The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1891-01-08
WICKEnNESSES.

DR.. II. Z, Kelso, OF Paxton, ILL.,, was sand
0agged and robbed of $1,000 in Chicago.
His condition 10 critical.
No further trouble has occurred at the
steel works at Braddock, Pa. Seventeen OF
the rioting HungariaHs have been arrested.
James CIayborne and Sylvester SpanSler
fought over property at Well Spring Tenn.
Sylvester is dead and Clayborne is dying.
young man named Porter and his moth
er, who have been living on farm in Platte
county, Missouri, are mi issing, it is feared,
have been murdered.
At Seattle, W ash, Charles R. Hammond,
of Cleveland street Uondon) otoriety, has
been sentenced to two years in the psniten-
tiary for grand larceny.
John Reed one OF the men charged with
wrecking . train on the New York Central
n. 7.
Frank Myers, farmer and agent for agri-
cultural implements at Fastoria, Ohio, tells
thrilling story about three impsrsonating
officers robbers, relieving him OF $14, 900.
James Mcbride has been arrested, charged
with blowing up the Jenkins hotel and store
at PlainVille, Ind, with dynamite, because
his wife, a domestic in the hote refused to
A white man named Sharp and q negro
named Burnside robbed a farmer near New
ton, Miss. Burnside was taken from the Of
fcers and lynched, and it is rumored that
sharpfmet the same tate.
Walter b. Webb, ex-cashier of the North
srn Pacific Express company, at Spokane
Fslls, committed suicide. He was short in
his accounts. He was a son of William B.
Webb, secretary of Montana under Presi-
dent Cleveland.
E. A. Linn and Miss Addie E. Cooper came
to Madison, Ws., few days ago, and after
being hastily married. proceeded to St. Paul.
They were fine looking pair. and Linn ad-
mitted that he was a Chicago banker II
was apparently case of elopement.
A man giving his name as Fran Ellis, was
arrested out on the Crow Indian reserva ton
near Big Timber, with a complete counter
letting outfit for making bogus 81 and So
cent pieces. Such counterfeit money has
been floating around that part of the coun-
try for some time and the arrest. made by
United Ststes Deputy Marshal Devoe, il
considered an important ono.
John 81. Phillips, wealthy Wisconsin,
farmer who in the past four years has suffer-
ed losses aggregating SIT, 900 by incendiary
| fires, is under arrest, charged with arson
| 1t is alleged that Phillips is the New Berlin
fire bug" as the individual was known, who
| terrorized the rural districts in that section
and caused all insurance companies to with
draw, leaving the property OF the farmers
unprotected.
La Belle King, ono Of the opium smugglers
who escaped from the United States secret
service officers while being conveyed from
his home at Port Huron, Mich, to Detroit,
about two years ago. by jumping through a
car window. was captured at Olympia, Wash.
where he was driving laundry wagon under
the name Of Boulanger. He is said to be at
the head OF the largest smuggling ring in the
United States, and is worth great deal of
money. His capture was made by Special
Inspector Coblets, who has been following
him for years.
Three men entered the Merchants Ex-
change Bank of South Chicago while Frank
Linn, the assistant cashier, was alone be-
hind the counter. Two OF them covered
Linn with revolvers, while the third man
went through the tsller's door and beat
him into insensibility. One of the men on
the outside OF the counter then went behind
the counter and helped himself to the avail
able cash, while the other stood guard at the
| door and the third man stood over the proS-
trate bank official. The thieves were sur
prised in the midst Of their operations by
the appearance of C. P. Wilder, the cashier.
| Hurriedly throwing the limp form OF Linn
into the bank vault and locking it, the three
robbers jumped into the buggy and drove
| off at break.neck speed, but were captured
| by the police after an exciting race.