Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-10-17
BELIEVERS IN WITCHCRAFT.
A Swedish Woman Tried for Bewitch.
ing her Niece and Found Guilty.

A telegram from st. Peter, Mimi, October Is,
says:.The following particulars of the recent
case OF alleged witchcraft in Belgrade, this
county, are vouched for by several leading citi-
zens: Mrs. John SOloman has been sick for the
past three years. She was attended for the first
two years by reputable physicians, but the pre-
sent year. hearing Of the witchcrait remedy in
Sweden, she wrote 10 parties in that country,
and afterward sent lock of her HAIR and a
fragment of her clothing, as requested
with the amount of money called for
by the witchcraft doctor. In response she re-
eeived the information that her sickness was
brought on by the manipulatiOns of an old
witch, who frequently came to her house
Thereupon she concluded that Mrs. Johnson
an aunt living in Hebron, Nicollet county who
had frequently visited her. must be the one
ana she and her husband began TO talk in pub
lie that Mrs. Johnson Was the woman who had
oeWitcneO Nrs SoloInan and caused her long
sickness They received further Information
from the witchcraft doctor in Sweden that Mrs
Soloman could only be cured BY bringing the
woman publicly before the sick woman ac-
cusinS her and slapping her on the mouth
until her mouth bled. The SoIomans then made
complaint 10 the Swede preacher, \. Anderson,
who ordered Mrs. Johnson brought up for trial
Inc trial took place after the service in the
swedish church on Sunday last in the house of
John SolOrnan, and in the presence of hi, sick
VIE, the preacher acting as judge and the dea-
cons us jury. Mrs Soioman testified that thir-
Teen years ago, while riding in wagon together
Mrs johnson touched her back and il tickIed
When she touched it, and that about three wears
N.
son was visiting at her house, and while there
she saw her take hold of the Quilt on the he'd
and ever since that she has felt that tickling in
her back. 49,
Charles Lind testified that he knew that Mrs.
Solomans disease was caused by witchcraft
Mrs. John Peterson testified that She had seen
the witches send the craft OF, and had seen il
ny In the air and strike the persons who were
soon afterward taken sick.
Mrs. johnson was found guilty but at last
accounts sentence had not been pronounced
upon her.
Another case somewhat similar b,r,anoa
sometime ago in West Newton. \ three-year-
old child OF Joseph Beible was lost and could
not be found, although 300 neishbors joined IN
the search. AS last resort the parents sought
the aid OF Minneapolis clairvoyants, and We're
aoouts: The parents and friends finally de-
c!ded mat the aged couple were Mr.. and Mrs.
Hokanson, Norwegians, who lived in Sever
ance, Slbley county. One night HOkanson was
called to the door by "A man who wished 10
know the road 10 Stewart. As Hokanson step
pedd out tod he was seized by six masked men
also thrown into the wagon, although she
was only clad in her night-ciothes. They
Tree rope was thrown over "a limb, and
Hokanson was told that he must tell the where
abouts OF the Beible child. OF course he could
not tell, as he did not know. The six men then
pulled on the rope, and he was drawn up and
LEFT hanging until nearly dead. He was finally
let down, and when he came to he was again
asked the question. Four times did these men
thus hang Mr.: Hokanson, and then they drove
couple, more dead than alive The suspected
parties were arrested, and several suits have
IoHowed About "a year ago the bones of the
missing child were found in q marsh near the
residences Of Its parents, where it had wandered
and died.
GAMBLERS AT THE PARIS BoURsE are oil.
vided into two classes-those who have O
guichet, and those who have not A guicbet Is
apaying teller's window where notes can be
presented. Those who have them are bankers
corporations and heavy SPECTATORS. These
people pay their differences on settlement day
with promptness, and while it is perfectly true
that shameful rascality is not infrequent, in.
stances of upright, honest dealing on the bourse
are equally numerous. The spectators with
out q guichet are known amateurs and as
hOmmes du monde, and in 95 cases out OF 1OC
both sorts end by "buvant un bullion" which
n very pretty French way of saying that they
the last crash there were about two thousand
hommes du monde ruined on the bourse, but
very few OF them avoided their losses
and those that did have been tabooed
there and in social circles ever since. Il
you desire To take flyer in rentes
Suez, Egypt, Panama, or Portuguese railways
you step into the bOurse and hunt up your bro
kers clerk. There Is an awful row going on
300 or 600 men are yelling at the top OF theil
voices, and everybody is pushing. crowding and
found the clerk, whisper your order. "Al
right" says he, and he scribbles on a scrap thai
ne tears out of a note book and hands il to yOu
On this scrap there is an A oraV. The ;irst
tachete) signifies that you have purchased; the
otner (vendu) that you have sold the amount Of
1stepce Of the bourse there has not been - soil
tary instance Of such q memorandum being
0isputed, although there are no witnesses To the
Iansaction, and simply because it Is one out OF
Snlen no lawsuit could possibly arise.-San
1foacssc0 ChronScte.