New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-01-09
THE WORLDS DOINGS.

Grimes. Criminals and Casualties.
( Jacob Harris was hangedson the goth
at Knoxville, Tenn. for the murder OF Isaac
White in 1868.
Owen Murphy, the embezzling excise
commissioner of New York, has been discoy-
cred in Toronto, Canada.
Jas. McMullen, of West Osgood, Ont,
brutally killed his wife on the night Of the I'd,
with club. McMullen is said to be partly
insane.
Frank j. Bowman, prominent and
leading lawyer in St. Louis, is on trial for
malpractice and general unprofessional con-
duct as an attorney
John Haddock, aged 81, fatally stabbed
Lizzie Davis, aged II on the night of the LIST,
and then killed himself. Both belonged to
Ferndal near Bethlehem, Pa.
Clarence Boyle, one of the first Mollie
Maguires convicted, has escaped from the
eastern penitentiary Of Pennsylvania. He was
under d ten years sentence and had served
about four.
Ettinger who wrecked Baltimore an
Ohio train, killing two persons, has been
found guilty of murder in the second degree
at Harrisburg, Va, and sentencedto 1SEyears
imprisonment.
The friends Of a newly married cou-
pie in Monroeville, Indiana, fired into a party
who We're giving them a chariyari on the
night Of the 2sth, and wounded nine of the
serenaders, three of them seriously.
A terrible outrage was peypetrated up
on young lady in Washington City on the
goth, and a movement is on foot for the or
ganization of a vigilance committee. Two
negroes have been arrested and came near be-
ing lynched.
Judge Clayton of Chester, Pa, has de-
cided that Representative Bullard who was
arrested on his way to Harrisburg to attend
the session of legislature, charged with en-
bezzlement of the funds of a building as
ISOLATION, is notpriyileged from arrest.
Mr.. Simpson, book-keeper and clerk Of
the Lowell, Mass, manufacturing corporation,
has confessed to having lost about $4,000 Of
the company's money by speculation. The
company declines to prosecute him as he
made a penitent confessionEand promises to
reimburse them.ss...s,r.sss
Hon. W..D. Kelly has failed in attempt
to induce Judge Pierce Of Philadelphia to
reconsider aud increase the sentence Of two
years and half's imprisonment pronunced
against Brown, the co1ored barber, who, while
intoxicated some time ago}s shot and seriously
wounded the son of the Congressman, young
Kelly. Kelly claimed Browna desperate|char
acter. @
The grand jury Of Hartford, Conn, have
found true bill against Jas. G. Wakely, for
mer President and Samuel j. White, former
Secretary, and s. c. Wiggin, also late Presi-
derJ and HenryJ. Furber, late financial man
agerof the Charter Oak life insurance com
pany for q conspiracg to defraud the policy
h5sld ia. otths ISL 50, lfnpan, ].
Boss Tweed has offered to co nfess
4 JUDI ment in all the cit suits now pending
i against him, inc1udig two suits on the
II 100000 claim, the sale as that in the poo
i pies suit in which ynent has been render
1 ed, and suit of S55, OOh gainst Morrissey and
Tweed, and one for $4,000 against G. s. Mil
i Ter and Tweed. The brporation counsel has
accepted the offer in tie last two suits.
The trial of Ira I3ecival for the muir
er, some months agoPf DIR. R. H. Brasier, a
prominent Kentuckih, is now in progress at
Burlington, KY. Thicriminal Judge being a
| relative of the murered man the Governor
appointed Judge Bod of the adjoining dis
trict to try the case. Among the counsel for
the defense are Ho1. j. w. Stephenson and
j. G. Carlisle.