The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-09-25
SINS AND SINNERS,

An attempt is made to assassinate detec-
tive who figured conspicuously in the Rains
barger and Johns murder cases in Hardin
county, Iowa.
The grand jury has indicted Buett and
Reed the New York Central train wreck ers
1t is said that Cor dial and Herman will be
discharged.
o. L. Barnes of Denver shot and killed
Policeman Charles Wanless While falling
Wanless shot and mortay wounded Barnes
Tho latter had assault ted his vie, when the
policeman interfered
Six employees OF the Chicago city fire alarm
service have been held to the criminal court
to answer to the charge of larceny They
are charged with stealing between 5000 and
1000 pounds of copper wire from the Ameri-
can Telephone and Telegraph company.
Miss Maggie Mitchell, lady who lives on
her farm near Indiana polls, was found mur-
dered in her barn. The floor was crimsoned
with the blood of the inoffensive lady. A
bloody pitchfork found on the floor showed
that the murderer was wounded
E. T. Murphy, aclerk in TokIas, SIM, man
& Co. g dry goods store at Seattle, Wash,
shot and mortally wounded Charles Brown
another clerk in the same store, at the resi-
dence of the former. Brown made an insult
ing remark to Mrs Murphy.
Three masked robbers broke into the resi-
dence of Mrs. c. W. Rand at Burlington,
Iowa. While one covered Mr. and Mrs. Rand
in bed with revolver the others rif1ed the
room of over 81 900 worth ofdiamonds and
other je"eIry, and made good their escape.
Three children, Oscar Pearman, Hosea
Douglass and Kinsey Douglass, who were
aged respectively fourteen, twelve and ten
years, on trial at Rockville, Md, for murde
| in the second degree for dro wning a boy
with whom they were swimming, have been
acquitted after being once convicted.
| In the celebrated Holden Russell mu roer
trial the jury at Monticello Iowa., found the
| defendants guilty of murder and fixed the
| sentence OF Calvin Holden as death: Albert
Dnnham death; Mrs. Eliza Holden twenty.
FIVE years in the penitentiary, and Edwin
Holden fifteen years in the penitentiary.
George R. Gott, of the law firm of Gott &
Rhodes of Baltimore and an ex-member OF
thelegislature, has mysteriously disappeared
| Rumors are in circulation that Gott is short
| in his accounts as trustee of estate funds
| The amount is placed well up in the thou.
/ sands.
At Lanesville, Conn, Jay Knowles and DIR
/ David Knowles claim the ownership OF 6
house left by their father. David locked ur
/ the premises and placed his wife and sor
George on guard. Later Jay Knowles
cam with party of fneighbors and started
TO break in the door. George fred, killing
John Waters, who was il. the party.
From private source it is learned in re
gard to the bank robbery which oc Cured il
The Dalles, Oregon, that the robbers tunnelet
under the building, and blew the vault open
| Nothing definite has been learned concern
| ing the amount taken, but it is said to be In
the neighborhood of $4,000. There is M
| clue to the robbers.
Burglars forced the safe of G. W. Knapp al
Clinton Falls Mimi, and took therefron
$150 in money, $50 in checks, over $4,000
in notes payable to Knapp, and OF hel
valuable papers, some OF which belonged Il
other parties. Mr.. Knapp is postmaster and
keeps a country store. The valuable paper
and notes have been found under q bridg
near the place.
Near Terre Haute, Ind, Thomas Burkhar