The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1883-10-20

Barteau at Fort Howard, Wis. The doctor
has lived in this city for a number OF years
and stands high in his profession, although
rumer b $ il that he has not lived In per
feet accord with local contemportrl es. Or.
Barteau served in the army and IL nlnlselI
a pensioner. Some years since he was APP
pointed pension agent by the government
for bis district. 1t is alleged. in the charge
upon which he twas arrested, that durlGg
this perisd he exacted and secured from d.
verse parties, pensioners OF the United
States, fees for making examinations. Pen
sion examiners receive 9 salary from the
government and the law says they must
not exact fees from pensioners. The evil
dence is overwhelming. In many instances
he gave receipts for fees and these will be
used against him. The law imposes q heavy
penalty for each and every otfense, and the
doctors have exten led through a series or
years.
A man, giving the name of Rev. James
Young of Philadelphia, was arrested on
the 18th inst, at London, Ontario, for pas
sing bogus checks On city merchants. The
checks were made payable to the order OF
Rev. JamS Hughes of Sarnia, but no such
person resides there. A number OF other
checks were found with the prisoner in
ldNOE VI new II huShCS ~ WV S'AASO
YouSg; also three on the city bank OF Min
~neapolis in favor of Hughes and Young.
Robert Morrison, an international claim
agent, who occupied handsome quarters at
Pittsburg, has suddenly disappeared, leav-
ing numerous creditors behind. People at
New Castle, Pa, New Cumberland, w. Va,
and Steubenville, Ohio, mourn the loss OF
sums ranging from 5000 to 81, 200, and 9TH
ers who entrusted claims to his manage
ment are still to hear from. 1t IS believed
he has gone to Boston.
Serious troubles have arisen among the
miners in the Coer d'Alene mountains, sew
eral shooting affrays having occurred, and
parties of that section are of the opinion
tnat a war determination can only be avoid
ed by the interference Of the military, as
the civil authority Of that section Is unable
to cope with the matter.
A Mexican named Segundoe and Cart.
Campbell and son John, have been ar
rested in McMullen county, Tex, for the
murder of Nat Williams, a herder. The
~Campbells hired the Mexican TO do the
killing because Williams knew damaging
business secrets OF theirs. They are among
the richest stockmen of Texas.
Alonzo Keys, a resident OF Marsh6eld
Wis, shot his wife on the 18th inst. The
cannot live. The reasons for the
SHOPPING were jealousy and domestic
troubles. Keys and bis wife have lived un.
happily for years, and several times sepa-
rated. The murderer escaped to the woods.
Michael Lone a prominent Irishman of
Ladoga, Montgomery county. Ind, left his
hnroa s~Daa dave c.w~n ko Hsnn NTH hfpo
$i5,000 and q woman who had resided in
his family for son.e time. Re leaves debts
TO the amount of 81, coo and a mortgage on
his farm for 81, 900.
Charles a. Taylor has been arrested at
jamestown, Dakota, for taking a letter
nom The postofice and embezzling its con-
tents. Taylor was examined before Com
missioner o. Fl. Hewitt and held to the
United States court in $500, with sureties.
At Denver, Col, William Harrison, shot
his fifteen year old wife and then himself,
both dying almost instantly. The cause as.
signed was jealousy. The couple were
married at Shawnee, KS, last March, and
had been Ia Denver a month.
Bill Johnson was hanged on the 18th INST,
at Monticello. Ark. for the murder CT Gel
Va VAlllalio tLlCO yOdIo ukOs All1aLlo
vie and Caesar Pitts, alse sentenced tor as.
sisting in the murder, received a respite a
few days ago.
George Webb of Telgsrden, Ind, while
under the influence of liquor, killed his
two-year-old child and then blew his own
brains out. Tn husband and wife had
lived urnSppily, and the latter had applied
for divorce.
Joseph Murphy, an old aud respected
resident of North Alton, Ill, committed
suicide by hanging himself in his stable
with a halter, while temporarily insane.
he went to Illinois in 1886.
During the disaster at Carlyon, N. Y, the
body OF ex.Mayor Hayne of Chicago was
Bottstord has been sentenced to six months
in the Monroe county, N. Y, Jail, for the
crime.
Thomas Taylor, arrested in New York on
a charge of Ascending from Chicago with
funds of the Bricklayers' unlop, of which
he was secretary, has Deen turned over to
Chicago officers.
Thomas Carmody, the six teen-year-old
son of John Carmody. who lives on q farm
four miles south of Rowley, Iowa, hanged
himself in his fathers barn a few days ago.
Felix Wilson, colored. in Jail at Charlotte,
| N. G, for murder hung himself in his cell
the ti.ird condemned criminal in two years
tn take his own life.
George Q. Wendell, a letter carrier Of
Jersey City. and son OF the assistant poet.
master there, has been arrested for stealing
money from letters.
John Mccain, Russell Sage's clerk kicked
an officer out doors who came to serve pa.
pers on his employer, recently, and wen,
to the Tombs tor it.
Two tramps recently stoned the house o.
Franklin Monroe, in Huntiock's Creek,
Pa Monroe fred upon them, killing one,
Samuel McNeal.
Graft, the Highland, KY. murderer, ha.
issued q card d~enouncing George Eli.