The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-11-22
Mans Wicked DOings.

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Mans Wicked DOings.
Thomas Bolts, the insurance broker, shot
himself dead Mt the Hotel Royal New York
on account it is supposed of heavy losses
through bets or the election. He was q
grand nephew of John Minor Bolts of Vir
ginia, once Wing candidate for president
and on his mother side was q decendent OF
Alexander Hamilton.
One thousand miners assembled in mass
meeting at P%ittsburg, Kansas, to take action
on the FrOntenac horror. Resolutions
strongly condemning State Mine Inspector
Findley were adopted and his removal de.
manded. 1t was also agreed that each man
should contribute to the relief fund his share
in fifty bushels of coal, making about 81, 600
in all.
Eriek Larson, q well known and prominent
farmer of Dane Prairie, Mimi, is reported to
have skipped the country, doing up creditors
to the extent of about s., 900. The heaviest
losers are %neighbors who lave signed with
him. Larson is the second prominent farmer
who has left suddenly under such circum-
stances. Larson. it is said, has laid himself
liable criminally
Albert Revoir, q farmer living in the
town of Star Prairie, Wis, rode up to his
Sa6hoo LII MCboLSlu, dIu Sttlu. NOW,
I'm going to shoot you" He then emptied
his revolver at Mcdonald. Only one ball
took effect, penetrating the abdomen. Revoir
came to New Richmond and then went to
Hudson, where he was arrested. Mcdonald
lies in a critical condition, with chances de-
cidedly against him. The only reason Nc
Donald can give for the deed is that Revoir
has said that he would nave received the in
surance upon his house. which burned re-
Gently, if it had not been for Mcdonald.
The Whitechapel butcheries in London
were recalled at Chicago by the finding of
the naked body of q we'll developed male in
FAINT upon the lake shore. The head had
been cleverly severed from the body by a
stroke from some sharp instrument, and was
missing. Not the slightest clue to the iden-
tity of the murderer has been obtained by
the police. What adds to the mystery is
the fact h q the murderer left the body
where it was sure to be discovered within a
very short time. instead of throwing it into
the lake, which was only q few steps distant.
Frank Randalls, the alleged murderer OF
August Zeigler, il at present confined in the
Morrison county Jail at Little Falls, Mimi,
in the presence of the sheriff and his father,
ne confessed to having done the deed. Hero
tofore he has strongly denied having any
thing to. do with the murder. Randalls,
since being in Jail, has said that there were
several Others living in and near the village
that he would like to kill, and also stated
that though he started in, young as he was
now sixteen years old-thatp Jessie James
was only ten when he killed his first man,
and that he had lost six years already. Ran
dalls refuses to converse with enyone ex-
cepting his cousin, John Sumner, who is al
SO confined in Jail as an accomplice.
John Van Korf, engineer ut tho steam
gauge and lantern works, was arrested at
Rochester, N. Y, OF suspicion of setting fire
to the works. Some years ago. Van Korff
was a brakeman On the Buffalo, New York G
Philadelphia railroad and was suspected of
having set fire to loaded freight cars. Later
Rochester. Three times while he was in
charge the building was on fire, and on the
third occasion it was burned down. Before
this a Korff worked in Moress' sash and
blind factory as engineer. This place was
burned twice while he was employed in it. At
another time he was taken to a hospital,
having fallen in O fit. A few days after fire
was discovered in a barrel standing in O,
closet. Van Korff denies the crime,
Steve Frank, of Hollyvil!e, To-, shot his
sweetkeart, Miss Dode Love, of that place.
Sometime since Steve was reported as hav-
ing been slightly intoxicated and Dode sent
him word that she would have no more to do
with him. After brooding over the message
Steve concluded to put an end to the lives Of
both, and upon going to the Love residence
he succeeded in getting a private interview
with Miss Dode and shot her, the ball enter
ing the left side just below the small ribs and
was taken out near the backbone. Mr. Love
rushed into tbs room in TIME TO see Steve
place the revolver over his heart and fire, but
from some cause or other the shot was not
fatal. He escaped, but was found later in
the cellar at his mothers home and was
turned over to the authorities. Miss Love
is in q critical condition, but will pro badly
recover. IL -. :"
William Showers was hanged in the jail
yard at Lebanon, Pa, for numbering his two
grandchildren at AWHILE May II, 1887. He
made no statement on the gallows, and
showed great frmness throughout. Showers
was arrested at Annville, his home, on May
80, 1887, and oil May 81 the bodies of his
his house. In June he pleaded guilty, but
a~fterward, while witnesses were being ex-
amined to determine the degree of his guilt, he
withdrew his plea of guilty. The children were
strangled in bed, and when found in the drain
near the house had ropes around their necks.
He had made efforts to have them placed in
orphans homes, but failed, and his desire to
get rid of them ended in murder, SO that he
might then secure the services of a certain
woman as housekeeper or wife. it is alleged.
woman had refused to 1.-Two with him
while the children remained at his house.
W. W. Shortridge. q lawyer, and Robert
Majors, a physician, at Montevilla, Ala, had
q dispute concerning some collections which
the lawyer had made for the physician.
They finally agreed to settle the matter by
fighting with bowie-knives in q darkened
The men entered the room and fought
desperately Tor ten minutes. The door was
then broken in by friends who had heard the
noise of the duelists. Shortridge was found
lying on the foor cut and slashed in o ter
rible manner, and died in o few minutes. Dr..
Majors, when the door was broken in, rushed
ont into the street. He was also cut in a
frfghtfnl manner and bleeding from q dozen
wounds. He seemed to have been made
crazy with pain. He ran down the street
with his knife in his hand and attempted to
cut o negro whom he met, hut the negro
knocked him down with his fist. In falling
Nabor's skull was fractured and he never re-
gained consciousness, dying ut midnight.
Winona, Ills, is in a fever Of excitement
over double murder followed by the suicide
Of the assassin. The victims Of the assassin
alton are Peter Howe, senior member of the
banking Arm Of Howe & Son Of Winpna. and
his wife, the former aged seyentysthres years
and the latter sixty-nine. They lived about
q mile from the business portion ofthe town.
The only other occupant OF the house Was q
domestic. At 8 o'clock in the morning, as
she came down stairs, the light of d limp
which she carried fell through the omen door.
sOf Mr.. and Mrs.. Howe,e bed room and re.
svedled CHARITY sight. The walls and bed
clothes were covered with blood, and lying on
a s1s scssr1 Ssi Me- s5 s5es siattsg S7a pin' e os saisa
Burkhart was suspected ofcommitting tina
deed and Natch was placed on the con