The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-06-19
SINS AND SINNERS,

Tom Miller Fletcher Holden and Henry
Holden were hanged at Linden, Tex, or
murder
The execution by electricity OF Joseph Chap
leau, said to be IA cousin of Premier Chapleau
of Canada, has been set for the first week in
July at Sing Sing, n. \.
Young Robert S. Wallace and J. B. Lowitz,
prisoners charged with robbing the editor of
Walace's Monthly TO the extent of $40, 900,
have arrived at New York from Havana.
Lawrence Brown shot and killed James
Metcalf in the Casey county (ky.) court
room while on trial for the murder of his
browns brother.
John Burk, a stockdealer of Youngstown,
Ohio, was found in an unconscious condition
on the streets of Chicago. He had been beat
en- till his head and face were mass 0! cuts
and bruises. His rockets had been rifed.
Rev. Joseph La Grace with a half dozen
aliases, notorious thief and confidence
man who has operated through New England
and Canada for several years, has been ar
rested in Boston.
Rev. Father Quigley, pastor of ST. Frances
de Sales Catholic church OF Toledo, Ohio, has
been indicted by the grand jury ",or mis-
demeanor or for negiecting to report pupils
to the board OF education"
Lee F. Wilson of Shelbyville, ILL.,, a men,
ber Of the state legislature and a prominent
politician Of Shelby county, has been convict
ed OF irregularity in obtaining pensions. The
court withdrew sentence.
Mrs. George Marshall, of Anniston, Ala,
bride OF tour days, committed suicide by
taking morphine. She quarreed with her
husband about the arrangement of the furni-
ture
At Chicago Joseph Montag a carpenter,
Fl ty-years old, sho t and killed his wife, then
fatally shot himself The couple Quarreled
some time ago and have not been living to-
gether.
Three journeymen bakers, impoverished
and deprived of work by the recent strike in
| Prague, have committed suicide in that city,
| having been driven to the deed by their un.
successful efforts to obtain food.
Martin Bryant coored, and Sarah c. Will
Jams, white, have been arrested at Colum bus,
Ohio, for the alleged killing of Elmer Brad.
| ;Ord. aged five years, for the purpose of OBJ
timing the life insurance that had been
| placed on him.
we'll. do bachelor named James Van
ness, living at q station known as the Milk
rancho, about forty miles from Missoula,
Mont. committed suicide by shooting him.
sell in the head. Poor health was the cause.
The deceased was we'll known and an old res
! ident of the county.
The Cowles abduction case has been
abandoned. Cowles called for Supt Kirk.
patrick, of the Montreal general hospital,
and stated that he was willing to give up the
child to his vie Cowles condition is quite
serious, more especially because he is suffer.
ing from consumption. Hale was released
fl ON prison, in charge OF two officers, and is
stopping with his friends at the Windsor
T. Fl. Leach of Vancouver, a member ofthe
Washington state board of education, an
nounced to the board that he had been offer.
ed $1,000 as bribe to bring about recon.
sideration of the recent action on the board
in regard to text books. He also laid before
the board check for the money drawn in
his favor by G. E. Eames on the First Nation
al Bark of Portland, Or.
The body of August Napp cattle buyer
and butcher of Waverly, Mimi, was found
near the railroad track mile east of Cokato
His money and watch we're gone, and there
was bullet hole through his head. A close
examination revealed gunpowder in the
wound. the revolver evidently having beer
pressed against his head when the fatal shot
was fired. The coron er's jury returned
a verdict of suicide.
Mrs. Susan Ney of Boston, by mistak,
drank glass of lemonade in which she hat
put strychnine with the inten tion of giving
it to her husband. She died the same night
Mrs. Ney prepared the lemonade and of
fered the one in which she had put strychnint
to her husband, but he was suspicious and
refused it. Then his wife said she would
drink it to prove it was harmless. During
the talk the two glasses had been changed
and instead of drinking the harmless liquiC
| she swallowed the poison
terrible suicide occurred in BurIingt on
Iowa. An old man by the name of JOSEPH
Sottie, living at Gladstone, ILL.,, who hat
come to Burlington on business, was found
in the "Q' yards with his head servered from
his body. He had laid bis neck across th
rails with his body outside in front of ,
backing switch engine. Shortly after hi
death q message addressed to him from hi
son. ut Gladstone. was received asking hin
to return home as his wife was dying
An express train on the st. Louis, Arkan
sas & Texas railroad was wrecked by 81,
masked robbers two miles south of Texar
kama. The train was ditched at Haywood
switch by throwing the switch. The robber
attacked the express car. but the messenge
repulsed them with voley from his Win
! chester, but hit none Of the robbers The,
returned the fire with interest, and finally
after threats of cremating the messenger il
the car he surrendered. The safe was opene,
/ and the robbers secured about $4,000
Nesbitt, heexpress messenger, and the fire
i man and engineer we're taken into the wood
by the robbers and tied to trees They thel
shot the messenger in the hand, the arm, an,
shot one ofhis ears off, to revenge themselve
for his resistance. and threatened death I,
oil three if they ever resisted another trail
Il robber. All time the passengers were pre-
vented from giving any assistance by one Q