The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-03-13
SINFUL SETTINGS.

Solomon Barnett a wealthy New York !
tailor. AGED seventy years, was probably ia |
tally wounded by two burglars whom he |
caught in his store.
An opinium den in New York was raided by |
the police. The proprietor and five females |
and eight maze pipe hitters were arrested and !
locked up.
At Buffalo. y. T., Judge Daniels denied the
motion for a new trial in the BallEVening
Post libel case on the ground that the verdict |
Of the jurv was warranted by the evidence.
Burglars entered the jewelry store of Rob-
ert ! Dunning at Kansas City, Kan, and d.
-0~ty undpr+hn fuIl glare Of az electric 3Fght J.
brUks the sale open with ten-pound sledge
hammer and secured S4, 900 worth iewelry.
At Detroit, Mich, Patrolman Ed Shoe
maker was shot twice by two men whom he
was endeayoFiug TO arrest. Shoemaker can
not live. The men escaped. Over tweuty
suspects are under arrest.
"Broeky'' Smith, on trial at Cincinnati for
the murder OF Mrs. Myron, has been fou-d
guilty of murder in the first degree, the pen
atty of which is death. His defense was in
sanity.
A twelve .rpar-cld son Of AbFam Patterson,
at Cuyal -: 1.,:,e 10, threw a stone at
boy named Porter. The missile missed it's
mark, hitting and killing child who was
standing near.
Gov Merriam has issued his warrant to
the sheriff of Redwood county, Mimi, for the
execution of William Rose. under sentence to
be hanged for the murder of Moses Lulkin,
fixing date on Friday, April II.
Brown Washington, the negro who was ar
rested for eriminally assaulting and murder
ing little nine-yeaT, old niece of Alfred Hor-
ton, near Madison, Ga, confessed his crime
when taken before the coronor'B jury. After
his return to Jail he was taken by mob and
hanged to q telegraph pOle his body being
Tiddled by bullets.
Constable Skinner, Des Moines Iowa
searcheF, shot Dude henderson, negro
tough. The. officer had searched Hender-
sons place for liquor, and the latter resisted.
The result was that Henderson was badly
bruised, and in a few hours started after the
officer Meeting him On the public street,
both began firing, and three shots entered
HepdeTson's body. one passing through his
stomach. The negro's wounds will prove fatal.
Last October Enoch Crosley, prominent
Young business man, was shot down in cold
blood one night on the street in Tacoma. In
the preliminary examination of the three sus-
meets. Richard Murray, Frederick Hoyt and
George Stowe, the latter confegsed that Hoyt
shot CrOAley. No motive is known for the
deed, az the corpse was not robbed The
coniession caused great Indignation, and the
guard over the prisoner has been doubled.
Thomas D. McKearney, one of the most
prominent attorneys of Cleveland, o.. has fed,
leaving behind large number of forged
notes. The discovery was made, when Wicks
bank, which held a note indorsed by Father
Mcmahon, OF St. Bridget's parish, notified the
priest that il had gone to protest. Father
Mcmahon replied that he had not Endorsed
any note, and investigation proved that the
endorsement was forged. Other notes were
then found.
At Pittsburg, Pa, two workmen attempt
ed to thaw out several sticks of frozen dyna-
mite and the usual result followed. terri
bIa explosion that wfQeked the blacksmith
shop which they were in aHd instantly killed
one man named David Hayes. and another
named William Snoddy, had his arm ana leg
broken and will die, as he is badly injured in
ternatIy. The teighborhood was badly
shaken up, as the explosion occurred in q
fashionable suburb, where come deep trench
blasting was being done.
Miss Lizzie Cowan of Middlebury, Conn,
aged twenty, handsome and popular school
teacher. was brutally assaulted while on her
way from school just after dark. and her in
iu1ies are believed to be serious. Afterregain-
ing consciousness she could not identity her
assaiiant she said, but, after one Dan Web
zster a worthless fellow, who had been idling
about town, was arrested on suspicion, she
DositiveY identified him by his voice. There
5s much excitement in Middlebury over the
.assauIt Webster has confessed to the terri.
bile deed and was tried and bound over. +i
A young man who gave his name as ROBE
HulIen was detected while trying to pasf
forged check at Fort Dodge, Iowa. Thech
was for $3.50. The signature was q per- 4
imitation of that OF p. d. Butler. . leading
atoek buyer, save in one partlcular-ths ipi
fiaI siD" was oaaitted. This omission caused
she bank to refuse the payment of the cheek
1vh,eh pgoyed to be a forgery. Thepolice are
now on the track OF Mullen, wbo is thought
to be a professional forger who has operated
In seyeral other towns.
John Godas, the Indian murderer serving
a life sentepce in the state penitentlary al
Deer Lodge, died. Godas was convicted o
murder in the first degree, and was sentenced
70 be hanged He broke jail with three 9th
ars. and made his way afoo6 through thu
Rocky mountains, from one Indian agency
70 another. reaching the Canadian North
west territory, whe9e be was recognized anc
arrested By the mounted police. After many
DELAYS he was returned to Helena, but sen
tence was commuted by Gov. Leslie 70 i'm
vprisonment for life. No doubt existed at ana