Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1907-03-14

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The railroad station at Wilburton, I
-. was blown to pieces when robbers
ldynamited the safe. They secured only
cents.
M. "A. Conley, formerly member OF
the Illinois legislature, was sentenced
to three years In prison for burglary
committed at Salt lake.
Burglars forced an entrance into a
store in st. Louis and got away with
$4,000 in checks, $500 in cash and
about $3.50 worth of merchandise.
James Crichton, an artist, twenty.
seven years Of age, whose home Is ID
Washington, D. c., committed suicide
In New York. Crichton shot himself
in the head.
Suffering from insomnia and fearing
that eventually he would become In
sane, DR.. l. L. Pine, one of the leading
physicians of Tama, committed sui
eide by shooting.
Henry Woolerfng, eighty years old
and wealthy, committed suicide at
Tama, Iowa, by firing bullet through
his head. Ill health is thought to have
furnished the motive for the act.
Sam Kranbe, a prominent business
man of Houston, Tex, was assassi.
mated while leaving a house with Off.
GERS where they had been searching
for men who had assaulted Kranbe
the night before.
Casualty.
Fire at Leroy, ILL.,, destroyed eleven
business buildings, causing a loss OF
b75,OOO.
Mrs. Jacob Tumbridge was run over
by street car on Brooklyn bridge,
New York, and killed.
Fire at Dubuque destroyed the build
Ing occupied by the Dubuque Harness
and Saddlery company. Loss. $4,000.
The Carnegie library, municipal
building and fire hall at Sault Ste.
Marie were destroyed by fire. Loss,
$4,000.
Two young sportsmen, while on an
excursion to Mount Santo Angelo,
slipped and fell to the bottom of the
mountain. Both were killed.
While a wake was in progress in
Milwaukee the funeral decorations
caught fire from candle and caused
a panic among the mourners.
A passenger train ran into an open
switch at Enid, Okla, and was derail.
ed. The fireman was killed and sew.
eral passengers were injured.
While engaged in harvesting ice
near Maron, Mont, ]. H. White was
struck by string of cars and was so
badly injured he died four hours later.
Hans Drella, aged thirty-five, fac
tory hand, was killed by fall from
the top of stepladder while oiling
machinery in Smiths box factory at
Clinton, Iowa.
Owing to the extreme slippery con-
dition Of the sidewalks at Menominee,
Mich, a large number of serious acct.
dents have occurred. At least twelve
persons have sustained broken arms
or legs.
Twenty cakes of blasting powder
exploded at grading camp in the out.
skirts of Kansas City, Kan, with such
force that it broke window panes
within radius of twenty-five miles.
But one person, woman, was in
jured. She was not fatally hurt.
Section men on the Clover Leaf
railway found Joseph Hobson sitting
beside the tracks near Granite City,
Mo-. trying to bandage up the stumps
of both feet. He had been riding the
bumpers Of freight train. He lost
his hold and fell between the wheels,
both feet having been severed.
BY the explosion of 1000 pounds Of
dynamite in the store house Of the
Richards colliery, near Mount Carmel,
Pa, two score of persons were injur-
ed, one of them, Lewis Dowie of Mount
Carmel, fatally. The explosion caused
damage to the extent Of $15O,000. The
cause of the explosion is a mystery.
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