The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-12-22
Sins and. Sinners.

angus was Hdl6cu dL JAlC
prison at Walla .Walla, Wash, for the
murder of Fred Anderson at Daring
ton, Wash, May l, 1903.
Walter Warner, aged twenty years,
was hanged N the state prison at San
Quentin, Cal, for the murder of Marie
Tomaya at Santa Barbara on June 10,
1904.
Patrick Monahan, treasurer OF
Briggs local No. 1860, United Mine
Workers, was arrested at Scranton,
Pa, for embezzling all Of the 81, 500 in
the treasury. He admitted his guilt.
f. Selwin Banwell, paying teller OF
the Crown bank of Toronto, Ont, is
missing. About $4,000 has also dis
appeared. Banwell is supposed to
have eloped with a young woman from
Erindale.
Henry Bates, a negro, was hanged
at Columbus, Tex, for having commit
ted a murderous assault upon Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Kuhles, whose home he rob-
bed. Both were badly beaten, but re-
covered.
Ed German and Tom Smith were ar
rested at Fort Dodge, Iowa, charged
with holding up Patrick O'ConnOr in
his store at Vincent, a village six miles
east of Fort Dodge. Two men with
threats of death ordered him to open
the safe and urn over to them several
hundred dollars.
The jury in the case of Mrs. Mary
Spaugh and her son, William Spaugh,
who have been on trial on the charge
of having killed Sheriff Polk at Iron.
ton, Mo, on May 25 last, returned a
verdict convicting William of murder
in the first degree and Mrs. Spaugh
of murder in the second degree.
Judge Parker of Lexington, KY,
charged the grand jury to take up at
once a charge that a juror had been
offered a bride to find a verdict in ia.
vor of Judge James Hargis Of Breathitt
county in the recent trial of Hargis for
the assassination of James Cockrill.
The matter reached the court through
a prohibition paper.
Edward J. Milan, a well-known Dem.
ocratic politician of New York. who
was indicted soon after the recent mu-
nicipal election on a charge Of bribery
in connection with alleged illegal vot-
ing, and who was at liberty under SILL.
600 bail, failed to appear when his
case was called In the county court in
Brooklyn. His bail was forfeited.
Domestic.
An increase of 81, BAT, 1885 in the total
funds of Yale university during the
fiscal year which ended June 81 last.
is shown by the annual report.
The Los Angeles Times says: The
Western Pacific railway will build to
Los Angeles at once, is the authorita-
tive statement of Treasurer Brown Of
the e transcontinental railroad.
A membership on the New York
stock exchange was sold last week for
SIS, 900, the highest price at which a
stock exchange seat has ever sold. The
last previous high record was $4,000.
In one of the hottest mayoralty
fights on record in Winnipeg, Thomas
Sharp, was reelected by 1900 majority
over John Arbuthnot. The vote was
the largest in the history of the city.
"Arden," the mountain home of
Nine. Helene Modjeska, near Santa
Ana, CAL, has been sold to Leopold
Moss of Chicago. The property is 49,
900 acres in extent, largely mountain
Gus.
The right of the American Tobacco
company to refuse to sell to small re-
tailers if it chooses to do SO was sus.-
tanned by a decision rendered by JUS
tice Marean in the supreme court in
Brooklyn.
Unless the present situation changes
the spectacle will be presented of
Nine. Sarah Bernhard, now appear
ing at the Lyric theater in New York,
playing throughout the entire state of
Texas on her present tour in a huge
circus tent.
John Farron, the owner of the Rock
ford-Janesville interurban road, an
nounces that the road will be extend
ed to Stoughton to connect with The
proposed Madison-Stoughton line.
Dining cars will be run on through
trains from Chicago.
It costs only one cent to whip an
editor in Indiana, according to a de-
cisiOn at Terre Haute. Timothy Don.
ovan was fined this amount by a court
for assaulting Guthneck of West Terre
Haute. The editor had criticised the
action of Donovan as township trustee.
The week Of August 13 has been
| officially named as the time for the
next annual convention Of the Grand
Army of I : Republic, which is to be
held in Minneapolis. This action was
taken by the national council of ad.
ministration of the G.. A. r. at the
close Of a long conference with the
Minneapolis local committee and the
passenger officials Of the different
railroad companies.
Gov. e. Chamberlain Of Oregon has