The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-06
SINFUL STRINGS.

Samuel Spencer, a varnish manufacturer OF
Albany. N. Y, committed suicide by cutting
his throat.
Harvey Hodge was convicted of wife MUIR
der at Sandy Hill, N. Y, and sentenced to
death.
Ewing Watterson, son of Henry Watterson,
the Louisville Courier journal, and Miss
Jennie Block, daughter of Thomas Block of
McMinnville, KY, eloped and were married.
DR.. s. F. Taylor, son of the late major and
paymaster of the United States army and
son-in-law of ex- United States Senator Cald-
WE'LL committed suicide in Leavenworth,
Kan. Illness was the cause
Thieves smashed the window of Jean
Tacks' jewelry store in Newark, n j., and
secured $4,000 worth of diamonds Two
women who were in the store looking at some
jewclry at the time are believed to have been
accomplices.
c. s. King. editor of the Ogden (Utah)
Daily Union. was shot on the street by ex-
Deputy United States Marshall Exun on
account of the publication of an article re-
fecting upon the character of Exun's wife.
King is seriously wounded, but may recover.
Tom Thompson, an Indian, horribly cut
Medicine Bird with q Ratchet on the reserva-
ton opposite Cham berlain, S. D., intlicting
wounds which are certain to prove fatal.
Medicine Birds brains we're exposed bv a
fearful blow on the head. There is intense
feeling between the friends of the interested
parties. The trouble began two years ago
when Medicine Bird stole one of TIL ompson g
wives, eliminating in a desperate fight at
dance. Thompson is in charge of the Indian
police. who will turn him over to the federal
authorities for trial
I'M L.
who was tramping with him, and placed his
body in fire, near Lima, Ohio, which he had
built of brush and logs, to burn it up. He
was then overcome with remorse and at
tempted to kill himself by shooting, but will
recover, Tugar said he had sent his boy out
to get something to eat, but he Was not sue.
cessful. This caused him to fly into a pas
sion. and he picked up u stick of wood strik-
ing the boy over the head with it, crushing
his scull and causing his death. He then be-
came frightened and placed the body on the
fire, where it was consumed.
w. ID. Harvey was hanged at Guelph, Can
ada. The execution was one of the worst
pieces OF bungling ever witnessed. The weight
which lifted the body was not heavy enough,
and the scaffOld was not high enough to give
sufficient rebound to break the condemned
mans neck, and his struggles and contor-
tions az he was slowly strangling to death
were fright'ul. TO add to the horror of the
hanging the knot slipped and the gurgling in
the mans throat as his life was being choled
out could be heard outside the Jail walls The
crime for which Harvey paid the death pen
atty was committed March &c, 1889, when
he killed his vie and two daughters
An inmate of the Barron county, Wis,
poorhouse, known as old Peck, has made q
death-bed confession that fills the village of
Barron with horror, and recalls the Bender
family's deeds. Peck has been i'll for some
time. and, thinking death was at hand called
the poorhouse keeper and inmates to his
bed, and confessed to a murder committed
eight years ago. He said that q woodman
came to his hut in the backwoods near Bar
ron. and asked for lodging. 1t was granted
and in the night Peck and his son Juno MUIR
dered the stranger and buried the body in
the cellar. He gave no reason for the deed.
but said he wished to die with a clear con.
science. The matter was reported to the
authorities, and an investigation was made
proving the truth by unearthing human
bones, which now are in Barron awaiting
further investigation. Contrary to expecta-
tions. Peck is rapidly recovering, and will
be held to answer to the charge OF murder.
His son is serving two-year sentence in
Waupun for larcency. Peck maintained
strongly the guilt of himself and sOn.