Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-02-11
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GRASSE, FRANCE-Louis Edouard
Rod, the novelist, died suddenly Satur-
day soon after his arrival here from
Paris with his family.
LOGAN, IA-Roy Vanderpool has
been sent to the penitentiary for an
indeterminate term for borrowing a
horse and failing to return it.
DUBUQUE, IA.-Arrangements are
being made to honor the Tooth anniver-
sary of the death of Julien Dubuque,
after whom the city was named.
PIERRE. 5. D.-The Indians on the
Cheyenne reservation are receiving
their quarterly annuities, consisting of
SIS for each Indian on the reserve.
SOUTH BEND, IND.-Fire, starting
in the Morning News building, yester-
day caused a loss of several thousand
dollars to the News Publishing COM
pany.
HERMOSA. S. D.-The first baseball
team to be placed on the field in South
Dakota for the coming season has just
been organized here, with L. ]. Behren
captain.
WINFRED, S. D.-The business men
of this place have organized a business
mems club, which already has taken
hold of projects for the upbuiiding Of
the town.
NEW YORK-Seven indictments,
charging grand larceny, were filed by
the grand jury yesterday against the
d~efunct brokerage firm of Tracey & Co.,
which failed on May II, 1908, for ST.
500, 900.
MILBANK, S. oh. L. Smith, who
bought the Grant County Review from
H. s. Volkmar has sold it to H. F.
Denton, of Webster, and will return
TO the Twin Cities.
COTTON. 5. D.-rne local CONNER
cial club is behind a plan for a farmers
stock company to purchase the local
creamery and conduct ii as a coop
erative concern in future.
NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y.-Mrs. Phil
lip Webster, AZ years old, yesterday
gave birth to her 26th child. She was
married at the age of 16. Five pairs of
twins and one set of triplets were in
cluded in the number, but none of them
lived.
LA MANS, FRANCE-Two persons were
killed and seven others seriously injured
! yesterday when a passenger train toppled
from the track into a ravine. The acct
dent was due to the settling of the rails
from under which the roadbed had been
washed by the foes.
NEW YORK-Moses Gutman, a man.
ufacturer of 16 East One Hundred and
Twenty-ninth street, was shot lead in
his apartment on the nrst moor or the
house at 1870 o'clock Sunday morning,
and his son, Isaac, a lawyer, 80 years
old, vas fatally shot by a burglar.
PANAMA-A steamship passenger,
arriving at Colon, from England and
stopping two days at Cartagena, Co
lombia, is now isolated in the Ancon
hospital suffering from yellow fever.
This is the first case of yellow fever
that has occurred here in several years.
CHICAGO-Charles Barnes. an actor,
shot his wife and her mother, Mrs. NJ.
Servoss, at a hotel Saturday. Mrs.
Barnes was shot in the mouth and
through the left wis and Mrs. Servoss
was wounded in the chest. Neither is
thought to be fatally hurt. Barnes es-
capped.
BUTLER, MOO. G. Dickinson, Of
Clinton, a democrat, defeated Philip
Griffith, Of Greenfields, republican, in
the special election in the Sixth district
TO select q successor to the late on
gresham David A. De Almond. OFF,
cial returns have not been given out,
but it is estimated that Dickinson's ma
Jority is about $500.
DULUTH, MINN.-Dr. Marcus b.
Cullum, democratic candidate for may
or, yesterday defeated the present in
cumbent, r.. d. Haven, republican, by
a majority of 791. Eight aldermen were
elected, of whom five are democrats,
two republicans and one independent.
This means the city council will be
democratic, IL to 4, with the independ-
ent member mentioned.
SEATTLE. WASH.-Anxiety is felt
here for the safety of the Alaskan
Steamship ~company's steamer Farral-
lor, which sailed from Valdez, Alaska,
for ports to the westward, % days ago,
and has not been spoken to since. If
the Farrallor is not reported within
a few days the e cutter Scout,
which Is at juneau, will go in search
of her.
LONDON-One Of the most serious
railway accidents in England since the
disaster to the steamer train at Sails
bury in July. 1906, when many Ameri-
cans lost their lives, occurred at Stoats
Nest station, near London, on the Lon
don and Brighton railway, Saturday
afternoon. Eight dead and about 80 in.
jured were taken from the wreck
+. CHICAGO-After having given more
ian 81, 000, 900 to various struggling
colleges in many parts of the country,
DR.. D., K. Pearsons, almost 80 years old,
has announced that he intends to give
away every cent he possesses before he
lies. DR.. Pearsons is reputed TO be
'orth many millions.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Cyrus d.
Foss, retired, of the Methodist Episcc-
pal church. n OF the best known
clergymen in the country, died Satur-
day night in the Hahnemann hospital
from a stroke of paralysis which seized
him while riding In a trolley car Jan
uary Is.
NEW YoRK-A man whom the po-
lice regard as the most important sus-
pect yet taken into custody in connec-
ton with the maniacal murder OF the
SHIRLEY and Tomas boys tive weeks ago
was arrested yesterday. He is Herbert
Jerome Dennison, 81 years old. formerly
on the vaudeville stage as a magician
and only recently discharged from a
sanitarium. Lawrence Casey, a park
foreman who saw the shooting. has
made a partial Identification.
ELY. NEV-Tex Richard the fight