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The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-28
JENNIE STEER LYNcHED.
Body Of the Negress Riddled with
Bullets,


Sheriff, La, July 27.-News reached
here Sunday that the negress. jennie
Steer, who administered poison IN a
glass of lemonade to Lizzie Dolan, the
sixteen-year-old daughter OF John DO
Ian, from the effects of which she
died. was lynched by a mob at sun
down Saturday night. The lynchlng
occurred on the Beard plantation, near
this place. where the crime was COM
mitted. Jennie Steer was stubborn TO
the last in denying her crime.
It is claimed the negress fed from
the Dolan household as soon as n
discovered that her crime was known.
She was pursued by aNposse. VINO
found her crouching in a hay loft. she
refused to come out and had to pc
dragged from the place. When
why she poisoned Miss Dolan, the ne
gress Indignantly denied the commits
sion of the crime. She was taken to
the Dolan homestead and fully identl-
fed as the woman who had placed the
poison in the lemonade.
The mob then took her to a nearby
tree, placed a rope around her neck
and asked her to confess. She was
stubborn to the last, however, and was
strung up without making any admis-
sion. While the body va dangling in
midair several bullets were fired into
it hv the enraged citizens.
The poisoning of Miss Dolan created
intense excitement in the neighbor-
hood of the crime. The victim was a
beautiful young white girl who was
known not to have an enemy in the
world. She died in terrible agony
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-28
AFTER a DETECTIVE.
Grove at Foster, Pa. Attempts tc
Lynch John Peel.

Scranton, Pa. July 27.-An attempt
to lynch John Peel, a Delaware, Lack
awana and Western company detec.
tive, was made Saturday night at Eos
ter by a. crowd of the villagers who
were Infatuated upon learning that he
had gained evidence which would con-
meet a score Of the families of the vii.
lage with wholesale thievery of brass
and other junk from the company's
property.
Peel was attacked at a hotel while
waiting for a train. When the mob
made its attack with cries of lynch
him the detective drew his revolver
and began pulling the trigger. but
there was something wrong with the
mechanism of the hammer and the
cartrid ges were no exploded.
Peel gained the waiting room and
locked himself in. Word was tele.
graphed to this city and a force OF
twenty-five officers was hastily re.
cruited to be sent to the detectives
rescue. In the meantime 9 passenger
train arrived and the crew. acting IN
der Geographic orders from this city.
| quit the train and after a hard fight.
succeeded in getting the detective on
| the train.
The %ringleader of the mob is said to
be one of the leading citizens of the
town.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-28
THOUSANDS VISIT ST. PETERS
TO FAY TRIBUTE TO THE LATE
POPE LEO.
WILL OF THE PoNTIFF READ
MAKES NO MATERIAL CHANGE
IN DISPOSITION OF FAMILY
PROPERTY.

IAN cuAJ @F' "
the faithful crowded st. Peters Sun
day to pay tribute before the sarco-
phagus containing the remains of the
late pontiff, on which is the following
simply inscription in gilded letters:
simple Inscription in gilded letters:
LEO XIII. pont a
tinued in the chapel Of the sacrament,
as we'll as many Roman churches. The
will of Leo was read Sunday. While
nominally leaving the estate of Car
pineto to his nephew, Ledovico Pecci.
it really makes no change. as the
whole family property, amounting ap-
proxlmately to $4,000, had already
been divided among the three nephews,
Count Camille having already sold
his share.
At the sixth meeting of the congre-
cation of cardinals held Sunday. forty
five cardinals were present. Cardinal
Della Volpe, versing also the opinions
of some Of his colleagues, criticised
the ceremonies in connection with the
interment of Leo XIII Saturday night
because the cardinals did not partici-
pate in the entire procession and COM
planned generally Of the lack Of order.
Cardinal Oreglia replied that he had
already noticed this and that he would
punish those who were responsible.
Monsignor Merry del Val. communi-
Gated to the cardinals the report from
Santiago. Chile, Of the incident which
occurred there during the celebration
OF the requiem for the late pope.
Of h republic and all the authorities.
One Discordant Note.
According to the report, Monsignor
Uguarte, in delivering the eulogy up
on the late pontiff. protested against
the usurpation Of papal territory by
Italy, whereupon Count Cucchi Boasso
left the church and lowered the Italian
flag which had been hoisted at the
legation as a sign of mourning. The
incident produced an unpleasant i'm
preston upon the sacred college, be-
ing the first discordant note in the
anniversary mourning.
The ceremonial of the ~conclave es-
tablished by Gregory XIV is to be fol
lowed at the coming meeting. The
cardinals decided during the conclave
to eat in common in order to facilitate
their work. A local paper quotes the
response of Cardinal Svampa to a
question as to whether he believed
the conclave would be of lengthy dura-
ton, as follows:
ION the contrary. I think it will be
very short. I believe that two days
will suffice to reach an agreement"
The congregation again SUNDAY
made further progress with the ar
rangements for the conclave. Cardi-
nal Gibbons arrived during the day
but did not attend the meeting.
A wall is being built around the
apartments where the conclave will be
held. 1t is already ten feet high.
Some of the Italian bookmakers here
proposed to conduct public betting on
the chances of the papal candidates,
and in order to obtain permission to
do so offered to donate their gains to
charitable institutions. The govern
ment however. promptly refused the
request.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-28
STRIKES STREET CAR
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN IN COL,
LISBON WITH CAR AND THREE
ARE KILLED.

