The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1891-01-15
WICkEDNESSES.

John Thrella, the Hungarian arrested on
suspicion of the murder of the Curley family
at Wilkesbarre, Pa, has been discharged.
In Carbondale, Colo, John Morris and
Frank Chatham engaged in a shooting af-
fray over some land. 1t is thought both will
| die.
Over twenty Hungarians have been ar
rested for participating in the bloody riot
near Pittsburg a lew days ago, and the rest
are leaving
Mrs. Peters and her daughter we're murder
ed, robbed and burned to death in Cordele.
Ga. The robbers were seen running away
from the house.
W. D. Schroeder, an employe of the United
States Express company, has been found
dead, with a bullet hole in his forehead, in q
deserted barn in Peoria, III. Probably a MUIR
| der.
In Newburyport, Mass, Edgar Beckman,
aged twenty-four, returned to his home
drunk. His wife, in anger, killedIhim with
! one thrust of a carving knife. She was ar
rested.
William D. Hughes and William Buttner,
the bogus divorce lawyers ofNew York, have
been indicted by the grand jury. Hughes is
indicted for forgery and Buttner for forgery
and grand larceny.
At Pueblo, Colo, a negro named Billy
Davis shot his foster mother Carrie Ormsby,
and his foster brother, Jimmy Arnold. The
murdered woman had given some property
to daughter, and this is supposed to have
made Davis jealous.
The investigation into the failure OF s. A.
Kean 6 Co continues at Chicago. S. b. Kean
was held to the grand jury by Justice
Hamburger in the sum of $3.OOO on the
charge of embezzlement He furnished
bonds and was liberated.
A warrant has been issued against Thomas
J. Ring, the st. Louis manager of the Ar
mour-Cudahy Packing Company. The war
rant charges Ring with tine embezzlement o
$4,000 belonging to the company, whose
headquarters are at Omaha.
tragedy. the result of an old grudge, has
occurred at Monneville, Ala. Frank Hixson
and John Ross met and began firing at
each other. Then Dan Ross came to his
brothers assistance The battle ended in
the death of John Ross and the wounding
dangerously of his brother.
David Montgomery, farmer shot and
mortally wounded Oscar E. Trask, promi
nent logger. Montgomery is a peaceable
respectable citizen and has the sym pathy o
the whole community. Trask has bad rec
ord Several days before he assaulted Mont
gomery with a slingshot, but the latter beat
him off with stones The men met about
mile from town with the stated results
Montgomery gave himself up.
A letter from Pine Ridge agency details
hitherto unknown facts concerning th
death of Capt. Wallace at Wounded Knee
After the fight, the latter states, Capt. Wal
lace was found at the entrance of an Indial
lodge with five dead warriors lying near him
each Indian corpse showing q bullet wound
Five of the chambers in the captains re
volver were found empty, and from the po
eition in which the bodies lay it is presumed
that Wallace killed the Eve Indians before h
was overcome,
In 1886 Elder J. NJ. Clark, colored, paste
of the Baptist church in Dayton, and Carri
Moss, now his wife, murdered Clark's frs
wife at Yellow Springs, Ohio, but, as tn
husband was minister no suspicion wa
aroused. The woman Moss was then livin
in criminal intimacy with one Taylor, white
and the latter's daughter Ef1e assisted il
the muT der. The girl became intimate wit
one DR.. Steinberger, and committed suicid
after telling the story of the Clark. Mos
crime. Clark and his present wife were al
rested.
Two masked men opened the door, of th
ticket Office at the depot in Joplin, Mo-, ant
presenting two pistols each, ordered NJ. !
Conley, the night clerk, to throw up h;
hands. Conley was alone in the station n
obeyed the order. He was next told to ope
the safe and money drawer, which he die
Conley was then told to throw up his hand
and turn his face to the wall He obeyeC
One of them kept him covered while tn
other robbed the till and the safe, securin
about $3.50. They also took 81 from Coz
ley. Just as the men were leaving the offit
George Lewis, one of the assistants, opene
the door. He was ordered to come forwar
and was marched into the corner and tol
to nee the wall. The thieves got away will
! out molestation.