The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-04-18
The Ways of the Wicked.

GARNER McClaughrey, the Doodle COM
missioner of Cook county, Illinois, was for
mally released from custody at the peniten-
tiary at Joliet.
Four train robbers were brought to Salt
Lake City in charge of four officers from Ari-
iona, having been captured in southern
Utah, heavily armed. The officers had d
chase Of 300 miles over rivers, mountains
and plains. ending in q pitched battle. They
forced the robbers to abandon their horses
and scatter in the brush, where it tool two
days search to secure them. The party left
for Denver after six hours rest.
Two strangers visited Daniel Keller's
place at Shamokin, Pa, and after a pro-
posal to purchase his farm engaged the old
farmer in a game ofcards. Keller becamein-
terested and procured 81, 700, which he had
put up as stakes. The money was seized by
the strangers, and Keller was covered with
q revolver while they moved off. Both es-
capped. One of the men represented himself
az the son of J. B. Packer of Sunbury, an
old friend of Keller's.
Mrs. Annie NJ. Parks, an inspectress on
Surveyor Beattie's force at New York. seized
from Mrs. Davis, O passenger on the steamer
Adriatic from Liverpool, about three pounds
of wooden yarn, which she had quilted into
one of her petticoats, thirteen yards of dress
goods sewed into another, about twenty
yards of fannels, which had been wrapped
o her little daughter. Mrs Davis is a
resident of Minnesota, and confessed to hav-
ing struggled goods in this manner before.
A fatal shooting ARRAY occurred at Flat
Head lake, Montana, the result OF a land
dispute. Hawkes. and Forth, two settlers,
claimed some ground. Forth occupied the
land and was ordered off by Hawkes.. He
refused to go unless by legal process. The
parties met and had q dispute about the
matter, when Hawkes. began firing at Forth,
hitting him in the hand and body and in the
back as he was trying to escape. The wounds
proved fatal. Hawkes. was ARRESTED.
zee Sing. q wealthy Chinese merchant Of
Denver, was arrested at Chicago and left for
Denver with the officers. The charge against
him is that he eloped with Wong Toy, the
wife of Chin Poo, another prominent China.
man of Denver, and that he took with him
$500 Of China Poo's cash, likewise. zee
Sing denies the theft of the money, but ad-
mits that Wong Toy loves him better than
she does her husband. YeeSing, it is under
stood, is an exiled mandarin. His manner
and appearance certainly indicate that he is
above the ordinary Celestial.
The residence of Robert McRane, an aged
farmer living a few miles from East Liverpool
O, was visited by two masked men. They at
tempted to chloro,orm theinmates, but were
not successful. They knocked vhree small
children almost senseless, and locked them
in O small room, and asked Mr.. McBane to
give up all his money, saying they knew he
received several thousand dollar Saturday
for some territory he disposed o. On being
old he had not received any money, they
| struck him with a fire shovel, cutting an
ugly cash and knocking him senseless.
Ella c. White is q music teacher in Elmira,
N. Y, who has succeeded in borrowing
amounts estimated from $4,000 to $15,.
900 from various Elmira citizens. She bor-
rowed money in several cases from trends
by representing she could invest it proftably;
in other cases by Offering notes signed, some
by fictitious names, and others signed by
herself and endorsed by her father, whom
she said was wealthy. Her father il O super
anuated employee of the.Erieshops at Susque-
hanna, Pa, and has transferred his proper
ty, amounting to ~, 900. She was arrest
| ed at Susquehanna on four warrants, charg-
ing her with forgery.
The jury in the trial Of Libby Beechler,
who killed Henry W. King, Jr., in the Pax.
ton house q few months ago, returned q yer.
| dict of not guilty at Omaha. The defense
was insanity. The defendant lived with
| King as his mistress in Chicago, and when
he married and came to Omaha to live she
followed him and shot him In the hall OF the
hotel one morning. A tremendous roar Of