East st. Louis. ILL.,. July 27.-An ac-
commodation train on the Vandalia
en- route to st. Louis, ran into a we'll
filed electric car OF the East st. Louis
and Suburban street railway neal
~Lansdown, three miles north of here,
Sunday, killing three persons and in
juring a score
The dead are: John Roy, engineer;
J. J. Lenhardt and David H. Beattie.
The injured are: Vincent Higgins,
fireman. will die: Charles Burkhardt,
motorman. seriously; R. w. Miller.
electric conductor. seriously; Mrs
Mamie King. Louis Merkel. G. w.
Young, Simon Spaulding. Jacob Schill.
ing. Mrs. Allen Mack, Jacob Lenharth,
Jr., Elmer Bell. Mr.. and Mrs. w. H.
King and Miss Annie Somers.
Eight others received minor intu.
ries.
The crash of the collision was terri.
fc and was heard a long distance. The
accommodation train was drawn by
an engine which was backing. and was
running at a good speed. when sud.
denly the tender Of the engine crashed
into the trolley car at the street
crossing. The car was hurled from It's
track. a mass of ~wreckage. The i'm,
pact caused the coaches to break loose
from the engine and they did not leave
the track, but the engine left the rails
ran about 200 feet over the ties. and
turned over on its side. Engineer
Rov and Fireman Higgins stuck to the
engine and were buried in the wreck
age.
The u of the collision has not
been determined.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-28
coNFEssEs TO MURDER.
Iowa Woman Says She Killed q Medi.
cine vender in Utah.

cine vender in Utah.
Grand Rapids, Mich, July ga
young woman giving the name. of Mrs.
Aurora Hodge, her age nineteen, and
her home Denison, Ia, entered the Of
flee of Superintendent of Police Carr
Sunday and said she wanted to give
herself up, declaring she had killed a
man near Salt Lake. Utah, in July
last. She said she had parted from
her husband a few months after their
marriage and went on the road with a
travelling medicine vender as his book
keeper. :
When on a lonely road near Salt
Lake, July H." she said, che attempt
ed to assault me and l shot him with
a revolver had been carrying. left
him in the wagon and went to Salt
Lake to give myself up. but my nerve
failed and I took a train for Denison.
I told my brother and when he went
to tell the authorities I fed to Chica-
go. There I secured a position as
waitress in a Spring Lake (Mich.) no.
tel, but could not rest with it on my
mind. 81 | came to Grand Rapids to
give myself up"
Mrs. Hodge refused to tell the name
of the man she killed. Chief Carr is
Investigating and the woman is in Jail.
A telegram late last night from Act.
ing Chief Of Police Burbridge of Salt
Lake confirms Mrs. Hodges story.
states that there is a warrant for her
arrest for murder, and asks that she
be held for the Salt Lake authorities.
The name of the murdered man 10
given as William X. RYAN.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-28
MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY.
Unknown Woman and Man Killed In
a New York Hotel.


