The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-06-13
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Herbert G. Stout, the larcenous railway
postal clerk of st. Paul, will be sent to an
insane asylum.
The chief detective OF the Santa Fe rail
road has arrested John W.. Hillman, the
alleged murderer of Fred Walters, in Bar
bour county, Kansas.
The body of Neil Johnston, the supposed
murderer of Humphrey Keller at Rapid
River, in the Rainy river district of Manitoba
has been found suspended to q 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 ut q neighbor against whom
was q long standing feud, stopping only when
his ammunition was exhausted.
John McGoldick a young Winnipegger who
has been On aprotracted spree, poured some
laulanum into a glass of brandy this even
ing and swallowed it, with the remark to his
companions, Boys, this il my last drink.
When I'm dead you'll find q letter in my
pocket. A physician was called and an emetic
administered in time to save the young
mans life. The letter was addressed to his
father, and said: Lou and Mary nave driv-
EN- me to this. l 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 IN important
clew to the murderers OF DR.. Cronin. They
have found the expressman who hauled the
murderer's goods from the building at III
Clark street to the Carlson cottage. Accord
ing to the expressman the fellows belong in
Chicago. and he has seen both Of them fire.
quently since he hauled their goods. The
expressman's description Of one of the men
tallies closely with that of Simons, who
bought the furniture from Revell & Co., ana
of Williams. who rented the cottage from
the Carlsons. The police believe the two
men are still in town, and they are relying
on the expressman to find them.
j. II. Benjamin, editor of the Deland (Flori-
da) News, shot and instantly killed Capt. j.
W. Douglas at New Smyrna. Douglas is q
prominent citizen of Dayton, and a we'll
known Democratic politician. TIL shooting
was the result of an old feud kept up by Ben
iamin in the columns of his newspaper. Doug
las assaulted Benjamin, knocking him off the
pier into the marsh and jumping on him,
choking him and holding his head under wa
ter. Benjamin managed to get hold of his re-
v okiA A~Ai ~ ouS1o pOuJ
fred. The ball entered his heart, and Doug
las died almost instantly. There is much
excitement. .
Ali the evidence in the Cronin inquest on
the 4th was directed toward establishing the
fact that the deceased was firmly impressed
with the idea that his life was endangered
through the Vaccinations of A. Sullivan,
Maurice Morris, a member OF the Gamma
Gael said that at the last convention he had
heard several delegates say that Cornin and
DR.. MeCahey of Philadelphia ought to be got
ten rid of. Cronin told him that no believed
Mcclellan, the Philadelphian, had come to
Chicago at the instigation of Alex Sullivan
to kill him. Joseph D'Byrne, senior guardi-
an of Camp 266 swore that on the day be-
fore the physician disappeared Cronin had
old him that he was badly broken up and
discouraged and that he believed he would
give up and let those rascals Alexander Sui
liz on and Recorder of Police Michael Boland
of Kansas City complete their murderous
designs and kill him. ~@r.-
Daniel Erickson charged with attempted
assault on Maggie McClymont, OF Anoka,
Mimi, entered q plea of not guilty.,
and vas bound over to the September term
of court in $4,000 bonds. The little girl
first took the stand and identified Erickson.
Lewis Harmon and Lon Little, Jr., both
swore it was the m man they saw who
tried to assault Maggie. They summoned
Mr.. Cutter, the delivery man, who did not
get q good look at the tramp, only from be-
hind, as he was running. They had O lively
chase for q few blocks, when the man got out
Of sight in a field near the river. Sheriden
and WILDER Bellows, WI brothers, saw him
afterward near the same field and making
for the Mississippi river bridge, and H. Brown
| of Champlin was positive he saw the some
party in q store in ChampIin enquiring The
way to Minneapolis, 70 it is believed his
identity is fully established.
News has been received at Mankato of a
most brutal crime that was committed in
Rapidan, this county. About $50 o'clock
In the morning, as Albert Stratton's two lit
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