St. Paul daily globe., 1889-10-30
SALTWATER SILHOUETTES
Lawrence Johnson Commits Suicide at
Lumber Camp.
HE LEAVES SOME PROPERTY.
Mayor Durant Communicates With
the Council News of the
Day.

Lawrence johnson. Anderson &
O'BrlenS' co0kee at the Bean brook
camp, where Dan Bell is cook, and who
wandered from camp at o'clock last
Friday morning, was found Saturday
towards evening with his throat cut and
windpipe severed. having used a razor
with which to commit the act. He was
about fourth of mile from lhe camp
and had lain there since infiicting the
wound the previous morning. Johnson
attracted the attention of some passing
men by raising his arm and beckoning
them to approach, though he was un-
able to speak. He. was carried to the
camp and died in short time. the re-
mains being buried at Hayward, not
far from the camp. The deceased leaves
some property in the form of certificates
of deposit, a deed to land, ETC., which
his, friends can learn more about by adj
dressing E. A. O'Brien, at Veazie, Wis.
Mayor Durant sent a communication
to the city council last evening calling
attention to the consequences liable to
follow the uncovered condition of the
catchbaslnS at the southwest and north
west corners of Main and Chestnut
streets, on either side OF the railway
track, the one at the northwest corner
against the curve of the Main street
track being especially dangerous to the
welfare of vehicles. He recommends
that the holes now occupied by the
basins be covered on level with the
surrounding pavement. His honor also
informed the council that he had noti-
fed Poundmaster Allen that his serv-
ices would not be required after Nov. l.
James Casey. who arrived at the prison
as a convict yesterday from Lyon
county. was last Friday sentenced to
ten years for burglary in the second de-
gree, and SATURDAY. was given five
years sentence for grand larceny in
the first degree. which latter term
Casey will be expected to attend to
after the ten years are ended.
At chambers yesterday Judge Crosby
heard argument in the old Berkey mat
ter. In 1867 Hiram Berkey, in long
pending case, obtained Judgment
against George Judd, but in the mean
time Judd had died, and E. G. Butts, as
probate. judge, issued an order directing
They did SO, and Berkey brings an
action against the executors and the
purchasers of the deceased's property to
recover the amount of his Judgment.
Mrs. John Ellis returned to Saltwater
Monday evening from Tacoma, after an
unsuccessful search for information of
her husband, who abruptly and mys-
teriously disappeared at that place on
July "a last, having gone out from his
wife to do some marketing. She con-
cludes that either in possible fit of
mental alteration, occasioned by the
effects of an injury received about four
years ago, he threw himself into the
sea, or that he was murdered. Mr.. and
Mrs. Ellis lived here during the eight
cen months preceding about June l,
1889. e
The four-year-old son of Arsene
Gagne, corner of Mulberry and Owen
streets, was probably fatally scaldad
yesterday by the boiling contents of a
tea-kettie which he overturned upon
himself, inficting terrible wounds over
the stomach and bowels.
Il. P. Hall was in the city yesterday