The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-08-09
Criminal Doings.

L. D. Dimick, who was shot by his wife in
house OF i'll fame ut Rock Islund, III, has
d:eti from the effects of his wounds.
willinm o'Bricn, N. T., has applied for a
new trial of his libel suit against Lord Sails
bury for slander.
At Wakefield, Mich, five loborcrs grew
qunrrclsomc over II kcg Of beer when one Of
the party, Enme unkn own, had his neck
broken by blow from IL car pin.
In Carthage. N. y, Fred Farr an engineer,
shot mud killed his wife and then committed
suicide. both died instantly. Trouble over
property,
Col. John Arkins, editor of the Rocky
Mountains News ut Denver, wns assaulted
by u gnngof roughs against whom the pa
per had been waging Il vigorous war.
William l.. Ross, note teller in the Nevada
bank ut San Francisco. who embezzlcd $780,
900 in promissOry notes, has been captured
at Victoria, Is. G..
Andrew G. Drumm, who has full charge Of
the cattle commission business of A. Drumm
{ Co., ut Kansas City, has disappeared, and
$4,000 with him.
i: Abraham Finkbone, aged twenty-six years,
accused of setting fire to the Reading Lum-
$4,000 damage, hanged himsclfin JUL ut
Reading. Pa.
Mrs. Isabella Everson, an old Norwegian
woman, living alone, was found dead in her
bed Mt Everson, Wis, with her neck broken.
There is evidence Of foul play. A chest con-
tuining her money was found pried open and
the contents scattered.
A stone mason named Mcdonald came
home to supper in Ashland, Wis, and went
to the kitchen. got the family butcher knife
and deliberately cut his throat with it.
There is little hope that he will survive. Tho
cause iOr the act il unknown.
Fred O'IIara, laborcr who killed one of
his mates ut Wakefield, Wis, with acoupling
pin, was captured at Thomastown, q small
station oil tho Duluth, South Shore & At.
lnntic. He claims that he did not intend to
kill Fenton, and that when he left he hud no
knowledge that he had caused his death.
Conductor Glass, of the Duluth train on
the Northern Pacific railway, ordered four
trumps who were stealing ride off the trnn
near Ashland Junction. They refused to go
and when lie attempted to forcibly remove
them lie was assaulted, one of them stubbins
him in the leg twice. wounding him severely
The tramps escaped to the woods.
& Timothy Martin. the treasurer of district
216, town Of Paddock, and postm Mt
the saine place, is missing. He went to Fer
gus Fns and diewthe money for the district
and also for the town, as lie had an order
from he town treasurer. His slo, tugeis be-
tween 5000 and $500. His family are still
there, but LEow nothing Of his whereabouts
He lns quite n good farm and has been con-
eidercd ull right. The shortage extends back
for scme time.
As tho limited train OH the 500 was pulling
out of tin" depot Mt Barron, Wis. J. Hors-
man. with c. W. lIacket Hardware compa-
ny. and +. j. Burke, with Allen, Moon & Co.,
St. Paul, had very narrow escape, some
evil disposed individual frirga shot of heavy
calii.er through the window by the seat Or
cnli.ai ly Herman, barely grazinghis hcnd
At the same time II large stone WAS hurled
through the window where Burke sat, miss.
ing his icnh about foot. Whit object
there could have been in this dnstardly act
cnnnnt l.c imagined. The Sheriff has been
uno s,le to get any truce of the perpetrator
as yct.
When N. T.. Billings, the alleged murderer
of Attorney Kingsley at WaverIy, charged
Lewyer Monaghan with larceny at Gary. s
j. tile latter charged Billings with perjury. .
The sheriff arrested Billings on the Burning.
ton L, ain and brought him back, and the
Justice adjourned he case until next morn.
ing. Tlint night Billings euded the sheriff
und again sailed out. He was seen one
night walking toward the creek and ns he
hnd lEcn acting very strangely the pnst few
:x tx,I !,
mittcd suicide and the creek and the woods
surrounding it were accordingly searched. 1t
il probably that some one assisted him over
the state line into Minnesota.
James ". Smith, the man who attempted
room Mt Chicago when he was found guilty
ofn criminal assault upon n little girl and
sentenced TO niIe years in the penitentury,
will be IL free man when he is able to leave
Lis bed in the county hospital. Judge Nc
Council has been investigating the rumors
that there wos a conspiracy to send Smith to
priton. He sent for the prisoners wife and
hud u long md earnest interview with her in
His private chamber in the criminal court
ln;ldny. Mrs. Smith. it is said. desired O
divorce and testified against her husband in
order thht his conviction might give her
grounds for the annulment Of the marriage
contract. Stricken with remorse at his ut
temNted suicide, SlenOW cOnfeEsek her perfdV
to Judge Mcdonnell, and the Inter will set
aside the verdict on tle grounds Of con.
spiraey.
Magnus Johnson, who hos resided in
Anokn. MINI, thirteen years and for the
pnst three years boarded with Frank Fink.
mysteriously disappeared recently. His
body WIS discovered floating in Rum river,
o quarter ofa mile above the railroad bridge,
johnson was sober industrious bachelor.
with no known enemies. about thrty-five
yenrs old. He held mortgage Of $500 on
Flink's house, had money in the bank and
considered ble on his person the day he disap-
reared. The face was mashed with a club
and n bullet hole was in the side of the lend.
The coroner held an inquest und examined u
number OF witnesses. Among them was
Betsy Swanson. She loved Magnus, hut be
didn't seem to reciprocate, although she
snid he told her they would he married
soon. Her father determined to help the
match out The jury rendered verdict
that johnson came to his death by bullet
nred from revolver by some person un'