The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-07-04
WAYS OF THE WICKED.

The body of man supposed to have been
murdered and robbed is found in the river at
Eau Claire.
Near Brandenburg, KY, Henry Watts at.
tempted to commit an assault on a twelve
year-old girl, for which he was lynched.
At Boston the graud jury has indicted H.
E. Bradbury the "Dean Of Trinity University
in Vermont" for issuing bogus diplomas.
Four Idaho Moamons were received ut the
penitentiary at Sioux Falls. sent up for adul.
terry. Their sentences range from fifteen
months to one year.
Mrs. Henry Harvey OF Constantine, Mich,
shot and killed her husband while he was
asleep. Their domestic lie had been very
unhappy.
A fieht betweene whites and blacks occur
red in Barnwell county, South Carolina, in
which eight whites were injured, none serious
~. More tronble is expected.
Lucien W. Sperry, one of the most promi-
nent citizens of New Haven, Conn.,, commit
ted suicide to escape arrest, He was under
at least $50, 900 criminal indetedness
During quarrel at McKeesport, Pa, Pat
Briefly, mill worker, shot man named
Ralston dead in Speak-easy. Briefly es.
capped.
During quarrel between ]. P. Cook and
Albert Blakeney, well known far mers near
Danville, ILL.,, Blakeney struck Cook The
latter drew knie and plunged it into
Blakeney, infiicting fatal wounds.
At Lawrence, Mass, Mrs. Kate Dorsey,
wife OF John Dorsey. was brutally kicked to
death by William Haightley, alias William
Hovey, her nephew. The nephew was arrest
ed.
John Hern, who lives in a lonely hut in
East Wakefield, N H., became engaged In a
drunken row with his son William. Tho old
man got his gun and discharged both bar
rels at William, inflicting fatal wounds.
The court at Bantry, Ireland, has senten-
ced Father Crowley to one month g imprison-
ment, and six months additional in default
of bail for good behavior Tor intimidating a
Protestant clergyman at Schulz.
Prof Burstall aged seventy one years, who
was teacher of German and French in the
high school OF Milwaukee several years ago,
shot himself on the lake 'front.'. Letters left
by the old man show that he contemplated
the fatal step for over year.
A warrant was sworn out at West Supe-
.rior, for the arrest of George Fifer, book
keeper and confidential clerk for Porter Bros
OF Duluth, on charge of forging their en-.
do1sement to checks Tor large amount.
He lost the money in a gambling house in
Duluth. Filter has fed.
John j. Hocken OF Miramichi, N B., cut
his throat from ear to ear in the Tecumseh
house at Winnipeg. Hocken came to find
employment a few weeks ago, and. being un-
successful, became respondent. He was for
merly cashier in a leading wholesale house
in the East.
Claude Mcdaniel, prosecuting attorney OF
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and killed James Stubblefield, an intimate
friend, who was acting as peacemaker be-
tween Mcdaniel and the latter's wife. Both
men were among the most prominent and
wealthy citizens of the Cherokee Nation.
Trainmen who arrived on the Frisco state
that FIVE Pinkerton detectives got aboard
the North-bound train at Westfork situated
in Washington county. Arkansas with Tas-
colt. the murderer OF Banker Smell of Chicago.
He han been spotted for some time, and
parties had come from Chicago and fully
identified the subject.
Clarence Clark, station agent for the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul at Welcome,
MIMI, was arrested at the instance of the
American Surety company of New York, un-
der whose bond his indemnity was guaran-
teed. The prisoner confessed to having EN-.
bezzled about $500 belonging to the railroad
company. He was held to await the action
of the grand jury.
While the station agent at viele, Iowa, a
lonely station on the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy railroad, was reporting O night
train, he was confronted by two masked
men with drawn revolvers. They compelled
him to turn over two valuable express pack
ages and q considerable sum of money be-
longing to the company. The agents wife
appeared on the scene at this juncture and
the robbers decamped with their booty.
Mexican revolutionists under Ruiz Sandov-
al attempted to cross the Rio Grande from
the United States to Mexico, six miles west
of Laredo, but were driven back by Mexican
forces under command of Col. Seron, when
Sandoval and six men were captured by the
chic. police in Laredo, Tex. The Mexican
troops, however, succeeded in capturing one
prisoner and several horses.
Harry Ballard, Parker Harris and Ed.
I'd Carr, all colored. and Frank Brennish.
were hanged at Memphis. Tenn, Tor
Harris, Carr and Ballard we're ex-
1:25. and Brennish, who objected