Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-10-17
NEWS or THE WEEK
0RIMEs IND CRININALS.a


GRIMES IND CRIMINALs.A
George T. Hathaway, the Taunton,
defaulting Bank cashire has
been sentenced to ten years in the peniten-
tiary. 0 Z F. E
The Howe Truss brids g across Little
Mulberry river on the Little Rock & Fort \
Smith railroad, Arkansas, has been burned.
Origin of the fire unknown. III.
- Joseph Kolansky bar tender in St.
Louis, shot and killed servant girl named
Augusta Sumond. Jealousy supposed to be
the cause. The murderer gave himself up.
A Rome dispatch states that several
persons were wounded at Trieste in disturb
ance caused by sailors from an Austrian man
of-war shouting "Death to Italy" before an
Italian consulate. 4
Mrs. Jerry G. Smith, indicted for the
murder Of her husband, police officer Smith,
when arraigned in the Hudson county court,
New Jersey, plead "Not Guilty." accompanied
by wailings and swooning. 81
A New York telegram says: Since the
discovery, Sept. 10th, of the body uear Silver
Lake, Staten Island, the names Of no less:
thaa five missing girls have been discovered,
through the efforts of the police to solve the
mystery.
Forty or fifty men convicted at Malad,
Idaho, for cutting timber for the Utah North
ern railroad, on the Bannock reservation,
were sentenced to aggregate fines IF shout
$1,000 and six months Imprisonment. This
action delays the progress of the railroad.
Jesse R. Oakley, defaulting cashier of
the Merchants Exchange National bank
New York who fed to Europe in 1870, but
who returned recently and pleaded guilty
was sentenced in the United States court to
five years at hard labor in Albany penitenti-
ary.
In the United States Court at Milwau-
kee on the 18th inst, Judge Dyer ordered the
discharge of ohm Cheekley, the alleged
Canadian counterfeiter, on the ground that the
offence was not clearly and afirmatively
charged. Cheekley was Immediately rear
rested under q new warrant.
On the 18th inst, a severe fight took
place at Brigand camp, fifteen miles south OF
Deadwood, d. T., between the sheriff and
posse and two highway robbers, in which one
| of the latter, Tom Price, was four times
| wounded twice fatally, and is now in the
hands of the authorities. His companion es.
capped.
Thos. Stewart and his sister, two old
people living on farm near Richmond, KY.
were shot bv an unknown party few nights
since. Stewart, hearing a noise in the yard
got out of bed to ascertain the cause, when he
| was MORALLY wounded. His sister, coming
to the door to his assistance, was also fred
upon and instantly killed,
A Kansas City Mo-, dispatch says a
man named j. B. Wilbur died suddenly
at the Delmonico house on the 9th inst. A
paper of morphine and bottle of some kind
| ct drug was found in his room but the cause
of death is not certainly ascertained. No one
knows who he is, but he is supposed to be a
travelling salesman for New York or Chicago
house.
Burgess, the Bank of England burglar
was caught at Niles, California, by Chief De.
tective Henderson, of London, and Allen
Pinkerton, detective of Chicago. Burgess
visited San Francisco in September and then
departed for Niles. When found he had
enough money left to take him back to
England. he was expecting to take an emf.
grant train in faw days. Burgess was heav:
lily ironed.
Doug. Goodale, Of Atlantic, Ia, re-
turned to his home from the Black Hills on
the 18th inst, and was Immediately arrested
! by detective in waiting on a charge of par
ttcipancy in stage robbery at Hat Creek
wy, few days ago. A bar Of gold worth
nearly $1,000 was found in his possession and
the officers are confident of their ability to
establish his guilt. Accused was taken to
Council Bluffs and lodged in jail to await
| trial.
A Kansas City dispatch says State
Treasurer Elijah Gates was arrested there on
indictments found by special jury charging
him with unlawfully deriving benefits from
deposits of public money. Ex-treasurer Jos.
w. Mercer was also arrested on the same
| charge and for embezzlement. It is expected
| that the trial of these gentlemen will reveal
| all the operations, financial and political, OF
the alledged treasury ring. Dispatches also
mention the probable Indictment of John F.
Crisp, Democratic candidate for Congress.