The Wahpeton times., 1889-01-24
Petty Crin,inallties..

Lawson N. Fuller, w. H. Cotterill, J A.
Robertson few more men have been closely
connected with the Friend electric sugar
fraud, stated that upon second consideration
they had determined not to make public for
present a state ment regarding the present sta.
tus of the defunct concern.
Ole c. Olson, the defaulting treasurer of
Molsey schooltownship. was arrnigned before
Justice Grant at Huron. Oak. Olson waived
examination and gave bonds in $500 to
await the action of the grand jury. Since
his arrest the amount of the defalcation has
been made good.
William Veasy, farmer near East Pales-
tine, u: shot Dick Perrott we'll known ru-
raj politician of South Beaver, Pa. A wear
or more ago, Perrott betrayed Veasy's
daughter, and it had troubled Veasy ever
since that Perrott, did not right the wrong.
Meeting Perrott with rifle h. fired on him.
Perrotts wound is not serious.
In Judge Boyd's court at Limerick report
er named Reeves, who acted as the Limerick
agent of q number of Cork newspapers, re-
fused to testify concerning notes which he had
taken Of fspeeches made ut Parnelite meetings.
he said he did not desire the notoriety of an
lnformer, and would let the court search the
newspapers for the information sought after.
He was committed to prison.
dispatch from Waterford says that four
teen persons who were sentenced to months
imprisonment for participatingin a Manches-
ter martyrs demonstration there were taken
to prison. They were escorted to the Jail by
many policemen, a crowd with band Of
music following them. The police charged
upon the crowd, using their clubs, and quite
q conflict ensued. Several persons were badly
injured.
The body of Rev. W. L. Parker, rector of
Christ Episcopal church, Oswego, N. Y,
who mysteriously disappeared Nov. 80 i'm
medlately after holding service at his church,
was found on the lake shore near there The
violent gale brought the body to the surface
1t is now certain that the unfortunate man,
than he could afford, committed suicide to
escape his creditors.
The grand jury reassembled at indianapolis
after two week g adjournment. Judge Woods
in supplementary instructions, reserved his
decision ut given to the grand Jury on Nov.
l3 regarding w. w. Dudley's case, and prac-
tically told the jury that they could not re-
turn an Indictment unless it was proved that
ihe instructions as contained in TIE famous
letter were actually carried into effect by the
person receiving it. He quoted as authority
Revised Statutes, Sec. ,551. The chorge was
very long.
Viii Dowell, living ut Andrews, six miles
west ;,f Huntington. Ind, who had boasted
that he could not be scared by the White
Cap movement, was visited by seventy
masked men, They put rope around his
neck, threw the other end over q telegraph
pole and hoisted him up. He was shortly
afterward lowered, when he slipped the moose
and escaped, but was soon recnptured His
cries brought citizens to his rescue and
the White Caps fed
EX-Sheriff Hohensack OF the Union county
Ohio. who lives near Mount Hickory, had q
terrible experience with two robbers. Hear.
ing noise in his barn he went to investigate
Two men set upon him, shooting him twice
and an intiicting seven wounds with knife
They threw the wounded man into man.
ger and set fire to the barn, which was de-
stroyed after Hobenaack had been rescued
by members of his family. The injured man
will pro badly die. Suspicion rests upon two
cOlOred men.
Henry Gillespie, O worthless negro who has
Inquired for years here in police courts, cut
from ear to ear the throat of his former mis-.
tress, Nellie Evans, producing q fatal injury,
an is white, and few months ago married
a man who is now in jail. Gillespie tried to
persuade her to live with him, but che re.
fused. He entered the house where she was
and drew razor. A fearful struggle ensued,
IN which the Woman's fingers were nearly sew
cred from the hand. Finally he over-powered
her and repeatedly drew the razor across her
throat. 1t is thought Gillespie's injuries are
not fatal.
James B. butcher, night watchman at
Tyler flower mills, Manhattan, entered his
maaa. wiles bed aa room the other morning and com
first shot missed her and she spranr out Of
bed. 4 struggle ensued, and in the scrim.
mage the revolver went off, the ball striking
butcher in the hand. He then deliberately
pressed the muzzle of the revolver against
his wife's neck aud fired. She fell. but i'm.
mediateiy sprang to her feet and ran out of
the house to a neighbor's. butcher turned
the revolver against his head and sent a bul.
let through his brain. Mrs. Dutcher is yerv
badly wounded, but there is chance for her
recovery.
A sensational arrest was made at ST. Louis
which promises to result in the exposure Of
1a6y farming with all its heartless cruelty
right under the eyes of the city authorities.
A woman who gave her name as Jane Suffert
called at the coroner's Office aud gave notice