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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-06-04
Jury Listens to Burning Mis-
sives Penned by MaybelIe
Smell Mcnamara.
WORKED OLD MAN TO FINISH
Letters Fairly Reek With Passionate
Appeals to the AnorOus Old
Millionaire.

Clinton, H., May %. = The cele-
| brated "Maybelle letters" with all
! their wild flights OF exotic passion, at
| last have found their way into the
hands of the jury which will decide
the fate of the 100000 Smell estate
One glimpses at the burning mis-
sives, which were read behind closed
doors, disclosed the secret of the
| strange hold which Maybelle Smell
| Mcnamara had on the old millionaire,
who was wheedled into parting with
! her favors.
With the submission of the famous
affinity letters from Maybelle, the
graDdniece, and Mrs. Hamilton, the
clergyman's wife, and the presenta-
tion of the final witnesses, the con
testant closed his case.
Satisfied that adequate testimony
had been presented to convince the
jury that Col. Smell was insane, the
contestant decided not to call alien
lists.
Probably the most important letter
in the possession of the contestant re-
lates to an appeal made by Maybelle
Smell Mcnamara to Col. Smell to sell
certain bank stock.
Urged to Sell Bank Stock.
Renovated and expurgated, this let
ter reads in part as follows:
My Own Dear Darling: l am 60
ing to ask you a great favor one that
may entail certain financial loss to
you, but OF far more Importance to
me. I want you to sell your Emporia
bank stock. Now, darling, won't say
no, as it means SO much to me. You
konw we can't have any fun together
as long as you are interested in any
business over in Emporia.
Darling, it is my passionate love
for you that prompts me to make such
request of you.
Il wish that you could be here now
to press your dear lips to mine and
say: Darling, it shall be as you ask
I wish that l could place my arms
close about you, draw you close to
me and tell you how empty life is
without you.
with millions Of passionate kisses,
am Your Baby"
Stirred Diseased Brain.
There is another long letter which
fairly reels in Historically affection
ate appeals to the amorous old mil
lionaire. This is the sort of letter
which experts who have been ques-
toned assert worked upon the dis
eased brain of Col. Smell until he
was not able to control himself. In
the progress Of eXpurgation half Of this
letters was eliminated. Part Of the
remainder, however, follows:
''My Dearest Darling: I believe,
dearie, that l grow more affectionate
every day. 0 but do miss you and
your tender little pets and caresses.
Don't you realize how much they are
to each of us? Nothing was ever so
nice or so good as the way you and
love each other"
Maybelle's letters probably have
brought her greater financial returns
than the best selling book Of the
most popular author. 1t is conserva-
lively estimated by relatives of Col.
Smell that 100000 would not cover
the cost Of gifts in cash, real estate
and clothing which he lavished upon
her.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-06-04
STORM SPREADS
RUIN IN ITS PATH
chicago Swept by Fiercest Gale
in Seven Years-Consider.
able Damage Is Done.
GROWING CROPS LAID Low
Kansas, Illinois and Iowa Farms Suffer !;
Two Killed and Many Injured,
Some Fatally.

Chicago, May 80. - A gale of wind
which reached greater velocity than
has been recorded in Chicago for sew
IN years last night preceded an cleo
rlcal storm which did considerable
manage In various parts of the city.
several persons were injured by de-
'ris blown from buildings by the gale
md church and half score Of other
buildings We're struck by lightning.
! The high wind, which reached a We
oclty of sixty-eight miles an hour,
crippled telegraph and telephone
wires throughout the city. For a short
lme the city was almost cut off from
communication with the outside
world.
Growing Crops Ruined.
An electric storm, accompanied by
high wind and heavy downfall of
'aln, swept the central part of the
'tate yesterday afternoon, causing
great carnage to the growing crops,
lprooung giant trees, putting tele-
phone and telegraph wires out of
commission and possibly costing the
life Of one man.
Tho principal buildings at Wonder
and Fark at Quincy were blown away
md many small buildings were demol-
shed.
George Werner was killed by light
aing during the storm. The country
'outh of Quincy was swept by tor
aado and fifty dwellings, and outbuild-
ngs were demolished. No one is re-
ported killed.
One Killed; twenty-five Hurt
topeka, Kan, May 80. = A terrific
WIND storm Of almost the proportions
of tornado which passed over the
southern part OF Jewell county last
night killed one man and Injured
twenty-five persons, seven Of them
probably fatally.
The storm took everything in its
path and scattered a number of
houses, barns and small buildings
over the prairies. The property dam
sse Will amount to thousands of dol
ars and the damage to the growing
crops is large.
Stock Killed; Crops Damaged.
Burlington, Iowa, May so. A Sc
'ere wind and rain storm struck
southeastern Iowa Yesterday Re-
ports of much damage are coming in.
Many valuable trees were blown
down. Barns were wrecked, out
houses leveled, chimneys demolished
and stock killed Or injured. No re-
ports of fatalities have been received.
Heavy Damage in Oklahoma.
Guthrie, Okla, May 30.-Tornadoes
that swept over the country adjacent
10 Hennessey and Cashon brought
great damage to crops and farm prop
erty.
Two persons are known to have
been injured, ten dwellings and sew
eral barns and cutbuildings were de-
nolished and several hundred head Of
horses, cattle and other stock were
killed. The storm did inestimable
damage to crops and farm property
IN the adjacent country.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-06-04
Sins and Sinners.

