Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-15

Uncle-The Alleged Murderer of Fora
Burns Discharged-Suioide of a Woman
at Milwaukee-K1l1ed With Hammer,
Etc.
PROBABLY SUICIDE.
Especial Telegram to the Globel.
MnwAUKEx, Dec. 1.-THE dead body of Mrs.
Julia F. Morgan, aged twenty years, was
found this morning on the lake shore between
Oneida and Biddle streets. All the circumstances
point to suicide. Mrs. Morgan the wife of
Chicago printer, who deserted her last sum-
mer She had dirner at the Cosmopolitan res
taurant Thursday noon as usual, and was after
wards seen by friends on Milwaukee avenue.
After that it is supposed she walked straight to
the lake shore and plunged in. She was
ri q to Morgan about year ago, previous to
which she had lost a husband by death in st.
Louis.
DISCHARGED FROM CUSTODY.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.l
LINCOLN, Ill, Dec. 14.-Thomas Russell, alias
Vance, alias Hunter, arrested in Peoria Saturday
night charged with holding important evidence
in the Fora Burns case for a money considera-
ton, was released by the authorities this after
noon without a preliminary hearing. All efforts
to draw out a confession OF knowledge were
unavailing, and evidence sufficient to hold could
not be received. He il generally credited with
being crank, and if guilty of the charge has
succeeded IN on whiting the officials. He treats
the affair as joke.
TEE EMMA BOND TRIAL.
HIILsBoRo, H., Dec 1.-THE first witness
in the Bond case this morning vas Lewis Helm
stein, uncle Jno. C. Montgomery, who testified
that as Mrs. Pettis, her son Lee Pettis and
Clement returned from the house of Col. Bond
after they took Emma Bond home the morning
after the outrage they stopped at his house and
Mrs. Pettis told him about the affair. He wish
ed Lee Pettis to answer some questions but he
refused to do So He then wanted Pettis and
Clement to alarm the neighbors but they would
not. Witness went to the school house at day
light and examined the loft where
he found hat, parasol, piece OF newspaper
aud a scarf pin. The latter was Identified as
belonging to Miss Bond. hole ten inches
long and two inches wide was found freshly cut
in the weather boarding just above the platform
at the west end of the loft Witness then de
tailed the conversation he had with Montgom-
cry. He asked witness if Clement had made
confession duplicating him and to the laughing
reply of witness that Clement had
done So MONTGOMERY did not see how that
| could be- At second conversation Swick and
witness met Montgomery and Geo. Pettis near
| Grove City. Montgomery again asked if Glenn
enti had implicated him, and said he did not
see how he could Swick said there were sew
eral cuts on Miss Bonds neck, and that Glenn
| enti's finger had been bitten, at which Mont
gouery exclaimed, ''My God, what shall we do?n
| Swirk told him if he knew anything he ought to
give it away, so that he and Pettls
could put it on Clement. Mont
gomery asked if he would
be protected if ne would give it away. just
then Montgomery was arrested and taken to
| Tavlor7ille, aud witness didn't see him again
till some days after in jail, when he said Gle
| m nti was all right; that he had not given any
| thing away. A long argument was had on the
! admissihiiity of these conversations as testimo-
nv, but the Judge ruled as he did IN similar
case yesterday, that they might 60 on for wha5
they were worth. Adjourned
THE ROSA KE1sER SUICIDE.
NEW YORK. Dee. IA detective Officer at
the Windsor hotel says Of toe suicide Of Rosa
Keiser, of Utica, in the room of Geo. ". Dunn
and wife, that he happened to be in the hall on
| the floor where Dunn and wife r0omed, and was
| told by the servants that loud and angry con
versation proceeded from their apartments. He
went to the spot and could plainly hear the
| voices of three persons in the room. Mr. and
Mrs. Dunn spoke in So low tones that he could
not understand their words, but what Miss
Keiser said he could distinctly hear You have
wronged me, and viii yet be sorry for 1t" rang
from the woman's lips with all the lung power
Dunn, Miss Keiser replied, ''You are Liar" and
repeated the expression four times.
CHURCH ROW.
KINGSTON, Ont Dec. 14.-At bazar in ST..
Paurs church last night, it was voted whether
DR.. Sullivan, conservative, Harty, liberal,
was the most popular man The friends of both
| assembled in force. At the close of the polls il
was shown that Harty was ahead, and the excite
ment became intense. crowd rushed upon the
platform which broke down. Dreadful con-
fusion ensued and several ladies tainted. DR.,
p Sullivans friends now seized and stuffed tht
ballot box, claiming that their ca. didate had re
ceived majority of votes and presented him
with the prize, an easy chair. Harty's lawyers
have written the minister of the church, threat
ening suit unless the prize be awarded to Har
tY
SHOT DEAD.
V1NCENNEs, Ind, Dec. IA week ago Vic
tor Josephs and other boys peIted James Hughes
another noy, with eggs. Yesterday at Annapo
lis, Ill, Hughes met Josephs the street anc
! shot him dead without warning.
!. SENTENCED.
n CAMBRIDGE, o., Dec. l4.-At the session c
the common pleas court yesterday, Judge Fra
e zier sentenced twelve saloon keepers to hne
1t aggregating S4,400, and Imprisonment in tn
Is county jail agg egating 40J days. for violatlo
). of the Scott law. There seventy cases yet t
re be tried.
y KILLED WITH A HAMMER.
i NEW YORK, Dec. 14-John Degan, who II
Of Gently finished seven years sentence for th
" murder of his wife. probably fatally attacke
ID with hammer Boone A. Scar, with whose Wi
q Sears regarded Degan too intimate.
ne AN INDIAN EXECUTION.
~ FIT. SMITH. Ark, Dec. 14.-Levi James, Il
~ Choctaw Indian. convicted last November
N the murder of James Fulsom, was shot yeste
b. day at Scullyville court house, Indian rritor
Y. in accordance with Choctaw law. james s
adj upon the blanket, the sheriff held one hand al
re the deputy another. The deputy took
ly position five PAGES distant and with Colts 7
a volver deliberately aimed and shot him throul
d. the heart. He died in two minutes. Jam
,et was educated, of good family, and leaves vi
ns and five small children.