The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-12-15

: NOVELTIES OF THE NEWS.


Bedford, 1nd.--lcmuel Lynch. y years
old. was shot and killed by BENJAMIN
Rhodes at the ~latter's door. Lynch had
telephonad for and received permission to
call OF Miss Annie Gray, Rhodes niece,
and the young woman was standing in the
hall to receive her sweetheart when her
uncle fired. Rhodes, when arrested, said
he killed Lynch because the later tried to
enter the house after he had been for
hidden to do so.
ST. Louis. Mo.-Thc trial of Il Islander suit
at Kenneth, Mo-. has brought to light the
fact that Percy l.. Bryant, formerly of ST.
Louis. now in Los Angeles, Cal, married.
Mae II. Powell, a widow. As years old, and
nearly twice his age, in order to enable hcr
to fulfil the terms of her dead husbands
will. Bryant never lived with her after
marriage, never even ate at the same table
with her, and soon after the marriage went
west.
Topeka. Kan.-Swallowing Il pin is not
an accident. according to a decision hand
ed down by the Kansas supreme court,
everything the verdict of u lower court
in favor of T.. Barnes. 4 travelling sales
man, who was laid up several weeks after
All operation for the removal of a pin
from his stomach He held an accident
policy and sued the company for $50 "a
week Wt1llc ne was disabled
New York. n. Y.-Cnarlcs T.. Wachtcr
Of lAoboken has brought here the largest
egg shell in the world. 1t was laid more
Than 400 years ago in gascar by a
bird which has been extinct for 400 years.
This is the only egg of the kind in the
United States. Tho egg is as big as u
Rugby football. 1t was found several
years ago and sent to London. where
Wachter bought 1t for s., 500,
Kcnosha, Wis.-To save the life of Fred
Augustecn, who was badly burned during
the recent fire in the Lafin-RarI powder
factory at Pleasant Prairie, where he res
cued two men. Rev. H.. II. Jones, pastor
Of the Methodist church there, and eight
of his parishioners went from services last
night and submitted to the removal of
large patches of skin. which were grated
on AuSusteen'S body.
Poplar Bluffs, Mo.-Mrs. Ella Goltz Of
Porthmouth, o.. who has been visiting rel
atives here. was robbed of a gold watch
sci with diamonds and valued at $50 by
Tip. an elephant with a circus. Mrs. Goltz
yenturcd too near the elephants, and Tip
seized her watch and swallowed II. He
also made a meal Of her beautiful hat.
Mrs. GoltZ became hysterical and is in Il
critical condition.
Cleveland, O.-"Thc American club wom-
an reminds me Of Il diamond in the shirt
bosom of a corpse" said abb Isador
Philo OF the High Street temple. "It
stands out glaringly against the dead mat
ter it adorns. The club woman is a strane-
poodle is the object of more caresses than
either her children or her %husband."
New York, N. Y.-Physicians at ST. Vim
acat's hospital on performing an operation
for appendicitis on Timothy Keleher,
found a pencil, several inches long, in the
mans tomach The patient was as much
surprised as the doctors and could not ex-
plain how the pencil got into his ston-
;ch. The physicians believe that he swal-
lowed it in his sleep.
Knoxville. Tenn.-"Let ne shoot you.'
mo. let me shoot you" There was the
crack of a pistol and Roy Walker. aged
8, dropped to the ground, shot in the heart,
to die instantly. Jesse Barber. aged Z,
fired the shot. The two boys had a toy
pistol and were playing at shooting; each
other.
Macksvillc. Kan.-Mrs. a. e. Becktell,
president of the w. c. II. u, with twenty
other members, armed with buggy whips
and rotten Eggs. attacked Myron Mooney
and d. B. Haltpike. travelling statesmen for
IL liquor house. when they arrived here
yesterday. Both fed from the town.
Newport, N. H.-Thcodorc Roosevelt, jr..
brought down a large elk and a wild bear
in his first days unit in the Blue noun
tain park. But two shots were necessary
in bagging both animals. The elk weighed
$50 pounds. The bears head will be mount
ed for President Roosevelt.
Buralo.-Alonzo j. Whitcman, a former
member OF the Minnesota senate from Du-
lutll. convicted Of defrauding the Fidelity
Trust company, of this city. by means Of
forged and raised paper, was taken to
Auburn prison to begin !; term Of eight
years and five months.
Eandalia, ll.~-After imposing a fine or
so on Joe Igo. who already had been in
Jail six months awaiting trial on a charge
OF carrying concealed weapons, Judge
Farmer declared such an offense ought to
be punishable by a fine OF s5,OOO ana the
p~enitcntiary.
; Chicago, Hl.-Wisc trainers CT the game
avs Of Illinois declared tina no person
should use ferrets in the capturing OF rab-
bits. They forgot, however to say any
thing about guinea pigs, and by that omis-
sion certain residents of Waukcgan are
profiting.
San Bernardino. Cal.-Mrs. Jennie Vim
son. while talking in her sleep, revealed tn
her husband, William Vinson, the fact
hat she was a bigamist. He awoke her
and she confessed that she had another
husband living. Ninson sued for a d.
Worce.
Flint, Mich.--Completely broken down
mentally and physically. John Clarkson,
once the leading pitcher in the National
league. who has been a patient at a sani-
tarium here for nearly a year, was re-.
turned TO his home in Bay CITY.
Cincinnati. O.-William RI. Reid. a first
cousin to Whitelaw Reid, United States
ambassador to Great Britain, committed
suicide by shooting himself through the
head in a lumber yard here. He was 6o
years old.
Pana, Il.--1'he Rev. ]. w. Crochcr a
Baptist minister. was taken suddenly i'll of
bowel trouble while holding services SIM
day evening, and died shortly afterward
Louisville. Ky.-Accused ten lays ago OF
poisoning a neighbours chickens, Mrs. Sea-
man took 70 her bed and died today. sun
posedly OF a broken heart.
Des Moincs.-A daughter was born to Mr.
and Mrs. Mathew Kane Sunday morning
1t is the eighth child OF the family and
weighed when born IA pounds.