Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1905-11-09

the order or the Garter on the emper-
or OF Japan has caused the greatest
satisfaction among all classes at Toxic.
/ Crimes and Criminals.
Because his wife refused to live
with him on account of his propensity
for liquor, John Lee Phillips, an en-
gineer shot and fatally wounded her
in front of boarding house at Pitts
burg, Pa. Then, before any one could
interfere, he turned the revolver on
himself and sent a bullet into his
| brain, dying in few minutes.
George Washington Murray, negro,
!, once member of congress from
South Carolina, will have to spend the
/ next three years cracking rocks and
road building as a member of the
chain gang of Sumter county, Ga, al
| though he is the largest land owner in
that county. The supreme court denied
the appeal of his attorneys for a re-
| hearing. His punishment is for forg-
! ing the names of ignorant negroes to
| land leases.
Edward Rebel, late of Grand Marais,
shot his wife five times at Munsing,
Mich, and leaving her for dead, jump
ed from dock and drowned. The
| woman is expected to recover.
The New York court of appeals de-
MED the motion for Encouragement Of
/ the appeal of Albert T. Patrick from
conviction Of murder in the first de-
/ gree and sentence of death for the
! killing in 1900 of w. M. Rice, an aged
millionaire of New York city. The
motion was made Oct. 2, by former
United States Senator David B. Hill.
/ Elias Johnson, who shot and killed
his wife at their home near Slater, Sa-
i lima county, Mo-, was convicted of
murder in the first degree and his
punishment fixed at ninety-nine years
in the penitentiary. Johnson, on Dec.
s, 1904, shot his wife and afterward
made the claim that he thought he was
shooting an OWL
Tom Eassa. the 17-year-old boy who
eloped with 40-year-old widow, Mary
Eassa, his cousin, is under arrest at
4 Sioux City for embezzlement. the
charge being preferred by his mother.
The arrest was made at Yankton, S.
ID. The boy was brought to Sioux City.
4 while the elderly wife will go to Akron,
] Iowa, to visit relatives. The boys
mother made the accusation that he
stole 5000 in order to get him home.
She will endeavor to have the mar
4 riage annulled.
General.
/ Judge Worthington of Peoria has
overruled the motion of the attorneys
for N. G. Dougherty to reduce his bail
to $4,000.
J. The National w. G. T. u, in annual
convention in Los Angeles reelected
all the officers of the organization now
serving as executive heads.
4 Oscar Lindinger, aged IL, is dead at
Mason City, Iowa, from milk sickness,
the fourth member of the family to die
from the same cause within few
weeks of each other.
The convention of the supreme lodge
and the encampment of the Uniform
Rank, Knights of Pythias, will be held
at New Orleans, La, the third Tuesday
In October next.
The bill" club held it's annual meet
ing at Excelsior Springs, Mo. The
4 date of the "Bill'' banquet was set for
Dec. IA. The meeting was enthusiast
tic and it bids fair for a large attend
4 ance "Bill" Warner, "Bill'' Stone and
aBill' Wallace are expected to make
tspeeches The initiation fee was fixed
at dollar bill. Excelsior Springs is
4 the home Of the only .Bill,' club in the
world
/. Alleging that his character had been
4 damaged to the extent of $4,000,
Thomas w. Lawson Of frenzied finance
fame has brought suit for that amount
Il against Horace J. Stevens, q well
q known copper mine specialist Of
i Houghton, Mich. He charges libel.
Mr. Stevens is an extensive writer on
q copper mining topics, and 1t is pre-
lsumed he hit the Bostonian hard in
4 some Of his articles.
q The population OF Greater New
81 York, as counted by the state enumer-
a alton bureau on June 4, is LOLA, s04,
4 as compared with 8, 4337, 202 In 1900 and
n 22,507, Ala in 1890 The population Of
u the state is ,066, 672.
u Frank "A. Vanderbilt, vice president
Of the City National bank of New York,
Il was the chief speaker at the Chicago
4 Commercial clubs iirst banquet Of the
season. His subject was .Old Age
Il Pensions for Work men'' He declared
fl-lt-. AZ.