The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-03-08
lNEUL SETTINGS.

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give up the attempt.
U SINFUL SETTINGS.
1t is said that there is q shortage of $45.-
900 in the accounts of State Treasurer No..
INT of Missouri.
Pat Desmond, who run O resort of the
tough variety near Ogden, Utah, quarreled
o q business matter with T. s. Todd,
his former bartender, and was shot dead.
The jury in the case OF Chalkley LIE Coney,
on trial at Camden. N. j., :or the murder of
his niece. Annie LIE Coney, has returned YER
dict of not guilty.
During n row at an entertainment in a
county school house near Lamar, No., Mrs.
Henry Short died from heart disease. Six
men were stabbed in the row
An opinium den in New York was raided by
the police. The proprietor n five females
and eight male pipe hitters were arrested and
locked up.
At Buffalo, N. Y, Judge Daniels denied the
motion for a new trial in the Ball Evening
Post libel case on the ground that the verdict
OF the jury was warranted by the evidence.
"Brocky" Smith. on trial at Cincinnati for
the murder OF Mrs. Myror, has been tou..d
guilty Of murder in the first degree, the pen
atty OF which is death. His defense was in
sanity.
A twelve-year.o old son of Abram Patterson,
at Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, threw a stone at a
boy named Porter. The missile missed it's
mark. hitting and killing a child who was
standing near.
Frank MCGOWAN, an cmploye of Thomas
A.. Edison, has been missing since Jan. Is,
when he started Tor his lone at Orange, N. j.
with $1,000 on his person. Heis thought to
have been murdered.
Bob Pope, u white man of bad character,
and his son, eleven years. were shot dead
while riding from Cummings. mill to their
home in Hampton county, s. C. The MUIR
derer Is supposed to be white man.
Herr Zimmer, editor of n newspaper pub
lished in Breslau, has been sentenced to i'm
prisonDent for two years for an insulting
reference to Emperor William in commenting
on his majesty's labor rescripts.
Charles j. Stephens, a lctter distributor in
the Chicago p%ostofice, was arrested for rob-
bing the mails. About twenty letters and
registered packages were found in his room.
He confessed,
Brown Washington, the negro who was ar
rested for criminally assaulting and murder
ing q little nine-year- old niece of Alfred Hor-
ton, near Madison, Ga, confessed his crime
when taken before the %coronor's jury. After
his return to jail he was taken by O mob and
hanged to a telegraph pole, his body being
riddIed by bullets.
In 1886 an attempt was made to murder
Mayor Oscar of Racine, Wis.,, by placing a
bomb in front OF his residence, which he was
likely to drive over on his return home late
at night. John Jambor was convicted of the
crime on circumstantial evidence and SEN
fenced to ten years imprisonment. An up
peal was taken to the supreme court, which
affirmed the decision OF the lower court.
A horrible torture was inflicted on two
horses belonging to William Rosenthal q
Hebrew citizen of Winnipeg. The animals
tongues were cut out with O knife and they
were suffering terribly, being unable to eat or
drink. The tongue OF one horse was severed
close to the roots, while the other la about
six inches cut of. Another Jew named Ber-
ger has been arrested charged with commit
ting the crime.
Constable Skinner, q Des Moines Iowa
searcher, shot 'Dude' Henderson, u 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
Object. MeetIik ulm Oh tne puDnr street.,
both began firing, and three shots entered
Henderson's body. one passing through his
stomach. Thenegro's wounds will provefatal.
Last October Enoch Crosley, a 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-
poets, Richard Murray, Frederick Hoyt and
George Stowe, thelatter confessed that Hoyt
shot Crosley. No motive is known for the
deed, AZ the corpse was not robbed. The
concession caused great Indignation, and the
guard over the prisoner has been doubled.
William Seeley Hopkins was hanged at
Baltimore for the murder of his wife and
mother-in-law. When the drop fell the rope
broke and the condemned man was again
fastened up. The drop fell successfully the
second time. In 1887 Hopkins married Mag
gle Wigamen. For q year they lived happily,
but Hopkins became jealous, and finally left
his wife, who returned to her home. Sunday
Sept. %, 1889. he went to the. Wigamen
house and deliberately shot both his wife and
her mother dead. "
/ A double shooting ARRAY occurred at Sau-
gus, o small station on the Southern Pacific
railroad in California. D. Cook and George
Waltham were engaged in hauling wood, and
while passing q cabin occupied by w. A.
Gardner and W. s. Carmichael, the latter
two opened fire with revoIvers and q Win
chester. Waltham was instantly killed and
Cook received wounds which resulted in his
death within eight hours. The tragedy was
the outcome OF dispute about land. TIE
murderers escaped.
Miss Lizzie Cowan of M%iddlebury, Conn,
aged twenty. q handsome and popular school
teacher, was brutality assaulted while on her
way from school just after dark, and her in
iuries are believed to be serious. After regain
ina consciousness she could not identity her
assailant, she said. but. sitter one Dan Web
ster, a worthless fellow, VINO had been idling
about town, was arrested on suspicion, she
positively Identified him by his voice. There
10 much excitement in M%iddlebury over the
assault. Webater has confessed to the terri
Bile deed, and was tried and bound over.
Mark a. Barren. . Chicago gambler, was
shot and dangerously wounded by Charles
Hatfield. of Henderson. KY, on an Iron
Mountain train, near Dexter, Mo-. Barren
md q companion, George jones, also Of Chi.
eago, had engaged IN = game Of poker Wit