Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-04-27

bear nearly twice as many children
as do American women of native pa
rentage, according to statistics com
piled from the twelfth census, which
also show that as the races become
Americanized the number of children
Is lowered, the first generation Of
the foreign stock almost invariably
showing greater number than the
second
The Colorado house of representa-,
tives has passed a drastic anti-ciga-
rette bill which at the time 1t was in
troduced was considered joke. The
bill makes 1t a misdemeanor to buy,
sell, give away or have In ones pos
session cigarettes or cigarette papers.
Gianna Alongi, accused OF sending
threatening letters through the mails,
was fined 81 900 In the United States
district court at Chicago and taken to
the federal prison at Leavenworth,
Kan, to serve a f1ve-year sentence.
Gold watch cases, said 10 be valued
at $4,000, were stolen from an ex-
press wagon of the Parmelee Trans
fer company at Chicago when the
driver left the wagon standing in an
alley No trace of the perpetrators
of the bold daylight robbery has been
found by the police.
The last word in insurance was
sprung at Dallas, Tex, when the Tenn
perance Insurance company was Or
ganized. The company will insure in
ebriates at so per cent. less than the
regular sober patrons.
Citizens of New Orleans, friends OF
Cardinal Gibbons. have taken steps to
assist the movement started in Balti-
more to raise fund for the erection
OF Cardinal Gibbons memorial hall.
Joseph Clancy, son of an Oswego
IN. W merchant. fell dead on the
brink Of a newly-dug grave in St.
Peters cemetery. He was talking
with the grave digger, who had just
finished his work, when heart disease
ended his life.
That the agreement entered into
by 16 manufacturers of sanitary
enameled ware, charged by the gov
ernment with violating the Sherman
antitrust act. was advantageous to
foh \
to by prominent manufacturers from
various parts of the country at the
bathtub trust hearing.
The report that Booker T. Wash
ington and number of northern
negroes would try to gain control of
the International & Great Northern
railroad, was denied by Emmett j.
Scott, private secretary to the negro
educator
VIII Potter. a negro, was the cen
trail figure in bloody drama staged
at Livermore. Ky, when SO citizens
dragged him upon the opera house
stage and after stringing him up rid.
died his body with bullets He shot
and killed Frank Mitchell, twenty
two years old. white, in quarrel.
Mrs. Matthew T. Scott of Bloom
1ngton, ILL.,, was reelected president
general of the Daughters of the Amer
ican Revolution at Washington, d. G..
by large majority over Mrs. William
S. Storey of New York
New Jersey police are searching fol
clues to the principals in an Ontario
& Western express car robbery which
resulted in the loss of over $1,000 il
cash and the disappearance of $4,000
worth Of valuables at Weehawken.
Personal
A new post will be created a
Princeton, it is reported, to retai1
DR.. Henry Van Dyke Should Dr. Val
Dyke decide to remain 1t is said tha
he will be made dean of religious in
struction and worship.
Victor Morawetz of New York ant
Miss Violet Westcott of Syracuse,
daughter of the late Edward Noye.
Westcott, author of David Harum,
were married at Mayfair, London.
The engagement is announced a
Akron. o., Of Mrs. Burke Roche
daughter Of the late Frank Work. ant
fourth cousin Of B. G. Work of Akron
to Robert Seton Beresford, brother O
Lord Decies. who married Mis-
Vivien Gould.
William A. Day was elected presl
dent Of the Equitable Life Assuranc
society by the board Of trustees a
New York city.
DR.. G. G. Abbott, director Of a.
trophysical observation in the Smith
sonian institution, was presented wit
the Draper medal in Washington 70
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