The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-04-25
Grimes and Criminals.

Horse thieves stole two horses from John
johnson and r. Ressau, two farmers living
near Pierre, Oak. Officers are on their trail
and it is supposed they have fed to the Sioux
reservation iOF safety.
Quite a serious riot occurred in Minneapolis
on Sunday April 21 The starting of cars
was the occasion. Two cars we're overturn-
ed, stones. bricks and yitriOl thrown. and
several people iniVreI. Riverside tracks were
torn mp and bIOrkaded and many arrests were
nade by the poti"e. No further attempts
were made to run cars on that day.
A sensation was created ut Quebec by a
dispatch from st. Joseph Beauce to the e.
feet that the prisoners confined in the dis
trict Jail there had revoIed and, after heat
ing and ovtrpOWering thp guards escaped
in q body Sergt. Harpe, o; the Provincial
police who happened to be present. is re-
ported dangerously injured. A force OF
Provincial police were at once dispatched to
endeavor to recapture the fugitivcs.
Peter s. Delerhouse and his younger son,
Louis, we're shot and dangerously wounded
at New Iberd. La, by an unknown negro
Louis was fixed upon first. The ball struck
him in the let cheek. ranged downward and
came out on the right side OF the neck His
father was fired upon twice. one ball pene-
trating his LEFT lung. The condition OF the
wounded man Is most critical After caring
for the wounded men, the people OF that
section succeeded in capturing the negro and
at once lynched him.
James Fields was fatally shot by his wife,
at Butter, Pa, Mrs. Fields reading a
book and her husband ordered her to come
to bed She had refused to do so, when he
got up and struck her. She went to bureau
drawer, took ont q revolver, telling him if
he hit her again she would shoot him. He
then struck her in the face, when she fired the
revolver nhicting fatal wound Before dy-
ing. Fields made q sworn statement eXOnPr-
ating his wife, in which he stated that she
had shot in selfde:enCe. When Mrs Fields
appeared at the corOners inquest her face
was mashed almost beyond recognition.
She is still at liberty.
Ell Paso, Texas, is temporarily in the hands
of usurpers, and a riot is imminent. The city
election contest, which has been going on
several days, terminated by the arbitrary
conduct of the mayor, who declared his in
tention to act on his own responsibility. He
ordered the council to open tho returns and
count in the officers Ostensibly elected. This
the counci. reused to do, and motion to
in a new clerk, and the favored parties were
sworn in. They at once appointed police
and took possession OF the city government.
The fight is between Democrats and Re-
publicans nominally, but is really contest
waged by the better class of citizens and
those who desire o do business on both sides
Of the river and smuggle without m oiestation.
Bloodshed, and much oft, is feared.
Frank Hancock, employed as a fireman in
the mill of Waite & AtwelI at Blue Run, Pa,
was found dead. having hanged himself in
the bed room OF shanty he occupied. In n
bed in the same room lay the body of his
four children, two with their throats cut, the
other two stabbed to the heart. The Oldest
was ten years, and the youngest four. A
butcher knife was used in killing the children.
II was then stuck in the floor to serve MS a
prop TO keep the door open. After murder.
ing his children, Hancock threw q rope over
one of the rafters of the shanty, stepped up
on a box, and kicking it away, swung him.
self off. Domestic trouble was undoubtedly
the cause of the tragedy.
The federal court for the eastern district Of
Arkansas has been in session at Little Rock
for two weeks, investigating charges o.
frauds and intimidation in the election held