New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1878-11-06
MEMS OF THE WEEK
CRIMRs NV, CRI1fIMALs.

in Crookshire, Quebec, was shot dead By 8
tramp to whom he refused whisky.
Some tour hundred persons in North
Carolina, indicted for illict dstillidg, will be
allowed to plead guilty and sentences will be
suspended during good behavior
An incendisry Ere lately occurred at
jackson, D. T., which destroyed Poor & Stiff
fens liver, stable, burning II horses. The
fire was caused by an incendiary.
Col. Richard Beld committed suicide q
few days ago at the Windsor House, Oakland,
California, by taking morphine He was a
miner from Pittsburgh, Pa. Cause, poor health
and domestic difficulties.
In an ARRAY ut Paqueimlne La, be-
tween A. G. Brule and State Senator Geo. B.
Waite, the former received flesh wound in
the arm, and the latter serious wound in
the side, and is now in critical condition
Cause, politics.
At Sturgis City, D. T., Bolder Ford, a
noted gambler, lately shot and instantly killed
John Russell, a Texas cattle man. The only
cause alleged for the murder is that Ford was
drunk and wanted to kill somebody. He is il
Jail at Deadwood.
At Cleveland, Ohio, the jury IN the
case of Chas. McGue, on trial for murder
rendered verdict of murder in the first de-
gree. McGue murdered Mary Kelly, his
mistress, in house of ill-fame in that city
several months since.
Three tramps the other day, entered
the house of farmer named Thos. Lannon,
near Parkersburg, w. Va, beat the farmers
wife and daughter in a brutal manner, seized
everything that could be Of use to them and
decamped. They were pursued but were not
captured.
Otto Kuentryner hired livery rig at
St. Paul, Mimi, Saturday evening, Oct, 26,
drove out to Lake Como had the
herse put in Knauff's stable, and on
the porch of the hotel shot himself through
the heart producing instant death. He ~as
not intoxicated, and believed 10 have been
deranged
The Manhattan Savings institution was
on the morning of Sunday, the 9th of Octo-
Der, 1875 robbed of securities to the amount OF
s2.757, 700, of which 50 sos, 700 were registered
in the name of the institution and not negoti
able, and $.68,00O are made payable to it, and
$73,0D are in coupon bonds, and 200 in
cash. For the purpose of preventing the loss
to depositors, it is deemed advisable that no
pay ment be made without sixty days, notice
as provided by the laws of the iEstitusion
The integrity of the janitor is suspected
A startling development of defalcation
has just occurred at St. Paul. Minnesota.
Charles Etheridge, a prominent and well
II, posfS Of +lo M
Hope Church, enjoying the confidence of the
community, has turned out to be defaulter
| to large amount, and has fled. He was
agent for several large Fire and Life 1nsur;
ance companies, and also had an extensive
loan agency. The amount of his stealings is
not known, but investigation will develop it
| in few days. He is supposed to be in Can
ada.
While en- route to Cheyenne city in
charge of VIM. Ward, stage agent, Doug.
Goodale, one of the participants in the late
mu' der and stage robbery at Cannon Springs,
escaped by throwing himself from the wind
ow ofthe passenger train at Lone Tree, Neb
OF the treasurer taken from the coach on this
occasion about $4,000 has been recovered.
One of the robbers, Thomas Price, Lies dang
erously wounded at Deadwood, while two,
kno IN have been engaged in the same rob.
berry, namely, Mcbride and Carr, have not
| peen captured. The former is known to have
been wounded by one of the messengers.
| There are at present in confinement four of
the gang, who, although the evidence is not
clear that they were in this late robbery, have
confessed to having been engaged in others
AT Boston. Mass, Judge Bumpus m de
public his decision in the case of Charles L.
Hartwell, conductor, who is charged with
having caused the accident at W'llaston, on
the Old Colony railroad. Hartwell is ad-
| judged guilty of manslaughter and held in
$1,000 bail for trial in December. Engineer
Hurlburt, of the freight train, is adiudged
guilty Of gross negligence in occupying the in
ward track without giving proper signal. The
verdict further states that engineer Westgate,
of the forward engine of the excursion train
was not suitable person to have charge Of
the train under the circumstances, as he did
otpossess that complete knowledge of and
familiarity with the track and switches of the
road, such as regular engineer would have
and further that if the rules of the road had
| been followed out, no accident would have
occurred.
/ CASUALTIES.
The barge Van Setback sank of
Yohkers, N. T. and the captain and his wife
and two children were drowned.
| The picking establishment of r. & ]
Heinz, Pittsburg, Pa, has been destroyed b!
fire. Loss $4,000, wholly covered by insur
ance
] Harry Over. Yard-master Of the St