Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1908-06-25
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WSeI'ldJ RlopASIOlsE VI luSyE lpoIelih6
works at Independence, Iowa, hanged
herself In buggy shed while tenn.
rorsrily deranged.
Horace and Harvey Waters, the
twin sons OF Mr.. and Mrs. j. M. Wat
ers Of Clarinda, Iowa, have been muir
dered In Alaska, according to advices
received by the parents.
George Genery, keeper of the north
light on Grand Island, Mich, is miss
ing and his assistant, whose name has
not yet been learned, is dead, the re-
suit, 1t is alleged, of foul play.
What is believed to have been a
murder and suicide was disclosed
when the bodies of Frank Ference
and Mrs. Margaret Litz were found in
field near Mofristown, N. j.
A man who registered at the Hotel
Irvine in Chicago as wv F. Ford"
committed suicide by inhaling illumin-
ating gas. Dependency due to tinan-
cial troubles is believed TO have been
the motive.
Prescott Boynton, an old Union sol
der, was arrested at Knoxville, Tenn,
and Is held for the authorities in Man
itowoc, Wis. He is charged with the
embezzlement of $4,000 of United
States bonds and also with grand
larceny. The crimes are alleged to
have been committed in 1904, and
Boynton has since been leading the
officers merry chase.
Developments indicate that City
Treasurer Harry A. Axtell OF Bloom
ington, Ind, is short in his accounts
about 100000. OF this sum his irreg-
ularities is secretary of the Real Es-
tate Building association amount to
$40,910 and the books of the city treas
urer are said to be short $1,000. Sc
curities bearing the signature of his
mother-in-law amount to $11,3O0.
Casualties.
The entire lumber plant of the Kent
Lumber company at Honns, La, was
destroyed by fire. The loss is esti-
mated at 100000.
While working on the railroad near
Paragon, KY, Noah Fugate and Oban-
ion Parry were killed and Talman
Triplett fatally injured by an explo-
sion.
A passenger train was wrecked by
spreading rails near Madison Mills,
Ohio Engineer Joe Floyd was killed
and Fireman George Koniger was
seriously injured.
While stepping into the skip in No.
2 shaft of the Tamarack mine at Cal
umet, Mich, George Bookovich, a
young drill boy, slipped and fell to in
slant death in the bottom of the mine
Charles Herbert was killed, Harvey
Lace fatally injured and Edward
Pfeffer seriously hurt at the launching
of small river steamer from Squaw
Island into the Niagara river at Buff
falo, N. Y
The Foster mine pit at Marquette,
Mich, filled with water, proved
death trap for Michael Harrington,
aged thirty-two of Ishpeming. He
had fallen into the big excabation and
drowned.
Bryan Pfautz, Lisbon, Iowa, twenty
three years old. an engineering stu
dent of the University Of Iowa, was
drowned in the Iowa river at Iowa
City, Iowa. His canoe struck sub
merged tree.
s A premature explosion of dynamite
occurred at Chambers Bros camp,
east of Winnipeg on the Grand Trunk
Pacific construction work, Nine mem
bers of the gang were killed and sew
eral Others were injured.
The entire plant, of the Continental
Oil company at Albuquerque, N. NJ.
with the exception of the office build
ings was destroyed by fire. Nearly
100000 gallons of coal oil, gasoline
and naptha were destroyed. Loss.
$4,000,