Jacob Liffren, a Muscatine. Iowa
Policeman, was shot twice by Bert
Boke, an insane man. Liffren will re-
cover. Boke was shot through the
left leg.
Within an hour after being released
from jail at Marshalltown, Iowa
where had served a short sentence
Arthur 7. Wegle Of st. Louis was re.
arrested On charge of obtaining
money by false pretenses.
Boyd Stone, white man, was shot
10 death by Henry Fowler, negro, in
the neero's home, one mile west of
Greer, S. G. Fowler is said to have
killed Stone because OF Stones at
tempt to assault Fowler's wife.
r.. G. Peters, formerly pay clerk on
The steamer Rainbow, who was arrest
ed at Manila on May IL on the charge
of embezzling $4,000. pleaded guilty
and was sentenced to three years and
four months in Bilibib prison.
Mrs. Ernst Terwilliger was found
dead in her room at Newark, Ohio,
having been choked to death. During
the day her husband, Ernst Terwilli-
ger, was arrested on suspicion Of hav-
Ing committed the crime and later he
made a confession.
J. 0. Davidson, cashier of the Wood
vile (Miss.) bank, committed suicide
at Natchez., Miss. While it is alleged
Davidson had been specializing in cot
ton futures and had lost heavily, it is
that the bank will not be
in any way affected
An inquest over the remains of a
man found in the creek near Salburv,
Me-, resulted in the positive identifi-
cation of the body as that of B. M.
Blcom, bank clerk. who absconded
three weeks ago, after a shortage in
his accounts of $4,000 had been dis
covered. 1t is said Bloom committed
suicide.
Suicides by boys and girls between
The ages Of ten and nineteen years in
creased nearly 5 per cent between
1900 and 1906 in thirty-seven Ameri-
can cities of 100000 population or
over. This was the appalling fact es-
abolished by statistics gathered by the
Chicago bureau of statistics and just
published.
Mae G. Wood, the woman from
Omaha who sued Senator Thomas G.
Plat for divorce, alleging that she
was secretly married to him in 1901,
was released on $4,000 bail in New
York. Miss Wood is charged with
perjury in the testimony heard in
court last week. When the bail bond
aad been made out Miss WOOD signed
1t Mae G. Wood Plat.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-06-04
From Other shores.

Senior Don Augusta B. Laguia has
been elected to succeed DR.. Pardo as
president Of Peru.
Henry Farman, the British aero.
tnaut made two flights of 1900 meters
In his aeroplane at Client This is
The greatest distance yet accomplish
ed in a straight line.
The Morocco foreign board has is
sued orders to the governors Of all
ports in Morocco to refuse permission
to land to Mulai Hafid's ENJOYS re.
turning from Berlin.
Count Rottaro Costa, who Is at pres.
5ent serving as italian minister at
Stockholm has been promoted to the
rank of ambassador and will be sent
to Toxic to succeed Count Callina.
A dispatch from Tangier says that
Gen. Bagdani, commander Of the
forces of Abd-el-Aziz, is in full retreat
toward Rabat and that his army had
been reduced by one-half by deser.
lions.
The report that the port OF La
Guaira would be reopened in the i'm
mediate future is considered at Will
lemstad, Curacao, to be premature, as
1t is unofficially stated that another
case of bubonic plague has occurred
there since the issuance of President
Castro's decree
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-06-04
MAKE RAID AT FRENCH LICK.
Officers Directed by Governor Are
ForestaiIed by Warning.

