The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-05-03
Petty WfckednessAs.

An attempt was made by burglars ut West
Superior. to enter the clothing store of G. L.
Percy, from rear window, but they were
frightened away by q young man. Charles
Bullard, who sleeps in the store The freight
Office OF the Omaha Railroad company WINS
entered and 80 in change taken from the
till. The work was evidently done by tramps.
The street car mob in Vienna stoned the
cavalry, and reinforcements of infantry we're
required. Many rioters were wounded, and
large number were arrested. The govern.
ment offered to supply soldiers to drive the
cars. The strikers thereupon offered to re.
sumo work Internationally. The directors
decided to reemploy oil drivers who had
taken no part in the rioting.
q Oliver T. Lewis, aged twenty one, clad in
full dress suit, with white rose in his but.
ton hole, climbed over the iron railing of the
Central Park reservoir in New York.
jumped into the water and drowned himself
He spent the night at the Murray Hill hotel
where he had written number of notes to
relatives and friends, informing them of his
intentions: and about the time the reservoir
employees were pulling Ills body out Of the
alarm in the hope Of preventing the. Suicide
Lewis was q clerk and had social ambitions
out Of proportion to his salary, and II is SUP.
posed that this impelled him to suicide.
$ A sensation was caused in church cirlces in
Chicago by the publication Of the fact that
. minister's wife has been arrested on a
charge of shoplfting. The accused liz Mrs.
Jennie Kirkham, the wife of Rev. F. N. Kirk.
ham, editor Of the Christian churcl, at
Thirty seventh nnd Indiana avenue. Rev.
kirkham ls a we'll known Iowa divine WHO
came to Chicago only u few months ago.
Mrs. Kirkham is n sister of Gen. Drake of
Des Moines, the ounder Of the Drake uniyer.
city. The manager Of the 81 ore in whichshewas
arrested stated to the agist rate that he and
another person had seen tho woman steal
articles in the store; that when she was
arrested articles to the value of SIS to $50
that she confessed her guilt to the officer
WHO arrested her and that she offered to nav
considerably more than tile goods we're
worth to get out of it.
At Ventura. Cal, bold attempt at bank
robbery was made by aman named McCar-
. thy, who was recently discharged from the
county hospital. He entered Collins & Sons
bank while the cashier, Collins. was gone to
lunch, leaving Jack Morrison alonc. Nc.
Carthy entered and complained OF his power
ty and desperation which had driven him to
think Of suicide. He laid package on the
counter which he snil was dynamite. and
drew a six-slooter and demanded $50 900.
Morrison lodged behind The counter and ran
out of the buck door. The robbcr then seized
a tray containing about 81 900 and walked
into the street. Morrison gave tho alarm, and
tbs people gathered on the street, bnt no one
was armed. The thet had IL horse hitc'e,l
near the bank nnd WAS making for that. The
sheriff happened to be near but was without
firearms. lie steppcI into a hardwAro store
and seized q shotgun; when the rohLsr sud-
covered except twenty dollars with was
probably lost on the street.
5w. II. ksyscr. r!ai,aing to ltroEr Gree ne
county, No., is under arrest al Iowa City 70.
nh alleged attempt to deiraud the DIVERS o:
the Iowa City Packing honsc out of their
property valued at 100000 Kevssr cnms
to iowa last fall, and offered $4,000 and