Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-07-05
Crime. and c,,n,,,,,.

George Wilson was hanged In the Atbion,
Orleans county, New York jail for the muir
Ter of his wife in January Of last year.
Wilson Of Marquette, Mich, is given up by
and then attempted suicide, is not fatally in
ured. Nicoli's wife has come out Of the con-
vuIsions and is rational.
While Agent Millspaugh, of the Manitoba
i road at East Grand Forks, was at dinner his
| office was broken open and the money drawers
| rifled OF their contents. There is no Doubt
that the robbery was the work of PROBES
| sioHal.
The stage of Salisbury & Co.. carrying the
| United States mail and express, was held up
between Blackfoot. Idaho, and Chamois by
masked highwaymen. Besides rifiing the
mail pouch, bar silver bullion worth $4,000
| was taken.
The fifteen-year-old son of George Deems OF
i Jacksonville Florida has confessed to pois-
oning his father and other members of the
family, and is in Jail His father had threat
sned to chastise him Deems died and the
other txo children viii die making five vic
Tins in all.
| s. E. Gross Of Portland, Or, was expected
| In Chippewa Falls, two weeks ago to visit
| his brother Eugene Adyices 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 a prosperous mer-
| chant OF t0at citN.
| mob at Minneapolis, Kan, took Chubb
/ Mccarthy, the murderer of Mike Dorsey,
4 from jaii and hanged him 20 a tree. This
made four hangings in the state in twenty
| four hours, the Others being Wallace Mitchell
| of Syracuse and John ltisbee and Wylee Lee
two negroes, at Chetopa. No legal hangings
occur in Kansas.
Mrs George Powers, living at Everett, Ne
braska, committed suicide by cutting her
| throat with a razor. She was the wife nf n
1 weil-to-dO farmer. and the cause of the act is
supposed TO be the report OF the improbable
recovery of her daughter who is an inmate of
the Norfolk insane asylum. The deceased was
! sixty -four years cid.
At MayRville, Kentucky, Lucy Rice shot
/ lead Barbara Ballengpr The Ballenger
woman had been a servant in Maysvllle, and
/ Rice had lived as the wife of Charles B. Hill
| Hill returned from a Grip to Cincinnati with
Balenger, and Rice met them at the top Of
the levee and without word fired, sending
ball through her rivals brain
| Defaulter Pitcher, of the Union Bank Of
! Providence, r. l.. was arrested at Montreal,
| The prisoner had bought ticket by the Allan
line and intended to leave for England. He
WAS taken tn his room and searched. Detect
| i've Kelley states that securities and cash
amounting TO S70o. 900 we're found on him.
The prisoner took his arrest eoo,iy.
4
ing ut Alhsmbra Springs, Montana, shows
that il was the result Of drunken row A
Swedish teamster, Of heavy build. raised a
| chain to strike a 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. a
| lumberman. in the abdomen. Walker then
fired again, this time hitting the Swede and
killing him instantly. Nothing is known OF
/ the Swede beyond the fact Of his occupation
Reeves, who is a leading man in Jefferson
I county, is not expected to recover.
Lewis Nicoh German stoRe-cutter ap-
peared on the grounds where the government
custom house is being erected at Marquette,
| Mich. He had been discharged by the fore
man, NJ II. Wilson, for drunkenness. He shot
/ Wilson 10 he meek and tried to kill Contrac-
tor Smith, who escaped by fight. Nieol then
went home and shot himself in the mouth.
- ealibre ball entering his head aud ranging
| upwards. His wife, who is in a delicate con
/ iition, is now in awful commissions. IL 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 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 10 alight and
/
held at bay at the point Of several six.sboot-
| err two OF the robbers ransacked the mail
pouch and express box and took possession
Of bar Of silver valued al 81 500 They
next proceeded to relieve the passengers Of
what money aud watches they Possessed.
The total valae of their booty is not known.
A sherifrs posse is in pursuit.
| bogus Pinkerton detective attempted TO
abduct Harry Moore, cashier of bank at
Wellman. Iowa. The professed officer arrest
Ell Moore on the charge of forgery but had
no papers. saying that rs Pinkerton Of
I fetal 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, to whom Moore told the story Of his
arrest and asked a small loan. Mr.. Nichols
! gave him : 10 and the two men drove 20 the
Rock Island depot in Iowa City. The detec-
| tive there left him 20 return the rig TO the
livery stable. and upon his return told Moore
| that he had received telegram saying that
he was not the man wanted The suppose
/ ton 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 20
Moore TO do, he dropped him as too poor for
| plucking.