French Lick Ind, May 80. = Gam
bling places here were raided last
night by officers acting under orders
of Gov. Hanley and Attorney Generai
Bingham. A number of police in plain
clothes, accompanied by several well
known citizens, appeared at the Ca
sine and other places where gambling
has fiourished and were allowed TO
entered after threatening to break
down the doors. warning mad been
wired from Indianapolis that the Off
GERS were coming, and yesterday aft
ernoon it was announced at the gam
bling places that all business would
cease. The paraphernalia was hauled
away from the buildings in wagons,
and when the raid was made last
night nothing was found.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-06-04
600 CHILDREN IN PANIC.

Dynamite Scare Almost Causes Dis
+ astcr in Chicago School.
Chicago, May 30.-Rumors that an
Italian secret society had formed a
plot to dynamite the Dante school at
Ewing and Desplaines streets caused
a panic yesterday afternoon among
the 1,700 pupils in the school. About
GOO of che ! children became panic
stricken and fled from the building
Many OF them were knocked down
and slightly bruised, but none Of them
was seriously injured.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-06-04
SOLDIER IN CABINET.
Gen. Wright May Be Chosen to Sue.
coed Secre+arv w - Taft

Gen. Wright May Be Chosen to Sue
coed Secretary w. H. Taft.
Washington, May 30.-The fact that
Information is refused by responsible
parties in regard to the accuracy of
the statement that Gen. Wright has
been selected to succeed Secretary
Taft upon the retirement Of the latter
from the war department goes far to-
ward confirming the belief that there
may be and probably is foundation for
the story. The latter was in Wash
ington about two weeks ago and
!unched with the president. when it is
presumed the possibility of his selec-
ton was preached to him.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-06-04
HAIL BEATS OUT CROPS.
Great Damage Follows Visit Of cy

Great Damage Follows Visit of cy-
cIonic Storm at Armour, S. D.
Armour, S. D., May pa terrific
rain and wind storm visited this sec
ton last night, lasting six hours and
doing more than $4,000 damage in
this locality. Over three inches Of
rain fell and hail beat the growing
crops into the ground. Hundreds Of
window lights were broken out OF the
side next to the storm, and two tall
chimneys on the Armour high school
building were wrecked and went
crashing through three floors to the
basement The damage to the build
ing amounts to $4,000. Cyclonic clouds
formed in the vicinity of Platte, thirty
miles away, and Travelled at the rate
of eighty miles an hour.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-06-04
General.

President Howard Elliott Of the
Northern Pacific railroad, while pass
ing through Detroit, said that crop in
aications were better than ever be-
tore in the Northwest.
Peter +. DALEY. For thirty years ono
Of the best known and best Loved COM
adams on the American stage, died OF
pneumonia in his apartments at the
Auditorium, Chicago.
North Carolina was carried for
state prohibition last week by ma
lority that is estimated at from 10000
20 $4,000. The prohibition ticket was
carried In seventy-eight out of the
ainetyseight counties.
Mems clubs connected with Sioux
city churches have organized an as
sociaticn to be known as the Fedora
lion Of Christian Brotherhood. The
aew club, which starts off with a
membership OF more than 1000, will
u once .naugurate campaign for the
Sunday closing Of pool rooms and
skating Kinks.
AS a result OF the old prosecutions
of the Waverly, Iowa. doctors BIZ
Charles w. Miller. chairman Of the
Democratic state central committee
md editor Of the Waverly Democrat,
Dr. j.. r. Auner called Mr.. Miller to
account In a fight In which both COM
,attants were injured 4. The fight took
place In the principal street OF the
Isity.
District Judge Corcoran ruled that
he, Hastings brewery at Hastings,
! Neb., can continue to- manufacture
land sell beer under wholesale Ii
Tense. Hastings at a recent election
fotsd for prohibition and the saloons
lave been closed. The case will be
lappealed.
That the Upper Michigan strawber-
Il ~ crop will be record breaker this
iapring IS indicated by advices which
sos1se from the arious farming dis.
ll,icss where raising the fruit is pur-
,uit that has attained large propors
ions.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-06-04
Thousands Of Acres Flooded

st. Joseph, Mo-, May 3O-Reports
from Maryvtlle, Oregon, Tarkie and
other Northwest Missouri towns are
to the effect that thousands of acres
of lowlands have been flooded. Most
of>his land had been planted to corn.
and the damage is heavy.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-06-04
GEN. STEPHEN D. LEE DEAD.
Had Record of Having Ordered First

