The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-04-14
Crimes and Criminals.

Michael Nelson, a farmer ear Pop
lar, Iowa, killed his two daughters,
aged ten and thirteen years, respect
lively, and then committed suicide.
A Slavish christening resulted in a
tragedy at Jamison Mine No. 2 at La
trobe Pa. M. Kalofosky is dead and
several other men are in a critical con-
ditiOn.
Frank Moves, aged sixty. shot and
fatally wounded his wife and then shot
himself, in Boston. A daughter died
recently, and it is said that her death
affected his mind.
Dependency brought on by tubercu-
losis led Ferdinand Volkmar, a wealthy
resident of Pasadena, Cal, to commit
suicide by blowing off the top of his
head with a shotgun.
John Dow, a negro, killed his wife,
his mother-in-law, his father-in-law,
and Mrs. Jones. a friend of Mrs. Dow,
at Batesville, Ark, because Mrs. Dow
refused to live with him.
Samuel Schram, aged 43 years. died
from a self-infiicted wound at st. Louis
after having shot his wife in the mouth.
He also shot at and missed his son
Domestic trouble led to the shooting.
Lester Henry, an Indian, said to be
a graduate of the Carlisle school. kill
| ed one Indian with a shotgun and
wounded half a dozen others before his
| arrest at Corey, Pa. He had a quarrel
with his sweetheart.
A mob twice attempted to force the
| Jail at Fulton, KY, in an effort to lynch
three negroes who are charged with
| shooting Officer Eaker. Mayor Wall,
members of the city council and prom
inent citizens defended the prisoners
and defeated the mob.
Ex-Supervisor Jacob Schultz OF Mil
waukee was denied a new trial by
! Judge Williams and sentenced to one
wear in the house of correction. He
was convicted of accepting a $500
| bride in connection with an electric
| lighting contract.
The body of Frank Ogden, a young
| farmer. was found in the yard of
| Claude Whistler at Moulton, Iowa, with
a bullet through the heart. Whistler
has disappeared. Ogden and Mrs.
| Whistler were friends before her mar
| rage to Whistler.
James Written, a private detective,
At present in the employ of an Iowa
! insurance company, was shot in the
hack and fatally wounded at st. Jo-
seph. Mo-, just after he had left the
witness stand in the criminal court
room. by Mrs. Alice ]. Keplinger, keep
or OF q boarding house. The woman
claimed that Written had ruined her
daughter.
An insane man who gives his name
no !. Everest Worthington. was cap
tured within a block OF the Kansas
state house in Topeka, where he said
he was going to kill Gov. E. w. Hoch.
3 man was unarmed, but he is OF a
powerful build and undoubtedly would
hove handled the chief executive
roughly had he not been intercepted.
He win be sent to an asylum.
A,onzo ]. sWhiteman was released
from tail at Buffalo on $4,000 bail.
hail was furnished by a surety COM
nany. Whiteman was recently acquit-
ted on q charge Of grand larceny. but
several counts Of the indictment still
stand against nim-
Henry Mathur, who moved to Port
land ore. recently from Minnesota,
killed himself by drinking carbolic
acid. He was travelling for the Day
ton Scales company. He was suffering
from kidney disease and had but q
short time to live. He leaves . wife
and two little children.