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Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-04-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK IN fPITOMf
Digest Of the News Worth Telling Con.
densed for the Busy
Reader.
All THE CAPITAL.

Reed Knox, son of Secretary OF
State. Knox, has been appointed con-
fdential clerk to the secretary, vice
II. f. Neighhors,. resigned.
An examination will be held in
Washington on May rs, ~ and % OF
such candidates for the consular serv-
ice as have been designated by the
president.
The secretary of the treasury an
nounced the appointment of Charles
Dyer Morton of Chicago as assistant
secretary of the treasury, to succeed
Louis A. Coolidge, resigned.
An appropriation of a quarter of a
billion of dollars is provided for the
establishment of national tubercular
sanitarium in the State of Colorado
in a bill introduced in the house by
Representative SABBATH.
The president announced that he
would appoint Lloyd Bowers to be So
licitor general, vice Henry Hoyt, re-
signed. Mr.. Bowers Is general coun-
sci Of the Chicago & Northwestern
road, with headquarters at Chicago.
The president has announced that
he will nominate Henry A. Wise as
United States district attorney for
the Southern district of New York
to succeed Henry T.. Stimson whose
resignation has been accepted by the
president.
The attorney general of the United
z States has. asked Wade H. Ellis OF
Ohio to continue in his: present pc,
sition OF assistant to the attorney
general, and it was officially an
nounced that Mr.. Ellis had agreed to
do SO.
The safety of passengers on rail,
roads under the jurisdiction of the
Interstate commerce commission is
sought by a bill introduced by Repre-.
sentative Esch. Under the bill it
would be compulsory to construct
passenger coaches with frames of
steel or other metals.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-04-01
SINS AND SINNERS.

Herman Brockman, who is wanted
by the police in Milwaukee,, Wis, on
charge of check forgery, was arrest
ed in Chicago.
Two men, suspected as being i'm
picateo in the robbery of the First
National Bank of Imogene Of $4,000,
were arrested near Whitecloud, Iowa.
George Willard and George Carson,
two of the most notorious bank
sneaks, pickpockets and all around
thieves in this country, were arrested
at Cincinnati
Samuel e. Schultz. broker, former
director Of the open board of trade,
attempted to commit suicide in Chi
cago by swallowing a quantity of car
bolic acid. Dependency over recent
losses in wheat is given az the cause,
Frederick Fl. Richardson, once a
prosperous manufacturer of Elmira, N.
Y. and wanted on charge of emhez-
Element, committed suicide at Harris
burg, Pa, when cornered in his hotel
by the police. Richardson had been
tracked from Chicago to Pittsburg and
then to Harrisburg.
| Gov. Hughes announced that he had
denied the application for executive
clemency in the case Of Mrs. Mary
/ Farmer, who is under sentence of
death at Auburn prison for the muir
der of Mrs. Sarah Brennan at Browns
vile, near Watertown. Mrs. Farmer
will be executed some time next week.
Another killing which the police de-
clare should be added to the list of
crimes of the Black Hand society was
/ committed on street of Brooklyn.
when Joseph Genaro, a cigarmaker
and supposed to be the father of a
vaudeville performer of thai name,
was SHOT anu killed IN fusiiiade Of
bullets thatfollowed a meeting of Ge-
i marc and a crowd of seven Italians.
4 The police made several arrests.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-04-01
FOREIGN.

The aerodome Silver Dart made two
successful flights. starting from the ice
in Baddeck bay at Baddeck, N. S.
According to the London Daily
Telegraph the Argentine republic has
actually placed the contracts for two
Dreadnaughts with German firms.
The astronomer Gaillot announced
before the Academy of Sciences at
Paris that he had discovered two new
planets situated beyond Neptune,
which IS the outermost known planet
of the solar system
Heavy rains resulted in serious
floods in various parts of the repub-
lie of Peru, entailing considerable
damage. A portion of the town of
lea has been swept away by a freshet
and landsldes have stopped traffic
over the Central railroad.
Prince Michael Hilkoff, member
of the council of the Russian empire
and formerly minister of communica-
lions, died suddenly in ST. Petersburg.
To him belongs the credit Of getting
the maximum amount of work out Of
the Siberian railroad during the
Japanese war.
It is reported that 1900 arrests have
been made at Jellalabad, Afghanstan,
in connection with the plot recently
discovered TO murder the ameer, the
heir apparent and the other members
Of the royal family. According to adj
vices patches Of prisoners are being
blown from guns daily.
Sergeant Cortes, his son and Corporal
Richardo, three of the rural guard
who were identified with the late up
rising in Santa Clara province, Cuba,
have been. imprisoned at Fort San
Severino at Matanzas. The remain
der of the band, who are civilians,
have been held for trial in the civil
courts.
Smarting under a chastisement re-
ceived from his father, German Jime-
nez, a lad fifteen years old of Guadal-
ajara, Mexico, took revenge Oh his
parent by loosening a heavy rock in
the wall of we'll which the father
was digging and dropping it down
upon the man below The father was
instantly killed
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-04-01

