The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-04-06
Crimes and Criminals.

and also to refuse to deliver mail.
Crimes and Criminals.
Harry Haaren, twenty-five years old,
killed Ment Devins, who was beating
his mother at Peoria, Ill.
| Mexican Indians killed seven people
near La Dura, and did not stop their
rampage until Mexican troops crushed
them.
Detectives James Doyle and James
Considene We're stabbed and two
Greeks were shot in a fight at Chi
cago Sunday night
William Moore OF Grand Forks,
charged with the theft of his room
mates trunk, was sentenced to two
and half years in the penitentiary.
Mrs. Vincent Demarco was shot and
killed by her husband in Chicago. She
was thirty years old, and the only sup
port of her four children, it is alleged.
The Drake investigation at Cincin
natl found that over S2,500.0O0 paid
by the city for bonds of it's employees
has gone to ring of high city Off
cial.
Nine convicts escaped from the city
stockade at Atlanta, IA. The deliv-
cry was accomplished by the filing of
a steel bar over window. One of
the men, white man, was captured.
Driven to desperation by letters and
Advertising literature from fake" doc
tors, who had induced him to believe
that he was afflicted with an incurable
malady, Fred l.. Glessing, seventeen
years old, committed suicide at Black
foot, Idaho.
Nine persons were killed and thir-
teen injured when an accommodation
train on the Chicago & Northwestern
railways new branch ran into wash
out on the prairie twentysix miles
west of Casper, Wyo. Most of the
persons killed and injured were work
men on the way to the grading camps
Because he vas Respondent over
loss of health, Samuel Peterman, a
farmer near Sault Ste. Marie. Mich,
placed a rifle to his mouth and blew
out his brains. The bullet passed
through his head and through the
ceiling, finally lodging in pillow I'M
der the head of son who was asleep
without arousing him. Peterman was
sixty years of age, and leaves wife
and five children.
| William ID. Mann publisher of Town
Topics, in New York court, pleaded
mot guilty" to an Indictment charg
ing him with perjury His counsel,
Martin w. Littleton, asked Judge
O'Sullivan to set an early date for the
trial, District Attorney Jerome re-
piled that "The defendant will have
his day in court, when he will be able
to vindcate himself if he can, but the
district attorney will try this case
when he gets ready"
Casualty List.
The total death list in the Fair
mount, Va, mine district is twenty
six.
Hail and cold have killed large
part of the fruit crop in the bud In
Raleigh, N. G.
Mrs. Thomas Marshall and her four
year-old child were bdrned to death
at Prestonburg, Ky.
Fire in a six-story brick building
In Chicago, occupied by several whole
sale clothing merchants, caused loss
of 100000.
The large sawmill at Clay City. KY,
owned by the Swan-Day Lumber Co..
was burned. The loss is estimated at
over 100000.
Frank Thornton dry goods stores de
stroyed eleven buildings The loss is
100000. Several were hurt.
A carpet tack, caught between cog
wheels, caused spark that resulted
In the blowing up of the works Of the
Phoenix Powder company, eight miles
east of East st. Louis, ILL.,, killing two
men,
At Ottumwa, Ia, the J. E. Scase dry
goods store was totally destroyed and
the First National bank, McElroy ho-
tel and w. j. Dolan dry goods store
were greatly damaged by fire of I'M
known origin. The guests in the hotel
were driven from their rooms by the
fire, but no person was injured The
property loss was $4,000.
Fire in the Olson block at Butte,
Mont, resulted In approximately $780,
900 damage to the wholesale stock of
the Passmore Paper company through
the warehouse being flooded with
water.