The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-07-05

0 l.. A. MibuTn, a Denver business man,
3 was recently shot and mortally wounded
a by George Mccartney, his partner. Bust
\ ness troubles.
# At Lawrence, Mass, few days ago,
Mrs. Kate Dorsey, wife OF John Dorsey,
vac brutally kicked TO death by William
Haightley. alias William Hovey, her neph-
ew. The nephew WAS arrested.
News has been received at Birmingham,
: Ala, Of q duel which took place near VII
Iage Springs on the Goth nit. between two
Farmers named POsey and Simmons. The
eapons usd were batchets. Simmons WAS
a horribly cut and fell mOrtaly wounded.
Posey escaped.
|& T.. d. Smith, OF Quincy, H., district agent
for the Star Union Line, was shot by u
Burglar at his home ia that city at o clock
on the morning Of the 2Sth ult. Smith at
M,empted TO capture the thiei, when he was
shot in the mouth, the bali lodging in his
neck. TIE wound is not necessarily a Ia
4 tai injury.
Daniel j. Mullen, 45 years old, died at
Chicago on the Both ult. from the effects
Of a beating he received in Lake Front
park from a crowd Of toughs, who, after
assaulting Rih, robbed him oi q gold
watch and $25 in money. The descrip-
tion oi Muilen's assailants could not be
obtained, but the police are OF the belief
that he assault was committed by some
OF the attaches OF Barnum's circus.
As The result OF an old ieud, A. f. Coe. a
farmer aged 55, living thirteen miles south
west OF Yates Center, Kan, recently went
TO the farm where his brother in. law
Nathaniel Auglin, was working, and shot
him dead. Coe turned to where Audrin
Auglin, another brother in law. NPs plow-
ing, and shot him through the shoulder in
fiictiDg mortal wound. The murderer
then went to his house and shot Mrs. Coe
through the neck, killing her. To wind it
: ell up he went To his room, lay on lounge
and shot himself in the forehead, dying in
stantly.
A special telegram from Jacksonville,
Fla, dated the 2Sth ult., says that Post
master Morrison, OF White Springs, Ham.
ilton county, has been arrested and Is
threatened with lynehiug. His wife has
written friends in Jacksonville imploring
assistance. Morrison had just returned
" from n visit to Washington on matters
pertaining to his arrest several weeks ago
III y pretended detectives whom he Rubse.
~ JuentIy prose cuted in the United States
court. This affair created a spirit OF ha
"A tired and revenge toward Morrison, and
y his life has been frequently threatened.
Charles Decker died at Morris, Ill.,, on
\ the both ult., without regaining conscious.
ness sufficiently to give any account OF the
attack upon him and his mother the day
before. At one time there was q lucid In.
terval in which he was asked il he could
identify the murdsrers, and be answered
2yes, but Immediately passsd into al un.
eouscioui condition. The mi0sing box
bas been found near the railroad track, IL
havipg been taken with papers from the
he use. The mother is still in q critical
u condition. The object OF the murder re-
mains as much n mystery as ever.
l2 News reached San Antonio, Texas, or
che 3Oth ult. OF bloody battle on the
Mexican side Of the Rio Grande on the
q 26th ult. Col. Ncano Valdez starteiiIo ON
>nis headquarters at San Juan Sabinas
with two troops Of cavalry to Intercept q
band Of filibusters who were making tol
the interior OF Mexico from the Rio Grande
He came upon the bandits in ambush q
Jew miles west o! Polaiox. In the fight
(which ensued Col. Valdez troops were put
to'rout after losing seven men killed and
number wounded. The iilibusters o.
fRped to the other eide OF the river with
no loss.