Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-04-16
crime and crlmEnais.

Crimes ana Criminals.
Burton Horn and Edwin Parkfn. EN-
pIoyes OF the Cleveland City Railway
company, hare been arrested for false
registration.
The Mount ern0n, ~. r.. police
are after a band OF desperate Italian
hriganas who ex.nrt money from their
wealthy fellow countrymen.
News has reached Kingman, Ariz-.
Of the killing Of Charles BlekeleE. the
cowboy pianist" and Roy Winches-
ter. young miner. by James McKen-
ney.
There lie some talk among represent
.atiFes Of the board Of trade OF Chicago
of having the persons responsible for
tie grand iury investigation indicted
ON the charge cf conspiracy.
County Clark Fred D. Wood Ts=Stsrrttiii1
OF Lansing. Mich. was sentenced 10
the state reforraatory at Iona for two
years for the embezzlement of county
funds. A recent investigation showed
q shortage Of about $1,000 in his &C
counts.
John Most. the anarchist, after
serving a little less than ten months
Of his years sentence, getting the rest
or for good behavior, was released
from the penitentiaTy on Blackwelfs
Island, n. Y.
Detectives aTTaigned In court in View
York Daniel j. Kelley, who is said TO
be Inc owner and editor OF the paper
known as the American Queen. He
- charged with bribery in the Nilsson
ri Legislature
The Michigan supreme court entered
an order disbarrfng Liant X. Salisbury,
formerly city attorney OF Grand Rap
ids, who Is now serving q term in the
Detroit house of correction for his
connection with the corrupt Grand
Rapids water deal
The grand jury at New York has re-
turned an Indictment against George
Edward Mills, law partner OF the son
ct DR.. IF. @. Flower. Mills is accused
Of attempting to bride Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Garvan to deliver fiYe
indictments against Or. Flower.
Peter McGurrin, postofice clerk
al HolyOke, Mass. shot his sister
Mary, aged sixteen, and his aunt. Miss
sarah Cassidy, and then cut his throat
with razor. dying instantly. Me-
GErrin was driven TO the act through
worry ever the condition OF his sister,
who is III with consumption
General.
Daniel Butler, aged los years. the
oldest resident OF Tompkins countv
N, II, Is dead at Enfield Falls. near
Ithaca.
Protesting against Immersion. the
First Italian Baptist church at Hart
ford. Conn., has changed to Congrega-
tioRalism.
Grover Cleveland has written a con-
gratulatory note to William Pickens,
the colored orator, who won the Ten
Eyck prize at Yale.
John d. Washburn, United States
minister to Switzerland under Presi-
dent Harrison from 1889 to 1892. ID
dead at Worcester, Mas.
The new Christian Endeavor general
secretary Is Ogned Van Vogt or wis
consin. He is twenty.four years old
and graduate Of Beioit.
The postofice irnbroglio at Alexan-
dria, La, growing out OF the appoint
ment Of q negro as clerk. has ended
/ by the resignation OF the negro and
| the filing Of the place by a white man.
/ Abe negro over whom the trouble
arose, Tom Rankin, passed the civil
service examination and became eli
4 gible for appointment TO the clarkshfp.
He declined to accept IL, however
saying he did not care to cause race
1 antagonism.
William 2. Belden. for twenty years
one Of the leading journalists and re
| publican politicians OF the Mohawh
! valley, died suddenly OF apoplexy a,
Albany. y. r., where ha was deputy
senate clerk. He graduated from
Vale and was one OF the founders az
the Yale News. He was forty-seven
years Of age
Ephraim b. Cockrell. son OF United
| States Senator Cockrell, and Miss
Hazel II. Hogan, daughter OF Mr. and
| Mrs. Robert g. Hogan of Webster
Grove, eloped and we're married ct St
Louis