The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-04-18
SINFUL STRINGS.

John Gregory, q miner near Wilkesbarre,
Pa, while on his deathbed confessed to
numbering q miner named Heating twenty
years ago and implicated q man still living
there.
Mrs. Mary Emery has been arrested in
Mormora, Ont, charged with being an &C.
complete in the murder of her husband last
September. Peter Davis, who il said to he
criIninally intimate with Mrs. Emery, is in
Jail for the murder.
Harriet Williams, a colored woman living
near Asheville, N. c.. was found upon the floor
of her house unconscious, with ten horrible
wounds npon her person. She died in about
two hours afterward. Robbery is supposed
to be the murderer's object.
Dispatches rom Agent Upshur at Tongue
river, Mont, reports the Northern Cheyenne
Indians as congregating and threatening lie
and property in that vicinity. Troops, he
telegraphs, are needed quick The dispatches
were forwarded to the war department.
with request to forward troops at once.
Peter Weishaupt, aged 33 years, was found
hanging from tree ut Leedale, Pa. When
discovered lie was extinct. Some time ago
he joined the Economics, and from that
time has been respondent because according
to the laws of the society he could not marry.
This preyed upon Ills mind until he became
temporarily insane.
The wife of Andrew Schuster, farmer
living ten miles northwest OF Mitchell, S. D.,
was found dead in Firesteel creek. She is
supposed to have suicided by drowning, al
though known domestic trouble and the fact
that Schuster's wife was missing eight days
before he notified the neighhors naturally
provokes suspicion.
Clarence P WikoA, an employe OF the whole.
sale drug firm of Fuller & Fuller of Chicago
has been arrested, charged with having
systematically robbed the firm ofover 81 900
worth of druggists sundries. He has dis
posed of his stealings to retailers. Wikoff
outside OF the store. passed as Chauncy ].
Thomas, going into business under that
name as manufacturers agent.
r. G. Tweeton, cashier Of the Fosston,
Mimi, National bank, has abscounded with
$5, 900 OF the banks funds and is undoubted-
~ safe in British territory. He has been
traced as far az Fargo, and the fact learned
that he there bought ticket for Victoria. A
singular entry in Tweeton's books attracted
the attention of the bank officials and, learn
ing of the investigation that was to follow,
he decamped at once. His sureties are quite
wealthy and the bank will lose nothing.
A big land swindle is being worked in
Kansas. Men claiming to own large tracts
of Texas lands have been operating in that
state for the purpose OF trading them for
Kansas real estate. They have been doing
. big business with bogus deeds and alb
stracts. selling lands which they do not own.
The officials OF Preside county, Tex, have
written to Topeka parties that hundreds oil
these fraudulent deeds are in circulation. Sew.
eral parties here have been victimized.
Falkton, 8. D., was thrown into a whirl Of
excitement by the arrival of young farme,
living fifteen miles westnamed Freeman, with
the report that he had discovered the body
of Eckhart, the reported would-be murdere,
of his family, in an unused we'll on Freeman'e
place, two miles south Of the scene of the
tragedy. 1t is thought that Sheriff Cham ber
lain will now take the family into custody al
once, as there ia eaid to be good reason to be.
1ieve that they killed the old man in his bed
and manufactured the story OF his attack on
them.
Thomas Kerins, an ex-councilman and q
saloonkeeper, of Brazil, Ind. has been arrest
ed charged with embezzlement. He was sec.
rotary, treasurer and president of lodge Of
Catholic Knights of America. Considerable
fees were paid to Kerins. who failed to
forward them to the grand lodge. The lodge
forfeited it's charter some time ago, a fact
kerins kept to himself though he continued
to receipt for funds. The embezzlement will
deprive property holders of several thousand
dollars. In default OF bail Kerins was jailed.