Had Record of Having Ordered First
Shot 60 Be Fired at Fort Sumter.
Vicksburg, Miss, May 80. Lieut.
Gen. Stephen D. Lee of Columbus,
Miss, commander-in-chi of the Unit
ed Confederate Veterans, answered
his last roll call at o'clock yesterday
morning Cerebral hemorrhage was
the cause of his death.
An incident in connection with Gen.
Stephen D. Lees military career not
generally know is the fact that he di-
cected the firing of the first shot of
the Civil war. He was one of the two
officers Of the South Carolina troop
sent by Gen. Beauregard to demand
the surrender of Fort Sumter, and on
the refusal of this demand he ordered
the first battery to fire on the fort.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-06-04
FaIIieres at the Opera,

London, May 80. Covent Garden
was Respondent last night in brilliant
decorations in honor of the coming of
the king and queen of England and
the president of France. 1t was a
gala opera night by the kings com.
mand, and Media and Tetrazzini sang.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-06-04
Valley Is Flooded

Marshalltown, Iowa, May 29.-The
expected food in the valley of the
Iowa river through Central and North,
ern Iowa, which resulted from the in
cessant rains Of the last three days.
reached here yesterday, inundating
much Of the river valley.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-06-04
chicaooan is Father of %.

Chicago. May 20. James Allen
Monroe, well known as shipper of
cattle and better known as the father
of twenty-seven children, was the re-
cipient yesterday of enthusiastic con
CALCULATIONS when his friends learned
Of another addition to his already am
pie family.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-06-04
Eight Lives Lost in Flood.

Muskogee,. Okla, May ga negro
family, consisting of eight persons,
was drowned near Werber Falls, on
the Canadian river, thirty-fve miles
southeast of Muskogee during the re
cent food. They lived In hut on
the river bank and were caught in the
rapid rise of the water.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-06-04
ROSS FINED s57e, os4.

Portland Banker Also Sentenced to
Five Years in Prison.
Salem, Or, May 30.-Judge Burnett
in the circuit court yesterday SEN
fenced ]. Thorburn Ross, the Port
land banker, to five years imprison-
ment and to pay a fine Of $576,O94.
Ross recently was convicted Of
wrongful conversion Of state school
funds in his capacity as president Of
the Title Guarantee and Trust COM
pany.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-06-04
! Ex-cHlEF COLLINS FREED.
Conspiracy Charge in Chicago Ends
in lAcuujttaI,

Chicago. May 2a-Former Chief of
Police John NJ. Collins and Former
Police Attorney Comerford were yes
terday acquitted Of the charge of con
spring to deprive the city Of the
services of its employees. 1t was
charged that both men had been ac-
tive in using the members of the po-
lice force to further the election OF
Edward F. Dunno for mayor in the
last municipal campaign.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-06-04
New York Has Heat Wave.

New York. May 29.-New York suf-
fered from a heat wave yesterday.
The weather bureau thermometer
reached Sc degrees, making it the hot.
test May % since 1880. The heat was
responsible for two deaths and sever
al pcostrations
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-06-04
Two Miners Are Killed.

Calumet, Mich, May 2s.-Two men
were killed by stick of timber
which fell 5000 feet in No Z shaft OF
the Calumet & IIecla mine The dead
men are Peter Gugliemlo and Peter
Cicotte. both Italians
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-06-04
EXPLOSION Fatal to Four.

Lisbon, Ohio, May 2e.In a mine
explosion at Gainesville, near here.
three men were killed outright and
one man was killed by a falling pipe
after he had been dragged out of the
mine by the rescuers.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-06-04
GOES HATLEss FORTY YEARS.

seVenty-year-oId Messenger for Candy
Factory Dies of Heart Disease.
st. Louis, May %. After having
served as errand man for a local can
dy manufacturing firm for forty years
Jacob Cross, seventy years old, who
during his years of service was never
known to wear a hat, died yesterday
from heart disease. He ALWAYS went
about hatless, summer and winter, re
CARELESS of the weather.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-06-04
Wonan Kills Herself.

Appleton, Wis, NJ ay %. This coro-
snelss jury last night returned, yer.
dict that Mrs. Carrie Shaw Of Horton.
vile, Wis, whose body was found IN
! a mill pond a week ago, met her
death by suicide. S
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-06-04
Mcintyre Indicted AGAIN.

