Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1880-01-16

WOmdu, anu IL Ciey anu Iue 1lIeiiOf ucparC
ment have not done their duty by the people
Of Colorado it is they who are to blame moi
me. On arriving home in Greeley found
myself completely broken down in mind ane
body, and have had long spell of severe
sickness, and from which I am just recover
ing. Yours truly, Mrs N. G.. MEEKER.
The Cheyenne Leader adds the follow.
ing: Immediately after captivity the womer
were forced, under threats of torture and slow
death, to yield to the lust of their hideous cap
tors. The women, suffering untold agony OF
account of the death of their husbands anc
athers. were dazed and bewildered, anc
were powerless to resist Poor old Mrs Meek
err, over 60 years of age, and suffering from {
flesh wound in the rear portion of the thigh
became the victim Of Douglas, who afterwari
boosted Of his protecting care. Josephine
Meeker was held by Persune, and
Mrs. Price by johnson. The unbeara
BILE indignities were simply augmented by
other Utes, friends of the three mentisned. In
the hellish ortrages the bucks were assisted
by squaws. These female savages seemed te
gloat over the horrors perpetrated upon the
white eaptives of their own sex. During theil
captivity the sufferings of the three womer
were indescribably horrible. The hellist
fends renewed their crimes time and time
again. The poor women feared they would
never be delivered from thaldrom worse
than death, ror death is Inconsistencies
while their existence was living death anG
an earthly hell every day.
ASSAULTED BY MANIAC.
A few days ago, John Calvin reached
st. Paul MINI. from Morris, Stevens county
to visit brother-in-law. He had wandered
away about six miles from the city and satur
day afternoon, Jan. 10th, he appeared at the
residence of Mr. Townsend, who was engaged
in cutting up meat in frame addition to his
house. Calvin inquired which way he could
best strike the road, from which the house il
about one mile distant Mr.. Townsend gave
the necessary instructions. after which the
stranger made himself obnoxious by indulg
ing in personal remarks that were highly i'm
porper Believing that the man was a tramp
Mr.. Townsend attached no particular weigh
to the remarks, until suddenly the brute
reached over and seized the knife with which
he was cutting meat. Being under the i'm
preston that the man intended to take his
life, the attack WIS stoutly resisted. The
maniac siezed the knife by the blade, and in
trying to wrench it from Mr.. Townsend, al
most severed his right wrist. The encounter
was now desperate, as Mr.. Townsend knew
that life depended on the issue, while the rage
of the lunatic became furious. With the alac
rity of catthe lunatic released his hold or
tho 1ynsfo or1 s,,pn TO- 81.
in corner of the room, with which he dealt
Mr.. Townsend one or two blows on the head
the force of which W, partially broken by
that gentleman. Mr.. townsend managed tc
seize the axe, and after a fearful struggle he
felled the maniac to the floor. after which he
was securely pinioned. He was taken to the
city hospital in st. Paul. HIS right hand is
almost severed at the wrist, and he has two
ugly gashes in the head, besides many bruises
It is not thought he will recover. Mr.. Town.
send received severe cut in the head and
other injuries none of which are fatal
A TERRIBLE TRADGEDY.
At Milwaukee, Wisconsin, sometime
during the night of Jan. 10 Capt. W. G. vii.
kinson shot himself and wife. Both are dead
Cause domestic trouble. For the past ten
days Wilkinson has been on spree. Satur-
day his wife applied to Gen. Hin cks for an or
der stopping her husbands beer. This being
granted made Wilkinson morose and low
spirited. Sunday night he came to the city,
saying to an inmate of the home that he must
have whiskey or he would 60 crazy He is
known to have taken several drinks while in
the city, and is supposed to have returned
home about 9 o'clock. On entering his sit
ting-room he found his wife at the writing
desk in very unhappy state of mind. She
hsd already written letter to her sister in
Chicago, and was engaged m answering an
advertisement for companion to q sick lady.
Both Wilkinson and his wife'was quick tenn
pered, and as he was feeling sullen and bitter
towards her for having stopped his beer al
lowance, and she probably thinking of leaving
him, their meeting was naturally not pleas
ant There were no witnesses to the tragedy
and the manner of the murder and suicide as
yet are connective. When found Mrs. Wilkin-
son was lying on her face, both hands clasped
across her breast. The Jagged hole behind the
cor, from which the brain protruded, showed
plainly the cause of her sudden death. The
door leading to the bedroom was open, and
on the threshold lay the murderer in a pool Of
his own blood. He was lying upon his tback,
his left hand across his breast, while the right
hand dropped carelessly over the thigh. Near
him lay revolver, carrying 32-10O ball.
three loads remaining in the cyliuder. As
bed, in which lay her youngest child, a babe
or four months. In the next room slept the
two older girls, one of them 8 the other 2 years
of age, and neighbours boy, aged 10. Yet
these little ones slept soundly, and heard not
the angry words nor murderous shot. Before
the children were removed from the house,
the little S-year.old girl had seen .her father
and mother, and looking up innocently to .
by-stander, said: any mamma died my father
made her die" The children are very beauti
full little girls, and are being temporarily cared
for by Mrs. shafer, who lives at the Home.
Wilkinson was born at Leeds, England. He
served as band-master in the, Seventy first
Pennsylvania. In 1874 he was admitted to the
Dayton Branch Home, and In the same year
transferred to Milwaukee. Mrs Wilkinson's
maiden name was Eagan. Her mother and
sister reside in Chicago.
ENGLISH GRAIN MARKETS.. H.
The Mark Lane Express OF Jan. 6 in a
review of the British5 raintrs ade for the past
week, says: Recent frosts prevented the SOW
ing Of much Of the land intended for wheat
especially in Midland and few other dis
tricts, where it is reported only about half the
usual quantity has been sown: As the frost
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