The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1912-10-10
Neus Breu;nes

have
been made by Postmaster General
Hitchcock for the engraving and man
ufacturing of q series OF u stamps,
unique in size and novel in design, for
exclusive use In the forwarding Of
packages by the parcels post. Under
she law recently enacted by congress
ordinary stamps cannot be used for
this purpose.
WESTINGHOUSE the terms of an
alliance between the New York Central
lines and he Western Maryland road,
day, coal from the Pittsburgh district
will be laid down In Baltimore and
other eastern tidewater destinations in
competition with coal from Virginia,
West Virginia, kentucky and Tennes-
see fields.
INDIANAPOLIS, IND-Gov. Thorn
as r. Marshall has directed his forces
against the promoters Of the Mineral
Springs Jockey club. which has COM
pleted a track and intends starting a
race meet In the middle OF October at
Porter, Ind. The governor directed At
torney General Honan to file suit to
en1oin h club from opening its meet
as scheduled.
WASHINGTON-The hight before
the supreme court OF the United States
by the railways within the Chicago
stock yards to escape regulation By
the Interstate Commerce commission
was begun when attorneys for the rail-
ways fled a brief in support Of their
contention that the interstate COM
merce laws to do apply to stock yard
roads.
AMARILLO. TEx--Tears welled In
the eyes Of John Beal Sneed, the
for the first time, when his attorney
referred to the once happy home Of
the sneeds and It's alleged ruin by thu
man he killed here on September IA.
Heretofore, Sneed has listened UNI
moved to h arguments.
CLEVELAND, OHIO - Municipal
ownership and operation OF a telephone
adopted unanimously by h city oun
ell last night It calls upon Mayor
Baker and Director Of Public Service
Springhorn to investigate the question
of public ownership and operation OF
one or both Of the systems.
SAN ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS for
an alternative writ Of mandamus d.
recting the secretary of state to place
on the November ballots as republican
electors pledged to Taft" was fled
here late Monday, with the state SUI
preme court Preliminary arguments
on the petition probably will be heard
tomorrow.
SAN FRANCIsCo-It is said an I'M
identified bandit believed to be the
person who held up two cars on the
San Francisco-San Mateo line nearly
two weeks ago, was shot and killed last
night after q spectacular holdup and
pursuit. AL Kaufman, a special po-
liceman, was wounded by the bandit,
but not seriously.
CHICAGO-A dramatic scene was
enacted In the rooms OF the civil SER
vice commission, when Patrolman Fred
e. Brandt, a member OF the police de-
a bride OF 90 cents, was stripped of
his star and termed a disgrace to the
police force by Assistant Chief of Po-
lice Herman F. Schuettler.
PENSACOLA, FLA.-William M,
Bell, the ~19-year-old bank clerk who
confessed to stealing the package OF
$4,000 from the First National bank
States commissioner Wednesday after
o. He declared he had no accom-
plices. His bond a fixed at SIS, 900.
MESSINA-The volcano Stromboll
again is in eruption. Cinders, ashes
and in~candescent sand are being eject
ed from nine CraterS and dust is falling
in quantities over the surrounding
country n outlying islands. Vine-
yards and crops generally are suffer-
ing heavily.
WILMINGTON, DEL.-The Central
Fuel Oil company, an oil producing
company in Oklahoma, chartered In
this state, was Monday adjudged q
bankrupt by Judge Bradford in the
United States district court. Liabilities
are placed at $13, 307,6 S6.23 and assets,
$2,5 29,5l4.46.
CLEVELAND, oH1O-Two men In
an automobile. armed with revolvers,
last night held up and robbed DR.. and
Mrs. John K. Tressell, of Alliance,
While they were motoring to this city.
Shots were fired by both parties. III
Tressells. as they escaped, were pur-
sued by an ineffective fusillade.
MARQUETTE, MICH.-Capt. Henry
Richardson and his crew Of 16 narrow
ly escaped death Friday when the
steamer Culligan sank in Lake Super
ior. 20 miles west of Grand island. The
hours in small boats until rescued by
the fishing tub Columbia.
NEW YORK-Wallace Willett, an
expert on sugar statistics, testified that
he received $25 900 for three weeks in
negotiating for Henry o. Havemeyer
the president of the Utah Beet Sugar
company, which eventually was bought
over by the American Sugar Refining
company.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Judge w.
M. Conley, of MADEIRA county, was
named by Acting Governor Wallace to-
day to preside over the trial of Clar-
ence S. Darrow in Los Angeles when
the second charge of jury bribing
against the Chicago lawyer is called
October q.
NEW YORK-When the city tax
books were opened to the public yes
terday, it vas shown that real and
personal property assessable for 1913
totals in value slightly more than ST.
$4,000, 600, an increase of nearly $780,
000,O 900 over the figures for the present
year. =
SACRAMENTO - Advices received
by Secretary of State Frank c.. Jordan
today stated that the necessary sigma
lures to petitions for placing Roosevelt
electors on the November ballot had
been obtained in the various counties.
The last of the petition will reach the
capital. tomorrow.
KANSAS CITY,. w. Springer, a
farmer Of Burlington Junction, Mo-,
was victimized by two strangers here
yesterday to whom he entrusted 81, 276.