The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-05-01
SINFUL SIFTENGS

4 william Niemer was killed in Cincinnati bv
JosePn smith laudryman, by a bloyofthe
At Ne, ohiq. Wills Ei!.s 5sman and Edward
Standish quarrellad over girl. Osman stab
bed Standish eight times with knife and he
will probably die.
Miss Lena Woodruff, from Appleton, Wis,
lost all her money, amounting to $7OO, while
on the way to Chicago, where she was going
to buy u stock OF millinery to start store in
Appleton. She was cared for by the police
Henry W. King, the ex-perfect OF the Penn
sylvania institution for the blind at Phila-
delphia, who was convicted of crimes of a
grossly immoral nature, has been sentenced
to five years in the penitentiary.
J. B. Quinby of Waverly, Iowa, took laud-
anum at Cedar Falls. Immediately alter
taking it he called the hotel clerk and doc
tor was sent for, who came in time to savehis
life disappointment in love is supposed to be
the cause.
Sim Garrett and Jerry Leel, who were in
Jail at st. Augustine, Tex, on n charge o! at
tempting to poison Col. John Il. Brooks and
family, were taken from the jail and lynched.
Convenient hooks in front of butcher shop
were converted into an impromptu gallows.
Five sisters named Demovieroff committed
suicide at Moscow, Russian. The cause efthe
deed was their fear of being arrested as Nihi-
lists. A short time before taking their lives
they burned oil of their papers, presumably
with the object of shielding Others.
Joseph Anderson of Minneapolis and
George R. Bucham of Pittsburg, exchange
shots IN the iormer city, and the former is
mprtally wounded. The trouble arose from
Mis-. Anderson being found in Buchan's COM
pany.
New York female reporter who set out
to investigate the practices of divorce detec
tiVes found that there is q class of women
who 1nd regular employment in helping wives
to secure divorces. These women can be hir
to entrap men into situations furnishing real
or apparent grounds for divorce.
John Montpe--s~y ssuE. szie-sJ |Cosgrove
w1fe arrested at Fort Dodge, Iowa, charged
with conspiracy to ruin the business of a
horseman named o. b. Post by doping
colts sired by his thorouphbr stallion. The
two men arrested nre horse doctors and also
own rival stallion. 1t is charged that they
are trying to increase their breeding business
by causing the death Of colts sired by the
other horse. 's-. ~ "a
Gen. Coon and n posse of ten consta bles
have been patroling the southern frontier
of California, watching gang of Cinnamon
who made several attempts to cross. Coon
captured q white man aid q wagon and
later caught another white man. just before
daylight the Chinese made O rush for United
States soil. Several forded the Tia Juana
river, and Others rushed for the hills. The
officer captured six mongolians.
The missing leg of the mutilated body oil
Mrs Mettiman, who was murdered month
ago, was found in the river at Leavenworth
near the Planters hotel The police are still
bunting ior Charles A. Benson, the supposed
murderer. The investigation of his career
shows that he is an exile from Germany,
whence he escaped to America several years
ago. He was charged with blowing up his
sisters house and killing two of ber children.
There was serious riot among thecitizene
Of Mccormick, s, C. A.Mr. SturEey reported
Druggist Calhoun for selling whisky on Sun.
day. Druggist Calhoun shot the officer who
was sent to arrest him. Other citizena then
took hand and general fight ensued in
which several persons are said to have been
shot. p B. Calhoun is the only man known
to have been fatally shot. Several arrests
have been nude.
John L. Morris, of Fannin county, Texas,
while travelling in Greer county. killed his
two companions-W. e. Roberts and John
Mows--while all were In camp. The shots
were fred from six-shooter. both parties
being shot through the head from behind as
they slept. Morris buried the bodies in q
sandbank and tried to make his escape uut
Of the county, but was arrested shortly after
syhs had concealed the bodies.
Michael e. KitsOn, a,retired railroad man
of Burlington. To-, put strychnins in the
sugar bowl at the Barrett restaurant and
llheEally dosed his coffee with the same. ii
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