The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-01-10

pretty girl. Peterman IL twenty-five years
old, n was always considered quite o Sun.
day school boy. He vas married about FIVE
years ago, his wife being somewhat older
Pearl has made her home with her sister. ae
she had no other. 1t is now learned that
Miss Pearl had departed. A broken-hearted
wife with a young baby Is left behind.
William O'Lsary lived with his wife
and two children, the eldest girl five years
and Francis, the baby, at Chicago. O'Leary
is O hard drinker n has many timer
he drove her and the children out OF door
and they took refuge at q %neiRhbor's. She
procured carbolic acid at q drug store and
administered it in whisky to the child and
took some herself diluted with q little water.
The mouth Of the little sufferer was q fearful
sight. The carbolic acid had eaten it's way
through the tender lips and scorched the
tongue in q horrible manner. The woman
was also terribly burned and suffering in in.
expressible agony. The two sufferers were
taken to the county hospital. There is no
hopes Of their recovery.
John Benson, q Swedish coppersmith, who
keeps an oyster saloon in Montreal, which
was the resort Of the rowdy element of the
n~eighborhood, shot and killed his wife and
attempted to kill her paramount. party Of
men, among them Frank Singer, q fellow EN-.
ploye of Benson. were carousing in Benson's
shebeen. when Benson's little boy came run.
ming in n toldh his father that q strange man
was with his mamma. Benson proceeded to
the bedroom and met the q Singer at the
door. His wife admitted her guilt, and
pleaded for mercy, but Benson fred, the bull.
instant death. Going out to the store, he
met Singer, whom he shot through the knee
and arm. Benson then went to the police
station and gave himself up. Singer may
recover.
In Craighead county. Ark, some days ago
the wife of William West, who was some
what of a desperado, left him and returned
to her mother, Mrs. Mary Darcy. West
went to his wife who refused to receive him,
but her mother went out on the porch, tax.
ing with her the young child of the couple.
West began to abuse Mrs. Darcy, charging
her with being the cause OF the trouble be.
tween his wife and himself. Stephen Darcy
was attracted to the porch by the dispute,
and ordered West to leave the place. West
shots, one passing through Mrs. Dairey's
hand and the other striking Stephen in the
face. Darcy then got a repeating rife and
the two men exchanged shots. West was
shot through the heart and died instantly,
nnd Darcy was hit in the eye and lived but q
few hours.
John and Wiley Mathews, two Of the four
condemned Bald Knobers, and w. P. Hal.
benseben, Frank H. johnson, William Red.
ford, Thomas Rooney and William Sachen,
five train robbers, escaped from Jail at Ozark,
Wis. Some person or persons from the out
side cut through the brick wall of the prison.
unlocked the corridor and cells and released
the prisoners. Dave Walker, the leader Of
the Bald %knobbers, and his son William, al
so under sentence to hang, and a young
man named Rucker, refused to leave n were
found in their cells when the discovery was
made. Rucker was then bound and gagged,
and the rescuers would have served the two
Walkers in the same way, but they resisted,
and were permitted to remain in their cells.
As soon as the men were out of hearing,
Dave Walker called loudly for Sheriff John
son, who, with his family, live in the second
story of the Jail, but it was then too late to
capture the tugitives, who had disappeared
in the darkness.