The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1889-06-14
Petty Wickednesse,.

Herbert q. Stout the larcenous railway
post al clerk of ST. Paul, will be sent to an
insane asylum.
The chief detective OF the Santa Fe rail
road has arrested John ". Hilman. the
alleged murderer of Fred Walters, in Bar
bour county, Kansas.
Mrs. Thomas l.. Cunning, niece of scna.
tor Stanford, became violently insane and
with n stilettO drove the servants from her
residence in Norwalk, Conn.
The body Of Neil Johnston, the supposed
murderer of Humphrey Keeler mt Rnpid
River. in the Rainy river district of Manitobu
has been found suspended to IL tree near
Fort Francis. He had evidently committed
suicide.
John Peterson, ofSauk Centre was brought
to st. Cloud to answer to an Indictment for
assault with intent to kill The prisoner fir.
ed three shots at a neighbor against whom
was long standing feud, stopping only whcn
his ammunition was exhausted.
John McGoldick young Winnippgger WHO
has been on nprotrncted spree. poured some
laulannm INTO glass of brandy this even.
ing and swallowed it. with the remark to his
companions, Boys, this is my last drink
When I'm dead you'll find "A letter in my
pocket. A physician wnscalled and an pmctic
administered in time to save the young
father, and said: Lou and Mary have driv-
en- me T." this. am now in liquor, but
know what I'm doing and want to die"
The girls he mentions are not known.
The police claim to have an important
clew to the murdcrers OF Dr. Cronin. They
have found the exprcssman who hauled the
murderer's goods from the building at III
Clurk street to the Carlson cottage. Accord.
ing to the expressmnn the fellows belong in
Chicago, and he has seen both of them fire.
quently since he hauln, their goods. The
expressmnns description of one of the men
tallies closely with that of Simons, who
bought the furniture from Revcll & Co., ana
the Carlsons. The police believe the two
men are still in town, and they are relying
on the exprcssman to find them.
j. II. Benjnmn, editor of the Dcand tE'lori-
da) News. shot and instantly killed Capt. j.
W. Douglas ut New Smyrna. Douglas is IL
prominent citizen of Dayton. and n well
known Democratic politician. The shooting
was tine result Of an old feud kept ND l,y Ben.
lamin in the columns of his news I.upcr Dong
las assaulted Benjamin. knocking him oil the
pier into the marsh and jumping on him,
choking him and holding his head under wa.
ter. Benlamn managed To get hold of his re-.
Iolver. and placing it against Douglas 10 Iy
fired. The ball entered his heart. and Doug
las died almost instantly. There is much
excitement.
All the evidence in the Cronn inquest On
the Ith was directed toward establishing the
fact that the Deceased was firmly impressed
with the idea that his lie was endangered
through the Vaccinations OLA Sullivan.
Maurice Norris II member of the Clan-na-
Gael said that at the last convention lic had
heard several delegates say that Gornin and
DIR. McCalley of Philadelphia ought to lmroi.
ten rid of. Cronn told him hat ho believed
McGeehan, the Philnticlphinn had come to
Chicago Mt the instigation of Alex Sullivan
TO kill him. Joseph D'Byrne. senior cuardi.
an OF camp 2Gti swore thai on the day be-
fore The physician Disappeared Cronin had
told him that u" was badly broken I'M and
discouraged and that he believed he would
give up aud let those rasc;Ils Alexander Sui
Ii, an and Recorder of Police Michael I,oland
Of Kansas City complete their murlprous
designs and kill him,
Daniel Erickson chnrged with attempted
assault on Maggie McClymont. at AnokG.
MINI, entered n plea of not guilty.
and was bound over to the September term
Of court in $4,000 hontls. The little Girl
first took the stand and identified Erickson
Lewis Harmon and Lon Little. Jr.. bo.l,
swore it was the same man they saw who
tried to assult Maggie. They summoned