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A TnillLK TRAOEDY III IOWA.Masok City, Iowa, February 16.—Meagredetails of a dreadful tragedj at Or«eDvill«,Minnesota, reached hare this morning.Threa jouag ladies want to the home of anold coopla to spend the evening. At 9 o’clock they started home. The? had hatdly stopped oat of doors whsn they wars shot down be two rnfians. The old gentleman started to go for help. While gone, one of the fiends entered the house and killed the old lady.L.ATKH PARTICULARS.Joseph Cbemilke. 19 years old, was themurderer of the women. Hie victims wereMrs. Philip Cbemilke, his sister-in-law, hersister and their mother. Joe had tieen onbad terms with hie brother's family. He got drunk last night, and laid in wait for them. When the two girla came out of the house, he shot them down. He then went into the house and killed the old lAdy.The country roundabout is aror ed, and young Cbemilke would be lynched it caught.One of the girls is dead and the other will die.LATKR-Tir. MURDERER COMMIT* SUICIDE.The body of the murderer was found forty rode from the house. He committed euicide by shooting himself in the head.The girl who escaped instant death has since died, making four deaths in all.THK KEHLEH-O WEN MILL.
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Butte City Daily Miner

Butte City, Montana, US

Sun, Feb 17, 1889

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