Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1905-02-09
OF The Week
Crimes and Criminals.

mrS. Stella Mcdonald, alldS May
1 Stella Davis, and Frazer Mcdonald, al
legged eounteffeiters, are held at Chi
cago to the federal grand jury in 1000
bonds.
The dead bodies Of an unidentified
man and woman were found in room
ing house in st. Louis. A bottle which
contained carbolic acid was found in
the room and it is believed they com
mitted suicide.
Peter Miller, Democratic election
judge, was found guilty at Denver OF
suppressing ballots and making false
certificates at the November election
by jury in the criminal court. Sen
| tence was deferred.
Mrs. May Brown, who shot and kill
| ed her husband John Brown, a barber,
was acquitted of a charge of murder at
Houghton Mich. Brown was shot dur
ing a Quarrel over his inattention to
her and his drinking.
With her clothes burned from her
body, Agnes Pears, a maiden lady, liv-
ing alone near Philo, Ohio, was found
dead in her home by neighbor. The
torn-up appearance of the room gave
evidence of foul play.
Three United States revenue agents
broke into the home of Edward An
derson at ST. Louis and arrested three
men, a girl and a boy on the charge of
manufacturing oleomargarine without
paying the government tax.
4 James Simpson, president Of the
Bullfrog Mining company, was shot
and mortally wounded at Goldfeld,
| New, by Thomas Shipp, mining pros
pector. The shooting resulted from a
| disagreement over mining DEAL
The grand jury returned ten indict-
ments charging ENLIGHTENMENT and
false pretenses, six against P. t. Hays,
former cashier of the Orange Growers
National bank, and four against Col.
j. w. Dish, formerly right of way
agent of the Salt Lake railway.
The Farmers and Merchants bank
| at Canadian, I. T., has been looted.
The safe was blown and $1,000 taken.
Later two unknown men were found
4
it was evident they had been shot and
thrown from a train.
In street duel at Jacksonville, Fla,
William Nunes, a prominent centrac-
tor, shot and fatally wounded his SON
in-law, Frederick De Fraties. De Fra
ties married Nunes daughter last De
cember, and she had complained to
her father that her husband abused
her.
Frank G. Lory, alleged to have Sc
cured more than S125,000 on gold mine
swindles while having headquarters ct
DanNi]le, Ill, was arrested at Houston,
Tex, and turned over to H. Fl. Whit
lock, sheriff of Vermillion county, ILL.,,
who had warrants and requisition pa
pers. Lory has been in Galveston for
some time since as a solicitor of in
surance.
An unsuccessful attempt to wreck
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas fast
mail from Texas, running at the rate
of sixty miles an hour has been made
in deep cut three miles southwest of
Moran, Kan. A tie had been placed
across the tracks and derailing iron
fastened on the rails. The force with
which the engine struck the tie snap
ped it in two and threw it with the de-
railing iron to one side.
Otherwise.
Lewis Lutz. aged 6S, dropped dead
of excitement while his home was
burning in Philadelphia.
Bishop Ethelbert Talbot has been.
reelected president Of the New York
alumni of Dartmouth college.
Elizabeth Mccormick the only
daughter Of Rush Mccormick, aged -
years, and the heiress of the million
aire family. is dead at Chicago.
Physicians of Rockland county, N.
X, are on strike against a reduction
by the board of supervisors for per
forming autopsies. ri
Harry 4. Lockhart, famous elephant
trainer, died in the City of Mexico Of
pneumonia. He had a herd of Ring
lings' elephants with him.
The Standard Oh company is play
ing a freeze.out game In the Indiana
oil fields. The Independents are or
ganizing to prevent a move.
DR.. Edward Lindsay Cunningham,
said to have been the Oldest surviving
I graduate of the Harvard Medical
school, died at Newport, r T.. aged 96.
The striking iron molders who pur-
chased the Newport foundry at New
port. KY, have arranged for each en-
ploye from president to boy to receive
S. q day on the union scale.
A cablegram announcing the death
LOT Gen. Christian T. Christensen Of
Brooklyn at Copenhagen, Denmark,
has been received. Gen. Christensen
served throughout the Civil war.
prominent louisville minister,
while In dentists chair recently,
| swallowed q steel drill an inch and a
half long. which become loosened from
1.-THE holder. He has been subjected
three times unsucce ssfnlly to the *
| ray NET S
Samuel H. Piles Of Seattle was elect.
/ al United States senator ~ the ~ 3 IN.