The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-12-29


: NOVELTIES OF THE NEWS. :
Iowa City, Ia.-Frank Nosek, who proph7
esied his death when he made his will a
week ago is dead from the injuries re-
ceived from a wagon passing over him.
Appleton, Wis.-In a driving snowstorm
Coach koehler and Professor T. E. Ash
ton of Lawrence university started on a
20O-mile walk from Appleton to Chicago.
Pittsburg, Pa.-The beneficiaries of the
will of the late Capt. S. s. Brown, finanT
cier and ,horseman, ave arranged to give;
his d%isinherited daughtcr-in-!aw $4,000 of
the estate. The jockey clubs of the coun1
try also will hold a special race day for
benefit. -;
Paris. Ky.-One Of the most remarkabl.
cases in the state of Kentucky was decided,
in the Bourbon circuit court yesterday
the city of Paris was fined Sl,5O on,
Indictment for maintaining a nuisance
in maint aiming a rock quarry almost in ne
heart of the residence district. :
Richmond, Va.-An unknown insane man,
is dying at the city hospital. His delu-.
sion was that oceans of whisky were
and rolling before him. but though
he made every effort he could not secure
n drop to drink. In his delirium he.
stabbed himself in the neck four times.
with a glass instrument and is bleeding TO
death.
F, Southampton, Mass.-Mrs. Drusilla Hall
Johnson the daughter Of a soldier of the.
"A merican revolution, died at her home,
In this CITY yesterday. aged 100 years. Her
father. Aaron Hall, was aiken prisoner by
Tho british during the struggle for indie,
ncndence and carried to England. Up to
within n few days Mrs. Johnson's health
had been remarkably good.
, Chicago, m.-Classes to give instruction
in English to the Russian Jews who are
exnccted to come to America as refugees
vii, he started at once by the Chicago He
brew institute. Ihls was aecideu on yes
terday at a meeting of the institute di-
rectors held in the Grand Pacific hotel.
Tho nroiect of starting a social settlement
in the Ghetto was abandoned.
Chicago, ul.-Ralph C. Stevens. 1851 Mad,
icon avenue, president OF the VAIL Adding
Machine company and son of President
%. ID. Stevens of the Drexel State bank
was burned seriously about the face and
hands yesterday while Playing SANTA Claus
for the OBLIGATION OF his little son. His
cotton batting beard caught fire from a
candle on the child's Christmas tree which
had been lit up for an advance celebration
of the day. ...
f. st. Louis. Motor forty minutes after
she had been pronounced dead by DIR. Will
liam S. Lawrence, of the city dispensary
staff, Rosie Fisher, 81 years old, who took
rarbolic acid, continued to breathe, spas
medically as she lay on an operating table.
Spinal reflex respiration. very rare, but
not unknown to medical science, Dr.. Law
renee, said, was responsible for the.bfeathG
ing after life was extinct.
Topeka, Kan.-An investigation by the
state. board Of health disclosed that an epi- :,
demic of diptheria at Yates Center was
caused by public ownership of lead pencils
school board buys pencils for the
pupils and these are gathered up each,
night and distributed in the morning, One
child contracted diphtheria, and in a few
days the disease was communicated to nifty
pupils by means of the pencils.
C~hicago.-"If the state would spend i
part Of the money which is being spent
in building jails in building homes for neg
lected boys the citizenship contributed by
this great army of youth in our large
cities would be improved an hundred
fold" declared Attorney J. j. McMana-
man of the juvenile court in a talk on
The Treatment of Delinquent Boys be-
for the Spencer Whitman circle.
Atlantic City, N. IA fragment of q
lead pencil, fired from the barrelo of a pistol.
may cause the death of Bessie. Ang, 10
years old, who is now in a critical condi-
ton at a hospital. She was playing with
John Adams, IA years old, when the latter
stuck the pencil into the barrel of the
pistol. which was loaded with blank cart
entered her head and passed almost
through. Physicians are not able to ascer-
tain whether it touched the brain.
=. New Orleans. La Freddie Blankcn-
ship, s years old. has been tried at Wig
gins, Miss, for the alleged murder OF
George Jackson, aged Z. The judge took,
the case under advisement. and in render
ing a verdict promises to take into con-
sideration the youth of the prisoner. The
boys were playing together last Sunday,
when young Jackson suddenly dropped
deadfwithf a bullet through hts brain. In
vestigation showed the bullet was of the
same caliber as hat of a revolver Blank
carried.
Chicago.-By using all his strength am,
breaking his leg, George 0,Neill saved
himself from being killed BY an Illinois
Central train yesterday. O'Ncill, who is -
years old, was returning from work at the
Illinois Steel 'companN's plant in. South
Chicago and was crossing the railroad
tracks in front OF an approaching passen-
ger train, when his right foot caught in
the frog angle of a switch. Excrting All
his strength, he twisted his leg breaking
1t, but he fell from thestracks Just as th,,
train flashed past.
Lebanon, Ind.-The audience in III.
Salem church, east Of this, city was
thrown into a panic at a Christmas en-
t%ertainment Sunday night and ffty or
more women and children ran screa ynins,
from the building, while four. men strng-
sled with Albert Phillips to get a revolver
that he had drawn and threatened to shoot
the crowd. Phillips. who was intoxi-
Gated, walked up to the pulpit and placed
a bottle of whisky upon it. Then facing
the audience he drew a revolver and
threatened to shoot into the crowd. 1t
took four men to overpower him.
Ballston, n. J.-If all ROSTERS We're like
one of Porter Quivey's every father Of a
family c carving the dinner would -be a r;x;.