Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-01-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK
0RIaLES IND CRIMINALS.

ORIMEO AND OHAM4NAAosS
Tie lypching of four horse thieves at
Corning, Clay county, Ark is reported. ?, -
A hotel keeper in Copenhagen has
been arrested for threatening to shoot the
king.
In fight in Baxter street New York
on Christmas night, John Brown killed John
Regalia.
A. Remer Baetter, Austrian consul at
New Orleans, has committed suicide by
drowning.
At San Andreas, CAL, in q quarrel:
lately, Frank Descloi1 was shot dead by John
Blackburn.
Two convicts have made thei- escape
from the Ohio penitentiary by scaling the
walls with ladder and ropes.
The families of J ohm Keogh and Martin
Bergan, Molly Maguires, who were to be
hung Dec. 10, 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,
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Officer Furness Of New York city, shot
by William NJ. Palmer, lunatic, on Saturday
Dec. 81, died of his wounds on the Sunday
following.
A dyer was arrested at Altorburg,
saxony, charged with threatening to assassi-
nate the emperor of Austria. He plead
drunkenness.
Robbers attacked the train for Vera
Cruz near Puebla on the 14ih, killed the bag
gage master, wounded the conductor, and es-
capped with $4,000 Of silver.
On the 18th Of December, John Boyd
killed in cowardly manner, Thomas O'Brien
at Fort Wrangle, Alaska The citizens tried
him by a jury of his own selection, found him
guilty, and hung him the next day.
In the criminal court at Chicago, in the
trial of Joe st. Peters and Mrs. A. B. Clark for
the murder # the latters husband, at La
grange, the jury rendered 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
| held as an accomplish Otto is q young
German who moved in the best German society
there.
William Snively, notrious counter.
feiter, died recently at his home on the Little
Muskingun, near Bloomfield, Ohio. He was
| IS years old. He was very misery, and ia
supposed to have been very rich, his wealth
| being variously estimated ut from 500, 900 to
$250,O00, but he died without revealing where
he had hidden his treasures.
George A. Blake, of Chicago, who
robbed the Fid ty special deposit vault Dee
26, of $4,000. was brought before Justice Nor
rison, but DR.. Turpin, receiver of the bank
declined to prosecute, on the grounds that
the money had already been returned by
Blaikie's father, and that he considered thu
young man insane, and not responsible fol-
the deed. Justice Morrison, however, bounc
him oyer in So 600 bonds.
Some time ago the Chicago & North
western railroad built side track to the ict
houses in Watertown, Wis. Residents along
the line commenced suit for Urge amount
of damages, so the company resolved to teal
up the track, and sent men there for that pur
pose, but they were driven off by mob com
posed of laborers employ ed by the ice house
company. The mob subsequently paradet
the streets in honor OF their victory.