New York. July pa we'll dressed
a accompanied by a fine looking
and handsomely gowned woman about
twenty-three years of age. registered
at the Morton House Sunday morning
as &C. Weiss and wife, Syracuse. N.
Y" Late in the afternoon the woman
was heard %shrieking, three shots fol
lowed instantly and when the room
was entered she and the man were
found dead. The woman had a bullet
in her heart and another in her left
wrist. The man was shot in the
heart. A pistol lay by the mans
right hand and it is believed by the
police that he shot the woman and
then committed suicide. There is no
clue as to the motive for the shooting.
The woman was FIVE feet four inches
in height. with black hair and blue
eyes. The man was six feet tall. with
a sandy moustache and reddish hair.
In the mans pockets were found two
tickets from Syracuse and a letter ad-
dressed to C. E. Weiss. the contents
OF which the coroner refused to di.
vulge.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-28
TWO rRAlNMEN KILLED.
Open Swith Wrecks the Westbound
Santa Fe Limited.

Peoria, ILL.,. July 27.-The Santa Fe
Limited No s out OF Chicago for the
West, was wrecked at the crossing of
the Rock Island near Princeville Sat
urday night The accident resulted
from an open switch. Engineer Ed
O'Brien and Fireman Charles Vogel,
both of Madison. Ia, were instantly
killed. Express Messenger r. L.. B,
Budway and his assistant. Ed Par
shall both of Chicago. sustained minor
injuries.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-28
Proctor Makes Reply.

Washington. July 2i.-Chairman
Proctor of the. civil service commits.
sion has made reply to the recent let
ter of Former Postmaster General
Smith concerning the latter's attack
OF his report on the investigation of
the Washington p~ostoffice. Mr.. Por-
ter's reply is in general a refutation of
the allegations Of II. Smith.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-28
WOMEN ARE cREMATED.
Thirty-three Female Field Laborers
Put to Death in Russia.

London. July 27.-The ST. Peters
burg correspondent of the Daily Mail
sends a report to the effect that neal
the village Of S%ehalaiifka. in the dis
trict of the Don. thirty-three female
field laborers We're burned to death IN
a barn where they had locked them
selves in &c escape molestation by
male laborers. who. in revenge. fred
the barn and watched the burnino
without needing the shrieks of the
victims
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-28
Montana sheepmen Up in Arms.

Big Timber. Mont, July 27.-The
sheegmen of Bridger Creek country
are up in arms as a result of the burn.
ing of one of the largest sheep camps
an pens in that section. believed by
S epmen to be the work OF cattlemen.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-28
General Davis .Retires.

Manila, July 27.-Major Genera.
George w. Davis has transferred the
command CT the department of the
Philippines to Major General James f
Wade. general Davis having been re
tired for age. General Davis last act
was to review al the troops in anG
about Mania.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-28
BRIGHTER FOR CANAL
Reaction in Favor Of the Ratification
Of the Treaty.

Panama. Colombia, July pa
strong reaction in favor of the ratifica.
ton of the canal treaty seems to be
occurring throughout Colombia. From
all the principal cities and from Caucu.
the largest department of the republic.
prominent citizens have telegraphed
congress requesting that the treaty be
ratified.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-28
ROW. IN A NEGRO CHURCH.

Two Killed and Six Others Wounded
in a Fight at camak, Ca.
Atlanta, Ga, July GA Constitu.
ton special from Camak, Ca, says:
Two killed and six wounded, four of
them. it is believed. fatally. is the re-
suit of a row at a negro church here
last night in which pistols and razors
PLAYED a deadly part.
The entire negro population of the
town is terrorized as a result Of the
ARRAY and it is impossible to learn
the real cause of the trouble.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-28
PLEASURE BOAT cAPs,zEs.
Three Persons Drowned While Trying
to Cross the Thames River.

New London. Conn. July 27.-Mrs.
c. T. Thorpe. Miss Annabel Rogers and
Samuel Gokel were drowned in the
Thames river Sunday evening. by the
capsizing of a pleasure boat. while at.
tempting to cross the river, Four
other occupants of the boat We're saved
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-28
Killed During a Quarrel.

