The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1905-06-16
List Of Casualties.

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List Of Casualties.
A fire destroyed business property
to the extent of 100000 at Cordele,
Ga.
A switch engine was derailed and
overturned at Flat River, Mo-, and
William Sheets was instantly
killed.
Judge John B. Mcpherson of the
United States district court had his
arm broken while cycling at Philadel-
phia. He collided with a scorcher,
who rode on, leaving the Judge lying
on the ground.
A message from Bartham, N. M,
says that the town Of La Mesa, on the
opposite bank of the Rio Grande river,
is under seven feet Of water The rise
of the river was gradual and all the
people in the town escaped.
After completing journey of 1900
miles without mishap, the towboat w.
w. O'Neill. one of the largest in the
river service struck an obstruction In
the canal and sank at Louisville. Capt
Carroilton and crew of twenty-five es-
capped. The boat is worth 100000.
It is believed it can be raised.
Orden ]. Delaney and William JET
fries, both of Atlantic City, N. j.. aged
Z and years respectively, and in sep
erable companions, went to a brush
heap of pine trees on the beach front
dug hole beneath the pine and crawl
ed under. 1t is believed they had
matches, for soon the brush was
ablaze and before the boys could crawl
out they were cremated.
One life and possibly more are be
lieved to have been lost near Sandy
Hook, when an unidentified two-mast-
ed schooner struck on Homer shoal
and was pounded to pieces by heavy
seas. The schooner is thought to have
been a fisherman, which usually car
ries big crew. Only one man was
seen on the wreck after the schooner
struck the shoal, however, and he dis
appeared when the vessel went to
pieces.
Crimes.
Ira S. Meyer, the Janesville, Wis,
bigamist, has been sentenced to the
penitentiary at Fort Madison for a
term of two years and five months.
Essic Bostric, accused of entering
the room of Mrs. Sarah Gordon at
Louisville, Miss, was taken from the
sheriff by forty masked men and
lynched.
William NJ. Leighton, president Of
the Lima, Ohio Savings Bank and
Trust company who has been convict
ed of forgery, was sentenced to serve
three years in the penitentiary
Charles B. Young who attempted to
rob the express car of the Northern
Pacific train two miles east of Bear
Mouth, Mont, on May q, after he had
dynamited the car. has been sentenced
to serve fifty years in the peniten-
tiary.
Fourteen sticks of dynamite were
found m trunk checked by Nick Top
lanz a Roumanian from Xenia, Ohio,
to Indianapolis The trunk was acci-
IDENTIFY opened at Xenia, and several
of the dynamite sticks fell to the sta
tion platform, causing panic among
those who happened to be in the vicin-
ity. Toplanz was arrested here, and
at q hearing before United States COM
missioner was committed to jail to
await further action by the federal au-
thorities.
Charles McGinity. wife beater, OF
Portland. Ore. received twenty lashes.
ON the bare back, being the first suf-
ferer under the new state law. The
lashing was performed by the county
taller uoder the direction of the sheriff
and physician.
Secret service men from Washing
ton have arrested John Johnson, a
Swede. Of Blo< mington, ILL.,. for writ
Ing letters to Alice Roosevelt Johnson
said that he was sent here from Swed.
en- to marry Miss Roosevelt and COM
municated his mission In letters to
the presidents daughter.