The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1906-01-04
Sins and Sinners.

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Leonard Imboden and James A.
Hill, bankers, have been found guilty
of conspiring to wreck the Denver
Savings bank.
Will Carter. a negro, was hanged at
Wilmington, N. c., for a criminal as.
sault upon a ~six-year-old white girl at
Wallace in November last.
Andrew Rods of Butte was sho,
three times by a colored highwayman
who attempted to snatch his watch
and pocketbook. The robber made
his escape.
Austin Francis Of Kansas City
charged with the murder a month ago
of Winona Newton, his fifteen-year.
old sweetheart, was found guilty OF
murder in the first degree.
w. f. Mahaffy a prominent and
well-to-do citizen of Dallas, Tex. com
mitted suicide by tying a wire around
his neck, a rope around his legs, and
jumping head foremost into a we'll.
-Four robbers blew open the safe i1,
the bank at Baldwin, ILL.,, battled des.
perately with citizens and escaped in
a buggy. Nobody was hurt in the
street fight. About $4,000 was taken.
Michael j. Sullivan, aged SO, a road
master for the Grand Trunk railway,
was shot from ambush when he an
swered a rap at the door Of his house
at Monroe, Mich. 1t is thought he
cannot recover
After agreeing to make no denial it
let off with fines, the ."brick trust
cases came to an end in Chicago.
Each of the nine defendants fines was
$4,000. Certified checks for $18, 900
were paid in court. The indictments
charged conspiracy to restrain trade.
The negro district of Beaumont,
Tex, recently was the scene of a
triple tragedy. Byron Berriett, a mo-
torman, and Elisha Perita, a deputy
constable, being shot and almost in.
stantly killed by Henry Powell, a 49,
year-old negro, who vas in turn killed
by Deputy Sheriff Trevis.
Former Aid. Robert L. Rudolph
who was convicted at Milwaukee a
month g of soliciting a bribe of
$1O0 from ex-City Attorney Charles H.
Hamilton in 1901, has been denied a
new trial. Argument is now being
heard on a motion to defer sentence
pending reference of certain questions
to the supreme court.
Advices received at the Office o.
| SI1nf PAor,or saf ~. AYa.Al...- MN
at Spokane say that not more than
$500 in cash was secured by the band
it's who robbed the North Coast lin
tied train near North Yakima, but
they secured a large amount of nego.
table paper, value not yet ascertain
ed. The Northern Pacific Railway
company has offered a reward of s4,-
600 for the arrest Of the robbers and
the state officials a reward Of 81, 900.
Domestic.
John A. Burbank, aged 70, formerly
! territorial governor of Dakota, died at
his home in Richmond, Ind, after q
brief illness.
Clay Neville, a farmer living v
miles from Curryville, Mo-, commit.
ted suicide from worry over having
more money than he could invest.
Mayor Fogo of Wellsville, Ohio, has
given orders to the police that no ar
rests for drunkenness be made on
Christmas day. The offense will be
excused in honor of the day.
Richard Hodgson, LII. D., one of the
foremost authorities in the world on
p~sychical research, died suddenly of
heart disease while playing handball
at the Union Boat club in Boston.
According to a private telegram,
Rev. William A. Sunday, the e]yangel-
list, died of heart failure at Burlington,
Iowa. He was forty-two years old and
at n time a member of the Chicago
National league baseball team.
After having run his engine past
eight stations at the rate of sixty
miles an hour without a single stop.
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railroad officials had Engineer Charles
M. Warren removed from his cab at
GAINESVILLE, Wis. 1t was found that
the man had gone insane.
A petition has been filed in the
United States court of appeals at Gin
cinnati in behalf of Mrs. Cassie T..
Chadwick, asking for a rehearing Of
her case on the ground that the court
allegedly did not consider the errors
assigned by her in her first and fifth
assignments of errors. The petition
was filed by Attorney Francis J. Wing
of Cleveland. The court will not take
any action on the petition for rehear.
ing before Jan. 1.
"A sensational robbery in which the
robbers stole about $4,000 worth of
jewelgy, occurred in the jewelry store
of Mrs. Mary Liggins AT Philadelphia.
Two men entered the store while Mrs.
Ligigns was alone, knocked her down,
bolted the door and proceeded to rob
the place. They were interrupted by
a policeman and fled through a back
door, taking all sorts of jewelry with
them. Mrs. Liggins was found uncon.
scious. There is no clue.
Mrs. Miller, the aged mother OF
Joaquin Miller, the poet, died at the
poets residence, The Heights" a
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