The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1878-10-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK
.oRIMEs and CRIMINALS,

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&t!ORIMES and CRIMINALS. East},
The Howe Truss bridge across Little
Mulberry river OH the Little Rock q Fort
Smith railroad, Arkansas, has been burned.
Origin Of the fire unknown.
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. .f sla
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. a ,isa
g 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 discov ered,
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 Of shout
&c. 900 and six months imp risonm Mt. This
action delays the progress of the railroad.
In the United States Court at Milwal-
kee on the 18th inst, Judge Dyer ordered the
discharge of J ohm Cheekley, the alleged
Canadian counterfeiter, on the ground that the
offence was not clearly and aft1rmatively
charged. Cheeklcy was Immediately rear
rested under new warrant. 10 .l.-'
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,
was mortally wounded. His sister, coming
to the door to his assistance, was also fired
upon and instantly killed, r..,s
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
OF 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 sdleSuAau 1Ol d NoV 1olA VI SAACSSo
house.
Burgess, tine 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 emil
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 charge of par
ttcipancy in a stage robbery at Hat Greek,
wy, few days ago. A bar Of gold worth
nearly 5000 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 e1nbezzlement. 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.