The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-10-06
THE NEWS RECORD.
GRIMES AND CRIMINALS,

CRIMES AND CRIMINALS.
The dcfalcation Of Mr.. Wagner, treas
urer OF Lyon county, Iowa, is over $40, 900, but
the county is believed to be well secured.
Charles Madden, youth of 20, lately
discharged from Sing Sing, has been sent back
ito prison from New York for twenty years. for
robllng and threatening to kill his mother.
Troops have been sent out from Fort
Randall to watch the Sioux in Keho Park and
Running Water valleys, who are excited to fe-
yer heat by thetBlack Hills business, and are
disposed to 50 on the war path.
Eighteen hundred horses have been
stolen from th5 Indian reservation near Fort
Hill by whites. One party of Texans got away
with 400. The government is bound by
treaty to pay the Indians for these stolen
horses.
About sixty Indians on the 22d ult.
corralled Phillips hay camp on the south side
of the Platte, midway between Forts Fetter-
man and Laramie. One of the hay cutters
was wounded and thirty head of cattle and
tour horses killed or drove away.
Rudolphus X. Turner, who is under ar
rest at California, Mo-, for forgery Of land titles
and who is charged With extensive operations
in that line, is son of Professor Turner of the
Agricultural College of Illinois. His alleged
confederate, who executed the papers, is James
Reed, an artist, who is also under arrest.
Quintus Shuler, Of Trenton, n. j.,
partner of the widely know "Jer1salem'' or J.
R. Freesc in banking, has disappeared with a
young widow, leaving his wife and child and
several too confding friends.
The wife Of E. Dunsmore of Weather.
field, VT, poisoned herself and three children
on the afternoon of the 9th: during the all
sence of her husband. The youngest child, 8
years old, died, but it is thought the others
will recover
Mary Grubb, the daughter of we'll
known farmer near Wilmington, Del, was
found in the Christiana river on the esd,
drowned, with her feet tied together It is
thought she was outraged and then tied and
thrown into the river.
An incendiary fire at Quincy, Ill.,. Sum
day night, the 10th, destroyed property to the
value Of $50, 900 and one human life, that of a
man named Ben. Butler. Butler leaves wife
and two children in Leavenworth. Kansas. D.
D. Merriam, the principal loser, offers a reward
OF 81 600 for the arrest of the incendiary.
4 prize fight of fourteen rounds, end
ing in draw, was recently fought at Troy, N.
T., between woman and q
man-the contestants being Mrs
Henitan and one Mike Reilly, profess
sional bruiser Both appeared in the usual
prize ring costume, that is bare to the waist
In the Hoffmann-Prentiss SANDER case
before the Rev. Mr. Hoffmann's church COM
mittee, witness was introduced on the 18th
who was formerly domestic in the family OF
the pastor, and testified that he seduced her
in January, 1874, and continued improper re-
lations with her for several months a!terward.
A number Of Pittsburg boys discovered
in sewer, Oh the 29th ult, a large lot OF val
uabe goods, such as watches, diamonds and
articles of the precious metals, in sack. The
goods were stolen from pawn shop in that
city, to which the Loys returned them, laying
claim to the $4,000 reward that had been offer
ed for their recovery
A druggist at Burlington, Iowa, on the
Goth, made the mistake Of putting up morphine
instead OF hydrate Of chloral, which he discoy-
eredsoon afer and ran to the house for which
it was intended, but too late. The child for
whom the prescrip tion was made had taken
one dose and died within fifteen minutes after.
The coroner's jury accused the druggist, who
is named Frltts, of criminal negligence.