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SINS AND SINNERS. Robbers dynamited the safe of the Farmers State Bank of Hadar, at Hadar, Neb., and escaped with $2,000. Evading two nurses, L. H. Reed, Jr., a business man at Kalispell, Mont., locked himself up in a bathroom and stabbed himself to death. Albert Leminwood, a farmer living near Bergholz, Ohio, shot and killed his wife and then himself on the road near Annapolis. Jealousy is supposed to have been the cause. After a trial lasting exactly one week, the jury in the case of Gov. B. B. Comer of Alabama against the Montgomery Advertiser for alleged libel, in the city court, awarded damages of 1 cent to the plaintiff. J. H. Rhys, a well known expert accountant, was found guilty at Butte of forging nine checks for $200 and given a five-year term in prison. He had been employed on newspapers and in banks there, and enjoyed the highest confidence. Dewitt Hillegas, an insurance man of Philadelphia, was held in $5,000 bail by United States Commissioner Craig on the charge of aiding and abetting in the misappropriation of funds of the Boyertown National bank, which suspended more than two years ago. John H. Woodbury, the "beauty doctor," shot and killed himself at Sea Cliff, his home in Coney Island. It is believed he was prompted to take his life by troubles which grew out of a $50,000 damage suit brought against him by Stephen A. Emmons, a contractor. Victor Mainville was killed at Butte by a blow on the head, inflicted by a woodchopper named Cushing. Mainville suddenly went insane, cut his own throat, set fire to the cabin and attempted to cut the throats of Cushing's horses. Cushing then killed him