Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-31
NUMBER 229
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES

Few Accidents With but Little Loss of
Life-An Incendiary Fire-A, Hanging
lnsarance!Frauds,E Etc. a
DAsTARDLY ATTEMPT
Especial Telegram to the Globe.t
NORRIS MIMI, Aug. GOV. B. Goucher,
physician of the dead-beat, whiskey-euszline
order, was arrested this morning for attempted
rape upon the person of a Miss Mary O'Neal. 4
guest at the ne Perkins House. The facts are az
d9i n Inc girl was sick and under the care
tack Of bilious fever. Goucher forced h;s
services upon the girl, and under the pretence
OF OF MAKING an examination took Improper liber-
ties with her person, and attempted to effect
bis hellish designs. The girl was too weak to
scream, puJ with superhuman strength sue
ceeded in preventing the cowardly brute's ac-
complaining his purpose. The poor woma1,
begged and beseeched the monster to leave her.
but without avail. and being too weak to escape
she was obliged to remain until sleep oyercame
MN, when she summoned the landlord, who
1oun! him in the girls bedroom undressed.
Goucher was undoubtedly befuddled, as he
always is, and from the girls statement there
is little doubt but that he tried to drug her. az
ne threw Dr.. Hulburd's medicine aside and
gave ner some stuff to quiet her nerves, but
which, she says, only made her numb. Goucher
was roughly handled on the street this morn
Ing by indignant citizens, and we expect before
evening to see him dressed in suit az tar and
feathers. gzsa - fEt'0lr - >~.>E'>-.o - ~
ACCIDENT AND FIRE.
Especial Telegram to the Globe
W1NoNA, MIMI, Aug. 3O.-John; LYNCH .
single man. bridge carpenter in the EMPLOY
oi 'ne VI. W. road, while trying to get on q
moving car, last evening, fell on the track and
had his left arm cut off. :.s5-.,y..
fred bellke, farmer near Lewiston. yester-
1ost Tour stacks OF wheat, four hundred BUSH
els OF oats, twenty tons of hay, a barn. reaper.
tanning mill and other property, by FIRE, which
caugnt from sparks from the threshing en-
CINE. Insured.
BROKE HER SHAFT. =.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.
BISMARCK, Aug. 30.-Ten miles above Poplar
creek, on the 28th, the steamer Butte broke
her shaft. The Helena took her load through
to Benton. The disabled steamer returns for a
new smart, which will arrive from Pittsburgh
| next week. River very low. =
WAS he KILLED Oh Nor2
:. LITTLE Rock, Aug. 30.-Zelee Ward. peniten-
tlary Lessee. has constructed a broad eaeua
raliroad one mile in length, from the Fort
house on his plantation. Mr.. J. Overhotzer.
merchant, while assisting the workmen on his
new two story brick building Oh Main street.
Tell through skylight backwards and struck
on the ]olst twenty feet below! &
NcEND1ARY FIRE
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. 3O.-Ihe State! Jour-
! a1ocs special from London says that a fire
the night. It broke out in Greenleaf's liverv
stable, partly destroying the same and two
large barns; two hotels and planning mill, were
| saved by great effort. At four o'clock this
morning the fire was under control It was
/ lncendiary this being the third time the stable
was set on fire. en- s.szE44 $500
RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
CINCINNATI, Aug. 30.--At Brighton suburb
of this city, this, morning, during the prevail
ence of q heavy fog, the Baltimore g. Ohio
night express ran into the rear Of the abort line
New York express, badly smashing the end Of
sleeper and passenger coach. One passenger
| IN the sleeper was seriously hurt and may not
I'VE. NO others were injured. Both trains run
into the city on the same track from a point
about eight miles out. 1Fl4
8 =. FRATRIc1DE HANGED. =
MONTAGUE, Texas, Aug. 80 Charles Harris
was hanged to-day in the presence of 5000
people, for the murder of his brother John. in
une, 1877: he was convicted on his own con-
tesslon., The drop fell while the crowd sang
Sweet Bye and Bye" o., ms
G ,Il5ia. INSURANCE FRAUDS
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 30.-It has transpired here
that insurance policies purportlng to be issued
by the Merchants q Manufacturers Insurance
company of this city have been. written at
D! 6sao1ord Pa.; perhaps other places in the East
Ihere ID no such company here now, nor has
there been since 1875, when it closed business.
called IN and cancelled all its policies, and
wound mp its affairs. The blanks on which the
policies were recently issued are genuine, how
ever. They were obtained surreptitiously be-
tore the company closed business and are now
being used to defraud and swindle unsuspect-
ing persons. The agent at Bradford, named
billiard, claims to have obtained authority to
transact business from G. B. Pease, Of Provi-
dence, r. I.
THE PENNSYLVANIA CORRUPTION.
HARRISBURG, Aug. Gown. H. Kemble has
entered bail in $4,000 to answer the charge Of
corrupt solicitation of Legislators and PERU ~,
and A. W. Leisenring 81, 900 ON the same charge.
The district attorney has been instructed by
the grand jury to prepare indictments against
Representatives G. s. Wolfe, NJ. II. Silverthoru
and Alfred Shorten on charge of conspiracy
TO advise and promote corrupt solicitations.
A Big Wheat Yield.
h. Thompson, of the firm of DeMers &c