Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-12-06
Petty CrImInalities.

Joseph McMann, aged fifty, committed
suicide near Youngstown, Ohio, by throwing
himself in front of a train
Grant Mcpherson, a junior clerk at the
general postofice Tin New York, appointed
three months ago. was arrested for stealing
letters. He was held in $1,000 bail. Nine
letters were found on his person when arrest
ed.
Joseph and Frank Mention Of Kasota, Mimi,
were victimizcd out of $50 by buying two
lots of Harvey Perry, the new hotel proprie-
tor, who shipped last week. The lots had
boon bought under contract by Perry and
had not been paid for.
A man named Harris, living near Pleas
ant Grove, Mimi, attempted suicide by
shooting himself in the head with a revolver.
TIT ball entered just in front of the ear and
has not been found. Harris will make no
statement of his motives.
The police nave proof that n duel with
pistols wasfonght In Central Park, New York,
that one of the combatants was wounded;
that the affair was about a lady, INT that
the lady tired to warn the police that the
duel was to be fought, but her letters were
received too late to prevent the meeting. The
names OF the parties are as yet unknown.
Two gnngs of Russian and Italian miners,
between whom there has existed n bitter teud
for mc:ths, met on the streets OF Mount
Carmel Pa, and a bloody riot followed.
sefeia On po,n stues "e,e seaooeu, anu tne
1ris VI ArreunIrr oeuerIAi, hhtnony oscse
rioters were arrested.
James Mckee, q well-to-do farmer from the
town OF Mansfield, treeborn county, MIMI,
attempted suicide by taking laudanum.
When discovered be had taken nearly an
ounce, and was with great difficulty restrained
from taking more. He was taken 70 a drug
store and . stomach pump applied When
nffazfinua1 ne ~ lso rnAftra he r.nlfoI skot
his family would be better on without him.
A letter was received by the authorities at
La Crosse from 0rtonyiile. Mimi, inquiring
about the alleged bigau.ist, James Hall. A
person of that name lived at that place from
1881 to 1856, was married and deserted his
wife. She Procured a divorce in August last,
.Shlch would be several weeks later than
Halls marriage TO Miss Corrigan. From the
description there seems to be.no doubt about
its being the same person.
The discoxerv was racentIv mada by ,ba
postal authorize III Ottew1- Canada that
a number of Registered ~letters other nj or sen
ronte To Ottawa had been stoLan orbnd roma
astrav. The money they contained was
chiefly sent from The West To Ottawa IL IL
said tbat NOT oniv rora rao;staraJ lan
stolen, but that a whole mail. which came by
the Grand Trunk railway is missing, where
the robbery toe place is q mystery. The
matter had been kept quiet until now. An
investigation is in progress.
At a little hamlet near 0lean. on the line
Of the Buffalo, New FORK & Philadelphia rail-
way, more than seventy tramps made their
appearance at an early hour one morni ng,
and invaded the town and ransacked the
dwellings,. A messenger was sent to Olean
for assistance, and forty members of a local
military organization, armed with shot
guns, responded. This force was not strong
enough, and the tramps, it was reported.
soon had possession of the ~shotguns. Fur
ther assistance was asked of the surrounding
towns.
A and of armed men wearing masks broke
open the Jail at Wytherville, Mo. and rescued
Wayman Sutton, under sentence of death
which was TO have been executed next day,
for the murder of Peter Harvel. The ~iailer's
statement is that q party of men came there