The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-12-06
Mans Wicked DOings.

The Republicans are very much disap-
pointed at the possibility, which some of
them now admit, that it will be found that
the Democrats will have a majority of one
had fully expected to have had an undispu-
ted majority in the next house.
A horrible tragedy occurred 20 miles south
of Ozark in Missouri. Mrs. Amanda Truitt,
killed two of her young children with q
hatchet, and then cut her throat with q
butcher knife. No details are given, but it
is supposed that the unfortunate woman was
demented.
Word has reached Fort Smith, Ark, of a
terrible shooting ARRAY at Viau, Ind. T.,
which resulted in the death of four Cherokee
Indians-George Starr, Isaac Gertie, Jesse
Landrum and Boot Henzen. The last three
named were drunk, and Starr vas one of a
posse sent to arrest them. They were killed
in the ARRAY which followed.
A twelve-year-old son of Martin Sturmer, a
New Berlin farmer, was shot full Of buckshot
by one of three young men who were hunting
in the vicinity of Sturmers farm in Wis
consin. After the shooting the mel ran
away, and could not be found. Mr.. Sturmer
says that from all he can learn the shooting
was not accidental. I
Cashier Barker, of the Argentine, Kan,
bank, was robbed of 81, 900 on q street car
in st. Louis. He had just drawn the money
from the bank. The perpetrators aresupposed
to be four well.dressed young men, and are
believed to be the ones who robbed q man of
$500 in daylight on the street, the day be-
fore.
A trunk containing the corpse of Herr
Huelsburg, forwarding agent of the American
Packet company was found on the dock at
Baaken, Germany. The skull had been
fractured, and the victims watch and $3.50,
which he is known to have had when last
seen were missing. A steward in the employ
of the company named Daw was arrested on
suspicion Of committing the crime.
James E. Bedell, the real estate clerk of the
law firm of Shipman, Barlow, Larocque &
Choate, of New York, who swindled his EN-.
ployers and their clients out of $264.OOO, of
which he spent q part in the policy shop of
Emerson & Goss, was sentenced, on his plea
of guilty, to states prison for twenty-five
years and four months. Philip J.. Goss, one
of the policy dealers, who got $4,000 out OF
Bedeli, pleaded guilty to felony and was fined
$1,000.
johnson, the ex-policeman of Fargo, OAK,
who was bound over to the district court
some weeks ago on the charge of unlawfully
pounding a private citizen while a member OF
the police force, attempted to Jump his bail.
He was arrested on q telegram at Casselton,
and while Deputy Sheriff Best was bringing
him in he jumped from the train. The deputy
attempted to follow him, but fell and sprained
his knee SO as to be unable to walk, and
Fargo were notified and Deputy Sheriff
Barnes soon captured johnson in Moorhead,
brought him back and lodged him in the
countyjail.
While searching for fresh clues to the Eva
Mitchell mystery at Chicago, aheavy iron
stoyepoker was found, which the police be-
lieye was used by the murderer. There are
three dark spots on the handle that have the
appearance Of blood. The greatest impor-
tancs attached to the finding of the poker is
that every dagman's shanty along the tracks
of the road contains a poker Of precisely the
same make and design. Tom Masterson, the
man suspected of numbering the girl, and
who is still locked up in the Hyde Park police
station, had just such o poker in his shanty,
SIt il still there, but the poker belonging to
the shanty at the next crossing is missing.
The poker was found in a vacant lot not
more thansa hundred yards from where the
murdered girl was lying.
The grand jury at Chicago, entered upon
an investigation of the methods OF Cashier
Tallnaan, Of the dsfunctf Traders bank. The
prosecuting witness in the case ia q business
man who, 4 day or two before the failure,
deposited $1,000 H. the bank. The state
ment under which the aetio4 js taken pro-
vides that any banker who shall receive
money ON deposit, knowing that his bank is
i~nsoIyent, shall be- deemed guilty Of embezzle-
ment. The statute further states TINT the
failure sof the bank within thirty days after
the receipts Of deposit shall be considered
prima facie evidence Of embezzlement. The
Traders bank, on the day before it went into
the hands OF receiver, took in $50, 900 in
deposits, III is said. Mr.. Tallman, who was q
part owner I'M the hank managed it's affairs
Tor q long time, owing to- the illness .of
Banker Ruttsg III il understood that about