The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-09-01
Crimes and Criminals.

Crimes and Criminals.
Mrs. Alexander Mcpherson, aged
fifty-one, drowned herself in eighteen
inches of water in the river at Memo
minee, Mich, while temporarily insane.
Henry Heusack was hanged in the
jail yard at st. Louis He reiterated
on the gallows his repeated claim of
Of innocence of the murder of August
his father-in-law.
A. d. Hatch committed suicide in
sensational manner at Algona. Iowa.
He placed the muZzle of a shot gun to
his left ear and touched off the trigger
with a stick. His head was almost
blown OF.
J. D. Standish, said to have been
formerly a member of the Pennsyl-
vania legislature, was sentenced at
Boston to serve not less than six
months nor more than three years for
forged checks.
julius T. Langsburg, Jr., conduc-
tor on the Seaboard Air Line, was
shot by William s. Sims and died
while being brought to Savannah, Ga.
Langsburg had put Sims of his train
Saturday. Sims escaped.
District Attorney Francis E. Nc
Govern, through Sheriff Cary, made a
wholesale raid on the gambling houses
of Milwaukee recently, capturing a
large number Of inmates and large
amount of paraphernalia.
The five-year-old daughter of John
Lundgren had her head crushed to
q pulp by being run over by a thresh-
ing engine on her fathers farm near
Fort Dodge. She was sitting on the
top rear wheel, when the engineer
started the engine, throwing her un-
der it.
Judge Whelan in police court at
Cleveland sentenced Justice of the
Peace H. G. Fellows of Glenville, a
recently annexed suburb, to serve
twenty days in the workhouse and to
pay fine of $50 and costs for having
collected illegal fees from persons
brought into his court.
Paul Inman, who is alleged to have
deserted from the regular army at
Fort Casey. Wash, in order to go to
Johnson City, H., and marry his
sweetheart, was arrested. He was
taken to Evansville, Ind, and turned
over to the recruiting officers. He
will be returned to Fort Casey.
Accidental Happenings.
Fire at Oroville, CAL, destroyed a
block of buildings. Thre firemen were
fatally injured. Loss $150,OO0.
Two half-breed sons of Henry Deit-
rich and four natives recently lost
their lives by jumping overheard from
q small steamboat on the Kuskowin
river near Seattle. The men were
frightened by steam escaping from the
safety valve Of the craft. and fearing
an explosion, they jumped overheard.
Harvey Mise Of Bennett, Tenn, shot
and killed his WIFE. mistaking her for
q burglar. The woman was getting
some milk for her daughter and her
seeing the moving form in
the room, fired.
Anthony Schultz was killed and two
others seriously injured at the plant
Of the American Radiator company at
Buffalo, when a scaffolding forty feet
high and on which eight men were
working, fell.
A tornado struck Holt, Mo-, recent
ly. doing much damage. A church
and two dwellings were moved from
their foundations, and several barns
and small buildings were blown down.
No one was injured.
Emil H. Babb, pastor Of the Zion
German church in Los Angeles, for.
merly Of Illinois, was killed by . bolt
ing horse, which he was driving with
his two sons. He was thrown from
the rig. The boys were unhurt.
The schooner John M. Hutchinson
Of Cleveland, in tow of the steamer
Caledonia, sprung leak and founder
ed OF Keweenaw Point, Lake Superb
or. The crew was brought to Sault
Ste. Marie by the Caledonia.
David J. Smith, switchman. was
electrocuted at Logansport, Ind, while
teleph0ning over a private railroad
system. 1t is believed that as he lift
ed the receiver from the hook the cir
cult was grounded.
Fifteen men were carried down by
the falling OF wall in the ruins of the
Avenue theater at Pittsburg. which
was destroyed by fire about a month
ago. The men carried down were all
Italian laborers, and thirteen Of them
were taken from the wreckage in q
badly battered condition. At the hos
pitAl the physicians say none Of the
victims will die. but five OF the number
are seriously hurt.