The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-08-08
Criminal DOings.

o house of i'll lame at Rock Island, III, hat
died from the effects of his wounds.
William O'Brien, M. p, has applied for q
new trial of his libel suit against Lord Sails
bury for slander.
During a riot among Italian lnborers near
Pittsburg. one man was killed, anothermo o.
ally wounded and several severely hurt.
At Wakefield, Mich, five loborers grew
quarrelsome over n key of beer when one Of
the party, name unknown, had his neck
broken by a blow from Il car pin.
An unknown man hired q BOAT at Chicago,
and after rowing out into the lake q short
distance, stood up in the boat and shot him.
self, the body falling into the water.
Col. John Atkins, editor of the Rocky
Mountains News at Denver, was assaulted
by u gang of roughs against whom the pa
per hnd been waging a vigorous war.
William L. Ross, note teller in the Nevada
bank at San Francisco, who embezzled $685..
600 in promissory notes, has been captured
at Victoria, B. c.
Andrew C. Drumm, who hos full charge OF
the cattle commission business of A. Drumm
& Co., at Kansas City, has disappeared, and
$4,000 with him.
Abraham Finkbone, aged twenty-six years,
accused of setting fire to the Reading Lum-
Der c%oinpany's property four times, causing
100000 damage, hanged himself in jail Mt
Reading. Pa.
Mrs. Isabella Everson, on old Norwegian
woman, living alone, was found dead in her
bed at Everson, Wis, with her neck broken.
There is evidence of foul play. A chest con-
tanning 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. The
cause for the act ia unknown.
Fred O'Hara, a laborer who killed one OF
his mates at Wakefield, Wis, with %acoupling
pin, was captured at Thomastown, a small
station on the Duluth, South Shore & At
lantic. He claims that he did not intend to
kill Fenton, and that when he let he hud no
knowledge that he had caused his death.
The FIVE men accused of completely in the
murder of DR.. Cronin-Coughlin, Beggs,
Woodruff, O'Sullivan and Kunze-were ar
raigned in Judge Horizons court at
Chicago. All pleaded not guilty. In the
cases Of Beggs, Coughlin, Woodruff and
Kunze q motion to euash the indictments
was made and entered. o. Sullivan's attor-
ney made q motion for q change Of venue
from Judge Horizons court.
As the limited train on the 500 was pulling
out of tine depot at Barron, Wis. j. Hors-
man, with G. W. Hackett Hardware compa-
ny, and T.. J. Burke, with Allen, Moon & Co.,
st. Paul, had q very narrow escape, some
evil disposed individual firing shoto oil heavy
caliber through the window by the seat oc,
cupied by Hoerman, barely grazing his head.
through the window where Burke sat, miss.
ing his head about a foot. What object
there could nave been in this dastardly act
cannot be imagined. The Sheriff has been
unable to get any trace of the perpetrators
as yet. 80
When NJ. E. Billings, the alleged murderer
of Attorney Kingsley at Waverly, charged
Lawyer Monaghan with larceny at Gary. 8.
d. the latter charged Billings with perjury.
The sheriff arrested Billings on the Burllng.
ton train and brought him back, md the
Justice adjourned the case until next morn.
ing. That night Billings eluded the sheriff
| and again sailed out. He was seen one
night walking toward the creek. and as he
had been acting very strangely the past few
days, it was thought by some he had com
surrounding 1T were accordingly searched. 1t
is probably that some one assisted him ovel
the state line into Minnesota.
James W. Smith, the man who attempted
to kill himself in Judge McConnell's court
room at Chicago when he WAS found guilty
| Of criminal assault upon a little girl and
| sentenced to nine years in the penitentiary
| will be a free man when he ia able to leav,
| Connell has been investigating the rumor
that there was q conspiracy to send Smith tt
| prison. He sent for the prisoners wife ant
had q long and earnest interview with her il
his private chamber in the criminal cour
building. Mrs. Smith, it is said, desired I
divorce, and testified against her husband ii
order that his conviction might give hel
grounds for the annulment of the mArriag
| contract. Stricken with rem0rse at his at
| tempted suicide, shenow confesses her psrfid,
to Judge Mcconnell, and the latter will pc
aside the verdict on the grounds of con
spiracy. p.
Magnus Johnson, who hns resided II
Anoka, Mimi, thirteen years and for th
past three years boarded with Frank Fink
mystsriously disappeared recently. Hi
body was discovered floating in Rnm river
q quarter ofa mile above the railroad bridge
johnson was a sober industrious bachelor
with no known enemies, about thlrty-fv
years old. He held q mortgage Of $4O0 q
Flink's house, had money in the bank an
considerable on hiSa berson the day he disar
nenred. The faee wal mashed with O clu)
| and d bullet hole was in the aide Of the head
The coroner held an inquest and examined
number 81 witnesses Among them va
Betsy Swonson. She losed Magnus., hut b
didn't seem to ~rcciprocate. although sh
said he told her they would be lnnrr;e
soon. Her !ather dstermincd to help til
match ont. Tie jury rem lered n yerdic
/ TINT Johneon came 10 his death by bulle
fired from d revolver by some person ~
known: