The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1888-07-26
The Criminal Calendar.


the first degree at Ashland, Wis. for killing
Peter Strott of Hurley, was sentenced by
Judge Parish for life in Waupuu. The case
will be taken to the supreme court.
Judge Collins of st. Cloud. Mimi. returned
from n trip To Wisconsin and found that his
house had been entered during his absence
and jewelry, etc. stolen, valued ut about
$500. The house was entirely unoecupied
during his absence and the thieves had gone
all through it.
The notorious desperado Wash Middleton
has been killed ut Jaspar. Ark. by an officer
while resisting arrest. Middleton had been q
mortal terror to southwestern Missouri and
northwestern Arkansas lor several years. He
vas a. ho-.Ior se,uo uurfas tho war and IS
said to have killed 10 men during his career
After all Potts the North Carolina murderer
cheats the galiows. He was to be hanged for
the murder of Paul Lineke. but made Il second
and successful attempt to kill himself. About
0 clock in the evening he eluded his keepers
for n few moments and took dose of choral
and morphine dying few hours later.
terrible shooting affray occurred at
Seney, Mich. Thoman Hayes. proprietor of
q hotel and highly respected. got into a
quarrel with one McClearly and q companion.
The two men were doing him up when they
were reinforced by George Everett. At this
Hayes pulled his revolver and shot Everett
three times in the breast and McClearly once
through the shoulder. Everett will die and
Mctlearly is dangerously hurt. Hayes has
not been arrested. He claims self-defense.
Louis Smith. a prominent young farmer
near Columbus. Nebraska, was sued for SI5,-
600 damages for seduction, the complainant
being Emma Hosner. There is a mystery
connected with this affair. Some months ago
Smith and Miss Hosner and her younger
brother went to the Louis river, near the
Hosner residence and the young boy disap-
4 4 h., =
The couple charged with illicit love have never
given satisfactory account of the boy s
disappearance.
Nicholas Sell of Everest Ernest kellerman
and Lewis Helm of CasseltSn and John
ONeil of Buffalo. the saoonkeepers arrested
for contempt of court in violating Judge Nc
Connells injunction order, were arraigned
for trial in the district court at Fargo, d. T.
and fined each 5000 and costs. Many ladies,
members of the W. c. T. T., were present dur
ing the trial, and when the Judge declared
that tue local option law was a good law;
that he would vote for it if he We're here, and
that as far as his power extended, it should
be enforced, he was loudly applauded.
As Miss D. z. Young, of Faribault, was
passing along the street. she was confronte d
by man who stabbed her in the left side,
driving a stilletto or other sharp instru-
ment through her clothing and into her side.
Her screams frightened her assailant, and
he ran in another direction. The wound was
but slight. Miss Young is one of the most
prominent business women of the city, having
been in business for upwards of ten years.
What object any one could have in at
tempting such a crime is not known. Miss
Young will probably be confined to her
room for some time.
Powell Clyde, a fourteen -year-old boy of
Lake View, near Chicago has read too much
of flash literature, and as q consequence
gave himself the name of CLOUDY Clyde, de
King" Two men found an excavation un-
der lumber yard Office, in which were two
boys tied fast to post and one of them
gagged. The other was yelling Justify. The
older boy said that this was Cloudy Clyde's'
gangs stronghold. 1t was well supplied
with plunder, the result of numerous burga-
ries. The boys had been kept there for q
week, 'Cloudy" supplying them with food.
The latter has disappeared. The boys
names were Deichman. They had been disci-
plined for attempted mutiny.
The coroner's inquest over the remains OF
Christian J. Bladt. who was killed in Millers-
vile, Mimi, by Henry Schechcr, developed
the following facts: Bladt had filed on a
claimed the land. On the morning of the
murder Schecher was moving with q machine
on the side of the field next to his cabin.
Bladt began moving on his side. Henry
Schecher, accompanied by his brothers Jacob
and John, at once drove around to the other
side of the field SO that the teams came face
to face. Thomas Kolt, who was working in
O neighboring field, says he heard shots but
could not tell who fired them. Henry Schech-
er was the one, however. He fired four shots.
The first one was q mortal one, in the abdo-
men. Two more entered his face. The fourth
one was fred from the rear, entering his back.
John is in Jail at Alexandria.