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The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-12-31
Unnecessary Alarm.

Buffalo. Dec. ,27.-The three Canadian
cruisers built at Owen Sound, which are
causing so much warlike talk, are said
by ian old ship owner, one of the few
who have been allowed to inspect these
vessels, to be much smaller than has
been represented. He asserts that
they are armed with one small gun
each and are in fact what Sir Julian
Pauncefote said they WERE, mere revenue
cutters. Besides, said the captain,
'even if they were 35O-ton vessels, as
has been reported, what does that sig
Nifty when it is known that within a
month past there have been launched
at Toledo two 2.55O-ton vessels intend
ed for lake trade, but purposely con.
structed so that in a very few hours
time they can be converted into formid-
able men of war capable of knocking
these Canadian cruisers into a cooked
hat" One of the new Canadian cutters
is now in the Georgian bay and the other
two are in Nova Scotian waters.
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Crime and Suffering.

Boston. Dec. pa shocking scene of
depravity came to light at No. p Min
dora street, Roxbury, yesterday. Re
ports that a row was in progress in the
house brought officers to the place. On
the floor of one of the barely furnished
rooms was found a woman in a beastly
state of i~ntoxication. A man in an I'M
conscious condition was lying on the
floor in another part of the room, and
two other Intoxicated men were half
lying in chairs. Five small children,
the eldest but seven years of age, were
huddled about a stove in which there
was scarcely a yestige of fire. The I'M
conscious man, whose name was John
Tusther. was found to be suffering
from a fractured skull and was sent to
the hospital. The other two men, John
and Michael Gately, were arrested,
charged with assault and battery ON
Tusther. with a brick. The woman,
Tusther's wife, was also removed to the
station and the five children to the
Marcella street home. Tusther is not
expected to live. "
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A ROUGH Voyage.

New York. Dec. 27.-The steamship
City of Berlin, Of the Inman line, ar
rived in port to-day after the toughest
passage she has ever experienced. The
City of Berlin left Liverpool Friday,
Dec. 16. Her time was eleven days,
three hours and fifteen minutes. Heavy
weather prevailed from the first to the
last day, and on Monday, Dec. ID, the
steamship encountered a very severe
gale. The sea ran so high that several
ventilators were carried away and a
boat amidships smashed to pieces. On
that day the vessel only made 252 knots,
and on Thursday so fierce was the gale
that the steamship made scarcely lib
knots. Ice gathered on the deck several
inches thick and coated the sides form
stem to stern: During the next week a
fierce gale blew continuously, and the
steamers speed was retarded to such an
extent that she REACHED this port three
days behind time. None of the passen-
gers were injured, though many received
a considerable shaking up.
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Too Much Trouble.

Wilmington, Ohio, Dec. q. Mrs.
Clara Plummer, wife of George Plum
mer. committed suicide in her room on
South street just rs the bells We're ring
ing out Christmas day. She had been
married fourteen years and was the
mother of three children. Domestic trou-
BILE caused her to separate from her hus-
band, but the pair were reunited and
came to live on a farm at Bloomington,
near this place. About that time Mrs.
Plummer set up a dressmaking establish
ment in Wilmington. Last night she
went to her room, and opening her watch
waited till the hands came together at
midnight, and then with a pistol blew
out her brains. Friends rushed to her
room and asked her why she had shot
herself. 'Trouble, trouble" she an
swered, and died with the words on her
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-12-31
A MiSainu CLERGYMAN.

Washington. Dec.27.-For nearly four
weeks Rev. Joshua Thompson, a Metho-
dist minister. has been away from his
home and his friends in the city. He
eft here about Dec. 1, telling his wife
that he was going to Baltimore. She has
a son and a daughter living near Roch-
ester, N. Y. Mrs. Thompson has written
to them informing them Of her husbands
absence and has received replies that
they have not seen the missing 1t
is proposed now to take some steps to
clear up the mystery which surrounds
about sixty-seven years of age, and has
not been actively in the ministry for a
rumber of years past. He is, however,
still a member of the Genessee confer
ence,. N. Y. During the past year, some
of his friends think, he has begun to
show signs of mental failure. He had
with him when he left between $3.50 and
$500.
The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1892-12-31
North Dakota.

