The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-14
SINFUL STRINGS.

Silcott, late cashier ofthe sergeant.at.a arms
OF the house of representatives, proves a
forger as we'll as an imbezzler.
Chinese troops suffered a severe defeat from
the savages in South Formosa, three or
four hundreds of them being killed.
At Rome, N. Y, James Gibson was shot and
killed by Mark Cheebo, an Italian. Gibson
was intoxicated and made q disturbance
near Cheebo's house.
A duel with swords was fought near Buda-
Pesth, Hungary, by Count Karolyi and Count
Lazar and the latter was severely wounded.
The trouble arose over a quarrel in the dict.
The figures believed to be complete show
that the forgeries and stealings of W. H.
Fursman. the abscondlng real estate dealer
and loan broker of Pontiac, ILL.,, amount to
fully 100000.
Levi f. Fuller of Jamestown, N. Y, who
has long been q devoted Wesleyan Methodist,
and who has publicly proclaimed sancti6ca-
ton, ia in Canada. He kept I'D q systemat-
ic banking business OF forged notes 1or thir.
teen years, floating as high as seventy notes,
aggregating $4,000, a e
A masked mob of seven White Caps at
Holyoke, took COL, j. s. Bennett and w. D..
Kelsey, two prominent attorneys, from their
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them two miles in the country, where they
administered the most brutal horse %whipping
and warned them to leave the country. The
perpetrators OF the outrage then left the
men and returned to town. Bennett and
Kelsey, after several hours, reached their
homes, and are in a critical condition.
-Four Kiowa Indians came from the reserva-
ton and by some means obtained whisky
and became very drunk, at MeIrose, Kansas.
They started to tax the town in true West
ern style, and City Marshal Snyder attempt
to arrest them. A general fight followed,
which resulted in Snyder being stabbed to
the heart, dying almost instantly. One of
the Indians was shot, but his companions
succeeded in carrying his body away and
escaped across the line into the reservation.
Raphael Michel, living at $40 West India
ma avenue, at Chicago was assaulted and
robbed neal the Dearborn street bridge by
three unknown men and badly cut about the
head. After he had fallen the highwaymen
pounced upon him and took his coat, vest,
pants, hat and shoes. He was found in this
condition by an officer and taken to the
Dearborn street engine house where he was
furnished with a suit of clothes, and removed
to his home. The miscreants made their es-
cape.
While j. c. Patterson was standing at the
Delaware bank counter at Wilmington, DEL,
clipping coupons from bonds which he kept
on deposit there, an unknown man seized the
deposit box and ran out and away. The box
contained about $13, 900 in securities, most
ly negotiable. No one in the bank saw the
theft committed. Mr.. Patterson had just cut
off too coupons and presented them at the
cashiers desk, leaving his box on another
desk. While he was thus engaged the box
was spirited away, and nothing was learned
more thar it was there one minute and gone
the next.
August Schattenberg, secretary of the
school board, shot himself at Milwaukee be-
cause OF the discovery of crokedness in
his accounts, Schattenberg raised the bill
of q Boston publishing house from $751; "a to
$SOs. "a and drew the money. When the
discovery al made he refunded the money,
but an investigation of his books was order.
ed and he killed himself rather than face 9th.
er crooked developments. Schattenberg was
a reckless poker player. and it is believed he
has lost thousands of dollars OF school mon
ey in bucking the tiger. Schattenburg's
death was instantaneous. He leaves q wife
and several children.