The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-02-14
SINFUL SETTINGS.

At Nuncie Ind, Eli Ladd, q notorious COL
ored man threatened to kill u druggist but
was himself killed by posse, but not until
after he had injured two of them.
w. 2. Belden was probably fatally stabbed
BY his brother-in-law, J. H. Wing in Chicago.
The street was filled with people on their way
To the theater, and the bloody act they wit
messed caused several ladies to faint.
A brakeman on the Northern Central LETT a
switch open at Marsh's Run, near Harrisburg,
Pa, and a passenger train crashed into a
freight. Arthur Emerton OF Baltimore was
che only one killed.
Written charges have been filed, alleging
a1alfeasance III Office and wrongful CONVEX
sion OF public money aggregating $4,000,
against Mayor ohm A. Patterson ofCreston,
iowa.
The general store of Harding & Wolsey at
Vincent. Iowa, was entered by burglars and
several hundred dollars in silk goods and
groceries stolen. The village is sparseIy set
tied, and the thieves evidently carried of
their booty in large wagon.
Charles Miller, son of Il prominent farmer.
vas arrested for murder ut Lebanon, Ind.
The victim of the alleged murderer was Geo.
seNrdy, who was shot in October 1888.
<Rssrxy was killed for shouting for one of the
presidential candidates.
sEdrrund Noonan, late clerk of the city
- SQUIRT of Alton, ILL.,; Frederick valbracht, late
deputy sheriff, and J. B. Thornton, late dep
uty ssseTif and j. B. Thornton, late deputy
clerk of the same court, were arrested in Al
ton for illegally issuing naturalization pa.
: pers.
An intoxicated man entered the Methodist
thnY,iL mt Hudson Wis. during services, and
lpassiug up to the pulpit offered the pastor,
&eT- John Tressidder. a drink. The divine
took the bottle and filed it away for future
KeSercnce, while the intruder was run off to
the calaboose. The episode created quite a
sensation in the house of worship.
a burglar entered the house of Ransom
Floyd, q wealthy farmer aged seventy-three
years, near Westport.N. Y.,ond struck the old
man with n club, knocking him senseless and
mm1<aerngh his wife. The house was ransack ed,
but nothing was taken, as the burglar was
evidently frightened by his awful deed. There
were two certified checks amounting to 49,
275, and $275 in money left untouched in q
A,ureau drawer.
During services in Virginia country church
about thirty miles from Sparta. N. c., Rev.
Joseph NJ Stock said: There is man in
this congregation who is so mean and un-
Saith nj to his wife that it is wonder God
does not rain down fire and birthstone upon
his head and consume him." Thomas Cole
man resented the speech. when a riot ensued
s1G W0iCu SOlem0O ana deacon Jeremiah r er-
suson were killed and Deacons Edward
CAasen, Robert Edwards and John Peeby
were injured
The Cincinnati Cremation society has dis
charged its superintendent, Valentine, Hell
man. and he has been put under bond by q
magistrate to answer to the charge Of grand
Larceny. The articles stolen were coffns. Al
the ctematory the bodies are removed from
the casket. and it has been the uudcrst q ding
that the caskets were broken up and burned
IterpNtly it has been discovered that, instead
of turning them the thrifty superintendent
Et0e sold them, sometimes as low as 81 each
to thrifty village undertakers.
A man was found hanging to a tree in tn
goods about two miles rom the county lin
ia Sc Louis county, MINI. About all that oult
Ne learned the man was apparently abou
fogfy-fve years old, with big black heard
Tie upper part ct the ace had turned black
sGiving the idea that the body had been han.
.saaR some time From appearances it i
sfeiieved that tue man committed snicide
Nobody ia missing from Northern Pacif
.Juuction and NO further details con be secul
ed
Poetosice inspectors at Chicago have al
yrcsted b. g. Gallear. J. o. McFadden,
e. McFadden G. E. McFadden, Jr, and Ar
ME Burns. who are charged with carrying o
several schemes Tor deli auding innocent cour
try Ieopie. They have several names unde
,sk5ch they operated. They received a grea
deal Of mail. and have defrauded numbe
ofpeople. The postal authorities have re
4ee17ed more than one thousand complaint