Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-16

Yankton Yesterday--Details of His Crime
"A Miscellaneous budget of Misdeeds
and M:shaps.
INSTANTLY KILLED.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.
WABAsHAw, Mimi, Nov. ia horrible
accident occurred at the depot at Ais p.
m. Al Anton Settler, a farmer aged fifty
five, living at Glasgow, four miles from
town, was going home with his team and a
lumber wagon loaded with family and
farm supplies. he attempted to cross the
track of the St. Paul railway near the main
depot, IN crossing one side of which was
two side tracks and on the other side of the
main track another side track, the three
sides being filled with cars and trains, save
at crossing openings. At the main track
crossing IN extra engine backing up ran
upon Settler and team. The latter
crossed with safety while the
wagon wheels, body and all, with Setter
were picked up on the tender and carried
along the platform some fifty feet. The
wagon and body were whirled to one side,
the wheels hubs. spokes and tires hurled
Unfortunately to the right, while Setter
seems to have dropped across the track,
his head dismembered as by a surgeons
knife, laid out one side and to the right of
the track, while some thirty feet away his
body lay lengthwise across the track,
apparently unframed. save the
mutilaticn Of the left arm. The coroner
was summoned and an inquest will prob
ably be that the c. II. & st. p. Ry. will
place fagmen at their numerous crossings
hereabouts with d bill of $1,000 dam
ages.
FATAL ROW AT A CIRCUS.
LITTLE Rock, Nov. 15.-During a per-
Torrance of Coles circus at Lonoke, on
the Memphis d Little Rock railroad, Tues
day night, the door keeper, Michael Long
meir, was shot fatally by one of a party of
ten whom the police were attempting to
put out of the canvas for refusing to pro-
duce tickets. The shot is believed to nave
been fred By Ezra King. of Lonoke, who
escaped. Longlnire died Cd the way to
Little Rock this morning. He lived near
Des Moines, Iowa. and leaves a wife and
three children.
BRAVE BEARS EXECUTION.
YANKToN, Nov. 15.-Brave Bear, the
Sioux Indian, was hung to-day for the
murder of Jos. Johnson near Ft. SulIy in
1879. The drop fell at 1880 and in
fifteen minutes he was dead. Very little
excitement. The execution was private.
Brave Bear left a request to mis- relatives
not to avenge his death and to omit the
usual MORNINGS.
DEATH SENTENCE COMPUTED.
RICHMOND, Nov. 15.-Much interest is
felt in the action of the governor in the
case of Mary Booth, a negress fourteen
years old, who will be hanged Friday at
Surray court house for poisoning Mrs. r.
c. Gray and Travis Jones last April, unless
the executive interferes.
LATER-The governor this afternoon de-
cided to commute the sentence to i'm
.prisonment for life on account of the
youth of the criminal.
The jury also made a unanimous recon-
mendation for mercy, the evidence being
circUmstantial and the doubts created by
subsequent events as to who was the prin-
cipai actor in the tragedy. The poisoning
of Mrs. Gray and E. A. Jones occurred in
April last, the poison having been put in
to bread made up by Mary Booth, a ser
want in Gray's family, and eaten at break
fast. TIL husband himself did not eat, re-
naming abed on plea of sickness. TIL
girls elder sister was also arrested at the
time. but subsequently discharged. Later
Mr.. Gray poisoned himself. Many think
the girl but the agent of others.
RoBBING BAGGAGE.
ST. LOUIS, Nov. 15.-Frank Sucus. an
at the union depot at Dallas,
Tex, was arrested yesterday for robbing
baggage. A large amount of miscellane-
Gus property including jewelry and other
valuable articles was found in his house.
1t is believed that ne is the head of a bag
gage plundering gang that has operated
at Dallas and other places.
FOUND
CINCINNATI, Nov. 15.-Casper Weingart-
ner, q Waterman on the mail line wharf
boat in this city. was found drowned in
the river this forenoon. Last night while
drunk he had quarreled with the watch
man of the steamer United States lying
near, and shot at him. The latter got out
of Weingartner's way, and it is supposed
he fell overheard and was drowned.
ACQUITTED. |
James ". Mason, attorney, of West
Union, O., was acquitted by a jury in the
United States district court this morning
on the charge of collecting an illegal fee
for procuring pension.
FIRES.
PANA, ILL.,. Nov. 15.-Warner FugiIs
Touring mill at Tower Hill, seven miles
from here, burned yesterday. Loss $4,000;
no insurance.
RIvERroN, Neb.. Nov. 15.-An incendiary
fire here Sunday morning, destroyed ff-
teen OF the eighteen business houses i'll
town. Loss $4,000 to $4,000; insurance
$11.00O. A man named Hickman has been
bound over to answer on the charge of set
ting the fire. The citizens appeal for aid. |
and S. P. Harrington, of Chicago,
has been appointed to solicit
funds to aid in rebuilding.
CA1Ro, Nov. 15.-Fire this morning de-
stroyed a house and furniture belonging to
E. Desoma, also damaging the house of |