Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1904-04-21
Accidental Happenings.

improvements.
Accidental Happenings.
A Rock Island passenger train from
st. Paul has been wrecked at Rock
dale, one mile south of Joliet, Ill.
Only one person, the engineer, was
injured.
Sherman Eddy, the fifteen-year-old
SON OF Chris Eddy, living near Aims
worth, Neb., lost both hands rs the
result OF the accidental discharge Of
q shotgun.
The British torpedo boat destroyer
Teaser grounded during the maneu-
vers at Portsmouth. All the members
Of the crew were saved. 1t is feared
the vessel will prove wreck.
While leaving the depot at New Or
leans in an automobile. E. II. Harri-
man. president of the Southern Pa
cific railroad. was thrown to the
ground and slightly injured.
rs The large Touring mill of the Miner
Willard company at Miners Mills
near Wilkesbarre, Pa, has been to-
tally destroyed by fire, together with
two grain elevators and two houses.
LOSS, 100000.
Fire at Chicago destroyed the FIVE
story brick building at 1872 Michigan
street, occupied by the White Manu-
featuring company and the Faunt
Brothers Brass works, causing a loss
of $4,000 to the building and con.
tents.
I Sins and Sinners.
Harry McAleer, who in 1889 killed
Frank Evans, q Horton (Kan) news
paper man, has been arrested at Fort
Scott, Kan, and made a full confess
sion.
Sunday the police interrupted a
iscock fight in the private stable of Rob-
ert A. Pinkerton, the detective, in
Brooklyn, and took twenty three pris
oners.
William Howels, president OF the
United Mine Workers, District Is, has
been arrested at Pueblo, Col, charged
with sending obscene matter through
the mails.
George Dewhurst, formerly clerk of
| the Arlington (Mass.) Cooperative as
socintion, has been arrested on war
rant charging the larceny Of $4,000
from the association.
AS a result Of family quarrel and
shooting ARRAY at st. Joseph, Mo-, in
1.-The rooms Of JOHN Graney, Mrs. Mary
Sigler and Charles Foster are dead
and John Graney is dying.
The factional fight in the Christian
church Of Huntsville, Ala, has broken
out afresh. AS result two elders and
| three members were arrested for will
fully defacing the church building.
y. w. Hawkins, who was shot in a
street fight over politics at Lawton,
Okla. on April 4, by L. T. Russell,
editor of the Lawton Democrat, Is
| dead. He was sergeant-at-arms of the
house in the Oklahoma legislature.
Former Chief Nelson Burdick, for
mer Police Captain Frank Stevens and
/ Frank Chapel have been arrested at
/ SAUL ste. Marie, Mich, on an indlct.
ment charging conspiracy In connec.
ton with the recent police scandal.
Two military prisoners at Whipple
/ Barracks, Ariz.. have made a sensa.
tional escape by the aid az q civilian
confederate. The prisoners were at
work under an armed guard, when the
| civilian stealthily approached the
guard from behind, pionioning his
arms. They took his gun away. gag,
ged him and tied him to tree, and
then made their escape.
Foreign Gossip. PEE is4
Threats or assassination have q bad
effect upon the pope.
/ Az i result Of his inspection Of the
Indian forces, Mai. Gen. Kitchener
urges the need ofi 4 higher standard
1 there.
Friction Is again developing be
/ tween Great Britain md Nicaragua
over the Mosquito coast, which since
the early Cos has been matter d
contention.
The Madrid ofncial Gazette. which
appears with black borders, merely
announces the death of former Queen
4 Isabella. The Spanish court will &c
into mourning Tor one year.
Nothing d known In Berlin con
corning the III heal sof the Empress
A1eustA ictoria, ! ruInor regarding
i which WAS cab led 70 London ana cir