The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-10-04
Sinful Siftings.

Uganda adyices down to June 81 contain
no news of either Stanley or Emin Bey.
Numbers of letters are waiting for them.
Gordon and Walker are well treated by
Mwanga. Casard and Mahommed Biri are
reported to have been murdered by Knbrege.
George Solva, ticket agent of tho Chicago
4 Northwestern railway, was arrested at
Marrlnette, Wis, for a shortage of 500.
he has heretofore borne a good name, but
drink ruined him. He was recently married
to a young society lady.
j. ". Brown, convicted Of bieamy at
Detroit, Mich, was sentenced to four years
and six months in the penitentiary. Seven
OF the thirty-three women he is alleged to
have married appeared as witnesses ag ainst
him.
Charles %Strandorf, a lovesick young man
OF Wausau, Wis, went to the house of his
sweetheart and, drawing revolver, blew the
top Of his head of. Objections made to his
marrying by his relatives is supposed to have
been the cause.
Charles Haltman, O prosperous lithogra-
pher, 25 years old, shot himself in the head
with O revolver three times in New York. His
landlady heard the shot m hurried to his
room. She foundh him sitting in q pool OF
blood. He said: Good morning, Mrs. De-
pew. Don't be alarmed, Twas only trying to
kill myself. He will probably die.
Oscar D. Menor of Chicago has left the
world by the laudanum route, at Livingston,
Montana. Menor was q well known rancher
and miner Of Emigrant Gulch, and much sur
prise is expressed. He has been respondent
for some time and it is supposed that dis
enlargement at the financial prospect of his
affairs led him to choose this way out of the
difficulty.
Alden s. Hawks, indicted for many crimes,
yynn n~Vna%Dl ~ To~ l-.,- $3.50 --l 81 IL
Algona, Iowa. Two years & he broke Jail
for the second time, since which time he has
been ut large. He is accused of having
burned q creamery in Bancroft in order to
get the insurance and with forgery. He is
one Of the toughest of the tough. A COM
plete history of his misdeeds would make q
long chapter.
George A. Fulgames, o Winnipeg pugilist,
met another individual at Church's livery
The stakes were for $25 q side. Only a few
blows had been exchanged when Fulljames re-
knocking him senseless. The sports gathered
themselves and fled panic stricken, the man
who struck the blow with them. Fulljames
never regained consciousness and expired at
3 O'Clock in the afternoon.
Sheriff Bsitto of Cameron county, with
eighty men, the deputy sheriff Of Hidalgo
cooAiOy "iOh NV hACh, uIiu uitp vi
San Patricio county, with thirty men, have
arrived at Rio Grand City, Texas. An ad.
ditional force from Uyalde county is expected,
also O company of state soldiers. Every
thing remains very quiet. 1t is presumed
that the arrests of rioters will begin at once,
as there is a sufficient force on hand now. No
further trouble is expected unless CARA dies,
but his physician still thinks he may pull
through.
An elopement Of sensational nature &C.
Cured at Silver Stream, a little village west
of Winnipeg. John Floyd, of that place,
started out one night with his wife and chill
dren for the States. They were accompanied
by Miss Phoebe Ross, who was to see them
off at the station and then return. As she
did not come back, her father made inquiries
and found that Mr.. Floyd had packed his
wife and family off by the train to Michigan,
or ~thereabouts, and had driven of south
across the prairie, accompanied by Miss Ross.
Mr.. Ross has been hunting for the fugitives
but no trace con be found as yet.
Gust Lind, O cabinet maker sixty-two years
old, took twenty-four grains of morphine at
Albert Lea, Mimi, and was found in the bed
in q dying condition by his daughter, Mrs.
whom he lived. He had been drinking lately
and became dependent. On going to
bed he told his daughter to bury him as she
would And him dead IN the morning us he
should take poison. She told him he could
not get It, nat.hclisving that he could, and
tried to comfort him. He. then had the NOR
Tnf.e, however, and carried out his desper-
ate purpose.
AtLeech Lake, MINI. on Friday, Sept.2 1st,
while J.As1Thompson, the governmentb black
smith, was ct work in the shop, he was at
tackled by an Indian named May-dway-gwon-
o-nind. The Indian struck the blacksmith
over the head with q large, heavy paddock
and ATTEMPTED to repeat the blow, saying, u
am going to kill you." The blacksmith seized
o hammer but was prevented from using it
by Indian ~by.standers. The blacksmith's
wound is a serious one, the scalp being cut
open in two places, one of the gashes being
several inches in length. May-dway-gwon-o
mind has always been regarded as a desper-
ate character n is feared by the Indians.
He boosted before he wentinto the shop that
he would kill the blacksmith and afterward
the rest of the white men at the reservation.
He is now under arrest, guarded by the ply
sican ind preacher. Thompson has returned
from Brainerd. He could'not get a warrant,
the county attorney refusing to issue one.