monday.
y highland carries a full line of
n'uFe and does repairing.
AOther train load of stock will be
ped today from this station.
splen Pearson resigned his position
Pharmacy yesterday.
ls I'LL you can't rest at the Pho
hardware store. ALI prices.
vi nOor will be warm when YOU
weather strip from Hallock.
Loin Hanson and Miss Inger
: dfoye over from Strand Saturday.
,mVite your inspection of u ALL
iuilture. Benjamin & Foster.
Fla0le and servioeable styles
At the City Millinery.
and Mrs. J. G. Taylor, of Bristol,
saturday with friends in this city.
W. Wayland and daughter,
we're up from Waubay Tuesday.
's'ly up-to-date styles
At the City Millinery.
ieager came over from Bristol
spend the day with his fam
brooks is having considerable
uone on his building on Main
ueeplng babe is always warm
UNLOCK has put on a weather
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-10-03
Young and rliddIe-Aged Men.

Suffering from Spermatorrhea and impotency
as the result OF self-abuse in youth, or excess
In mature years and other causes producing
some Of the following %eifcts, such as ennis
sions, bl9tches, debility, nervousness, dizzi,
ness, confusion of ideas, aversion TO society
detective memory or nervor. exhaustion
which units the victim for business or mar
riage, are permanently cured by remedies not
injurious.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-10-03
ACUTE AND CHRONIC CATARRH,

Ringing in the cars, deafness, diseases of the
eye, ear, throat. lungs. stomach, liver, kidney.
urinary an! blade. nervous prostratioL,
dyspepsia. constipation. rheu matism, epilep.
sy or fits, slow growth in children and vast
ing away OF adults.
|. HemorrhGids (Piles), cured without knife.
No pain and no detention from work.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-10-03
he Associated Specialists
AUTHORIZED BY The STATE

Their examinations and treatments are SINH
lar to those given in the Eastern and
Foreign Hospitals.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-10-03

Diseases OF women. such as leucorrhoea,
painful menstruation, displacement OF womb,
bearing down pans, etc, relieved in a short
time.
Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1901-10-03

The German American Doctors offer no
catcb-penny inducements. They treat with
unparalleled success al chronic diseases upon
the latest scientific principles aud particular.
ly invite all whose cases have been neglected
or unskillfully treated.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-19
ST. PETERSBURG WORKINGMEN
Threaten Serious Trouble May
One Rafhcr Excffinp Exnarfepc

Threaten Serious Trouble May L.
One Rather Exciting Experience.
LONDON, April 1S.-A dispatch to
Reuters Agency from st. Petersburg
says that although the students re-
main quiescent the authorities are dis
turbed by the attitude of the working
people and isolated troubles are con-
sidered unavoidable May LIST. The
working people are attempting to in
troduce labor day observances. Prac-
tically the whole of the operatives of
the st. Petersburg Steel Company, an
immense concern which. among other
things, manufactures ordnance, recently
demanded a half holiday and full pay.
When the demands were refused they
broke into the managers Office. forced
the company's officials to flee for their
lives, tore their fur-eoats into shreds
and burned valuable books and papers.
Police and mounted gendarmes chased
and routed the rioters.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-19
THE RED HATS

Conferred Upon the Newly Created
Cardinals Yesterday-The POpe's
BenedictiOn.
ROME, April 1S.-At the public con-
sistory to-day the ceremony of impos-
ing the red hats on the new cardinals
occurred in the Sala Dele Benedizioni
in the presence of all the cardinals
bishops, prelates, diplomats, function
aries of the Vatican. Roman nobility
and numerous invited guests. The
Pope. who was in excellent health, was
warmly cheered. The pontiff, seated
on the throne and surrounded by mis-
court, performed the ceremony of i'm
posing the hats and pronounced the
pontifical benediction. There was no
%allocution. Subsequently, the Pope re-
ceived the new cardinals in his private
apartments.
No appointment was made to-day in
the case of the vacant bishopric of
Portland, Me.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-19
FOUR MEN HELD.
For the Murder of Thomas ID. Kah-
ney and Detective F~itzgerald.