n was the unanimous opinion OF the
officers that it would be safer not to
take any chances by exposing tnelr
prisoners to the wrath OF the SHARON
populace.
Armed Guard at His Cell.
Mercer, Pa, March %. - Heavily
manacled to Sheriff Chess and guard
ed by several detectives, James Boyle
one of the kidnappers OF little Billy
Whitla, was brought here yesterday
from Pittsburg and lodged IN the
Mercer county Jail. His wife, 1t is
said will be brought here from Pitts
burg today and the couple Will be ior-
mally arraigned on a charge OF KID
mapping in a few days.
Boyle feared violence on his arrival
in Mercer. and on the journey from
Pittsburg asked Sheriff Chess If ne
thought the crowd would harm him.
The prisoner looked greatly relieved
VIXEN he saw only a scattering OF PEG
pie at the Mercer station.
Armed Guard at Jail.
BOYLE was hulrie into a waiting
bus and taken to the jail. An armed
guard was Claccd in front OF Boyle's
! call and a patrolman will be stationed
outside the iail all night Sheriff
| Chess said that the jail would be
| guarded Until the trial of the BoyleS
was over.
Word that the authorities were
| bringing Foyle 20 this place caused
small crowds TO gather at all stations
en- route from Pittsburg. Over 20(
people focked about the train a
! Glove City ard rceCed in the car win
! lows. There we're no demonstration!
CT violence during the trip, but Boyle
! clearl,' slowed he was nervous.
Want Soy in Vaudeville.
Sfaron, Pa. March 2S.-News tina
James H. Eoyle had been removed tt
j tic Mercer county jail at M. GER wa
received Lele with little interest yes
terday Eoyle escaped from the Mel
Ger county Jail se-c:al years age
VIXEN confined there On mino
charge Wien nfol med yesterda
that Eoylc had been returned TO tn
same Jail, James P. Whitla said:
Il hope. they will take every pre-
caut Oh 10 keep him safely. He is
dangerous man in the con- munity"
Since Boyle's escape the Jail ha
been rebuilt and is now considere
safe.
An offer for Willie Whitla to go o.
the vaudeville stage at $1,000 a wee
has been received by his father, VIII
merely remarked:
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-04-01

Cleveland police as the persons who
kidnapped him from the school at
Sharon, Pa, last Thursday and held
him for the $4,000 ransom, which
was paid by his father, Attorney
James P. Whitla, Monday
Willie said the man, who gave the
name of James H. Boyle, was the one
who took him from school and carried
him through a tortuous route to Cleve-
land, then to Ashtabula, back to this
city, and placed him in the house in
the East end, where he was held UNI
til the money was PAID
Woman Acted Part of Nurse.
Willie also declared that the woman
was the one who cared for him at the
house where he was detained and
who acted the part of a nurse.
Boyle said the woman is his wife.
The police have no other Identified
ton of the couple than the names
given. So far as the man is concern
ed, the police believe the name is
correct. Boyle is said to reside in
Sharon and is plumber by trade.
The woman, who is accredited with
being the wife of Boyle, declared soon
after her arrest that her Identification
would cause sensation in Sharon
When the Identification was complet-
ed Mr.. Whitla would say nothing re-
g"rdng the woman. He said he knew
Boyle slightly.S'
Go Before Grand jury.
Immediately after Willie Whit!a
central police station they were token
T, to the county court house and ncGc
appeared before the grand jury. They
were examined for the purpose CT aid
! ing the jury in its attempt to find an
Indictment against the two prisoners
| Immediately after leaving the grand
| jury room Mr.. and Mrs. Whitla, Willie
and the janitor of the Sharon school
which Willie attended, left for Sh.
! ron.
Accomplish Kills Self.
woman known as Mary Diener
who the police say may have been
an associate of the kidnapperS, OF
was implicated i'll the plct. committed
suicide yesterday by drinking NOR
phine. The woman drank the poison
while standing in front of a drug
store in the East end, not far from
the house in which Willie Whitla was
detained. Size died in an ambulance
while being taken to hospital
"That Woman Again?"
Mrs Maud Forker, who is the wife
of Harry Forker, brother of Mrs
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-04-01
BOY IDENTIFIES
HIS k|DNAPPFRS
Man and Woman Arrested at
Cleveland Are Confronted
by Willie Whitla.
ACCOMPLICt TAKES POISON
Suicide Believed by Police to Have
Been Implicated in Plot-Grand
Jury Takes Case.

