The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1902-12-05
Sin and Sinners.

Ex.State Senator John holbrook of
Bay City, Mich, is accused Of attempt
ed bribery.
Jesse Pratt. at one time mayor of
Camden,N. j., committed suicide at
his hotel there by shooting himself
through the head. He was sixty-one
years old.
The grand jury at Indianapolis has
made Its final report. It returned for
ty-one indictments, the majority of
them being in the g~raye-robbing and
~vote-selling cases.
Thieves stole $4,000 worth of silks
from the department store Of Stein
hardt & Strasbourger at 223 Grand
street, New York, only half a block
from the police station.
Eva Featherstone, of Sheboygan,
Of Sheboygan, Mich, sixteen years old,
was shot in the back, probably fatally,
by one Of q party Of five riotous fell
lows who passed ner in a wagon.
Prof. Otto Siemon, for twenty-three
years q lecturer in Concordia German
Lutheran college at Fort Wayne, Ind.
hanged himself. Nervous prostration
and insomnia r given as the causes.
Charles Frederick Roth, a patient in
the Brooklyn hospital, has confessed
that he was Jack the Slasher, who, ON
the night Of Nov. 10. cut and stabbed
three men at the residence Of William
II. Gardner at Bath Beach.
Smith Fee, watchman at the City
Deposit Bank Of Pittsburg, committed
suicide in the bath DON OF the bank,
shooting himself through the head.
Failing health and extreme nervous
ness is assigned as the aus OF the
deed.
w. B. Conkey, president of the w. B.
Conkey company, book publishers and
binders at Hammond, Ind, vas indict-
ed by the Lake county grand jury on
the charge Of importing armed guards
into Indiana. The charges we're pre-
ferred by union printers who are on a
strike at the Conkey plant.
Louis e. Ogle turned states evil
dence. in Chicago, and told a story
which is expected to result in the CON
viction OF his former. partner, John H.
Dalton. Dalton is charged with hav-
ing defrauded q number of newspaper
publishers by inducing them to accept
advertisements Of the Independent Ad-
vertising agency. Tor which they re-
ceived no pay.
Dynamite with q fuse attached, was
placed on the bar Of the saloon Of
Christopher Portland at Mahoning
City, Pa. The front part of the sa-
loon was blown across the street. Mr.:
Portland and other members OF his
family were sleeping on the third
floor, and escaped without serious in
Jury. Portland's two sons are nom
union and worked during the strike.
From Other Shores
Odessa has been declared free from
the plague, and export trade rom that
port is again permitted.
The Japanese government, in with
drawing its garrison from Shanghai,
notified China that Japan reserves the
right to send the troops back again II
any other power hereafter sends its
troops there under any pretext.
The strikes at Buenos Ayres are
threatening general paralysis Of bust
ness, and are affecting the handling Of
the crops The government is thor
oughly alive to the situation, and has
secured the passage OF an exclusion
law that will enable it to deal with the
foreign agitators, who are blamed for
the labor troubles.
After a lengthy debate in the Brit
ish house of commons a resolution
was passed approving the action of
the British government in signing the
Brussels sugar convention, by q vote