For the Murder of Thomas ID. Kah-
ney and Detective Fitzgerald.
PITTSBURG, Pa, April 1S.-The cor
oner's jury to-day held four persons
for the murder of Thomas D. Kahney.
the Mount Washington grocer, who was
killed by burglars on last Friday morn
ing, and for the subsequent murder of
Detective Patrick Fitzgerald, while at
tempting the arrest of the supposed
burglars. The verdicts in effect are
that Thomas D. Kahney met his death
by a gunshot wound through the heart,
inflicted by Edward Biddle, alias
Wright; John Biddle, alias Wright. and
Walter Dorman, alias r. D. Wilcox.
with recommendation that these men
be held to answer the charge of murder
before the grand jury, and in the case
of Fitzgerald the verdict holds Ed. and
Jack Biddle and Jessie Bodine-Biddle
for the murder. Nothing new in the
way of evidence was produced at the
inquest, the policy of the detectives be-
ing to save their best evidence for the
trial.
The grand jury will be In session
April 90, and if true bills are found
against the prisoners they WILL be tried
at the May term of court.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-19
DIED TOGETHER.
Young Mans Parents Objected 20
His Engagement-Murder and Sal
eide the Result.

eide the Result.
ELMIRA, n. Y, April 1S.-Because
his parents objected to his marriage 10
Anna Linberg. Frederick J. FISHER shot
his sweetheart and himself last night.
They were found lying dead in the road
near the entrance of Rocks Glen Park
early to-day. In Fishers right hand
was a revolver. two chambers Of which
were empty. The following note sign.
ed by Fisher and Miss Linberg was
found on the person Of the former:
I'VE go together and die happy"
Fishers signature was In a firm hand,
while that of the girl gave evidence OF
her excitement.
Fisher was 26 years old. had been Q
guard at the State reformatory In this
city since last fall. His family object
ed to his engagement, Miss Llnberg
was a pretty Swede girl about Il years
old.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-19
TWO OTHERS L

PITTSBURG, April 1S.-In addition
to the settlement of the McKeesport
strike troubles, two other labor dis
putes were settled in Pittsburg to-
day.
Col. G. Watson French, first vice
president of the Republic Iron and
Steel Company, of Chicago, had a o n
ference with President Schaffer to-
day regarding difficulties in two plants
of the Republic company. In the Tu-
dor plant at East st. Louis the rollers
demanded more help, which was de-
MED by the company. President Schaf-
fer decided the rollers were not en-
titled to help. At the Republic COM
pany's plant at Massillon, Ohio, a dis
pute about the Interpretation of the
wage scale was also readily ad-
justed.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-19
said. to bring in suburban electric
BRITISH FINANCES.


Great Interest Taken In the Budget
and Taxation Proposals.
LONDON, April 1880 p. m.-The
exceptional interest taken in this years
budget statement was evidenced by the
crowded. condition Of the House of
Commons when it reassembled to-day.
The attendance of members was u
ually large, while the appearance of the
galleries testified to the deep interest
of the public in the fresh taxation pro-
posals required to meet the expendi-
ture for I901-1902, which, according to
a parliamentary paper issued this af-
ternoon. totals a1S7, 602, 900, inclusive
of war charges, this being an increase
of 1920 600 over last year..
The National balance for 1900-1901,
as shown by the same paper, stands as
follows:
Revenue a130, 1856, 600.
Expenditure 91S3, 592, 900.
Net deficit f53, 2O7. 900.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-19
BETTER FACILITIES
For Entering Kansas City by Rail
VIII Vow be Provided.


VIII Vow be Provided.
KANSAS CITY, No. April 18.-At
public auction to-day the Winner Bridge
piers In the Missouri river here and
other terminal property of the Kansas
City & Atlantic railroad were sold to
Theodore c. Bates. of Worcester, Mass,
for 800. 900. The sale was made to sat
isfy a mortgage for about 500, 900 held
in trust by the Massachusetts Loan q
Trust Company, Of Boston, and the
property was purchased in the interests
of the b~ondholders. The sale will end
the re~ceivership of the property and
win terminate ten years OF litigation.
Mr.. Bates is at the head of an eastern
syndicate controlling the property, and
which will. it is said begin a reorganiza-
ton OF the terminals that will result in
the building Of a large passenger sta
tion afording mea for an entrance
into Kansas City OF the Baltimore
Ohio Southwestern, the Chicago 9
Northwestern and other railways.
The bridge VIII also be used, It il
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-19
THEIR TROUBLE ENDED
BY TWO REVOLVER SHOTS.
T. SWEENEY, OF GREEN-
VILE, KY, KILLS HIS WIFE,
THEN SHOOTS HIMSELF.
THEY HAD BEEN SEPARATED
AND SWEENEY WARNED HIS WIFE
IF SHE CAME TO CHICAGO,
HE WOULD KILL HER,

