The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-01-24
Petty Criminalities,

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Robertson few more men have been closely
connected with the Friend electric sugar
fraud stated that upon second consideration
they had determined not to make public for
present O statement regarding t he present sta
tus of the defunct concern.
Ole C. Olson, the defaulting treasurer of
Wolsey schooltownship, was arraigned before
Justice Grant at Huron, Oak Olson waived
examination and gave bonds in $500 to
await the action of the grand jury. Since
his arrest the amount of the defalcation has
been made good.
William Feasy, q farmer near East Pales-
tine, o., shot Dick Perrott, a well known ru-
raj politician of South Beaver Pa. A year
or more ago, Perrott betrayed Yeasys
daughter, and it had troubled Veasy ever
since that Perrott did not right the wrong.
Meeting Perrott with a rife he fired on him.
PerTott's wound is not serious.
In Judge Boyds court at Limerick a report
er named Reeves, who acted as the Limerick
ag2nt of a number of Cork newspapers, re-
fused to testify concerning notes which he had
taken of speeches made at Parnelite meetings.
He said he did not desire the notoriety of an
informer, and would let the court search the
newspapers for the information sought after.
He was committed to prison.
4 dispatch from Waterford says that four
teen PERSONS who were sentenced to a months
imprisonment for participatingin Manches-
ter martyrs demonstration there were taken
to prison. They we're escorted to the jail by
many policemen, crowd with band Of
music following them. The police charged
apon the crowd, using their clubs, and quite
conflict ensued. Several persons were badly
injured.
The body of Rev. W. L. Parker, rector of
Christ Episcopal church, Oswego, n. Y,
who mysteriously disappeared Nov. 80 i'm
mediately after holding service at bis church,
was found on the lake shore near there. TnB
violent gale brought the body to the surface.
1t is now certain that the unfortunate man,
who constantly gave to the needy more
than he could 8ffOrd, committed suicide to
escape his creditors.
The grand jaYy Feassembled at Indianapolis
after two week g adjournment. Judge Woods
in supplementary instructions, reserved his
decision at given to the grand jury on Nov.
IS regarding W. W. DudIey's case, and prac-
Aically told the jury that they could not re-
turn IN indictment unless it was proved that
the Instructions as contained in the famous
letter were actually carried into effect by the
person receiving it. He quoted as authority
Revised Statutes, Sec. sol. The charge was
very long.
Will Doweli living at Andrews, six miles
west Of Huntington, Ind, who had boasted
that he could not be scared by the White
Cap movement, was visited by seventy
masked men. They put rope around his
neck threw the other end over a telegraph
pole and hoisted him up. He was shortly
afterward lowered when he slipped the moose
and escaped, but was soon recaptured. His
cries brought citizens 10 his rescue and
the White Caps fed.
Ex-Sheriff Hobensack of the Union county
Ohio. who lives near Mount Hickory, had @
terrible experience with two robbers. Hear
ing q noise in his barn he went to investigate
Two men set upon him, shooting him twice
and inflicting seven wounds with n knife
They threw the wounded man into man.
ger and set fire to the barn, which was de
stroyed after Hobensack had been rescued
by members of his family. The injured mar
will pro baby die. Suspicion rests upon two
colored men.
Henry Gillespie worthless negro who haI
figured for years here in police courts cut
from ear to ear the throat of his former mis-
tress, Nellie Evans, producing fatal injury
and then slashed his own throat. The WON
an is white, pnd a few months ago married
man who is n0g in jail. Gillespie tried to
persuade her to hive with him, but she re
fused. He entered the house where she wal
and drew O. Pazor fearful siEpggle ensued
in which the yomap's fingers were nearly sev
cred from the hand. Finally he over-powefe1
her and repeatedly drew tbe razor across he
throat. 1t is thought Giilesplss injuries ar
not fatal.
James B. butcher, night watchmnp a
Tyler's flower mills, Manhattan, entered hil
wife's bed room the other morning and com
menced firing at her with revolver. Th'
first shot missed her and she sprang out o
bed. A struggle ensued, and in the scrim
mage the revolver went of, tbs ball striking
Butcher in the hand. He then deliberatel,
pressed the muzzle of the revolver agaias
his rife's neck aud fired She fell, but i'm
,nedia4aly sprang to her feet and ran out o
the house to neighbor's. butcher turned
the revolver against his head and sent bul
let through his brain. Mrs. Dutcher isyer!
BADLY wounded, but there is a chance for he
EecoveFy.
A sensational arrest was made atSt. Louis
which promises to result in the exposure @
baby-farming with all it's heartless cruslt
right under the eyes of the city authorities
"a woman who gave her name as jane Suffer
S,aIlcd at the eorDneF's Office and gaye motto