The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1888-08-02
Tho Criminal Calendar.

John Miller, city circulator for the Chicago
Daily News, committed suicide by shooting
himself in the head.
Alex Woods. murderer, who recently e.
capped from Blackfoot. Idaho, and who was
to have been hanged, has been captured at
Bozeman.
A man went to Mr.. Adams barn at Sd.
Vincent Mimi, and hitched up Mr.. Adams
horse and drove of. There is no trace ofhiu
yet, but thirty men are on his trail. He is be-
lieved to be in Manitoba.
Two dangerous counterfeiters were arrested
at P%ittsburg, Pa, while attempting to win
de an old mon. They had $4,000 in spur-
ous greenbacks and a large number Of dies
for quarter and half dollars. One of them
offered the arresting officer 81, 900 to let him
60.
Simon ward, colored and blind, wns hung
ut Clayton, Ala. The crime for which he was
hung was the killing of another aged negro,
both being inmates of the poor house at the
time. The killing was done at night with an
OK and was most brutal. They fell out about
some lightwood splinters.
H. w. Moore and Mrs. Norton, the elopers,
will skip to Canada, and then sail for Lon.
don, where Moore will at once become the
London correspondent of the New York
World, this position having been given him
by Joe Pulitzer since the elOpement. Pulitzer,
IL rs we'll known, is a good friend of Moore.
. During o drunken row which occurred at
o German gathering at the house of John
Meyer in Nebraska City, Charles Hoffmeister
had his skull crushed 50 badly that he will
die. Jack Young received o shot through
his right arm and John Hart vas shot in the
right side. His wound may result fatally.
Meyers was arrested.
Michael Cronin of Huron and William He'd.
ringteen of Chippewa Falls, Wis, drank three
pints of whisky at Huron In their great Joy
at meeting each other. Before bedtime Cor
min shot Hedrington In tho breast, and the
victim - in a dangerous condition. Cronin
Is In jail He says he thought 1t was some
body else he was firing at.
After John Klein of GAINESVILLE, Wis, had
seen his wife safely to q train, she claiming
be returned home and found in his wife's bed
room q letter from O. F. Bradford q former
admirer, asking her to join him at his former
home. Klein at once telegraphed to the Chi
cage police to arrest the couple, and intends
to follow the case up to the end.
Agang ofroughs have been the terror Of AL
ma Center and Mcmillan Wis.,. for some time,
but the sheriff happened at Alma Center when
they were on an unusual spree. When the
they upset his billiard table and bar, and
were proceeding to "do him up" when the
sheriff dropped in on them and secured two.
Other arrests will follow, with a view Of break.
ing up the gang.
Dyer Seaman, the notorious thief and DIES.
perado, was given ten years in the peniten-
tiary by q jury at Chicago, and his notorious
mistress, Mollie Mott, was given seven. The
pair were on trial for the attempted murder
woman had been quareling over their spoils.
Officer Nolan thinking a murder was immi.
nent, and not dreaming who were the par
Elephants, burst in the door. The two thieves
dropped their quarrel and turning on the
officer wounded him ftightfully and left him
for dead; They were captured later by In
Eleven men boarded tho west-bound ex.
press at Ashtabula, Ohio, and they attempted
smoker the men took q stand and defed the
passengers. Conductor Sheppard and several
drummers put on q bold front aud drove
them out of the car. The robbers then en-.
deavored to prevent the train being stopped
at Geneva, by overpowering the engineer, but
did not succeed. The train siacked at Geneva,
and q coll was made upon the Citizens. Nine
the Geneva jail guarded by twenty-five
militia. They appear to be desperadoes i'll
stead of tramps. y
The stage running between San Luis Obs
Cal, and Templeton was robbed by q masked
man. The robber covered the driver with q
revolver. he then compelled the passengers,
SIX in number, and the driver to alight from
the stage, and covered the heads Of all with
masks. The passengers were robbed ofabout
$500 altogether. There was one lady pas
senger. Clothing was taken from her: The
driver was then ordered to throw off Wells
Fargo's express box and the United States
mail bags. The box was chopped open and