The Wahpeton times., 1890-05-15
SINFUL SlFTINGS.

Charles l.. Lancaster. the defaulting tire as
urer OF the Buffalo IN. W Press club. has
been arrested in Toronto charged with en-
bezzlement and with forgery.
a member of the dominion parliament is
accused OF having been boodled to the ex-
tent OF S2oO,OOO.
a route agent on the Northern Pacific be.
tween Duluth and Staples is arrested Tor rob-
bing the mails
Charles Miles, the murderer ofDr. Pritchard
at Coldwatcr Kan. was captured in the
Indian Territory by Il posse, and is supposed
to have been lynched.
| Fity-two anarchists have been arrested Mt
Barcelonn, Spain. Documents seized ut their
residences reveal plans for destroying the
railways with dynamite and for setting fire
to tactories.
! 4 charge of cmbezxlement has been made
against Lewis f. P.effcr, president OF the
Bank OF America of Philadelphia, on the
ground that he accepted money alter be
knew the bank was insolvent.
| John s. Cross, a member of the real estate
firm otCord Cross ofAlemphis. has been mi iss
ing for over a week. he owes about S3S. 900,
the major portion Of which was,seeured On the
forged signature o! W. a. Faires, wcalt hy
dealer i'll live stock.
While n gang Of Italian stevcdores were
riding in wagon at New Orleans they were
fired upon by n rival gang who were am
pushed beside the road. The fire WAS return
ed and about twenty-five shots exchanged
Three men We're badly wounded.
Robert Nickel the cashier of the ]. NJ
Berkey & Co. Real Estate and Investment
company, has been arrested ut Denver charc.
ed with being II ,eauIter 1t is thought that
hf. 1l. it.rtj lot,
$4,000.
At Col!water, Kan, c. NJ. Miles, a leading
attorney. and DR.. prlchnrds met on the
street and came to blows. The latter was
brought to the ground by blow on the
head with a revolver and afterwards died
Miles escaped.
AT Spraguerille. \. T., Abel Bergeron
swallowed rat poison after killing his two
young children with the same poison. he
had elopcd from EbouIemcnts, One, with IL
French Canadian girl named Lucie who
seems to have deserted him, Tor he left Il let
ter saying: Il have nothing to live tor My
blonde Lucie is dead to me forever"
Joseph Carr and wife quarrcled over some
trivial affair at Butler. Mo, Carr raised a
chair as if to strike his vie when his son
Charles, aged thirteen who was standing in
the yard. threw stone at his father through
the open door. The missile struck Carr on
the iorehead between the eyes, iracturing his
skull. He cannot live. The boy was arrest
ed.
Garrett Alonzo Barnett. alias j ames Smith,
alias John Davis. was arrested in PhiIatlel-
phia OH the charge OF passing forged draft.
He was just about to receive the cash for O
dry goods firms check, which he had receiv-
ed ns the difference between the draf: and q
bill Of goods he had bought. Barnett is
wanted in Chicago for similar ofrense.
Charles, alias Buck Marray, was convicted
Of murder in the first degree for the killing OF
Police Officer Edward Shumaker in Detroit.
Mich. March 4. Murray with a partner
named Mccormick, had been interrupted in a
job of safe cracking by the officer. who pu,-
sued them into the street. where Murray shot
the officer dead and escaped lie was can.
tured at Cleveland a week later He was i'm
mediGtely sentenced to Jackson prison for
lie.
Real estate agent Ellwood Lancaster,
who conducted a hourishing business> in
Philadelphia is n fugitive from Justice.
He is charged with the embezzlement
Of funds entrusted to him to invest.
The amount is variousIy estimated at
from $4,000 to $500 His yictims
are mainly of the poorer classes. Lancaster.
who is thirty years of age. LETT wi e and
four children in almost destitute circumstan.
ce6,