The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-02-15
SINFUL STRINGS.

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was himself killed by a posse, but not until
after he had injured two of them.
W. p. Belden was probably fatally stabbed
by his brother-in-law, J. II. Wing, in Chicago.
The street was filled with people on their way
to tho theater, and the bloody oct they wit
messed caused several ladies to faint.
A brakeman on the Northern Central left a
switch open ut Marsh's Run, near Harrisburg,
Pa, and a passenger train crashed into a
freight. Arthur Emerton Of Baltimore was
the only one killed.
Written charges have been fled, alleging
malfeasance i'll Office and wrongful CONVEX
sion of public money a~ggregating 50, 1000,
against Mayor John 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 sparsely set
tied, and the thieves evidently carried of
their booty in a large wagon.
Charles Miller, son of a prominent farmer,
was arrested for murder ut Lebanon, Ind.
The victim of the alleged murderer wa Geo.
Purdy, who was shot in October, 1855.
Purdy was killed for shouting for one OF the
presidential candidates.
edmund Noonan, late clerk of the city
court of Alton, ILL.,; Frederick V%albracht, late
deputy sheriff, and J. B. Thornton, late dep
uty sheriff: 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
church at Hudson. Wis, during services, and
passing up to the pulpit offered the pastor,
Rev. John Tressidder, q drink. The divine
took the bottle and filed it away for future
reference, 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, a wealthy farmer aged seventy-three
years, near Westport,N. Y, land struck the old
man with n club, knocking him senseless and
numbering his wife. The was ransack ed,
but nothing was taken, as the burglar was
evidently frightened by his awful deed. There
were two certified checks, amounting to g.
275, and $275 in money left untouched in a
bureau drawer.
During services in q Virginia country church
about thirty miles from Sparta. N. c., Rev.
Joseph NJ. Stock said: There il a man in
this congregation who is SO mean and IN
faithful to his wife that it is a wonder God
does not ain down fire and birthstone pom
his head and consume him" Thomas Cole
man resented the speech. when a riot ensued
in which Coleman and Deacon jeremiah Fer
guson were killed and Deacons Edward
Clausen, Robert Edwards and John Peeby
/ were injured.
The Cincinnati Cremation society has dis
charged it's superintendent, Valentine Hell
man, and he has been put under bond by a
magistrate to answer to the charge of grand
larceny. The articles stolen were collins. At
the crematory the bodies are removed from
the casket, and it has been the understanding
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 a. low as 81 each,
to thrifty village un dertakers.
A man was found hanging to a tree in the
woods abo ut two miles from the county line
in st Louis county, MINI. About all that:.could
be learned the man was apparently about
~forty-fve years old, with a big black beard.
The upper part OF the face had turned black,
giving the idea that the body had been hang
ing some time. From appearances it is
believed that the man committed suicide.
Nobody ia missing from Northern Pacific
ed.
Postofice inspectors at Chicago have ar
rested D. O.. Gallear, j. O. McFadden, G..
E. McFadden, G. E. McFadden, Jr., and An
ME Burns, who are charged with carrying on
try people. They have several names under
which they operated. They received q great
| deal of mail. and have defrauded a number
of people. The postal authorities have re-
ceived more than one thousand complaints
from various parts of Iowa, Illinois, Wiscon.
sin and Indiana. .., ~..
Four bodies were found thirty miles south
east OF Purcell, Kansas, by two cowboys.
Near by was a movers wagon and harness.
the horses having been taken away. The
| corpses were those of o man apparently fifty
years old with four bullet holes; a woman
apparently about the same age with two
bullet holes; a young woman apparently
twenty years old shot through the head, and
q boy OF fifteen shot in the forehead. The
cowboys report that the killing probably
occurred ten days ago.