The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-08-03
THE CRIMINAL CALANDAR.

A man by the name OF Jack Lucy was
shot and killed at St. Paul, MINI. on the
goth inst, by George James. Both are
said to he saloon keepers.
A package Of $40, 600 sent by the Pa.
cifc Express company by steamer from
Portland to Astoria is missing and is
believed to nave been stolen.
w. G.. White, of Hector, Mimi, vas
probably fatally wounded by his brother
in-law, L. H. Parker, a few days ago.
Family troubles seem to be the cause.
At Bass Lake, near St. Paul, a Sunday
row caused the death OF J. P. johnson
and serious injury Of other participants.
Beer and gambling was the direct cause.
An encounter between two factions in
Kentucky recently cost seven men their
lives. The fight grew out OF che attempted
arrest Of a man by the name OF Robinson
by Deputy Sheriff Short. John Cross the
Sheriff was among the killed.
James Spellecy, the man who caused the
death OF Michaels, Of st. Paul, by a kick,
was arrested at Duluth by Detective
Sache, of st. Paul. Spellecy had been in
Duluth before, but when he arrived there
this time he was Immediately nabbed.
A srxteen.year.old robber has been
caught in Chicago, whose exploits at steal.
ing horses sound too romantic to be fully
credited. He had a partner about his own
age, and the two drove a thriving bust.
ness for many months.
Miss Hawkes.. OF Winnepg, Man, a men,
har - Aha chNiH md a hiUk1y RngnacfaI
young lady, died recently OF brain fever,
brought on by her fathers refusal to coun.
tenanCe the suit OF a young man to whom
she was shortly to be married. The father
also, it is alleged, brutally abused her.
The notorious Desperate Wash Middle
ton was killed at Jasper, Ark, recently,
by an officer while resisting arrest. Mid.
dleton has beeh 3 terror to Southwestern
Missouri and Northwestern Arkansas for
several years. He is said to have killed
forty men during his career. He was one
OF the Bald Knobbers.
G.. H. Morton, an inmate OF the Still
water, Mimi, penitentiary, was discovered
by the deputy warden hanging to the bars
OF his cell. He was cut down but roundly
cursed his rescueT. He was nearly dead
Wien iDulus GIH Ilbut III ullsuEC6Abiul dG
tempt to escape, recently, for which he was
consigned to the dungeon.
A telegram from Hardy, Ark, reports
the capture by Deputy United States Mar
shall Johnson, OF three men who, while
intoxicated, murdered Charles Burkes. a
passenger brakeman on the Gull road. The
murdeIers surrendered without resistance
and are now in jail. They refuse to say
anything concerning the killing.
Two maiden ladies, Maria and yiretta
Reeves, living near Davisville, West Va,
shot and killed one burglar and mortaly
wounded and captured another. This en-.
counter happened about midnight. The
two heroic ladies are being lionized by the
neighbors. They are generally supposed
TO keep a large sum uf money in the house.
James Kelley, a farmer living twenty
miles from Eau Claire, Wis, reported re.
Gently that his servant girl, Carrie John
son, aged is, was found hanging by the
neck In the barn, and was dead, q bottle
OF c~hloroiorm lying near by; that she was
and that her seducer, q young
man who had promised to marry her has
fled.
John Kannike, Of Belle PLANE, MINI, in
custody Of an officer en- route for the Vim.
ton jail, charged with theft. escaped by
jumping handcuiied of the Burlington can.
non-ball train near Polo. The train was
running az fifty miles per hour, but the
culprit suffered no injury save a slight
sprtin In one ~ his shoulders. He was re-
captured near Polo.
Fremont Evans deliberately murdered
Bertha Shnltz in Pawnee City Nebraska,
recently. Evans, Who was second cook at
the Exchange hotel. had been paying at.
tention to Miss Shultz, q laundry girl at
the hotel, and i few days ago proposed
marrirge to her. She refused him, which
greatly provoked him. AS Bertha was in
a neighboring yard, Evans met her aud
stabbed her to the heart with q penknifc.
She died Immediately. Evans was very
cool and deliberate, and even boosted that
be n~harpcned his penknife for TIE purpose
Of numbering the girl.
a man giving his name az Thomas Cal,
who haa been working on the Wilmar Il
Sioux Fails rosd. near Granite Falls,
Harris hotel. He shot himself in the right
temple with q revolver. The bali Il lodged
ut the base Of the brain. The man Is co9-
scious and says he came from Wisconsin,
but that his folks live ia Iowa. He had
been drinking. His age Is thirty years.
An atroeious and eold.biooded murder
was committed near Fond du Lac, Wis.
rscsntly. A party Of six tramps we're IN q
box col stsRlink q ride mest irom this city.
but when the train reached Fond du Lac
the car IA which they had slowed them.
selves was switched on and the train pull.
led cut and left it, Climbing out the
trnmps started TO walk. when an alteren.
tion between two of them grew out OF a
trivial matter and ono 81 them drew e RI.
ea s.@sheas The other across the meek,
making i euh clear ACROSS the aide, sever.
ing the cords and causing death Instantly.
gHK CASUALTY RECORD.
By the capsixine oie boat b asuuaa.
1T Halifax. n. s., Garrett Roach. keeper