The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1902-12-19
Sin and Sinners.

SuJ dTIu 0iV1CFS.
California Dan Ryan, a scout, was
tortured to death by Yaqui Indians.
The grand jury at Shoals, Ind, re-
turned 40 indictments against men
charged with selling their votes at the
last election.
Forest Wheeler, a twelve-year-old
boy, in jail in Cleveland awaiting re-
moval to the state Industrial school,
hanged himself with a p made from
his bedding, rather than go to the
school.
The trunk belonging to Victor Bloom.
the Swedish butler who was arrested
in New York for robbing his employ
ers, vas opened by the police and
found to contain $4,000 of silverware.
jewelry and clothing.
In a fit of rage because his mother
rebuked him and petted his younger
brother, little James McSheehy, three
years old, of Derby, Conn, threw HIM
self into a tub of boiling water and
was so terribly scalded that he died.
Robert Westphal, the fourteen-year.
old boy who was with George F. Leyh,
the aged Brooklyn 'trussmaker when
the latter died after drinking poisoned
beer, a week ago, in his store, was ar
rested on suspicion of having mur.
dered the old man.
Thomas, R. Williams, aged fifty, a
former citizen of Sandoval, died in a
hospital at Freeport, H., under cir.
cumstances which indicate full play.
The attending physician stated posi-
fiun1xy fhof hn WOO ,rdnv tho ;nAropon
of some powerful drug when he left a
train out of Chicago. i,
Charles Fl. Thompson, agent for the
Hammond Packing company of Ham
mond, Ind, pleaded guilty in the cir
cult court of offering to bride State
Commissioner Snow in Kalamazoo,
last spring, and paid a fine of $1,000
imposed by Judge Winsor. The Of
Tense grew out of the commissioners
effort to enforce the state law prohib-
iting the sale of colored butterine.
Otherwise.
Welcome A. Botkin Of San Francis
co, has secured a divorce. for deser-
ton, from Mrs. Codalia Botkin, o n
victed of murder.
Plans are being formulated by the
officers of the Rubber Workers union
for a strike in every branch Of the rub
Der trust in the coun try.
Definite steps toward forming an
association of lumber manufacturers
were taken by delegates from various
lumber associations at st. Louis.
DR.. Emma Helwig, who formerly
lived in Chicago, and who was report
ed to have mysteriously disappeared a
year ago, is living in Berlin, Germany.
Mayor Tom johnson and his automo-
bile party had difficulty in securing
lodgings in Frankfort, KY, being mis-
taken for tramps by the hotel people.
The Efie Railway company has
raised the wages of 400 switchmen on
its Mahoning division IL and Is per
cent. The advance is effective Dec. /.
Matty Matthews, former welter.
weight champion, was given the decis-
ion over Owen Zeigler at Savannah,
Ga, in the sixth round Of a twenty
round bout.
The appellate court OF. Indiana has
just rendered an opinion to the effect
that the receiver of a building and
loan association must return the as
sets for taxation.
Prof. David j. Lingle, Of the Univers-
ity OF Chicago, thinks he has discov-
cred the proper salt solution, combined
with oxygen gas, to restore the dead
to life In some cases.
A hair-pulling match between two
women at the Dearborn passenger sta
ton, Chicago, has brought Hiram D.
Lingle again into the lime-light. Both
Of the women posed as his wife.
President H. w. Corbett of the Lewis
and Clark centennial exposition, an
nounces that the railways with ter
in Portland, Or, has subscribed
$50, 900 to the exposition. The contri-
button Is a joint one, the amount sub
scribed by each one not being given
out.
A famine Of cadavers. is feared by
the authorities Of medical colleges at
Indianapolis, and as a consequence, the
price OF bodies has advanced from IS
to $40, paid before the grave-robbing
investigation was begun, to from $50
to SIS. It is said that an extra-fine
Subject" is worth 500.
At the missionary meeting in ST.
Paul's chapel in New York, Bishop
Burgess of Long Island, criticised the
churches as being SO much occupied
with the securing Of beautiful. jeweled
windows. parish houses, theaters and
halls, that little money 10 left
for the support of missions.