Cleveland, March 25-n the arrest
here last night of man and wom-
an having $3.50 in their possession
the police believe they have captured
the kidnappers of Willie Whitla In
fact the woman In the case, who is
somewhat befuddled admitted that
she had been responsible for the kid
mapping. When placed in custody at
the central police station she said to
Capt. Shattuck: II am the one who
planned the whole thing. There will
be trouble for ME and hi in Sharon
tomorrow"
Beneath the woman's skirt was
found $500 All of it but $40 was
bound in packages with the original
slips placed on the money when
Whitla took it from the bank still
around it,
Capt Norman Shattuck and Detec-
tive Frank Wood made the arrests
in the East end of the city. When
near the police station the man broke
away from Detective Wood and ran
towards an alley. The policeman fired
two shots from his revolver into the
air and the man stopped The WON,
an made no attempt to escape.
Boy Given Ovation.
Sharon, Pa, March 25-The whole
borough of Sharon turned out last
| night and participated in the demon
stration over the Homecoming of
Willie Whitla, who, with his father,
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-04-01

arrived here soon after noon yester-
day. A big parade was led by the
Bull Independent Rifles, a national
guard company, and the Bull Rifles
band, both named for Willie's uncle,
and thousands of persons marched
behind them through the principal
streets of the town to the Whitla
home, where fully 5000 persons as
sembled on the lawn, cheering and
giving every evidence of the public
participation in the family joy over
| the recovery of the little wanderer.
The band took position on the
front porch of the Whitla home and
| played several selections. In front
room were the Whitla family and De-
tectiye Ward
Whit!a Thanks Everybody.
When calls were made for speech
/ Mr.. Whitla appeared on the porch,
accompanied by Rev. Joseph Mozart
| ney of the First Presbyterian church,
who spoke briefly.
4 Mr.. Whitla then addressed the
throng extending his thanks to all
the officials and individuals who had
assisted in the search for the boy
and expressing the gratitude of his
family and himself for the sympathy
of the people, which. he said, had
done so much to help the family bear
up during the darkest hours of their
sorrow.
i With the singing of the doxology
by several thousand voices the dem
onstration was ended.
ka.appers identified.
Cleveland, March 26.-Willie Whit
/ la yesterday identified the man and
woman held on suspicion by the
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-04-01
OTHERWISE.

p. IA. Hartman has gone TO Paso
Rdbles, Cal. TO take baths at the hot
springs. Hesis troubled with rheuma-
tism.
& Bishop George D. Gillespie Of the
Protestant Episcopal diocese of west
ERR Michigan, died at Grand Rapids
after n long illness. Il. III
The theatrical world is interested in.
the announcement that W. S: Gilbert.
after long rest, is writing a new
opera. The work is to be fanciful in
character, and will deal with fairies.
An interesting report in mining cir.
cles at Republic, Mich, is that the
Oliver Iron Mining company, the big
subsidiary concern which produced all
the Lake Superior ore used by the
United States Steel corporation, is to
manufacture its own explosives. The
plant will be established on the Go.
gebic iron range.
Ignace Jan Paderewski, the pianist,
who returned to New York from Min
Ineapolis, after canceling three con-
l5certs because Of the recurrence OF his
Eold rheumatic trouble, was so much
| improved that no physician was called
in. Paderewski's secretary, t. G.
Sharp, said that the pianist believed
a rest Of a few days alone would be
sufficient to cure the trouble.
The thirty-eighth legislature Of Cal.
|ifornia has adjourned, Gov Giilett
appeared before both houses and
Thanked che members for having
strengthened his administration By
1.-THE enactment Of laws demanded by
1.-the people,
President aft, by executive order
hang The Hing Of the Il q
Sale national forest, In Southeastern
Utah. to la Sal. { to conform to locaI
/ application Of the name Of the Salt
Imountains, called by the Spanish tI.a
lseal. = evidently with reference to the
1tss u aenosite found III the region.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-04-01
COUNTY TREASURER IS GONE.

st. Paul, March 26.-Petcr. w Ehr.
resigned treasurer OF Carlton county,
is missing and a shortage of s3,s52.95
in the county's treasury was reported
Ito Gov. Johnson yesterday by Public
Examiner Anton Schafer.
Last July it is said discrepancy
of $4,000 was found in Ehr's accounts
but this was made good, it is claim
red, by his bondsmen. and he was re-
elected to the Office.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-04-01
Posse Kills Two.

