The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-04-25
polNos OF THE WICKED.


l1krried men of Springfield, KY, and lifelong
friends, quarreled after bantering each other
about their wives. Kelly secured shot gun
and killed Logan instantly.
Fire broke out in the apartments of Sam
uel Schwartz, who lived on the second floor
Of fve.story New York tenement house.
The whole place was saturated with kerosene.
Schwartz and his wife were arrested.
John L. Sherman. Of Kansas City has been
arrested on the charge of numbering his
partner, W. c. Wrightman, real estate
broker, who mysteriousy disappeared some
time ago No proof has ever been discover.
Cd that Wrightman is dead.
Ayoung and beautiful girl has been arrest
ed at st. Petersburg for an attempt to bribe
o general statf to obtain copy of the new
mobilization scheme. The parents also have
been arrested. They are charged with being
agents Of q foreign power.
The general term handed down an opinion
in the case Of Dilworth Choate, the reporter
now in Ludlow street jail in New York under.
going sentence for contempt of court, in
entering and concealing himself in the jury
room where the Flack jurors were delibernt-
Ing. The opinion dismsses the writ of GER
tioran applied by the Choate's counsel.
Paul Bergrentundt. rancher ofOkanogon
county, WASH, murdered his neighbor
James 8. Willamette. and then carried the
bleeding body Of his victim to Mrs. William
mette and flung it at her feet Tie men were
alone when the murder was com mitted, and
the cause of the crime is not known. Dcr-
grentundt was captured and placed in Jail.
Two revolver shots were fired into the resi-
dence of Rev. ]. ". southwell, pastor of the
West Side Methodist church at Sioux
City, Iowa, nfter the family lad retir.
Cd to bed. Mr.. Southwcll has been ac-
tive in prosecuting saloonkcepers and is a
leader in the law and order league, which ia
the same organization with which DR.. Had
dock was connected at the time of his mur.
der by the liquor men.
The boldest robbery ever perpetrated in
iowa has just been discovered in the little
town Of Aurelia. Twenty head of cattle were
taken from the herds of two farmers named
Rutherford and Green in the middle of tho
night. The cattle were openly driven across
the country seventy miles to Onawn, where
they were sold to a cattle butcher and shipped
to Chicago. The buyer is unable to identify
the men and tho thieves will probably escape.
8 Vernon l.. Everett, q student at the Chicn-
et Medical college, and the son of DR.. ]. I
Everett Of Grinnell, Iowa, left his home ON
the evening of April 3. saying lie was going
to sec q sick man on Halstead street and has
never returned or been seen since by any one
who knew linn. The tough" character OF
halstead street at night has aroused the
fears Of his friends that the summons was q
decoy, and that he was waylaid murdered
and robbed on his way to or from the sick
Le tiers have been received from Rev. Ed
ward Mason. pastor of the Progressive
Brsthern church at Miamisburg Ohio, con.
fessing that he is forger, und that he is on
his way to Wales to claim an inheritance or
failing in that to kill himself. He leaves
wife in destnitute.. conditio, he having
forged notes and borrowed money from a
number ofbanks. The amount isnot known,
and it is q mystery what was done with the
proceeds. Rev. Mason had high standing
in religious circles, and is an author of some
sspute.
Edward Murphy was fatally shot by Pierce
Crocksr ar Elliston, n wood camp forty
miles west of Helena, Mont. At the break
fast table Murphy said some insulting re-
mark to waiter girl and Crockcr after
wards reprimanded him, whereupon the
two men came to blows In the afternoon
they met again. Murphy. having been warn
struck Crocker q blow in the face. and the
latter pulled a 44.caliber pistol and fired
shot, which lodged in Murphy's breast. He
died within an hour. Crocker gave himself
up.
Ben Elsey (colored) was hanged in the jail
yard at Birmingham, Ala, for the murder OF
J. W. Meadows. arailroad conductor, in Jan
uary, 1859. In addition to this crime he
murdered and robbed an old farmer and his
wife in Douglas county, Ca. about FIVE yenrs
ago shot a policeman in Atlanta, and in De-
csmber, 1858 robbed and murdered IN Ital.
ian peddler near Birmingham. Elsey and
four companions found Meadows drunk on
the street late one night, and carried him in.
to the woods two miles from Birmingham.
There they robbed him of everything he had
and, after dividing the plumber, crushed lis
head to q pulp with heavy stones.
Detective j. c. Burke of San Francisco has
arrived in Eldora, Iowa with Charles Marx
and James Rice, who he has just arrested in
visalia CAL. charged with the murder OF Hen.
~ Johns, the millionaire land king and stock
farmer, who was found murdered in 1855. 1t
will be remembered that, while returning
homo through the woods ut midnight on
May II, 1885, Johns was waylaid and shot
down within forty rods Of his own home.
Detectives have since that time worked on the
case. Both prisoners ore very well know wn in
this county. although what evidence has
has been found against them hos not as yet
besn made public. There is considerable in.
tsrest and the feeling expressed and the bold
exploits and deeds Of the Rainsbargers will
b. revived and exposed.
Albert Ziner, q bachelor of Richardton be-
came enamored of his brothers wife, but his
passion was not reciprocated by Mrs. Ziner.
ILL t.
that she refused to meet with or talk to him
unless in the presence Of others. This turned
Albsrt's love to hate and he sought to he
avenged BY traducing the woman. Albert
went to the house OF his brother and deliber-
atsly insulted Mrs. liner. He refused to
leave the house and repeated his insulting
rsmarks. This brought the head Of the
houss to his senses. He attempted to eject
BE bsothsr froD the house, . general scufilo