The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1875-10-22
THE NEWS.

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CrInsoA.
The Maniton Islands, in Lake Michigan
are said to be dominated at this time by gang
Of desperadoes who riot aud rob without hin.
drance.
Six Of the gang of swindlers who under
took to operate with forged letters Of credit on
the British Bank Of North America were cap.
tured. Only one got away with al.y money.
Forrest, husband Of the woman who was
fatally injured BY acid being poured on he1
face at night has confessed that he purchased
an ounce OF nitric acid for curing corns, and
had placed it up stairs where the bottle must
have been broken and the contents leaked
through and run down into his wife's tace.
Tie story is too thin, an ounce was not sum.
cient to have burned her so terribly.
Clark Rdmundson, colored, Of Atlanta,
Ga., brother to the one hung at Fayetteville in
that State Friday last for rape, committed 4
rape on Mrs. W. s. Kennedy Of Fayetteville,
on the 18th. .."
The late Tennessee Methodist Episcopal
conference, in session at Fayetteville, found
Rev. DR.: John w. Henner, Sr, guilty of the
charge of trying to corrupt the virtue OF Mrs.
Naylor, and suspended him from Office and
the Christian ministry tor one year. DR.. Hen
ner was one Of the oldest, most eloquent and
popular of Southern ministers. 1t is stated
that the DR.. acknowledged his indiscretion
and warned younger men Of yielding to temp
tation.
Three colored men of New Orleans hay
Ing been attacked by party of white roughs,
and one OF them killed, the whites held an i'm.
mense mass meeting on the afternoon OF the
18th to denounce the outrage Rev. C. J. Mar
shall presided, and resolutions were adop-
ted conde.nning all violence and pledging sup.
port to the law in the punishment of the guilty
parties. Two of the white men charged with
being engaged in the outrage have Leen arrest
ed and are in iail
John Crisspell, livin. about three miles
north Of Holland CITY,, Mich, made two at
tempts at selt-murder, on account of family
difficulties. The first time he tried to shoot
himself with q rifle but failed The second
time he used razor and inflicted probably
fatal wounds in his throat.
An insane young man named Winfield
Scott Spicer recently called on Sam Ryan, Jr.
OF the Appleton, Wis, Crescent, and told him
long story about an encounter with Indians
who, he said, killed his companion and forced
him to eat piece Of flesh from the arm Of the
murdered man. An investigation was set on
foot and the body OF Charles Hennis was found
as Spicer had described with piece Of flesh
gone, but apparently torn from one arm as il
bitten out by wild beast. No Indians have
been seen thereabouts for months, and it is be-
lieved the crazy man committed the murder.
On the evening of October l1th DR.. Sanders,
of Clinton, La, was poisoned by solution ol
arsenic in bucket of water, administered by
a colored woman named Catharine Mathews.
When Al rested she confessed her guilt and said
John Gair, her brrther-in-law, and John Ray
lnstigated her to the act. Gair was arrested
by deputy sheriff and posse on the 18th,
and while being conveyed to Clinton the Off
Ger and posse were overpowered by band O.
masked men and Gair was shot to DEATH The
same night this or another body of masked
men took the woman Mathews from her guard
and hung her to tree in the court house yard
Clinton.
An attempt was made by some white rowlies
in Little Rock, AK, on the night of the 10TH
to assassinate three negroes. One they killed
outright, and the second was fatally wounded
but the third escaped with only slight injuries
Business was suspended next day for 4 time
while all the leading citizens met to concer
measures for preventing the recurrence O
such crimes. Two OF the assassins have beer
arrested.
The body of Fred. Boiler, recer tly from
Sandusky, Ohio, was found on the 18th in tht
canal at Napoleon, that State, with his throa
cut. He had recently purchased saloon a,
Napoleon, in the room over which was founo
apool of blood, bank book, coat, vest and
keys, and blood-stained knife. Several per
sons have been arrested on suspicion.
| Lieutenant Gov. Antoine of Louisiana, LA.
issued proclamation calling upon the Law
officers and all good citizens Of the State t
unite in arresting and bringing to punishment
the parties engaged in the recent lynching OF =.
man and woman near Clinton, Felincia Parish
and in bringing to justice all persons engaged
in defying the peaceful operation ot the law.
Tampieo, Indiana, was the scene of fata
shooting affray on the evening Of the 10th
Two men named Carr and Chadwick had .
dispute ever the ownership OF mill. Chad
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at the mill, ard Carr, with the assistance OF
man named Platt, went to the mill and at.
tempted to take possession of it, and Warwick
resisting, they both shot him. four shots tax
ing effect in his face and breast
Arthur Davis and his wife OF Toronto city
Ont, have been adjudged guilty Of the mur
der OF Miss Gilmour By malpractice and they
were sentenced to be hanged December 9Th.
The Sherman, Texas, Register Of Octot e,
18th, tells Of tloodthirsty negro who, afte1
killing peddler and little boy, all covered
with blood and bearing the scalps of his VIC
Tins, rode into ComaEche camp near Fort Sill
and thought to win the good will Of the In
dians by boastiug Of his crime. But they de.
livered him up to soldiers, who, finding tha
he had really committed the murders, prompt
ly hung him.
It is said large number Of horses at Daven
port, Iowa, are disabled by the new epizootic
and two fatal cases have occurred. At Louis
vile, Ky, the disease prevails in milder form
Frank II. Powell, ticket agent and tele
graph operator at White Plains, N. Y, was t.
have been married on the 18th, but instea,
was taken with On apoplectic fit. After severa
hours, pulse and respiration ceasing, he wa
pronounced dead by the doctors. Severa
| honrs later however il was decided he va