The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-09-19
The World Of Criminals.

One masked man robbed stage near Au- |
burn Cal, of Wolls, Fargo & Co.'S treasure
box.
Mrs. Robert Ray Hamilton has been indict-
ed for atrocious assault and battery on
Nurse Donnelly.
Charles Luth, a carrier in the New York
postofice, was arrested for stealing valuable
letters. The arrest is considered as import
ant. Luth confessed.
Frank Pine, who is known all over Europe
and the United States as one of the smooth
est confidence men in the business, is in Den
yer at the point of death.
Alice Dyke, on trial for the third time for
the murder of John Hamilton two years ago,
was acquitted at Kansas City. The prisoner
claimed a self-defense from robbery.
Millard Jones, druggist, fatally stabbed
Rev. Mr.. Smith, q Baptist minister, in quar-
rel at Clayton, Ind. Jones was released from
custody on the ground that his acts were
justifable.
The preliminary trial OF Mrs. Lizzie Bren-
han of Holyoke, Mass, for the alleged muir
der of her son Thomas last June by giving
arsenic was begun at Springfield. There is
suspicion of poisoning by the same woman
in two other deaths in the same family.
Two or three weeks ago a man named
Christianson of Pacific Junction, Iowa, ran
away with female book agent, leaving a
wife and several children. Pursuers were in
Sioux Falls seeking the recreant husband,
They have hunted Dakota all over and think
they are seersted near Sioux Palls.
Patrick Delaney, implicated in the Phoenix
murders and now in prison, writes to prom.
ineRt Official at Dublin Castle piteously claim
inghis release from prison as a reward for Civ
ing evidence for the London Times before the
Parnell commission.
Aman named Spring, alias NJ. A, Wilson,
who is wanted at Blair, Eeb.. to answer the
charge of embezzlement was arrested at
Lake City, Mimi. by Deputy Sheriff Tim
othy Foley. After his arrest Spring ad-
Tnitted that he was the person wanted and
EXPRESSED desire to effect settlement He
was locked up awaiting the arrival of the
sheriff from Blair.
F. W. Gesswein. the we'll known importer
and manufacturer of jewelers. tools and sup
plies, was shot and instantly killed in his
private Office in New York by Christian DeyhIe.
The killing grew out of the result of q law
vein had beaten Deyhle. Deyh hle called on
G4sswein and asked him for $500, and, be-
ing refused. quickly pulled the revolver and
fired the fatal shot.
News Of terrible tragedy that happened
at Ship Harbor. Nova Scotia, has just
reached Halifax. A large number of men
were in the woods hunting for moose when
one party, consisting OF two men named Tay-
1or and Armand, saw at distance what they
took to be a moose One of them fired and
Immediately q shrek was heard. Hurrying
to the spot, they found they had mistaken
TWO men for moose and killed both. The
victims were two young men named Mitchell
and Webber The shot had struck one OF
them in the breast, passed through and
struck the otherin vital part OF the neck.
The white people of Newton county Miss.
especially in the vicinity of Decatur. have
been much disturbed by reports that ths
negroes were arming and organizing, aud Fu
xnOrs we're put afoat by the negroes them
selves that they were going to mako serious
trouble, apd passtipgs were being held oveI
the country Looking to that end. The re
suit is that the white people are arminl
Themselves, and the merchants hays been un
able to supply the demand for Winchesters
~emerehant stating that he could hay,
Oh NOver 100 rifles yesterday il he could hav'
solo ID them. TIE whites declared tina
supphe ~teA no trouble, but will be prepared
they wa. ~@eney. Thenegrees ackR9wledg
.Gr tpat An thn emG we been organized possSealiy
that tney na they iateRd any disturbance
and conservative
view of the matter.
An interesting decis. c,'.tov,', .
Judge BIodgett at Chi. ~ 80 MusNcv"" ~
Swift, of the packing firm o. sE ~ - = ~ a'~
ed for damages in the sum Off 80 -, e. e..
John B. Sutphin, the mayor ofDu. "a. .. LIT III
alleging failure of contract on the pa ~ - 8
mayor Some time ago the plaintiff IN a. a.
fsndant entered into partnership, where.
the defendant was to receive dressed meats
from the plaintiff and sell on commission and
O salary Of $40 per week. Much meat was
shipped to the <layor,p hut the latter being
informed of the law in Minnesota, which ex-
pressly stipulates that all meats sold in the
state must be inspected at least twenty-four
hours before slaughter. refused to handle the
shipments, alleging his fear OF the law. The
claim was set up, therefore, because OF the
loss accruing to the plaintiff. Judge Bod
gett held that the law was unconstitutiona
as the meats had already been inspected here
in Chicago before slaughter. Were such O
law to be upheld Minnesota would be practi-
cally shut OF from oil shipments of dressed
meats. He awarded damages to the plaintiff
in the sum prayed for.