The skeleton of Killian Bossick, who
disappeared from Willow City, N. d., was
found IN the Turtle Mountains. He had
suicided.
Frank Peck, q Grand Forks gambler, was
shot in a saloon by a barber named Neon
key. The bullet shattered his thigh bone
probably necessitating amputation.
In the United States court at Grand Forks
Pasquale Difiori was sentenced to a fine Of
$3.50, the cost of prosecution, and one days
imprisonment for selling liquor to the
Ind ans.
In the district court at Grand Forks M.
Ryan was found guilty of shooting at Of
fcer Sullivan with an intent to kill. The
affair occurred in September, since which
time Ryan has been confined in the hospi-
tai by a serious wound inflicted by the Of
ficer in self defense.
Arthur McGahey and Tom Hill, arraigned
for shooting at each other at Grand Forks
with intent to kill, pleaded not guilty.
McGahey is a gambler of east Grand Forks,
and is char4e ed with undue intimacy with
Hills wife.
About three weeks ago H. c. Newton, for
yed1S IOTtIlcTu IdClllC agent AT
Castleton. had an operation for catarrh
performed by aspecialist in St Paul. He
came home, Caught cold. and after a brief
illness, died. He leaves about SIS, 600 in
property to his family.
Devils Lake has determined by special
election to issue bonds in the sum OF ST.
500 for the purpose of erecting a large pub
lie school building. The bonds run for
twenty years and draw 6 per cent. A prem
ium OF 2 per cent has already been offered
for the bonds.
Deputy Marshal SCHNEIDER arrested
Michael Dealy, president Of the Bank of
Rolla, on an indictment for suborration OF
perjury respecting land patents. He goes
to Grand Forks and is confident of acquit-
tai.
The new Unitarian church al Fargo, was
badly damaged by fire and water. The
edifice had just been completed and was &C.
cepted from the contractors. The damage
will probably exceed 81, 600. covered by in
surance. The fire is supposed to have
started from the furnace. The building
was entirely paid for and was to be dedicat-
ed during the holidays.
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HIS A IS REWARDED.
SHE DIDN'T KNOW HER OWN
HUSBAND.
Mrs. Barbara Hahn Is Dtscov-
cred by Her Yankton Hus-
band in Denver but De-
MES Ever Seeing
Him Before.
One Must Be Mistaken.

Denver, Special, Dec. 27.-Three years
ago Mrs. Barbara Haehn mysteriousiy
disappeared from Yankton, 5. ID. Inc
good people of the town thought she
had been foully dealt with, and her
disappearance caused great excitement
at the time. Her little children were
left without a mother. Mr.. Haehns
lot was a hard one. He always believed
that his wife lived and had deserted MIN
and her family, and he determined TO
find her dead or alive. He kept his sus-
picions to himself. and for three years
has been hanging doggedly on her trail.
He came TO Denver about a week g
and the second day after he got mere
he saw his wife in the company OF
Richter, who had left Yankton about
a month before the disappearance OF Mrs.
Haehn. He lost sight of them in the
crowd, so he haunted the streets, en-
%deavoring to find out where they live:
He was rewarded for his search n
located the couple in their boarding
house to-day. When Haehn entered the
house he ran to embrace his falthless
wife, and her screams attracted the at
tention of her husband No. 2, who was
in an adjoining room. He ran to her
assistance and grasped hold OF husband
No. 1 by the neck, and was strangllng
him to death until neighbors interfered
and released husband No. ], who tried
to explain the situation, but found no
sympathizers. He hen demanded pos
session of his lawful wife, but she
denied ever seeing the man before, and
said he must be crazy. She went into
Mysteries, and husband No. 1 was flung
down stairs. He again tried to make
an entrance, and begged the woman
for the sake of her children to return to
her home. Finding that all his entreat'
les were in vain he determined on hav'
ing satisfaction. He went and had both
arrested on the charge of adultery
Haehn. is n man of means and is de-
termined to prosecute his faithless wife
and her paramour.
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OF Chippewa Fa,ls, was burned at Little
Falls, MINI. The loss is $50, 700, with only
$1,000 insurance.
Warren Flint, Of Chippewa Falls. has
seven camps on Fisher River, and expects
to bank 20, 0OO, 600 feet Of logs this winter.
The outlook at present is very favorable.
Sheboygan is to have another chair
factory with a capital stock of $50, 600.
which has already been subscribed. 1t will
employ 100 men.
Alex. Clermont, the pioneer mail car
rier. living ut Depere, has been granted a
pension of So a month. He served in the
Black Hawk war.
Fred Hoffman. a cattle buyer of Black
River Falls. had his nose broken while as
sisting in unloading a car load of cattle at
Chicago.
The secondhand store OF William Per-
ry, at Madison, was entered by thieves and
ten watches and numerous other articles
stolen.
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Used Clubs md Knives.

