The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-01-06
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS,

Crluoo.
The new Fisk University, for colored
youths, At Nashville, costingeie0, ,0oO, was ded-
dedicated New Year'sday.
The recognizances on seven OF the in.
dictments for felony against the fugitive Tweed
have been declared forfeited.
The Attorney General has authorized
the employment Of the ablest lawyers in Chi
cago to assist the District Attorney there in the
prosecution Of the whisky ring thieves.
Gov. Tilden Of N CIV York has respited
for thirty five days Sodica FredenLurg and
her son Albert, sentenced 10 lie hanged Fri
day. the 3Oth, tor the murder of Orlo Davis.
1t is stated that the aA.ount of revenue
frauds involved in the seizure Of distillcries 1t
Chicago on the 18th will show that nearly
three-quarters Of million Of dollars is due
the government.
Judge Trigg, Of the United States
district court at Memphis, has dismissed the
charges OF pergury against Waddy Thompson,
and will hear the charges Of felony on the
18th OF January.
In accordance with the recommends.
ton Of the canal commissioners, Gov. T,lden
OF New York has issued an order suspending
Francis s. Taylor from his Office AZ auditor Of
the canal department..
Monroe S. Minister of New York, who
shot his wife and child, killing the latter, and
then himself, on the 3lst, died the next day.
His wife was alive on the lst, though not ex-
pected to survive many hours.
VIM. Trye, furniture dealer about As
years OF age. Of Ludington, Mich, has been
arrested for committing rape ON his daughter
JENNIE, an estimable yonng lady IS years Of
age Jennie herself entered the compliant.
In the United States district court
at Memphis, on the 2sth, judgment was ren-
dered against A. 7. Lacey and Ed. Hart for
over S27 GOO, as sureties on the bond OF Ruel
Hough, late collector Of the district, charged
with delalcation.
Monroe S. Minister Of New York CITY,
on the morning Of the 3lst, shot his child, his
wife and then himself. When the tragedy
was discovered the child was dead and the
husband and wife dying. 1t thought power
ty and disagreements prompted the crime.
Chas. Hemmerles of Cincinnati, Ger.
man aged 43, committed suicide on the 29th.
The cause is attributed to the fact that the
body Of his wife, killed some three months
since, had been exhumed by resurrectionists,
which SO preyed upon his mind as to cause
partial insanity.
A woman passing by the name of Allen
has lately victimized numerous bankers and
merchants Of Michigan by raised drafts, her
method cooperation Icing to purchase small
draft, say for eight to nine dollars and by
adding "U'' and ~" or ''ty" raise it to eighty
or ninety dollars.
The DIR. E. p. Wilder who is wanted ut
Chicago FOR employing resurrectionists to take
mp the body Of a lady from one Of the ceme-
teries OF that city, which body was
discovered packed in a barrel and addressed to
an a:tache Of a medical school in low !, has
been arrested at Fairfield, Iowa.
Saturday, the 25th, thirty y.one persons
OF Baton Rouge, La, were poisoned at a dinner
party. Manchoe Levy Spriggs and Lizzie
both colored, were arrested, and
while being conveyed tn jail the woman was
taken from the posse by band Of armed men,
and later was seen hanging to a tree six
miles from the city. Nothing heard Of the
man
Ayoung lady ofa prominent family in
Union, Delaware county, Ind, having left
home ostensibly to visit relatives at Dun
kirk, and disappeared from the knowledge of
her::friends, detectives were employed to learn
her fate who report that she was seduced some
time before her disappearance. The inference
is that she has been either murdered or Sc
creted.
Joseph Bork, city treasurer Of Buffalo
N. T., fled to Canada on the 29th, to escape
the consequences of deialcation of city f4nds
to between $500, 900 and 9400, 900. The delal-
cations have been going on during the tour
years he has held the Office. The city will
not suffer. it is said, as his bondsmen are
ample security for any deficiency. Bork was
prominently named as the Republican candi.
date for mayor At the last election.