The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-11-13
SINS AND SINNERS.

A young woman throws two little girls off
high bridge at Akron, n Y, killing one and
breaking the arms and legs of the other.
The murderess vainly attempts suicide.
\ sad suicide is reported from the home of
George Nelson, farmer living four miles
west of Lyons, Iowa. His wife aged fifty,
in fit of momentary insanity, hanged her.
self and was dead when discovered.
Herman Heller, German farmer, took
paris green while at his sons residence at
Wausau, Wis, He died before medical aid
could be obtained Heller was sixty years
old and owned large farm. Drink was the
cause of the suicide.
In Twiggs county, Ga, young lady was
assaulted by a negro named Owen Jones. A
privilege was allowed him, and that was to
select the limb of the tree from which he was
to be hanged. His body was left hanging
for twenty-four hours. 1t was then cut down
and now lies in fence corner.
Mike Lynch, the base ball player, accident
ally stabbed William Fitzner at Spokane
Falls. Lynch was showing q dirk knife that
he had just sharpened, and it is said that
while Lynch wac fourshing the weapon
Fitzner stumbled forward and fell upon the
blade. 1t entered the abdomen on the lett
side and he died in half an hour. Lynch is
in jail.
Delasee, the Indian charged with murd er-
two white men near Ravalli in September
1887, was found guilty of murder in the
first degree at Missoula. Mont. He is the
fourth Indian found guilty of murder in
Missoula this year, and the third the past
week. Pierre Paul, the last ofthe noted out
laws recently captured, will be placed on tri-
al Tor murder.
At Columbus, Ca, Will Wallace, notori
Gus desperado from Harris county, got into
a difficulty with Coon Harramore and Frank
Huckabee in a private house, which will
probably result in two deaths. Huck bee
cut Harramore in the abdomen, in flicting a
frightiul wound, and Wallace shot Huckabee
three times through the body. Harramore
and Huckabee are not expected to live.
Wallace was arrested.
Thomas Churchill. eighty five years old,
lived with his wi in his own house at
SchuyIersville, N Y. Early in the m orning
Michael Henshaw and Patrick Hughes raped
at the door and demanded admittance which
was refused. The old couple tried to hold
the door, but the men smashed it in. AS
the two entered the house, the old man stab
ed each of them with a bayonet, badly
wounding them. The men then fred three
shots, killing Churchill instantly, The men
were arrested, one being taken to Jail and
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Donnelly has also been arrested on suspicion.
| Henshaw has been q cowboy and only re-
Gently returned from the West.
A lone highwayman held up and robbed
four men near Texarkana, Texas. Two me n
named Markham took two bales of cotton
to New Boston, where they sold them. On
the way back they were confronted on the
road by the robber, dressed as a tramp, who
emphasized his demand for their money and
watches by thrusting q revolver in the face
| of one of the men. After his demands were
acceded to the man compelled onn of the
men to dismount, and jumping upon the
horse rode away. Shortly afterward Hon.
W. Hudgins and Rollins Rogers came along,
and to them the Markhams related their ex-
perience. The story was received with laugh.
| ter, the attorneys saying that the bravery
of two men who allowed one man to rob
them might be questioned. Two hundred
yards farther on the two attorneys were
stopped by the same man, and the experience
of the Markhams was repeated and a con-
siderable sum OF money ard their watches
were secured Hudgins hired a horse from a
livery and set out after the man.