Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1904-01-28
Sin and Sinners.

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Sin and Sinners.
Non-union drivers, employed at
funeral in ST. Louis, were beaten and
robbed by men said to be unionists.
Gov Jeff Davis and Judge Wood
were fined $40 each as the result of
fist fight following their joint debate
at Hope, Ark.
Col. John H. Bacon, seventy-fve
years old, killed himself at Colorado
Springs because of his suffering from
rheumatism.
George Smith of Burwell, Neb, COM
mitted suicide by placing his head over
the muZZle of shotgun and compell-
ing his son, aged ten, to pull the trig-
ger.
August G. Brucker, postal clerk of
Chicago, has been arrested OF charge
of stealing postage stamps OF large
denominations from letters addressed
to foreign countries.
Jumbo Clark, negro, was lyncb~d
at High Springs, Fla, for an assault
upon white girl about fourteen years
old. After being hanged, his body was
riddled with bullets.
Members of the executive committee
of the candy trust pleaded guilty in
New York to a charge Of conspiracy.
The combine has been broken and so
sentence was suspended.
An attempt was made to wreck a
passenger train on the Louisville &
Nashville near Pensacola, Fla, by pill
ing ties on the track, but the obstruc-
ton was discovered in time.
George Blair, an official in New York
city's charitable department, has been
sued for $4,000 which he is alleged to
have secured wrongfuliy from an old
and mentally irresponsible man named
Robert Walmsley.
Friends OF William P. Tnglis Of Chi
cago, treasurer Of the Illinois st. An
drew's society, who has been .mystert-
ously missing since Dec. %, indignant
ly deny the rum'ors that the missing
treasurer may besa defaulter.
Miss Esther Riley, cashier Of the
Congress Hotel company of Chicago,
while onaher way to church, was at
tackled by well-dressed stranger on
Harrison street, knocked down and her
face and lips badly bruised where her
assailaut struck her.
Mrs. May Baker, who comes from a
well-tn-ao family, took carbolic acid
in a room in a house inyCleveland, be-
cause John Rooney, her. sweetheart, re-
jected her proposal y. Of marriage.
Rooney Is a married man. although the
woman did not know. this. 4.
Clarence D. Taylor. a ,well-known
official of the Minneapolis General
Electric company, is missing. Shortly
after he lett the city It was discovered,
1T is said, that he had borrowed money
from different friends and issued sew
eral checks after withdrawing all his
money from, the bank. .
Suspected of having, stolen many
books and instruments and money to
the amount Of $50 from New York uni
versity students, one. of the most prom
Using young men in the institution has
been suspended pending an. investiga-
7tion by the chancellor and faculty. into
the charges made by his fellow stu
dents.
Domestic.
The call has been issued for the ma
tional Prohibition convention, to meet
at indianapolis, June %.
The Offices Of the Pittsburg Steam.
ship company will be retained in Du.
luth, despite contrary reports.
On account of lack of fire protection
Mayor Fleishmann of Cincinnati has
CLOSED Heuck's opera house. &
"a new religious sect, known as ths
Christian Israelites, has appeared II
Boston. Part of the creed for men !.
allowing hair and whiskers to grow az
long as possible. They predict thu
millennium In 1916.
| Mai. Gen Macarthur Of San Fran
| cisco has issued an order that no ex
tended leave Of absence will be grant
ed to army officers serving In the Pa
cific division until further notice.
The failure of Collector OF Customs
H. A. Rucker, the negro ofaceholder Q
Atlanta, Ga. who has received so mucl
adverse criticism there. to lower thu
i flag on the federal building during TIL
hours Of the funeral OF Gen. John B
Gordon, has caused him to again be
come a target Tor; uni pleasant remarks
4 Confederate veterans being especiais.
i severe Ia their denunc relations.