The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-12-28
DOINGS OF THE WICKED.

VI
The Rawlins & White River stage was held
up fifty miles from Rawlins, Wyo., by two
masked men, who took $3.50 from the pas
sengers and oil the registered mail.
Jockey James Stone was resentenced in
Brooklyn to be hanged on Feb. Z for shoot
ing and killing Henry Miller, q bartender at
Coney island, in June, 1888.
Henry Armstrong, a painter, was shot and
killed in San Francisco. Mrs. Sarah Conner.
his step-daughter and her husband Edward
Conner, were arrested for the crime.
Charles Selner, editor OF the Toledo Sunday
Herald and Times, was arrested. on the
charge offorging notes and orders on adver-
Using men.
A man giving the name of Charles Williams
was arrested in San Francisco. He is believed
to be the man who at different times the past
few weeks has successfully robbed four stages
in the northern part of California.
The defalcation of the suicide, Schatten-
berg, late secretary of the Milwaukee school
board, is growing at a rapid rate. The
amount nus now reached $4,000, with a
strong probability of going higher.
Alfred Smith of Hackensack, N. j., chal-
lenged Joseph Bahman to fight a duel. The
trouble grew out of a statement by Bahman
that Smith had been criminally intimate
with another mans wife.
William Marquis. a seventeen.year-old boy,
was arrested near Wabash, Ind, for causing
q fatal wreck on the Wabash road Oct. "a.
He tried to obtain a ticket for asilk handker-
chief, and failing, broke the switch lock.
George s. Gunther of st. Louis was struck
on the head with a club in the hands OF his
twenty-year-old son during a quarrel. The
fathers skull was fractured, and he died
shortly afterward.
Frank Harry, a Chicago travelling man,
was fatally wounded at Mount Sterling, KY,
by J. M. Robinson, a travelling man ofLouis-
vile. The shooting was caused by Robinson
making a fippant remark to Hargy's wife.
The mutilated remains of a man have been
discovered in a gulch half a mile above Phil.
ipsburg, Mont. The sight was a horrible
one, the left foo and ears being entirely eat
en- of by animals. 1t was afterwards identi-
fed as James D.. Frasier, q former empioye
OF the Bi.Metallic company. He had acted
for somo time as if demented. and is sup
posed to nave died in commissions.
Several months ago, Newton Summers, a
man aged IS, OF Lone Tree, Mo. married q
young girl aged II. The girl was engaged
to a young man named Charles Harland,
but her parents objected to him and com
polloQ nef CC marry SumInSFS. OHe mOFuiuS
Summers was found lying in his house terri.
bly, beaten, and his wife was gone. Summers
says that Harland and his wife beat and
robbed him, and then left together.
Two young men named John Hall and John
Graham, aged nineteen and twenty-five years
respectively, we're fatally wounded by Mar
tin Phillips on Lopez island, Wash. Phillips
was married a few days ago at Port Town
send and left with his bride for his home. A
large crowd surrounded Phillips house and
began harassing the occupants with = a
"charivari." Phillips became enragod and
to the crowd. The shot took effect on Hall
and Graham. The weapon was loaded with
sIugs end several of the shots passed clear
through Halls body. The surgeons say the
young men cannot possibly live.
At New Hampton, Iowa, a man was arrest
ed for passing counterfeit silver dollars. He
went from store to store, buying fve-cent
tooth brushes, socks, etc., and was soon de-
found upon his person. All the smaller
| pieces we're genuine. He is about six ieet tall
| dark complexion, almost black mustache
and has no whiskers. Papers found upon
| his person bore these Inscriptions: Groom
/ els. Wright, block, sHennepin avenue" and
lives E.. OHM, 1905 Washington avenue
south, Minneapolis, Mimi" The prisoner re
fuses tosgivc any information regarding his
| name or residence.
Excitement ran very high in the little
town of Collinsville, ILL.,, a few miles from St
Louis. Dempsey Bareo, q tough character
living near by, became intoxicated and uH
dertook to clean out the town. Between {