Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-08-03

Watchman Mccoy were looking for
Mccoy on the night of the murder, and
IT Is generally believed they killed
Moody by mistake.
San Francisco-Military investiga-
lion and a grand jury inquiry have
/ been ordered to solve the mystery of
! the disappearance of nine w~agonloads
OF liquors dispatched from the Moulder
depot to the Jefferson Park hospital
Ctoreroom. The grand ,jury's foreman
raid he would insist on learning what
had become Of the whisky, ever IL he
were forced TO subpoena General
Greedy.
Chieaco-Amatcur swimmers OF the
Porpoise club swan from the Seventy
sixth street bathing beach TO the Hyde
park crib. two miles away. Mrs. Ella
Brown accompanied the men, and
reached the destination ahead OF them,
in one hour and a half. Four years ago
she first learned to swim; now she
holds the long distance record for Chi
cago.
Findlay, Ono attempt will be made
to arrest John ID. Rockefeller when he
lands in New York next Saturday. At
torney Troup, OF Bowling Green, o.,
representing Mr.. Rockefeller, was here
and secured the permission of Prose-
cutor David and Probate Judge Bank
or to enter Rockefeller's appearance in
the latter's court and this was accord
ingly done.
Washington, D. C.-Secretary Shaw
has left Washington for Chicago, Later
he will go TO Iowa, where he will de-
liver an address at n chautauqua near
Des Moines. He also will deliver sew
eral addresses throughout the state
and will attend the state convention at
Des Moines August ~ Mr.. Shaw will
return to Washington about August Is.
London-The thrifty people of Great
Britain deposited in the postoffice saw
ings bank in the year 1905 the sum
OF G42, 300,616. Not more than $50
will be received from any one depositor
In the course OF a year. The balance
due on December 81, 1905. to all de-
positors was G152,111,139, an increase
OF G3,771,7 s6 over the preceding year.
Los Angeles, CaI.-Harry Baker, who
won the title OF amateur featherweight
champion of America last winter, in
the San Francisco flstic carnival, has
been matched to fight frankie Neil,
former bantam champion. twenty
rounds before the Pacific Athletic club
the night of August z, at catch weights.
Doylestown, Pa.-Cows are MIXED
by machinery at the emmett farm
dairy at Ivyland, where there are
eighty cows. The operation is con-
Quoted by steam power. One person
q milk thirty cows al hour, and ii
is said the operation in a measure
solves the farm labor question.
San Francisco-Public schools have
opened for the first time since the fire,
and were we'll attended. AS nearly
thirty school buildings were destroyed,
the schools in some districts are badly
overcrowded and will be ordered or
the half day plan until more facilities
are provided.
Louisville, ky.-John Dedrick Strass-
burg, the oldest postoffice employee in
point OF service as well as in years in
the United States, is dead. He was SO
years of age last June, and had been
in continuous service as clerk in the
Louisville postofiice for the last sixty
three years.
Paris--The announcement published
in London and New York that Prin-
cess Chimay, formerly Clara Ward, of
Detroit, Mich, is dead, is erroneous.
The report was founded on the death
here OF Princess Pierre Caraman Chi
may. wife of the Belgian minister to
Luxembourg.
Chicago--Fred S. Broberg. a promi-
nent broker of Monmouth, ILL.,, who dis
appeared from there last Saturday on
account, it is said, Of q $4,000 short
age in his accounts, committed suicide
by shooting himself through the head
on Lake Calumet. His body was found
In a boat.
Chicago-Corporation Counsel Lewis
complained TO the board of review that
the estate OF the late Marshall Field
had removed stocks and bonds valued
Mt 3d. 33, 900 to New York to avoid tax
alton here. Counsel for the estate
states that the property is not taxable.
Teheran, Persia-Fearing prosecu-
ton on the part OF the authorities dur
Ing the absence of high clergy from
Teheran, S5S students shopkeepers,
artisans, ETC., have taken refuge in the
British legation. The crowd of refu-
gees is constantly being augmented.
Auburn, CaI.-Adolph Weber, ,who
murdered his father, mother. brother
and sister at this place two years ago
I'm order TO obtain possession OF the
family estate OF about $50, 900. was SEN
fenced To be hanged at the Folsom pen
ttentiary On September II next.
New York-Thc strike of the House
smiths and Structural Iron Workers
union, which was inaugurated seven
months ago against the American
Bridge company and the firm of Post
& McCord. was declared Off at a a
meeting OF the union.
Lcndon-Miss Florence Boycc, In
| Bpector Of midwives in Norfolk. re-
| ports to the county council that at
least so per cent. OF the blindness in
this country is due to midwives' care
Iessness and mismanagement OF the
eyes at birth.
New York-William Rockefeller re-
turned from Europe a few days ago by
way OF Quebec. which route he took for
the advantage of the shorter sea trip.
His health Is better than when he went
away. He is at present at his place at
T~arrytown.
observation-disclosures girls em-
rioyed In the shirtwaist factory OF
Putelman Bros. & Pagan went or, strike
because OF the presence among the
workers of a number OF employees dis
tasteful TO a majority of the girls.
Salt Lake City, utah-The socialist
> ntate convention held here nominated
4 Thomas Dalton. of Salt Lake City, FOR
Judge OF the supreme court, and Homer
p. Burt, Of Salt Lake, for congressman