Click image to open full size in new tab
Article Text
Timber fires destroy 5,000 acres of forest near Hill, S. D. T. E. Byrnes, Mpls., held for forging a $15,000 mortgage. John Boecker, Carroll, Ia., chloroforms and butchers his family. Hawaii is reported to have offered Japan $100,000 to call it square. Chicago labor council repudiates anarchy in burning denunciations. The bank of Montrose, Colo., succumbs to a great run of prosperity. Spain's cabinet has resigned on account of Uncle Sam's last letters. Lawyer Bateman of Chicago croaks suddenly in Washington city. The Sylva gang of desperadoes in New Mexico is cooped. One will hang. Mrs. Waters, a 3 months bride suicides at St. Louis. Cause unknown. Anarchs caught in a plot to slay the czar by tunneling a street in Warsaw. Geo. Fred Williams of Mass. nominated for governor on a silver platform. J. J. Shepard, Chicago capitalist is nipped for embezzling a paltry $400,000. At Santa Cruz, Calif., 200 tons of dynamite approach the clouds. Loss, $250,000. Paucity of dough causes druggist Harmon of Butte to suicide with a shooting iron. The town of Lookout Mt., Tenn, has gone into the hands of a receiver. Bankrupt. A woman asphyxiates herself and four children in a New York hotel. She had the blues. y C. H. Gill, extreasurer of West Superior pulled for gobbling $27,on 000 of city money. New Jersey election defeats the anti-gambling law, also the woman's e suffrage resolution. S t The Phoenix Brewing company e of Louisville succumbs to the trust S and fails for $250,000. it W. H. Irwin, a mine operator of e Boulder, Colo., bowls up and d shoots his wife and self. h Bob Ammon, the big bilk of Gilt n Edge, Mt., is jugged in New York of for offering to accept a bribe. n or Deadwood officers return from the d Hole in the Wall country with three st more Belle Fourche train wreckers. n Veno, the healing impostor, was 1e arrested for fraud in Butte, just a st he was heeling his way out of the ie state