The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-08-20
THE NEWS.
CrimoA.

l.. CH1uA0Os
Telegrams from New York City Of August
14say that t6eReayy firm Of Z. ]. Jaatay6 Co.,
dry:gcvds dealeis, have lost forty thousand
dollarsby the dedication Of c. A. Church. the
head q their ribbon department. Church has
left Tho city. .-'''"'>,-,>s~.. :
A German shoemaker, committed suicide
Augrst; 18th on the Ohio bridge. Hepaid toll
on the Louisville side, remarkino that
he did not intend returning. When halt
across he leaned over the railing 10 as to fall
into>ths river below, and placing = pistol in
his mooth, fred. He was single and had no
known relatives.
Evan Oleson, the raftsman who committed
suicide at Reads Landing on the afternoon
OF the 10th, took sixty, grains of stRychnine,
and was corpse in ten minutes thereafter.
He left wife and ono child six years old.
In the difficulty At Elizabeth City, Min-
nesota sSSbetween the Leistekow and Faribault
boys which has already been mentioned, Will
liam Leistekow was fined 90, which sum he
refused to pay and took an appeal to the Dis
trict Court
Newton, Mass, is cursed by IN imitator oi
sessPomeroy, in the person Of boy named
Archibald Jackson, who is under arrest for tor
menting another lad, whom he stripped and
beat While the lao was naked, being tied so
he could not move, Jackson forced little girl
to come and look at his nude victim.
Notice has been given to the U. 8. District
Attorney of New York city that testimony
would be taken in the suit instituted in 1859
by James SeWhelan Of St. Charles parish, La,
against Gen. sheridan, to recover e368, TT, the
value Of sugar and molasses mills, stables, &c
oondsoated BY the defendant in 1867, while in
command. A.: :.
i, Dr. D. P. Hoffman, an CID and wealthy ply
sician OF Baltimore, Md, is under arrest to,
malpractice, the charge arising from the death
lv choking Of a child he was treating, the
choking being caused by brush with which
he was applying medicine t, the inside of the
oh'ld's throat, and which slipped from his
grasp into its windpipe.
The Washington Chronicle Of the 10th pub
published 4 long article on the Marine
Corps, the details Of which are principally
charges Of swindling marines and officers ofthe
corps and charges against quarter master
Stack for serious abuses in the matter of pur-
chasing clothing. &C., with other wholesale
charges against the entire corps. So far As the
officers are concerned, inquiry at the fourth
auditors Office sustains the charges OF fraud
upon the government in purchasing cloth
ing. The officers Of the treasury also say that
Major Stack is entirely innocent Of any COM
plicity, and that the offence lies between the
ontractor and parties who in their official or
Gle rical capacity are entrusted with the inspec-
tion of clothing sent them for that purpose by
contractors A = icitor otthe treasury has be-
gun snit in New York against the bondsmen
Of the contractors, one OF whom recently died,
and the other was missed from a Pr vidence
steamer. Evidences Of fraud i'll the purchase
Of clothing are clear, but there are no charges
made by the government against officers Of the
corps charged with INSPECTION duties.
A lady, Mrs. Emma Hess by name. died IN
Chicago on the 10th of August from the
effects of an overdose Of gelsemium. The re-
sponsibilty Of her death lies between her bus-
band, who prescribed the dose for headache,
and an apothecarys boy; who compounded
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