Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1907-04-25

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store OF Smith & Nixon at Louisville.
The loss is estimated at 100000.
Four persons were killed and several
injured. in an accident on the Philadai-
phia &. Western railroad at Philadel-
phia.
While burning brush on her moth
ers farm two miles from Terrill, Iowa,
Rachel Bergeson, deaf and dumb, WAS
burned to death.
Max Beilenberg, mail carrier, was
burned to death at his home in Mar
quette. Mich. 1t is not known how the
fatality happened.
Adelia Meisner of Dubuque was
probably fatally burned while cleaning
her gloves with benzine. The fluid
igniteA from lamp.
In a collision of two automobiles in
New York Leo Swatts and George A.
Dutton suffered conclusion OF the
brain and internal injuries.
The Rippey building, one of the
largest and most important structures
at Baker university, Baldwin, Kan,
was destroyed by fire. Loss. $4,000
Fire which started in the Second Re-
formed church at Hackensack, N. j.,
destroyed the structure and six build
ings which stood near by. The loss Is
estimated at $4,000.
Gustaf Werala, miner. was fatally
injured by picking at an unexplOded
charge of giant powder underground
at the Franklin mine at Houghton,
Mich. He lost one leg, three fingers on
one hand and one on the other and one
eye was destroyed. He cannot live. A
partner sustained slight injuries.
Criminal.
Michael Goldsmith, secretary of the
Ohio Federation of Labor, was arrest.
ed in Cleveland. charged with embez-
cling $500 from the Bartenders' union.
George McClain. well-to-do farmer
living near Bangor, Iowa, committed
suicide by using shotgun. He had
been in poor health and became de
spondent.
Henry G. Bailey was hanged at the
state prison at Wethersfield, Conn. He
killed George III. Goodale, who EN-
ployed him on small farm near Mid
| dleon, July 6, last.
Four Japanese who had succeeded
| in crossing the river just below II
Paso, Tex, were captured at Sierra
| Blanca, 100 miles east, and were talked
to Ell Paso and lodged in jail. They
will be deported.
Rev. Frank Riley, formerly mem
Der of the South Carolina Methods
| conference, committed suicide at his
home in Atlanta, Ca, by turning or
| the gas. Dependency induced by IL
| health is believed to have been thu
| cause.
George McLane, well known farm
er, sixty-five years of age, living neal
| Bangor, Iowa, leaned over a shotgun
| and put charge into his heart aftel
| returning home from a days spor
| wolf hunting. He died instantly 1t j.
believed he was demented.
The sequel of the shooting of five
! white men and two negroes at Bunlkie
| La, last Sunday, was the lynching CT
| the negro Charles Strauss few days
later. A party of masked men tool
him away from the deputies who hat
arrested him, and it is said that the
deputies offered no resistance.
| Paymaster John Irwin of the navy
| who was tried on the charges of ne
| glect of duty, making false return:
| and embezzlement, has been acquitted
| OF the charge Of ENLIGHTENMENT bu
| found guilty of the other charges
The court sentenced him to dismissal
| The president committed the sentence
| to reductioL of fifteen points.
| Domestic.
/ Members of the Masonic order at In
dianapolis have raised fund OF $500,
/ 900 with which to erect temple.
The New York assembly passed witt
but one dissenting vote the bill provid