Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-17
Especial Telegram to the Globe. !

CORRUPTION IN THE IOWA STATE PRISON.
DIES Mo1Sas, Ia, June 16.-The management
of the Iowa State prison, situated at Fort
Madison, has been Investigated and several
dark tricks on the part of the warden, 8. 81.
Craig, have come to light. In fact, it has been
discovered that that officer has made the most
of his position by means of bogus contracts,
sham pay rolls and the like irregular modes of
conducting business. The investigating COM
mittee declare that from the day he entered the
prison until the time of his departure there
FROM he employed every imaginable
SCHEME TO ENRICH HIMSELF
at the expense of the State, and even had his
wife, niece and servant girl booked as guards,
for which the drew their respective salaries
with the utmost regularity. It is presumed
proceedings will be instituted in order to secure
the return of Craig to the institution for which
he has done SO much. The committee report
that Craig has for years purchased beef with
out contract, paying from 20 to 100 per cent.
above the retail prices; that one-half the ex-
penditures for useless repairs have gone into
his own pocket; that he sold over $4,000 worth
of lard and grease and appropriated the money
that he had
DEFRAUDED THE STATE
out of $1,000 on striped, goods and blankets;
that he paid over $4,000 for pork on vouchers
of E. F. Smith and McCulloch Bros, who say
they knew nothing about it, and never deliv-
cred any pork; that he paid. II. E. Hunt of
Keokuk, over $12, 900 for groceries on a fraud
ulent account, a portion Of which articles were
never delivered, and part sent to his farm; that
he paid Greenbaum Co., of Burlington, OYER
$4,000 on fraudulent contract, by which the
State was defrauded Of over $4,000, and that
he charged the State with private kilograms
sent to his farm. and for flowers and boo uets
Western Associated Press
MURDER FOR REVENGE.
CHICAGO, June l6.-An atrocious and unpro.
voked murder was committed at 8 o'clock last
evening in the suburban town of Lake, by VIM
Cary, who shot Max Hogivina, brother of his
Cary's, divorced wife, inhicting wound which
proved fatal in about half an hour. Cary was
drunken loafer who had been making him
self insufferable since his divorce, and Hogi
vina has been acting as protector of his sister
and her children. The murderer is still al
large. His motive was purely revenge.
FATAL QUARREL.
ST. LOUIS, Mo-. June 16.-Stephen K. Moore
and Albert Gentry, two young farmers living
near neighbors about two miles from Sturgeon
Mo-, have had considerable trouble with eacl
other for two years past. Yesterday, Moore
went to Gentry's place and complained the lat
ter's dogs had been teasing his hogs. Some
words ensued, and Moore shot Gentry in tn
abdomen, inhicting mortal wound. Moore
fed.
NEGRO MURDERED FOR HIS MONEY.
Night before last negro named Allen Lyl
took lodgings at the house of a negress nance
Jane Brown, in Washington, Mo. About II
o'clock another negro named King, entered
Lyle's room and shot him twice, killing hin
instantly. It is supposed King and the woman
Brown planned the murder to get Lyle's money
| No arrests at last accounts.
wAYLA1D AND KILLED.
WHEELING, w. Va, June 16.--Last night a
| IL o'clock, as two Germans, residents of thi
city, named Kraus and Bremen, were goinl
home they were suddenly and without provo
drunken men. Kraus is fatally and Brene1
seriously wounded, The assailants escaped ant
are unknown.
SUCCESSFUL JAIL DELIVERY.
KEoKUK, Iowa, June l6.-The most darin
Jail delivery ever attempted here effecte'
about o'clock last night by prisoners con
fined in the jail. As Sheriff Higgins was lock
| ing up the prisoners, the prisoners, eight il
number, were in the cage where they are KEEP
during the day, and as the sheriff stepped t
the rear to unlock the door leading to the cell
the prisoners stepped out of the door he ha
entered and locked him in, and by making
break in a body succeeded in escaping. Tw
of them were recaptured.
ATTEMPTED BANK ROBBERY,
New YORK, June 16.-An attempt was mad
early this morning to blow open the safes Q
Irving National bank, 287 Greenwich street.
pratrolman pounded the door of the office q
Meeklen 4 Brother brokers, in the basemen
under the bank building open and inside wa
found complete kit of burglars tools. One 9
the two safes had been blown partly oper
| but the thieves were frightened and fed.