The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-01-10
Mans Wicked DOings,

A friend of Longs had placed 30 cents on
the bar and a dispute arose as to whether
it belonged to the bar or to Longs friends.
A mob at Greedy, Cal. oYerpowered the
iailor, broke open the Jail and took out
W. D. French. who two weeks ago murdered
Harry Woodbury.. and hanged him to tree
near the court house. The men are unknown.
Amos J. Stiwell q wealthy merchant, was
murdered by a burglar while sleeping in his
home. Mt Hat boro, Mo. The weapon used
upon him was an axe. which with MP. Still
we'll 8 pocket book and S35, was found in an
alley in the rear of the house There was no
clue to the murderer.
W F. Ruder veteran of the late war,
was stabbed and instantly killed at Milwau-
kee by Louis Schmidt, an inmate of the Sol
diers' home aged sixty-fve years. While
drinking together in q saloon, the two old
soldiers became involved in q dispute over
their respective war records. and Schmidt
waited for RudPr on the road to the home,
when he plunged a knife into the latter with
a fatal eject.
man about 30 years of age arrived at the
Windsor Hotel Montreal and Tegisted as
Hoffman and wife. New York. Detective
Kellert received telegram from the Chicago
shief of police, asking him to detain Lewis
Homer, charged with embezzling $4,000.
He spotted H offman as the man and arrested
him. Hoffman at first denied being Horner,
explain the ENFORCEMENT.
Thomas Vines, assistant timekeeper of
the Adams & Hestlake Manufacturing
company disappeared suddenly at Chicago
taking with him the weeks salary of TOO
men and boys. The amount of money car
ried off is about $4,000. 1t was done up
in 700 packages. ready for delivery to the
employees. Vines does not usually handle
the money, but apparently f0Fesaw that he
would on this occasion and had an express
wagon waiting.
&c. Stickney. clerk for the Chelsea Salt
company, of Boston, obtained from the
manager, C. i. Davenport, blank signed
check which he gas to fill in for SO, but
which he filed in for So, 500 and fed. In
yestigation shows that Stickney has been
filing in blank checks for improper amounts
for some time past, and has probably en-
bezzed S25, 900 ia this way, He was ina.
phcitIy trusted by MF. Davenport. He is 81
years old.
The police of Liverpool, were anxiously
watching for the arrival of the steamer Lord
Cough from New York, believing that Dane,
the Wisconsin murderer, was on board.
Their anxiety was relieved, however, by a
dispatch from Queenstown, stating that the
vessel had arrived at that port, and that
Dane had been arrested there and remanded
for a hearing. He made no resistance. He
had ticket for Basic, Switzerland, and in
tended to proceed to that country immedi-
ately.
It is reported at Wahlak, Wis, that thRss
bands of FIVE men each, who have been hunt
ing in the mountains for negroes concerned
in the recent massacre here, have killed four
of thern-named Cheatam, Wilder, Maury
and Stennis. Cheatam was shot in hrs owa
yard, while begging for his Iile Maury, in his
cotton gin. while convePsing with yigilantes;
Wilderis who was Union soldier and fought
with Grant at Vicksburg, ON the road to
Wahiak. Wilder's body was buried in shall
low hole. and stones and dirt piled upon it,
Stennis was found Kidding in an abandoned
house, where he had been nearly two weeks.
Seven colored servants of Col. Paxton,
near Arcola, Miss, were arrested a short
time ago for burning the eoionel;s residence,
and after two of them having confessed
drugging the coffee so as to make the family
sleep, and setting fire to the house during
the night. the prisoners all mysteriously dis
appeared, and, it is limited, were Iynched.
The confession was to the effect that the
SEomfH cook drugged the coffes, but two
members of the family, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frank Aldrfdge. did not drink of it. and
when the house was burning they awoke and
aroused Col and Mrs. Paxton. Otherwise
all would probably have persisted.
The mutilated body of a boy was found
in an clubhouse at Bradford, England. II
was recognized as that of John Gill, eight
years of age, who, when last seen alive, was
sliding on the ice with some companions
The boy had been brutally murdered. His
legs and arms had been chopped off in q
rough manner and tied to his body; his ears
had been cut off, there we're two stab wounds
in his chest, and entrails had been torn out
The remains, when found were wrapped in O
rough covering. 1t is supposed the murder
and butchery were committed in some other
place and the remains afterwards carried by
the perpetrators ia the Clubhouse in which
they were found.
In Wilcox county, Georgia, Edward Jordan
Mrs Dickey, a sister of the Jordans, in
vited her two brothers to spend the holiday
season with her. The young men supplied
themselves with several gallons of whisky
Among those who joined them in a drunken
bout were James Kervin, L. C Dickey. Will
lam Diekey and Others. After getting wildly
drunk, the whole party started down the
road to the station, firing their pistols in 6
promiseu Gus manner, r. L. Jordan got *
thelead Of the party and a bullet from thu
pistol held by his brother Edward, wen
through his heart. He fell dead on the road
The whole party has been bonnd over IL
stand trial for the crime.
A man giving the name of John Arthu,
J Burns was arrested at ST. Louis for muir
derous assault on woman in disreputabl
house When asked to plead. he answered
A'in presence of God, destroyer of impuFity
not entity" The woman testified tina
Burns had chOSed her and threatened to Gu
aler throat and tear her heart. Her necl
was badly iaeerated by his nails. He changet
his mind and selling her by the ankles pushes
her body out of the third-story window AM
was in the act Of hurting her to the sidewall
when the officers seized him. The man, whit
= Is as mad as q March hare, says he was or
dered by God TO slay his woman for her i'm
purity. He said he came from hades, AM
when lie had completed his mission he woul
return there.
Wallace Peterman, who has for the last Nv
wears had responsible position with alarg
dry good house in Charlottesville, Ind, lei
town. and his sister-inlaw, Miss Pearl FIRES
man, has also disappeared. Miss Freeman
not quite eighteen years of age, and was sti
under the care of her guardian, who has VI
900 of her money She was an attractiEeRn