Turner County herald., March 24, 1910, Image 2

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INE MORE CONFESS
EXITKXTS .l\i:\ "IMMl'MTY
IJATIl" AT I'lTTKIHJIM
Bribe Gltcr* Wanted \rxl—These Arc
Said to lie ISmili Officials W'liosc
Kami's I lax i' Xol Yet IScen Men.
tioncil.
Nino more former members of
councils before tin: district iittorncv
»it l'lttsburg, I'M., Tuesday cotifcHHecl
their guilt in accepting money for
their votes while members of the mu
nicipal bodies, and before .Judge R. S.
Frazcr received their Immunity baths
in the way of suspended sentences.
"When the grand jury adjourned for
the day just, before 5 o'clock it had
returned
110
indictments, although it
had listened for hours to develop
ments in the bribery scandal even
more sensational than developments
Monday. Men admitted selling their
honor for from $50 upward.
John 1\ Klein was before the grand
Jury the greater part of the day and
continued his narrative of council
manic graft. Klein recounted some of
his experiences in handing out the
money to the eouncilmen.
"There was one. fellow," he said,
"who was a daisy—a regular shyloek
for the'dough. In the South Seventh
business district I handed hiin $X1. lie
looked at me l'or a, minute and then
yelled like, a stuck' pin for the extra 10
cents—you know $81.10 was the
standard price in that deal. Well.
got the 10 cents all right."
District Attorney I (lake, as soon as
the eouneiimen bribe takers have been
rounded up, will go after the bribe
givers. They are said to bo hank of
ficials of institutions whoso names
have never hitherto been breathed In
^.'olinection with the graft probe of the
last two years.
The tii has been passed to these
b.ink men that they may come in and
have the "immunity" .extended by the
district attdrney. but they so far have
failed to avail themselves of the of
fer, and it is reported some bombshells
will be dropped into the social con
struction of Pittsburg when county de
tectives "turn the money changers"
out of their own "temples" and brinj
them before the bar of justice.
ASKS pint RECOGNITION.
Madrlz Guarantee* Safety or Ameri
cans in XIciiragiia.
President Madrlz, of Nicaragua, has
offered to give the United States every
guarantee demanded for the saftey of
American lives and interests it) that
country in return for u. formal recog
fh .ion of the legality of the govern
ment.
Senor Corea, who represents Mad
rlz in Washington, has been in com
munication with the state department
on this subject and Tuesday had a
long talk with Assistant Secretary
"Wilson. He told Mr. Wilson that
England, Frahce and other European
nations already have extended such
recognition, while Mexico has re
frained from doing so out of consid
eration for the United States, being
-willing to await the action of this
•country. It appears, however, that
the obstacle in the way is the insist
ence of the state department that the
last trace of disorder must disappear
in Nicaragua before recognition is ex
tended.
•HOUSE 15I.OWX TO 1*1 IX ICS.
Missouri Miner Killed and llis Family
Seriously Injured.
Edward Vensdn, a miner, was in
stantly, killed, his wife and her mother,
Mrs. Ellen Allen, were fatally injured,
&n«l his two children, 3 and 5 years of
age, respectively, were seriously in
jured Tuesday nigjit When a dynamite
magazine at the Red Dog mine near
Webb City, Mo., exploded. John Bald
win, engineer at a nearby power plant,
wus seriously hurt. The house in
which Venson lived was destroyed.
The magazine was covered by ten
feet of crushed rock and bowlders. It
contained two tons of dynamite. Ex
ploding it tore the little three-room
rfcousc In which Ven3on and his fam
ily lived Into fragments. Vensons'
mutilated body was hurled 100 yards.
His
wife and her mother were thrown
over a nearby mine derrick.
Electrocution Bill Signed.
Oov. Wilson, of Kentucky, Tuesday
illsnedthe bill provld'ng for electro
cution as the means of indicting the
4eath penalty.
M«ax City Live
Tuesday's
Stock Market.
quotations on the Sioux
live stock market fellow: Top
Top hogs, $10*65.
j&L'.
Laboratory.
ctaemlcal laboratory: of
flf Chictgk, caught fire
ig an explosion of a
ofthe, building. The
idrug stor«
sentenced to anlndeter
of $mn twototoa mi«
45 LOSE THEIR LIVES.
Two
Score Injured in Wreck on Great
Western.
Forty-five persons were killed and
forty injured, many of them fatally, in
a wreck four and a half miles north
of Green .Mountain, la., at 8:10 a. m.
