The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1889-12-27
SINFUL STRINGS.

DIM VI Sir lINGS.
Two yonng men named Wall and Taylor
were assaulted by stranger in Chicago.
Wall was stabbed in the groin and Taylor
had his left eye cut out. Wallis condition is
serious. The assailant escaped.
David Blakemore, proprietor of Chicago
restaurant. was shot by Frank Mclaughlin,
one of his employees. Blakemore also shot
Mclaughlin, and it is thought both men will
die.
Alta corn shucking near Bristol, Tenn two
boys named Richard Matthews and Jesse
Lemons quarreled over joke. The for
mer stabbed the latter to death and then
attempted suicide.
Nearly all the freight conductors on the
Missouri Pacific are to be discharged. 1t is
said that they have established a regular
business in the transportation of tramps,
carrying them from place to place at q very
small cash fare
Four masked men robbed a Santa Fe ex-
press car near Banks station Texas. They
got but $35 in money, but killed J. T. Penn,
a brakeman who resisted them. PENIS body
was brought to Temple for interment. He
leaves widow.
Pat Hunt was hanged at Paris, KY. for
the murder of James Aimee, Feb. p. Aimee
was among the states witnesses against
Hunts wife for killing Richard Thomas, Mrs
: Hunt having been convicted of the murder
and sentenced to the penitentiary mainly on
Abnees evidence. Hunt denied the killing of
Aimee, but on the sea6oId confessed the MUIR
der of Thomas.
The body of a handsome and fashionably
attired yonng woman. who had evidently
been murdered, was found in the woods near
Lamar, Mo-, by some boys. The woman's
skull was crushed, and black-and- blue spots
on tho throat showed that she had been
choked. The dress was of silk. and all the
clothing of the finest make and material,
but there was othing by which to identify
the beautiful victim.
A terrible tragedy was enacted in Norwalk
township, nine miles northeast OF Council
Bluffs Iowa. Two farmers named Holman
. and Gill were neighbors and sworn enemies
Holman went to neighbours and secured
gun. loaded it with bird shot and went over
to ellis farm. Meeting him, Holman in
stantly raised the gun and emptied both bar
rels into ellis body. A terrible struggle en-
sued, in which Gill, in last effort, secured
the gun and sent it crashing through Hol.
mans skull. Both men are still alive.
farmer from Lincoln county named G.
Gunderson. was committed to jail at Sioux
Falls, S. D. to await the action of the circuit
court. Gunderson was arrested at the in
slant of the Chicago Milwaukee & st. Paul
railway company .or attempting to wreck
the comrany's passenger trains. year ago
Gunderson had a damage suit against the
road, the judgement in which fell short of his
J expectation, and since that he has been try.
ing to vent his spite on the company by try
Wing to wreck trains Several times his devil
try was discovered just in time to prevent a
horrible catastrophe.
At San Francisco Milo Ballabosch, a Sla-
vonian. who had been suffering from gripping
sin the abdomen, became insane from pain
and while in that condition cut out his in
, testines. Early in the morning his room
mate was awakened. and standing on the
floor was Ba)labosich with a horrible cash
in his abdomen and blood streaming on the
floor. His room mate notified the officers.
and on their return they found Balla bosich
standing in the middle of the room in a lake
OF blood tearing out his vtals and cutting
them of in sections and throwing them on
the floor.
7 Christ BATE Of Owatonna. Mimi, killed his
wife and then committed suicide. Mrs. BATE
+ was found in the sitting room dead. with a
pistol shot in the back of her head, and in
the bedroom adjoining her husband was
found weltering in his own blood. 1t seems
that for some years he had been in the habit
of getting drunk and coming home and
abusing the family; and, at last, it becoming
unbearabls. the grown up children bought a