The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-04-12
SINFUL STRINGS,

SlF TlNGS.
Eugene Cornell, aged eighteen was shot and
killed ut Henderson, KY, by James Wells,
aged sixteen. Trouble over a young lady
was the cause.
Theodore Wilcox, superintendent Of the
Brooklyn hospital, has been sentenced to four
years imprisonment for swindling the county
by chargingfor the care ofmythical patients.
1t is rumored that the defalcation of W. S.
Darling, partner in the dry goods firm of
John F. Plummer of New York, will amount
to several hundred thousand dollars. Darl-
ing is in Canada.
Fritz Cinnamon ofNew York killed q Hudson
river pilot, William Abernethy,, with a blow
which broke his skull. The murderis believed
to have been melted by steamboat engineer,
who hated the dead man.
The hotel room of the American consul at
Plauen was entered anight or two ago by bur
glars and q jewel casket valued at IS, 900
wal stolen The casket has since been found,
but the contents had been distracted.
Edward Sylvester, Charley McCran and
Harry Williams, three of the most expert
counterfeiters in the United States, were ar
rested at Buffalo. N. Y, while at work turn.
ing out counterfeit coin.
While two Italians were settling q quarrel
with fists on the West Shore railroad track
at Newburg, N. Y, q train struck them. kill
ing one instantly and fatally injuring the
other.
John Babsine and Ross Hawley, two
prominent farmers living near %Coffeyville,
Kan, renewed IN old quarrel. Hawley
struck Babsine on the head with a fence rail,
killing him instantly.
At Duryee, Pa, a qurrel occurred bet ween
ynhn prynr md Tohr n,kr n,,,Sn l. ---
gress of the fight ashot was fred which struck
Hugh Graham, a bystander, killing him in.
stantly. Prior and Butt are in jail.
John b. Porter, bookkeeper for Hall &
Willis, wholesale hardware merchants of
Kansas City, is a defaulter of between 81.
900 and $4,000, and has left for parts un-
known.
Ramey Akerman shot Mrs. Hess, landlady
Of the Nation al hotel, at Bushnell, Ill.,, and
then fired q bullet into his own brain, caus-
ing instant death. Mrs. Hess will recover.
The deed is supposed to have been commit
ted during q fit of jealousy.
All Of the Wyoming sherifs are at full cry
on the trail of a desperate gang of wholesale
horse thei yes. The freebooters, finding them
selves closely pursued, cut the telegraph wires.
The thieves have by this time reached Mon
tana with 200 head Of Wyoming horses.
At Chambers station, near Mount Sterling,
KY, Will Barnes and Kelly Day were killed
by Albin Barnes and George Stephens. The
Barnes were cousins and the shooting grew
out of an old feud. Day was q b%y-stander
without any share in the quarrel. Albin
Barnes is thought to be fatally wounded.
During a quarrel in New York, caused by
some of the occupants Of q tenement refusing
to contribute money for "the GROWER" which
was being rushed by two notorious charac.
tiers named Curtin, several persons we're stab
bed. and one, John Sloan, an old 1ongshorss-
man will probably die from his Injuries.
The Curtins were captured.
The body Of Joseph Jacobs, Jr., son of a
wealthy citizen, was found at Hamilton,
Ohio in the hydraulic reservoir. He has
crushed in and his face was d%isfgured. Every
evidence exists offoul play. TIL ere is much
excitement on account OF the prominence of
his family. This is the third case OF the
kind in that city.lwithin the last month.
Robert Mccoy and William Hicks (colored)
were hanged at Humersville, Ca, for tho
murder of William Hughes and his wife last
November. Both OF the culprits made q con-
fession on the gallows duplicating Dave Reg
lister, a white man, who they said paid them
$35 to murder the old couple. Robert Sax
COn, VINO was also lmpllcAted, tried to escape
before being brought to trial, but was shot
and killed by q deputy sheriff while trying to
escape.
Frank T. Lewis, a young man employed
as q school teacher in the government school
at the Pine Ridge agency, was shot and in
stantly killed while on his way home from
school, by Eagle Horse, q young Indian,
who then shot himself and died in q few mo-
ments. To some Indians whom he met i'm.
mediately after the murder Eagle Horse said
he felt that he was going to die, and wanted
the school teacher to go with him. He ID
supposed to have been crazy.
+. w. Chivyis, member Of the late dry
goods firm of Conkling 4 Chivvis, New York,
was mystsriously shot early ono morning.
Mr.. Chivvis, who had been out to a late din
ner party, says he was mistaken for q arg-
lar while attempting to enter ahouse ndJoin-
ing his own residences By mistake. One bull
let entered his right breast and passed around
the ribs to the back, where it VA extracted.
Thssphysician In attendance win not say
whether the wound win prove fatal
DslIa Scott aBaitsr III tho Dew Drop Con.
cert Hal, shielded ut Butts, Mont, by taking
. heavy dose 81 morphine. She had ben