Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-29
CRIMINAL CALENDAR,
A TIRED VARIETY ACTRESS.


C1So1SNAr1, Nov. 28.-At about 80 o'clock
this morning at the bal masque at Robinson's
Opera House variety actress. giving the name
of Ada Clifton aud her home at Columbus. O.,
attempted suicide by shooting herself in the
region of the heart with a small pistol. She
had been drinking freely aud was so stupefed
as to be unable to give connected account of
herself. She was removed to the hospital and
the wound examined. but at present writing
the location of the bullet has not been ascer-
tanned. 7-->-sz--s. 90 ~
FARC1CAL SENTENCE.
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 2s.-Geo. H. and James 81.
Riddle, convicted Of conspiracy a. president
and cashier of the Franklin Savings bank, of
Alleghaney, were sentenced to-day in the GRIM.
inal court to one and four months imprison-
ment in the county Jail, and each to pay fine
of 81 cents.
A MURDERED FLoATER.
BUFFALO, Nov. 2S.-The body of Thos. Rus
sell, of st. Charles, Mich. sailor belonging
to the Barge Walton, was found floating in
Buffalo creek this morning. bearing evidence
he had been murdered and thrown overheard.
His face and head were horribly distigured
with some blunt instrument. Capt. Andrew
Ale Kenzie of Detroit, master of the barge
has been arrested IN suspicion.
Blood waa found on the floor aud sides of
the cabin of the barge, and blood stains were
also plainly Visible on the deck and along the
rails. The body of the murdered man had
evidently been forced through one of the
scupper holes pair of iron tongs, weighing
from fifteen to twenty pounds, with fresh
clots of blood to which some light hair adj
hered, was also found, and blood was discov-
cred on the coat, overcoat and shoes of Capt.
Mackenzie, and while being questioned by tho
officers he was observed trying to remove 1t
from his over shoes. Another SUSPECT ,us cir
on 70 o,vn- al vuStk $1a nr:v =. hat
the signature of Russell in the books for his
last pay, $780, did not correspond with that of
former ones. Mackenzie persists in declaring
his innocence.
BODY sNATcHER ARRESTED.
CHATTANOOGA, Nov. 28.-Bennet Jackson was
| arrested here this morning for matching the
body of Tennessee Keith, who died Wednesday
| night. The body was packed in a shoe box aud
addressed to Ottawa. and said to contain fresh
| fish. Last night parties attempted to send the
same box to Cincinnati as cotton seed. Ben
| cemetery, were committed to Jail in default of
| $4,000 bail.
A MARSHAL SHOT.
C1scrSNAr1, Nov. 28.-Marshal Lindenbere,
of New Bremen, Anglalsee county, was shot in
the abdomen end probably fatally wounded,
laat night, by men supposed to be burglars,
| whom he was trying to arrest. A burglary had
UoCA CoWAlttSA III OOuu DuSC0 store, ana GQe
marshal. with a posse, undertook to erreat the
party, when the shot was fred.
TIMELY CONFESSION.
| CHICAGO, Nov. 29.-Confession is received
from a prisoner at Ballston Spa, New York, to
the effect that John Ryan, now in the Mich.
| gan penitentiary, and Jno. Lamb, now await
| ing trial for murder here of Officer Race, were
the men who in 1875 committed the terrible
murder at Norway, near La Sale, by which one
Burdick Somsen lost bis life, while defend
ing the life and property of his friend, old MIR.
Keppler, from burglars. The perpetrators of
this outrage have never been discovered. The
confession states that Lamb and Ryan were
driven by the Ballston Spa prisoner in wag-
on from the scene of the murder, and that
from their conversation he knew they had COM
mitted the crime. The gambler who put up
the job. has been arrested. Lamb utterly de-
| RIOT BILL BRIBERY CASES.
HARRISBURG. Nov. Pa special session OF
the Dauphin county court for the trial of the
not Dill bribery cases, began this afternoon.
TIE case of Oliver W. Liezenring charged with
corrupt solicitation of members of the legisla.
ture, was called. Counsel for defendant chal.
lenged the array of grand Jurors of the August
term. This was overruled. A motion was then
made to quash the indictment for the rlason
that twenty-four Jurors acted in the case, one
| more than required at common law and one OF
them being unsworn. A long argument ensued
az to the admissabllity of some evidence heard
| Tuesday. At its conclusion the court adjourn.
ed and the decision will not be rendered till the
December term.