Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1878-07-25
THE WORLDS DOINGS.
CRTMES AND CRIMINALS.

Near Belle Buckle, Tenn, July 10th, a
colored man shot and killed white man.
Joseph Mason of Peoria has been ar
rested in Pittsburgh for forging postal Or
der.
James DAILY, of Stamford, VT, killed
scissors grinder in quarrel, about the pay
ment for grinding couple OF razors.
An Orange row occurred between the
soldiers and the populace at Montreal, satur-
day evening. July 18th. Fifty or sixty shots
were fired and a number were wounded.
Reports from the frontier continue to
give accounts of Indian disturbances, depre-
dations and skirmishes. The end Of the In
dian hostiities seems to be as remote as ever
At Quincy, H., Monday July 10Th, the
body of J. B. Kelley was found in the bay. He
was telegraph operator, and few hours
before had been arrested for debt, and alter
wards committed suicide by jumping into the
bay.
Ell. Oakley, who defaulted as cashier
of the New York Merchants Exchange Ma
tional bank for $4,000 in 1870, who fed to
Canada, was arrested on the 18th inst, and
put in Ludlow street JAIL He has been a
wanderer since 1879.
James Toliner, book keeper of G. 81.
Markley & Son, Pittsburgh, has been arrested
at Buffalo, N. Y, charged with embezzhng
$4,000 from his employers. He abscouded
on 18th of May, with Annie Berry, of Steuben-
vile, Ohio; SO 900 of the money was recovered.
Peter Bresniham, now confined in Can
ton, n Y, Jail for the murder Of Daniel Their
l.. \ t. Aa rad fhn
26th inst, confessed the crime July 9th. He
has since made a supplemental confession
stating that he committed three murders
previous to that of Daniel Theirs.
A St. Louis dispatch of Monday the
18th inst, says, Robert Atkins, United States
soldier, was found dead In the woods near
jefferson barracks yesterday. He left the
barracks Friday with wagon to gather wood
| and not returning at night search was made
| for him yesterday with the above result.
| from the fact that his skull was terribly
| fractured it is believed he WAS murdered by
some unknown person.
A Noponef. Ont, telegram sot July
18th, says while a young Briton named Sans
uel Sicily was passing near Marrysville cor
ners, Saturday evening, he was shot and
severely wounded by James White, Catholic.
| 1t is reported this morning that White shot
Robert Harvey while trying to arrest him.
White Ia still at large, though the latest in
formation says that he is surrounded in the
woods, and all escape seems almost tmpss-
sible.
| A Cairo, Ill, telegram July 18th says,
@ number of frightened negroes from Ken.
lucky, opposite Cairo, brought report that
band of Ku-klux visited all the negroes in
the vicinity last night, giving them twenty
/ four hours to leave the country. Later In
/ formation proves the Ku-kluxing to have
been drunken crowd OF half dozen youths
aged sixteen to nineteen, one of whom reck-
lessly shot negro, inficting a flesh wound
in the arm.
Mrs, Sarah Sist, a wealthy young wild
ow liyingin Nelson county, near Perry's Mutt,
Richmond, Va, on thes>21st insts,<reut the
throat of a servant woman on her plantation
with razor, almost severing the head from
the body. Her victim died almost instantly.
After completing this fiendish work tile in
fllriated woman directed her attention to the
child of her victim, girl of seven or eight
years, who was close by. Selling her she
made quick work of her, cutting her throat
and throwing her body in a mill pond. The
reason for these 1iendish and brutal murders
can only be explained by the fact that it if
believed that Mrs. Sist was at the time labor.
ing under temporary insanity.