Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1905-04-06
CT the Week
Accidental Happenings.

explosion near Princeton, Ind. viii
| lam Jones. is dead.
The town of Marion, KY, had its
entire business section wipe1 out by
| fire. Loss, 100000.
| Two men were killed and another
| on the Baltimore & Ohio at Stanton
Del
Michael Nokovitch, an Austrian
was murdered at Pittsburg by his wife
| Annie, aged 90. She used hatchet
| as her husband lay in bed.
| August Finke, wealthy Indiana
| farmer who some time ago, when sum
| moned before jury, attempted sui
| eide, succeeded in ending his l;fe with
| a revolver.
Fire at Hanson, Ky, destroyed
| property valued at between $4,000
| and 100000, including churches, to-
| bacco factories, business houses and
| residences.
Fire in Louisburg, N c., destroyed
| $4,000 worth of property, including
the tobacco warehouse of G. B. Cheat
| ham, the Louisburg tobacco warehouse
| and other buildings.
Four men were killed in an explo,
| sion of three powder mills owned by
the Dupont Powder company at
| Schaghticoke, N. Y The bodies of the
men were blown 800 feet from the
| One man was fatally scalded and
several others were painfully burned
| by the explosion of a boiler at the car
shops of tie Illinois Central Railway
company at Burnside, suburb of Chi
cage.
North-bound Frisco passenger train
No. encountered burned bridge
near Arthur City, Tex, which ditched
| the chair car and two sleepers. One
| person was killed and several others
badly injured.
Fire burned four-story brick build
ing at Columbus, Ohio, occupied by the
Columbus Dry Goods company, entail
ing d loss estimated at 100000, OF
which $4,000 is on stock and the re-
mainder Oh the building.
All Hotchkiss, the engineer who was
injured when the Rock Island flyer
was wrecked at Homestead, Iowa, is
dead. The police say they will file
charges of murder against the man
who they declare confessed to wreck
ing the train.
An attempt was made at Los An
geles to wreck crowded Santa Fe
train. A heavy brake rod was placed
truck of the engine left the rails and
ran on the ties for fifty yards and then
jumped back to the track again
The elevator in the Livingston build
ing in East st. Louis fell five stories,
injufing Herman Engler SO badly that
he died later at ST. Mary's hospital.
Five others were in the elevator,
James Butler receiving a severe wound
on the scalp. The others were unhurt.
Otherwise.
Abigail Allison Osborne, 81, a sister
of the late President McKinley's
mother, died at Columbus, Ohio.
George R. FARMLAND, formerly a
well-known newspaper editor of Chi
cago, is dead at his home in Caldwell,
N. j., aged 81 years.
Stanley w. Turner. former auditor
general of Michigan and for many
years Republican leader in that
state. is dead at Detroit, aged 81 years.
The Louisiana railroad commission
has ordered the Pullman company to
equip all sleeping car berths in the
state with mosquito bars.
Alfred H. Curtis of New York, cash
Ter of the National Bank of North
America, has been elected president Of
that bank, succeeding R. L. Edwards.
j. Pierpont Morgan and Mrs. Jack
Gardner have taken up arms to secure
the ashes of the poet Dante, which are
in the possession of the Count Costa
relli.
Gov. Pardee of California has ap-
proved the bill passed by the last leg
islature fixing fiat tax of $40 year
on all corporations, foreign and do
nestle.
The Illinois appellate court has af-
firmed the validity Of an ordinance of
the city of Chicago prohibiting the
giving away of cigarette papers with
tobacco.
Judgment for Mrs. Elva Ingersoll,
widow of Robert G. Ingersoll of New
York. in the sum of s95, 600 with inter-
est, against the trustees of the estate
of the late Andrew J. Davis, wealthy
mine owner Of Butte. Mont. has been
ordered.
The report that the New York Cen
trail & Hudson River railroad has com
pleted negotiations to absorb several
Canadian street railway lines between
Buffalo and Toronto was denied at the
Office OF President Newman of the New
York Central.
A meeting of the large packers OF
canned goods will be held in Buffalo,
| N. 9, on April Ii, to consider the for
nation Of national association. The
i H,ray.<