The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-05-15
SINFUL SIFTINGS.

Charles L. Lancaster, the defaulting treas
urer of the Buffalo IN. w. Press club, has
been arrested in Toronto charged with en-
beZzIement and with forgery.
member of the dominion parliament is
accused OF having been boodled to the ex-
tent of $250,OOO.
A route agent on the Northern Pacific be-
tween Duluth and Staples is arrested for rob-
bing the mails.
Charles Miles the murderer ofDr Pritchard
at COldwnter, Kan. was captured in the
Indian Territory by posse aud is supposed
to have been lynched.
Fitty-two anarchists have been arrested at
Barcelona. Spain. Documents seized at their
residences reveal plans for destroying the
railways with dynamite and for setting fire
to factories
charge of embezzlement has been made
against Lewis Z. PETER, president of the
Bank of America OF Philadelphia, on the
ground that he accepted money after he
knew the bank was insOlyent.
John 5. Cross, a member OF the real estate
firm otCord & Cross ofMemphis has been miss.
ing for over a week. He owes about S3S, 900,
the major portion of which was;secured On the
forged signature OF W. 4. Faires wealt hy
dealer in live stock.
riding in a wagon at New Orleans they were
fred upon by rival gang who we're am
pushed beside the road. The fire was return
ed and about twenty-five shots exchanged.
Three men were badly wounded.
Robert Nickel, the cashier of the ]. NJ.
Belyev & Co. Real Estate and Investment
company, has been arrested at Denver charg-
ed with being decG.ulteT. It's tlrc1 ghit tEhnt
the de5alcation will reach between So, 900 and
$4,000.
At Coldwater, Kan, G. NJ. Miles, leading
attorney, and DR.. Pritchards met on the
street and came to blows. The latter WAS
brought to the ground by q blow on the
mead with revolver an afterwards died
Miles escaped.
At 'Spragueville. N. Y, Abel Bergeron.
swallowed rat poison after killing his two
> young children with the same poison. He
had eloped from EbouIements, Que, with O
French Canadian girl named Lucie, who
seems to have deserted him, for he left let
ter saying: Il have nothing to live tor. NV
blonde Lucie is dead to me forever"
~ Joseph Carr and wife quarreled over some
trivial affair at Butler. Mo, Carr raised
chair as if to strike his vie when his son
Charles, aged thirteen, who was standing in
the yard, threw n stone at his father through
the open door. The missile struck Carr on
the Orebead between the eyes, fracturing his
skull. He cannot live The boy was arrest
ed.
Garrett Alonzo Barnett, alias James Smith
alias John Davis, was arrested in PhiIadel-
phia on the charge Of passing forged draft
He vas just about to receive the cash for q
dry goods firm check, which he had receiy-
ed as the difference between the draft and a
bill of goods he had bought. Barnett is
wanted in Chicago for a similar offense.
Charles, alias Buck Marray, was convicted
of murder in the first degree for the killing OF
Police Officer Edward Shumaker in Detroit,
Mich. March a. Murray, with q partner
named Mccormick, had been interrupted in a
job OfEafe cracking by the officer, who pur-
sued them into the street, where Murray shot
the officer dead and escaped. He was cap
tured at Cleveland week later. He was i'm
mediately sentenced to Jackson prison for
lie.
Real estate agent Ellwood Lancaster,
who conducted fourishing business in
Philadelphia is fugitive from justices
He is charged with the embezzement
of funds entrusted to him to- invest.
The amount is yariously estimated at
from $4,000 to $4,000. His victims
are mainly of the poorer classes. Lancaster,
who ia thirty years of age, left wi o and
four children in almost destitute circumstan.
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