The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-01-11
SINFUL STRINGS,

The fat against gamblers and gambling
has gone forth from official quarters. and
open gambling in Chicago has ceased-for the
present at last.
Paul Young. aged twenty years, son of
Col. j. j. Young, president of the Bolton
Steel company of Canton, Ohio, committed
suicide while suffering from influenza.
George H. Jacks an ex-United States dep
uty marshal against whom six cases are pend
ing for burglary and larceny, has been con-
victed in the circuit court at Muskegon, Mich,
of larceny in one OF the cases.
William W. Wilson, u prominent and pros
porous citizen of Spottsylvania county. Va,
and for many years justice of the peace, COM
mited suicide by shooting himselfin the heart,
He was sixty-iive years OF age.
Willis Gaylord, fer years q heavy manipu-
Iator of railroad securities, and organizer of
railroad corporations, committed suicide in
Jail in Philadelphia. He was arrested in No
vember on the charge of fraud in stock trans
ations.
Harry Miller, arrested for the murder ofthe
unknown man ut the Union House Tacoma,
on New Years night, has made q confession
that he fred the fatal shot. His statement
was taken by the officials and made under
oath, but the details are kept secret, looking
to the capture OF another party implicated.
DR.. W. R. Henderson ~ofPaynesville. Mimi,
was arrested and brought to St. Cloud on
the charge Of carelessly and teloniously using
morphine. TIL doctor waived an examina-
ton and gave bonds in $500 for his appear
ance at the June term o. court. A two-year-
old child of Paul Rausch of Lake Henry was
severely scalded and Henderson being called,
gave it morphine. Six hours afterwafd the
child died and the coroner's jury had Hender-
son arrested.
In the town of Leon N. Y, live John E.
Ward and Miss Georgia seeley. They were
in love with each other, but Georgia's pa
rents were not in love with John. They kept
the twain apart as much as possible. One
day the young man secured q writ
requiring the parents to show cause why they
should not release their daughter from the
restraints they had placed upon her. While
the hearing was in progress the managed
to slip out of court unobserved, and were
quickly made one. The legal proceedings
were abruptly terminated.
A whiskey riot occurred at Elkadori Iowa..
A search has been made under the prohibit
ton law, and the officers were about leaving
town when they were fred upon by a crowd
of drunken hoodlums, who had followed them
with a wagon. Several shots were returned
by the constable, but as far as known no one
was injured. The i%nstigators of the riot
urged that any penalty inflicted by the court
upon the rioters where personal violence was
done by them will lie pardoned by the gov
ernor, Mr.. Boies, when he assumes the duties
of the Office.
Two murders are reported from Darling
ton county. S. C.. On Dec. 20, Aleck A. Ster-
ling, colored, while sitting in his dining room
with his family, was shot dead through the
open door. The assassin escaped. On Dec.
20 George Windham, aged eighteen years,
white, and Robert Candy, aged seventeen,
colored, quarreled in a wagon in which they
were returning from q neighboring town.
Windham stabbed Candy TO the heart, drove
home, unhitched the horse and then fled,
leaving the body in the wagon, where it was
found the next day.
Sarah Kelly, aged eighty.one, and Ann
Kelly, aged seventy-nine, sisters, of Phlladel-
phia, had their threats cut by some one un-
known to the police. The women were living
in q little frame dwelling and were awakened
by an intruder after they had gone to bed.
The man demanded money, which it was sup
posed the old women llnd concealed about
the house. He clutched them by the throat
when they declared there was no money in
the house and then slashed each of them
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later to a hospital and an examination of
the wounds sho wed that both women were
dangerously hurt.
Thomas A. Jones, ex-employ in the tool
room at the gun foundry of the navy yard
at Washington has been dismissed because
it wa learned that he assisted John Wilkes
Booth to escape after the assassination of
Lincoln. Jones is an old man. He says he
helped ferry Booth across the river. He did
not know when he started to do so what
| Booth had done but found out before
he had finished the job. He 10 not
ashamed of my act he has ever done. He
declined to say who assisted him in taking
Booth across the river. Jones was appointed
during the late Democratic administration.
The hasty marriage of Bertha Belle West.
brook, q we'll known society miss, now q
member of Agnes Herndon's company, to
Hal Reid, the heavy villain Of that company,
at Kansas city, not only overwhelmed her
family with grief, but proved e genuine
| shock to the circle in which Miss Westbrook
moved. Reid has q bad record, being charg.