The sun., 1888-07-05
Grimes and Criminals

George Wilson was hanged in the Albion,
Orleans county, New York Jail for the muir
der ot his wife in January of last year.
Wilson OF Marquette. Mich. is given up by
the physicians, while Nicoli. who shot him
aud then attempted suicide. is not fatally in
jured. Nieoli wife has come out of the con-
vuisions and is rational.
While Agent Millspaugh. of the Manitoba
road at East Grand Forks. was at dinner his
office was broken open and the money drawers
riiied ot their contents. There is no doubt
that the robbery was the work of profes-
sional
The stage of Salisbury L Co.. carving the
United States mail and express. held up
between Blackfoot. Idaho. and Cha mois by
masked hiGhwaymen. Besides ritiing the
mail pouch, bar silver bullion worth 2,500
was taken.
The fifteen -vear-old son OF George Deems of
Jaeksonville Florida. has confessed to pois-
ouing his father and other members OF the
family. and Is i'll Jail. His father had threat
eurd to chastisc him. Deems died and the
other two children will die. making five vie
TINS in all.
:. Z. Gross of Portland, Or. was expected
III Chippewa Falls, two weeks ago to visit
his brother Eugene. Advices from his home
stated that he had started from there, but
no trace OF him can be found. His friends
fear foul play. He was q prosperous mer-
chant OF that city.
y mob ut Minneapolis. Kan. took Chubb
Met arthy. the murderer of Mike Dorsey,
from iuii and hanged him to Il tree This
made four hangiu@s in the state in twenty
four hours. the Others being Wallace Mitchell
ofSvraruse and John Risbee and Wvlee Lee,
TWO negroes al Chetopa. No legal hangings
Occur i'll Kansas
Mrs. George Powers. living at Everett, Ne
bgusk5. committed suicide by cutting her
throat with razor. She was the wife of
weli-jo-io farmer. and the cause OF the act is
SunpOstd 10 he the report of the improb bic
recovery of her daughter who is an inmate of
the Norfolk insane asylum The deceased was
siNty-four years old.
At Maysyille, Kentucky, Lucy Rice shot
dead Barbara Balenger. The Ballenger
woman had been a servant in Maysville, and
Rice had lived rs the wife of Charles B. Hill.
Hill returned from trip TO Cincinnati with
Ballenger. and Rice met them at the top of
the levee and without a word fired, sending a
ball through her rivals brain.
Defaultpr Pitcher. of the Union Bank of
Providence. K. l.. was arrested at Montreal.
The prisoner had bought a ticket byt the Allan
Nua, and intended to leave for England. He
Vas taken 70 his room and searched. Detect
i've Kelley states that securities and cash
amounting to S100.000 were found on him.
The prisoner took his arrest coolly.
Further particulars concerning the shoot
ing at Alhambra Springs, Montana shows
that it was the result of a drunken row.
Swedish teamster of heavy build raised n
chain 10 strike Il small man. when Frank
Walker. bartender fired at the Swede and
missed him. The bullet passed through an
open door and hit a man named Reeves n
lumberman. in the abdomen. Walker then
fired again, this time hitting the Swede and
killing him instantly. Nothing is known of
the Swcde beyond the fact OF his occupation.
Reeves. who is Il leading man in Jefferson
county, is not expected to recover.
Lewis Nic0H. n German stone-cutter ap-
peaIcd on the grounds where the government
custom house is being erected at Marquette,
Mich He had been discharged by the fore
man. NJ. Il. Wilson, for drunkenness He shot
Wilson in the neck and tried to kill Contrac-
tor Smith, who escaped by flight. Nicol then
went home and shot himself in the mouth.
3S tallbre bail entering his head and ranging
upwards. His wife, who is in a delicate con-
ditiOn, is now in awful commissions. 1t is
hardly possible for either of the wounded men
to live, while the poor woman may die at any
moment. Wilson was very popular.
Information has been received at Helena,
Montana. of q stage robbery on the line be-
tweed Blackfoot and Challas, Idaho. A
party of masked men who had been in the
bushes jumped out and called a halt and
compelled all the passengers to alight and
throw up their hands. While they We're being
held at bay at the point OF several six-shoot-
ers two of the robbers ransacked the mail
pouch and express box and took possession
Of a bar of silver valued at 50, 800 They
next proceeded to relieve the passengers of
what money and watches they possessed.
The total value of their booty is not known.
\ sheriff posse is in pursuit.
bogus Pinkerton detective attempted to
abduct Harry Moore, cashier of q bank at
Wellman, Iowa. The professed officer arrest
ed Moore on the charge of forgery, but had
no papers, saying that as a Pinkerton Of
ticai he needed no warrant. He told Moore
that he would have to be taken away, and
would better provide himself with papers and
money. They drove to the house of President
Nichols 20 whom Moore told the story of his
arrest and asked a small loan. Mr.. Nichols
gave him $40 and the two men drove to the
Rock Island depot in Iowa City. The detec-
tive there left him to return the rig to the
livery stable, and upon his return told Moore
that he had received a telegram saying that
he was not the man wanted. The SUPPOSE
tiun is that the fellow finding that Moore
had so little money. and failing to get him to
take money from the bank, as he suggested to
Moore to do, he dropped him as too poor for
plucking.