The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-05-16

flulnn4l rsv;lle The assault was made aT
Plummersvills some weeks after the ballot
box had been STOLEN. 0ther arrests will also
be made of nine persons, including Deputy
Sheriff Bentley, implicated III carrying of th"
ballot boxes.
Troops B, E and G, First United States
cavalry, and detachment OF Grow scouts,
under command of Maj. Carroll, left Fort
Custer for the Tongue River agency to assist
Agent Upshon in preventing the Sioux and
Cheyennes from holding Il sun dance and to
turn the Sioux back to the Pine Ridge
agency. Trouble is anticipated, the In
dians cling to the traditions OF the sun dance
with hold that weakens only in the pres
ence of leveled carbines This dance is
heathenish rite, at which the Young braves
attest their courage by submitting their
bodies to be hacked and mutated by the
knives of the elders, mortal wounds being
frequently inflicted in this way
There was a hoe-down on Twin creek,
about twelve miles below Portsmouth, Ohio.
Several rough characters werein attendance
among them Wilson and Amos Cooper
brothers, and Henry NlckeIs. The latter
hat several quarrels with the Cooper boys
and had warned them to keep their distance
Hot words passed, followed by two revolver
shots i'll quick succession and the falling of
Wilson and Amos Cooper to the floor. An
examination showed that Wilson Cooper
had been shot through the heart, and Amos
through the lett temple. Nickes, who did
the shooting. is Eirginian. He made no
attempt to escape, and us yet has not been
arrested.
The three cowboys who killed four Zuna
Indians at Wingate Arizona, have been
Tbojr ,,ro
Vile David Hamm and Robert Davis. The
cowboys were en- route to ranch in the neigh
borhood and, observing a number o: cattle,
| drove OIL dozen or more. The stock be-
! lOngpd to the Indians, and as soon rs they
| discovered the theft they made after the
| cowboys, demanding their stock. Argument
| proving futile the Indians attempted t. take
! the cattle, when Sommervie pulled his
| weapon and shot one of the Indians dead
| The firing then became general. The cow
| boys proved the best m&rksmen and Killed
| all four Indians. Davis was shot through
| the body, but his companions placed him on
| his horse and then fed. SOmmervle is
| well known horse and cattle thie:.
Another case Of crime resulting from the
| practice of insuring children's lives has been
| discovered at Deptford England In Feb
ruary boy named Sydney Bolton, II years
OF age, died at Deptford. Suspicious of foul
play arising. his body was exhumed, when
it was found that he had been poisoned
traces ofarsenic being discovered in the lad y
stomach. The boy was boarding at the
time o! his death with relative named Mrs
! Winter. who obtained $40 insurance on the
| boy s life In order to get the money the
| woman forged the bows mothers name to
| the receipt. 1t transpires that since 1893
| Mrs. Winter has insured the lives OF ~ of
her relatives. and has driven rather a lucra-
tive trade in the business. Five OF her vic
times have died, and she has collected tie
Insurance on their lives. 1t is belle. I'd that
| she poisoned them. and intended to poiS on
| al the others whose beneficiary she was.
| This wholesale murderess is at present ill.,,
but her arrest will be made as soon as pos
sibIe.