The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-08-17
Resume Of the News.
Washington.


A rumor was set afloat in Mexico
City that American Ambassador Con-
ger would remain in Washington as
adviser on the Chinese question. 1t
Is the wish Of all classes of the former
city that he return.
Consul Snyder at Bogota reports
conditions in parts Of Columbia, the
result of a dry spell, is approaching
a famine. The crops are ruined, cat
tie dying and prices have risen
enormously.
The state department has been in
formed that the New York & Bermudez
Asphalt company has lodged with the
Venezuelan government a protest
against the recent decision Of the
court against that company.
Criminal.
While in a buggy with Jules Gar
land, near Decatur, ILL.,, Anna Dye shot
and killed n11elf. No reason if
known for the girls act.
Two Cinnamon were killed and sev-
eral others wounded, three fatally, in
a pistol fight between rival Chinese
societies in the Chinese theater in
Doyers street, New York.
Thomas Torantino, an Italian, was
mysteriously murdered in front of his
home in Milwaukee by a man whose
identity is unknown and who has so
far eluded a posse of police who are
searching for him. .
Charles Reisser was shot and in
stantly killed by Policeman W.. H.
Dixon at Cincinnati. 1t is said Refs
ser attempted to kill his wife and
baby, when the policeman appeared
and a fight ensued.
Inga Hanson, the former Salvation
Army girl, convicted of perjury in
connection with a personal injury suit
brought by her against the Chicago
city railway, was taken to the peni-
tertiary at Joliet.
Thomas Brady a butter dealer Of
Philadelphia, who has been supplying
butter to the League Island navy
yard, was arrested at the instance
of the state dairy and food commits
sion, which charges him with selling
colored oleomargarine for butter.
Pointing a revolver at the head of
the motorman on a trolley car, a we'll
dressed young man compelled him to
bring the car to a stop in the middle
Of tho Prnnly1vn hriInn IL <lo.
hurried to the railing and dropped to
his death into the river, 1876 feet be-
low.
Sentenced to three months for at
tempting to kiss a woman and suffer-
ing from an incurable disease, Michael
Conroy jumped from a third-story win
dow of the Brooklyn court of special
sessions to the sidewalk and sustained
a fracture of the skull and internal in
1uries which will probably cause his
death.
State Senator Frank H. Farris was
acquitted by a jury in the circuit
court at Jefferson City, Mo-, on a
charge OF bribery in connection with
a bill introduced at the session of the
state legislature in 1901 to repeal the
statute prohibiting the use of alum
In the manufacture of baking DOW.
der, commonly known as the "alum
bill"
For the second time after deliberat.
ing for over forty hours a jury in the
United States district court at Port.
land, Ore, has reported to Judge Be.
haven that it was unable to reach an
agreement in the case Of the United
State against Congressman J.. N.
Williamson, DIR. Van Gessner, and
former United States Commissioner
Marion o.. Biggs, charged with IN.
splracy to suborn perjury in connec-
ton with the securing illegally of part
or the public domain.