Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-12
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES,
MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE.

MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE.
TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Dec. 11.-Wm. Taylor
was to day found guilty of murder in the first
degree, and his punishment assessed at i'm
prisonment' in the States prison for life.
JAILED FOR WANT OF BAIL. =s
New YORK, Dec. 11.-First Assistant United
States Appraiser Albert Gilbert, indicted fer
accepting brides to pass through custom house
value, has been sent to Jail, being unable to
furnish bail. His wife is lying dangerously
i'll. 80,
JUsTIFIABLE HOMICIDE. a
ST.. LOUIS, Dec. 11.-James Louacre was shot
and killed ut Plano, Illinois, yesterday, by g.
NJ. Bennett. 1t appears that Louacre had been
engaged to Benefits sister, but the engage
ment had been broken. Yesterday he went to
Benefits house with the avowed intention of
marrying the girl anyway but was elected.
he then Threatened to kill Bennett, whereupon
the latter shot him through the head, and the
coloner's Jury justified the act.
ROBBED THROUGH THE GRANT BOOM. a.
CINCINNATI, O., Dec. Il.-While the Grant
procession was passing the custom house to.
day, and while the clerks were temporarily alb
sent, thieves broke open one of the inner doors
of one of the safes and secured from $500 to
$1,000 belonging to one of the employees. The
government loses nothing, but it was narrow
escape. ---s --."# .-.
ONE OF THE HAYDENs ACQUITTED. ~ 81
WORCESTER, Mass, Dec. lin the case of
Hayden, charged with the murder by poison of
his sister, the jury returned verdict of not
guilty. The verdict was received with loud
cheers. The prisoner wept like child.
WIFE MURDERER SENTENCED
NEW YORK, Dec. 11.-Petro Balbo, convicted
of killing his wife, has been sentenced to be
hanged the 10th of January next. When the
judge asked Balbo what he had to say why SEN
tence should not be pronounced on him, he re.
piled: 'Idid not intend to kill my wife, but
she tried to kill me-
-,... ICE POND CASUALTY IN TENNESSEE.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Dec. l1.-Yesterday morn
ing two children of.Wm. McCroy, one girl
aged 9, and a boy aged 3, were drowned by the
breaking of a dam Of an ice pond, thirteen
miles north of this city. The ice pond was
formed by two dams quarter of mile apart.
Recent heavy rains swelled the waters, causing
the lower dam to burst, and torrent of water
swept down on McOroys cottage near the ice
po2d. McCroy, with two of his children in
his arms, and leading third, the youngest,
and followed by his wife, attempted to wade
through the flood from his house, which was
surrounded by water to depth of six feet.
flOOClnR tlmDer OF the OLD Ice houses knocked
The little boy out of his fathers arms and tore
the little girl from his grasp. and they were
drowned. McCroy and his wife and the third
remaining child escaped.
FIVE CHINAMEN CREMATED.
RENO, Nevada, Dec. 11.-Five Cinnamon
were burned to death at Lovelock. They were
drunk with opium smoking.
KILLED BY DYNAMITE.
HALIFAX. Dec. 11.-Bya an explosion Of dv
Mantle at Tangled yesterday, Geo. Ferguson,
his son James and nephew Joseph Ferguson
were instantly killed.
INUNDATED.
PEsTH, Dec. 1.-THE small town of Brodon.
River Koros, has been inundated Also = part
of the town of Harrisburg on the river Maros.
Some lives lost.
OUTLAW CAPTURED.
ORovnLE, Col, Dec. Thrown, the third
Mendocino outlaw, was captured this morning
in Butte county after chase Of thirty miles
from where Billings, his companion, was killed
by the sheriff posse.