The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-01-31

Charles Evans, the leader OF the surveyors,
vas arrested aud Ii now charged With oh.
tanning money under false prstenses. The
sum collected In Boone amounts to about
$3.50. More would have been obtained but
for the exposure i
The town of Mechanicsville, Iowa is Nh
torn up over an article published in the
Cedar County Republican. J. A.. Hill received
a warning letter signed "White Caps mott.
tying him to change his way, and he pub.
lished a reply in which he says: "My habits
will be conducted as heretofore, l fear moth
ing, be he man or devil. There are not
enough thugs, roughs, toughs or bruisers
in or around bou Mechanicsville efficient
to. for an instant, strike terror to my heart.
Furthermore, allow me to suggest that in
your murderous attempt that you make no
mistakes, and that your calculations be
earned out with mathematical precision,
as halt and delays may prove dangerous.
otherwise O White Caps wife may be made a
widow
At Garden City, Mimi, G. F. Furndal, alias
Fred Hickmott, alias Frank Hickman, was
arrested on n charge of murder committed
in Illinois this winter. He is O young man of
English birth and about 90 years old. Tn
Postmaster Murphy, of Garden City, rom
the detectives Of Illinois. He is a well edu.
Gated young Englishmnn, who, about nine
months ago, came from England, to Albion,
ILL.,, ostensibly to visit his uncle, a highly re.
spected farmer, Detective J. H. Williston
says the crime with which Hickmott is
charged is the murder of Henry J. Perceval,
A. Bard, of Vance county, Neb., Sept. 20,
1884. The murderer of those persons is de.
scribed as n man S feet s inches high, while
Hickmott is fully 6 feet 1 inch high.
Residents of Omaha were startled by two
shots fred in rapid succession. An ~investi.
cation showed an attempted highway rob,
berry. The victim was J. II. Cole, Of the firm
of Patton & Cole, who was OF his way home
ut the time. While passing south on Six
two robbers suddenly jumped out of an nlley
and, thrusting n couple of revolvers in his
face, told him to throw up his hands Mean.
while his trusty dog, a huge mastiff, sized up
matters about right and planted his teeth in
the neither part of one of the hi%ghwaymen.
The fellow roared with pain, and the other
robber, taking fright, fed. While highway.
out his revolver and attempted to kill the
would-be plunderers, but the two shots fred
failed to take effect. The reports of the re.
volver caused the dog to release his hold and
the highwayman fled precipitately.
A man giving his name q William Brown
attempted suicide ut Aitkin, Mimi,
in most novel way. He u.s.
roof of Know & DeLaittre's Office, VIII ere he
managed to crawl over the edge and hung
by his feet or toes to the top of the building,
while he let his body down Of course first,
and then let himself drop to the ground in
the hope to break his neck. He did not hurt
himself the first time and tried the expert.
ment the second time. This time he was
L. Nnl-nl o,,,l,c, 1- %l,o f,n n-l l,oln L.,
shoulder. Sheriff Markham tool him to Jail.
While the sheriff was bringing wood in the
office tho mnn tore up his over shirt, tied the
rope thus prepared to the bars of the cell and
then s%traugled himself to death. The sheriff
says he was not away from the cell more
than twenty minutes. Markham cut the
man down ut once and found that the heart
still fiuttered, but he was unable to bring the
man to life.
The Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance
company OF Hartford has issued n circular in.
forming the policy holders that Joseph A.
Moore, for sixteen years financial correspond.
ent of the company ut Indianapolis, is a de-.
tnulter to the amount Of about $500, 900.
He devised narrowing tales, and kept the
company infinitely advised of the progress OF
individual alleged cases, and thus prevented
would really settle up one ofthcse cases, great.
ly to the satisfaction of the company, and
to the apparent vindication of his Judgment.
he was constantly remitting large
sums an genuine Investments in n perfectly
correct manner. He was regarded as a ga q,
successful business man, and his influential
standing was not questioned by any one in
the city. He is a prominent member and
vestryman of st. Paurs Episcopal church,
and his personal habits are unexceptionable.
Reporters rave so far failed to locate Moore,
but it is not thought that he has left n adam
apolis.
Charles Lumsdaller, q Scandinavian, who
arrived at Port Townsend, W. r., q few days
ago with his vie and seven children was ar.
rested for the murder of his first wife in Fer.
gus Falls, Mimi, last March. A. Branden.
burg, the sheriff of Fergus Falls, came west
in search ofO L. Leary, an .embezzler, and
in Port Townsend, Mr.. Bradenburg in COM
pany with Dufield, a deputy sheriff of Taco.
mn, come to Port Townsend and arrested
Lumsdaller at his house in the northern sub.
urbs. 1t was learned thatLumsdaller was a well.
TODD farmer residing O few miles from Fergus
Falls. Employed in the family was a pretty
servant girl and Lumsdaller's intimacy with
her became the talk Of the neighborhood.
Last March Mrs, Lumsdaller died suddenly,
The funeral was hurried through and five
months after Mrs. Lumsdaller died the family
and servant girl went to Fergus Falls, where
the husband and his mistress were married.
Lumsdaller, accompanied by his wife and six
children OF his former wife, anne West. The
body of the deceased wife was eXbumed and a
medical examination rev ealed the fact of he1
having been poisoned. The second Mrs.
Lumsdaller is scarcely 10 years old and
speaks very little English, Lumsdaller Is a
powerful built man and his only answer was
they could not produce evidence which would
convict him.