New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-09-25
NEWS OF THE EEK.
clsIMEs IND CRIMINALS.


In quarrel in Philadelphia, Pa, lately,
Walter Mcdonald shot John Garlimen dead.
John Hendrickson, Of Babylon, Long
Island, lately shot his wife and niece and
then killed himself
Thomas Allen, a notorious gam bier in
New York, shot and killed private detective,
Edward Malloy on the 17til inst.
William j. Pennington, of Chatield,
MINI, committed suicide lately by shooting
himself in the head with revolver.
At Fall River, Mass, Charles B. Stick
ney has been arrested for embezzling 100000
from the Manufacturers. gas company.
Rev. Herbert H. Hayden, of Madison
Conn, is under arrest for the murder of Mary
E. Stannard. The case causes great excite
ment.
Modelling, the assassin who attempted
the life Of the Emperor of Germany, is dead.
He died from the effects of his wounds. Thus
the headman's axe is defeated Of victim.
On the 18th inst, Mrs. Charles Morse,
Of Chordan, Ohio while temporarily insane,
killed her little daughter aged Z, and then
cut her own throat, both dying instantly.
Gustav Mott, President of the French
Savings Bank, San Francisco, shot himself in
his room over the bank on the 18th inst. His
and the banks affairs, SO far as is known, are
all right.
From advices Just received it is learned
that the renegade Chyennes viii be captured.
They have been arrested on their march by
our troops at point about twenty miles dis
tant from the fort:
The steamer Ancon, from Portland to
San Francisco, reports that in thick fog she
ran down a schooner about fifteen miles off
Umpqua bar. The schooner sank in few
minutes, but her crew and passengers were
saved by the steamer.
VIM. T. White, Of Visalia, Cal, sus-.
pecting undue intimacy between his wife and
DR.. Mehring, family physician, ostensibly left
home, but soon returning found Mehring in
Mrs. Whites bed room, attacked him with a
pen knife and cut his throat, causing instant
death.
A special to the Columbus O., Dispatch
from Marysville, O., reports that J. T. Craven
back, prominent young physician Of that
place, committed suicide last night by taking
prussic acid. He left a letter requesting bur
ial by the side of Miss Dora King. who died
six weeks ago, to whom he was engaged to
be married.
W. N. S. Wilson, ass sorting letter office
clerk of the redemption division of the treas
ury department was ARRESTED as defaulter.
Wilson had been recommended on the 10th
inst, for dismissal by the chief Of his division,
principally on the g ound of general ineffici-
ency. The examination of his books shows
that on the 9th inst, he distracted $1,000
from a package consigned to him for delivery
to the custooians of the vaults in the general
order Of business. Wilson has been fifteen
years in the department. He admits the theft.
He gave bail.
Edwin French, an old and wellknown
citizen of Ohio, died lately at the residence of
his son in Willoughby, thirteen miles east OF
Cleveland The funeral services were held
next day and the remains inferred in Will
loughby cemetery. On the 18th inst, it was
discovered that the grave had been robbed De-
tectives were at once set at work, and the body
was found in trunk underneath the floor in
the Homeopathic Medical college, Cleveland
The grave had been robbed between 1 and
o'clock at night, and the body taken to the
city in q carriage and thrown into the trunk
The floor was put back and nailed down. Mr..
j. E. French, son Of deceased, Immediately
! sworc out warrants, and nearly dozen people
| including the dean and members of the
| faculty, janitor and several students we've
! arrested. The ia Guilty disclaim all knowledge
of the body-snatching, and say they are entire
| ~ ignorant of the whole affair.
| For three years the large jewelry house
of N. Matson & Co. has lost now and then
articles OF val':e which could not be account
ed for. Within year they have noticed that
goods have disappeared Systematically and
| more frequently, and after shadowing their
clerks without success, recently turned h:ir
attention to an old and trusted chief clerk,
| Frank w. Marchise. It was found that he
maintained improper relations with Mrs.
Mitchell That they frequently met at the
office of DR.. V. G. Second, aud that there was
| another woman in the ring. Unbroken pack
ages of spoons, etc., were found at various
places which Matson identified, and as a re-
suit OF the discovery Marcbise, Mrs. Mitchell,
DR.. Y. G. Second and Mrs. j. F. Irwin were
arrested and locked up. The amount of the
stealing is about $4,000, and considerable
portion has been already recovered. All the
| rrested parties deny their guilt.
CASUALTIES.
There has been 100000 ire at Lewis