The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-07-30

Frank Johnson, a negro, was hanged
at the West Virginia penitentiary in
Moundsvile, w. Va, for the murder OF
Mrs. B. Martin at Gypsy, W. Va, on
March 8 last. rs1l IA fsf%lGEA4
David H. Friend was arrested at
Marshalltown, Iowa, on a charge or
"~bootlegging." He was caught, it is
alleged, while selling whisky to Iowa
Central employees.
II. 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 10
Mrs. Purquo had aroused the husbands
jealousy.
James Freeman, aged forty-five, en-
ployed at the Tamarack mine, wen 20
the street fair at Hancock, Mich, after
drawing his months wages and was
later found dead. 1t is believed he
was waylaid and sandbagged for his
money.
A suit case containing stocks, bonds
and other securities valued at $4,000
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 Mr.. 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 stock,
sixty-eight years old, is dead with 4
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 no 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 SIS cents for
one clip and 1914 cents for two others.
Miles City will ship about 1000, 900
pounds this year.
Mrs. Susan Turner, wife Of Louis C.
Turner of Argentine, Kan, gave birth
to q~uadruplets. 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.
ionaire 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 takethe stump for her husband
in the coming fight.
The suspension of Cameron, Currlc
& Co. of New York and Detroit was
announced on Che floor OF the stock
exchange last week. The firm went
into he hands of a receiver in Detroi;
last week. It's liabilities at that time
were given at a little more than 81,
o00. 600.
Leslie Carter. formerly president OF
the South Side Elevated Railroad
conpany of Chicago and prominent in
financial affairs. has been adjudged
mentally incompetent to manage his
own affairs. A cc~nservator win BIZ
appointed.
Virginia will soon be represented II
statnary hall In the national capito
by more than a cheap plaster cast o
Washington. The Virginia legislativ,
commission has decided to ask 70
bids for . bronze statue Of Washing
ton. This is to be a companion
piece ~ the Cen Lee statue.