The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-07-03
SINS AND SINNERS.

Paymaster Duran. of the Mexican Central
railway, is in Jail in the city ofMexico, charg-
ed with being SIS, 900 short in his accounts.
An irats captain at Camp Lake View or
ders his company to charge on q band OF
noisy miitiamen, but no blood is spilled.
The allies of the Italians have defeated at
Kerena force of 1000 dervishes, killing
$50 of them
Charles Decker and his mother, aged eighty
three. were probably fatally wounded by
burglars at Morris, Ill.
Elias Carlson, Norwegian employed at
the saw mill committed suicide at Haywood
Wis. He was about thirty years OF age,
At McComb City, Miss, in an alteration
between C. c. Henderson of Lincolnton, N. c.,
and W. E. Parker, the former was instantly
killed.
At North Sewickly, Pa, James Burnett
stabbed Joe Cotley and instantly killed him.
Both parties were under the influence of hard
cider and bad beer
Hazel Lillis, daughter of Police Commits
sioner Lilis, of Kansas City, committed
suicide at Denver, where she went q month
ago with variety company.
William Strain, until recently a United
Brethren minister, was nearly whipped to
death by White Caps near Albany Ind. His
paramour was tarred and feathered.
Jack Workman, noted desperado confin-
ed in Jail at Beatrice, Neb., for horse steal
ing, killed the jaiIer, George Maxfeld, and
escaped. He will be Iynched ii caught.
Two Mcxicans marauding parties, operat-
ing in Mexico, near the Texas line, were cap
tured by troops and several in each party
were shot to death after o short military
trial.
A. Ferguson, lumber operator of Sussex,
N. B., has Disappeared. Ferguson handled
over 500, 900 for other people. What dis
position Ferguson has made of the money is
unknown.
Charles Lundgren, a Scandinavian, aged
seventeen years, employed on the Northern
Pacif railway construction, committed sui,
eide by hanging at camp thirty miles fr ON
MissOula. Lundgren formerly lived at
Duluth.
Harry Mansfield, manager of the Topeka,
(Kan.) Coal company, has left the city for
parts unknown and the coal company is said
to be out $5, 900. Bucket shop speculation
is said to have been the cause of his down
tall.
At Beslin, a small place sixteen miles north
ofNebraska city q desperate named Kerfoot
was shot and instantly killed by Mr.. Taney,
| the constable of the place. Kerfoot had just
finished II term in Jail Tor trying to kill for
mer constable OF the town named Bowen.
C. R. Walters has been sentenced by the
courts of Paso Del Norte, Mexico, to be sh ot
and J. R. O'Loughln sentenced to ten years
imprisonment for killing q lewd woman. The
| condemned men are both citizens of the
| United States and have appealed for protec
| ton.
Charles Decker. whose skull was fractured
by burglars at Morris, ILL.,, died after lying in
an unconscious condition for 100 hours
When Mrs. Stevens, his aged mother, who
| was also injured by the robbers, heard the
news of his death it affected her deeply and
| all hope of her recovery has been abandoned.
| C. Seymour hit Charles Harding with c
| fat iron on the head several times at Man
chester, Vt. He also hit his wife and five
| year-old son with the fat iron. He then cut
| his own throat and stabbed himself in the
| abdomen. Seymour and Harding cannot
| live, and the others are in q critical condi
| tion.
| 1t is learned at Madison, Wis, that Her
man Mosler, who was arrested by the Unit et
States authorities in St. Louis, is charged
with offering Gen. f. M. Rogers, interna
| revenue collector for the Madison district, 9
| bribe of $1,000 to drop certain crimina
| prosecutions instituted by him against OPP
| penheimer & Co., wholesale whisky dealers o
that city, for changing the date OF inspection
on large quantity of liquor.
A messenger from the neighborhood o
Deer creek, sixty miles northwest of Ardm ore
Ind. Ter, states that at roundup on tht
creek James Andrews shot John Rankin il
the abdomen with revolver, causing a ia
tai wound, and was in turn shot through tn
left lung with Winchester rife in the hands
of Rankin's cousin. Both were Wsll-to.dc
cattlemen.
Frank HarIand, a man claiming to hay,
| come from Keokuk and Kedrick. Iowa, weni
violently mad at Dewitt. Jailor William
FIannery upon entering the cell at Clinton
| was viciously assaulted by thelunatic. Elan