Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1911-04-14
Ne1us Breuit;es

PHILIP, S. D.-The contractors have
arrived TO ommence the CONSTRUCTORS
| of a municipal system Of waterworks.
HASTINGS, NEB.-Harry Palmer,
! aged %. shot his wife dead and at
| tempted 20 kill himself on account or
domestic differences.
COUNCIL BLUFFS. lathe social
lists of the Ninth congressional district
a. their convention nominated o. III.
| Nudge for congress, to succeed Walter
|. Smith.
WATERFOWL, s. D.-A. Sherin
mas been notified by the clerk of the
supreme court holding up his six
month suspension from practice. The
stay is granted in order to give time
In which to present a motion for re-
hearing.
WINNER, S. D.-Winner has decided
to incorporate and preparations now
are being made to elect a mayor and
six aldermen at the reg uidT municipal
election, April IL.
PARKER, s. D.-Professor A. N.
Wray, of Fairbanks, Ia, a been elect
ed superintendent of the Parker
schools. AT present he is acting in a
similar capacity at Fairbanks.
IOWA CITY, IA.-Finding the house
wrapped in flames and the stairway
gone Ed Mumm, q hired man, jumped
from the second story window, crawled
in on the ground floor and rescued
Mumm and his son.
STORM LAKE, IA.-Rev. d. c..
Macintosh, for the past three years
pastor of the Lakeside Presbyterian
church, has resigned. He is consider
ing a call to the passionate OF h First
Presbyterian church OF Davenport, Ia.
MUSCATINE, IA.-In the midst of a
binding snowstorm lightning struck
the home Of c. G.. Spring, several miles
south Of the city, and the dwelling was
burned to the ground. Members of the
household were stunned, but escaped
without injury, although all the furni-
ture was burned.
LEMARS, IA.--Judge F. r. Gaynor
convened the April term Of the Ply
mouth county district court. The grand
jury was drawn, as follows: ]. r.
Berner, Merrill, foreman; B. F. Bogen-
REF, Hinton; j. r. cambridge, Union;
Michael Kounkel, Stanton; Theodore
Tremen, Meadow; M. Gleason, Port
land; Theodore Hoffman,, Johnson.
VANCOUVER, b. C.-Great Britain
and the United States have agreed to
arbitrate the Webster claim, involving
ownership Of millions Of acres of land
III NEW LGdldIu. lulS vas
yesterday by DR.. j. c.. Findlay, attor-
uey general Of New Zealand, who, with
Sir Joseph Ward, premier OF the COM
m~onwealth, reached here yesterday
from the antipodes, enroute to London.
The personnel Of the board has not yet
been settled.
1OSCEOLA, ARII.-R. L. Ferguson,
marshal of Osceola, was shot and in
stantly killed, and Robert Dean. a dep
uty sheriff, was wounded, probably
fatally, late yesterday near here, when
they oIuca vUIeu ~ arrest nenry CoiueS,
charged with operating a blind tiger"
Coltes was in a boat on the river and
in answer to commands of the officers
to halt, opened fire with a shotgun.
Coltes escaped, but is being pursued.
KANSAS CITY, MO,-Eugene House
Manu., alias Hansmann, formerly a
Methodist Episcopal clergyman, plead
ed guilty to bigamy in the criminal
cou here yesterday and was SEN
fenced to three years in prison. House.
mann has had three wives. His first
wife, who lives in Dixie, Mo, divorced
him. Then he married wife No. 2. A
few days later he met a pretty organ-
list in the local mission and 20 days
later they were married.
THOMASTON, ME.-Death brought
to an early n yesterday the life sem
tence which Sidney Kenneson Preble.
IS years old. was serving in the state
prison here for the murder of his
chum, Norris w. Heath. Young Preble
was but Is years old and weighed only
so pounds, when committed to prison
on September 6, 1907. His health had
failed during his imprisonment. 1t was
fear of q bigger boy that led young
Preble to commit the crime, according
to the lads confession.
NEW YORK-A gray haired woman
Of 6S years appeared before Surrogate
Cohalan and asserted that she is the
widow of General Thomas II. Eckert,
former president of the Western Union
Telegraph company, for the possession
OF whose $4,000, 900 estate two som are
contesting. The witness married Cen
eral Eckert, she said in 1908, and he5
the marriage certificate and q deed
given her by General Eckert to his
home in West -ighty-sixth street, "in a
safe place in Washington, d. c." She
was given until Thursday to produce
them.