People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1896 — CRIME. [ARTICLE]

CRIME.

The attorney for Alonzo Walling, indicted with Scott Jackson for the murder of Pearl Bryan, has been notified to be ready to proceed with the trial May 5. At 8 o’clock'Monday evening a tragedy was committed at Elgin, 111., near the residence of Judge David B. Sherwood. One of the victims was his cousin, Elizabeth Trowbridge, aged 35; the other was Miss Mary Linnett, aged 18. They were walking with Miss Alice Trowbridge, a sister of Elizabeth, wnen Miss Linnett suddenly drew a revolver and instantly killed her friend. She then committed suicide. Miss Linnett is declared to have been Insane. The case of Joseph R. Dunlop, editor of the Chicago Dispatch, which was brought before the supreme court on a writ of error, was advanced on the docket and set for hearing Oct. 12. Robert K. McCoy, the West Virginia outlaw, who for a week has been pursued by a posse, was captured at Huntington by United States Deputy Marshal Frampton. He is a member of the Hatfield-McCoy gang. H. H. Holmes, in jail at Philadelphia under sentence of death for the murder of Benjamin F. Pitzel, has made a confession of his crimes. lie aeclares he has killed twenty-seven people. The oollce laugh at the storv.

dazed by financial difficulties, 8. B. Minsball, a prominent insurance man, formerly of Chicago, late Thursday night assassinated William B. O. Sands, a wealthy lumber dealer at Pentwater, Mich., whom he claimed had swindled him, then he went to his home and killed bis wife and three children, and after that blew out his brains. Most of the male residents of Eddyville, lowa, are out in force bunting for two peddlers who Saturday night attempted to assault Mary Moore, a 15-year-old girl of that town. If caught It is believed the men will bo lynched. Mrs. Hearst, widow of the late Senator; Hearst of California, lives in Washington, is Immensely rich, and is a society leader. At one of her entertainments she paid an opera singer SI,OOO to sing a few songs during the evening. Mrs. Hearst is the same lady who allowed her husband to be buried at public expense; and the sum you tax-pay-* era paid for that funeral was more than $21,000. It is to the eternal credit of Mrs. Stanford that she had the decency to bury her husband at the expense of his own enormous estate.

soma Overproductions. There Is an overproduction of palaces and hovels and not enough homes. There is an overproduction of millionaires and paupers and not enough manhood. There is an overproduction of luxury and misery and not enough comforts. There is an overproduction of officers and taxation and ifot enough benefit therefrom. There is an overproduction of monopolies and bankrupts and not enough legitimate business. There is an overproduction of rich and poor no-producers and not enough wealth makers. There is an overproduction of political fools and not enough thinking voters. Yes, overproduction is the .cause of misery.—The Coming Nation. Busy people have no time, and sensible people have no inclination to use a Blow remedy. One Minute Cough Chre acts promptly and gives permanent results. Sold by A. E. Long, druggist. Try Parrot & Taggaets Lunch Milk Biscuit they are the best.