Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-05-25
Domestic

Domestic
Impressive ceremonies marked the
unveiling Of the memorial to Major
L'Enfant, the French engineer who
laid out the plans for the city of Wash
ington, at Arlington. President Taft,
Senator Root and the French ambas-
sador, M. Jusserand, delivered brief
addresses.
Six negroes held for the murder OF
a white man were lynched at Lake
City, Fla, after party Of more than
a dozen men, masquerading as officers,
appeared at the county Jail and got
possession Of the men by presenting
bogus telegram to the sixteen-year-old
son of the sheriff. ordering the release
Of the blacks to the alleged posse.
The Boston Wood Carvers' associa
ton will send $1,000 to aid the $50
wood carvers on strike at Grand Rap.
ids, Mich.
Fire which for an hour endangered
the entire Kansas City stockyards and
the Live Stock Exchange building. de-
stroyed sheep pens covering square,
burned 1000 sheep and partly de-
stroyed two mule barns.
The Illinois state senate adopted. 80
to 10. the resolution Of the Helm COM
mittee declaring that William Lorimer
would not have been elected to the
United States senate in May, 1909,
had 1t not been for bribery and cor
ruption, and asking the national upper
house to reopen the Illinois scandal
To this resolution was added an
amendment criticizing those senators
who bolted Albert ]. Hopkins, the pri-
mary nominee. to succeed himself.
Following the bringing of 10 suits
against former state banks Of Okla
homa which have "nationalized" since
the recent special one per cent. as
sessment for the guaranty fund, suits
were brought against IA more banks
to recover the amount of the assess.
ment,
A strike begun in New York four
months ago by union of bank clerks
employed in private banks on the
East side has ended in victory for
the strikers. They win a 52-hour
working week and a Is per cent. ad.
vance In wages.
The revenue CATER Tacoma sailed
from Seattle. Wash, for Attu, the
most westerly of the Aleutian islands,
carrying Smithsonian institution
scientific party which will gather
specimens Of birds, mammals. flowers
and rocks.
Col. Henry o. Seixas, we'll known
and a director in many prom
inent industrial corporations, commit
ted suicide in Central park, New York
city, by shooting. He was badly hit
In the collapse of the Columbus and
Hooking pool.
A sensation has been caused at
Lockport. N. T., by the arrest of two
seventeen-year-old school boys on a
charge preferred by Avery Murphy.
fourteen years old. who says they tied
him to a tree and attempted to burn
him alive in Indian fashion.
The Commercial Review Of Port
land. Ore. says that the outlook for
= bumper wheat crop in the Pacific
northwest states is favorable The
three Pacific northwest states will
raise 63.775.000 bushels. 1t IL pre-
dicted.
Former President Roosevelt has an
article on "The Arbitration Treaty
With Great Britain" in the Outlook IN
which he says the United States ought
never to bind itself to arbitrate ones.
tions respecting It's honor. indenend.
ence and integrity.
Beginning July 1, the Wells-Farro
Express will displace the Pacific Ex.
press company on the Missouri Pa.
cific. st. Louis, Iron Mountain q
Southern, Texas & Pacific and Wa.
bash railroads.
Postmaster General Hitchcock, i'm.
pressed b. the reports Of the success.
ful operation Of the postal savings
system. has decided to designate here.
after. for considerable time. 100 ad-
ditional postal depositories each week
instead Of so. ~ announced month
ago.
n collision between motorcycle
and m automobile at Rsdlands. Cal
Gerald Purvis. : chauffeur, WAS killed
and Porter Adams. son Of Charles a
Adams. : wealthy Bostonian, Wa ..
vsrsly injured
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