The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-10-04
Sinful Siftings.

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no news of either Stanley or Emin Bey.
Numbers of letters are waiting for them.
Gordon and Walker are well treated by
Mwanga. Casard and Mahommed Biri are
reported to have been murdered by kabrege
George Solva. ticket agent of the Chicago
& Northwestern railway, was arrested at
Marrinette Wis, for shortage of $7OO
He has heretofore borne good name, but
drink ruined him. He was recently married
to young society lady.
J. w. Brown, convicted of bigamy at
Detroit, Mich. was sentenced to four years
and six months in the penitentiary. Seven
of the thirty-three women he is alleged to
have married appeared as witnesses ag ainst
him.
Charles Strandorf, q lovesick young man
of Wausau, Wis, went to the house OF his
sweetheart and, drawing revolver, blew the
top of his head off. Objections made to his
marrying by his relatives is supposed to have
been the cause.
Charles Haltman, a prosperous lithogra-
pher. 25 years old, shot himself in the head
with a revolver three times in New York. His
landlady heard the shot and hurried to his
| room. She found him sitting in a pool OF
blood. He said: Good morning. Mrs De-
pew. Don't be alarmed. was only trying to
kill myself He will probably die.
Oscar D. Menor of Chicago has left the
world by the laudanum route, at Livingston,
Montana. Menor was well known rancher
and miner of Emigrant Gulch, and much sur
prise is expressed. He has been respondent
for some time and it is supposed that dis
couragement at the financial prospect of his
fairs led him to choose this way out of the
difficulty
Alden s. Hawks, indicted for many crimes,
was arrested a few days ago and jailed at
bo1 .,,tI
for the second time. since which time he has
been ut large. He is accused of having
burned q creamery in Bancroft in order to
get the insurance and with forgery. He is
one of the toughest of the tough. A COM
plete history of his misdeeds would make a
long chapter.
George A. Fulgames a Winnipeg pugilist,
met another individual at Churchs livery
| barn in Grand Forks in o fstic encounter.
The stakes were for $25 side Only a few
blows had been exchanged when Full re-
ceived right-hander fairly on the temple.
| knocking him senseess The sports gathered
! themselves and fed panic-stricken, the man
| who struck the blow with them. Fulljames
| never regained consciousness and expired at
o'clock in the afternoon.
| Sheriff Bsitto of Cameron county, with
eighty men, the deputy sheriff of Hidalgo
| county, with forty.five men. and the sheriff OF
| San Patricio county, with thirty men, have
| arrived at Rio Grand City, Texas. An ad-
| ditional force from Uyalde county is expected,
| also company of state soldiers. Every
thing remains very quiet. 1t is presumed
| that the arrests of rioters will begin at once,
as there is a sufficient force on hand now. No
| further trouble is expected unless Cara dies,
but his physician still thinks he may pull
I through.
| An elopement of q sensational nature oc-
Cured at Silver Stream, little village west
of Winnipeg. John Floyd, of that place,
started out one night with his wife and chill
by Miss Phoebe Ross, who was to see them
off at the station and then return. AS she
did not come back, her father made inquiries
and found that Mr.. Floyd had packed his
wife and family off by tie train to Michigan,
or thereabouts. and had driven of south
! across the prairie, accompanied by Miss Ross.
Mr.. Ross has been hunting for the fugitivee
| but no trace can be found as yet.
| Gust Lind, O cabinet maker sixty two years
old, took twenty four grains of morphine al
Albert Lea, Minn., and was found in the bed
! in dying condition by his daughter, Mrs.
Ellick Gustavson, q brickworkers wife, with
whom he lived. He had been drinking lately
and became despondent. On going to
bed he told his daughter to bury him as she
should take poison. She told him he could
not get it, not believing that he could, and
tried to comfort him. He then had the NOR.
| phine, however, and carried out his desper.
ate purpose.
AtLeech Lake, Mimi. on Friday, Sept. LIST
while j. A. Thompson, the government black.
smith, was at work in the shop, he was at
tackled by an Indian named May-dway-gwon.
o-nind. The Indian struck the blacksmith
over the head with a large, heavy paddock
and ATTEMPTED to repeat the blow, saying, 81
am going to kill you" The blacksmith seized
| a hammer but was prevented from using it
by Indian by-standers. The blacksmith e
wound is a serious one. the scalp being cut
| open in two places, one of the gashes being
several inches in length. May-dway-gwop-o
mind has always been regarded as O desper.
ate character and is feared by the Indians.
| He boasted before he went into the shop that
| he would kill the blacksmith and afterward
the rest of the white men at the reservation
He is now under arrest guarded by the ply.
sican and preacher. Thompson has returned
| from Brainerd. He could not get warrant
the county attorney refusing to issue one.