Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-06-19
Criminal.

Criminal.
me German Atlantic Gable company
mas uecided to lay another cable from
Germany to the United States.
Miriam L. Medley, arrested while de-
manding to See President Roosevelt.
: relieved OF her revolver and COM
mitted to the hospital for the insane.
Gustave Dirks, a well known news
paper Illustrator. shot and killed him
self in his studio in New York. He had
been i'll and broken down by overwork
of late.
One OF the largest Illicit whisky dis
tllleries ever uneaEthed in that district
was discovered at Yonkers. n. Y, by
the place accidentally catching fire.
Two large boilers were found. under one
OF which a hot fire was still burning.
Lieut.. Hagerdon, qu~artermaster of
the aTwenty-eighth infantry, who was
arrested in March last on the charge OF
embezzlement, has been dismissed from
the army n sentenced to two years
confinement in the prison at Manila,
Sandy Anderson. at Sioux City, shot
n killed Andrew Lovegreen, an ex-
policeman, with whom he duarreled.
Anderson is an old soldier, and has not
been considered properly balanced men
tally for some time. He is under ar
rest.
Harry Tracy, a twenty-year prisoner,
and David Merrill, a thirteen-year man,
In the penitentiary at Salem, Ore, in
m, ,,a .o,,,.oI o.,,. ,al n.aa~az ~.
scaling the prison wall. after killing
three guards, Frank Terrell, S. r. Jones
and Ben Tiffany.
Alice Lewis. twenty-three, daughter Of
Leo Lewis. a wealthy resident of st.
Louis, committed suicide at New York
in her hotel, making a moose In her room
of a bath robe and towels. She was on
her way TO join her father In London to
witness the coronation ceremonies.
Mrs. Johanna Bishop committed sui
eide at st. Louis by taking carbolic
acid. Mrs. Bishop was the wife of j.
=. Bishop of that city. who was serious
ly injured in the fire that destroyed st.
Luke's sanitarium at Chicago, and took
poison upon hearing Of the accident
that had sbefallen her husband.
Gov. Jelks of Alabama pardoned
George Howard, Martin Fuller and John
Strength. three of the -four white men
convicted in Gilmore county of lynching
the negro Robin White and sentenced
to ten years I'm the penttentiary. The
case il famous as the only instance in
Alabama where a white man has been
convicted of lynching a negro.
He~schel Smith snd his son, OrVal.
accused of being connected with the
murder of a Mexican sheep man, had
a preliminary trial at Alamosa, Colo'
Smiths bail was fixed at $4,000 and his
sons at SIS. 900. Both gave bond AT
the close of the trial the Smiths made
an attempt to whip the principal VII
ness. and the officers had to draw their
reyolvers before they could quiet them.
General.
Exneriments with telephones on fast
trains are being made by electrical ex-
ne rts in the employ OF the New YORK
Central road.
Jobn Spreng of New Orleans, on his
wedding tour, was arrested at Chicago
charged by Nellie Burke, a waitress
with Dreacn OF proIhiSe'
r. c. Ishoy has invented a device LOT
| steamships whereby he claims a saving
of 20 per cent I'm fuel. The screw VIII DC
plsced under the bottom instead or aII'
and the hull will be fiatter than usual
Prof Friedrich Hirth, holde OF the
chair of Chinese philology at lhe III
yersity of Munich. has accepted .ne
| offer of the Chinese chair at Coiui
university, New York, and VIII oesi"
hts lectures there next OCTOBER
A circular ISSUED from the h~eadquar-
,ors of the division of Philippines ol-
rects that no incoming troops De aiio"eu
to land ON Philippine soil until a supply
~ vaccine virus has been sent apoaru
the transport or steamer n in)eSte''
With one hand resting on the Key
hoard Of the organ in st. Michaeis
church In Jersey City, and the otner
oImtcbinp a piece of music, Leopold oe
Grand Val. who taught the ia'e -
bishop Corrigan music was
dead.
Tba NAV statistics Of gross postai re-
oa,rts at the fifty largest postoihces An
,ha limited States show a net increase
90 n per cent over the receipts TOT May
,oo1 New York's receipts show an m
crease of Is per cent and chicago .
per cent.
uanrv Ross of streator. Ill, has as
I'D his entire possessions, including
his house and stock Of general msr-
n,.sisa amounting to $50, 900 In vaiu-
o. John Alexander Dowie OF Aion
CITY. and vii, become a disciple OF 'hA'
faith after July J.
Daniel smith. the oldest man IN Macn \,
Saginaw when getting GU. Of BED ,or eco :
chew of obacc He chewea never
almost all day and all night sarved
smoked or touched IVA went to Tri-
IN the war of lSl2-lf' aho
roll under Decatur.
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