The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-11-15
Mans Wicked DOings.

Martin Newman was arrested at Washing
ton for obtaining money on promise of mar
riage from Kate Smith, department clerk.
| Then he offered to marry the girl and she
| begged for his release, but as the police had
found in his room evidence that he had a
wife in Tennessee he was held for trial.
In an election row at Marion, Ohio. Ed
ward Uhl white man was stabbed and
killed. Harrison Thacker and George Nap
per, colored were arrested for the crime and
taken to Delware, Ohio, for safe keeping. A
razor covered with blood was found in
Thackers pocket, and it is generally consid-
cred he did the cutting.
By means of photographs from the rogue's
gallery OF police headquarters in Boston,
State Detective Seaver has identified the men
who robbed Elisha Williams of 5 900 as no.
torious confidence men who were convicted
| and sentenced in New York three weeks ago
| and who have been ut liberty but q little
while. Word has been sent to New York,
| where they are well known, to look out for
them.
Samuel Brown farmer who lived near
North Liberty, a village of Iowa, was killed
by his wife. Mrs. Brown was not of perfectly
sound mind, and her temper was naturally
violent. One morning after an unusually
angry dispute with her husband over trivial
matter, she seized an axe and pursued him
through the house, hacking him repeatedly,
Brown has been arrested, and will be exam
ined as to her sanity
DR.. A. J. Dickinson of Huron went to an
upstairs room in his residence and severed
his carotid artery with a knife. He had been
sick for two years and half, and of late his
mind had not been clear. Heundoubtedly was
insane. His wife had been watching him, but
he slipped away from her. Before he had
killed himself she was ut the door and finding
it locked asked him to let her in. moment
later she heard some indistinct reply and then
the sound of blood falling on the floor. A
family OF five survive him.
Edward Hall, stricking switchman, and
Charles Huston, one of the new engineers
brought to Creston, Iowa, by the Burlington
lard hall at Creston. Houston forced the
quarrel and finally drew a revolver and taxi
ing deliberate aim, fred at Hall, who dropped
dead with bullet through his brain. The
exact origin of the quarrel is not known.
Huston WINS arrested and taken to Alton and
extremely bitter feeling which prevailed for
some months after the great strike.
The German spy, Fritz Killian, was tried
at Nice, France, on the charges that he had
made plans of the French forts on the Italian
frontier and forwarded them to Berlin; that
be had reported movements of battalions of
Alpine troops, obtained from soldiers and
Objects, uuu Undb ne uuu beuU specimens OF
cartridge, hidden in box of flowers, ad-
dressed to q lady. The prisoner was proved
to have received money regularly in return.
The defense was that the reports were
written for newspapers. The prisoner was
found guilty and sentenced to five years
penal seryitudc, besides being ordered to
pay q fine Of 5,O00f, and to be excluded
from France for ten years.
William Brown, the keeper of grocery at
Collamer village, Ohio, attempted suicide in o
desperate manner. Browns family left him
q week ago because of his dissOlute habits
and he has since been drinking hard Early
one morning the people living in the vicinity
were awakened by loud explosion. As they
rushed from their houses they discovered
that Browns store was on fire. Several men
attempted to enter it when q second explo-
sion occurred blowing the front across the
street, and badly wrecking the inside of the
store The men entered the building and
found Brown lying on the floor with his
throat cut. The fire was extinguished, when
keg ofpowdef was found in the rear Of the
store, q few feet from where the FIRE had been
burning It seems that Brown placed at
least three kegs Of powder In thjstore where
they would be exploded BY the flfe, then
touched match to some in6ammsb1s ma