The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1894-05-04
N. Thornton Of shelbyville, Ind, were
quashed by the court. The charge was
embexxlement.

M. Thornton. Of Shelbyvllle, Ind, wers
quashed by the court. The charge was
embexxlement.
Charles Patterson was arrested at
Thorntown, Ind, charged with starting
the fire that destroyed MObbitt's livery
stable and other property worth 81 900.
Harry Pensan, q notorious character
OF Ramsey, ILL.,, fatally stabbed Robert
Chandler while Chandler was trying to
eject him from his place Of business.
Burton B. Wake, son of IN English
baronet, was sentenced Mt Windsor,
Ont, to twenty-thrce months impris-
onment for highway robbery.
Louis Knorr Of st. Louis shot and
killed himself In Boston. He left a
note saying that his life had been full
Of disappointment.
G. w. Hoffman has been arrested
charged with swlndling people about
LOgansport, Ind, by forging the name
Of Rink & Co. to contracts for patent
rights.
Gov. Pattison of Pennsylvania has
signed warrants for the hanging Of
James Newton Hill Of Allegheny, and
James B. Carpenter, Juanita, Thurs
day, June IA.
Louis Destcigner, president Of the
National bank Of Guthrie, Ok, which
was wrecked over q year ago, has been
arrested for violation Of the United
States banking laws.
Deputy marshals In Oklahoma en-.
gage In fight with the Dalton gang.
BILL Dalton, the leader, two other ban.
dts, two deputy sheriffs and woman
and her child are killed.
In the Indianapolis bank wreckin9
cases testimony showing $195, 600 had
been transferred to Elijah Coffin IN
London previous to the failure Of the
Cabinet company was given.
Emma Denton, aged twenty-three
years, of Clunette. Ind, committed sui
eide with strychnine because her lover
had circulated scandalOus stories about
her.
William Myers, q noted illicit dis
tillcr Of Yadkin county, s. c., was shot
and killed by Deputy Marshal Henry
FOard while attempting to escape after
capture.
Two men are killed and others In.
jured In fight between police and
strikers ut Detroit, Mich. The strikers
had assaulted men who took their
places ut work.
Two armed men robbed the cOnduc-
tor, motOrman and dozen passengers
of a car on the Oakland Consolidated
Line ut Oakland, Cal. This is the third
crime Of the kind in the city within
four days.
At Mount Vernon barracks, near Mo.
bile, Ala, Hugh Seeltoe,. an Apache
soldier, In q tit of jealousy, fatally
wounded another Indian soldier named
Nalltoallghun and IL female Apache
prisoner, and then killed himself.
Clayton Stahl, suspected of the muir
der of Mrs. Slaughter Of POmeroy,
Ohio, committed suicide. A woman
representing herself as medium
charged him with the crime, and he
admitted his guilt and shot himself.
At Nashville, Mich, the bank OF
Barry & Downing was robbed of $4,000
belonging to the proprietors, $4OO In
stamps kept there by the postmaster
and probably other smaller amounts In
private boxes.
Louis Plante, wanted in Toronto for
robbery, was held for extraditiOn, de-
spite his confession of arson made for
the purpose Of being detained ut Den.
vcr for trial, and the papers have been
forwarded to Washington.
At Saginaw, Mich, Hon. A. B. Wood,
ex-statc senator and prominent citi
zen, was found dead in his barn Mt
noon, having committed suicide by
hanging. Dependency caused by finan
cial reverses is assigned Us the cause.