The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-09-29
THE NEWS RECORD.
GRIMES AND CRIMINALS.

CRIMES AND CRIMINALS.
The libel suit commenced by the pro-
prietors OF the Bulletin and the Call, of San
francisco, and the Alta Of the same city, calls
for damages in $4,000.
A Clcburne, Texas, murderer, who is
to be executed TIE first week in october, wants
to make farewell speech three hours long.
They'll see him ha1a first.
The Russian government has banished
sou Ural Cossacks to the penal settlement OF
Turkestan, for having resisted the new mill
tary laws, and mary more are likely to follow.
The newspaper controversy III San
Francisco, growing out Of the failure OF the
Bank of California, has resulted in the propri-
etors OF the Bulletin and the Cal commencing
proceedings for libel against the Alta.
A Buffalo physician who has under
gone the operation which was so accurately
described in the case OF Clara Morris, says it is
absolutely painless. Iron at white heat pro-
duces only a tickling sensation Oh the flesh.
The people OF Pottsville have adopted,
to put an end to the Molle Mcguire terrorism,
the plan of picking ont cumber o1the Mollies
whom they promise to shoot or hang in re-
venge for the first murder committed.
Frank Millins, mate OF the steamer Hi
nois, died at Memphis on the 23d, from inju-
ries inflicted some two weeks since at V;cks-
burg, by negro named Clay. Clay is in Jail
at Vicksburs. Mullins leaves a vile and three
children.
The banking house of 0. NJ. Tyler &
Co. of Waukesca, Wis, closed its doors on
the Goth, and simultaneously made an assign
ment. The immediate cause vas the abscond-
ing of one E. R. Hendry, who was largely IL
dehted o the bank.
Davenport, Iowa, was yictimized a few
days ago by q green looking fellow, who rep
resented himself as the agent for Ole Bull,
(who is in Europe,) billed the town for the
great violinist and ran up board and other bills
on the credit Of the treasurer OF the troupe.
An Eastern pilot has been caught at
novel sort of roguery. His plan has been to write
letters to prominent men asking the privilege
of naming vessels for them and suggesting
to each the usual contribution of one or two
hundred dollars for the purchase OF a set Of
colors.
George Gage of Chicago, the we'll
known hotel conductor, whose unfortunate in
solvment in real estate speculations had about
ruined him financially and whose wife was re-
Gently crippled Tor life by carriage accident,
isnow at the point of death, completely broken
down by his troubles.
An incendiary fire at Quincy, ILL.,, Sun.
day night, the 1sth destroyed property to the
value of SIC, 0co and one human life, that Of a
man named Ben. Butter. Butler leaves a vile
and two children in Leavenworth, Kansas. d.
D. Merriam, the p incipal loser, offers a reward
of 81, 900 for the arrest of the incendiary.
In the IIoffmann-P rcntiss 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 atte1ward.
A man and wife at Cleveland, named
Rowan, are under arrest for starving to death
their idiot son. They kept hi N, although
they had a comfortable house, locked in 8
barn, where he lay when discovered, almost
naked, reduced to skeleton, lying Oh damp
straw and dying from hunger. The discovery
was too late to save the boys life.
"A Washington telegram of the 22d
says the commission appointed to investigate
the charges of fraud preferred against Indian
Agent Gibson, OF the Usage agency, reported to
the effect that they found some irregularities,
such as an imperfect system of keeping ac
counts, but no evidence was adduced showing
corrnpti< and fraud, and further that neither
the government nor the Indians have sus-
tanned any loss.
The jury in the Westervelt case, on
trial in Philadelphia, Monday, the Goth, brought
in verdict charging him with conspiracy to
conceal and a guilty knowledge OF the abduc-
ton OF Charlie Ross, though he was acquitted
on the point charging him with actual partici-
patton in the act. When the verdict was Civ
en- Weste, welt broke down completely and
sobbed like child, as did his wife and child
who were present
A fight occurred Thursday at Fort
Wayne, Ind, between the pupils
of the Jefferson street and St. PauIs
German Catholic schools, in which
ayoung lad of the Jefferson school named
nurlhut Hartman, Is years old, was terribly
and, it is thought, fatally beaten. The aft il
created great excitement, the Protestant
charging the Roman Catholics with uphold
ing their children.
INCIDENTS AND ACCIDENTS.