The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-01-10
Mans Wicked DOings.

Mans Wicked Doirgs.
Dan Dalor, q bartender at Kansas City,
shot and killed Joseph Long, a switchman.
A friend o. Long's had placed 80 cents on
the bar, and O dispute arose az to whether
it belonged to the bar or to Longs friends.
A mob at Greedy, Cal. overpowered the
jailor, broke open the jail and took out
W. D. French, who W weeks ago murdered
Harry. Woodbury., and hanged him to a tree
near the court house. The men are unknown.
Amos J. stillwell, a wealthy merchant, was
murdered by O burglar while sleeping in his
home, ut Hatboro, Mo. The weapon used
upon him was an axe, which with Mr.. Still
wells ~pocketbook and $35, was found in an
alley in the rear of the house. There was no
clue to the murderer.
W.. F. Ruder, a veteran Of the late war,
was stabbed and instantly killed at Milwau-
kee by Louis Schmidt, ar inmate of the Sol
diers' home, aged sixty-fve years. While
soldiers became involved in n dispute over
their respective war records. and Schmidt
waited for Ruder on the road to the home,
when he plunged a knife into the latter with
q fatal effect.
A man about 80 years of age arrived at the
Windsor Hotel Montreal and registed as
Hoffman and wife, New York. Detective
Kellert received a telegram from the Chicago
chief of police, asking him to detain Lewis
He spotted H Gilman as the man and arrested
him. Hoffman at first denied being Horner,
but finally admitted it, and stated he could
explain the embczzlement.
Thomas Vines, assistant timekeeper of
the Adams & Westlake Manufacturing
company disappeared suddenly at Chicago
taking with him the weeks salary of 700
men and boys. The amount of money car
ried of is about 10000. It was done up
in 700 packages, ready for delivery to the
employees. Vines does not usually handle
the money, but apparently foresaw that he
would on this occasion and had an express
wagon waiting.
d. G. Stickney, clerk for the Chelsea Salt
company, of Boston, obtained from the
manager, C. L.. Davenport, q blank signed
check which he was to fill in for $40, but
which he filed in for $500 and fed. In
vestigation shows that Stickney has been
filing in blank checks for improper amounts
for some time past, and has probably en-
bezzled $25, 900 in this way, He was i'm
plicitly trusted by Mr.. Davenport. He is 80
years old.
The police of Liverpool, were anxiously
watching for the arrival of the steamer Lord
Cough from New York, believing that Dane,
the Wisconsin murderer, was On board.
i uSlT uuAlcUJ was Icu0ttO3 HONefcEy Wy u
dispatch from Queenstown, stating that the
vessel had arrived at that port, and nat
Dane had been arrested there and rcmanded
for q hearing. He made no resistance. He
had q ticket for Basic, Switzerland, and in
tended to proceed to that country immedi.
ately.
1t is reported ut Wahlak, Wis, that three
bands Of five men each, h have been hunt
ing In the mountains for negroes concerned
~ Tho rooont rooeoocr haro hasa L;lIoJ four
of ~them-named Cheatam, Wilder, Maury
and Stennis. Cheatam was shot in his W
yard, while begging for his life; Maury, in his
cotton gin, while conversing with vigilantes;
Wilder's who was a Union soldier and fought
with Grant at Vicksburg, on the road to
Wahlak. Wilder's body was buried in a shall
low hole, and stones and dirt piled upon it.
Stennis a found Kidding in an abandoned
house, where he had been nearly two weeks.
Seven colored servants of Col. Paxton,
near Arcola, Miss, were arrested q short
time g for burning the colonel's residence,
and after two of them having confessed
drugging the coffee SO as to max the family
sleep, and setting fire to the house during
the night. the prisoners all mysteriously dis
appeared, and, it is limited, were lynched.
The confession was to the effect that the
Frank Aldridge. did not drink of it. and
when the house was burning they awoke and
aroused Col. and Mrs. Paxton. Otherwise
all would probably have persisted.
The mutilated body Of a boy was found
in an clubhouse at Bradford, England. 1t
was recognized as that of John Gill, eight
years of age, who, when last seen alive, was
sliding ON the ice with some companions.
legs and arms had been chopped off in a
rough manner and tied to his body; his ears
had been cut off, there were two stab wounds
in his chest, and ~entrails had been torn out.
The remains, when found were wrapped in a
rough covering. 1t is supposed the murder
and butchery were committed in some other
place and the remains afterwards carried by
the perpetrators ia tho clubhouse in which
they were found.
In Wilcox county, Georgia, Edward Jordan.
Mrs. Dickey, q sister of the Jordans, in
vited her two brothers to spend the holiday
season with Their. The young men supplied
themselves with several gallons of whisky.
Among those who joined them in a drunken
bout were James Kervin, L. c Dickey, Will.
lam Dickey and others. After getting wildly
drunk, the whole party started down the
road to the station, firing their pistols in a
promiscu Gus manner, r. L. Jordan got in
the lead of the party and q bullet from the
pistol held by his brother Edward, went
| through his heart. He fell dead on the road.
The whole party has been bound over to
| stand trial for the crime.
! man giving the name of John Arthur
Burns was arrested at st. Louis for o muir
| derous assault on q woman in q ~disrsputable
house. When asked to plead, he answered:
"In presence Of God, destroyer OF impurity.
not guilty." The testified that
| Burns had choked her and threatened to cut
her throat and tear her heart. Her neck
wa badly lacerated BY his nails. He changed
his mind and selling her by the ankles pushed
her body out Of the third-story window and
was III the act of hurting her to the sidewalk
| when the officers seized him. The man. who
Il AZ mad as q March hare, says he was or.
dered by God to slay his woman for her i'm:
purity. He said he came from hades, and
when he had completed his mission he would
return there.
Wallace eterman, who has for thelast avs
years had & responsible position with alargs
dry good house in Crawfordsville, Ind, left
town, and his sister-inlaw. Miss Pearl Free.
man, has also disappeared. Miss Freeman II
not quite eighteen years OF age, and was still
under the care Of her guardian, who has $1,-
200 III her money. She was an attractive and