The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-01-18
polNoS OF THE WICKED.

W.. H. Bidgood, Fredericken's clerk in Chi
cago, was released on bail. He will be used
as q witness.
Mrs. c. J. Lobin, once a leading belle in st.
Louis society. was murdered in Denver, pre-
sumably by her husband. She had been
married twice; both times unfortunately.
The two women alleged to be Mrs. John
and Kate Bender, who are now confined in
the Labette county (Kan. Jail awaiting trial
for the murder Of DR.. York, will be liberated
in q few days.
Two bars of silver bullion worth 81, 400
were stolen from q truck in New York Dec.
20 by three ex-convicts, who, thinking it'll n,
sold it for $14. The men were caught with
$500 of the metal.
Martin and Michael Joyce, the alleged
dynamlters, were arrested on their arrival at
Queenstown from New York for having in
their possession a revolver and a quantity
of cartridges.
A colored mar charged with burglary was
taken from a deputy sheriff near Robbins, s.
c., while on the way to Jail. and was tied to
q tree by the road side when he was shot,.
The shooting was done by masked men.
Fred O'Connor and Mrs. Colin Campbell,
the principals in the notorious elopement
from Ottawa. Ont, were arraigned in Law
renee, Mass, on the charge of adultery and
we're committed in default of $500.
The defalcation in the Havana treasury
Office amounts to about $500, 900, instead
of $3.50, 900, as at farst reported d. A num-
Der Of prominent officials are implicated in
the affair.
At Parkersburg. W. Va, l.. G. Earle, q
prominent citizen, was killed by his brother
and q neighbor. Earle was O raving maniac
and the two men in trying to bind him so as
to prevent selfdestruction, killed him in the
tussle.
Wesley Elkins, the twelve-year-old boy
who brutally murdered his parents near
Edgewood, Clayton county Iowa, last Aug
ust, blended guilty in the district court, and
was sentenced to imprisonment for life at
hard labor.
Alice Jackman OF st. Louis, the fourteen.
year-old heiress, who figured in two sensa-
tional abduction cases and who claimed to
have been abducted by three men, has con-
fessed that her story was untrue n made
out Of whole cloth.
Six farmers of more or less prominence were
arrested at lola for the murder. in August,
1883, of Columbus Carter, The prisoners
were members of q band of regulators known
AZ the "Land Leaguers." Columbus Carter
was arrested for O brutal crime, but was ac-
Quilted of the charge. Upon his release from
the custody Of the officers Of the law he was
met on his way home by the land leaguers,
who shot him to death. The six farmers ar
rested are charged with being implicated III
the crime. -. .'' ~
Two farmers west OF Sioux F alls, 8. D., re-
Gently received letters OF the regulation
green goods" variety. The farmers confer
red together and started for market with
cattle which brought them 1900 They
then went to New York and invested the full
amount in the queer" the goods to be
shipped to them. Soon after arrival at
home they received anotics from the express
Office. When the package wa opened it Was
found to contain salt. suggestion that the
purchasers nesded that ma terial.
81. McCrosssr, better known to the sport
ing fraternity a. ssBig Mac" was shot and
killed BY Harry Baer, one of the proprietors
Of q gambling house in Spokane Falls. Basr
vas in the act Of ejecting 9 man from his
house for stealing chips, when he was assault
ca BY aBig Mac" After bearing up under
the assault a. long a. possible, Baer drew .
ssyolvsf and shot his assAiIsnt. The latter