The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-05-03
SINFUL STRINGS,


! William Niemer was killed in Cincinnati by
Joseph Smith. a laudryman, by q blow ofthe
latter's fist.
Stnndish quarrelled over q girl. Osman stab.
d standish eight times with a knife and he
Ill probably die.
Miss Lena Woodruff, from Appleton, Wis,
lost I'LL her money, amounting to 500, while
to buy q stock Of millinery to start q store in
Appleton. She was cared for by the police.
Henry W. King, the sx-perfect of tile Penn
delphia, who was convicted of crimes of a
grossly immoral nature, has been sentenced
to five years in the penitsntiary.
J. 3. Quinby of Waverly, Iowa, took laud-
anum at Cedar Falls. Immediately after
taking it he called the hotel clerk and q doc
tor was sent Tor, 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 a charge OF at.
tempting to poison Col. John II. Brooks and
family, were taken from the jail and lynched.
Convenient hooks in front of a butcher shop
were converted into an impromptu gallows.
Five sisters named Demovierof committed
suicide at Moscow, Russian. The cause ofthe
deed was their fear of being arrested as Nihi-
lists. A short time before taking their lives
they burned all of their papers, presumably
with the object of shielding Others. ,
Joseph Anderson of Minneapolis and
George R. Buchau of Pittsburg, exchange
shots in the former city, and the former is
mortally wounded. The trouble arose from
Mrs. Anderson being found in Buchan's com.
pany. go.
A New York female reporter who set out
to,investigate the practices OF divorce detec-
tives found that there is a class of women
who find regular employmentin helping wives
to secure divorces. These ONE can be hir-
to entrap men into situations furnishing real
or apparent grounds for divorce.
John Montgomery and Henry C~osgrove
were arrested at Fort Dodge, Iowa, charged
with conspiracy to ruin the business of q
i,orseman named o. b. Post by "doping''
colts sired by his thoroughbred stallion. The
own a rival stallion. & is charged that they IL
are trying to increase their breeding business
by causing the death OF colts sired by the
other horse.
Gen. Coon and q posse of ten consta bles
have been patroling the southern frontier
of California, watching a gang Of Cinnamon
who. made several attempts to cross. Coon
captured q white man and q wagon, and
later caught another white man. Just before
daylight the Chinese made a rush for United
States soil. Several iorded the Tia Juana
river, and others rushed for the hills. The
officer captured six mongolians.
The missing leg of the. mutilated body of
Mrs. Mettiman, who was murdered a month
r ago, was found in1ths ivsrat>aLeavenworth
near the Planters hotel The. police are still
hunting for Charles A. Benson, the supposed
murderer. Thu investigation Of his career
shows that. he lis On exile from Germany.
ago. He was charged with blowing up his
sister' 8 liouss and killing two of her children.
There was q serious riot among the citizens
of Mccormick, s. c. A Mr.. sturkey reported
Druggist Calhoun for selling whisky on Sun.
day. Druggist Calhoun shot the officer who
was sent to arrest him. Other citizens then
took ayhandxanda 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 mode. 4
John i. Morris, of Fannin county, Texas,
while travelling III Greer county, killed his
two companions-W. E. Roberts and John
Mows-while all we're in camp. The shots
we're fred from q six-shOoter, both parties
being shot through the head from behind o.
they slept. Norris buried the bodies in q
sandbank and tried to mak6 his escape out
Of the county, but was arrested shortly after
hs q concealed thu bodice
Michael H.sKitson, a retired railroad mar
of Burlington, To-, put strychnins in the
sugar bowl & tic Barrett restaurant and
llberaIly dossd his coffee Within same. He
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