The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-06-26
SINS AND SINNERS,

Rev Joseph La Grace with half dozen
aliases, O notorious thief and confidence
man who has operated through New England
and Canada for several years, has been ar
rested in Boston.
Harris A. Smiler, who was last week con-
victed of murder in the first degree, has been
sentenced in New York to suffer the death
penalty by electricity some day during the
week beginning Aug. 4.
Capt. OertIing, of the schooner Fearless,
which ran down the fishing boat Sea Bird,
causing the death of Capt. Reupford, has
been arrested ut Racine, Wis. charged with
manslaughter.
2 Preparations made by an incendiary we're
accidentally discovered by the janitor of q
four-story tenement house in New York in
which thirteen families are living, and ter
ribIe holocaust was aVerted.
Toronto society is excited about the -slope-
ment OF Mrs. Smith, the wife of one the big
gest merchants in Toronto, and Eddy Ruth
erford who belongs to one of the very first
families.
Edwin T. Elliott of Louisville who is short
in his accounts with the Louisville & Nash
Vile; has u wide reputation as a musician as
a member OF the we'll known musical family
of Elliotts. He has been leading ual life
for long time.
During the temporary absence of W. G..
Albertson, a Chicago board of trade man,
from the city dishonest clerk plunged" in
his name to the extent of a quarter of q mil
lion bushels of wheat, it is said, and when the
market went against him left the country.
A terrible suicide occurred in Burling ton,
Iowa. An old man by the name of Joseph
SottIe, living at Gladstone, H., who had
come to Burlington on business, was found
in the "Q'' yards with his head servered from
his body. He had laid his neck across the
rails with his body outside in front of a
backing switch engine. Shortly after his
death a message addressed to him from his
son, at Gladstone. was received asking him
to return home as his wife was dying.
Aaron NJ. Jones, aged sixty years, q
pioneer of Colorado and one of the best
| known men in Colorado, shot his wife al
Denver W lille they were sitting at the break
| fast table. He then threatened the lie oil
his daughter Erma but she pleaded so hare
| for her life that he spared her. He theT
| turned the weapon on himself, and put bull
let through his heart. 1t is thought thai
he was insane. The ball passed through thu
| lower lobe of the let lung of Mrs. Jones, anC
was taken out of her back. The wounded
woman is not expected to live.
The body of man was found in the riv
er at Missoula, Mon, suspended by shor
piece of rope, which was tied bout his neck
| From appearances he had been dead abou
| twenty our hours. Over his left eye was 6
cut abott an inch long, penetrating the skull
! A post mortem examination before the cor
oner's jury proved that the wound was suffi
| Gent to cause death, and evidence shows tn,
man was murdered and placed in, the p ositiol
| he was found by his murderers. The mai
| seemingly resained consciousness after h
tied to the branch, as his right hand firml,
| grasped the limb. The dead man is stran
ger here, as about thirty-five years old
well dressed, and supposed to be laborinI
| man.