Sault Ste. Marie. July 27.-Mat
Make, a Finlander, shot and instantly
killed Sam Hall after a quarrel that
originated at q Finnish wedding here
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-28
ALL THREE KILLED.
Joshua Butler, Wife and Infant Chile
Struck by a Train.

otrUCK ny q TTdTH.
W~ilkesbarre, Pa. July 27.-Joshua
Butler, wife and infant child we're
struck by the e%astbound Black Dia-
mond Express or the Lehigh Valley
railroad late Sunday afternoon while
driving across the track at Port
Bawkley. six miles from here. and all
three are dead. The horse was also
killed and the carriage demolished.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1903-07-28
ONE KILLED AND SIX INJURED.
Supposed incirs'--@ Fire at Alton, ILL.,,
Has Fatal Results.

Alton, ILL.,, July 27.-Fire supposed
to have been started by an incendiary
Sunday destroyed the Alton steam
laundry, a row of flats, barber shops
and a lumber yard. and resulted in
the death of Miss Ruth Meyer and in
jury of six others. All the injured
were badly burned except one, who
was hurt in jumping.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-08-06
Ewen's Testimony
is corroborsted
New Witnesses Break Down the
.Alibi Of Curtis Jett

Cynthiana, KY: New testimony
against Curtis Jett and Tom White.
charged with the assassination OF
James B. Marcum, was added by the
commonwealth at the trial here
Thursday.
Eight witnesses that had not testi'
fed at the former trial at Jackson
were placed on the stand. They
broke down the alibi Of Jet and zorro
borated the statements OF Capt. e. J.
Even that he looked into the hallway
Of the Courthouse from where Marcum
was assassinated before the second
shot was fred.
VIM. Combs, whose boys are Hargis
henchmen and run blind tigers In
Jackson, stated positively that Jet
was inside the Courthouse when the
shots we're fired and came out immed-
lately after the murder OF Marcum.
Circuit Court Clerk 8. s. Taulbee said
that he was in front OF the Courthouse
saw Even and MaTcum and that when
Marcum was shot Even turned and
looked in the direction from which
the shot came, and then ran. He said
he could see the corner where the de-
fense's witness claim Jett was stand
ing and that Jett was not there.
DR.. Hogg said he was looking from
his ONCE and would have to look
across the point where Jett was alleg-
ed by the defense to have been stand
ing, that Jet was not there. Henry
Freeman, the blind tiger man who
told that Judge Hargis had promised
that no Grand Jury would indict him
for selling whisky II he would not tes-
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Convicts Elude
Sheriff's Posse
After Killing Two Soldiers the
Escaped Convicts Retrest

Placerville, CAL: The convicts
who escaped from Folsom prison are
still at large. The FIVE who engaged
in a fatal fight with the pursuers at
the Grand Victory mines Saturday
night we're not seen Sunday, and APP
parently have made a successful re-
treat.
The dead bodies Of Festus Ruther.
ford and w. c. Jones, the two militia
men who we're shot by the convicts,
were found Sunday morning where
they were shot.
Jones had served in the Philippines
as a member of the First Tennessee
and the ThIrty-seventh Volunteer
United States Infantry. AL Gill, the
National Guardsman, who was shot
through one lung, is not expected to
recover.
Another victim of the convict chase
was Philip Singer, a resident of this
district. He is hard of hearing and
falling to respond to an order to halt,
was fatally shot by a picket.
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Investigating an
Alleged Fraud
Special Agent LouPP is Causing
Uneasiness at Guthrie

Guthrie, Ok: Francis e. Loupps
who was sent to the Territory as a
special agent of the Interior Depart:
ment to inquire into charges OF fraud
in connection with the allotments Of
lands to the Indians in the Kiowa,
Comanche and Apache counties, has
arrived and Is now at work.
1t is said he is getting uncomfort-
ably close to some facts that will
make trouble for the persons concern
ed. The charges were made by Lone
Wolf. Chief of the Kiowa tribe, and
other prominent men of the tribe.
They asserted that there were more
than 1000 more quarter sections OF
land allotted than were supported by
affidavits.
It is reported that a well-known In
dian agent, who. it has been charged.
was concerned in the frauds. has been
released temporarily, pending the re,
suit of the investigation. =.
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Convict chase Is Abandoned.

Placerville, CAL: Twelve of the
desperadoes who escaped from the
Folsom Penitentiary are still at large,
and Fridays developments indicate
that the officers have become weary
Of their fruitless search. Following
false clews through a rough country
under a hot sun has exhausted both
civilians and militia. Late Friday Gov
ernoT Pardee issued an order with
drawing the Placerville Company Of
the National Guard from the chase,
and reports have been received that
many members Of the Sherift's posses
are returning to their homes. All
trace of the outlaws appears to have
been lost, and the prospect of their
capture is more remote than ever.
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Eseap.d Prisoner Is cauaht.

