The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-07-05
SINS AND

Paymaster Duran, of the Mexican Central
railway, is in Jail in the city ofMexico, charg-
ed with being $4,000 short in his accounts.
An irate captain at Camp Lake View or
ders his company to charge on a band Of
noisy militinmen, but no blood is spilled.
The allies of the Italians have defeated at
Kerena a force Of 1000 dervishes, killing
$50 of them.
( Charles Decker and his mother, aged eighty
three, were probably fatally wounded by
burglars ut Morris, III.
Elias Carlson, q Norwegian employed at
the saw mill, committed suicide at Haywood
Wis. He was about thirty years OF age,
At McComb City, Miss, in an alteration
between c. c.. Henderson of Lincolnton, N. c.,
and W. E. Parker, the former was instantly
killed.
At North Sewickly, Pa, James Burnett
stabbed Joe Cotley and instantly killed him.
Both parties were under the influence of hard
cider and bad beer.
Hazel Lillis, daughter of Police Commits
sion-r Lillis, OF Kansas City, committed
suicide ut Denver, where she went a month
ago with a variety company.
William Strain, until recently a United
Brethren minister, was nearly whipped to
death by White Caps near Albany Ind. His
paramour was tarred and feathered.
Jack Workman, a noted desperate confn-
ed in Jail at Beatrice, Neb., for horse steal.
ing, killed the jaiIer. George Maxfeld, and
escaped. He will be Iynched il caught.
Two Mcxicans marauding parties, operat-
ing in Mexico, near the Texas line, were cap
tured by troops and several in each party
were shot to death after q short military
trial.
A. Ferguson, a lumber operator of Sussex,
N. b., has disappeared. Ferguson handled
over $50, 900 for other people. What dis.
position Ferguson has made of the money is
unknown.
Charles Lundgren, q Scandinavian, aged
seventeen years, employed on the Northern
Pacif C railway construction, committed sui
eide by hanging at a camp thirty miles from
Missoula. Lundgren formerly lived at
Duluth.
Harry Mansfield, manager of the Topeka,
(kan.) Coal company, has left the city for
| parts unknown and the coal company is said
to be out $1,000. Bucket shop speculation
is said to have been the cause of his down
1all.
At Beslin, a small place sixteen miles north
of Nebraska city q desperate named Kerfoot
was shot and instantly killed by Mr.. fancy,
WIZ COlloU JIG vi OLlt tidCC. XIV Hdu JuoU
finished IL term in Jail Tor trying to kill q for
mer constable OF the town named Bowen.
{. R. Walters has been sentenced by the
courts of Paso Del Norte, Mexico, to be shot,
and J. r. O'Loughlin sentenced to ten years
imprisonment for killing a lewd woman. The
condemned men are both citizens of the
United States and have appealed for protec-
ton. =
Charles Decker, whose skull was fractured
by burglars at Morris, ILL.,, died after lying in
! an unconscious condition for 100 hours.
| When Mrs. Stevens, his aged mother, who
was also injured by the robbers, heard the
news of his death it affected her deeply and
all hope of her recovery has been abandoned.
G. Seymour hit Charles Harding with a
fat iron IN the head several times at Man
chester, vt. He also hit his wife and fve-
year-old son with the fat iron. He then cut
his own throat and stabbed himself in the
| abdomen. Seymour and Harding cannot
live, and the others are in a critical condi-
tion. - - '
1t is learned at Madison, Wis, that Her
man Mosler, who was arrested by the Unit ed
States authorities in st. Louis, is charged
with offering Gen. f. NJ. Rogers, internal
revenue collector :or the Madison district, a
bribe OF $1,000 to drop certain criminal
prosecutions instituted by him against OPP
| penheimer & Co., wholesale whisky dealers of
THAT city, for changing the date OF inspection
on q large quantity of liquor.
A messenger hom the neighborhood OF
Deer creek, sixty miles northwest of Ardm ore,
Ind. Ter, states that at a roundup on the
creek James Andrews shot John Rankin ia
the abdomen with q revolver, causing a IA
tai wound, and Was in turn shot through the
let lung with 9 Winchester rife in the hands