The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1891-01-29
WICKEDNESSES.

At Mozambique an American named
Moore is under arrest for melting African
chiefs to rebellion against the Portuguese.
The fact has been made public that ex-
County Clerk Hamilton of San Diego, Cal,
is short in his accounts 81 ,420. Unfortun-
ate SpeculatiOns.
A COW belonging to boycotted farm er
living near kildysart, county, Clare, Ire
land, has been skinned alive by some un-
known parties.
At Peoria, Ill, Lewis Robinson, min
strel man. quarreled with Tom Dunn, a To-
cal pugiliSt. and shot him three times,
probably fatally.
At Omaha Pat Ford, son of State Repre-
sentative Ford, shot and fatally wounded
young fellow known as Billy the Kid in
bar-rOOm row.
In New Castle, Pa, Mrs. Sarah Randolph
was sentenced to twenty months imprison-
ment for soliciting man to kill promi-
nent banker of that city.
Elmore Wade, son of prominent repub-
lican politician of Erie, Pa, was caught in
the act of robbing the mails. His thefts
have been carried on for months.
At Aberdeen, Miss, City Marshal F. B.
Stout attempted to arrest q murderer named
Story Shooting followed and Story was
killed and Stout perhaps mortally wound
ed.
Arthur Davidson, wealthy builder and
contractor, living at Chicago Lawn, a
suburb of Chicago, was assaulted and prob
ably fatally injured by three toughs, whom
Davidson refused to treat to drink.
Ex-Assemblyman Job Southwick of
North Collins, N. Y, has been missing from
his home and is reported to be over $4,000
short in trust funds and personal Obliga-
tons.
At Wichita, Kan, Cornelia Leppo, an
Italian, while drunk disemboweled negro
named Dennison and dangerously stabbed
Dennison's wife and another negro woman
named Speek.
S. K. Mings, the abseonding ex-president
of the Gatesville (Tex.) First National bank,
went across the Rio Grande river to Mexico,
He is short $4,000 at Dallas and Galveston
and quite a sum at Tyler.
One of the Shepherd boys who escaped
from the officers near Rogers, Ark, has
been found dead on baggage car. Depu-
ty sheriff Wright of Pierce City, Mo-, who
was shot by the outlaws, will die.
James Faulkner, charged with wrecking
the DansgilIe IN. " bank, pleaded guilty
to making false report to the controller
of currency, and has been fentenCed to the
penitentiary for five years.
William H. Buttner, the fraudulent di-
, vorce lawyer of New York, withdrew his
plea of not guilty of forgery and substituted
plea of guilty. He has been remanded
for sentence.
At Lincoln, Neb., the coroners's jury In
the Sheedy murder case has brought in q
verdict that John Sheedy came to his death
| through conspiracy between his wife, Har-
ry Walstrom, her paramour, and Monday
! Mcfarland, the negro who assaulted him.
A special says that Leonard Perrin, the
/ New London, Wis, banker, convicted OF
receiving and disposing of money stolen
! from the Iron Exchange bank of Hurley,
/ was sentenced. He escaped with fine o
! 800 and costs of prosecution-in all 81, 1873
Thomas Graham, who possesses half a
dozen aliases and has been at times called
the "King of the Horse Thieves" has been
arrested in Chicago. He is the supposed
leader of band of horse thieves which has
! operated, extensively in Illinois, Indiana
and Ohio.
A desperate but unorganized attempt wa:
made at Deadwood by about 160 railroad
grade STRIKERS to take possession of the Fire.
mont, ElkhoFn g. Missouri valley Passen.
ger train as it was about to depart for the
East, but It was prevented by the action OF
the sheriff and large force of deputies
the train starting with the throttle widt