Carthage, Mo-: Sheriff James owen
of Jasper County Friday captured
Charles Marshall, fugitive from Jail
here, who made his escape several
months ago. Marshall's wife and
Sheriff Owen were passengers on the
same train to Garland, Kas., where
Marshall was captured after he had
greeted his wife at the station. Mar
shall was sentenced to one year for
grand larceny.
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Blizzard in New England.

Bretonwoods, N. H.: With snow on
Mount Washington, giant trees laid
PROSTATE along the Crawford Notch
carriage road and Jackson village cut
on from the outside world by the blow
ing down of the telegraph and tele-
phone poles, the record of unreasonable
weather during this unusual summer
was broken Tuesday. At the Summit
house on Sunday evening at o'clock
the thermometer registered 30 degrees
Monday morning 1t lacked but 16 de-
grees of touching the zero mark. A
terrific northwest gale blew all night,
the equal of which the summit dwell
ers say they have not seen in years.
With the wind came snow, and no less
than 8 inches covered the mountain
top Tuesday.
Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1903-08-06
Robbers Commit Murder.

Rockport, KY: John Galloway. a
soldier recently returned from the
Philippines, was killed and Robert
Carroll, a companion. probably fatally
injured Thursday night near here.
Two men approached the camp while
Carroll was alone and beat him until
he was unconscious. While they were
searching for money Galloway APP
peared and they shot him dead. The
men procured 5000 and escaped.
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Lexington, KY: Commonwealth At
torney Byrd again surprised the de-
tense Friday by the introduction Of
new witnesses, who aided in making a
stronger case against Curtis lett and
Tom White, for the murder Of James
B. Marcum, than in the trial at Jack
SON.
Half a dozen witnesses testified to
seeing the two prisoners enter the side
door of the jackson Courthouse short
ly before Marcum was shot. White
passed out the front just before the
shots we're fired and Jet emerged af.
ter the shooting from the side door.
At the Jackson trial Jett claimed to
be talking with Barney schi1 when
Msrcum was shot. Schin could not be
found then, but here he testified that
he was not with Jett when Marcum
was shot. Witnesses corrobonate
Even as to the movements Of Jett and
White when Msrcum was killed.
Judge James Hargis, the alleged
leader Of the bloody wsEfare, is a more
interested person than either Jett or
White or even the mothers Of the &C
-cused men. None Of these ever sug-
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Minnesota Loses
Merger Suit
Decision Has No bearing on Case
Under the Sherman Law

st. Paul, Mimi: Judge Lochren
Saturday in the United States Circuit
Court handed down his decision in
the case OF the State OF Minnesota
against the Northern Securities Com
pany, and individually, in which he
sustained the contentious of the de-
PENDANTS and dismissed the bill Of
complaint of the State.
He finds that the Northern Securi-
ties Company has not violated the
State laws forbidding the consolida-
ton of parallel and competing lines OF
railway through its ownership of the
stock of the Great Northern and
Northern Pacific railways.
He refuses the injunctions asked by
the State of Minnesota, to restrain
the Securities Company from voting
the stock of the two railroad compan-
les, or either of them.
This decision affects the results of
the Federal Governments victory in
the Circuit Court in no way what
ever. The Federal suit involved the
same defendants and the same gen
eral state Of facts, but was based on
a totally different contention of law
The Federal suit, in which the Sc.
curities Company was beaten, was
prosecution for violation of the Sher,
man antitrust law passed by the Fed
eral Congress.
The State suit, in which the Secur.
tiles Company wins, was based on an
allegation that the defendants yiolat-
ed acts of the Minnesota Legislature
forbidding the consolidation of paral,
lei and competing lines of railway.
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Henry oatterman Buried,

Danville, ILL.,: Henry Gatterman,
whose murder caused the Danville
iynching. had the largest funeral ever
held in Danville. The cortege. headed
by band, went over two miles out of
its way to parade the principal streets.
The Rev. A. M. Wells preached the
funeral sermon. After the services at
the church the body was borne to the
Spring Hill Cemetery, where it was
laid to rest.