The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-02-15
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capped Harvey Mcfarland, q farmer,
last May, was found guilty by a jury
here yesterday. Three of the jurors
are members of the faculty Of Indiana
university. lobe Snoddy, the first to.
be tried for the whitcapping, was found
guilty last week. The cases of six
others held on the same charge will not
come up until the March term of court.
MEXICO CITY-"For no reason Will
l change my ministers. The members
are patriots. / shall not permit any
OF them to be slaudered as you are
slandering them" In these words
President Madero yesterday brought to
a termination an interview sought by
a committee from the anti-re-election-
lst party, which was attempting to per-
suade him TO dismiss from his cabinet
the ministers Of war and interior.
FORT WORTH, TEx.-That the de-
Tense viii contend that John Beal
Sneed, the Amarillo, Tex, banker, was
mentally irresponsible when he shot A.
q. Boyce to death, yesterday developed
In the trial of Sneed, charged with
Boyce's death. The elopement of Boyce
and Mrs. Sneed rendered Sneed ire
sponsible, counsel for Sneed explained,
IN order to have read to the jury a
letter written by Sneed to w. II.
Fuqua, of Amarillo. after the departure
OF. Mrs. Sneed and the younger Boyce
HOGl ftOElQ. IIG letter JOiu OIL
Sneed's love for his wife, Of his humili-
alton and the effects of the mothers
action on the future OF the children.
Several witnesses testified that Sneed's
victim had made remarks d~erogatory to
Mrs. Snsed.
FORT WORTH. TEX.-Documen-
tary evidence was presented by the de-
Tense yesterday afternoon in the trial
or j. b. Sneed, accused of having muir
dered Capt. A. G. Boyce. ST.. in sup
port of the contention that a conspir-
acy existed among members of the
Boyce family to bring about a a
ton between Sneed and his wife. Let
cling bag, purported to have passed be-
tween the Boyces and other interested
persons, We're introduced. The evidence
included a telegram signed by Mrs.
Sneed n addressed to Henry Boyce,
brother of A. G. Boyce, jr. whose
elopement with Sneed's wife preceded
the killing of the elder Boyce.
NEW YORK-Miss Marie weer, &c
years old, vouched for as the daughter
of a physician formerly attached to
the court of the emperor of Austria,
n Of high social standing in that
country, was arrested last night on the
charge of stealing two $40 bills from a
fellow tenant in the boarding house
where h resided since she came to
this country three weeks ago. When
ararigned in the women's night court
she broke down and told between sobs
of her troubles ince her arrival, how
her money had become exhausted, and
that she did not wish to ask aid Of
her acquaintance.
WASHINGTON-The District of
Columbia, which exercises suffrage
once in four years, in the naming of
delegates to the nominating conven-
lions, had a unique experience with its
republican primaries Saturday. Though
Aaron Bradshaw and w. Calvin Chase,
admittedly Taft delegates, ~triumphed
over Sidney Bieber and John r.
Wilder, who wanted to sc uninstructed,
the result was in doubt long after mid
night, with a prospect hat a contest
would be begun by the defeated IAN
didates. One ballot box was stolen out
right and was not recovered, while Il
] second is in the hands of the police.
NEW YORK-Leaders Of the boy
scout movement gave a dinner last
night in honor of Lieut.. Robert S. S.
| Baden-Powell, leader Of the movement
in England, attended by more thar 600
men and women. man from distant
parts of the country. The function
was the elimination Of a largely at
tended gathering Of the leaders, scout
! commissioners and scout masters here
under the auspices of the rational
council of the Boy Scouts of America to
'tS>e1S PAe9SS VI tHS lLisNS-
ment.
NEW yORK-The Haymarket. a
| notorious dance hall in the tenderloin,
is no more. After a long crusade by
vice eXterminators for the suppression
of the place the commissioner for the
bureau of licenses yesterday revoked
it's dance license. The Haymarkat
probably was the best known of New
Works TOO dance halls, and one of the
remaining reminders of the tenderloin
district as it was years ago. Stun
ming parties frequently included the
HaymarlSet in their itinerary of in
teresting" places to be visited.
NEW YORK-James B.. Duke very
shortly will resign from the presidency
of the American Tobacco company to
become chairman of the British
American Tobacco limited
with it's chief Office in London, it was
announced late yesterday at the Ameri-
can Tobacco company offices. With
this announcement was coupled the
statement that he will be succeeded as
president of the American TobaccC
company by Percival Hill. long a vice
president.
DENVER. COLO.-Denver was
shaken from end to end Saturday night
by the explosion of two large storage
tanks of the Great Western Oil com
pany, situated in the shipping district
when that company's plant was RACED
by fire that for a time threatened sew
eral nearby Industrial plants. The
blaze is believed to nave been caused
by a spark from a passing locomotive
ignlting a tank car.
ST. PAUL, MINN.-Hugh T. Hal
bert. who last night resigned from the
board of directors of the Minnesota
Progressive Republican league follow
ing the boards Endorsement of Sena-
tor Robert M. La Toilette for the presi-
dental nomination before the Chicago
~conventlon,\ Saturday announced his
intention Of forming an organization
Of the supporters of Theodore Roose-
welt in Minnesota.
MINNEAPOLIS, NINA ma anc
a child are dead and another man is
critically i'll as the result of eating
poisoned candy. The lea are: Simon
O'Malley, aged As, a hack driver, ant
Bonnie Reedy, aged 8. Louis Spencer
a semiprofessional baseball player
who lived with O'Malley, is critically
i'll, but it is aid he will recover.
ST. LOUIS, MO.-William Burns wa.