Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-11-04
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES
Sensation in Business Circles in Milwaukee
Wholesale Druggist Firm Arrested for
Obtaining Goods Under False Protences-
miscellaneous
FALSE pRErESsEs.


Especial Telegram to the Globe.
MILWAUKEE, Nov. 3-A genuine sensation
Will be created in business circles when it be
comes known that all the members of firm Of
Wholesale druggists, the firm of Wassermann &
Co., this city, were arrested last evening by a
deputy sheriff on the charge of having obtain
ed goods on false pretenses. The complaint 10
made by Solomon Bass, OF New York. The
order of the county court for their arrest placed
the bail at 81, 500 each. The bail was prompt
~ furnished. An effort was made to keep the
matter quiet. The arrests are on criminal war
rants.
SARATOGA HOTEL BURNED.
SARATOGA, Nov. 3.-The Clarendon hotel was
damaged $4,000 by fire to-day.
BURIED By FALLING WALLS.
AMSTERDAM, Nov. 3.-The storage depart
ment of Green's knitting mill burned this
morning. The falling walls crushed into
Schuyler Blood's mill, burying three men in
the shattered machinery. Charles Fulton lost
q leg. The other two slightly injured. Green's
loss, $50, 600; insurance, $4,000. Schuyler d
Blood's 10000; insured.
HANGED.
AUGUSTA, Nov. 2.-Moses Allen, colored, was
har ged yesterday at Gibson, Glasscock county,
AOA CAAS az VI A)CAJduJAn LII OCCCtnOCI
last. Iyey was ex-sheriff of Glasscock county.
FATAL FALL.
TOLEDO, o., Nov. 2.-This morning two plas-
terers, M. Murphy, married, Patrick Conley,
single, working in the new produce exchange
building. stepped upon the end of swinging
| scaffold and fell eighty feet to the cellar, and
Conley was instantly killed, while Murphy will
die.
LAKE wRRcE
DETROIT. Nov. 2.-The schooner Graham
Brothers is reported ashore at Biddlo's Point,
near tho head of Lake Michigan.
ROAD AGENTS LyNoHEp.
LARAMIE, Wy, Nov. s.--Last night the coach
driver from the north reported that on his trip
north from here Friday night, he was stopped
at the Platte river ford, about mile distant
from this post, by FIVE masked men who took
from the coach two prisoners, Mansfield and
Mclaughlin. and hung them on large cotton
| wood tree on the river bank. These men were
road agents and had been in custody in Chey.
enne, and were en- route for Deadwood under
guard of j. NJ. May and Jesse Brown, whom
the lynchers compelled to give up their arms
and surrender their prisoners. At daylight
this morning NJ. l.. Green. deputy coroner, rode
to the scene and found the bodies still there,
one hanging and the other on the ground
They were brought here and coroner's jury
| impanelled.
MURDERED BY TRAMps.
ST. LOUIS, Nov. ga dispatch from 6edalis
says: Thos. G. Cockrell, nephew of United
States Senator CockrelI, this State. was founG
murdered last Friday morning in the store Of
M. T. Staltz at Ridge Prairie, Saline county
| His skull was cracked in three places and throa
cut. The supposition is he was murdered b,
tramps during Thursday night as the victim
pockets and money drawers of the store haC
been riaed. Cockrell was clerk in the store
and slept there.
AEEaRo's CRIME.
COLUMBUS, O., Nov ga special to the Stat
Journal from Reynoldsburg, states that las
night negro named William Slefort, went t,
| the woods where three women and a man wer
encamped, and attempted to outrage one of tn
! women. Upon being urged by the male com
panion to desist the negro became enraged ant
struck the man with fence rail and it is sup
posed fatally injured him. The negro wal
afterwards arrested and is now IN jail.
SERIOUS STRIKE.
| LONDON, Nov. S.-The Oldham cotton opera
tives Saturday unanimously resolved to resis
| the proposed reduction Of 10 per cent. o.
wages. Twenty thousand hands and eight
million spindles will be effected by this
action.
MANsLAUaHrRa.
BosToN, Nov. s.-Andrew p. Anderson wa
arrested to-day ON the charge of msnslaughter
in havirr. caused the death of Betsey Ranaldo
whom L. assaulted Oct. 18th. She was hi
washer woman and not having his clothes read,
when he called, he assaulted her, from the cf
fects of which she died last Monday.
LUMBER FIRE.
| DETROIT, Mich, Nov. PA fire at hIuskegol
Mich, to-day, destroyed $61, 500 worth of lum
Der owned by Blodgett & Byne, of Eolton
Mich. Uninsured.
/ BODY sNATCHEn sENTEEcED.
CLEVELAND, O., Nov. 2.-F. G.. Minor, con
victed of body snatching, was sentenced to-da.
to TO ur months imprisonment in the wor
house and pay fine of 800 and costs.