The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-03-27
SINFUL STFTINGS.

Miss Gertie Hiskey handsome young girl
at Leighton, Pa. was shot and instantly
: killed by Webster Campbell Campbell claims
lit was accident.
Deputy Sheriff J James of Morrillton, Ark,
was murdered by two unknown men who he
intended to arrest on suspicion of being safe
{ J. ". " oouruff, a prominelpU .1siness man
of Buffalo, y. Y. has lett the city, it is said
with young lady typewriter. Woodruffleft
numerous unpaid debts.
James $. Hyde a New York ticket specu-
lator, shot and fatally wounded another
ticket spPcuIatOr named Stambull during a
quarrel Hyde was arrested.
Cecil N. English, a discharged street car
conductor shot and killed James A. Fitzger-
aid, a street car conductor, at st. Louis.
Trouble over Englishs wife.
Specin .,: issued for Birchall
confined - ,ue Woodstock (Ont.) jail on the
charge OF murder. They will keep constant
watch over him.
Rev. D. ". HeImick, who killed Ed Palmer
at Nicola, Iowa, on the night ofAug Is, 1889,
has been acquitted, The defense was justif-
able homicide.
In St. Mary's Catholic church, Poughkeop-
sic, n. Y, in n row over his right to occupy
a pew, George Hughes was unmercifuIly
pounded.
There is an agitation among the students
Petrofskoe, near Moscow similar to that in
connection with the st. Petersburg move
ment- In a fight with gendarmes 200 of the
students were arrested.
Edwin Cooper, ex-treasurer of the town of
Greenfield, Wis, pleaded guilty to murder in
the second degree and was sentenced to TWEEN
ty years in states prison. He killed his
brother Peter last November.
VIM. Kemmler was officially notified by
Warden Durston of Aurora prison, of the de-
Cision rendered in his case in Albany. KEN
mier displayed no signs of unsasness and
the only question he asked was when he would
be taken away to suffer death by electricity
John Hancock, on trial for murder at
Provo, Utah, in one of the old cases generally
called the 'church murderers," was found
guilty of murder in the second degree for the
killing, thirty years ago, of Mrs. Jones and
her son.
The New York court of appeals has affirmed
the judgement of the courts below in the
Kemmler murder case, declaring the electrical
execution act constitutional, and holding
that no error was committed IN the trial o
the accused The court is unanimous. Only
one opinion is written.
Sam Lee, proprietor of Dubuque. Iowa
- Chinese laundry, was shot by another China
man employed at the laundry named Frank
= Fook. The latter claimed Lee owed him $50
for wages, and a quarrel ensued. After tbs
shooting Frank Fook shot himself through
the abdomen. Both are fatally wounded.
Albert A. Fosdick county surveyor, was
shot dead at Paw Paw, Mich, in the same
room of the same house in Almena where his
brother was recently shot. The shooting il
I.l
intense excitement Albert was arrested fo1
the assault on his bro ther, who has now re
covered, but there was no evidence ag ainst
him.
Peter Dahl, who was found guilty of man
slaughter in the circuit court at Wausau
Wis., March II, was sentenced to Is month";
in stare's prison. September II, 1888, Dab
struck Ernest Feranthal in drunken row
knocking him from a wagon. Theteam raj
away, dragging, Feranthal threen miles
When found he was dead: August Feberge
was sentenced to serve two years in Wau
pun for horse stealing.
An elopement in high society has Just com
to light at Mason City, Iowa. In Septembe
last E. J. Stevenson of Aurora, ILL.,. came Il
that city and engaged in the merchantil
business. Mrs. Addie K. stoddard, also from
Aurora, with her husband, came about tn
same time, and the latter was employed b,
Stevenson. The charms o Mrs. Stoddar,
captured Stevenson, and the affair culminat
ed in their elopement. They first went t,
Peoria, then on to Aurora, and have nov
gone to Eastern Michigan. +
A singularly atrocious murder was com
Uitted at somerville, Tenn, the victim beini
Mrs Sallie Hobson, coIored and the murder
er her eleyen-yaar-old boy Her husban,
had been absent and returning terribl
sight met his eyes On one side of the doc
Jay the decapitated remains of his wife, an
several feet away the head. a stick of wood
on which her neck had been placed when th
cutting was done. showed three distinct cut
of an ax. The boy was found playing wit
the other children, his clothing saturated
with blood. He at first claimed that the bloo'
came from chicken which he had killed, bu
ut the eoroDer's inquest admitted he ha
committed the crime. He said his mothe