Great Falls weekly tribune., 1896-05-01
Suicide BY Poisoning, the Republican
Committees Acts, and Il Di-
vOrce Suit.
THE wife ALLEGES ADULTERY
LOttie NJ. Stevenson, Formerly eff
Great Falls, Named as Co.
respondent.


LEw1sTowN, Mont, April 27.--A sen.
sation was caused here yesterday by the
news of the suicide of j. L. Relanger
son of we'll known hotel keeper at
Maiden and brother -in-law of County
Attorney Smith. He took the poison
route, being found dead in his bed Sun.
day with phial near by which had con-
tanned strychnine and told the story of
his rash act. The cause of his suicide
is not exactly known, but as he had been
gambling and drinking heavily it is sup
posed that he took his life in fit of de-
spondency.
The first gun of the political campaign
was fired here Saturday afternoon, when
the republican county committee met
and chose twelve delegates to attend the
republican convention at Butte City,
May II, to send delegates to st. Louis
to name the republican candidate
for the presidency The politicians
who assume to control the desti-
MES Of the republican party in
Fergus county did not deem it advisable
or safe to take the rank and file Of the
party into their confidence, and instead
OF calling caucuses for the selection of
delegates, they concluded that the com
mittee should name the delegates them
selves. BY this policy any embarrassing
instructions relating to the silver ques-
ton might be avoided, and the plans of
the bosses to deliver the vote of Mon
tana's delegation in support of goldbug
candidate might be facilitated. The fol-
lowing are the delegates appointed to
represent Fergus county in the Butte
conventions: S. S. Hobson, John Ross
james Sergum, G. f. Norris, Frank G.
Wright. Herman Ogden, Rufus Thomp-
son, John McCourt, A. j. Slough, w. d.
Slayton, j, G. Sherman, James Wash
burn.
Lewistown is just now in the midst of
a particularly sensational scandal, with a
divorce suit to follow. The principals in
tilO CnSC al Q SudilCS l. Iitlle, uTuG-
gist here, and Lottie M. Stevenson, a
typewriter girl from Great Falls, who for
good many years was employed as
stenographer in the Great Falls Leader
Office, and has wide circle of acquaint-
ances in that city. The story is that
Miss Stevenson came to Lewistown some
t,, - ~ 4
while here won the confidence of Mrs.
Nan Little, wife Of the druggist. Shortly
afterward, Mrs. Little's hired girl left
and Miss Stevenson was employed in her
place in the Little family, being treated
as one of the family in every respect.
Mrs. Little, without suspicion that a
cloud was lowering over her domestic
hearth, left Miss Stevenson to keep
house for her husband short time ago,
and went to Belt to pay short visit to
relatives who live there. Being anxious
to give her husband pleasant surprise,
she returned from her visit before she
was expected. The result was disastrous
lu tAC CAIiCUlC' IL lOI IOIIOI duu ulS-
gust, she was confronted with evidence
that her husband had not been pining in
lonely solitude in his chamber during her
absence. In fact, she found state of at
fairs that in her opinion called for
heroic measures, and she promptly drove
the husband and fair typewriter out of
the house, packed up her trunk and re-
turned, with her effects, to her brothers
house at Belt, leaving the guilty hus-
band and his companion to their own
devices. The sequel was made apparent
few days ago when suit for divorce
was filed in Fort Benton by the wife's
attorneys, Stanton & Stanton of Great
Falls. The complaint alleges adultery,
committed by the defendant, Charles f.
Little, with Lottie M. Stevenson at Lew
istown on March 90, and at divers other
times, to the plaintiff unknown. Cruel
and inhuman treatment is also alleged.