The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-09-20
Sinful Siftings.

FREDERICK Miller, ~ years Ola, nanBeu nlfu-
self from O. rear window of his daughters
house in New York. A boarder, who occu-
pied the room below, discovered the body
dangling before his window when he awoke.
james Fogarty of New York was stabbed in
the eye with an umbrella during q quarrel in
Cherrystreet by some unknown person. The
tip of the umbrella broke off and was extracted
with difficulty. He died ut the hospital.
The chief of police of Winnipeg went out on
the Red River Valley track and arrested two
brothers named Champagne in the act of
piling ties and other distractions across
the track for the purpose OF wrscking North
srn p acific trains.
Miles Finn of New York, sixty-two years
old, and his nineteen-year-old son, John, got
into a drunken quarrel. John stabbed his
father in the arm. An artery was cut, and
the wounded man lost go much blood that
be died in the hospital. The son is under
arrest.
No news has been received at Pullman or
Roseland ILL.,, of William Swart, the presid ent
Of the Roseland bank, who absconded q week
ago. Cashier Boone, who is endeavoring to
s%traighten out the complicated state Of Of
iairs into which the bank was thrown. has
made a statement, showing Swart's deficit
TO be $1O,570.
Mrs. Theo Keos, q partially insane
woman, attempted suicide at Smiths
Mill, Waseca County, MINI, She
.limbed q tree with d rope attached
TO her neck, and, after winding it to a limb,
Jumped. She was discovered in the act and
,ut down, with her throat and windpipe bad
" lacerated. She will die.
Four suicides took place in st. Louisi in one
Jay. August Freeder, a drug clerk, shot
aged seventy, jumped into the river. August
farms, forty-eight years old, jumped into q
we'll and was drowned. The fourth suicide
was an unknown man, who drowned himself
IN the river.
At Elizabethtown, ILL.,, John Server shot
and killed his sweetheart, Allyn Fowler, and
then committed suicide. The young couple
have been engaged for some time and the
date for the wedding had been set. Server
called on Miss Fowler, and it is thought that
they quarreled, for in q few minute two pistol
shots were heard and the bodies of the two
young people found lying on the floor. Serv-
'r has a brother in Evansville, Ind.
Five boys played tic-tac on Rev, E. O. Tay-
lor's house at Kenosha, Wis. Mr.. Taylor
loaded his pistol and waited. Shortly, two
Of the boys, George Beachel and Martin Slos-
..on,. went into the yard after their tic-tac.
Mr.. Taylor rushed at them and as they ran
into hating. He then shot at Beachel, hit
Ting him in the ARM Mr.. Taylors conduct
has caused O sensation.
A fearful murder wa committed at Corn
Ing, N. Y. A trio of Italian laborers were
drinking in o saloon kept by John Healey.
After a time John King entered and joined
the Italians at the bar. Soon after a disrep.
utable woman, May Caven by name, came
h. She was known to all four men. Upon her
the Italians became angry and O fight en-
sued, In which one Italian drew an old-fash-
loned pistol and fred at King, who dropped
dead.
Dick Roach, q farmer living near Bassett,
Neb., was murdered by q neighbor, Andrew
Lowe, in q difficulty over some cattle, for the
loss of which Roach had seized a mower be-.
longing to Lowe. The latter attempted to
take the mower back with the aid ofhis son..
Lowe who was rushing at him with ApfIsxe.
The elder Lowe, stepping M behind his son,
with O pistol, fred. Roach. rat,,rnaa ths
Ere without effect, enthusiastically wounded.
the Loves asc- & Jail.
WilliaY>AA5 II years old, shot andkill-
"a MS fEther, John Howell, at Ashiand, KY.
Jo9K Howell served q term Of years in the
'Penitentiary and returned home last August.
Since then he has frequently beaten his wife
and daughters. He drove his entire family
from home, and threatened their lives. His
son procured a warrant for his arrest for
abusing his family and to require him to give
bond to keep peace. After the trial Howell
returned home swearing vengeance on his
son, who met him at the door, and shot hih.
A mysterious tragedy was witnessed at
Racine, Wis, by Theodore Benson, mate of
the schooner Belle Laura, which was lying
by the river dock. About 10 O'clock, as no
was in the cabin about to retire for the night,
he was startled by q tremendous splash in
the river. He run up on deck and saw two
men foundering about in the water, making
he was engaged in looking for something to
throw to the men, one of them succeeded in
reaching the dock and hastily clambered out.
He made no effort to rescue his companion,
but stood still and saw him disappear, md
then took to his heels and ran away. Ben
sons story 10 generally believed, but no clue
has been found to the mystery.