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

shot ana Killed Joseph Long, sWltcHIudu
friend of Longs had placed 30 cents on
he bar, and Il dispute arose as to whether
it belonged to the bar or to Longs friends.
A mob at Greedy, Cal overpowered the
Tailor. 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. Stillwell. wealthy merchant, was
murdered 10y burglar while sleeping in his
home. ut Hatboro. Mo. The weapon used
upou him was an axe. which with Mr.. Still
well pocket book and $50, was found in an
alley in ti,.' 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-
kpe by Louis Schmidt, ar inmate of the Sol
diers' home. aged sixty-fve years. While
drinking together in a saloon, the two old
soldiers became involved in q dispute over
their respective war records, and Schmidt
waited for Ruder on the road to the home,
when he plunged knife into the latter with
a fatal eEe:t.
A man about 30 years of age arrived at the
Windsor Hotel Montreal and registed as
Hoffman and wife. New York. Detective
hellert received a telegram from the Chicago
G.hiet of police. asking him TO detGln Lewis
Horuer charged with embezzling $4,000.
He spotted II Otfman as the man and arrested
him. Hoffman 1T first denied being Horner,
but finally admitted it. and stated he could
explain the eG2bezzement.
Thomas Vines, assistant timekeeper of
the Adams & Westake Manufacturing
com pany, disappeared suddenly at Chicago
taking with him the week $ salary OF 100
men and boys. The amount of money car
ried off is about $4,000 It was done up
in 100 packages. ready for delivery to the
employees. Vines does not usually handle
the money, but apparently fOFesaw that he
would on this occasion and had an express
wagon waiting.
He. 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 thar Stickney has been
filing in blank checks for improper amounts
for some time past, and has probably en-
bezzIed $25 900 iD this way, He was im-
plicitIy trusted by MF. Davenport. He is 30
years old.
The police of Liverpool, weGe 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 remandGd
for a hearing He made no resistance. He
tended to proceed to that country immedi-
ately.
1t is reported at Wahlak, Wis, that thEsa
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 thpm-named Cheatam, Wilder, Maury
and Stennis. Cheatam was shot in his Owa
yard, while begging for his life; Maury, in his
cotton gin. while cOnvePsinS with yigilantes;
Wilders who was Union soldier and fought
with Grant at Vicksburg, On the road to
Wahiak Wilders body was buried in q 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 c0ionel'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 lynched.
The confession was to the effect that the
women cook drugged the coffee, but two
members of the family, Mr.. and Mrs:
Frank Aldr4dge. 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 boy was found
in an outhouae at Bradford England. 1t
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 a
rough manner and tied to his body; his ears
had been cut off, there were two stab wounds
an his chest, and entrails had been torn out
The remains, when found were wrapped in q
rough covering. 1t is supposed the murder
and butchery were committed in some other
bo ott r1a io1 NV
the perpetrators ta the clubhouse in which
they were found.
In Wilcox couaty, Georgia, Edward Jordan
Mrs Nckey, a sister of the Jordans in
yited her two brothers to spend the holiday
season with sher The young men supplied
themselves with several gallons of whisky
Among those who joined them in drunken
bout were James Kervin, L. C Dickey, Will
lam Dickey and others. After getting wildly
drunk, the whole party staRted down the
road to the station, firing their pistols in q
promiscu Gus manner, K. l.. Jordan got in
thelead Of the party and a bullet from thG
pistol held by his brother Edward, went
through his heart. He fell dead on the road
The whole party has been bound over tc
stand trial for tho crime.
A man giving the name of John Arthur
Burns was arrested at ST Louis for O mur
derous assault on q woman in q disreputabIC
house When asked to plead, he answered
I'IA presence of God, destroyer of impurity
not gnilty." The woman testified thai
Burns had choked her and threatened to cut
sher throat and tear her heart. Her necl
was badly laeerated by his nails. He changed
5his mind and seizing her by the ankles pushed
her body out of the third story window ant
was in the act of hurting her to the Sidewalk
when the officers seized him. The man, who
, is as mad as March hare, says he was or
dered by God TO slay his woman for her i'm
purity. He said he came from hades, ant
when he had completed his mission he woult
return there.
wears had responsible position with alarg
dry good house in Charlottesville, Ind, lef
town, and his sister-inlaw, Miss Pearl Free
man, has also disappeared, Miss Freeman !
not quite eighteen years of age, and was stil
under the care of her guardian, who has 81,
200 of her money. She was an attractiyean