The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-05-10
SINFUL STRINGS.


James Palmer was hanged at Concord. N.
g., for the murder OF Henry Whitehouse, q
fellow workman. May ~, 1888.
William Niemer was killed in Cincinnati by
Joseph Smith. a laudryman, by a blow ofthe
latter's fist.
Charles E. Wright, who last August killed
Sheriff Marshal and Deputy Thurber, has
been sentenced at Benzonia, Mich, to i'm.
p%risonment for life.
Mrs. Sarah Habbs, Ga years of age, had
both legs cut of by a switch engine at o.
tumwa and died. Her son it il thought. has
become insane on account of the fatality.
At Lima, Ohio, Willis Osman and Edward
Standish quarrelled over q girl. Osman stab
bed Standish eight times with q knife and he
will probably die.
Henry W. King, the ex-perfect of the Penn
~aylvania institution for the blind at Phila-
delphia, who was convicted of crimes of a
grossly immoral nature, has been sentenced
to five years in the pe%nitentiary.
Henry {. Raymond, q highly respected citi-
zen of Sing Sing, N. Y, was arrested for big
amy. He was grantsd permission to 60 into
an adjoining room, where he fatally shot
himself.
Charles Dietrich, son Of Louis Dietrich, a
wealthy and prominent citizen of Milwaukee
county. blew off the top of his head with q
double. barreled shotgun. Temporary insan-
ity.
Charles V. Henckle, formerly Chicago man
ager Of the Globe Light and Heat company,
who has been wanted for some time on charges
of embezzling sevelal thousand dollars Of the
funds Of that company, has been arrested in
New York.
Moses Harmon, publisher of the Valley.
Falls (Kan.) Luciter, con victed in the dis
trict court for printing obscene matter in his
paper and sending it through the mails, has
been sentenced to five years in the p%enitenti-
AIRY
j. B. Quinby of Waverly, Iowa, took laud.
anum at Cedar Falls. Immediately alter
taking it he called the hotel clerk and a doc
tor was sent for, who came in time to savehfs
life. disappointment in love is supposed to be
the cause. =,
Greenleaf. the notorious Seminole outlaw
who has eluded all efforts to arrest him for
the past eighteen years, has been jailed ut
der pending against him, and has killed four
of his own tribe since.
Frederick Schmidt, of Menomonie, died of
injuries inflicted by two tramps who sstupon
him in his saloon and brutally beat and
kicked him. One of his legs was broken and
the bones terribly splintered. The assailants
are in jail. Schmidt owned the Menomonie
Opera Hous and was q leading citizen.
Evidence is a~ccumulating to sh ow that the
destruction of the farm house of B. M. Sem
pie, near Yankton, which resulted in the
death Of Alex Isley, vas the work of an in
cendiary, and that q mistake was made in
firing this house, it being the intention to
burn another place instead. Jealousy and
revenge ore assigned as the motives for the
crime.
John Montgomery and Henry Cosgrove
were arrested at Fort Dodge, Iowa, charged
with conspiracy to ruin the business Of q
horseman named o. r. Post by doping"
colts sired by his thoroughbred stallion. The
two men arrcated are horse doctors and also
a rival stallion. It is charged that they
are trying to increase their breeding business
by causing the death Of colts sired by, the
other horse.
The wsalthiest convict who ever wore
stripes at Joliet, ILL.,, was discharged from
the J Toilet prison and left at once for New York
to sail for switzerland. He carried q roll of
bills amounting to $1,000 after giving away
several hundred dollars to convict associates.
He has recently fallen heir to over half q
million dollars in Switzerland. The officials
admit that he was sent up from Rock Island
for one year for forgery, but there is mystery
surrounding his record.
John L. Morris, Of Fannin county, Texas,
while travelling in Greer county, killed his
two companions-W. E. Roberts and John
Mows-while all were in camp. The shots
were fred from q six-shooter, both parties
being shot through the head from behind as
they slept. Norris buried the bodies in q
sandbank and tried to make his escape uut
Of the county, but was arrested shortly after
he had concealed the bodies.
Michael II. Kitson, q retired railroad mar
Of Burlington. To-, put strychnins in the
sugar bowl ut the Barrett restaurant and
literally dosed his coffee with the sams. He
died. In the meantime what was left Of the
coffee was thrown out, and the dog licked II
up and expired. Then Ben Barrett, the pro-
prietor, rat down 10 supper, supplied his
coffee with the doct0red sugar, and has only
been saved from death by tho hard work OF
physicians. Kitson was led to self-destruc-
tion By despondsncy produced By drink.
Ksmmlsr, the man Who II condemned 70
die ~ electricity u Auburn, N. 4, shows no