The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1913-01-31
IMPORTANT NEWS SUMMARY


William Coogan, a laborer, fell down
an elevator shaft from the twenty-ninth
floor OF the Union Central building at
Cincinnati, and died nine hours later
re which destroyed a large part
OF the business section OF Larned,
Kan. caused a loss of 5000, 900. Sever
buildings in the main street were deI
stroyed.
Mrs. Bette Horton, a negress. said
to have been one hundred and six
years old, n found dead in bed by
her granddaughter. Mrs. Lena Blue, at
Springfield, Ill.
In q midwinter thunderstorm of un-
precedented severity. lightning struck
8 large barn on the farm Of Mrs. Anna
b. Smith. rear Georgeto Sn. ILL.,. killing
two horses and burning the building.
Four mon were killed in an explo,
sion at the Equitable Powder COM
pany lear Fort Smith. Ark. Their
bodies were blown to atoms. The ex-
plcsion occurred in a machine used TO
press the powder.
Harry II. Sutro. a young man en-
ployed by a water fltering company,
but who also had literary aspirations.
cut them short by Jumping from a
seventh story window of a. apartment
house In New York.
John N. WHY'S of Toledo. Ohio. has
purchased The Praying Pilgrim" one
OF Rcmbrandt's greatest paintings.
The picture Is valued at $3.50. 1000. The
canvas was bought at the sale of the
Maurice Kann collection in Paris.
The Rockefeller Founda ion incor.
poration bin passed the house al
Washington by q decisive majority,
although several attacks were made
on II and efforts were made to adjourn
tho session to delay action on the bill.
The United States broke its export
and import records in 1912. Imports
last year were valued at 81 1917, 622. 3i0
as against 1882, 539. 100 in 1911. while
the 1912 exports were 81, 1893 1885,. 937. OF
about 5000. coo. 900 more than the 1911
record
Nine passengers were injured when
the Canadian Western express struck
a spreading rail- ana was ditched eight
miles west of Wynard. Sask, M. J
Johnson and his son, w. s. Johnson
of 2437 South Emerson avenue Min
neapolls. were among the injured.
The court OF appeals at Albany ha:
dealt a severe blow to the ~so-callec
loan shark business. 1t held illegal
the practice Of exacting additional
sums from borrowers under the guisc
OF payments for expenses incurred II
drawing up OF papers and examining
titles TO property.
Within seven hours after he hat
shot and killed Chief of Police Charlie:
Dickey al G%ulfport, Miss, Percy New
kirk, a negro. who had been trapped
by the officer In the act Of robbing
store, was indicted. tried on a charge
OF murder, convicted and sentenced L
be hanged in one month.
An agreement by which the wage.
OF 1000 employees in the shops OF thu
Wabash railroad are increased six e
ten per cent. was reached al a con
ference held between Z. f. Needham
superintendent OF locomotives anC
cars of the Wabash. and other officials
OF the road and a committee represent
ing the shopmen at Springfield. III.
Col. Schuyler Crosby. veeran o
the Civil wal and former governor o
Montana and q noted Indian fighter
narrowly escaped death in New Yorl
when he was attacked by S. lwamoge
his Japanese valet, whose mind Is sait
to be affected. Colonel Crosby. who
Is recovering from q short illness
leaped from his bed when the vale
rushed at him with a large knife.