The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-06-06
SINFUL SIETINCS.

Exchange Broker Wolff of New York has
disappeared with $4,000 OF money which
about one hundred Hebrews had entrusted
passage to this country.
David Regain became involved in a quarrel
in q saloon in La Porte. Ind, with q young
countryman named William Byckle. The
latter struck Regain a powerful blow in the
face, which resulted in breaking his neck.
Enoch Link, a blacksmith, was shot and
killed by Frederick Sorter at Q~uindore. a
suburb of Kansas City. Two years ago Lin
shot Sorter's cow, and they have quarreled
frequently since.
Near Addison, Steuben county, N. Y,
Emmett Crane shot Mrs. Gale Perry, a mar
ried woman. the mother of four children, be-
cause she refused to accept his attentions as
a lover and to live with him.
At Ell Paso, Tex, Leon Barlow and NJ.
Goudine, two prominent young men, quarreleG
over the latter's attention to Barlow's 16-
year-old sister. Goudine shot and killed Bar
low. During the shooting three disinterested
persons were wounded.
Frank Kuhn, the wealthy real estate dealer
OF Chicago, who, with his family was mys-
teriously poisoned by arsenic, has since died.
This makes the second death as the result of
poison put into two pies by some unknown
person.
Benjamin Hawkins was hanged at Wash
lngton City, for the murder of his wife Cora,
on the night of March IA, 1889. They nae
separated, and she had gone to a social with
the man whom Hawkins believed to have
been the cause OF his dOmetic troubles. He
called her aside and stabbed her to death.
Theodore Weldenmuller, who has been
missing from Corpus Christi, Texas. wa the
victim of foul play. His murderers were
Jealous OF his popularity at a dance, and
took him six miles from his ranch, saturated
his clothes with coal oil, and then set fire to
him. The body when found presented q
,sickening aspect.
About forty telegraph operators in South
Dakota are to be indicted for swindling the
telegraph Company. Manager Blood was
discharged and lately indicted by the grand
jury in Brown county. His way of working
patches if the fellow at the other end of the
line would not check the next one sent pre-
paid.
A riot occurred at Bloomington, Mo-, be-
tween members OF the senior and junior class
IN the state university. Some fifteen or
twenty seniors had hired a wagon and BAND
and were driving about the city when at
tackled by the boys. A young man named
Hall was shot in the thigh. James Simpson
was struck on the head and is now in a criti.
cal condition. Twenty persons were more or
less injured by clubs and stones.
S. H. Shaw, proprietor of the wooden mills
at Fish Creek, in Canada, was arraigned be.
fore Supt. Nellie at the police barracks
charged with disturbing public worship in
the Church of England, Fish Creek, by smok.
ing his pipe. Shaw claimed he did not smoke
while service was going on, but wnen the
benediction was being pronounced. He was
sentenced to pay SO and costs or fourteen
days in jail. He took the latter.
The body of al acrobat named Murdoch.
who has been missing from Chicago, was
found floating in the river, dead. Five ugly
wounds on the head indicate murder. Muir.
~doch's watch and a large sum OF money. said
to have been in his possession, are missing.
The disappearance of Murdoch was very
promptly reported by his partner. West.
The latter lett the city, saying he was going
to Racine. The police nave t%elegraphed to
that city asking that West be arrested.
The dead body of John Flamm. a well.to
do German farmer living seven miles from
Ortonville, Mimi. was found in the Yellow
Banks river by his wife. Fiamm was last