Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1888-10-18
Mans Wicked Beings.

County Assessor Lewis Sweet at Park City,
Montana, shot and killed himself. IL was
clearly intentional; although the cause is not
known.
Gallus Bohemian, proprietor OF the New
York Hotel ut West Superior, Wis, shot
himself through the right lung by an &C.
cidental discharge of q gun while hunting.
Physicians say he cannot live.
Philip PaIledoni, the Italian who muir.
dered his brother, June %, 1887, suffered the
death penalty at Bridgeport, Conn. Pale.
doni was t~wenty-four years Of age. He could
neither read nor write, and could speak but
a few words in English.
A man named Hickman, living at Boston,
Colorado, shot and instantly killed J.. C.
Booth, a man who was in the habit ~ofpayino
visits to the woman Hickman was living with.
The murderer was taken from his home an
hogr Afterwards by a mob ofseyenty- five men
and lynched.
While engaged in cards. a dispute arose
between Tim Keller and Dick Amey at Es.
cauaba, Mich, when Keller whipped out a
revolver and fired, the ball taking effect in
the head, entering Immediately above the
bridge of the nose. The Wounded man Is
dying and considerable excitement prevails.
A few days ago o farmer named Olson Iiv.
ing near Bangor, Walworth county, OAK,
beat and kicked his wife so severity tina she
has since lain in a critical condition. A
courier came from Bangor n states that
the farmers have banded toget her and de-
clare they will hang the wretch,
While the police were arresting drunken
7dian In Spokane Falls, w. T.. they were
fired at. A number of shots were exchanged.
The citizens then rallied to the aid OF the
police, and one Indian was killed. His body
is now floating down river. There were
twenty-five or thirty Indians OF the Nee Perez
and Spokane tribes.
Last July a negro named Moore was lynch
ed at Charleston. ILL.,, for an alleged crimi-
nal assault upon q m Afterwards il
was discovered that the man was innocent
and the mob had been guilty of murder.
The grand jury has indicted 10 well known
citizens who are alleged to have taken part
in the lynching. The men are among the
best known in the country.
West Superior, Wisconsin, is a lively town.
One evening about thirty men engaged in a
rough-and-tumble fight on Tower avenue and
for half an horr created quite a riot, wh;ch
the police were unable to quiet, until the
force was greatly increased. The rioters not
only used their fists to pound one another.
but stones and clubs filled the air and rendered
that neighborhood dangerous for passers-by.
The police finally succeeded in making several
arrests, and the crowd was dispersed, but not
until several OF the peace breakers were badly
punished by scars and ugly bruises on their
faces, one in particular being severely injured
by a blow with a club in the face.
VIM. Lahey, aged 81 years, escaped from
Auburn, N. Y, prison by digging through
four feet OF solid masonry, composing the
roof Of his cell, and then saving through the
roof proper. The escape is one Of the most
laborious and difficult ever accomplished in
Auburn prison, and it is presumed has re-
quired months of work. With a knife made
into a saw, he cut his way through the roof
aud descended to the wall by n rope Of
brslded Irvine, which he attached to the cop
ing of the prison by means Of a pair Of pinch.
ers stolen from one of the shops. He had
converted this into q hook. Lahey is a
Buffalo man and had only q year and nine
mouths Of O five years sentence to serve.
Some time ago Samuel winsberg of Nil
waukee obtained credit OF ]. v. Farwell &
Co., and several other firms in Chicago, and
got fine dry goods, consisting ofsilks. yelvets
and other expensive fabrics, to the extent of
$1,000. He also got Of Carples, Hartman
& Co. Of Chicago eighteen trunks which he
never paid for. Then he executed three
notes to Adolph Barring. which they admit
was simply TO give an appearance of genuine
ness to the deal. They then packed the
goods in the trunks and shipped them to
Milwaukee by American Express. When they
called for the trunks they were arrested.
Barring keeps eealoon in Chicago snd Wins
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