The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-11-08
Petty Criminalities.

The east-bound passenger train of the Iron
Mountain railroad was held up by train rob-
bers W miles west of Newport, Ark. The
passengers were robbed of about 5000.
Andy Fulton, Ex-Mayor of Pittsburgh,
who has o ranch 20 miles from Denver, Colo
RADIO, was shot and seriously wounded by
his wife. Jealousy is said to be the cause. =
court room at Kansas City, by the suicide of
Jack Fleming, a deputy marshal, who drew
q revolver and blew his brains out while
court was in session. No cause is assigned.
James Ressegue, who with Calvin Moore
was arrested in O notorious district known
as Toad-a-Loup, OF the state line of Missouri
has confessed to the charge of horse stealing.
He also says that O plot had been made up
by three men besides himself and Moore to
rob the outgoing Santa Fe train.
G. P. Johnson was a prosperous druggist
he sold liquor, and four indictments were
found against him. He gave bonds in 5000
each, and stayed at the old stand until re-
Gently, when he disappeared with his family.
He checked out 5 5000 of his money from the
Arlington bank the day before.
Mrs. Anna Shoots, now under three indict-
ments for murder in the first degree, for
poisoning her children, was brought to James.
vile; Wis, and lodged in JILL with her baby.
olC Aluc OCCA " I'LL PAOtOOo JILL " ONOE a
year on two charges, but the grand jury in
dicted her again when an ounce of sulphate
of copper was found in the remains of her
baby that died fiveyears ago. She will re-
main in jail until the trial occurs next month.
Judge Thomas, of Algona, Iowa, passed
Judgment on A. 8. Hawkes. on his plea of
guilty for arson and forgery. He got six
years on the first and four on the last ten
in all at Fort Madison. Joseph Mcclure
wQg aonfonco6 FIR Hiy mnnthc for n assault NTH
intent to commit robbery. Old man Carpen-
ter, who gave forty-three mortgages on the
same piece OF property, and was indicted for
obtaining money nnde false pretenses,
pleaded guilty and was fined 81 and sentenced
to thirty days in Jail.
Advices from Benny River, Africa, give q
revolving story Of savage atrocities and cam
nibalism. The okrikan tribe, in revenge for
some injury, invited o party OF Ogonis to a
friendly palayer, and then entrapped and
massacred them. A cannibal festival of the
most horrible and indescribable character
followed. Then an attempt was made upon
the undefended villages, and the most bar
barous outrages were committed. 1t Ia es-
timated that over one hundred and fifty per-
sons, including women and children, were
killed and eaten.
rested at Chicago charged with being q con-
federate in q gigantic mortgage swindle,
whereby the Guaranty Association. of Stock
holm, Sweden, is the loser to an enormous
amount. In his sworn statement he says
that in Stockholm there exists a gang OF
mortgage forgers and confidence operators
who have swindled the banks for years; that
they are extremely secretive and only com
municatiye with each other by mail. He
gave the names of his companions. He says
that his share of the forgeries amounted to
$500.
A party Of prospectors, from Helena,
Montana, headed by Mcdonald, the
half-breed, who has induced the Flathead
Indians to divulge a long-kept secret as to the
location Of some remarkably rich mines In
the Blackfoot country, while clambering
over the steep mountain side were Mortified
to find the skeletons of two white men. One
had q bullet-hole through his forehead, and
both had evidently been killed by hostile In
dams. Beside the skeletons lay q small pile
OF quartz. Evidently they were the first
prospectors and pioneers Of the BlackfOot
bleak hiilsid& The 1d~iscoyeries made have
caused . stampede to that section.
a riot in which thirty-6ye railroad men
we're involved occurred atsthe Air line bridge,
Sixteenth street Chicago. a Burlington en.
CINE had the right Of way on switch, and
this VA disputed BIZ the crew on the engine
time. Seven Michigan Centrai, Rock Island,
blocknded instha meantime. blockadl
culminat4d III battle betNesn the crssrs,
EtheMase laAting aboots M hour nnRbSI