The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-02-06
Sin and Sinners.

did not instantly join In family prayer,
John Newdick of Kokoma, Ind, was
fined in the mayors court.
John Thomas. = negro, who shot and
killed Sheriff Benjamin F. DRY Of st.
Charles parish, near New Orleans, was
killed by . mob and his body burned.
Martin Howe of Chicago, who for
feited his bond while awaiting q re-
trial for the murder OF James F. Har-
rity, Sept. 8. 1901. was arrested at
Shawnee, an obscure village In Okla
homa.
Detectives made . raid On q loft in
Prince street, New York, arrested Hy.
nan Filarsky. the reported head Of .
fur company, and seized fur garments
to the value Of $4,000. 1t IL claimed
that all we're stolen.
Indignation at alleged advances
made by George Atkinson, q roomer,
led to q revolver duel between Mrs.
Anna Biggs and Atkinson In Chicago.
The latter failed to score, but was him
self shot in the shoulder slightly.
In two fights between posses and
men suspected Of being the robbers
who looted the Bank Of Union. Mo-.
Charles j. Schumacher Of St. Louis, a
detective. was instantly killed and a
robber was shot from his horse, but
escaped.
Because an acquaintance told him
that his wife, who had been dead nine
years, had been unfaithful to him If
teen years ago, Joseph Staubel of
Philadelphia murdered John Blair, IA
tally shot Anthony Seitz and then
committed suicide.
Lieut.. Ludwig Barth, aged thirty-fve
years, a former officer Of the German
navy who was attached to the gunboat
Irene In Manila bay during the time
Admiral Dewey commanded the Amer
lean fleet there, committed suicide at
Knoxville, Tenn, by shooting.
A bride Of three months admitted to
Police Captain Dohler of Cleveland
that she had assisted her husband in
robbing twenty apartment houses.
The woman Is the daughter of q we'll
TODD family. Her husband denied
that his wife had helped him.
Twenty students from the university
called upon Editor Parker B Pratt of
the Salt Lake City Chronicle with the
intention OF kidnapping him. 8. J..
his roommate, answered
the call at the door and was immedi.
ately seized, chloroformed, and left
unconscious upon the street.
A mob Of about 200 negroes at
KY, surrounded the house
In which Policeman Brown had John
Jones, a negro. The policeman told
Jones' to run for his life. Shots were
fred at the fleeing negro, who jumped
into Green river and was drowned.
Jones, 1t is alleged, assaulted q woman
Philip Baer. city librarian, and Wal.
ter F. Sawyer, Nathan Springer and
Moses Springer arrested In New
York by detectives from the district
attorneys ONCE on charges of attempt.
ed s~ubornation of perjury In onnec
ton with an alleged swindling scheme
through which enormous sums are be.
ieved to have ben lost by the depart.
ment Of taxes.
Additional evidence that q band Of
Italian swindlers has systematically
defrauded New York life insurance
companies out Of substantial sums by
substituting bodies was discovered re.
Gently when representatives of several
insurance companies opened 4 grave
IN Calvary cemetery, Long Island City.
supposed to contain the body of 4
young Italian, and found that Of an
elderly. emaciated man.
Otherwise.
A movement is under way among the
farmers of the country toward forming
a gigantic union.
Recruiting for the Venezuelan army
is going on at Joplin. Mo-. under the
guize OF colonizing Venezuela.
A baby was born to Rubber and
Susie, balloons, in the geological park
in New York. This IL q rare event in
captivity.
The body Of Miss Bertha J. Bailey
OF Southington, Conn, will rest in a
burglar-proof case Of iron for fear of
grave robbers.
President Roosevelt has contributed
500 to the Christian Herald's famine
fund for the relief of the suffering
peasantry OF Finland.
Fifteen hundred employees OF the ele-
waited railways in Chicago are prepar-
ing demands for an increase of about
20 per cent in wages.
A 100000 900 combination Of emery
wheel manufacturers, along the lines
OF the American Steel and Wire com.
pany. is being formed.
The United Mine Workers have Is.
sued an address expressing to the
American people their gratitude for
support In the anthracite strike.
Superior Judge Slossburg of San
Francisco has decided that dealing in
margins was illegal. The decision at.
fects nearly all the brokers in San
Francisco.
Joseph Markert, aged eighty. n
farmer OF Marion, Ind, said to be
worth 500. 00O, married Miss May
Davis. aged twenty-five. She agrees
to take S., 900 a year and nothing aftar