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Stock arrives le following: in Preserving: Fruits: Peaches, , Crab Apples, Etc.. McKELVIB.Mr. U. M. Rhodes was in Rraud.n yesterday.ll i» an old proverbFrenchman «ula to sing. a Spaniard tothat when drankdaltce, a I lei man to j gamble, an Italian to boast, an Iriahtnan to light, an Kuglnthroau to eat, and an American to make a Speech.So provision t» made lor a Canadian. hut ^ generally speaking he wauls to do up the j whole thing at the one time.Our lacrosae hoy* will journey to Minne- I doaa next Monday to play with \ team picked from Mmnedoaa and Newdale. Our boys exjc-it a hard game hut are confident of winning. The following is the probable team J. Mutter, S. T. Hopper, G. Pickering, J. McCartney, D. McGregor, \V. llasler, G. Madden, T K Cornyn. T. Motr, K. Hutch-art, H Moiri*. G. Boss.The damage done to the crop* in this dis-Jeath wound The large room was literally flooded With blood. a- well aa the stairs down winch the body finally tumbled in tU last unconscious struggle. The place where the sh t paaaed through or scattered about the roof gave a certain clue to the direction from which the abot caiue, thia waa the stair way leading to the attic. The only perron al-*t the premiers who eould have eommittod the deed has been placed under arrest. He :■ a young English lad about nineteen years of age. with neither a prepossessing nor int-lhgent face who came from 1-ondrn. tl.et u» here remark that the experience of Bernardo and other charitable importations from the grant city have been more of a curse than a Iwnefit to this Province, and the sooner it ceases, the aeoner will tlie expenses of the administration of criminal Justice he lessened.) Aa to his guilt, ail the evidence roust »* circumstantial unless unexpected testimony arises.trict by the hailatorm ha- been not so bad as 7,10 peculiar feature is that the victim wm w as at first feared. Hie course of the hail 1 tnc'1 ■** *v the court. tWh notappeared to l-e exceedingly erratic, and while taking a wider swath than waa supposed, many farms underwent the ordeal without suffering much damage. The loss j has been bad enough, but it might have been Ijuited by the court, though not1 bv the neighbors, of the shooting of an iudian aome year# ago in s quarrel that arose ! aboot starting praine fires, and it has beenfrequently predicted that he would meet a violent death. Conjecture as to the pro-much worse.b*bilt;r. f.the deedrile, and aThe Frwer Dramatic Company.The above company upon a two nights engagement iu the Masonic Hal!, Kapid City, on Friday. Aug. 28th. Tins Company has the name of being the best that has ever teas elled in Manitoba so be sure you see them. Remeuil*r tlie dates, Aug »th and UW*.1 TERRIBLE TJoseph Henry Murdered In Bed.J '.perThe Crlm- Supposed to Have Been Committed by hi* Room .Mate.Last Monday morning the faniiiv of David Jack-en, a wealthy farmer living some tiftetm miles north of Rapid City, were horrified by the shooting of Joseph Henry, man-of the well boring machine which was Iterating there, Considerable mystery -terns t« envelop tiie tragedy, and the burning question just now is whether it is suicide or murder. The impression s«-ma to pre-vail with those who examined the body ami surrounding* that the victim died by the band of an aaaasin The scene of the dreadful ooourenee was a larg-- attic where the deceased and an employee of the farm slept. The large blood stains on the pillow and the fragments of bones, flesh 4 brains blown from a huge gash trending from the left eye across anil slightly upward euding above the right eye. plainly indicated that tho gnn shot wound was received while the victim was -till on the bed iu which hr- had slept during the night. Both eyes were destroyed and the brain exposed, but the pools and blot-chea of blood plainly showed the dcs|*rate nature of the struggle for life made by the unconscious man afi*r he had received hi*can-ful inquiry into the circumstances show that last Saturday night a imsuudcratand-ing occured between this lad whose name is Arthur Gerhold and Henry aboot some work connected w ith the well boring outfit, and Henry -lapj*d the boy's ears. It is just possible that he may have brooded over this until he determined to seek revenge by the murder of his assailant. About 6 o’clock in the morning of the murder, Mr. and Mrs.| Jackson, went to the cow bam to milk, while their son and Gerhold went to the borae barn to attend to horses, after remaining at the hors* barn a short time, voting Mr. Jackson went down to the other barn to aa-! sist at the milking, apparently this was Gcr I holds opportunity. Tho buildings are so j situated that any (arsons at the cow barw could not so* apenrnn passing to or from ths house to the stable. There was ample j time, while the other members of the family j were milking, for Gerhold to go to the house j secure the gun. a repeating shot gun which w as usually kept in the pantry, shoot his victim and return to tho stable. At any rate this is the theory, and detect!vo Foster of liiaudou who arrived on the scene Monday evening, declares his belief in it It is understood that be has secured fatal evidence against the accused in the shape of some blood stained clothes. Coroner Crookskauk impaincllod a jury wboee v«f. diet *-: iH-ath from s gnn shot wound atthe bauds of poison or persons unknown.BIRTHAkmstroko At Rapid City, on Saturday, Aug. 15th mst., the wife of W. A. Ai strong ot* a son.DEATHHixry At Ravens Glen, on Monday, ths 17th inst. Joaeph C. Henry, of Oak River, aged 19 years, S mouths and 8 days.a r\A A
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Rapid City Marquette Spectator and Reporter
Rapid City, Manitoba, CA
Thu, Aug 20, 1896
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