Monday of a Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific train.
The train, which was a combination
of No. 1!) from Chicago and No. 21
from St. Louis, bound for Minneapolis,
was being detoured over the tracks of
the Chicago Great Western road. Run
ning at about thirty miles an hour in
a cut north of Green Mountain, it
struck a spread rail, it is believed. The
pilot locomotive jumped the track and
with terriflic force was buried in an
embankment, of soft clay. A second
locomotive, coupled behind the first,
rolled over, and the. impact, of the sud
den stop hurled all the rear cars for
ward.
A day coach, a smoker and a Pull
man car wen smashed to splinters,
almost, all the occupants being killed
or injured. The superstructure of the
Pullman car was literally shaved off
and was jammed like a ramrod
through the smoker and day coach.
Many passengers were apparently
killed outright.. Heads were severed
from bodies and arms and legs were
cut. off. The wreckage was almost
crimson with blood, some of the bodies
being crushed beyond recognition by
the mass*of twisted rails and splinter
ed cars. A lew of the passengers
were found still living, with a rod or a
splinter from the wreck impaling
them. Decapitated bodies were picked
up, and it was almost impossible to
assort correctly i.ie dismembered
parts.
The wreck occurred at a point dif
ficult to reach with prompt relief.
Hitch bodies as could he pulled out
were st.i ..tcjifd out in an adjoining
pastuie
But lust attention was given to the
wounded. The cries of these, coming
from beneath the cars and places
which were wa.led in, were pitiable.
Fortunately the wreckage did not take
fire.
The rescue party, reinforced later
by trains of wreckers, nurses and sur
geons bent from the nearest available
points, worked all day and until long
after darkness. The injured were
rushed to a hospital, several of them
dying on the way. Two of the bodies
woi-e not taken out until nightfall.
SWINDLERS GIVEN LIMIT.
Members of Mabray Gang Are Sen
tenced.
The maximum penalty of two years
in the federal penitentiary at Leaven
worth, Kan., and a fine of $10,000 was
meted out to John C. Mabray and nine
others by Judge McPherson in the fed
eral district court at Council Bluffs,
la., Monday, when they appeared for
sentence following their conviction by
a jury Sunday for extensive swindling
by fraudulent use of the mails. Pour
other defendants received less severe
sentences.
Aside from Mabray those given the
full penalty were Edward Loser, Ed
ward K. Morris, Tom S. Robinson, Ed
ward Leach, Clarence Forbes, Harry
Forbes, Ed McCoy, Clarence Class and
Willard Powell.
Bert Shores and William Marsh,
who pleaded guilty, were sentenced to
fifteen months in the penitentiary and
to pay a fine of $100 each.
Winford S. Harris, who also pleaded
guilty, and Frank Scott were sen
tenced to six months in jail and fines
of $100 cach.
Judge McPherson stated that Scott's
sehtence was reduced because he had
already ben acquitted in the state
court of the swindling charge.
The jury returned a verdict of guilty
lit 11 o'clock Sunday morning.
Robert K. Goddard, of San Antonio,
secured a disagreement, but will bo
tried in the Nebraska district of the
federal court, where he is under indict
ment.
The-defendants accepted the verdict
generally without a show of feeling.
ROYALIST MAX 1FESTO.
Duke
of
Orleans Willing to Ascciul
French Throne.
The duke of Orleans in a manifes
to to the royalists of France, apropos
of the scandal arising from the liqui
dation of the religious orders, declared
that republican institutions are re
sponsible for the corruption of men.
"In this instance," he says, "the
liquidator with money stolen from the
church pays his mistresses."
The duke announces that he is
ready to come to Paris the minute
there is a real chance of overturning
the present rule, and hie. concludes his
statement by saying:
"Popular disgust indicates that the
time is almost ripe."
Rabies in Big Demand.
The demand for babies in New Or
leans has reached such proportions
that it is feared there will be a seri
ous shortage In the supply. A car
load of babies from the New York
Foundling and Orphan asylum was
given away there last week, and an
other carload will be sent there soon.
Banker Escapes from Jail.
Robert Green, a former banker of
Waynetqwn, Ind., who was awaiting
trial at Elyria, O., oh the charge of
stealing a horse, and George Wolfe,
jailed
Turnkey
iron
jMt to PHfM.
Mi* OTlSUe. of pitts-
On the same charge, assaulted
VanDusen Monday with an
bar and escaped
Cotton Report.
The census cotton report shows the
erop ot 190ft, to be 10.363,240 bales,
eonfowed with 13,432,131 for 1908.
