The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-05-02
SINFUL STRINGS.

J William Niemer was killed in Cincinnati by
Joseph Smith, a laudryman, by blow ofthe
3atter's fist.
At Lima, Ohio, Willis Osman and Edward
Standish quarrelled over agirl. Osman stab
bed Standish eight times with knife and he
will probably die.
Henry W. King the OK perfect OF the Penn
sylvania institution for the blind at Phila.
delphia, who was convicted of crimes of q
grossly immoral nature, has been sentenced
to i've years in the penitsntiary.
J. B. Quinby Of Waverly Iowa, took laud-
anum at Cedar Falls. Immediately after
taking it he called the hotel clerk and q doc
tor was sent for who came in time to sayehis
life. disappointment in love is supposed to be
the cause.
Sim Garrett and Jerry Leel. who were in
Jail at St. Augustine, Tex, on a charge OF at.
tempting to poison Col. John Il. Brooks and
family, were taken from the jail and lynched.
Convenient hooks In front of butcher shop
were converted into IAN impromptu gallows.
Five sisters named Demovierof committed
suicide at Moscow, Russian. The cause ofthe
deed was their fear Of being arrested a. Mini
lists. short time before taking their lives
they burned all of their papers, presumably
with the object Of shielding others.
A New York female reporter who set out
to investigate the practices OF divorce detsc-
tives found that there 10 a class of women
who find regular employment in helping wives
to secure divorces. These women can be hir-
to entrap men into situations furnishing real
or apparent grounds for divorce.
John Montgomery and Henry Cosgrovs
were arrested at Fort Dodge, Iowa, charged
with conspiracy to ruin the business of q
horseman named o. r. Post by "doping''
colts sired by his thoroughbred stallion The
two men arrested are horse doctors and also
own q rival stallion. It il charged that they
are trying to increase their breeding business
BY causing the death Of colts sired by the
other horse.
Gen. Coon and a posse of ten constable
have been patrolin9 the southern frontier
Of California, watching gang of Cinnamon
who made several attem pts to cross. Coon
captured white man and q wagon, and
later caught another white man. Just before
daylight the Chinese made a rush for United
States soil. Several forded the Tia Juana
river, and Others rushed for the hills. The
officer captured six mongolians
Tho missing leg of the mutilated body of
Mrs. Mettiman, who was murdered q month
ago, was found in the river at Leavenworth
near the Planters hotel The police are still
hunting Tor Charles A. Benson, the supposed
murderer. The invbtigation OF his career
shows that he is "a exile from Germany,
whence he escaped to America several years
ago. He was charged with blowing up his
sisters house and killing two of her children
There was . serious riot among thecitizens
ofAeCormick, 8. c. A Mr.. Sturkey reported
Druggist Calhoun for selling whisky on Sun
day. Druggist Calhoun shot the officer who
was sent to arrest him. Other citizens then
took hand and . general fight ensued. in
which several persons are said to have been
shot. p. B. Calhoun 10 the only man known
to have been fatally shot Several arrests
have been mode.
John L. Morris, Of Fannin county. Texas.
while travelling In Greer county, killed his
two eompanions-W. E. Roberts and John
1ows-whils all wsrs In camp. The shets
were 6fed from . six-shootsr, both parties
being shot through the head from bsSind %
1hey slept. Morris burisd ~ boaiee in =