CHICAGO, April 1S.-Charles H.
Sweeney, a wealthy cotton planter of
Greenville, KY, to-day shot and killed
mis- wife and then committed suicide
In the apartments Of his wife's sister.
Mrs. w. L. Phillips. wife OF a Chicago
tobacco merchant. in the Dubuque fats.
Rush street, near the Granada hotel.
Mrs. Sweeney left her home at Green
Vile a month since. coming to Chi
cago. 1t is said, for the purpose OF SCI
curing legal separation. Sweeney il
said to have told his wife he would kill
her II she persisted In suing for a di-
vorce. Sweeney reached Chicago this
morning and carried out his threat.
Mrs. Sweeney arrived a day or two
ago, and this morning, during the tenn
porary absence of her sister. she went
down town shopping. She returned at
Q o'clock and stepping into the apart
ment was met by her husband who
had beer admitted by Mu. Phillips
six-year-old SON. Sweeney grasped her
wrist and pulled her inside. At tina
point of a revolver he ordered the boy
to run. Crying out that a murder was
being done, the child fed to the Gran
ada hotel, but before help could ar
rive, two shots were heard and the no.
tel attaches found the man and woman
lying on the floor. Mrs. Sweeney was
dead and in a few moments the husband
expired.
Mrs. Sweeney was the daughter of
Thomas p. Morgan. an extensive plant
er of Greenville. The Sweeneys were
well known in Kentucky society, it la
said.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-19

next scale agreement, and the COM
pany, 1t is believed, will be ready to
oppose this part of this agreement en-
phatically.
When asked concerning this tonight,
the officials of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation simply smiled and said they
would not cross a bridge until they
came to it. The company officials re-
piled in the same strain.
At the conclusion of the conference
this evening, the members of the exec
utive board departed for their homes
seemingly well pleased that the matter
had been settled without an open rup-
ture. There did not seen any DISPOSE
tion on the part of either side of the
dispute to claim a victory or the best
of the settlement.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-19
TUG MEN STRIKE.

CLEVELAND, o., April 1S.-A strike
of all the fremen and linesmen en-
ployed on harbor tugs controlled by the
Great Lakes Towing Company at
Cleveland. Erie. Conneaut. Fairport,
Lorain, Huron and Ashtabula has been
ordered to take effect Immediately. The
Great Lakes Towing Company own
practically all the tugs operated at the
ports named.
The strike was decided upon as a re-
suit of the refusal of the company to
grant an advance in wages Of IS per
month. The men now get $50 per
month. As but comparatively few tugs
have thus far gone into commission,
not to exceed 200 msn re directly at
fected.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-19
HOW THE DUKE WAS BLEED.
Paid 500 POUNDS Commission ON n
10000 Pounds loan. And rs Per
Cent Annual Interest.


LONDON, April 1S.-The init of San
guinetti against the Duke of Manchester,
which was postponed February "a last,
owing to the Dukes absence in Amer
lea, occupied the court of kings bench
to-day. The plaintiff seeks to recover
$500 commission for procuring the
Duke a loan of 10000. The defence
pleaded that the terms OF the loan were
unreasonable. Mr.. Zimmerman, the
father-in-law of the Duke. was in court
S|anguinetti testified that the Duke said
he wanted $500 in connection with q
marriage. that he had insured his life
for E50,000 and that he was making a
good income as correspondent for a New
York paper. The plaintiff admitted
that he charged % per cent yearly In
terest, which, he said. was not exorbi-
tant.
After evidence to the effect that the
Manchester estates in England and ire
land showed a yearly deficit. and that
the income did not suffice to meet the
mortgages. charges and jointures of the
dowager duchess. Judgment was given
in favor Of the defendant on the ground
that Sanguinnetti had never found any
m able or willing to provide the loan
on which he claimed commission on the
actual security available.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-19
WHEELING, W VA. FRIDAY, April, 10, 1901

