The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-12-11
WAYS OF THE WICKED.

Martin D. Loppy Of New York has been
convicted OF killing his wife Esther on July
last and sentenced to death by electricity
within the week beginning Jan 3.
The United States grand jury at Detroit,
Mich, has indicted a large number of deputy
county clerks for issuing fraudulent natural
ization papers before the last elect ion.
In an alteration at Jackson, Miss, T. A.
Her, jeweler was shot and mortally wound
ed by DR.. W. D. Todd. The Difficult lty was
about woman. Todd was sent to prison.
In Chicago Rose MartelI a French won an,
shot and mortally wounded an unknown
man who had entered her house and demand
ed something to eat.
Joseph B. Abbott, confidential clerk for
Sage & Co.. lumber dealers of Albany N Y,
has com mitted suicide by taking poison. He
was an $4,000 defaulter.
In st. Louis George Scheid shot his wife in
the back of the hea and then put bullet
into his forehead. His wound is fatal, but
his wife will live.
Elmer g. MelIray, partner in the firm Of
George G. Fox & Co., bakers, in Worcester,
Mass, and in Boston, has been missing for
several days. He is q defaulter to an
| amount not known.
j. A. West, resident of Savannah, Ga,
who owned large planta ton near Bolto n,
Miss, was killed by his brother Hugh, who
has been managing the plantation for sew
eral years.
Rev. Brown, in charge of the Episcopal
church at Middletown, n. S., assaulted G. h.
King, divinity student, on a tr ain because
King sat on his hat Kings nose was brok-
en- and both of his eyes were blackened.
Brown will be reported to the bishop.
At Jersey City, N. J., John Whalen, Joseph
| G. Mulrain, David Gordon and Martin J.
White who were convicted of ballot box
Stuffing, have been sentenced to one year
and six months hard labor in the state
| prison.
In Columbus, Ohio, Ellis Miller was exc
euted in the penitentiary annex. He had
shot and killed bis sister-in-law, Mrs. Emma
Johnson, because she could not tell him the
whereabouts of his wife who had left him on
account OF cruelty.
In Jackson, Miss, the supreme court rem
dered it's decision in the case of w. l.. Hem
ingway, the deiaulting state treas urer. The
lower courts decision was affirmed and
Hemingway is now in the custody of the
sheriff under sentence OF FIVE years in the
penitentiary.
For a number of months past there have
|
zled the authorities. A 14-year old peni item
tiary convict made his escape, but was after
wards recaptured, The criminal made the
startling statement that the turnkey, named
Triptup had released him for a money con-
sidsration. An investigation proved that
Triptup had beea guilty of all the other es-
capes. He was at once put under arrest.
The safe in the Northern Paci fic railway
station at Clitherall, Mimi, on the Black
Hills branch, was robbed of $3.50, 5000 oi
which belonged to the Northern Pacific
Elevator company. The thief is supposed to
be young man named Nichols, about
twenty-five years OF age, who was formerly
a station agent at Cromwell, Mimi. His LEFT
arm is off about the elbow. He came tc
| CIitheFan to visit, and the regular agent got
him to supply while he went away on some
business.
At Ogden, Utah, John Kelly has been sen.
fenced to life imprisonment for murder
committed twenty-six years ago. Early in
1865 Kelly was one of sheriffs posse who
ran down bold horse-thief named Dart
who was shot dead for resisting arrest
Friends of Dart have had the case revived
on a charge of murder, and when Kelly TO unG
that warrant had been issued for his arrest
he surrendered himself to the authorities
with the above result. The other members
Ol II0 pOsee bE6 ueuu VI hdE0 ASlU Ju6 COuH
try.
Robert Carr was taken out of the city cal
aboose at Nevada, Mo-, by four masked
men and carried to the outskirts of tn,
town, Where he was most outrageously
whipped with hickory withes, over one hun
dred blows being laid across his naked back
and shoulders When released he was GOV
cred with blood and innumerable WELT
showed the severity of his punishment
Carr was incarcerated for wife. beating, ant
the vigilantes said they whipped him fo
this and also for being Pinkerton detec
tive and correspondents of q Kansas Cit,
paper.
At Seattle officers seized valise contain
ing quantity of valuable silks and embroi
deries, which was claimed by woman Civ
ing the name of Mrs. Abdenour, and VIII,
said the goods came from New York, wher
the duty had been paid, and that she ant
her husband had O store in New York nns
had intended to open one in Tacoma, bu
that her husbands sickness prevented thei
doing So She claimed to be missionary
,, and said that she had visited Mrs. Presiden
| Harrison at Washington for three weeks
, last summer. The officers think the goods
Eere smuggled.
A clever capture Of mail robber was mad
at Cheyenne Col, by Henry Ford, q mai