The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-07-31
Grimes and Criminals.

Frank Johnson, a negro, was hanged
at the West Virginia p%enitentiary In
| M%oundsvile, w. Va, for the murder OF
Mrs. B. Martin at Gypsy, w. Va, on
March 8 last.
David H. Friend was arrested at
Marshalltown, Iowa, on a charge OF
"bootlegging." He was caught. 1t is
alleged, while selling whisky to Iowa
Central employees.
H. Unger, seventy years of age, a
member Of the firm of Unger Bros.
silver manufacturers of Newark. com
mitted suicide. Grief over the recent
death Of his wife was the cause.
Santo Purquo, a laborer employed
by the city of Chicago, shot and killed
his wife and probably fatally wounded
Frank Retrando, whose attentions to
Mrs. Purquo had aroused the husbands
jealousy. .Iss&sJlSkssN'~
James Freeman, aged forty-fve. en-
ployed at the Tamarack mine. went to
the street fair at Hancock, Mich, after
drawing his months wages and was
later found dead. It is believed he
was waylaid and sandbagged for his
money.
A suit case containing stocks, bonds
and other securities valued at $40, 600
and belonging to John Burford Of Chat
tanooga, Tenn, was stolen by a thir-
teen-year-old boy. The theft occurred
in the federal building in Chicago
while MT. Burford was listening to the
trial of a case in the United States
court.
The New York police are searching
for some clue to the mystery of a
double tragedy whereby Ernest block,
sixty-eight years old, is dead with !.
bullet through his heart, and his wife,
Sarah, twenty-seven years old. is dead
from poison, The police believe the
wife first shot her husband and then
ended her own life, but nc motive for
the supposed double crime is known.
General.
The Naumkeag cotton mills at Sa.
lem, Mass, have resumed operations
on full time, giving employment to
1900 hands.
The wool market for Montana was
topped at Miles City Is 5-8 cents for
one clip and 1917 cents for two others.
Miles City will ship about 1000, 600
pounds this year.
Mrs. Susan Turner, wife Of Louis c.
Turner of Argentine, Kan, gave birth
to bankruptcies, three boys and a girl.
The girl died a short time after birth,
but the boys are alive and apparently
healthy. The attending physician be-
lieve- all three will live.
James G. Phelps Stokes, the mill
icnaire socialist. will run for the as
sembly from the Eighth district.
which takes in part of the lower East
side. 1t is announced that Mrs. Stokes
will take the stump for her husband
in the coming fight.
The suspension Of Cameron, Curr,e
& Co. OF New York and Detroit was
, announced on the floor Of the stock
exchange last week. The firm went
, into the hands OF a receiver in Detroi;
last week. Its liabilities at tina, time
} were given at a little more than 81.
o00. 900.
Leslie Carter. formerly president o,
) the south Side Elevated Railroad
| company of Chicago and prominent n
j financial affairs, has been adjudeed
, mentally inconsistent to manauo HI.
) own afsirs. A c~enservator will be
appointed.
: Virginia will soon be represented n
statuary hall in the national capito
BY more than a cheap plaster cast O
Washington. The Virginia legislatiy,
cO0miAsion has decided to ask 70
bids lor . bronze statue OF Washina
J ten. T01s = to be . companio1
zptQCo q IL ooo. Lee statue.