Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-11-29
Mans Wicked Doings.

character, was Killed ut springfield, No DY
| Margaret Miller, his mistress in "a trivial
dispute. Taylor aud the Woman were dis
GUESSING a laundry bill, when She seized an
AK and split his head open. He lived long
enough TO make an ante-mortem statement,
George Faebel, q me mber Of the board Q
trade committed suicide by shooting himself
at Chicago, 1t is understood that he LOST
about $4,000 in the September wheat
corner, and dependency, growing out of the
loss, is supposed to have been the cause o.
the act.
Judge Black of Fort Benton. Montana,
sentenced Charles Gordon to be hanged Jan.
IL. Gordon murdered j. A. Lavalle at
Choteau July IL last. No ~provocatiou eS-
listed save an insult Fsown only to Gordon
TIL evidence showed that the murder was
eold-blooded ard deliberate, as It was com
mitted hours after the alleged insult, and
not in the heat of passion.
Frank Vernon, aged fourteen, was ar
raigned on the charge of forgery. A cigar
dealer charged that he obtained SIS from him
on a forged order. Vernon is q precocious
youth who ran away from home at Chicago
to follow horse racing. lie anne to New
York, where he developed into a regulnr
sport.
Murderer Brown, alias Murphy, was taken
to q place OF safety from Moorhead, Mimi.
to avoid being lynched. Rumors were aiioat
to the effect that friends OF the murdered
policeman, PoulI, would lead a mob and
lynch Brown. The sheriff removed the pris-
oner, and tkas foiled the would.he 1ynchers
His1riaI wia SsFaf at lihe ganuary term o.
the district court Judge Mile presiding.
The government secret service at Buffalo,
n. Y. has for the past few days been closing
in around "A gang of counterieiters, who have
been making dollars and halfdollars of q
kind that was almost impossible to detect.
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circulated in Eric, Warren, Oil City ant
jamestown. Some Of the rang are under
arrest. Squire Richardson. one of III.
men. who, it is alledged, attended to tn,
manufacture of the money, was brought tt
Buffalo. Richardson is fully sixty years OLD
lt is thought he viii squeal on the whole party
That somebody with the evil intention o
| committing arson has been at work in St
Peter has been made evident. In one of th,
yncant basement rooms of the Gustavu,
Adolphus college it was discovered that &
map had been plaeed in n small closet ant
set on fire, but the effort failed for lack o
air. Next night the room was examined
again, and it was found that straw had beer
set on FIRE in the closet ard the plot has
failed as before. A close watch is now being
kept for the eviLdoer.
A mGrder occurred near the Montgomery
! county line OF Tennessee. DIR. j.. g.. Braki
heard a noise in the horse lot. lie went t.
| the stable, when a man concealed behind {
tree fired, and Brake reeled and started to
fall. Two more shots we're fired into lil
body and then the ASSASSIN beat his head in
to a jelly. Next day George Tally gave him
self up, saying that he was the murderer ant
that be killed. Brake because the latter had Sc
duced his seventeen-year old daughter. Th'
! girl is said 20 have borne an unsayory repn
tation and the doctor stood high in the com
munity.
A burglar went through three safes il
adjoining buildings at Owatonna, MINI
Both B.J. Meixner. wagon manufacturer, ana
C. zambari. guDsmith, had left their safe
unlocked, there being nothing OF value in ei
Their. No damage was done to either exeep'
that the iron money drawer OF Meixner's, be
ing locked, was carried away. At Kabat
Slezak's saloon the safe door was drilled ant
the lock was blown out of the door. but tn
bolts were not drawn and the money in fhI
safe was not obtained. They took a small
amount of change from the till and helpeC
themselves TO the fluids.
Piekpoekets who had mingled with the i'm
mense throng, in one OF the large Stat
street dry goods stores al Chicago raised thI
cry OF fire. Immediately a panic ensued
In the rush the weaker ones were knoeket
down and trampled upon. One of the larg'
windows of the store was broken out, through
which the crowd rushed into the street, seat
tering the goods in all directions. The frt
alarm was turned in and the department wai
soon on hand, but it was discovered thai
there was no fire in the building. The pres
ence of the engines added TO the confusion
Many Of the lady clerks in the store tainted
and were carried away to o n~eighborinl
drug store. The pickpoekets reaped a riel
harvest.
Though the authorities rcfuseto talk abouI
the recent big capture of counterfeiters il
Western New York and Pennsylvania, a few
facts have leaked out to show ii to he one o
the most important captures on record. Tn
man Richardson, who was ~broughtto Buffalo
is not only seemingly respectable, but is il
more h comfortable circumstances. HI
has a delightful home at cnssadaga, aud il
the father of two estimable daughters. al
most grown. IL Is stated that the govern
r1ent has for years tried TO get acase againsi
Richardson, but never with much success un
til now. 1t Is believed that for twenty year
he has been making counterfeit money, ant
no man in the United States has been able e
produce a spurious coin SO near like the gen
uine as be. The other six men Interested Will
him circulated the coin, but Richardson, it j,
alleged, was the manufacturer.
Jake and Joe Tobler icolored) we're executed
in Wichita, Kansas. IN the presence of but q
few people, by Federal authorities. Will
their legs were being ~pinioned prayers wer'
offered by Mrs. CaH. and at the suggestion O
the prisoners, the services were brief. JUS
before the black caps we're adjusted, Jot
| showed signs OF a breakdown. After the fal
! Jake never moved a muscle. while Joe, dur
ing The second minute. drew up his legs twice
| The crime fer which they were executed wa
the killing of cass and Goodeykuntz nearSa,
and Fox agency in august, 1885. The mur
dered men were engaged in business at Vinits
| in the territory, and while on their way ii
! Northern Texas camped about one mile from
Sac and Fox agency. While asleep they wer,
murdered, The TobleF boys we're soon aftel
arrested, with property Of the murdered mer
in their possession, and confessed their guilt
II. ii. Scott, county surveyor ofPine coun,
ty and justice of the peace in Hirckiey, went
/ rom his place OF business with his wife, DIR
| Mary M. Scott, to the water tank OF tn,
Eastern Minnesota railway, of which s.. h
Irwin was engineer. TO settle some trivial az
/ fair. Mrs. Scott fearing that there sight b,
! some trouble. and seeing her husband put Q
revolver in.his pocket, told him that she
would 20 with him Il he would leave the re
yoiver at home. He made it appear that b,
hEddone 80, but when they arrived at tbs
tank end hr. Irwin was accused of the deed
he denying it emphsfieally, Scott drew ths
revolver. Irwin, while trying to get the pis
tci rom Scott, ras shot dead. After IrYir
wns dead Scott shot him aEsiin IN thu head
Sect 6ssiherAtsis wathsa W tewn aud EaYI