The Red Cloud chief., 1879-01-16


Gardner Tingley, Of East Attloboro.
Mass, January >th, killed his wife and then
himself.
VIM. y. Merrick, convicted for the
murder 81 hi, wife a, Indianapolis last scptem.
Der, has been sentenced To be hung on wedncs-
day, January Goth.
Edward Nugcnt, who killed his wife
two years go, will be hanged In ~. Louis,
February the itth. The sams day Henry J.
Rsdcmcyrr Ia under sentence To be hanged.
At South Byfcld. Mass. on the night
Of December soth, John II. Caldwell. while
k~nccling In family prayer, was instantly killed
by his Insane wife, who spli, his head open
with an axe.
A mail pouch, containing 200 letters,
made up In Springfield, for Chicago, was sto-
len from the transfer wagon In the former
city, January NJ, while the messenger Was mo
mentarily absent
The grand jury of Brooklyn, N. Y,
has indicted the commissioner of city works,
and two subordinate officers, Tor conspiracy
to dcfrsud the city out Of eso,oW through
fraudulent claims.
The grand jury. In Chicago. after
considering the charges Of embexslcmcn
agsins, Henry Grcenbaum, ex. President OF
the German Savings Bank, refused to bring
In an indictment against him.
On the night II December s0th.
| Thomas Crossly, . shoemaker In San Francis.
co, shot and fatally wounded his wife, and
then cut his own throat with . shoe knife,
causing iustAn, death. Mrs. Grossly refused
to state the cause of the tragedy,
In Stanisluas county, Cal. Dec. Gath.
John Reynolds, ~ Year, ot age. and 81 slight
" nsound mind, shot and killed q young man
named ChN.les lookout. Reynolds In tru
was shot while attempting 30 escape by Wm.
Coma, and probably fatally sounded There
was no known cause for Reynolds action.
On the night Of Jan. 5th at Carbon,
Wyoming, twenty dvs or thirty masked men
broke open . baggage car, took out and hung
Ia q telegraph pole Dutch Charlie, who WAS
cnrou,e to R,wlins FOR trial, charged with par.
,icipstion IN the widdo~a field murder last fall.
lie Was q notorious character, and had been
Identified With . humber 81 stage rObberiea
Olive. Green. Baldwin. aud six others.
charged with the murder Of Mitchell and
ketchum, who we're burned at q stake north
Of kearney = few weeks since, have been ar
rested ., Plum Greek. Nebraska Two broth
en- of ketchum were among the captor.. No
resistance vas made, aud the party VA taken
10 kearney and lodged In jail ~ await trial.
A Cincinnati dispatch Of January 9Th.
says q squad Of ATTY revenue men, under Cap
tain Burnside, have Just returned frnm . raid
upon moonshinrrs in the border counties OF
Kentucky and Tennessee. They rrport the de
s,ruction of over any distilleries, and the cap
ture % . large number 'of distllers II 1.
though, the business 1. pretty well broken az
In that regioa.
Geo. Ensig, OF York, Pa. owing to
drink, has heen separated from his wife. Hs
called upon her ga the evrnins 10 January ~
At the hcsne ~ her father, Andrew Gehrtng,
upon her refusing To live with him. he cut hcI
throAt. She diei sosn sfter~Ard Ensig vs'
seised by Gehrtng, Who carried an infant child
Of the former In hts srnS but the murderer
cut both In the face and head, and thea aed.
He vAs subsequently, arrested.
On the snd day of January, between
II and I O'clock. . thief entered the Covers
' meat Printing once b wssAiagtes and