The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-12-06
polNos OF THE WICKED.

shortage off many Thousand dollars has
been discovered in the provincial crown lands
office Mt Charlottetown, p. L. l.
Metcalf, tine murderer of isabella Everson
ut Edgerton, Wis, pleaded guilty to murder
in the second degree. but the sentence was
not passed.
The robbers who held up the Santa Fetrain
in the Indian Territory recently secured
about 1O,OOO. One of the robbers is thought
to have been mortally wounded.
Granville X. Young assistant postmaster
ut Rugby. Tenn, was arrested and taken to
Chattanooga for trial ON n charge OF rifiing
letters passing through his Office
At Rosston. Tex John Collins, n farmer
and hired hand had Il difficulty in tho field.
Both drew knives and cut each other literally
to pieces Collins il dying and the other
man is dead.
]. Susskind of the banking firm of J. S,lss-
kind 4 Co. of New York. has disappeared,
taking with him. it is said, nearly $50, 900
belonging to poor dcpositors. The bank has
suspended.
At Mnnti, San Pete county, Utah. in dis
pute over a game of pool +. McFarlanc shot
and killed F. G. Hansen of Kansas City and
". q. Golding of Salt Lake. They both be-
long to the Rio Grande Surveying company.
Madame Louise, well known New York
milliner, has bcen fined 81 900 for violating
the contract labor law in bringing French
.demoselle to the United States to work in
her millinery establishment.
While Edward Strother, colored, of Slater,
No., was abusing his wife, his son, Timothy.
interfered, and the father turned on him with
poker. The lad seized n revolver and shot
his father dead. The hoy is only twelve years
old. He WAS arrested.
Some one having n key to the door and
the combination Of the safe in the office OF
the Pacific Express company at the Union
depot in Fort WORTH Tex entered the office,
opened the safe, tonk thercfrom $500 and
departed without molestation.
Lewis W. Shallcross, one of the members
of the great iron firm o: Morris, Tasker 4 Co.
and millionaire resident of Frankfort, Pa,
beat his wife almost to death and was com
mitted to the kirkbride's insane asylum
The assault was committed willie lie was on
u drunken spree.
Ed Mllner. son Of Mrs Millner, OF the
Windsor house. aud Myrtle Bates, for short
time guest at tho hotel, were marriel ut
Willmar, MINI. The groom obtained a H.
cense upon n statement that he was twenty
one years old and that his parents consented
thereto. 1t now transpircs that the groom
is but nineteen years of age, and that his
parents knew nothing of the contemplated
marriage.
At Gross Beckercck. Hungary, n trial is in
progress possessing the most remarkable
features of any criminal prosecution of which
the country has any record. 1t is the ur-
raignmcnt of eighty women each charged
with poisoning her husband. Thirty-eight
of the victims died, and their respective
widows are Icing tried for murder, while the
remaining forty two women are required to
answer the charge OF attempting to kill
Marceilus Whitman, the Oldest son of n.
Whitman. of Fargo. n. d., has been absent
since Sunday the oath inst. s,d investiga-
tion disclosed that some tw&Ey merchants
are losers by his absence. Saturday he drew
about $500 out o! one of the banks. Then
he went to the various merchants and bought
goods for small amounts: presenting checks
for larger amount and asking for the differ
ence that he might pay a hired man. In
this way lie obtained from S. to $40 from
each, making some $500 nil told.
A man supposed to be Jack the Ripper"
was set upon by crowd of women in the
poorer quarter of Madrid. while he wns in the
custody OF officers who were removing him
from the jail to the court room, where he WIS
to be nrraigned on the charge of having
committed n murder under circumstances re-
eemblirg those OF the Whitech0pcI murders
80 London. The crowd increased in number
,nnti) it reached upwards of 500, mostly wonl-
zen. and it was only through the utmost ex-
.ertiens Of the Governor o: Madrid and a
strong forco of gen 'arlne., who were sum-
.moned that the prisoners life was saved
As it was. he was so severely beaten that tho
services OF II physician were necessary to re-.
store him to n condition rendering the legal
proceedings in his case possible.
Gov. Foraker has granted pardon
to William Carroll, who was serving u life
sentence in the Ohio penitcntiary. Carol,
was convicted twenty-five years ago OF the
murder of Adam Cose. watchman OF the
Brown county court house. The crime Eas
committed in an attempt to rob the treasury
vaults of that county. The history OF Car
roll is one of the most dramatic and intensely
interesting chapters in the criminal annals Of
this country. He escaped the detectives
after arrest, went West, married n daughter
of Maj. Armstrong, ofthe United States army,
and became Il resident of Illinois, In that
state he was captured after he had served in
the War ofthe Rebellion. Since his incarcera-
tion in the Ohio renitentiary he murdered IL
fellow prisoner in n burst of passion. There
hns always been much doubt as to the idcn-
lily OI Lue uoteu pIisoHtT, us Hc WIS coii-
yicted entirely on circumstantial evidence,
and this, together with his usual good be-
havor in prison, caused his pardon.
The emost atrocious, cold -blooded and start
Sing tragedy ever enacted in Pine county oc.
Cured at Pine City, MINI. William Brooker,
the murderer, and William P. Coombs, the
1zagsd man, married sisters. Brooker was
His present vile was his brother
~teeW, the brother having died about eight