The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-08-09
.T%ELE6RAPHlC BRIEFS


PHILADELPHIA. Pa.-Mrs. Laura HAM
mel. an inmate OF the Fran,seard y
jn,n for the insane, was given some
Farn and some modern knitting needles.
She crocheted a rope and with
hanged herself. She had been afflicted
with suicidal mania for a year, u the
asylum physicians eVe suspected the
suicidal possibilities in a skelE of yarn.
San Francisoo--Dr. Erne Ruther-
ford, an authority on radium, says It
will not cure cancer or any other dis
ease.
tional Democratic Chairman Taggart
Is negotiating Tor properties at Elk
celsior Springs, Mo, and also for a
pleasure resort in mississippi has been
taken by his friends here to mean that
he will abandon the French Lick re-
ernor Hanly has assumes toward him
and the methods practiced at West
Baden n French Lick.
Chicaso-John A. Cooke, former clerk
of the Cook county circuit court, who Y
has been on trial for several weeks on
a charge of stuffing the pay roll, was
found guilty by the jury and his pun
tshment fixed at Imprisonment in the
pe~nitentiary and a fine of $4,000. The
Judge before whom the case was tried
will determine the length of the peni-
tertiary sentence.
Spokane, Wash.-Two holdups of the
Northern Pacific railway in Montana
last year, nine murders and several
desperate robberies are to be charged
against Johnny Mclean, a halfbreed
Indian, as soon as he is released from
the Walla Walla penitentiary, where
ha Ia Saryinu a Naart for 9~ftalnnta6 MR.
der.
Denver, Colo.-The Argentine Gem
trail railroad to the summit Of Mt. Me-
Clellan on Gray's peak has opened for
traffic. This road reaches a point a.
est traction road in the world with the
exception Of the Peruvian Central In
the Andes.
Berlin-Duke Ludwig, of Bavaria,
who is rs years old, his in
tention to his second NOR
ganatic wife,, whom ne married In 1892,
IN order to contract a third morganatic
marriage with Fraulein Tordek, a
young prima donna of the Royal opera
house at Munich.
New York-vessels sailing in the
gulf stream, bound north, are making
more speed these days than they eve
have known since the day they wero
launched. The current is running so
strongly hat it is almost like adding
q small engine and propeller to sailing
power.
Charlotte, N. CAS- w. M. Brown
was boarding the train with his bride
for a wedding trip at Besemer City, he
was shot and killed by John NJ. Kin
caid, who, it is claimed, was avenging
his sister whom Brown Tilted although
he was under obligations TO marry her.
Milwaukee-The Daily News says
that Governor Davidson will appoint q
commission to investigate the Dietz
situation at Cameron dam. 30 h
present at least there is no intention
on the part of the executive to send
troops to capture Dietz.
Colombo new case Of smallpox has
been reported here since July 10. Thir-
ty-tive cases and one death a been
recorded since July 8. The outbreak
appears to be under control, due to the
precautions of the United States medi-
cal officers.
Newport, r. Harry Lehr attacked
a young photographer who had taken
a snap shot of him in front of the
Casino. Lehr grasped the young nan
by the throat and dragged him into a
store, and her offered him SIS for the
negative.
Peoria, lli.-In o letter to Mrs. l.. A..
Kinney, Of this city. who sent the pres
ident a clipping concerning his can
didacy for a third term, Secretary Loeb
reiterates the presidents determina-
ton not to again seek the presidency.
Tokio-A new telegraph cable, via
O--1 Il ! -lN~- - It,,~- -,
munication between Japan and the
United States, has been opened to the
public. Bonln Is on a group Of Islands
off the coast Of Japan.
Omaha, Neb.-Omaha and Lincoln
ticket brokers are putting up a vigor-
BUS fight against the allied railroads
which are seeking a federal i%njunc-
ton to restrain them from dealing In
transferable tickets.
Chicago, Ili.-Receiver Hately, Of
Zion City, has made an appeal for on
tributions for the aid of the needy OF
the community. Donations have fall
len off materially since trouble began
In Zion City.
Teheran, Persia-The grand vizier.
whose ultra-reactionism made, him very
unpopular, has been dismissed. He OPP
posed the granting of reforms, which
resulted in popular demands for his
dismissal.
Buffalo, N. Y.-The American FEEDER
alton of Catholics recommends laws
granting limited divorces in states
where no such laws exist. Limited di-
vorce is to be granted only in extreme
cases.
Paris-Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler.
president Of Columbia university, has
been made an officer Of the Legion Of
Honor. on the nomination Of Senator
Baron d'Estournelles de Constant.
Newbure, N. Yin a schooner "A,
feet long and 10 feet wide, w. D. Bal
ley and w. Radcliffe. of Mansfield, Pa,
are going to max the 15,O00-mile trip
over the seas to New Zealand.
Dayton, Oh. n. Weakly, publisher
of the Evening Herald. and one of the
well known newspaper men of the
state, died at his home here. He was
SO years old.
~Chicago-This city now has a day
and night ank similar to the one re-
gently started in New York. The work
ic divided into three shifts Of eight