Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1905-03-23
OF the Week
Crimes and Criminals.


julius Stevens, a negro imprisoned
in the Jail at Long View, Tex, charged
with assault upon Carl Anderson, was
yesterday shot to death in his cell by
mob.
Mrs Bertha Berck of Bloomington
! drowned him in a cistern, where the
body was found by Mr. Berck on his
return home.
Miles Willis, director of the Kane
County National bank, shot himself in
the head at Elburn, H., dying instant
ly. Dependency over i'll health is as
signed as the cause.
In room filled with gas in the
Queens hotel in Chicago, man was
found dead and woman unconscious.
The police believe that double sui
eide had been planned.
Sixteen prisoners made a desperate
dash for liberty from the county Jail
at Hot Springs, Ark. One of them,
Silas Lowe, was shot dead, and anoth-
er, Dick Hastings, escaped.
The jury at Helena, Mont, after hav-
ing been out nineteen hours, returned
verdict of not guilty in the case Of
d. G. Christie, who was accused of a
sensational holdup there last July.
Ed and Will Ptomey, negroes, who
shot and fatally wounded Prof. Claude
Hardy at Selma, Ala, were captured
by a posse of citizens. They were i'm
mediately taken to a swamp and
hanged
After writing letters to the coroner
making provision for his cremation,
Gustave jacob, 4S years old a tobacco
expert, turned on the gas in his room
in New York and was found dead in
the morning.
Thieves blew the safe in the Bank of
Benton, KY, and got away with $4,000,
during the night. The robbery was not
discovered until the bank opened for
the day. The robbers are supposed to
have numbered four
The vault of the Genoa Banking
company of Genoa, Ohio, was blown
by three unknown men, who escaped
car. A posse of citizens is in pursuit
All surrounding sheriffs have been no
titled. The thieves are reported to
have secured $4,000 in cash and $780,
600 in negotiable paper.
The Rev. DR.. John Watson Clan Mac
Laren) has resigned the pastorship of
the Seton Park Presbyterian church,
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Liverpool. In his farewell address DR..
Watson said he is worn out and can
not go on. He never has been strong,
he says, and had to do his work with
hindrances from bodily WEAKNESS. and
now his strength is nearly exhausted.
Joseph Steffel, who has been on trial
for two weeks at Milwaukee, charged
with the murder of Hans Tritchler. an
East Water street saloonkeeper, was
acquitted by jury in Judge Braces
court. Trichtler was murdered in his
place of business Dec. 30 There was
nothing but circumstantial evidence in
troduced, and the jury brought in a
verdict after several hours delibera-
ton.
Otherwise.
Over 1000 pupils were sent home
from school at Lima Ohio, for not COM
plying with the vaccination order of
the board of health.
A force of men armed with shotguns
compelled a gang of workmen laying
pipes through a farm near Ottawa,
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| stop.
A splendid diamond brooch, contain
| ing stones weighing % carats and val
ued at $4,000, which was lost by Mrs.
t. Edwin of New York. has been re-
covered.
Promoters of lobster trust, which
plans to control that industry in Maine
and the maritime provinces, say the
combination soon will be completely
| organized.
| Mrs. Mary Maloney of Onalaska,
Wis, aged 100 years, died in St. Fran
els hospital in La Crosse. She had
been a resident of La Crosse county
| for upwards of fifty years.
| Nelson Wellington Hodge, the first
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| school teacher of Frances Willard, is
dead at Harland, Wis, after weeks
illness of the grip. He was the last of
| Oberlin class of 1883. He was 81 years
| old.
| Harry Davis, a Kankakee, Ill, bust
ness man who is a candidate for the
nomination for town collector, offers to
donate $50 to each of the sixteen
churches of the city i'll the event of his
nomination and election.
Marshal Voetsch, under special in
structions from the Houghton, Mich,
board of health, is killing all dogs that
act strangely. Seven were killed in
one day. Dumb rabies are said by the
board of health to be prevalent at
Houghton. Calumet and several other
points in the copper district hence the
canine depopulation.
4 A harmless crank was arrested in
front of the store of John Wanamaker
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