The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1888-08-09
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Sinful Simings.

Sinful Siftings.
The safe ofC. II Bates store at Yankton,
d. T. was cracked and $500 stolen. Mr..
Bates is city treasurer. and one-third of the
$500 was city money. There 10 NO clue to the
thieves.
Several New York importers of and dealers
in precious stones would like to have infor-
nation of the whereabouts Of A. G. Radcliffe,
q well-known mounter of GLACIERS diamonds.
He has vanished from his accustomed haunts
and with him have gone diamonds valued at
100000. 1t is surmised that he has gone to
England.
Miss Mamie Phillips, the 19-year-old
daughter of a highly respected family, resid-
ing in Allegheny City, Pa, was arrested,
from James Devine, guest of her parents.
Miss Phillips finally admitted her gu 1t, and
was placed under arrest. Owing to the
prominence of the interested parties, the
affair has created a great sensation.
Two maiden ladies, Maria and viretta
Reeves living near Davisville, West Virginia
shot and killed one burglar and MORALLY
sisters saw man in her room, seized re-
voiver and fred. killing him. The other Sis
ter sprang on the other burglar as he was
trying to escape through window. He was
too late as he fell to the ground with bullet
through his groin.
Heinrich Kiehl, a prominent and wealthy
German farmer living in High Forest tow n
ship in Olmsted county, Mimi, was found on
the farm Of a neighbor, nearly q mile from
for some time. Mr.: Kjehl had severe
stroke of paralysis some time since that Of
fected his speech and partially crippled him,
and it is to this cause that the ALTERATION o
mind resulting in suicide is due.
Deputy Sheriff Hayes, of Blacksoot, Idaho,
arrived at Bozeman and identified Alex
Woods, the negro recently arrested there,
sentenced to be hanged on July 20. At the
same time Williams was executed Woods
broke Jail and escaped and has been at large
ever since. Hayes had the necessary requisi-
ton papers with him and took his prisoner
back to Idaho. The hanging has been fixed
for Aug. H..
Thomas Stockham proprietor of the Union
hotel at Grafton, D. T., was arrested for vio-
lating the revenue laws in selling liquor with
out government license. He had q prelimi-
nary trial before United States Commissioner
Jorkey, who bound him over in 81 900, but
he could not give ball. Seven more saloon
keepers were found guilty of contempt at
Fargo. Five We're fined 5000 each, and the
other two cases .continu ii for Judgment un-
til Sept. -.
A fatal row occurred thirty miles south
west of Neigh, Nebraska. A young man
Schmidt, his sister and two brothers named
Vanderschuck, were returning with several
Others from wedding at Ewing and got
into quarrel which ended in free fight.
Schmidt was fatally cut across the abdomen.
His sister was wounded in the arm. One of
and was twice stabbed in the back, while the
other brother was slightly cut with knife
and seriously cut on the head with a club.
john Jennings is in Jail charged with shooting
his father, farmer living near Bridgewater,
Oak, through the breast. The bullet passed
within an inch of the fathers heart and
through the left lung. 1t is thought the
wound is fatal. Young jennings has "done
time" for shooting man six years ago.
Harvesting horse. The father remarking
that his son talked as though he had gun
in his pocket. "Yea,' replied the son, II
have. Would you like to see what it con-
tains?" and Immediately shot his father.
After two days pursuit of the Indians
for whom warrants were out for the murder
Gus assault near Brainerd, Mimi, Sheriff
of the White Earth agency policy, came up
on Bugi Buck and Wah Boo Cheek in hid.
ing place they had fed to in the wilderness,
some twelve miles from the blueberry camps
and twenty-five miles from Brainerd. Sew
eral times had the fugitivcs changed their
hiding place, and now felt SO secure that
they were indulging in nap outside tepee.
Leaving their horses long distance andfo
lowing trail the officers crept up, and had
them under cover of their guns before they
| could do anything.
W. White, an attorney in Hector, Mimi
was shot and probably fatally wounded by
his brother-in-law, L. H. Parker, who went
into Whites Office, and after few words he
threatened his life. White attempted to
leave the office, when Parker drew q revolver
and shot him in his right arm, the ball also
passing through the hand OF Miss Emma
Raitz, who was standing near. Parker then
followed White into the postoffce and shot
him through the hip. About a month ago
Mrs. White died. 1t is supposed the shoot
ing grew out of Whites charges against his
Wife, who was Parker's sister. Parker is
young man about twenty-one or twenty-five
years Of ago, He lives somewhere in Wis
consn.
horrible double tragedy has been I'M
| eartEed by the officers at Chicago. They
| retired saloonkeeper, and his wife on the
second floor of their residence They were
past middle life, ard their domestic relations
| seemed unusually pleasant Supplies left at
the back door by the milkman lying un-
j touched first attracted attention, and finally
the police found an entrance. Mrs. Hush,
clad in night dress, lay in an alcove of the
bedroom, in pool of blood. In the next
room the body of Hush was suspended from
the tr,.usom. A butcher knife and news
paper smearsl with blood were lying near
showing that the couple had retired for the
night before the fatal deed was DONE No
! reason can be assigned for the tragedy.
There was no indication of B. etrurRle