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today's date: 07/31/2010
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New trials granted two murderers under life and death sentences.
Ottawa, Ill., june 17- Opinions have been rendered in the Supreme court in two cases of special interest. The case of Bolzer, the Hungarian, who in 1877 killed a man named Haw at Streator, was reversed and remanded to the lower court. Bolzer had two trials. In first he was found guilty of murder in the first degree.
A fire fiend at Ionia, Michigan Comes very near being lynched.
Ionia, Mich., June 17.- Incendiary fires have been of frequent occurrence in this city of late. Early Sunday morning a fire-fiend was caught in the act of setting fire to a residence. The occupants were nearly suffocated before they were aroused and were rescued with difficulty. Public feeling ran very high when it was known that the fire-bug was in the hands of the officer. An attempt was made to lynch the man, last prompt action by the police saved him.
Canton, O., april 29.—While a number of children were playing at Malverno Saturday, two of them, Charles Dickman, aged 5, and Johnny Hexawer, aged 8, cousins, got into a childish quarrel, when when Hexawer seized a shotgun that was standing near by and fired at the Dickman child, the entire charge taking effect in his head. The murder caused the wildest excitement, and the parents of both the youthful murderer and his infantile victim are well nigh crazed over the terrible tragedy.
The smuggling of Chinese men and women from British America into the United States territory is a very lucrative business at various points along the border from Vancouver to Winnipeg. If the venture fails at one place it is renewed at another, and sooner or later the pilgrims get in. A new trick, just discovered at Whatcom, Washington Territory, has almost taken away the breath of the Federal officials, for they know that it must have been successful for a time. The large number of squaws coming into the country form British Columbia finally attracted the attention of an official, and he took a party of them to jail. On close inspection it was found that the creatures were not squaws at all, but able-bodied Chinamen who had painted and otherwise disguised themselves as to resemble the typical Indian squaw of the frontier. In one instance two young and rather comely Chinese women came across in the garb of American women, but closely veiled. An ungallant official lifted their veils and found them out. These girls were billed through to San Francisco, and were worth to their owner about $2000 apiece.
Interesting News Compilation.
Domestic
While Perry Wine, of Brockton County, W. VA., was felling a tree on the 17th broke across the stump and fell, demolishing his house and killing his wife and three children.
Felicity Wart, aged seventy-two years, a professional beggar, died in New Orleans on the 17th of debility and neglect in an old shanty where she had lived twenty years. She was supposed to be very poor, but the coroner in inspecting the circumstances of her death discovered hidden around her shanty $38,500.
An Ohio Man Swindles Prominent New Yorkers
New York, April 21.—A man who represented himself as Rev. Joseph Manning has been collecting subscriptions here for, he claimed, St. Mary’s Orphan Mission of Leavenworth, Kas. He exhibited a certificate, which purported to come from Bishop Fink, of Leavenworth. It now turns out that he is a bogus priest. He has been arrested and says his name is James Reynolds. He was a peddler and recently came here from Ohio. By his swindling scheme it is said that he picked up several thousand dollars. Among those he has swindled are Banker Eugene Kelly, John McCaull, A. M. Palmer and Ada Rehan.
Some of the Marvelous Deeds Ascribed Him by Ancient Scribes.