I£i:si I.T NOT IIISA MIvD.
Canadian Turin Situation Still l'n.
('hanged.
At the* conclusion of a conference)
which, with two or three interims.
co\ert:d practically the entire day,
President ift Saturday night seemed
hopeful that a tariif war with Canada
may yet lie a\cited. The negotiations
between the president and W. S. Field
ing, the Canadian minister of finance,
did not result either in agreement or
disagreement. There are many details
that remain to be worked out, and at
this time it was declared that the
following official statement literally
sums up the situation:
"The president and Mr. Fielding
were in conference in respect to the
tariff for several hours. Xo conclu
sion was reached, Put the situation re
mains that Iriendly negotiations"
Klc\en days remain for "friendly
negotiations" before the maximum
rates of the 'a yne-A idrich tariff law
automatically go into etfeet against
those countries which are "unduly
discriminatory against the Knifed
Slates. The law is arbitrary as to its
application, but the president is giv
en judicial powers in reaching a con
elusion as to what constitutes "undue"
discrimination.
171*
t" this time Canada has been
regarded by the president's tariff ad
visers as "unduly" discriminatory, and
unless concessions arc granted by the
Dominion government to place the
United States on an equal footing with
I1 ranee anil thirteen other countries
which have been given preferential
rates under the Canadian tariff, it
seems inevitable that Canada will be
the one important country in the
world against which the -f per cent
increase of the maximum America'
rates will be applied.
POMCK STOP CONTKKTANTS.
Frisco .Marathon Dance (iocs Fifteen
Hours and Six Minutes.
I'olice stopped the world's cham
pionship marathon dance at San Fran
cisco, Cal., Sunday afternoon after six
of the contestants had been dancing
fifteen hours and sis minutes. The
old record was fourteen hours and
Iorty-two minutes. A protest arose
Iroin the '.000 spectators, and a riot
was prevented only by the determined
manner in which the officers cleared
the platform. Iioctors who were in
attendance advised the police that
turther physical exertion on the part
of the dancers might result fatally.
Seven couples entered the contest and
live couples finished.
Probably the most remarkable fea
ture of tho performance was the for
titude of J. A. West, who is 54 years
old. Although at times during the
night it seemed that his struggle to
continue was torturing him, he waved
his seconds aside and kept it up.
West's partner was a IG-year-old girl
WOMAN' Dli:i A PAUPER.
Last Kites Over Daughter ol' a Former
Illinois Governor.
Without the last rites of the church,
and with only four mourners sur
rounding the grave, the body of Mrs.
Anna Davies, who died a pauper in
the deaconess home in Lincoln, 111.,
Thursday, was buried at Peoria, 111.,
at twilight Sunday night. Mrs. Da
vies was the only surviving daughter
of former Oov. Thomas Ford, of Illi
nois, who likewise died in poverty.
The specter of poverty which as
beset the family for a half century
also found a victim in Mrs. Davies'
only daughter, Mrs. Watson, of Oska
loosa, who for weeks before her moth
er's death sought funds with which to
purchase a, coffin.
Four Bodies Hccovcrcd.
The bodies of four miners who were
entombed in the West Frankfort, 111.,
mines year ago Inst February by an
explosion were recovered Saturday.
The corpses were in excellent state oC
preservation and were easily identi
fied.
Falls Nine Stories.
Joseph Rhamestine, of Louisville,
Ky., 46 years old, a claim agent for
the Southern railwya, Sunday fell
from the ninth floor of the Columbus
building to the street below, crashing
through an iron grating and dying in
stantly.
Corporation Tax Returns.
Treasury officials estimate now that
the revenue this year from the corpo
ration tax will far exceed the amount
Secretary MacVeagh originally
thought would be derived from that
source, some of them putting it as
high as $40,000,000.
Italian Cabinet Has Resigned.
The Italian cabinet resigned Mon
day. The retirement of Ihc ministry,
which was formed on December 10,
1900, with Baron Sidney Sonniuino as
premier, was due to the realization
that the government's mecantile ma
rine subsidies measure was doomed ta
defeat.
Unrest In Peru.
Although a new Peruvian cabinet
was sworn' In only March 6, there are
rumors of further changes In the per
sonnel. It is also reported that Presi
dent Leguia Is determined upon re
signing from office.
Returns received from the local op
tion elections held in Texas county.
Mo., Saturday, show a majority of 816
for the prohibition forces. The IT""
waa bitterly contested.