Tucumcari, N. NJ, March 2S.-John
Johnson, a negro, and Sebastian San
doval, Mexican, were killed near
Cuervo. N. NJ. yesterday after long
pursuit by posse. Johnson and San
doval, at the point of rifles, had kid
mapped Juana Sanchez from her I'M
cle's ranch, it being the negros inten-
ton to marry the girl.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-04-01
POISON RIVALS DIVORCE COURT.
Russian Woman Charged With Ris

Russian Woman Charged With Rid
ding Wives Of Husbands for Fee.
London. March 2s.-A dispatch TO
the Daily Mail from St. Petersburg
says that woman named Popova has
been arrested at sanara, charged.
with having poisoned at least 500 per-
sons during the last thirty years.
She N ade business Of Kidding
wives of their husbands for small
Zee
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-04-01
IMMIGRANTS MOVE WEST.

st. Paul, March 26,-About ten spe-
cial full-car consignments of immi-
grants, mostly from Northern Euro
pean countries, have passed through
st. Paul the past seven days. Others
have passed through on regular coach
es. Immigration officials at the union
depot believe that more than 1000
Northern Europeans have gone West
through st. Paul. during the past
week.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-04-01
Student Kills Himself.

Fargo March %. - Said to have
been Respondent over i'll health and
despairing over love affairs, F. Egge
Russell, student of the agricultural
college, yesterday committed suicide
by shooting himself three timss in
the head.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-04-01
suffraqettes,Leave Jail.

London, March 26.-The woman suf-
fragists who We're sent to prison on
account of the demonstrations in par.
lament Feb % We're given an enthu-
siastic reception on release from Hol-
loway Jail yesterday morning.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-04-01
"They will have to go higher thar
Woman Is Identified.

Woman Is Identified.
Cleveland, March 2S.-Chief of Po-
lice Kohler, when shown dispatch
from Chicago identifying Mrs. James
H. Boyle as Ann McDermott, said it
fully agreed with the information he
had, but which he had been unable
to confirm.
Information as to the exact identity
of Mrs. Boyle came through chance
statement made by William H. Beck
er, Cleveland vessel owner. Becker
first suspected the identity of the
woman and arranged later to catch a
glimpse Of her without being seen by
the prisoner.
"she is the daughter of my half-sis.
ter Becker said.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-04-01
CASUALTIES.


The building which IVES occupied
by the Pacific club at Victoria, B. c.
was destroyed, by fire. Loss between
100000 and $4,000.
Half a toothpick swallowed nearly a
month ago was resp onsible for the
death Of William F. Murbach of Bal
timore. Blood poisoning resulted. d.
Policeman Alexander Scott Of Chi
cage shot and Oiled Joseph Finn, a
4 laborer, whom he mistook for Pic
klesn Gilroy, a man being sought by
the police.
4 Fire starting Iii the main ware
4 house Of the Searey distillery at Nc
Brayer, KY. destroyed Is, 900 barrels
sof whisky, valued at. $500. 900 The
origin OF the fire is unknown.
4 The scoasting steamer. r.. D. Inman,
which sailed in ballast from San Fran
cisco for PORTLAND, was driven upon
y DuxbnIy reef during the severe storm
and is q total wreck. Her crew of
twenty one men and officers were res
scued
tornado did considerable damage
III Fort Deposit Ala. The loss was
\ small iii the vicinity Of the town. but
.a4 entire negro quarter on the Nor
wood Ofns Oh place vas destroyed,
III unaber Of occHp pants Of houses
a.inJnxsds
rhe rgest lire which billings has
~, NJ
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-04-01
Mother browns Babes and Self

simsbury, Conn, March 26. = The
bodies Of Mrs Amos Miller and her
two children were found in the Farm
ington river yesterday morning The
children had been tied together before
drowning ensued.
Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-04-01
PERSONAL

