The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-01-04
SINFUL STRINGS.

East New York between Joe Murphy OIL
Gravesend and Dick Carroll of New York,
Carroll had hisjaw broken in the third round
J. w. Mitchell of Missouri City. Mo-, was
found in an unconscious condition in Kansas
City. He remained conscious long enough
to tell that he had been sanbagged and
robbed.
William Chatterton, a member of a travel
ing dramatic company, while acting as a
peacemaker at Rock Island, ILL.,, was stabbed
and mortally wounded by Clarence Mart, q
painter.
In a fight will negroes near T%exarkana,
Ark, John Henry was instantly killed and
his brother Frank dangerously injured.
Three of the negroes were badly cut, two
rrobably fatally.
Michael Boland, the husband of a st. Louis
wife and the father of twelve st. Louis chill.
drcn, has been located at Bright Star, Ark,
spending a second" honeymoon with a sixteen
year-old bride.
In Franklin, KY, William White took a
dull knife and cut Andy Parker's ear off.
He was arrested and put in Jail. He had
Andy's ear in his pocket when arrested
Roth parties ore colored.
Fred Williams, a powerful bully. amused
himself at ASHORE, Ind, by repeatedly
striking Robert Thresher, his brother-in-Iaw
After warning him to desist, Thresher shot
Williams dead.
MAJ. E. A. Burke, ex-treasurer ofLouisiana,
under Tor the recent bond swindles,
has arrived at Tegucigalpa, Honduras, from
London. he 10 said to have 100000 in
cash with him.
Leo Corners, aged twenty, belonging to
one OF the wealthiest families in Paris Tex,
was shot and killed by Chris Holt, the weapon
used being a Winchester rife. Connors, who
was drinking freely, was the aggressor.
w. L. Cooley, the absconding cashier of
the Omaha road at Sioux Falls, s d., is still
missing. His accounts are $500 short. Wine
and women are said to nave caused his down.
fall.
A package containg upward of $50, 900 in
notes. checks and other securities, represent
ing the money left by the absconding cashier,
Silcott, was turned over to the United States
treasurer pursuant to q resolution of the
house.
William Eubanks, q widower living Mt Los
Gatos, CAL, becoming incensed at his sixteen
y~ear-old daughters refusal to hand him her
wages, shot and killed her. He then cut his
throat with q razor, inficting a serious but
not fatal wound.
News reached Pierre S. D., by private
parties from Fort Sully that there is trouble
with the Indians at that place. The parties
say that the Indians are dissatisfied with the
treaty opening the reservation, and claim
that they are not promised sn ficient remun.
Grafton for their ponies; also that they have
killed several settlers near the fort.
Johanna st. Clair was fatally stabbed
by her husband, Christopher St. Clair in
New York, and died at a hospital soon Of
forward. Immediately after the stabbihg
the husband gave himself up to the police.
He is said to have been jealous of his wife,
who, however, bore an excellent reputation
among her neighbors.
J oseph Dormer, a young man of Fairchild
Wis, went driving Christmas day with his
betrothed. He had surreptitiously taken
from his uncle's house before starting boiled
shirt and $40 to hire a team. The uncle,
who does not like the match, sent q sheriff
otter the couple, who were overtaken near
Durand and taken back to Fairchild. Dor
mer was convicted of larceny IN his uncle's
evidence, and was jailed to serve q sixty-day
sentence.
Three masked men visited the house OF
A.. Jones, q prominent business man of Ra'
cine, Wis, and with O loud rap brought Mr..
Jones to the door, where he was covered with
q revolver by one OF the men and the Others
searched his pockets and secured q small sum
of money, The robbers then went inside the
house and got a valuable senlskin cloak, but
missed Mr.. Jones coat, which contained
$500. The men camd out, babe Mr.. Jones
good night and escaped in the darkness
The police were Immediately notified, but
have no clue to the robbers.
Otto Leuth, seventeen years old, was con
victed at Cleveland, O., of murder in the first
degree, the jury having been out four hours.
The trial occupied four weeks. Last May
Maggie Thompson, seven years old, dlsap'
peared while on her way home from school.
A month later her body was found under the
house Of Otto Leuth's father, six or eight
doors from the home of the Thompson lam
lily. Young Leuth was arrested and he con
fessed that he had enticed the child into an
upper room of his home when his parents
were away. He assaulted and then killed her
with a hammer. A great effort was made by
his attorney to prove him insane.
A free fight took place at q Christmas tree
celebration in Eagle Creek near Shauneetown
ILL.,, at which chairs, clubs, knives and pis'
tolls were used. Thomas Burroughs, the
church doorkeeper and one of the most re-
spectacle farmers in the county, was dan
~gerously stabbed in two places; Stout Col
Inns WINS hit in the chin with a bullet, and
several other persons received minor injuries.
The fight arose from a mistaken distributing
the presents. As ia usual at such entertain.
ments, parents in the neighborhood had tax.
en- their gifts to the church, where they were
properly labeled and hung up on the tree.
When about O dozen OF the presents had
been handed to the children, O farmer named
johnson grabbed q sled from q child's hauds
and declared it was one he had Brought
there for his little boy. The sexton tried t Q
explain his mistake, but Johnson pushed him
rudely aside and started for the door, car
rying the sled in his hands. Some young
men who had been drinking tried to snatch
the sled from johnson, and he struck one OF
them and was himself hit with q chair and
felled to the floor.
A peculiarly horrible death has occurred
at Kokomo, Ind, which created q great sen.
sation. George Tykle, an eccentric charac'
ter, has. been running o bath house claiming
a wonderful sfic acy in his paths in the cure
Of all kinds of maladies. Among his patrons
was John Clark, an old well-to-do farmer liy
ing pear town, who was afflicted with paraly.
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