The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-04-24
SINFUL SIFTiNGS.

d2SSoPh nS2 S2Isn en-, Re reporter & =, on the @ New
hy iuhajing chl0rofOrm. He has been mar
tyr to rheumatism.
John X. Owens, cashier and bookkeoper FOR
the wholesale hardware firm of Gibbs & Co,
san Francisco. has disappeared, and it is
stated there has been found a sh"~+91N -" h'S
accOnDtS of @1N coo =. q.
L. Godkin, the managing editor of the
New York Evening Post, has been arrested
0n q warrant charging him with criminal
libpI on the complaint Of Peter Mitchell, a
lawyer. Godkin was released on bail.
Albert L. Leopold Buonapart, claiming to
be a descendent Of the great Corsican and
haiing from Philadelphia, witho ut provoca-
tion shot policeman at Montreal and was
arrested. The police man will recover.
c. c. Smith is reported to be 81, 800 short
in his accounts as treasurer in the town of
Lyndon, Wis. Smith wDs reelected at the
late spring election, and the shortage was
made public when he was unable to secure
new bOndsmen.
Capt. John Richardson and his wife were
murdered at their residence eight miles from
MadisonYl!e Texas. Robbery is believed to
have been the motive. The supposition is
that they were murdered by strangers who
had accepted their hospitality for the night.
Harriet Williams, q colored woman living
hear AshevilleN. c.. was found upon the floor
OF her house unconscious with ten horrible
wounds npOn her person. She died in about
two hours afterward. Robbery is supposed
to be the murderer's object
Dispatches rom Agent Upshur at Tongue
river, Mont, reports the Northern Cheyenne
Indians as congregating and threatening life
and property in that vicinity. Troops, he
telegraphs, are needed quick. The dispatches
were forwarded to the war department.
with a request to forward troops at once.
Near Jackson Miss, the stable of Jerry
Bass. colored, was set on fire by unknown
parties and when Bass and his son Charles
came out to distinguish the flames. they were
fired on in tho darkness The boy was killed
and Bass badly wounded. Their dwelling
house was then burned.
The wife OF Andrew Schuster, a farmer
living ten miles northwest OF Mitchell, S. D.,
was 70 und dead in Firesteel creek She is
supposed to have sucided by drowning al
though known dome site trouble and the fact
that Schuster's wife was missing eight days
before he notified the neighhors naturally
pTOVOkes suspicion.
Susie Philips, daughter of Rev. Austin
Philips of Rockwell City, Iowa. eloped with
Harry Tucker her fathers hired man, and
the couple were married in Fort Dodge.
Tucker had not money enough to pay the
justice WHO married them and the two dollar
fee was reduced tn 81 so, every cent the bride
groom possessed. The elopers are now
staying with friends, hoping that the stern
parents will reient and send them money
enough to get home.
Thomas Kerins, an ex-councilman and q
saloonkeeper, of Brazil, Ind. has been arrest
ed charged with embezzlement. He was Sec
Tetary, treasurer and president of lodge OF
Catholic Knights of America. Considerable
fees were paid to Kerins, who failed to
forward them to the grand lodge. The lodge
forfeited it's charter some time ago, q fact
Kerins kept to himself, though he continued
to receipt for funds. The embezzlement will
deprive property holders of several thousand
dollars. In default oi bail Kerins was jailed.
Two of gang OF four masked KukIux who
visited the residence of an old man named
Holland at Doniphan, Mo-, for the purpose
OF whipping him, were killed by Holland's q
fourteen-y yearold son. Ed Gillian, Jr, one
of those killed was the son OF prominent
and we'll to-do farmer. The other, Alex Gate.
wood bore an unenviable reputation. They
knocked the old mau down and were kicking
him, when the boy opened fire on them with
double-barrelled sh otgun. killing Gillian.
GateWood attempted to shoot the boy, but
his gun missed fire, ana the lad em ptied
the coDtents of his second barrel into Gate
woods breast.
William Delap, of Burlington, Iowa, has
been arrested for bigamy and is now in Jail.
He married his first wife number of years
ago and was blessed with seven children.
Trouble arose and divorce was obtained.
Delap soon married another woman at Wat
erloo, with whom he lived for three years,
when he went away on business. On the
trip he met the third woman who struck bis
fancy and Immediately married her at Grin
nell, Iowa, A short time elapsed and Dslap