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several days since under a charge of murdering his wife at Missoula made a confession. For two or three days it was evident that tho man was much disturbed mentally, and in a repentant mood. He sent for Deputy Sheriff Pichette. The officer' found him in tears, and evidently wishing to unburden bis mind. He said himself and wife had been on a protracted spree for several days; that while in that condition they generally quarrelled and fdfght. the woman always getting the worst ofit. He thought he had killed barduring thoir last spree, but he did, not remember it.Frank Luxton, a well-known youngbutcher of South Butte, committed suicide in a vacnnt lot near the SilverBow mill. Luxton had been married about six months and his married life had apparently not beon happy, as he had frequent quarrels with bis wife. 1?hey had a quarrel and Luxton received a pair of black eyes. ^Jerry Connell, a miner, was shot during au affray at Centerville, but the affair is surrounded with such an air of mystery that it has been utterly unf**i8ibl* to secure tho facts. It is certain that it had no connection with the row in Butte and that it did not grow out of the same causes.About 1 o’clock Connell and a friend named Lyons were returning to Centerville from Butte. Lyons says that when they got into Centerville they were the only persons oh the street, but when they reached a point between the saloon of Joseph Richards and the place kept by a Jamc* Riley, they met a man who seemed to have stepped out from one or the other of the saloons, and shot several times in the direction of Connell and then disappeared. Council was hit by one of the ballets and fell. He was shot through the lung and cannot recover, it is thought.Tho memorable Nellie Meigs case was repeated in Butte, when Laura Norton, a prostitute of Whitechapel alloy, died from tho effects of a beating at the hands of Tom Sullivan, her colored lover. Sullivan assaulted the woman last Tuesday and gave her a terrible boating, in which he seemed to use both his hands and feet and a club. Ho was placed under arrest on a charge of assault and battery, which was changed to mur-der in the first degree.A. P. Men and Catholics Conte together and Blond'dted l« the Sail Result.idsOfteer Pah KUI'mI. Sum Pnnn ►atalh Shot— za- Hm* Mi lilts Called Out t« ----ed. Qtteit the Mat,he _)tt, /Mthe Butte's fourth of July ended most ro sadly ended in a way that will lie ike remembered with sorrow by true of citizens as Jong as the city exists, od Two Thousand men celebrated the so ouo hundred and eigbteeath'anuiver-)lc. nary of American independence by pas becoming opposing factions of wild ns fanatics, and spent the day disputing of regnrdiug religion, fighting, shooting he and disgracing th * city. Conserva-ibe tive men, both Protestants and Catholics, did their utmost to quell leu the bitter feeling of opposing factions nd but the fanatics of both sides became iss more excited as the day rolled on, Cp one exciting incident was added to an-fht other, and it wart not uutil a man had ny been killed and several more injured, nd and the militia had turned out, that ars the mobs were dispersed.50 ^Sometime last August a lodge of xn- the society known as the A. P. A. was*ti- organized in Butte. It developed ide with marvelous rapidity and within u» a few months there were several lodges in Silver Bow county and the nd membership had reached a total of od* more than 2,000. Tho organization n- was understood to be opposed to m- Catholics, and naturally au intensely uc« bitter feeling developed among the wit Catholics against the association, yet bs nothiug had occurred to make tho ur smouldering fight a public one.Catholics mot on corners and de-at uounced the A. P. A. and members of ter the latter organization met and do-kas nounced tho Catholics. But beyond f » possibly a few tilts tho men of opto posing views did not get together.Simon Hauswirth, who couducts in the Columbia saloon in West Broad is* \vay,.iu making his decorations forw- Fourth of July, placed in thewindows the monster letters UA. P. A.” The letters were formed of red, white and blue bunting. There was an “A.” in each of the big front win-M dovrs aud a MP.*’ around tho door be-Lt0 tween the windows.|llt;? The night of July 3 hail not worn ^ away before the trouble began. The ny | sign had been noticed early in tho I evening and caused some comment. Some time during the night, prob-ably about 3 o'clock on the morning of tho Fourth, sticks of gisnt powder ; were placed by some one unknown j^Non tho sidewalk in frout of Haua-l0 wirth’s saloon. The explosion was jn thundering, the hide walk was shattered, thb windows splintered, ^ aud the saloon filled with smoke. f,e Six or eight men were in the saloon at the time but fortunately no one nt was injured.Tho affair was generally talked of during the afterooou. Even the grand parade did not make men for-as get the letters on the saloon or the ts powder explosion in tho early morn-in ing.so Soon after uoou, almost directly be after the exercises were over, a crowd e- began to collect in front of Hauser wirth’s saloon. It is a pretty easy matter to collect a crowd in Butte at af any time of the day or night, and a rn few dozen people there, merely by \g their presence and loud talking, soon?u increased in size to hundreds and id then several thousand. There were cries to pull down the sign, there ol were hisses and yells and oaths, and jt- then there were fights. The man probably does not lire who can tell n how many fights took place that as afternoon in the block between Maiuand Academy on Broadway. There to was a fight in one section of the of block or another almost constantly, b- The huge crowd was completely lh beyond police control. The sheriff's force aud the policemen were power-?n less. The militia and fire companies at were called out and the mob was finally dispersed, but it was not un-?n til one man hail been killed and sev-ur end wounded.Special Officer Daly was trying to in clear a passage for a policeman who or hod arrested a man for throwing al stones. He had pushed a man aside, ie The man pulleJ a gun, and shot it twice, one bullet killiug paly in-d- staidly. The second shot struck in Sam Dunn in the stomach, inflicting h, a probably fatal wound. Frank m Morford, a baker, was arrested as the h- man who did the shooting. Vory many persons received slight bruises aud cuts from stones and weapons.Dunn has since died* ^Koxie Cheque!te, who was arrestedIn a pitched battle between a squad of Butte police and a gang of hoboes in the Montana Central yards, Saturday, Joseph Antonelli was shot through the back aud mortally wounded. Some time during the afternoon the hoboes broke open a car of beer which was consigned to H. J_. Frank, and took out a half barrel of the foaming beverage, which they carried over to the ok! building of the Electric Tight company, and proceeded to enjoy themselves. They became rather noisy and this led to au investigation, in the course of which it was discovered that they hail broken into a car. 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Helena Columbian
Helena, Montana, US
Thu, Jul 12, 1894
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