Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-10-29
Sin and Sinners.

Shs affb 49,
Adolph Fin, a st. Louis politician.
has been arrested charged with COM
plicity In naturalization frauds.
John Williams, a negro arrested at
st. Louis on suspicion of completely In
the murder of Mrs. Kate Lauman,
hanged himself in his cell.
A plot to escape by ~convicts In the
Western penitentiary at Pittsburg, Pa,
was discovered by the prison officers
just in time TO prevent It's cce
William Kennedy was committed at
Brantford, Ont, on a charge of as
saulting and numbering Irene Cross,
the ~S-year-old child whose mutilated
body vas found in the Willows"
w. H. Smith. in jail at Basin, Wyo.
has confessed to participation in the
mob that attacked the Jail last July,
when two murderers and a deputy
sheriff were killed. He has named
thirty-ive other members Of the mob.
"A battle occurred between ION
union men employed on a street car
and friends of striking motormen at
Waco. Tex. Henry Pays of Bridge
port, Conn. n of the non-union mo,
tormen, vas FATALLY shot. Two ar
rests have been made.
Whitecappers with guns and whips
took from his bed Isaac More, aged So
years. Of Athens. Ind. and whipped
him numerically. While Moore was
being whipped his wife and son re-
NAMED peacefully in bed and made no
attempt to protect him.
A meeting of stockholders Of the
New York Building Loan and Banking
company in New York, broke up in a
riot. The company is in the hands Of
a receiver, and its officers are charged
with rendering false reports to the
state banking department.
The jury in the Hans Luz murder
case at Ainsworth, Neb., brought in a
verdict OF guilty of murder in the sec
ond degree. A motion was made for
a new trial. David o. Luz was shot
and killed April 6. 1901. by Fred Hans,
a railroad detective, for resisting ar
rest.
Otherwise.
The strike of freight handlers at
Kansas City has been officially de-
clared OFF by President Dobson of the
local union.
All of the Philippine exhibit ship
ment is now on the worlds fair
grounds at st. Louis. There are fifty
carloads in all.
Farmers along the valley of the
Wakarausa in Kansas have lost over
1000 animals from hog cholera in the
past two weeks.
Guy Jones, IL years old, who dis
appeared from Chicago early in Sen
TENDER and was supposed to have been
drowned, has returned home.
The Middleton Iron and Tube works
of Harrisburg, Pa, laid of $50 men on
account of the lack OF orders. The
works employ about 500 men.
The Chicago council committee has
decided to ask for an appropriation to
prosecute police graftars, and there is
CONSERVATION at the city hail.
The Ohio state board of health has
directed its secretary to take steps to
prevent the sale of toy pistols and
"otner explosive appurtenances."
The artists composing the national
jury to select the pictures for the com
ing national exhibition at Carnegie art
galleries, are at work at Pittsburg.
Secretary Matre of the Catholic
Federation of Cincinnati has received
a cablegram conveying the apostolic
blessing from the pope to the fedora
ton.
Careful estimates of the amount of
oil in storage in the Beaumont, Sour
Lake and Saratoga fields show 10, 500,-
600 barrels in these and in interven-
ing sections.
w. J. Bryan authorizes a denial OF
the report which quoted him as saying
that he believed free silver would not
be considered at the democratic con
~vention in 1904.
John M. Evans, who deserted his
family at st. Louis thirty years ago.
has returned from the Klondike with
$100, 600, to find his wife and children
all dead except one son.
Tony Moran, the featherweight, who
is to meet Johnny Burdick, Young Cor
belts sparring partner. on Oct. 26, in
private, will begin training in a few
days Moran is confident that he will
whip Burdick.
Jack Dcrman, the f~eatherweight, is
after a match with Joe Bernstein, the
Ghetto champion. Dorman says he
has it o the Bowery boy. and that he