The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-02-08
SINFUL STRINGS.

Mrs. Norman HOuGhtOn OF AmHterdam, N.
Y, has eloped with her first husband, q man
named Pinch, who has just been released from
state prison alter serving q five years term.
News has been received in Point Pleasant,
W. Va, of the poisoning of a family of eight
persons named Hargrave, south OF there, by
q negro woman. Four of the family are re-
ported dead.
Charles and Fannie Burnside are on trial
in Topeka, Kan, charged with poisoning
Robert Burnside, father of the first and hus-
band of the latter. She denies everything
and he confesses.
In a saloon row at Central City, N. Mex,
Henry Brooks, q colored soldier, shot and
killed Deputy Sheriff Dallin, q colored woman
named Carrie Drug and seriously wounded a
second man. Brooks was wounded himself
in the ARRAY.
Eight prominent farmers OF Healsbury,
Ind. T., were arrested charged with lynching
an old man last November. The principal
witnesses against the prisoners are said to be
notorious horse thieves. who were themselves
responsible for the lynching.
A woman giving the name of Mrs. Minnie
McGrath, and claiming Chicago as her home,
shot Edwin Firth, a we'll known inventor, on
the street in Troy, New York. Firth will
pFODdDJy Ole. 1u0 WOWdu CldlW6 UuaU + lrC0
ruined her.
Max F. Eller, q young lawyer living in
Brooklyn, was arrested charged with swind-
ling Isaac Johnson, O dry goods merchant
of Brooklyn, out Of $4,000 by means OF
forged mortgages. He confessed, alter try
ing to kill himself.
Ex-Sergeant-at-Arms Leedom has received
a telegram rom the mayor of Terrebonne,
Can, saying that Silcott has not been in that
place, and adding thatno family of the name
of Thiebault il known there. Mr.. Leedom is
still without information as to Silcott's
whereabouts.
Henry Cline, who was the lessee OF the
National theater at Tocoma, WASH,
about a year ago, has been arrested
on the charge OF fraud. Cline is said
to have been q confidence operator Of
splendid achievements. Claims have been
received from creditors in the following cities:
Ashland and Eau Claire, Wis; Crookston,
Grand Forks. N. D.; Saltwater and st. Paul.
James West was convicted ut Chicago Of
the fraudulent issue of limos stock and sen.
fenced to FIVE years imprisonment. A RI.
NOR was started TO the effect that he had COM
promised the matter with the interested par
ties. This, it wal said, he had lone in order
that, although under sentence, he might es-
cape going to the penitentiary. This same
rumor has it that the states attorney had
been convinced that the sentence was too Sc
we're. This part OF the rumor, however, the
states attorney declared to be false.
Awarrent was sworn out atMankato, Mimi,
for the arrest of Rev. William Copp of Eagle
Lake on the charge of assault in the first de-
gree. According to the complaint he under
from q rented house, and upon their resisting
is said to have caned them severity. The
boys mother, who was sick, was Frustrated
by the excitement. The citizens held an in
dignation meeting n decided to prosecute
the elder.
A gang of Italians, Poles and Hungarians,
who are employed in widening the railroad
bed Of tho Shamokin, Sunbury & Lewisburg
railroad, ut Sunbury, Pa., set three blasts
aud tken retired to await the explosion. For
some unexplained reason only " OF the
blasts exploded. The men did not know this,
1 how Eyer; h and returned eod Their 1snv work work Nv when r'sa
in all DIRECTIONS. Three of the men were
killed, four fatally injured and two others
more or less injured, the recovery Of two of
them being doubtful.
During his absence from home masked burg
lars entered the house OIL Charles Roonan, at
Kansas City. Mrs. Roonan was alone and
the outlaws. utter they had bound and gag
ged her, dragged the unconscious m to
the foot of the bed in one of the sleeping
rooms and bound her securely by the neck to
one of the bed posts. After possessing them
selves of all the valuables in sight, they ca.
capped. Mr.. Roonan, returning home q few
minutes later, found his wife in the position
deecribed and released her. Her condition Ia
serious. ~
Aid, Mccormick, of Cincinnati who precipi-
tated in a row by which R ebert Gibbons was
fatally shot by Capt. Schuettler 10 in trouble
again. Robert Morris q cab driver, went to
Gibbons saloon to collect q fare. according
to the eabman the alderman said: LET me
showyou what I think of you" and, grasp.
ing Morris left hand, he carried it to his
mouth. Before the eabman realized what
was taking place, McCormick's teeth closed
on his thumb, cutting through fesh and nail
though he screamed in agony, it was several
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