The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-04-16
Crimes and Criminals.

Crimes and Criminals.
Burton Horn and Edwin Parkin, en-
ployes of the Cleveland City Railway
company, have been arrested for false
registration.
The Mount ernon, N. Y, police
are after a band of desperate Italian
brigands who extort money from their
wealthy fellow countrymen.
News has reached Kingmap, Ariz.,
of the killing of Charles Blekeley, the
cowboy pianist" and Roy Winches-
ter, young miner, by James McKen-
ney.
There is some talk among represent
atives of the board of trade of Chicago
of having the persons responsible for
the grand jury investigation indicted
on the charge of conspiracy.
County Clerk Fred d. Woodwork
of Lansing, Mich, was sentenced to
the state reformatory at Iona for two
years for the embezzlement of county
funds. A recent investigation showed
a shortage of about $4,000 in his ac-
counts.
John Most, the anarchist, after
serving little less than ten months
OF his years sentence. getting the rest
off for good behavior, was released
from the penitentiary on Blackwells
Island, N. Y.
Detectives arraigned in court in New
York Daniel ]. Kelley, who is said to
no fba oyupar ond adftor oF tbo rarar
known as the American Queen. He
is charged with bribery in the Missou-
ri legislature.
The Michigan supreme court entered
an order disbarring Liant K. Salisbury,
formerly city attorney of Grand Rap
Ids, who is now serving 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
of DR.. r. @. Flower. Mills is accused
OF attempting to bride Assistant Dis.
trict Attorney Garvan to deliver five
indictments against DR.. Flower.
Peter McGurrin, postoffce clerk
at Holyoke, Mass, shot his sister
Mary, aged sixteen, and his aunt. Miss
Sarah Cassidy, and then cut his throat
with razor, dying instantly. Nc
Gurrin was driven to the act through
worry over the condition OF his sister,
who is Ill with consumption.
General
Daniel Butler, aged log years, the
Oldest resident of Tompkins county.
N. Y, is dead at Enfield Falls. near
Ithaca.
Protesting against immersion, the
First Italian Baptist church at Hart.
ford, Conn, has changed to Congrega.
tionalism.
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, is
dead at Worcester, Mass.
The new Christian Endeavor general
secretary is Ogned Van vogt of wis.
consin. He is twenty-four years old
and graduate of Beloit.
The postoffice imbroglio at Alexan.
dria, La, growing out of the appoint.
ment of negro as clerk, has ended
by the resignation of the negro and
the filling of the place by white man.
The negro over whom the trouble
arose, Tom Rankin, passed the civil
service examination and became eli
gible for appointment to the clerkship
He declined to accept It, however
saying he did not care to cause race
antagonism.
William P. Belden, for twenty years
one of the leading journalists and Re
| publican politicians of the Mohawk
valley, died suddenly of apoplexy a,
Albany, N. ", where he was deputy
senate clerk. He graduated from
Yale and was one Of the founders OF
the Yale News. He was forty-seyen
| 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 were married at St
Louis.