The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-02-20
SINFUL SIFTINGS.

1t is rumored that the agent of well
known Liverpool lumber firm at Quebec is
short in his accounts between 100000 and
100000 He has disappeared.
Suits have been entered in Chicago by the
county Of Cook against all the "boodlers'
returned, escaped or compromised, for $780,
600, in tresp0ss.
Harry Lebos dissoIute character ofRead-
ing, Pa. shot and fatally woundpd his wife.
Daniel Fisher, Mrs. Lehos' father, died of
heart disease immediately after the shoot
ing. LebOs escaped.
During a recess in the trial of William
Mayne, on the trial of assault to murder
Bertha Johnson, at San Diego, CAL, the pro-
scouting witness shot Mavne three times,
taking effect in the head, neck and shoulder,
iuticting probably fatal wounds Mayne
was sitting in a chair in tine court room when
the woman passed back of him, turned quick
iv; iEeW,a revolver from under her handker-
cnieS ana &rod She WIS arrested
Dr. Marvin Fosdick was sitting by table
at his home in Pawpaw, when some unknown
person fred both barrels of a double barreled
shotgun through the window, the charge
entering Fosdick's head, neck and shoulders.
He still lives and may recover. The affair
is surrounded in mysteries and no clue has
yet been disc 'ered to the perpetratOr of the
outrage.
Philip Brammer, weak-minded and inof-
fensive farmer at Bloomington, Ind, was
seized, while on his way home, by masked
men. They took him to an orchard tied him
to a tree and whipped him almost TO insensi-
bility. Brammer was left. covered with blood,
lying on the ground and was nearly frozen
before he recovered sufficiently to go home,
where he arrived about daylight.
At New York some unknown person threw
irfn oil hafb
street. The missile exploded blowing down a
brick WALL and part of wooden fence, and
shattering a window in the rear house. No
person was found in the place and nobody
was injured. The police are investigating the
matter.
Thomas Kane was hanged in the jail-yard
at Toronto, Can, fOr the murder Of his wife
in November last. He met his fate resolute-
ly. The murder for which Kane suffered the
death penalty was of the most atrocious
character. He and his wife had been drinking
and quarreled. He attacked her, and, after
pummeling her body in a shocking manner,
knocked her brains out with q fat iron.
The murderer was Il plasterer
The Cincinnati Cremation society has dis
charged it's superintendent, Valentine Hei
man, and he has been put under bond by a
magistrate to answer to the charge of grand
larceny. The articles stolen were COftins. At
the crematory the bodies are removed from
the casket, and it has been the uudcrstandin
that the caskets were broken up and burned.
Recently it has been discovered that, instead
of burning them the thrifty superintendent
has sold them, sometimes as low as 81 each,
to thrifty village undertakers.
Bert Stoner, the settling clerk of Chicago
said to have cheated his employer supposed
to be the board of trade operators, B. P
Hutchinson out Of some thousands of dol
N
Office The report was that some weeks age
after biIking cold Hutch" by ridiculousIy
simple expedient young Stoner suddenly
took journey to Canada. Upon what bas
is the clerk and the operator now resume
their old relations could not be readily ascer
tanned. Both of them fatty declined to talk
] Miss Mary Dietzen was shot at Hastings
Mimi, by Louis Sommers, Both parties er
respectable young people and aged eighteel
and twenty-one years respectively. The caus
assigned is jealousy, the young lady refusing
to marry Sommers. Miss Dietzen was walk
ing up the street with young lady named
Miss Emma Link, when they met Sommers
who, without saying a word, shot at he
three times with effect, the bullets passlnt
through her back and in the region of tn
heart. She expired almost instantly, aftG
exclaimirig "Oh, Lou" At last accounts tn
officers were in hunt of Sommers.
The body of Hiram Sawtelle was found il
the woods near Lebanon Maine. Ithad keel
decapitated and the head has not yet bee
discovered When found the body was pro
iecting from poorly made grave and lad
bullet in the heart. 1t was not three yard
from where Officer Shields found the pape
that was wrapped around the axe. The bod
was entirely naked with the exception OF tn
feet which had on q pair of socks. Besides
was lot of clotted blood, wbere the arm
and head had been cut off. The brother c
the deceased, Isaac Sawtelle, rs charged wit
the murder, and is in jail lie was visited b
VIM. r. Gale. the well-knoTn criminal lawye
eof Boston, who will defead him. By his il
sstruction the prisone' bhs thus far absolute
9yrefused to say anything regarding the Grim
Regarding his confederates there has bee
nofhing ,aseertained: At least nothing he
been made public. There is great excitemPr
over the findiag of the body, and search fc
the missing portions will be vigorously pro
ecuted.