The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-09-27
Sinful Siftings.

Another raid was made by the McCoys on
the Hatfield settlers in Kentucky and as usu.
o., the West Virginians were worsted. In
the melee two Of the West Virginians were
killed and two more badly wounded. None
OF the kentuckians were hurt.
Several places OF business in Fargo were
entered by burglars, but no large amounts
were stolen. In c. J. Chalmer's grocery store
they attempted to blow open the safe with
powder, but succeeded only in tearing away
the outer portion of one side of the safe.
No arrests have been made. f.
Burglars entered the jewelry house of Shell
don, Swope Il Co. ut Terra Haute, Ind, and
attempted to %overpower Edward Patterson,
who sleeps over the store, in order to force
him to give them the combination to the safe.
In the scuf1e young Patterson was cut II
INES. The burglars escaped.
Mrs. Smell, the widow of the millionaire
who was murdered in his own home at Chi
cago, BY q burglar, doubtless the young
scape-grace .Tascott, offered double the
amount Of the original reward for the capture
Of the fugitive. It is not known that any
definite clue to Tascott's whereabouts has
caused this action.
John N. Wogan, aged about sixty, the
most notorious desperate in Southernlllinois,
who for ten years has figured in the criminal
courts at Wabash county, was shot and killed
" AAbb Va tIO Hull Htlu GE-
rested Wogan on the charge ofattempting to
kill his own son and daughter, and he was
taking him to his boarding house to get his
clothes. In a dark place Wogan turned
sharply, and Hall, fearing violence, drew his
revolver and fred.
After a years search the police of Iowa
city and the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
railway secret detective have arrested the
man who tried to wreck Il passenger train on
4t,n nhrv,n rynr,n1 ~nsl--. ..--. a. h.
year ago. The man is William Orcutt, aged
twenty. He has made u confession, saying
that his motive in trying to wreck the train
was robbery OF the passengers. He has been
bound over to await the action OF the grand
jury.
The Sioux Falls, OAK, saloon keepers are
much exercised over the action of Judge Car
land in sentencing two Union county saloon
keepers to the penitentiary for three and four
months respectively for violating the local
option law. Their names are William Gillen
and John Teller. All the saloon keepers ore
under bonds to answer for from two or three
to IL or 20 violations each of the local OPP
ton law, but have been expecting fines only,
which would be equivalent to paying license,
but penitentiary terms now stare them in the
and they are getting nervous.
Four days and nights of continuous search
in the woods of Newton, Mimi, finally result
ed in the capture of Robert Arola, the young
Finlander who is accused of shooting his
father. He was taken to New York Mills,
he met his brothers and sisters, and
quite an effecting scene was enacted. Young
Arola says he knows nothing about the
murder of his father, and maintains O stolid
indifference, although he broke down O little
when the sheriff started for Fergus Falls.
His sister Mary accompanied him. She was
an eye witness and it is she who must send
her brother to the gallows. She is q very
bright girl and seemed to fully realize the
dreadful position in which she was placed.
W. G. Harley, O well know commission
dealer and member of the firm of Peterson &
Harley, was arrested at Minneapolis, on a war
charging him with stealing Is, 1000 BUSH
of wheat from the Union elevator. This
arrest comes Us the sequel Of great deal of
suppressed excitement among certain we'll
wheat men. The arrest of Harley is
probably but the begi ming of a series of ar
rests, and the local wheat trade it likely to
have some intensely interesting subjects for
The stealing was lone by overload
lng cars. The cars leaving the elevators were
to have contained 500 bushels each, It ia
now positively known that they were over
loaded, and that to the extent of so, 100 and
$50 bushels.
At Carthange, Tenn, az John Smith, q
stone contractor of Nashville and Knoxville,
and h's bookkeeper, Mr.. Shreiner, were be-
tween G~ordonville and Lancaster, on their way
to pay off the hands, they. were stopped by two
men who demanded the 81, 900 which they
bad in a ~grip-sack. They fred ut the, robbers,
but Smith was struck on the head and rem
dered insensible and Shreiner fed. The rob-
bers escaped with the money, but were soon
in the woods by aparty ofrailroad
men who had been notified by Smith as soon,
as he recovered consciousness. One of the
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one of the robbers and shot the other 30 sew
erely that he may die. The money was re-.
and the robbers taken into custody.
They were former employees of the road and
knew when the payee would pass and the
amount he would have with him.