Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-01
THE DAYS DEVILTRY
TRAGIC SUICIDE OF4 HOTEL NAN
NEAR FERGUS Falls.

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Taken in at ChicaGo-A Girl Slugger
| Sentenced-Tragic Affair at Prayer
Meeting in Kansas-The Casualty and
| Fire Record.
| SUICIDE AT FERGUS FALLS.
FERGUS FALLS, Mimi, Dec. 30.-The an
| nouncement in this mornings Telegram
that Jno. Fyhri, the landlord of the Cen
tral honse, in this city, had shot himself at
Carlisle, six miles from here, at 6 o'clock
last evening, created a great deal of ex-
element Fyhri died at o'clock this
morning, and the body was brought to this
| city. A coroner's inquest developed the
following: Fyhri and his wife had heard
reports that an intimacy existed between
him and a Mrs. Svendsgoard, who formerly
lived at Fergus Falls, but had recently
moved to Carlisle. Yesterday Fyhri re-
ceived letter from the husband of the wo-
man to the effect that he thought the stories
should be stopped, and asking him to come
| up to Carlisle and see him. In response to
this Fyhri and his wife went up there in
the afternoon. The matter was talked
over with the best of feeling on the part
of all concerned. Suddenly Fyhri accused
his wife of being jealous, and pulled out a
revolver and shot himself, the ball entering
! just above the right ear. Medical aid was
summoned from this city, but nothing
could be done to save him, and he died at
IS o'clock this morning. THIS is Mrs.
| Fyhri's story. DR.. Hutton, the physician
| in attendance, was also examined. The
! jury decided that they wished to have the
| other witnesses examined, and the inquest
| was postponed until Tuesday. Deceased
was popular Norwegian, and bore good
reputation.
A GIRL THIEF.
Special Telegram to the Globe
CHICAGO, Dec.30.-Martha Sleeber, eleven
years of age, was arraigned before Justice
Wallace this morning on the charge of
robbery. Henry Schiel, said that the pris-
oner enticed his little girl, five years of
age, to the corner of Stewart avenue and
Fifty fifth street, robbed her of her ear
rings and then threw her into a culyert.
breaking her collar bone. The mother of
the prisoner appeared and informed the
court that the name of the accused
| was Lizzie Welkie and not Martha Sleeber.
The girl, who acknowledged the fiendish
| act, when the court said he would send her
| to the house of Good Shepherd, cried as
though her heart would break. Her moth
or said that the girl frequently absented
| herself from home for days and nights
and yet besought the court not to separate
them. Justice Wallace, however, turned
deaf ear to the supplications of mother
and child and sent the 11-year old prisoner
for six months to the house of the Good
Shepherd.
yBRDANT YOUNG MAN FROM THE COUNTRY
Especial Telegram to the Globe
CHICAGO, Dec. 30.-Three weeks ago
veraant young man named Upper Finch
arrived in Chicago from Manitoba in search
of work. He saw an advertisement to the
effect that W, l.. Walker of 332, Wabash
avenue, representing a firm in Honduras,
Central America, wanted time keeper, at
liberal salary. Finch applied and
contract was entered into between him
and Mr.. Walker, by which the former was
to receive $4,000 a year at Honduras and
have half his fare paid to that country by
Mr.. Walker. Then he was asked for $40
to pay the rest of the fare and feolishly
gave up the money. He did not get his
ticket to Honduras, and discovered that
Geo. M. Pullman and several other dis
tinguished citizens of Chicago, to whom
Walker had referred him for reference.
knew nothing about such man. Finch
told his story to Justice Walsh and a war
rant was issued for the arrest of Walker or
the charge Of obtaining money by false
pretences.
A MURDERESS SENTENCED.
EMPoRIA, Kas., Dec. 3O-Mary Isabella
Martin, who was tried in the district court
in November for the murder of Mrs. Lor
aine M. Kuger, and who has been feigning
insanity since the verdict of guilty, has
been pronounced sane by a competent
board of physicians, and was yesterday
sentenced by Judge Graves to be hanged,
according to the laws of Kansas, after one
years confinement at hard labor in the
penitentiary. The tests of the physicians
who conducted the examination were such
as to leave no possible doubt of her sanity,
and it was apparent to all in the court
room that she could not maintain the pre-
tense to any successful degree. The crime
was committed for the purpose of obtain
ing $4,000 insurance upon the life of the
deceased woman, the policy having been
taken out few weeks previous and made
payable to the son of Mrs. Martin, who is
still in Jail, and will be tried as an accom-
plice in February.
INCENDIARY FIRE.
CHICAGO, Dec. 30.-The house occupied
by James Griffin, who was discharged yes
terday by the coroner for killing j. Man
gin, was set on fire this forenoon and
burned to the ground. 1t is believed
Mangen's hoodlum friends did it
BURLINGTON, Coffee County Kas., Dec. 80.
The mills owned by VIM. Martindale,
were destroyed by fire yesterday. Loss