The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-01-09
SINFUL SIFTINGS.

The fat against gamblers and gambling
has gone forth from official quarters. and
open gambling in Chicago has ccQ sed-for the
present at last.
Paul Young, aged twenty years, son of
Col. J. J. Young president OF the Bolton
Steel company of Canton. Ohio, committed
suicide while suffering from influenza.
George II. Jacks an ex-United States dep
uty marshal against whom six cases are pend
ing for burglary and larceny. has been con-
ViCted in the circuit court at Muskegon, Mich,
of larceny in one OF the cases.
William ". Wilson. prominent and pros
porous citizen of Spottsylvania county, Va,
and for many years justice of the peace, COM
mi ted suicide by shooting himselfin the heart.
He was sixty-fve years OF age.
Willis GAYLORD, for years a heavy manipu-
Iator of railroad securities and organizer of
railroad corporat.i .ions, committed suicide in
jail in Philadelphia. He was arrested in No
vember on the charge OF fraud IN stock trans
ations.
Harry Miller, arrested for the murder ofthe
unknown man ut the Union House Tacoma,
on New Years night, has made a confession
that he fred the fatal shot. His statement
was taken by the officials and made under
oath, but the details are kept secret looking
to the capture OF another party implicated.
DR.. W. R. Henderson of fPaynesville. Mimi,
was arrested and brought to st. Cloud on
the charge of careessIy and teoniously using
morphine The doctor waived an examina-
ton and gave bonds in $500 for his appear
ance at the June term OF court. A two-year-
old child of Paul RausCh Of Lake Henry was
severely scalded and Henderson being called,
gave it morphine. Six hours afterward the
child died and the coroner 8 jury had Hender-
son arrested.
In the town of Leon N. Y, live John E.
Ward and Miss Georgia Seeley. They were
in love with each other, but Georgias pa
rents were not in love with John. They kept
the twain apart as much as possible One
day the young man secured a writ
requiring the parents to show cause why they
should not release their daughter from the
restraints they bad placed upon her. While
the hearing was in progress thetwo managed
- slip out of court unObseFyed, and were
nm, "kly made one The legal proceedings
We're ,"bruptly terminated.
Arb;s% icy riot occurred at Elkadori Iowa.
A aoarcb ba = been made under the prohibi-
+ion law and +he officers were about leaving
+ovrn whom they were fred upon by a crowd
of fdrunkap hoodlI' ms. who had followed them
With a. WAGON. Several shots were returned
bv the constable. but aS far as known no one
was injured The insti& 'ators OF the not
urged that any penalty inflicted Dy tne court
upon the rioters where person.ti violence was
done by them will be pardoned py the gov
ernor, Mr.. Boies, when he assumes the uuCleS
of the Office.
Two murders are reported from Daring
ton county, S. C. On Dec. %, Aleck A. Ster-
ling, colored, while sitting in his dining room
with his family, was shot dead through the
open door, The assassin escaped. On Dec.
20 George Windham, aged eighteen years,
white, and Robert Candy, aged seventeen,
scoIored quarreled in q wagon IN which they
were returning from neighboring town.
Windham stabbed Candy TO the heart, drove
home unhitched the horses, and then fled,
leaving the body in the wagon, where it was
found the next day.
Sarah Kelly, aged eighty-one, and Ann
Kelly, aged seventy-nine, sisters, of Philadel-
mia. had their throats cut by some one uH,
known to the police The women were living
in O little frame dwelling and were awakened
by an intruder after they had gone to bed
The man demanded money, which it was sup
posed the old women had concealed about
the house. He ciutehed them by the throat
when they declared there was no money in
4aae house and then slashed each of them
sscress the throat The women were removed
later to a hospital and an examination o.
fhe wounds sho we'd that both women were
dangerously hurt
n ~omas A. Jones, ex-employ in the too
..ar, It the gun foundry of the navy yard
at wash, 'stOn has been dismissed bseaps'
q - wos - % Inorn ID that he assisted John Wilkes
poo+b - osco ~ after the assassination. 0
lincoln Jones = an old man. he says N
" hainSJ torr,, pootb ~cFoss the river. He die
ne.p1u net know ery when ne >aFted to do 50 yhat
Booth had done but 'onnq di1 Rn our o SsiOrt or,
he had finished the 'oD or ne sonS s no. ~
ashamed of any act he has Szn in takins
declined to say who assisted - - aanointat a.
Booth across the river. Jones Wa sltrst;on
during the late Democratic admin ~ :
The hasty marriage of Bertha Belle "'c !
brook, we'll known society miss, now
member of Agnes Herndon's company, to
Hal Reid, the heavy villain of that company,
at Kansas city, not only overwhelmed her
family with grief, but proved genuine
shock to the circle in which Miss Westbrook
moved. Reid has a bad record, being charg-