The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-03-20
SINFUL SIFTINGS.

s. ". Yeagley, the defaulting county clerk
at Hiilsdale, Mich, who left Feb. 8, has been
captured and returned for trial
Rev D. W Helmick who killed Ed Palmer
at Neola, Iowa, on the night o'Aug is, 1889,
has been acquitted. The defense was justif-
able homicide.
In st. Marys Catholic church, POughkeep-
sic y. Y, in row over his right to occupy
pew. George Hughes was unmercltuily
pounded.
A shortage Of several thousand dollars has
been discovered in the accounts of ex-City-
Treasur Hansher OF La Porte, Ind, who died
recently.
Ignates Smith, Brooklyn grocer, while
drunk attempted to sh oot his wife. On see
ing an officer approaching Smith released his
wife and shot himself dead.
Miss Katie Off, teacher in the Cincinnati
public schools, shot herself through the
temples during fit of despondency caused by
i'll health.
In night between deputy sherifs and two
Mexican horse thieves near San Angelo Tex,
the horse thieves were killed and both the
deputy sherlfs were injured, but not fatally
thief at Dallas. Tex broke plate glass
in the front of jeweIry store and made his
escape with a tray containing So 900 worth
of diamonds and rings.
The two-year-old child OF John Blunt a
farmer near Stockton, Kan, drank quan-
tity o laudanum and died. The mother,
cFazed bv erie. 9r"nk the remainder of the
poison, G.. 1t Il snort time.
Rev, DR.. T. B. Malsell, of the McKeesport
(Pa.) NJ, E. church, who has been on trial on
charges oflying and defamation, was found
guilty on the first count and acquitted on
the second
". 2. Smith OF Ellsworth and R NJ. Cole
man Of Dorl ance. respectively president and
cashier of the Bank of. Dorrance, which failed
q short time ago, were arrested at Russell,
Kan, charged with having received deposits
when they knew the bank was insolvent.
Elizabeth Vincent, who was arrested at
Richmond, Eng, on the charge of attempt
ing to murder Lewis Henry Isaacs, member
of the.house oI commons, has been acquitted.
Isaacs expressed the wish that the court
would deal leniently with Miss Vincent.
At Council Bluffs, Iowa, Andrew Houk,
gambler and worthless character, shot and
seriously wounded Mrs. Kittie Bowers and
then committed suicide. Houk was madly
in love with Mrs Bowers, but she did not re-
ciprocate.
Jay Boride, a Kansas City real estate
agent who is accused of having fraudulently
obtained a conveyance TO himself from two
illiterate eolorPd people of that town Of
100000 worth of real estate for 81, is unr
der arrest in Chicago.
The trial of Stephen F. Sherman for grand
larceny in the first degree in connection with
the elevator frauds has begun in the criminal
term of the supreme court at Buffalo, N. Y.
The defendant is specifically charged with
stealing $3.50 bushels of grain, the property
of the Buffalo Elevator company.
charge of ontempt in resisting the United
State marshal in the circuit court room at
San Francisco in 1883, when that officer had
been ordered to remove her from the room for
creating disturbance ended in a disagree
m6nt of the jury.
Charles Johnson, o. Sletto. @. J. Hanson and
Bertha Oleson we're sentenced at WhitehailS
Wis, to life imprisonment. and three days.
solitary confinement each year for the lynch
ingoi old man Hans Jacob OIeson in Novem
ber last, The rest of the lynchers were let of
with fines, which aggregate $4,000.
Henry Ritter, q bad character of New Al
bahy, Ind, was arrested for-the murder of
Mrs. Allen WheeIon, his sister-in-law. Ritter
attempted TO outrage Mrs. -Wheelon, but she
resisted and he Drained her with a hatchet
and placed the body on the railroad track
to make it appear that it was suicide.
Deputy United States Marshall Davenport
arrived in Sioux City, iowa, with Charles and
james Miles and iull outfit of molds and
counter:citer's tools for the manufacture of
dollars and nickeIs. The men were captured
at Lakeyiew in Sac county, where they have
been operating for several months. Some
good samples of coin were also secured.
Farmers near Covington KY, who had
been robbed by petty thieves took three
brothers named Crane, and tying them to
trees gave each thirty lashes on the bare
back with whip, each blow drawing blood.
One OF the men tainted under the pain.
They were warned to leave the country.
An three of the men are in bad shape
Samuel Hess, ofFIandreau, representatives oi
the legislature from Moody county,S. D., who,
it is claimed. had fallen into the snare laid by
n demi-monde of Pierre, and because she
would not live with him attempted suicide
nv poisoning, branded the story as O lie from
beginning to end and said that it was sent
out through malice Mr.. Hess caFries let
ter from f. w. Pettigrew states that he has
investigated the matter carefully and finds
there is not word of truth in it, that the
article is malicious.
Haywood & Son, private bankers of Clin
ton. Iowa, purchased. o., o man who claimed
to be Ii. C. Waite, OF Cedar Rapids apromis
sorry note for $1,000, purporting TO hays
been given by j. C.. Mills and Roger e. Paul
and q mortgage by j. G. Mills and vii or
their farm near Dewitt, securing the same
lOn presenting the documents at the First
National bank at Dewitt for Identification
ht was found that both documents were for
lgeries. Both bore date or July "a, 1889, anC
had been properly recorded BY means of 9