The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-12
HE GRABBED THE TEN
Then There Was Serious Trouble in
the City Of Landusky.
GREAT FALLS NEWS ITEMS
Lizzie BONN Takes an Overdose of
Laudanum War on favre
iHoboes-Stricken With
Paralysis.

special to the River Press says: 1t Is
reported from Landvsky that the law
less element is still making trouble in
that vicinity. Sunday a row occurred
between Robert Ormon, Jack Sterling
and r. n. Cowan. Ii is said II have
started bv Robert ')rmon stepping rp
to Cowan and forcibly taking $40 bill
from the pocket of the ltttAr. SINE
words followed and personal en-
counter ensued. Cowan was very had
ly beaten over the head. his face being
so badly cut that his features ere
hardly recognizable. Monday night II
was feared that he was fatally hurt.
but, although weak from the loss OF
blood, he is resting easier now. The
officers started for Chinook with Ormon
this morning, but Sterling has so far
eluded capture.
Dr. Vidal is in the city from Belt and
reports that camp now free from cpl
denies of every description.
While acting as an interpreter for a
German witness i'm court to-day Mathi-
as Miller, a well-known resident of
Fourth avenue north, had a stroke of
something akin to paralysis. His left
side was affected and he was apparent
ly paralyzed on that side and unable to
use his tongue for speech. Friends took
care of him, sending for DR.. Weitman,
who took charge of the case. Mr.. Mil
Ter, accompanied by some friends and
the doctor, was taken to his home in a
carriage.
Lizzie Mohn, a waiter girl employed
in the Benton restaurant, narrowly es-
capped death Monday night from an
overdose of laudanum An emetic re-
lieved the stomach from the drug. 1t is
not known whether the incident was
the result of an accident or was pre-
meditated.
Judge Meili of Havre has ordered the
police to arrest all persons found in
that city without visible means of sup
port. As a result of the order, the
crooks, tinhorn gamblers and hoboes
who have infested the town for several
weeks are leaving as fast as freight
trains can carry them.
An A. p A discussion last January
resulted to-day in the district court
jury finding Lou Henry guilty OF as
sault In the second degree. The anair
took place in a boarding house near the
gypsum works at Kibbey the 22d or
January last. The plant was not being
worked that day and the men were
loafing, and four of them, including
Henry, were Willing away the evening
in company with an eight-gallon keg
of beer Bill Larkin, a resident or KID
hey, came to the house on business and
Joined the circle around the keg. Lar
kin at that time had trouble with his
eyes and could not see but very indis-
tinctly. After his arrival. Henry pre-
cipitated a discussion Of politics and re-
ligion which, II seems from the testi-
mony, had been debated between them
before. The discussion degenerated In
to an exchange of epithets not exactly
fitted for the ears of ladies or children.
After a continued exchange of exple-
tives, Larkin applied an epithet 10
Henry to which Henry took exceptions.
Henry hunted up a file, II inches long,
and, returning to the room, struck Lar
kin a swinging blow across the bridge
of the nose bringing him to the ground
Satisfied with his settlement of the de-
bate in his favor, Henry ran out and
hid his weightiest argument, the file,
behind the meat house, while Larkin
was lugged out of the convention and
shortly afterwards had ten pieces OF
bones removed from his nose. He had
no further use for them.
To-day Henry, through his attorney
Mr.. Barry, tried to convince the court
that his act of mangling Larkin's feat
ures was done in self defense. but the
jury promptly returned a verdict of
guilty. In the retirement into which
Mr.. Henry will go in a few days, be
will have an opportunity to arrange his
A. p a. arguments in a manner little
more parliamentary, IL not quite so con-
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