The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-11-01
Petty CriminalitieS.

A crazy man named Joseph Poy is at large
IN the mountains on Ten Mile creek, near
Helena, and is terrorizing all the citizens of
that locality by robbing3 houses, firing hay
stacks and shooting at everybody he meets.
Ira Haywood, treasurer of Huron county,
Mich, has been missing since Oct. 5. His
books have been overhauled and q shortage
of 50 900 found. Haywood had been dissi-
pating for some time and his friends think he
is demented. The county is amply secured.
James Talmage, son of the late A. A.
Talmage, general manager of the Wabash
railway, was convicted OF murder in the
second degree at Keytisville, Mo-, for killing
telegraph operator named c. p. Tidd, one
year ago, and sentenced to twenty-one years
in the penitentiary.
Mary Ann Irvine, character in Sioux
Falls, Dak., known to nearly every one, died
OF an abcess over the heart, She has been
terror to that community during the past
fifteen years. She would resort to anything,
even to plying the torch, to punish an enemy.
She was rich and miser and her home, in
which she died, was filthy in the extreme.
After her death two packages of poison were
found under her pillow.
Thomas A. Richardson, advertising mana
ger of the ST. Louis furnishing Magazine, is
missing. He came to st. Louis Aug. a,
last. He then said he was an old newspaper
man and had been dramatic critic for the New
1OFk l1IueS IOE IL humber OI years. nlCilaFu-
son was left a sum of money by his father
and recently lost 800, 900 in u speculation in
California. A favorite daughters death ad-
ded to his troubles. Foul play or suicide is
suspected.
The trial of Mary Ann Sutherland, the
woman who represented herself as Mrs. Cor
don Bailie, a wealthy land owner of Scotland
and descendent of the Earl of Moray, and
who was arrested in July last for fraud and
oh Hfoty sncr ,dorf fol
concluded at London. The woman was
found guilty and sentenced to five years
penal servitude Her husband was also
tried and convicted ON charge of fraud,
and was sentenced to eighteen months i'm
prisonment at hardlabor.
The Cincinnati Conservatory of Music was
the scene of horrible suicide. The victim
was one of the pupils Miss Maize Mount, d
beautiful girl twenty-One years of age, whose
parents live in Connersville, Ind. One night
she took dose of morphine with suicidal in
tent, but doctor was summoned, and she
was in a fair way to recovery next morn
ing. But few hours afterwards her dead
body was found stretched out on the floor of
her room. She had cut her throat from ear
to ear with razor, The cause is supposed
to be love affair.
The police prevented duel at Augusta, Ca,
by arresting w. T. McElmurray, of Waynes-
boro, Ga, one of the principals In a pro-
posed meeting with w. E. Jones, also of that
place, to settle quarrel by code duello at
the famous duelling grounds at Sand Bar
Ferry. The cause Of the misunderstanding
prominent people. Mr.. Jones, his second and
o surgeon are in the woods eluding pursuit of
officers on the Georgia and Carolina sides
armed with warrants for their arrest. The
weapons were pistols at thirty PAGES. Nc
Elmurray and his second are in Jail.
Officer johnson, one of the policemen ar
rested at Fargo on the charge of robbery,
was arraigned to answer the charge of club
bing O man named Keller and was fined 500
and O sentence to thirty days in JAIL He ap-
pealed to the district court. Neither of them
has had D hearing on the other charge, but
both have been discharged from the police
force. Kuehl, o Sargent county farmer who
was arrested about the time on complaint
OF a gambler. charging him with robbery,
wns tried and accquitted.--Kuehl, the two.
policemen and the gambler were all riding
in the kame hack at the time the robbery Is
said to have been committed:
In the village of Thompsonville, Franklin
county, Ill.,. on the Cairo Short Line railroad,
Warren and Beth Jordan, John and Charlie
Williams and one or two Others were engaged
in O game of cards. The game ended in a
violent quarrel between Warren Jordan and
and John Williams. Jordan drew his pistol
and fired five shots at Williams, oil taking
effect, and any one OF them enough to have
caused death. Williams fell idead, and Jor.
dan dashed from the. room and down tn e
street, followed by his victims younger
brother, Charlie Williams, who had in his
hand hatchet. He overlook RJordan and
drove the hhtchet into his brain clear up to
the handle. Jordan died in five minutes, and
Williams went at once to Benton and gave
himself mp. The Jordan and Williams famil-
les are among the best known and mos tprom-
inent in Southern Illinois,