Pittsburg, Dec. "a score or more
Of Poles engaged in a drunken brawl late
last night and a number of persons We're
seriously wounded, one dying to-day
from the effects Of his injuries. The fight
started over some trivial matter and
knives, clubs and stone were freely
used. Joseph Sporkonski was stabbed
jn the abdomen. and afterwards beaten
over the head with a mace by Officer
Wilcofsky. He was unconscious when
removed to the hospital and died a few
hours later. Four of the participants in
the row are in the station house with
dangerous wounds. The others escaped.
1t is not known who stabbed Sparkonski.
Pending an investigation Officer Wilcof-
sky has been relieved from duty.
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Wisconsin,.

Truman Hayes, Of Oregon, Dane County,
who was arrested charged with larceny,
was acquitted by a jury.
Over $500 has been paid by Marathon
County the past year in boun,ies on wolf
and wildcat scalps.
The Kirby. Carpenter Company, Of Mar
inette, last season banked ", 600, 600 feet of
timber.
Matthias Cree,e, of the town Of Gale
donia, Racine County, had his shoulder
dislocated by a fall.
Over $500 worth of sheep are reported to
nave been killed in the vicinity of Lyndon
by wolves.
The home of Policeman William G. Bur-
meis,er, of Madison, was partially destroyed
by fire. The loss will reach $500, with 5000
insurance.
A year old son of Mrs. E. N. Taylor,
of Rlpon, was burned to death. The
child was playing near the stove and its
clothes caught fire.
William Arndt, of S%beboygan, intends to
erect a large warehouse and elevator at that
place TO he used for the storage of grain
and -four.
G. w. Roe, an Oshkosh banker and cap
italist. has purchased the Belmont build
ing at Chicago. The price paid was $65, 600.
The building has a yearly rental of Sc, 500.
William Steele, an old settler of Jefferson
County, died at his home in the town of
Plymouth, aged SO years. Deceased was a
we'll man until a year ago and used to
walk four miles every day.
William Barber, an old hunter living at
Kenosha. was shot in the NEE by the acct
dental discharge of a weapon in the hands
O a boy named Manor. The leg will like
ly rave to be amputated.
Mrs. Kate Faro, Of Fond du Lac, has
commenced suit for divorce against her
husband, Silas Fargo, in the Florence
County circuit court. The parties hsvs
been married twenty-one years. #s
William Helm, of Plymouth, was held up
by a masked man who demanded his
money. The robber has his trouble for his
pains, as Mr.. Helm happened to be without
a cent at the time.
Prof. R. G. Hindley, a former professor
of chemistry at Racine College now OF
Philadelphia, will return to Racine, having
accepted aposition with the Horlick Food
Company.
James Radford. a well. known lumber
man of Oconto, fell off a freight car at
Powers, Mich, and broke his neck. De-
ceased was IS years old, and leaves q wife
and child.
The brick block owned by A.. ]. Wilcox
! and Felix Cardinal, both. former residents
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wv

Des Moines will invest $500, 600 in public
parks.
William Ryan, 50 years old, was frozen
to death, while intoxicated, near Lyons.
Rufus E. Graves, the Dubuque bank pres
ident, was convicted of fraudulent banking
operations.
The Mississippi river at Keokuk is frozen
over. Steamboat traffic is absolutely sus-
pended from St. Louis to st. Paul.
Kimball G. Champ, the Council Bluffs,
bankers, charged with embezzlement, were
acquitted.
Edgar Moulton, of Cedar Rapids, conf
Dental clerk OF Superintendent Riser, OF
| the Chicago & North Western Railway
committed suicide.
w. E. Walker, a travelling man for the
Cottage Organ Company, committed sui
eide at Perry, by taking morphine. His
home is in Des Moines.
Gov. Bots has appointed N. B. Hyatt of
Webster City, jude OF the Eleventh Judi
cal district in place Of J. L Stevens, oil
Ames, resigned.
Rev. DR.. F. L.. Patterson, Of Mason City
died at his home. His illness was OF
short duration, resulting from e~rysipelas OF
the head, which finally settled in his lungs
and was the immediate cause Of his death.
William Ryan. who worked on a farm
near Bryant, came to Clinton recently and
got drunk. He started to walk home at a
late hour. Not arriving, search was made
and his body was found in the hedge about
a mile from here. frozen to death.
The will of the late DR.. Donnelly was
filed for probate, at Upton, leaving all his
property to two brothers and three chill
dren. Mrs. Donnelly Immediately began
a suit to set aside the will. The sum OF
$25, 600 is involved and the will shuts of
her dover.
The breach of promise case at Atlantic,
which attained SO much notoriety, when
called for trial, was settled, Potham paying
the handsome plaintiff $500. She sued 1or
$40. 600.
A a -senger train on the Chicago Great
J Western railroad near Des Moines came in
to collision with a freight train within
rod of a long, high t~restle, James Bolen, Of
Kalamazoo, Mich, was seriously hurt.
The other passengers and the trainmen ss-
capped with bruises.
Robert Corbin, of Tracy, brakeman on
Conductor Casey's train, was instantly
killed in the yard at Sleepy Eye. He was
attempting to make a coupling between
cars loaded with iron rails and had his
brains knocked out.
Jud g Severance sentenced Mrs. Martbs
Kuester to nine years and six months in
the penitentiary for killing her two children
last August. She plead guilty to the
charge in the third degree. She is but d
yeas old and strong and hearty. The SEN
tence is considered very light.
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Trial Of the VeRuyius.

