The Wahpeton times., 1890-07-24
SINS AND SINNERS.

JoHa ctuuSDury was nanS6Q lC FOfC smell.
ing, Ark. for killing his wife Inst August,
near Eaufula, Creek Nation.
In Fayette county, Ca, riot occurred
nj u fish pond between whites and blacks, in
which four negroes were killed. The rioters
are still under arms
Gov. Hill has commuted the death sentence
OF Joseph Chapleue to one of life imprison-
ment thus leaving Kemmler to be the first
person to be electrocuted
r. Il. Stafford and his brother, bankers
and cattle owners OF Columbus, Tex, have
been murdered, presumably by cowboys dur
ing quarrel.
Martin Houk of Baltimore shot his yonng
vile three times, and she cannot recover
The couple have been married but five weeks.
The cause was jeaio usy Martin has es.
capped
Clarence McKlcroy, waiter at one of the
hotels at Columbus, Ca, in fit of jealousy,
cut the throat OF Annie Read while they wer e
walking along the street. She will die Nc
kleroy escaped
DIR. w. Mitchell, pa ,tor of the Broadw v
Presbyterian church at Fort Worth, Tex,
has been arrested for forgeries amounting to
So, He was placed in Jail, being unabl Q
to give a $4,000 bond
Perry Montgomery and his wife, (colored),
were found dead in bed at Omaha, both be-
ing shot through the head. 1t is believed O
be case of wife murder and suicide caused
by jealousy OF the husband
The body of Mrs. George T. Dorler wa
found in the Beavers Kill creek at Monte el-
10, N. u, she having evidently committed
suitide. A few moments after the dis covery
OF the body her husband shot himself dead.
Two boys, names unknown, poured coal
oil over a six-year-old girl in the street at
Toronto, Ont, and set her clothing on fire.
man came toher rescue before she was fa-
tally burned. The boys escaped.
While James O'Rourke was sitting on the
steps of his boarding house in Chicago, he
was approached by James Whalen, who
drew revolver and deliberately shot
O'Rourke in the abdomen. Whalen escaped
No cause is known.
F. H. Millington, his wife and eighteen
year-old sister, Miss Dollie MilIington, were
arrested at Denver, charged with the murder
OF VII. Avery of Fort Collins, the former hus.
band of Mrs. MiNington. The prisoners
protest their innocence.
A most daring jewelry robbery took place
ut Danhury, Conn. Two men entered Larnes
jewelry store, gagged the clerk and bound
his limbs with ropes. They then secured
jewclry and diamonds to the value OF 50, 900
and 500 in cash and made their escape.
Frank Villerman, secretary of the Denver
German and Centennial Building and Loan
association, is short in his accounts abont
$50 900, He has turned over to the aasoci.
alton about $40, 900 worth of property and
resigned.
John A. Steele, Jr., Mayor Tom Steele,
John Goodwin and W. P. Chullcn engaged in
a shooting afTray at Tuscumbia. Ala, The
former was killed, John Goodwin was serious
ly injured and a by ISLANDER Tracy bernathy,
had his arm broken by stray bullet. Shot
guns and pistols were used.
Warden Williams. OF the North Dakota
penitentiarJ, has offered 800 each for the
capture of two convicts who escaped from
his boarding houee recently. One was
life prisoner named Wolf, from Kidder
county, and the other was IN from Mandan
burglary.
The reports Of renewed and increased dis
order at Erzeroum are increased The threat
quarters has alarmed the residents of that
district. and they are moving out with all
possible haste. The increased garrison has
had very little effect in suppressing acts of
violence, and the inference is that the SOL
diers are in sympathy with the mob. Men
and women have been murdered without
provocati0n. and number of women have
been carried o6.