The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-02
The Murder at Fond du Lac.

1He Muruer ~ fOnu uu Lacs
The sheriff and coroner return ed from
Fond du Lac to Duluth, bringing with them
James Reney, the murderer, who killed Ben.
iamin Clark of Duluth, known as ',Slim."
There had been q quarrel between the two
men In q box car, which was side-tracked at
Fond du Lac, aud after they got out ReEey
cut Clark with a razor in the throat, the
slash being from the left. ear around to the
right side Of the windpipe and going in to
s s]iss.lo oRnss s naS and !" does rather aes
look much like either q tramp
or q murderer. In an interview he said he
was an lrishman, twenty-nine years old, and
had lived at Buffalo, where he was married
seven months ago. He is a grain shoveler
by trade, and q member of the grain trim.
mers union of that city. He came to Duluth
ing for work, but failed to get it. Afterward
he met q German here by the name Of Grupp,
and they decided to 60 to Claremont, MINI,
to work in the wheat fields
They, boarded a box coal car on the
St. Paul ( Duluth railroad, intending
three other men, one of them the man Clark,
whom he had met the day before. Several
of them were supplied with bottles of whisky
and they drank around two or three times,
though Reney says they were not drunk.
After awhile Grupp went to sleep and Clark
told Reney that he (Grupp) had some money,
$3.50, and he intended to go through him
Reney objected to his doing so and the result
was that theyha aquarrel over it. AtFond
du Lac the car they were in was switched of
on a side track just above the village, and
the rest of The train went on. All got out of
the car, and Reney says he said to Grupp
they had better 60 on or they would havea
fuss, and they started ahead on the track.
Before they had gone far Clark called to them
to stop. Looking back they saw him
running townrds them. They stopped,
Clark am up with them and grabbed
Reney by the shoulder. Then, ne
says, he drew out his razor an cut him.
Clark dropped, and he and Grupp started on
q run for the woods, but he did not know he
had killed the man at the time. In a few
moments a dozen or more men were around
the body and chasing them, one not far be-
hind with q revolver in his hand. and, and he
heard one say, Hes dead" He then
Grupp is detained as q witness.
Gen. B~oulanger rode out in o carriage
for the first time since his duel with FIoquet.
He drove through the Bots lie Bpulogue, fol-
lowed by sixteen carriages filed with news
IA bas Noquet,,'''A has Ferry" and ssVive
Boulanger'' until they were hoarse. The gem
erals carriage was escorted back to Paris by
an immense crowd o. howling gamins.
Gov. Hill OF New York has committed the
sentence Of Chiara Cignarale, the Italian wo-
man who assassinAted her husband, to i'm
prisonment for life. I
The officers Of the Northern Pacific railway
were in consultation for many hours at New
York with Premier Greeuway and Attorney
General Martin of Manitoba. The general
understanding among outsiders was that
they were e~ndeavoring to effect some plan for
cooperation between the Northern Pacific
and the Red River Valley railroad. Premier
Greenway, when seen at the Fifth Avenue
hotel late tonight, said that an agreement
had been completed by the representatives OF
Pacific Officials, but that it would no doubt
require legislative endorsement and ratifca-
ton by the Northern Pacific.