Washington, Dec. 27.-The navy de-
partment has mapped out a most ex-
haustiye trial for the dynamite cruiser
Vesuvius and her guns. The trial will
take place at Port Royal, s. G., about
Jan. Is. She will be ready to leave the
New York navy yard ON Dec. %, but it
is expected that Rear Admiral Walker,
who will issue the instructions for her
movements, will not send her South until
about. Jan. 2. The trial will be con-
Quoted under the auspices of a board ap-
pointed by Secretary Tracy, consisting
of Capt. Montgomery Sicard, command
Barker, commanding the Philadelphia,
and Commander w. HI. Brownson, COM
manding. the Dolphin. Eighty-four pro-
j~ectiles in all will be fred during the
trial-sixty-six blank and eighteen loaded.
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UNFORTUNATE MlNNEAPoLlrAn
A Disastrous speculntion.

4EH&H&s
Minneapolis, Special Telegram, Dec .o7
q. s. Corser, the veteran real estate
and insurance agent, and supposedly
one of the soundest business men fnan-
cially in Minneapolis, is badly embar.
raised and will make an assignment
probably to-day. The firm of e. s. Cor,
ser & Co. is also involved and will az.
sign at the same time. The other mem.
bers of the firm are L. B. Elwood, Wal.
ter e. Badger and A. l.. Belknap, al,
well known in the business circles Of
Minneapolis. =
1t is practically impossible at this time
to even approximate the result. Mr.
Corser himself thinks that he will ha
able to meet all his obligations nearly
in full. He puts his assets at 81 1000.
God. '
1.-The assets will amount to about
$15O,OOO in excess of the liabilities"
he said. "The amount received by' tho
unsecured creditors will largely depend
upon the management and successful
handling of the estate by the assignee.
the greater part of the property being
real estate. The assignee has not been
appointed yet, but will probably be Sc
ioSICu ILLS week, duu IL IS likely the pa
pers in the formal assignment will not
be issued until tomorrow, OR later in the
week."
1--WE shall probably continue in busi-
ness in this city, and will undoubtedly
follow the same line. If our assets do
not cover the amount of our liabilities
we shall consider the amount outstaLd-
ing among the unsecured creditors a
moral debt, and shall consider that we
have not discharged our obligations until
we AVE paid that amount in full"
Chief among the assets are a 5000
acre farm near Crookston, of which 1000
are scwn each year to wheat, and in
ccEr ection with the farm he runs an
elevator at Crookston. His principal real
estate possession in Minneapolis is a
large interest in Oak Park edition. Some
Of the leading business men of the city
are interested with him in this property,
which of late has been a good deal Of q
load to its owners Mr.. Corser also owns
a $4,000 lot on Vine place and a..Ealn.
able lot on First avenue, opposite the
postofice. He has over 100000 tied up
in the Lyman G. Dayton estate, and this
has been a drag on his resources con-
stantly. Other property of less va1us he
has in various sections of the city. Much
of it is excellently located II under
fair real estate conditions could be easily
realized upon.
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VIII prOhnbly Lynch Him.

Bowling Green, Ky. Dee. 27.-Rob
Harper, the negro who has been in jail
here for a week, as the a%ssailant OF Miss
Kate Anderson some time since, was
identified by her yesterday. A mob de-
manded him of the jailer. Miss Ander-
son had requested that the negro be not
lynched last night a. each recurring
Christmas would be an awful recollec-
ton to her, and the request was agreed
to. The mob appointed a committee to
consider the matter, agreeing to abide by
the ruling. The question of lynching
was discussed and four voted to hang
him on Monday while three voted to
hang him at once. The men quietly
dispersed, agreed to reassemble to-day
at a time not given out.
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Bandits Overtaken.

