The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-04-18
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Ernest Y. Loomis, a western man, who has
been running the Buyers Union The
Loomis National Libr ary" and the 'COnsol-
idated Buyers Jobbing Company in New
York. was arrested on complaint of Albert
NJ Talcott Of Chicago and locked up in de-
fault of bail 1t is alleged that the concern
of which T;llcott was the head existed only
on paper, and that people all over the west
have been swindled out of about 100000
through advertisements in country newspa-
perS
At Bramin Hill, a small German settlement
10 miles west of Kansas City, in Wyandotte
county Kan, were found the dead bodies of
Wihelmina Sederick, widow owning a
farm and John Schaler. the hired man. The
hodies had evidently been dead several days.
1t is supposed to be ease of murder and
suicide. Mrs. Spiberick' s first husband hung
himself and her second husband died under
mysterious circumstances SIX years ago.
Shortly afterward she discharged her hired
man and engaged Schaler, who has lived
with her ever since.
R. D. Stevens married Ida E. Steier in
northern Iowa IN June, 1880. They have
been in Spokane two years and have two
children, boy and girl. Last September
the woman ran off to Walla Wa1fa with q
well known gambler, carrying the girl with
her The husband followed and had her and
the man arrested on the charge OF adultery
The matter was adjusted and divorce pro
ceedings commenced. One day Stevens went
to the house during the absence of the
mother and carried off the boy aud girl to
friends in the country. The boy. ped anG
came home. Stevens father had him arrest
ed on tine charge OF kidnapping.
At an early hour one morning when Louis
Nopoleon, the jantor of the st. Louis grain
elevator Office, went into the Office to clear
up, he found John Jackson, president of the
elevator company, hanging to one oftht
high posts ofa counter railing; dead and
the body cold MraJaekson had. evidently
stood upon a chair while adjusting the rope
"a piece of an ordinary clothes line-anG
then kicking the chair away, the moose closed
on the windpipe. death ensuing by strangu
lation. The ianit or and his wife rut the body
down and laid ir on sofa where it remained
TntiI Robert p. Owens, cashier of the'com
: pany came to the Office. Il -.
The sensational developments at the Por9
Townsend custem house are the outcome o
inquiries set on foot some time last winter
The Office has been going wrong for long
time, and several special agents have beef
sent ont there One of them, Leslie Cullom
had beer made deputy collector on the re
'Tnoval of the snspectesIswindlers by President
Cleveland Cullom has resigned since the ex
posures, probably because his work is don,
and to makesway for tile new collector lately
appointed and confirmed by thesenate: First
Auditor Luptop and Special Agent Crowly
J who have been oTprhauling the accounts o
the office at tile instance of the department
made their report to the acting collector
who at once proceeded against the delin
quents,
The trial of Fisk, who, month or SO ago
murdered and horribly mutilated a woman
at Winnipeg, proceeded at Calgary. 'Th
evidence causing the greatest excitement b.
the defense was that Fisk let the woman il
her room at late hour of the night, NOT in
turing her in any way, and that during hi
absence another man entered and committed
thehoFrible atrodty. OHer OF the mounte,
police special detectives described the bloot
stains on tifeswalls ofithe room in which tn
murder was committed. One blood mark
he declared, was made by three fingers of th
left hands It-looked Ike-a mntilated hand
he thought. The crown counsel obtained tn
sanction of the court to geb the prisoner IL
hold UP his left hand, and sensation va
caused in court when It Was seen that Fisl
had only three fingers one Of them hayinl
been amput ated close to the hand. The dc
tective, on cross-examination,sd declared tina
he did not know that one of the prisoner
fingers had been amputated
The Oklahoma boomers are forming int
small colonies f55 TO so persons, and pr
deyising schemes to outwit their neighbor
and get info the heart of Oklahoma by th
appointed time. Thereis q feeling all alon
I the border that there viii be general fol
ward movement into the territory on tn
night Of April 20s Boomegs Wbo have bee