The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1879-01-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK
GRIMES IND CRIMINALS.


Tie lynching of four horse thieves at |
Corning, Clay county, Ark, is reported.
r A hotel keeper in Copenhagen has |
been arrested for threatening to shoot the !
king.
Iu Il fight in Baxter street New York |
on Christmas night, John Brown killed John
Regalia.
4. Remer Baetter, Austrian consul at
New Orleans, has committed suicide by
drowning.
At San Andreas, CAL, in o quarrel.
lately, Frank Descloix was shot dead by John
Blackburn.
Two convicts have made thci: escape
from the Ohio penitentiary by scaling the
walls with ladder and lopes.
The families of Ohm Keo Oh and Martin
Bergan, Molly Maguires, who were to be
hung Dec. IS, took leaye Of them Dec. II.
Martin Bergan, the Molly Mcguire
who was to be hung Dec. Is, has been reprived
by the Governor Of Pennsylvania to Jan. 6.
The board of pardons Of Pennsylvania
refused to reopen the case Of John Keogh,
sentenced to be hung at Pottsville Dec. Is.
Off .er Furness Of New York city, shot
by Will lam NJ. Palmer, lunatic, on Saturday
Dec 81, died Of his wounds on the Sunday
following.
A DIVER was arrested at Altorburg,
Saxony, charged with threatening to assassi-
nate the emperor of Austria. He plead
drunkenness.
Robbers attacked the tra;n for Vera
| ~. I'LL Id kln hoo
gage master, wounded the conductor. and es-
capped with $4,000 OF silver.
Ga the 18th Of Decem5e John Boyd
killed in cowardly manner, Thomas CBrlen
at Fort Wrangle, Alaska. The citizens tried
him by q jury Of his own selection, found him
guilty, and hung him the next day.
In the criminal court at Chicago, III the
trial of Joe St. Peters and Mrs. A. 3. Clark for
the murder f the latter's husband, at La
grange, the jury rendered a verdict OF not
guilty, as to both, after FIVE hours delibera-
ton.
Charles L Otto. jeweler at Peoria, ILL.,,
reported to the police that he had been
robbed OF $4,000 cash and $4,000 in goods.
investigation indicated Otto himself as the
theft and he was arrested, his brother being
he'd as an aocomplire. Otto is young
German who moved in the best German society
there.
William Snively, a notrious counter
feiter, died recently at his home on the Little
Muskngun, near Bloomfield, Ohio. He was
S. years old. He was very miserly, and is
supposed to have been very rich, his wealth
being variously estimated at from SloO,00O t(
$780, 1000, but be died without revealing where
he had hidden his treasures.
George A. Blaikie, Of Chicago, who
robbed the F;d lily special deposit vault Dec
rs, of $1,000. was brought before Justice Nor
rison, but Dr.. Turpiu, receiver Of the bank
declined to prosecute, on the grounds tina
the money had already been returned b.
Blaikie's father, and that he considered tn
young man Insane, and no. responsible 10
the deed. Justice Morrison, however, boun
him oyer in $4,000 bonds.
Some time ago the Chicago & North
western railroad built 3 side track to the ic
houses in Watertown, Wis. Residents alon
t the line commenced suit for a Urge amour
l of damages, SO the company resolved to tea
,p the track, and sent men there for that pu
pose, but they were driven off by a mob com
posed of laborers employed by the ice hous
a company. The mob subsequently parade
: the streets in honor Of their victory.