Interesting
News
Items
T'ASF OF
FiiKD
Pcuc! Comity Friends in a Move to
Secure Him a Pardon.
A movement has been inaugurated
by friends in Deuel county to secure
,i pardon for Fred J. Walsh, who is
serving a term of three years in the
Sioux Falls penitentiary for a statu
tory offense. The case is an unusual
one. After being convicted Walsh
took an appeal to the state supreme
court, wh'ch recently rendered a de
cision nflirming the action of the low
er court. A line of $r00 also was im
posed, and this Walsh paid immedi
ately upon the division of the su
preme court being announced. He
lias commenced serving his term, but
his friends appear hopeful of secur
ing a pardon lor him. Soon after be
•ng originally arrested his wife se
cured a divorce from him. At the
time the divorce was granted his wife
Walsh was positively forbidden by the
court to marry again, but he disre
garded these instructions and married
the girl who was the co-respondent.
Information from Deuel county is to
the etfeet that other indictments arc
pending against him in the state cir
cuit court, and that if he is pardoned
he is liable to arrest on the other
charges.
EOLLKCIII I MOW.MK\T PLED( KS
Campaign Starts at Kedlichl to Raise
$250,()!().
1 r. M. O. Hirsehy, president of Red
field college, has just returned from
an extensive trip through the east,
which was made in the interest of the
endowment campaign commenced by
RedficAd college. It is proposed to in
crease the endowment of the college
by $250,000, this to be completed on
the twenty-fifth anniversary of the
founding of the college, May 3, 1912.
James J. Hill has pledged $50,000 con
ditioned on the success of the cam
paign. Other pledges have been se
cured so that the amount now in sight
is $125,000. Tho officials of the col
lege are greatly encouraged at the
success which the campaign has met
with so far, and feel certain that the
endowment will be completed by
1912. In addition to this a building
fund of $1,000 is being raised which
will be used to increase the class room
and dormitory facilities of the college.
The number in attendance upon the
college is constantly increasing, and
increasing facilities are absolutely
necessary.
TO BUILD YARDS AND SHEDS.
Milwaukee Prepares for Hog Ship
ments to Pacific Coast.
To accommodate the hog market
which is being built up on the Pacific
coast the Milwaukee road is arranging
for yards and sheds at Aberdeen
which will accommodate 3,500 hogs
daily. A representative of the Pa
cific coast packers will be located at
Aberdeen and will receive hogs there
for shipment to the packers from
points along the Milwaukee line as
far south as Mitchell, as far east as
Milbank and as far south as Madison
and Harlem, of the Bristol branch of
the road. Tho hogs will be kept at
Aberdeen until sufficient quantities ac
cumaulate to permit the shipment of
solid trainloads to the coast.
Representatives of all the packing
companies at the different Pacific
coast points will be stationed at Aber
deen, and that city will be made the
great market for the rcconsignment
of hogs.
ELECTION" DATE CHANGED.'
All Municipal Elections Will Be Held
nt Same Time, April 19.
Some confusion resulted from au
thorities of tho towns of South Dakota
not generally being a\yare that the
last legislature changed the time for
holding annual municipal elections in
the smaller towns of the state from
March to the third Tuesday in April,
when the larger cities and towns al
ways have held their annual elections.
In some of the smaller towns election
notices were published in March, but
the change in the law was discovered
before the elections were. held. Now
all the elections will be held Tuesday,
April 19, at which time the cities and
towns of the state will elect city and
town officers, and vote upon license
and such other matters as may be
brought before the voters.
Red field Chautauqua Plans,
The commercial club of Redfield
has guaranteed 900 season tickets for
Midland Chautauqua circuit. The
Chautauqua will be held at Redfield
from July 9 to July 17. The talent
scheduled will be of the very highest.
Sustains Fatal Injuries.
Horace Mills, of Aberdeen, a 6-year
old boy, fell from the top of a lumber
shed, on which he was playing, to the
ground, sustaining a fractured skull
and other hurts which are expected to
result in death.
The commission plan of city gov
ernment was adopted at Chamberlain
Monday by a majority of 65 after a
strong fight, which drew out fully a
75 per cent vote.
•fate News
.J. WALSH.
Gathered
Throughout
the Slate
WAR DKI'Ain\Mi:\T OiiDEK.
Dakota (Juan! to (M into Camp ':1
Wisconsin If It I .caw-, state.
