The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-02-05
Sin and Sinners.
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For thrashing his wife because she
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 a mob and his body burned.
Martin Howe OF Chicago. who for
| feited his bond while awaiting a re-
trial for the murder OF James +. Har-
rity, Sept. 8, 1901, was arrested at
Shawnee, an obscure village in okla
| homa.
Detectives made raid on loft in
Prince street, New York, arrested Hy-
man Filarsky. the reported head OF a
fur company, and seized fur garments
to the value of $4,000. It is claimed
that all were stolen.
Indignation at alleged advances
made by George W.Atkinson, roomer,
led to a 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 ]. Schumacher of St Louis, q
detective, was instantly killed and
robber was shot from his horse, but
escaped.
Because an acquaintance told him
that his wife, who had been dead nine
years, had been unfalthful 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.nve
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
ican feet 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 a we'll
TODD family. Her husband denied
THAI 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. S. J.
Cummings, 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
Owensboro, 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, it is alleged, assaulted a woman.
Philip Baer, city librarian, and Wal
ter +. Sawyer, Nathan Springers and
Moses Springer were arrested in New
York by detectives from the district
attorneys Office on charges of attempt
ed subornation of perjury in connec-
ton with an alleged swindling scheme
through which enormous sums are be-
lieved to have ben lost by the depart
ment of taxes.
Additional evidence that a 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 a grave
in Calvary cemetery, Long Island City,
supposed to contain the body of a
young Italian, and found that of an
elderly, emaciated man.