Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-02-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK
GRIMES AND nj; o,iRsiilai / & 10

GRIMES IND 'URlMINAL6.@.{ 10 a
The jury in the case Of Boian, on trial
for murder at 1paianapqlIi9s h hay returned
verdict of not guilty =,
Mrs. Jennie R. Smith, wvisddow Of pptj1iceE
man Smith of Jersy, City, was on trial Feh.-f0,-
on the charge of killing her husband. A jury
was obtained without delay.
A Methodist preacher hailing from the
North. named, Knox, has been arrested at
Columbia, Tenn, on a charge of having at
tempted an outrage on the person OF Mrs.
Leetz. F-T
At Harrodsburg, KY, Oscar Freeman.
shot and killed James II. Gibbons. Gibbons
had charged Freeman with familiarity with
his fe, quarrsl and the shooting being the
result. 70 so} sse9n2A
A Portland telegram of Feb. 9Th, says
John o Winship, lawyer, and Postmaster
SWEET, of Windham, have been sentenced
each to 81 900 fine and one year in the county
Jail for conspiring to defraud creditors. ~ u.
A Baltimore telegram of Feb. 8, says
Daniel Sullivan, for voting Illegally at the
late congressional election, and Charles
Getzendanner, for assaulting aydeputy; mar,
shall and colored voter, were each sentenced
to one years. imprisonment and fined.
Gov. Bishop of Ohio, has declined to
commute the sentence Eof Charles McGill.
found guilty Of murder inthe first degree for
Staying his mistress under circumstances Of
peculiar atrocity, and he will be hung at
Cleveland, Feb. 10. The special plea to the
Governor that McGill was insane.
Josiah Town, who was so brutality
beaten by John Durham, at Minneapolis. is
lying in critical condition, his chance about
equally divided between life and death. John
Durham has been put under $1,000 bonds
and Frank Durham, his son and II. r. Bar
buar 1000 bonds each for participating in
the ARRAY, to appear at the March term Of
court for the action Of the Grand Jury I.
Considerable excitement exists at
Winchester, Ind, over fight which occurred
there Jan. IS between M. Carver, teacher
in the public school, andseveral male scholars.
Carver was whipping small boy when sew
eral boys assaulted him with clubs, some Of
them drawing knives. The boys were ex-
PEELED by Superintendent Butler, but were
Immediately reinstated by the school board,
Whereupon Butler and Carver rendered their
resignation. -. - y;
The lockout at the Ashland, KY, iron
works and the Furness mines still continues.
A large body OF miners are on guard at the
iron works to prevent those who wish to
resume work from doing SO. Over thousand
employees are thus thrown out Of work, Gauss
ing great distress among them, many of the
families being in need of the necessaries of
life. the husbands and fathers having been out
of work throughout the strike, which has
existed the past six months.
The police suppressed an attempted
riot at Liverpool lately by promptly attacking
200 men who were marching toward Queens
dock; $500 more laborers joined the strike in
Liverpool and Bierkenhead, many of them
through fear, and !, 500 more are expected to
Join. The sailors on a strike have been joined
by foreign sailors and firemen on ocean
steamers. The mayor in a proclamation
calls on all we'll disposed inhabitants to assist
in maintaining peace.