The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-01-03
Mans Vic ed DOings.

The body of ex-Police Capt. Ditsch of Kan
las City was found in the Union cemetery
with q bullet holcin his head and quite dead.
Capt. Ditch had charge of the police relief
fund, and it is believed that being a defaulter
to the same, he was driven to suicide.
Advices from Mississippi indicate that the
whites have the negroe murderers cornered
ared without aid from adjoining counties
Two newspaper correspondents have beer
ordered to quit kemper county because o
the tone of their articles, and they departed
in a hurry, thus saving their lives.
John T. Trainor, aged twenty-five, an EN-.
ploye Of the Delaware ~Lackawanna & West.
srn Railroad company, committed suicide at
Jersey City. While he was crossing the rail.
road track in front Of a moving train the heel
lease it, but before he could do 10 the train
was close to him. Apparently choosing
death to the loss of q leg, he threw himselfon
the track in front of the engine and was killed.
Lester Taylor, a wealthy farmer residing
near Millington, ILL.,, has been swindled out
Of $22, 900 by a smoothed- tongued young
man, who was arrested in New York. The
youth pretended to be the only son of
wealthy and distinguished parents, and said
that his guardian was attempting to cheat
him out of his inheritance. He wanted to
learn farming, as his wealth was mainly in
lands. His confederate in New York, pre-.
tending to be his attorney, sent for money
from time to time to prosecute the suit
against the alleged guardian, and without
security the farmer loaned the youth 81, 900
at q time until he finally disappeared. He
has been arrested in New York.
Judge Allison of Philadelphia overruled
the motion for a new trial in the case of Mrs.
Sarah Jane WHEELING, convicted of the muir
der of her little daughter Bertha by poisoning
and sentenced the oma to be hanged. Mrs.
WHEELING received her sentence with appar-
emit indifference. The death Of little Bertha
was the indictment on which she o convict
cd, but had conviction failed she would have
been tried for the murder of her husband and
infant boy, Willie. The husband and two
children died within q period Of three
months, and after her arrest Mrs. WHEELING
confessed to having poisoned them all for q
few hundred dOllars insurance which was car
ried on their lives. The defense was insan-
ity. Il Vii
As a result of the disclosures make by
Lawyer Cutting at Chicago before the gran d
jury in the stolen bond case, four men are
now under arrest-W. F. Shaw, Henry
P~lessner, CD. Taylor and Otis Corbett.
An Indianapolis telegram says: The
arrest of Charles F. Cutting of Chicago, and
the fight of N. F. Shaw, for swindling the
stockholders at the Columbia Building and
Loan Association, have developed the fact
that the association has several branches in
$1,000, while at Upton the workingmen
held stock to the amount of $4,000.
Other places are yet to hear from, and it is
thought the total amount involved will be
quite large. 'r
Two men fishing in Sugar river near the
little village Of Mount Vernon, about twenty
miles from Madison, Wis, made the CHASTITY
6nd Of q bag containing a human head sunk
in the river. The. head was identified as that
been employed as a cheese maker in q village
factory. An Investigation resulted in the
strongest circumstantial evidence pointing
to Joseph Davidson, a cheesemak+r, as the
murderer. Christ lived with the latter, and
partially burned bed clothes stained with
blood were found concealed in the cellar.
Davidson left Mount Vernon and has not
purchased q ticket for Europe. The motive
ofthe crime was possibly TO get possession Oi
$500 which the murdered man had in his
possession.
The jury in the Diggle murder case came at
Wayerly, Iown. with o verdict of not guilty.
Mrs. Diggle, who was entirely Frustrated
from nervousness, sat with her head resting
in her hands, and when the jury returned
their verdict abe exclaimed tsOh," and fell
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entirely unstrung, causing her muscles to
shake her entire body violently. A physi-
clan was called, and in q few minutes she
wa sufficiently recovered to be assisted to
her hotel. On the first ballot the jury stood
nine for acquittal and three for conviction.
During the day many Of the prominent citi.
zens called to- congratulats her, and q mum.
her of congratulatory telegraf1s from friends
and relatives in Philadelphia were received
IL ID understoodtha Mrs. Diggle will CON
tinue as an actress with the Clint g. Ford
company.
The supreme court Of Wisconsin, rendered
q decision which will send Paul Grottkau, Of
anarchist fame, bnck to the house Of cOrrec-
ti0n 10 serye put aboIit eleven months OF q
years sentence for rioting in May, 1850. On
May7 4, 1857, Judge Sloan sentenced Croft
kan "a years imprisonment at hard la
hoT. hut he was released pending an appeal
to tho supreme court. On Jan. 10, 1883,
Ethe supreme couFt directed the execution 81
the ssntenes, but Judge Sloan did mot com.
nit III. until AnrfF6. rararn containad