The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-30
Sinful Siftings.

George Smith, for O few days q porter at
the depot hotel, GAINESVILLE, Mimi, turned
up missing, as did $500 out of the safe in
the Office, which had been left unlocked.
Frank Waltz, aged nineteen, and August
Blettner, aged twenty-one, became involved
in u quarrel while on the floor dancing at q
birthday party at the residence of Mrs.
Stringer, in Pittsburg, Pa. simultaneously
Waltz and Blettner drew knives and sprang
ut each other. In an instant the fight was
ended n Blettner was Frustrated with q
terrible cash in his left breast. Waltz was
badly cut on the wrist. Blettner's injuries
are fatal, death being ~momentarily expected.
Waltz is under arrest.
The white miners of the Elliot Furnace
company at Round Mountain, Alabama.
we're discharged for getting drunk. They
drove the cOlored miners our, but Capt.
Elliot ordered the colored men back to start
up the furnace. The white miners have O lot
of dynamite in their possession, and say they
will blow the furnace up as soon as it starts.
ground with 100 men. Arms hBve been sent
to the scene of the trouble from Rome, Ca,
and Gadsden, Ala.
During the storm at Faribault, MINI.
some one entered G. Clark's bed room and
took his clothing and the chair on which
they were hanging out into the kitchen.
Here they left the chair and q part of the
clothing, but his pants they carried out into
the garden. They secured about 500 in
money and two gold watches worth about
800. Mr.. Clark knew nothing of the rob-
berry until morning, when he arose and
missed his pants. When they were found
they were very wet, and were evidently in
the rain which fell during the night.
Old No. 5S Lafayette street, in Louisville,
KY, q house which has been noted for the
crimes com mitted in it, and for the vice it
h n q fCctnrol fov n n uo xrnn %ho onn -
horrible tragedy. Police officers Joseph
Rosenberg and James w. Jones, while ut
tempting to mako an arrest, were both
stabbed to death by Charles digger, formerly
a private policeman and general bad char
acter about town. digger was beating his
mistress, and the officers, attracted by her
| cries, broke into the house and attempted
to arrest the tough, with the fatal results
cited. The murderer was jailed.
Reports are received of the wanton murder
of On eighteen-year-old boy neat the village
of Clifton, in Pettis county, Missouri. The
victim, John Tabb, was at work in the field
when William Beaman, q farmer, residing in
the neighborhood, walked across the field,
shot the boy and then fed to the brush. The
of the boy, Link Morris and q mar named
Brown. Two weeks ago Beaman and his
wife quarreled, and u member of the Beaman
household implored Morris and young Tabb
to go to the house and pacify Beaman, which
they did. 1t was for this interference that
Beaman killed young Tabb. A posse is in
pursuit, and if Beaman is captured he will be
lynched.
J, F. Grace, an attorney at law of High.
land Wis.,, has brought suit against Rev.
Thomas Dempsey, pastor of the Catho lie
church Of that town, and several ofhis parish
toner's. to recover damages in the sum of
SIS, 900 for an alleged assault upon the
plaintiff by the defendant in revenge for a
public accusation made by Grace against
Father Dempsey, to the effect that the lat
ter had held improper relations with the wife
of Grace, a beautiful and accomplished wom-
IN. In his complaint the plaintiff alleges
that he was forcibly taken by the friends of
Father Dempsey to the latter's house and
compelled by threats and other maltreat-
ments to get down upon his knees before the
priest and withdraw and humbly apologize
for the charges he had made against him,
and that while in this position he was struck
several times by Dempsey. Grace and his
wife are both members of Father Dempsey's
church. 1t is claimed that the testimony
will be rather sensational. The priest pro-
tests his innocence and has engaged the best
counsel to help him out of his trouble.