The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-02-20
SINFUL STRINGS.

1t is rumored that the agent of well
known Liverpool lumber firm at Quebec is
short in his accounts between $100,00 and
100000. He has disappeared.
Suits have been entered in Chicago by the
county of Cook against all the "boodlers"
returned, escaped or compromised, for $780,
600, in trespass-
Harry Lebos, a absolute character ofRead-
ing, Pa. shot and fatally wounded his wife.
Daniel Fisher. Mrs. Lebos' father, died of
heart disease Immediately after the shoot
ing. Lebos escaped.
During recess in the trial of William
Mayne, on the trial of assault to murder
Bertha johnson, at San Diego, CAL the pro-
scouting witness, shot Mayne three times,
taking effect in the head, neck and shoulder,
inficting, probably fatal wounds. Mayne
was sitting in a chair in the court room when
the woman passed back of him, turned quick
lysdEeW,a revolver from under her handker-
chief and fred. She was arrested. 1913
Dr. Marvin Fosdick was sitting by table
at his home in Pawpaw, when some unknown
person fred both barrels of a double barreled
shotgun through the window, the charge
entering Fosdick's head, neck and shoulders.
He still lives and may recover. The affair
is surrounded in mysteries and no clue has
yet been disc 5ered to the perpetrator of the
outrage.
Philip Brammer, a weak-minded and inof-
fensiVe farmer, at Bloomington, Ind, was
seized, while on his way home, by masked
men. They took him to an orchard, tied him
to tree and whipped him almost to insensi-
biIity Brammer was left, covered with blood,
lying on the ground and was nearly frozen
before he recovered sufficiently to go home,
where he arrived about daylight
At New York some unknown person threw
a bomb into an alley-way on Elizabeth
street The missile exploded blowing down a
brick wall, and part of a wooden fence, and
SCATTERING a window in the rear house. No
person was found in the place and nobody
was injured. The police are investigating the
matter.
Thomas Kane was hanged in the jail-yard
at Toronto, Can, for the murder of his wife
in November last. He met his fate resolute-
w. The murder for which Kane suffered the
death penalty was of the most atrocious
character. He and his wife had been drinking
and quarreled. He attacked her, and, after
pummeling her body in a shocking manner
knocked her brains out with a fiat iron
The murderer was a plasterer.
The Cincinnati Cremation society has dis
charged its superintendent, Valentine Hei
man, and he has been put under bond by 6
magistrate to answer to the charge of grand
larceny. The articles stolen were collins. Al
the crematory the bodies are removed from
the easket, and it has been the understanding
that the caskets were broken up and burned
Recently it has been discovered that, instead
of burning them the thrifty superintendent
has sold them, sometimes as low as 81 each,
to thrifty village undertakes.
Bert Stoner the settling clerk of Chicago
said to have cheated his employer, supposed
to be the board of trade operators, B. P
Hutchinson out of some thousands of dol
o.olz% 10 Il IN, NJ ur1Rn >
Office The report was that some weeks agt
after bilking "Old Hutch" by ridiculousI.
simple expedient, young Stoner suddenl,
took Journey to Canada. Upon what bas
Is the clerk and the operator now resum
their old relations could not be readily aseeI
tanned. Both Of them fatty declined to talk
j Miss Mary Dietzen was shot at Hastings
Mimi, by Louis Sommers, Both parties or
respectable young people and aged eighties
and twenty-oney years respectively. Thee
assigned is jealousy, the young lady refusin
to marry Sommers. Miss Dietzen was wall
ing up the street with young lady name
Miss Emma Link, when they met Sommers
who, without saying q word, shot at he
three times with effect, the bullets passln
through her back and in the region of tn
heart She expired almost instantly, aftG
enchanting s40h, Lou. J" At last accounts ia
officers were in hunt of Sommers.
The body of Hiram Sawtelle was found
the woods near Lebanon, Maine. Ithad lee
decapitated and the head has not yet bee
discovered When found the body was pro
ieeting from poorly made grave and lad
bullet in the heart 1t was not three yard
from where Officer Shields found tho paps
that was wrapped around the axe. The bod
was entirely naked with the exception of tt
feet which had on O pair of socks. Besides
was d lot of clotted blood, whore the arm
and head had been cut off. The brother
the deceased, Isaac Sawtelle, is charged wit
the murder, and is in jail he was visited
WIN. r. Gale, the welIknoTn criminal lawy,
,of Boston, who will defead him. By his il
struction the prisoner bias thus far aDsolut
9yrefused to say anything regarding the Grim
Regarding his confederates there hos be-
nottsug aseertained. At least nothing b:
F.een ans4s public. There is great exciteme1
over the finding of the body, and search #
the missing portions will be vigorously pro
ecuted.