George A. Finch of the District of
Columbia has been selected by Sec
rotary Knox as secretary to the Ii
IBERIA commission.
Former Congressman William Con-
nell,3 coal operator, capitalist and
philanthropist, died at Scranton, Pa,
as the result Of paralytic stroke.
b. e. Eohne, vice. president of the
Southern National bank and widely
known hnancier Of Louisville. is dead.
His father was an officer under Napo-
leon.$
Dr. Ferdinand Carl Hotz, noted in
this country and abroad as a writer
on opthalmology, died at Morton
Grove, ILL.,, of pneumonia and heart
failure.
Col. Henry Cakes Kent, prominent
in national politics for many years
died atAhis home in Lancaster, N. HI.
after a long illness, aged seventy five
years.
Charles H. Kurtz, director of tbs
Buffalo Fine Arts academy, died in
Buffalo, He was director of the arr
department Of the Southern exposi
ton: in Louisville.
Wolf Face, Il noted war chief of the
Cheyennes, died at his home neal
! Colony. Okla. He was nearly 10t
\ years old. His battles included
Washita, Black Kettle and Sand.
Hills.
Prof Theodore P. Ion, who hold
the chair Of international law in Bos
ton university, has been sent by tn,
Greek government TO Omaha, to in
+ vestigate the recent, Greek riot ii
South Omaha. 5ss
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-10
Random Shots.

shot an arrow into the air, it fell
in the distance, | knew not where,
till neishbor said that | killed his
calf, and | had to pay him six and
half (s6.50). T bought some poison
to slay some rats, and a neighbor
swore that it killed his cats and,
rather than argue across the fence,
/ paid him four dollars and fifty cents
($4.50). One night | set sailing a toy
balloon, and hoped 1t would soar till
1t reached the moon; but the candle
fell out on farmers straw, and he
said | must settle or go to law. And
that is the way with the random
shot; 1t never hits in the proper
spot; and the joke you spring, that
you think so smart, may leave a
wound in some fellows heart.-Em-
poria Gazette.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-10
STATE OF ONO, CITY OF TOLEDO, 6.

FRANK j. CHENEY makes oath that he Is
senior partner OF the firm OF +. CHENEY Il
Co., doing business in the City of Toledo,
County and State aforesaid, and that said
firm will pay thesum of ONE HUNDRED DOL
LARS for each and every case of CATARRH
that cannot be cured by the use of HALLS
CATARBH CURE. FRANK }. CHENEY.
Sworn to before me and subscribed IN my
presence, this 9th day OF December, A. d.,
1856. A. W. GLEASON,
lsEAL.) Notary Public
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally and
acts directly on the blood and mucous sur
faces OF the system. Send for testimonials,
free. +. j. CHENEY Il Co.. Toledo, U.
Sold by all Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-10
Ice caverns in Greenland.

1t is well known that during the
warm season water from the melting
OF glacier ice runs down through the
crevasses to the lower end of the gla-
cier, where, making way for itself
it forms a river underneath the ice
In the Arctic regions this phenome-
non sometimes assumes extraordin-
ary Importance. Says this paper:
The Danish expedition Of Mylius'
Erickson to the northeast coast OF
Greenland, discovered and explored
there immense caverns formed in this
way. They were more iAan a mile
and a quarter long and G5 feet high
When the cold season returns, the
rivers that form these caves cease to
flow, but the caverns remain in their
majesty, ready to receive the new
streams that will start when the ice
begins to melt again.-Literary III.
gest
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-10
Tho Century.

The March Century is to be q
white House number" having in
addition to Calvin Dill Wilson's story
of "Our Presidents Out of Doors" and
William II. Crooks "reminiscences of
Rutherford b. Hayes in the White
House." three sketches Of President
elect Taft. James A. Leroy has
written of taft as Administrator"
picturing his traits and methods as
revealed by his work in the Philip
pines and there will be an anony-
nous study of "The Personality OF
the New President" Under title of
Turning Points in Mr.. Taft's Ca
reer" will be published, for the first
time, two letters. in one Of which
Mr. Taft sets forth reasons for de-
clining to be considered for the pres
idency of Yale, and in the other dis
cusses his appointment on the Phil
ippines Commission.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1909-03-10
WHALING A Thing OF THE PAST.

masters of the vessels. The boathead-
er was in command of the boats when
they lowered for whales, and at other
times he was an anomalous figure
aboard ship.
"The disasters of 1871 and 1879 de
stroyed the vessels by wholesale, the
Shenandoah preyed upon them, and
the ice pack picked them off one by
one. To the ever-present foes of nature
the United States government contrib
uted its menace to the investment, and
so ends another incident of the bravest
industry in which daring men ever en-
gagged"