Laredo, Mex, Dec. 27.-Lieut. West and
his company of United States troops came
upon a band of bandits encamped near the
Alazan creek, over the Mexican line and
killed one and wounde another. Further
particulars are to the effect that the troops
came upon the camp first at nightfall,
Christmas eve. The bandits were ordered
to surrender, but fled in haste, firing a scat
tering volley as they ran for their horses.
So far as known none of the troops were
ness, the trail could not be followed. Fur
Their details are anxiously awaited. Nothing
as yet is known as to the fate Of the deputy
United States marshals reputed to have been
captured by the revolutionists.
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Not Guilty.

Rathdrum, Idaho, Dec. 27.-The jury
in the case of d. w. Leasure, on trial
in the supreme court for the murder of
Ivory Bean and conspiracy in Occur
d'Alene mining riots last July, has re-
turned a verdict of not guilty. The re-
suit of the trial is very important, as it
virtually decides there was no conspir-
acy in the Occur d'Alene trouble, and
that the acts of the union miners were
defensive and not rebellious. Leasure
was jointly indicted with forty-two 9th
ers upon four charges-conspiracy, for
the murder of Ivory Beau, blowing up
of the Frisco mill and the violating of
the injunction of the United States dis
trict court. 1t is believed the other cases
will be dismissed.
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Enfal Free Esxht.

Altoona, Pa, Dec. ga riot occurred
here to-day in which one man, John O'Hara,
was fatally wounded, and Milton Hughes, q
prominent coal dealer, was seriously wound
ed. A number Of ,~bricklayers, who were
engaged at building a brewery, were of
duty to-day on account of cold weather and
busily occupying the time by drinking beer
in q shanty by the brewery. Three colored
mel came in, and after they had drank con-
siderable the bricklayers insisted that they
help Ray for ot the beer e. IT They st,d refused ssSa. and q
free fight commenced. The negroes were
getting the worst Of it, when one Of them,
The bullet entered under the heart Of John
sO'I4afa, infiicting q fatal wound. Milton
Hughes, "a prominent coal dealer, who was
will recover. The whole crowd is under
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Remains of n Leg.

Merely, Mo-, Dec. 26.-When the Wabash
fast freight reached here this morning the
remains Of q human leg were found wound
around O brake rod. 1t has been dragged q
long distance over the cross ties. When
the limb was removed it was found to be
that Of q man, torn from his body. It was
and the foot was. whipped almost into
shreds. TIL rest Of the body was located
at Warrenton. and the leg was at once
upon his person It is supposed to have been
a young u named Kuhrer, whose home
SUPPOSED to have fallen under the car = and
been torn to pieces while trying to emerge
from q box car after riding out from some
pOtnt near st. Louis.
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COrruDtfon in Hunrary.

Buda Pesth. Dec. 27.-The fact has
just been made public that during the
TrefoK ministry 1900, 600 forms were
embezzled in the department of educa-
ton and public instruction. Count
Czaky, incumbent of the ministry in
question, both in the Szapari cabinet and
in the present Wekerle cabinet, has
known of the embezzlement for some
time, but has made no mention of it.
No information is asccrtained us to the
mode of fraud.
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AMONG the most sacred relics of
Horlujl is the veritable eyeball OF
Buddha. 1t looks like nothing else
but the tiny, black we'll boiled pearl
that one so often finds in an oyster
stew. This eye OF Buddha" is being
chanted by the priests while the relic
is being brought out and displayed.
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New York, Dec. 23.-There was IaH1iap.
ter Of accidents in the harbor to-day, and
it was miraculous that there was not q
great loss of life. The most serious was
the sinking of the American schooner
Wild Pigeon. by, the English steamship
Romer Beacon. The Wild Pigeon, com
manded by Capt. Lust, was coming down
Swash channel when the captain saw a
big steamship taking the same course
The Wild Pigeon had the right Of way
and to continue on its course Cant. List
had to cross the bow of the Steamship.
The steamship, which proved to be tie
and struck the Wild Pigeon a glancinS
blow on the port 'rst abaft tie mali
digging. n'"AS
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The commune of Mortea, France,
is the smallest constituency in the
world, there being only twelve people
for the Mayor to preside over. When
any dispute arises between the people
and the Mayor, the latter can take
them owe to the wineshop and have
everything his own way when he has
ordered up a couple OF twenty cent
hOtt1es