The Tabor independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1913-19??, 1913-05-29

NEWS BREvITlES.

| Bradshaw, of Ellsworth shot and
killed Ferrica Martinez, a Mexican
suppressing a riot among Mexican
laborers. The Mexicans had been drink
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HAzELTON, PA.-About $500. 900 in
back pay will be given anthracite mine
workers as a result of decisions
rendered by Charles p. Neil, commits
sfoner of labor statistics, as umpire on
by the anthracite Cancellation board.
The miners won a victory In three or
four cases submitted to the umpire.
JOLIET, ILL.-"We will tar and
feather you and drive you out OF town
and punish o as you have punished
our children" was the threat received
] n an anonymous letter by Violet John
son. 9 young school teacher in Chan
nahon, q village south of here, The
affair Is said to have been the result
Of Miss Johnson's attempt TO keep
discipline in the room, which, 1t Is said,
has been notorious for disorder. "
SEATTLE. wAsH.--charlie Louis
and James Ralston, accused Of con-
spiracy to smuggle opium, were ac-
Quilted by a jury In the United States
district court, after a trial lasting three
days. Ralston,t who was arrested in
Portland. Ore. March @, with q trunk
In his possession containing $500
worth of opium, will be taken to Port
land to stand trial there on a charge
OF smuggling. IE s. aa; -
NEW YORK - Bishop Crosswell
Doane. bishop of the Albany diocese of
the Protestant Episcopal church, died
at the Hotel Manhattan in this city
shortly before / o'clock this morning.
He was 81 years old. s- g.. .5]TE
WASHINGTON.-The Brazilian gov
eminent has by decree extended until
the end of the current year the pre-
ferential treatment of American flour.
cement and other articles. ,&4r v :
ATLANTA, Ga.-For the first time
In the history of Presbyterianism the
four grand divisions of the church, the
northern. h southern. the united and
the associated reform, Joined yesterday
AFTERNOON In a union communion serv-
Ice. Participating were more tina
5000 communicates, including delegates
and commissioners to the pan-Presby-
terrain pentecost and laymen from
every section Of the United States.
EVERETT, Notwithstanding at a.
telephone in the home of her aunt at
stanwood. Mrs. Henry Garra8, a lodg-
Ing house keeper of Seattle, heard her
divorced husband kill himself last
night in a telephone booth in Everett,
% miles away.
CHICAGO.-Mrs. Augusta Dferz was
held by a coroner jury to be respon-
slole Tor or to have guilty knowledge
or, the death of her husband. George
II. Dietz, a fashionable woman' tailor.
VINO was found dead April IA. Dietz
pody was found In his bedchamber, his
skull isl with a heavy hammer.
JOPLIN, Mo.-After John Thralls,
a miner, shot and killed Edward Skei-
ton, a local republican politician ana
former city councilman, in the latter's
store here last night. q mob OF several
hundred men formed and threatened
to lynch the slayer. After arresting
Thralls, the police held him for a time
"a an alley, and later in custody Of
SIX OFFICERS he was taken to the Jail at
Carthage, Mo-, in an automobile.
Observation-Disclosures against five
clairvoyants charged with obtaining.
chiefly from women, sums ranging
from small amount up to 81, 900 for
revealing he future" were returned
by the county grand jury. Professor"
Mason, who, according t. charges, was
one of a gang of fortune tellers that
harvested fortunes in Chicago, under
ALLEGED collision with certain police Of
nclals, was the only new name mem
toned in the, indictments.
WASHINGTON. The enormo,,.
growth OF the 1.-THE and mission funds
OF the Seventh Day Adventists of the
world since the organization of the
general conference In 1861 Is indicated
by the report of the treasurer, w. T.
Knox, presented at today's session of
the Q~uadrennial conference being held
at Takoma Park, Md. The total tithes
aggregated 81, 49S. $40. while the mission
fund amounted to 81. 763,1 7S.
SPRINGFIELD, MO.-A band ~
armed moonshiners. owners of a wan
der1ng" Illicit still In the Ozark noun
/ fAlna nf ptTIAxy 2
flight before a posse Of federal officers
VINO left Springfield yesterday to raid
the still, according to word received
here last night. The moonshfners are
reported to have crossed into Oregon
count holly pursued by the posse.
81. LOOlS;-The Southern Baptist
convention chose Nashville, Tenn, as
the next place Of meeting and fixed
Day IL. 1914, as the date.
PITTSBURGH-The bankrupt estate
or Harry K. Thaw was ordered re-
opened by the retarer In bankruptcy
upon submission oil a petition Of Roger
OMara, former trustee, to the United
States district court.
CLEVELAND. OHIO-The four and
hve story buildings occupied by a stor-
age company's warehouse and a whole
sale OIL company were wrecked Satur-
day night by fire of unknown origin
with a loss OF about $4,000 90.
CHICAG O-Indictments against
Christian p. C~"Barney'O@ Bertsche and
James Ryan, alias Prof" Charles p.
Crane, and the suspension of 1--we de-
tectives said to be connected with the
crime trust, mark results In the in
v~estigation OF the alleged c~lairvoyant
swindles.
SHANGHAI-Sixty- seven farmers of
Shen Chow Ting, in western Honan.
who had resisted attempts of the SOL
diers to destroy their crops of opium.
were burned to death In a building
where they were holding a meeting.
according to a dispatch received here
by the North China Daily News. The
dispatch adds that the soldiers started
the fire.
DENVER-William Schultz, aged "a.
formerly a divinity student at Com
cordia Lutheran college in St. Louis.
was arrested here to face the charge
Of having stolen $500 from the col
lege publication. Alma Mater. Schultz
declares he took the money in order
to have funds with which to marry
Miss Thelma Gillion. The wedding, he
says, took place two days after the
admitted embezalement.
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