The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-04-25
Crimes and Criminals.

1t IS understood that the l0 DliltleS OF JOhn
Jackson, who committed suicide at St. Louis
will reach 5000, 600, and that his family will
be left virtually penniless. 1t was also stated
that the elevator company had overdrawn,
but the shortage has since been made up.
1t is reported from Phillipsburg, Kan. that
John W. Lowe, an agent of the Equitable
Mortgage company of Kansas city and for
other companies, has absconded, being a de-
'faulter to the extent Of $25, 600. The man.
ager of the Equitable says it is by no means
certain that his company has lost anything,
and i it has, it is considerably less than
$4,000.
1t is reported that a girl Of sixteen, named
Kelley, is missing from her home in the val,
ley near the Diamond ranch, Montana. She
is said to AVE left the house one night half
dressed and has not been seen or heard OF
A young man who had shown her some at
tention disappeared about the same time,
and the inference is that the pair have
eloped.
A special from Elmwood says Peter Nc
Golf was found lying dead across his wife's
grave at an early hour one morning. He
said if she died he would kill himself. When
found he was lying face downward on tho
fresh earth of the grave with his hands
clutched full OF dead grass. He had taken
poison.
A sensation was created at Quebec by a,
dispatch from St. Joseph Beauce to the eff.
feet that the prisoners confined in the dis
trict Jail there had revolted and, after beat.
ing and ove%rpowering the guards, escaped
in a body. Sergt. Harpe, OF the Provincial
police. who happened to be present, is re-
ported dangerously injured. forcel of
Provincial police were at once dispatched to
endeavor to recapture the tugitives.
Bill Ryan, the Missouri train robber and
associate of Jesse James, was released from
fenced for twenty-five years for completely in
the Glendale train robbery on the Chicago &
Alton road in October, 1879, but Gov.
Morehouse, O short time before his retire.
ment rom Office, committed his sentence to
seven and q half years. Ryan has been q
good prisoner.
Hotel Richelieu, Chicago, since April 10 and
was registered as Sidney Walters, suicided
with morphine in his room last night. The
hotel people have very little to say and there
seems to be considerable mystery about the
case. Mr.. Walters has spent money freely
and made many friends since arriving at the
hotel and there has been nothing in his be-
havior at any time to indicate an intention
OF suicide.
At West Farms, q farming, hamlets five
miles from Westfeld Centre, Mass, Joseph
King, a wealthy, well known citizen seventy
eight years OF age, was shot and killed by
Edgar King, his eldest son, and the house
fred and burned. Some time after shots
heard near by directed the assembled neigh
bors to q spot twenty rods away, where the
murderer was lying in O pool of blood, hav-
ing shot himself. The cause of the crime is
traceab]e to an unbalanced mind, caused by
dissolute habits. 49,. -. 49, ,
Peter s. Delerhouse and his younger son,
Louis, were shot and dangerously wounded
at New Iberid, La, by an unknown negro.
Louis was fixed upon first. The ball struck
him in the left cheek, ranged downward and
came out on the right side of the neck His
father was fired upon twice, one ball pene-
trating his left lung. The condition of tho
wounded man ia most critical. After caring
for the wounded men, the people of that
section succeeded in capturing the negro and
at once lyhched him. '''a :i4=,- =;
A big fight is brewing between the Union
Pacific and Northern Picifc roads. The re.
cent notice of a reduction in passenger rates
to competitive territory in the far Northwest
was only a straw indicating the direction OF
the trouble. About q year agos these com
panies enteredinto o compact dividing upthe
territory embracing Western Montana, Idaho,
Oregon and Washington Territory, and both
companies agreed to jointly guarantee 6 pei
cent on the stock of the Oregon Railway and
navigation company, which operates o line
of steamers in the Northwest. The" Unior
Pacific, it appears, got the worst ofthe trade
James Fields was fatally shot by his wife
at Butter, Pa, Mrs. Fields was reading q
book and her husband ordered her to come
to bed. She had refused to do So. when h,
got up and struck her. She vent to a bureau
drawer, took out q. revolver, telling him ]
he hit her again she would shoot him.l@H.
then struck her in the face, 'whenshe fred til,
revolver INJECTING o fatal wound. Beforedy
ing, Fields made a sworn statement exoner
ating his wife, in which he stated that sh
/ had shot in self-defcnce. When Mrs Field
appeared ut the coroner's inquest her fac
was mashed almost beyond recognition
She is still at liberty. y =
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