The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-08-15
WAYS OF THE WICKED.

Tile postofiice at Newport, H. L., has been
robbed of 81 ,OOD worth of stamps.
Frank H. Collier, the eccentric Chicago
lawyer. was fined 81 and costs for assn ult-
ing William Johnson, The telephone agent
at the Plankerton house, Milwaukee,
The grand jury at Arkansas City, Ark,
has returned indictments against twenty.
four men who cut levce during the recent
floods. causing great damage to property.
Ed Cnrrol, Ed Mccarthy, Tom Higgins
and d. Z. Gold, all bad characters, were ar
rested for the attempt to rob the Santa Fe
:. train.
Mrs. Harriet Phelps of Three Rivers, Mich,
gas been arrested on the charge Of putting
olson in the medicine for her husband who
sslowly dying of consumption.
At Joliet, ILL.,. Herbert Wyman stole upbe.
hind George krouse and plunged knife
through him, killing Krouse instantly Wy.
man supposed the man was Joseph Docken-
dorf with whom Wym had had trouble.
William W. Chandler. the ex-manager of
the Erie Transfer company, New York. who
was arrested charged with the cmbezzlcment
o. about $40, ,OOOost company funds, has
been held in $4,000 bonds for trial
riot is in progress at Alkawo, Sado ISL
and, caused by the high price OF rice.
Troops are unable to prevent the destruc-
tion Of residences and property OF rice mer.
chants.
lie Granda Scllu.Ford. n lumber contractor
for firm in Pennsylvania, has been arrest.
ed at his home in Etica " y, churged with
embpzzlng $4,000 given him to pay EN-.
ployes.
Henry Brown. the New York real estate
broker charged with the larceny of SEQ. 900
worth OF bonds from Col. W. H. Taylor of
Chicago, has been acquitted, it being shown
that the affair was q business transaction.
Charles IL. Tongue, foreman OF large
manutnctory in Philadelphia, and his wife
we're Instantly killed Ivy train while taking
stroll on the tracks at Magnolia, y. j., u
pleasure resort.
Thomas McAvirey has been arrested in
New York Tor robbing the iewelry store of
A. D. Norton ut Cloversville, y. u, on the
night of April II. He and his pals. VIII o
have not yet been captured secured abou
100000 worth of jewery.
The two men who robbed several passen
gers en- the Elkhorn train the other night
at Arabia, Neb., have been captured They
seem to be new men Mt tile work, but they
had evidently started out to make train
robbing their business.
George Baxter. one ofthe ttaches Of Ir win
Bros, circus, was sluslled fearfully with u ra.
zor at Syracusa.N. Y.,by jean DE Talio con.
tortionist known as 1.-The Human Anacon.
da." Baxter made an insulting proposition
to De Talio's vie. His injuries are very Sc.
rious.
At New Milford, Conn, Andrew Borjesen
nearly decapituted Emma Anderson, u do
mestic, with u razor, and when arrested
tried to commit suicide. Borjescn paid the
girls passage from Sweden, with the inten.
ton OF marrying her, but she discarded him
because he drank.
Jennie Smith, young woman formerly Of
Winnipeg. took a heavy dose of laudanum.
and will probably die. She had been living
at Grand Forks and came to Winnipeg to
interview young man who had formerly
paid her considerable attention. She quar-
relied with him and afterward took the
poison.