Persifor F. Smith, general manager Of
the Wood, Wellsville, Chester and
other mills, and Holloway.
Later this proposition was amended
to make the time three days. On this
proposal the conference struggled till
nearly 6 o'clock yesterday evening.
Then a recess was taken. The meeting
was r~eassembled at the word that Mr..
Jarrett had a new proposition. This
was that instead of taking three days
to settle the Holloway difficulty, an
agreement be made providing for the
starting of the mills on next Monday
with all the old men. This includes all
the discharged men and Holloway, but
a clause was inserted providing for a
settlement of the difficulty between
Messrs. Smith and Holloway.
Mr.. Jarrett came out of the meeting
we'll pleased. He said:
Everything is settled; the trouble is
over"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-19
WANT FORTY-FIvE MINUTES.
Employees of the McKeesport Con-
Meeting Road Strike for More
Time for Dinner.

GA CO "a "NAACSSHOAt
Meeting Road Strike for More
Time for Dinner.
NKEESPORT, Pa, April 18.-After
safely passing through n labor trou-
BILE, McKeesport has just entered an
other. At 1870 O'Clock to night all the
hands employed on the McKeesport
Connecting Railroad struck for a longer
dinner hour. The men at present have
to return to work Immediately after
they are through eating their midday
meal, and they nov demand As minutes.
The strikers include the engineers, fire.
men and brakemen in the yards of the
National Tube works, rolling mills, Mo-
hela steel works of the National Tube
Company, numbering about fifty men.
The men are all members of the Broth
erhood of Railroad Trainmen, and that
organization is expected to back the
men in their demands. A committee
mar who was appointed to confer with
the Of1cialS was dismissed When ne mad
stated the demands of the men. This
action of the company officials has rails
ed the ire of the strikers and this even
ing they all left their positions. The
action of the railroad hands will cause
the suspension of the entire plant, and
this will cause 10000 men to be thrown
out of employment.
Up to 8 o'clock this evening the plants
were all running, but it is thought work
will be suspended before midnight.
There are still a few men at work in
the yards of the National Tube Com
pany at midnight, but it is expected
they will all quit before morning, and
a general tieup will take place.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-19
W & L. E. WRECK
In the Cleveland Yards Results I'm
the Death of One Man-Three
Badly Injured.

the Death of One Man-Three
Badly Injured.
CLEVELAND, O., April 1S.-As a
result of a head end collision between
freight and construction trains on the
Wheeling and Lake Erie road in the
Cleveland yards early to-day. one man
was killed and several badly hurt.
Dead:
VIM. Theis, brakeman, penned under
wreck and terribly crushed. He lived
at 66 University street. this city.
injured:
Harry Venzenbrech, engineer, Can
ton, Ohio. badly crushed and will die.
j. o. Harmon, fireman. Canton, o.,
leg broken and injured internally, will
probably die.
Sylvester Bruggen. a workman, 35
Fairview street, Cleveland. badly hurt.
The cause of the accident is not
known, but is supposed to have been
the result of a misunderstanding or or
ders.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-19
THE ITINERARY COMPLETE.

WASHINGTON. April 18.-The itin-
erary OF the Presidents tour to the
Pacific coast is now complete and no
further appeals for changes In route or
stops will be considered. The party
will spend Sunday. June 2. at Salt Lake
City, as originally planned.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-19
C0MMISSARY SCANDALS

Should Not worry the War Depart
ment, Says Col. Woodruff.
WASHINGTON, April 1s.-Commis-
sary General Weston has received a
cablegram from Col. Woodruff. chief
commisary at Manila, in which ne
says:
DO not permit scandulous reports to
worry you. Affairs subsistence depart
ment Of tie army administered honestly
and to satisfaction of officers and
troops"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-04-19
R D AMI SUICIDE
In Paris High Life-The nm
EngIishman, Though Born i'm Chi

EngIishman, Though Born i'm Chi
cagO.
PARIS, April 1S.-Madame Lascher
Highlander, an English woman living
at Passy, has been murdered by Fer
dinand Ernst because she refused to
marry him. Ernest, who was born In
Chicago, and who is said to have
been the director of the Manchester
house and a British subject, then shot
himself. All of the parties were promi-
nent socially.
The victim was a woman of indie
pendent means. The murderer, who
died In a hospital. left a letter request
ing that his body be cremated, and
making arrangements for the defray-
ing Of the funeral expenses of the VIC
tim from his personal estate.