New York, ay -Four indict
ments charging grand larceny. were
returned by the grand jury yesterday
against Thomas. A. Mcintyre, head Oh
the suspended iirm of II. A.. Mcintyre
& Co.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-06-04

Claims He Was Robbed In Hotel.
East Grand Forks. Mimi. May s0.--s
Carl Zimmerman had Albert Johnson
and James Murphy ARRESTED yester.
day on q charge OF robbing him Of
s22.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-06-04
People Talked About.

Philip L. Allen, editorial writer OF
the New York Evening Post, is dead
OF typhoid fever.
Prof. Oswald Redlich of Vienna uni
versity has accepted an invitation to
lecture at Harvard in the spring Of
!. 1909.
David B. Henderson. veteran the
atrical manager and producer, died at
q sanitarium in Chicago after a long
illness.
Brig. Gen. Evan Miles, retired, u.
s. A., is dead in San Francisco. Gen.
Niles served with distinction during
the Civil and Indian wars and later in
Cuba.
Brig. Gen. Alexander Mackenzie
chief OF engineers, has been retired
on account of age. Gen. Mackenzie
had the distinction of being the old
est officer on the active lis.-Sand the
one Of longest service.
An offer to become the director of
public works of the city of Stockholm,
Sweden, is being considered by City
Engineer John Erickson, who for
twanty-four years has been in the
service Of the city of Chicago.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-06-04
RECEIVER FOR HlPPopRoME.
Financial stringency Causes Failure
of Cleveland Company.


Cleveland, May 30.-A receiver yes
terday was appointed for the Cleve-
land lHippodrome company on appli-
cation of one Of the stockholders. The
proceeding is said to be friendly. The
company has capital stock Of ST."
100000. The financial stringency
made it difficult to raise new funds
needed. The theater company is not
affected by the receivership.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-06-04
Accldental Hapnenlnos

mines at Calumet, Mich.
Two persons are dead and another
perhaps fatally injured as the result
of railroad accident at Olive Hill,
Ky.
John Sharpless, John Miles and a
young Englishman named Richmond,
all OF Nelson, B. c., were swept over
the falls IN the tpotenai river and
persisted.
Patrick Brannon, a prosperous farm
/ or who lived four miles north Of New
Hampton, Iowa, was killed Instantly
BY lightning whom returning home in
his buggy. & Z:
Fire, as the result OF lightning, de-
stroyed the barn and outbuildings of
w. HI sedgwick's farm, near La
mobile, Iowa, together with all its
contents, causing q loss Of $4,000.
While climbing tree from which
he expected to shoot birds, Gus Klutz
Of Waterloo, Iowa, lost his hold and
fell forty feet, sustaining injuries that
caused his death hale an hour later.
Gas escaring from an open Jet In
the kitchen OF his home in Chicago
caused the death OF George Roberts
and his daughter, nineteen years old.
Indications were that the escape Of
gas was accidental.
Horrible indeed was the death met
3 by Samuel James Prout, q seventeen
3 year-old boy living at Wolverine,
Mich. After being missed several
hours 4 search was instituted and his
hods vas found il; y eesspooi.
suicide Of unusually spectacular
nature occurred IA New York when q
swon,a an Of efnement, jad ging ~ hey
n general appearance ga from the
ROOF of - even-story building and
Allied On the pavement below
i ihas not been iilenti tied
crime N ooseselt val
hSovsii roIi, horse while jump
lsgs assF1 Is 4 sfse t'ount ry club horse
81 81 hoI ing upon her and
| ||s iug III ankle Miss Roose
III ting IS the ladies' hunt
The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1908-01-17
IT'S BURNED To DEATH
Opera House at Boyertown, Pa.
Burns During A Church
Entertainment.
WHOLE TOWN IN MOURNING

During a church entertainment
in the Rhoad's opera house at boy
ertown, Pa. last Monday night, a
fire broke out which destroyed the
building and burned 175 people to
death. SO far as can be learned
there was about 425 persons pack
ed in the room which is located on
the second floor.
There was about sixty five per-
sons, all local talent, on the stage,
who were giving a performance of
Scottish Reformation. The enter
tainment was nearly over, the
audience was waiting for the cur
tain to 60 up on the last part when
something went wrong with the
calcium light placed on a small
platform near the entrance of the
building.
When the fire broke out the
audience became panic-stricker
and rushed to the one exit, which
opened inward. The crowd file d
the doorway and 1t became i'm.
possible for those in front to oper
one of the doors.