The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-04-05
SINFUL STRINGS.

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c. j Miller, a farmer living neal Button,
Ohio, was robbed by a masked highwayman
of $3.50.
Abraham Marks, q New York tailor who
slept i'll his store, saw a mon crawling through
the window and shot him dead. The man
was a tramp thief.
William Rose, convicted on his third trial
of murder in Redwood county, Mimi, and
sentenced to be hanged, is granted another
trial.
W. c. Croniston, a tinware peddler, was
shot through a window near Willard Station,
Neb., and instantly killed. Antonio Frank,
an Italian is under arrest on suspicion.
John II. Atkinson, a New York lawyer,
was murdered without pro vo cation by q
man who was assisting in moving a safe into
Atkinson's Office.
The %coroner's jury in the case Of William
Turnbul, who was shot and killed in New
York by James E. Hyde, brought in a YER
dict OF justiiable homicide.
At Palimma, Crete, a priest was dragged
from his pulpit and paraded through the
street amid the jeers of the mob. Sixty-four
Of the villagers are starving in prison.
Rev. Preston C. CLANCY, while preaching
near Mobile, Ala, was arrested for robbing
the mails at buttons, Ala, five years ago.
He confessed.
At Bangor, Me-, David L. Stain and Oliver
Cromwell, convicted of the murder of John
Wilson Barron, the cashier of the Dexter Saw
ings bank, have been sentenced to state prison
for life at hard labor.
Mrs. Bella Hatch has been lodged in jail at
Towanda, Pa, charged with the murder of.
W. Wilcox. A warrant has also been issued
for the arrest of John Mann, who is supposed
to be her a~ccomplice.
John A. Davis, the %defaulting city treas.
urer of Rochester, N. Y, who embezzled 500
600 Of the city's money, pleaded guilty to
the charge Of grand larceny in the first degree
and was sentenced to five years in prison.
A young woman was found dead in st. Ag-
mes cemetery, Utica, N. Y. A note was found
by her side stating that she had worked I'M
til tired out, and that she had q brother in
Berlin, Wis. Her name Is supposed to be
Mary L.. Eaglesield.
j. Bartlett Cook, who styled himself presi-
dent of the American Development company
and occupied extensive quarters in New York,
has disappeared, and it is alleged that Sc, 800
conaded to him by his employees and others
went with him. -.4. -
In the trial OF J. Sherman Caswell, in Mont
pelier, VT, charged with the murder. of George
J. could last September, the murdered mans
widow swore she had lived with Casswell az
his wifs for nineteen years.
The jury in the case of F. Sherman, former
manager of the associated elevators at
Buffalo, N, T., charged with grand larceny in
steeling $3.50 bushels of wheel, has brought
in q verdict OF guilty. A motion for a new
trial will be made. @
A sensation was created in railroad circles
at Cedar Rapids, Iowa, by the announcement
that Ed Meacham, a well known passenger
engineer Of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and
Northern road. had committed suicide by
taking poison at Baskerville. His wife is dy.
ing in New Mexico, and he is said to be fnan.
cially embarrassed, which is probably the cause
of the suicide.
A man who committed suicide at St Peters.
burg left q letter in which he confessed that
he had been engaged in q conspiracy against
the life Of the car. The letter said that tbs
writer and his fellow co~nspirators had drawn
ballots to decide who should take the czar'e
life. and the lot had fallen to the writer, who,
rather than commit the decd, had determin.
ed to take his own life. The letter also gives
the names OF the writer's accomplices, several
Of whom have been arrested.