The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-03-28
SINFUL SETTINGS.

01S0O NSECaV hISkcys b uduubOWe young kIrl
at Leighton, Pa, was shot and instantly
killed by Webster Campbell, Campbell claims
it was accident.
Deputy Sheriff James of Morrillton, Ark,
was murdered by two unknown men who he
intended to arrest on suspicion Of being safe
crackers.
James s. Hyde, New York ticket specu-
lator. shot and fatally wounded another
ticket SPECTATOR named Stambull during a
quarrel. Hyde was arrested.
Cecil NJ. English, discharged street car
conductor, shot and killed James A. Etzger-
aid, q street car conductor, at st. Louis
Trouble over English's vile.
Special guards were issued for Birchall
confined in the Woodstock (Ont.) Jail on the
charge of murder. They will keep constant
watch over him.
Rev. D. W. Holmick. who killed Ed Palmer
at Nicola, Iowa, on the night ofAug Is, 1889,
has been acquitted. The defense vas justia-
able homicide.
In st. Mary's Catholic church. Porghkesp.
sic. N. T., in row over his right to occupy
a pew. George Hughes vas numerically
pounded.
There is an agitation among the students
Petrofskoie. near Moscow, similar to that in
connection with the St. Petersburg move
ment. In fight with gendarmes 200 of the
students were arrested.
VIM. Kemmler was officially notified by
Warden Durston of Aurora prison, of the de-
cision rendered in his case in Albany. KEN
mIer displayed no signs of unsasiness and
the only question he asked was when he would
be taken away to suffer death by electricity.
John Hancock, on trial for murder at
Provo, Utsh, in one of the old cases generally
called the ''church murderers," was found
guilty of murder in the second degree for the
killing, thirty years ago, Of Mrs. Jones and
her son.
The New York court Of appeals has affirmed
the judgement OF tho courts below in tho
Kemmler murder case. declaring the electrical
execution act constitutional, and holding
that no error was committed in tho trial OF
the sccueed. The court 10 unanimous. Only
one opinion u written.
Sam Lee, proprietor Of Dubuque, Iowa,
Chinese laundry, was shot by another China
man employed At the laundry named Frank
Fook. The latter claimed Lee owed him 500
for wages. and quarrel snsued. After the
shooting Frank Fook shot himself through
the abdomen. Both are fatally wounded.
Albert A. Fosdick, county surveyor, was
shot dead at Paw Paw, Mich, In the same
room Of the same house in Athena where his
brother was recently shot. The shooting ia
very mysterious and has produced the most
intense excitement Albert was arrested for
the assault on his br other, who has now re.
covered, but there vas no evidence az ainst
him.
Peter Dahl, who was found guilty of man.
slaughter in the circuit court at Wausau.
Wiz, March II, was sentenced to Is months
In states prison. September IL. 1888, Dahl
struck Ernest Feranthal in Q drunken row.
knocking him rom a wagon. The team ran
away, dragging Feranthal three. miles.
When found he WIS dead. August Febereel
was sentenced to serve two years in Wan.
pun for horse stealing.
A singularly atrocious murder was com.
mitted at Somerville, Tenn, the victim being
Mrs. Sailie Hobson, colored and the murder.
er her eleven-year-old boy Her husband
had been absent and returning q terrible
sight met his eyes. On one side OF the door
Jay the decapitated remains OF his wife, and
several feat away the head. stick of wood.
on which her neck had been placed when the
cutting was done. showed three distinct cuts
of an AK. The hoy was found playing with
with blood. He at first claimed that the blood
came from a chicken which he had killed, but
at the coroper's inquest admitted he. had
committed the crime. He said his mother
laid her head down on the block and told him
II he did not cut her head off she would kill
him. The boys story il not believed, and he
was placed in Jail pending further investiea-
ton.