New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-10-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK
CRIMES IND CRIMINALS.

been sentenced to ten years in the peniten-
tiary
Nine prisoners dug through the Jail
wall at Kokomo, Indiana, and escaped to the
woods on the 18th inst
The Howe Truss bridse across Little
Mulberry river on the Little Rock & Fort
Smith railroad, Arkansas, has been burned.
Origin of the fire unknown.
Joseph Kolansky a bar tender in St.
Louis, shot and killed a servant girl named
Augusta Sumond. Jealousy supposed to be
the cause. The murderer gave himself up.
A Rome dispatch states that several
persons were wounded at Trieste in a disturb
ance caused by sailors from an Austrian man.
of-war shouting "Death to Italy'' before an
Italian consulate.
Mrs. Jerry G. Smith, indicted for the
murder Of her husband, police officer Smith,
when arraigned in the Hudson county court
New Jersey, plead "Not Guilty." accompanied
by wailings and swooning.
Advices from New Haven, Conn, state
that in the case Of Rev. H. Hayden, charged
with the murder Of Mary stannard the grand
jury, after two days consideration, found
A New York telegram says: Since the
discovery, Sept. 10th, Of the body uear Silver
Lake, Staten Island, the names of no less
thaa five missing girls have been discovered,
through the efforts of the police to solve the
mystery.
Forty or fifty men convicted at Malad,
Idaho, for cutting timber for the Utah North
railroad no
were sentenced to aggregate fines If shout
$4,000 and six months imprisonm nt This
action delays the progress of the railroad.
Jesse r. Oakley, defaulting cashier Of
the Merchants Exchange National bank
New York who fed to Europe in 1870, but
who returned recently and pleaded guilty
was sentenced in the United States court to
five years at hard labor in Albany penitent-
airy.
In the United States Court at Milwau-
kee on the 18th inst, Judge Dyer ordered the
discharge Of ] ohm Cheekley, the alleged
Canadian counterfeiter on the ground that the
offence was not clearly and afirmatively
charged. Cheekley was Immediately rear
rested under pew warrant.
The box stolen from the First National
bank of Fishkill landing, N. Y, by burglars
was found in the woods near the spot where
the robbers abandoned their horses and wagon
and took to the freight train. The contents,
consisting of bonds and mortgages, valued at
from $50, 900 tie 100000, were undisturbed.
On the 18th inst, a severe fight took
place at Brigand camp, fifteen miles south of
Deadwood, D. T., between the sheriff and
posse and two highway robbers, in which one
of the latter, Tom Price, was four times
wounded twice fatally, and is now in the
hands of the authorities. His companion es-
| capped.
A Kansas City Mo, dispatch says a
man named J. B. Wilbur died suddenly
at the Delmonico house on the 9th inst. A
paper Of morphine and bottle of some kind
OF drug was found in his room but the cause
of death is not certainly ascertained. No one
knows who he is, but he is supposed to be
travelling salesman for New York or Chicago
! house.
Two hundred and fifty negroes sur
rounded Waterproof, La. on the 18th inst,
and threatened to burn and sack the town.
It is supposed they burned J. senegar's place
on Lake st. John, four miles below Water
proof. call for armed assistance was made
on NatcheZ and 100 men left on the ferryboat
to aid the whites at Waterproof if needed
Burgess, the Bank of England burglar
was caught at Niles, California by Chief De-
tective Henderson, of London, and Allen
PinlSerton, detective of Chicago. Burgess
visited San Francisco in September and then
departed for Niles. When found he had
enough money left to take him back 10
England He was expecting to take an emf
grant train in faw days Burgess was heav-
lily ironed.
Doug. Goodale, Of Atlantic, Ia, re-
turned to his home from the Black Hills on
the 14th inst, and was Immediately arrested
by detective in waiting on charge of par
ttcipancy in stage robbery at Hat Creek,
Wy, a few days ago. A bar Of gold worth
nearly $4,000 was found in his possession ard
the officers are confident of their ability to
establish his guilt. Accused was taken to
Council Bluffs and lodged in Jail to await
trial.
A Kansas City dispatch says State
Treasurer Elijah Gates was arrested there on
indictments found by special jury charging
him with unlawfully deriving benefits from
deposits of public money. Ex-treasurer Jos
W. Mercer was also arrested on the same
charge and for embezzlement It is expected
that the trial of these gentlemen will reveal
all the operations, financial and political, Of
the alledged treasury ring. Dispatches also
mention the probable Indictment of John F.
Crisp, Democrat candidate for Congress.
, CASUALTIES.