The war department has dci ided
that if the South Dakota National
(Juard is to leave the state to go into
camp this summer it must go to the
one at .Sparta, Wis. This decision has
been received by Adjt. (leu. liimlesby.
of Watertown, who Thursday issued
circular letters to all the company
commanders throughout the state,
asking them l'or an expression of opin
ion. The Wisconsin camp will he es
tablished in September, this time
when the majority of the guardsmen
are at work on the farms or in col
lege. If the company commanders do
not favor tho "Wisconsin camp it is
likely that the adjutant general will
order the encampment at Camp
Roosevelt near Lake Kampeska. ad
joining Watertown, and that will lie
in June or Jul v.
The company of infantry at Dell
Rapids has been mustered out by di
rection of Col. Frost, as a result of
his inspection tour.
DKPOS1TS SLIOW (JAINS.
\ct Increase in All Banks for 'I'm.
Months is .$(11,175.
The individual deposits in South
Dakota banks continues to increase,
but not to so great an extent as they
did last fall when the farmers were
marketing their crops, the net in
crease in banks of all classes from No
vambcr 16 last to January 31 being
$6 11.475.
The state banks show a decrease,
running down between the above
dates from $-17,2(52,000 to $4 5,003,000.
Hut this loss in deposits in the state
banks was more than made good by
the deposits in the national banks,
which gained ?2,250,000 for the same
period. The reductions in tho state
hanks were probably caused by the
farmers drawing for their winter
needs, and the tanners being general
ly in closer touch with the numerous
state banks scattered in the smaller
towns, that class of banks would show
the effects of this demand to a greater
extent than would the national banks,
generally in the larger towns.
To Raise Broom Coni-
On account of the high price ol
broom corn the board of trade of
Pierre has decided to purchase sev
eral hundred pounds of broom corn
seed and distribute it among farmers
in that part of the state, who will give
it a trial. In early days broom corn
was successfully grown in that sec
tion, one settler in northern Sully
county putting it in on first year's
breaking and getting a return of $50
an acre. The dry years put a stop
to efforts in that direction, but with
the return of good crops years there is
no reason why broom corn cannot be
successfully raised in South Dakota,
and a good profit secured from the
crop.
ItlVER mCH AT FORT PIERRE.
Jjower Portions of Town Flooded, but
Damage is Not Heavy.
The Missouri showed a stage of
about 13 feet at Pierre Thursday
morning and was slowly rising. A re
port from Forest City Thursday morn
ing said the Missouri river was falling
while the Little Bend was at a stand
still.
The river Thursday evening w"s
slowly rising with a stage of about fif
teen feet. The flats at Fort Pierre
were covered, and a number of cel
lars have been flooded, causing some
damage.
Postmasters to Meet.
South
Da,£°ta
tu
in
TJ
ful in the
\T'
association of
third and fourth class postmasters will
hold its annual meeting in Watertown
June 15 and 16. The executive-com
mittee met Thursday' to
perfect
,Tn
The
ar­
rangements for the event, which, it
be the most succ
ss-
history of the association.
Passengers in Luck.
LlmHedN°rth^n
Paciflc's Nor*h
Coast
Limited, westbound over the Milwau
kee tracks, was wrecked near Mcln-
engine' ten^
and
three coaches left the track. No one
was injured. The accident was due
to the driving rod of the engine break-
Milwaukee Bridge Out.
On account of the Milwaukee bridge
being out at Chamberlain that line is
sending its freight trains west over
the Northwestern through Pierre as
far as Rapid City, and back east along
its
pTn
line to
P°tnts of destination.
Burglars Make Good Haul.
Two unknown men broke into the
jewelry store of Burns Bros., at Pier
pont, securing $2,600 in watches and
jewelry. They broke the glass in the
front door and then unlocked the door
from the Inside.
Dentists to Gather.
Programs have been issued for the
two days' clinic of the Aberdeen Dis
trict Dental society, to be held in Ab
erdeen March 23 and 24.
FOREST FIRES MORE LOSS LESS.
Figures Compiled at Washington for
1909 Show Damage Less Severe.
Fire, the bane oi the lorest, played
less havoc in the woodlands of the na
tional reserves last year than ill 1908,
although the number of blazes was 410
greater, according to statistics which
have been compiled by tho Department
ot Agriculture. Bv reason of tho pro
tective measures adopted by the de
partment, almost SO per cent of tho
tires were extinguished before as much
as live acres had been damaged the
lires covered less than one and one
hall acres to tiie square mile of na
tional forest iand, and tho damage
done
L.O
the burned-over area averaged-
only §1.2j an acre.
For the year ended Dec. 31, 1909,.
t.heiv were 3,1158 fires in the iorcsts,*!
burning over 360,000 acres, of which
about CL',000 were private lands in na
tional forests, against -109,000 acres ill
190S. About 170,000,000 board feet c.f
timber were consumed, ot which 33,-Jf
000,000 feet were owned privately
against 230,000,000 in the previous"
year. The loss in value of timber tie-
stroyed was less than §300,OOu, of
which $50,000 belonged to private pnr-tf
ties. The loss of the year belore wast
about $4."0,000. Damage to r.-produc-S
tion and forage showed a remarkable
decrease, less than $100,000 being thef
record for 1909 and over $700,000 ti'.at
for 190S. Locomotive sparks were ac
countable for more blazes than anysl
other cause.
STOLEN PROPERTY RETURNED.
"Still Small Voice" Finally
llnmllts Hold Up Car.
Street car bandits held up a cat
near Bennett Station, near Pittsburg/-,
tied Conductor Albert Miller and Mo
torman David Forsaithe to the con
troller and took everything of value
from them. The car was then started
"wild" down the track. The motor
man freed himself and checked it be-*
fore damage was done.
Wife Saves Drowning Atnn.
When several men hesitated to ven
ture on thin ice to aid Elmer Decker,
struggling in the water of the Kenne
bec river, at Hinckley, Me., the man's
wife slowly crawled out on the frozen
surface until she could fasten a rope
about her husband's shoulders so ho
could be pulled on to solid ice.
Drives -\ail in V."ife*K Heart.
With an eight-penny nail sticking in
her scalp, Mrs. David Parrott, a ne
gress, sought the protection of the
Pittsburg police from the attacks of
her husband. She said her husband
had struck her with a board, and in
jerking it back to strike her again,
the nail was drawn from the board.
UecoverM fop Sniinoscd I'auper'* Keep
After the death of Peter Klanim,
who had been maintained for years as
an insane pauper, the State of Kansas
discovered that Klamm had not been
penniless, and brought suit against his
estate to recover $3,000 as his "keep"
for that time. The State has been
allowed $2,502.27.
Confederate Half Dollar for *3,750.
One of the four Confederate half dol
lars struck off at the United States
mint at New Orleans in 1861, after it
fell into the hands of the Confederate
government, has been sold by a "New
York coin dealer for $3,750. The buy
er was a wealthy New York collector,
whose name is withheld.
T|
I.«-:i«l»
Thief lo Make Uc*titutlnii.
Fifteen years ago Mrs. Jlort .Morri
son was robbed of a purse containing
and a set of gold earrings. The
articles were mysteriously taken from
her room in the Burmeister Ho
tel in Winona, Minn. A few days
ago a package was delivered to
her through the regular mail chan
nels in which were the purse, a $5
gold piece, the earrings and the fol
lowing note: "Dear Madam—I am sor
ry I have waited so long to send this,
but it did me a heap of good wli:'n«
I took them. I always thought of you
and said I would send them back. If
I knew that you needed the money
-would send you more.'' Tho note was
anonymous. The package was post
marked Watertown, S. D.
TWO, LYNCHED, HELD 'SUICIDES'
A COVUIICI-'N Verdict IK-IIOI-C...
Muli'.s
l'jirt in KaiiglnK.
According to the verdict of the cor-1-,
oner, "Bob" Austin and "Charley"
Richardson, the negroes lynched at,
Marion, Ark., for their alleged part in
a recent jail delivery, "came to their
death by suicide." The coroner in his
verdict made no mention of the inci
dents leading to the "suicides," in
cluding the breaking open of the jail
by a mob and taking of the two ne
groes to the courthouse square, where
their bodies were found hanging later.
BOY WITH BROKEN NECK WELL.
Linl llccoversi Alter Lyin- A'ine
SIoutli» iu l'laster Cast.
The surgeons at the Seney Hospital,
in New York, are elated over the re
covery of Louis Graf, a 10-year-old
Brooklyn boy, who was taken there a
year ago with a broken neck, caused
by a fall from a cherry tree. Near
death for wf-eks, now, after nine
months passed with his body incased
in a plaster cast, he is declared sound
again.
Slight Quake on Const*
A mild earthquake shock was felt in
San Francisco shortly before 11 o'clock
the other night. At the Chutes Thea
ter, where an amateur show was goins
on, there was some alarm and at thai
Central Telephone office the operators'
left the switchboards. Later reports
indicate that little or no damage wa3
done.