Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-26
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Recommend the impeachment OF Ex-
State Treasurer Gates miscellaneous.
1MpEAoHMENr REooAtAIENDED

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ST.. LOUIS, Feb. 25.-The Post and Dispatch
special from Jefferson City says the treasury
Investigation committee reported to the House
this morning giving State Treasurer Gates de-
holt at $343, 900. They say that Col. Burns of
st. Joseph, secured the election of Gates for
the sole purpose of controlling the deposits,
which he has done, and is, in fact, the state
treasurer. Burns, it is stated, has made $751;
OOO since Gates has been in Office. and has con-
trolled everything. Burns stated to the COM
mittee he knew he could control the deposits
when Gates was elected. The committee rec
omn1end that Treasurer Gates be impeached for
high crimes and misdemeanors and gross neglect
of official duties, and also the appointment of
live managers to conduct the impeachment be-
fore the bar of the Senate.
MONSTER ESCAPE.
CINCINNATI, Feb. 25.-Lizzie Eichbaum. aged
II, living in California, Ohio, small village
nine miles from this city, gave birth yesterday
morning to child and charges her father with
being the father of the child. A mob gathered
last night, and while on the way to capture Eich-
baum, the father, with the purpose of hanging
him, were intercepted by the sheriff, who sue
ceeded in OBTAINING them until Eichbaum was
placed in jail.
FIREMEN INJURED.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 25.-During small fire
last night, three firemen and the secretary of
the insurance patrol were injured by the break
ing of ladder.
ATTEMPTED JAIL BREAK.
CINCINNATI, Feb. GA dispatch says Jason
Little and other convicted prisoners Of Breath
lit county, Ky, made desperate attempt to
escape from Jail the night before their depart
ure to the penitentiary. They had cut through
the floor of their cell to room below. from
which Thew cOn1H hov ooai1xy
cape had the plan worked to suit them. They
had arranged with friends outside to engage in
q sham fight on the opposite side of the Jail
from which they were to escape, but the priso-
ners were discovered in the lower room, and
Judge Jackson ordered them to be put in irons.
THE ENGINEER ExoNERATED.
SAN Francisco, Feb. 25-Stockton despatch:
The coroner's jury found the recent explosion
was caused by the steam guage becoming de-
fective and failing to indicate the pressure of
steam on the boiler, and the engineer, depend
ing on the guage, was deceived as to the
amount of steam he had generated. The funer-
ais of most of the victims took place yesterday
The banks, public schools, saloons and business
houses were closed, in conformity with the
mayors proclamation. The county and district
courts adjourned also.
SHOT his MoTuER-IN-LAw.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, Feb. 25.-Thomas Merri.
man, while drunk, went to the house of his
mother-in-law, mile and a half from Nash
vile, this afternoon, and shot her with double-
barrel shotgun in the groin, killing her in
stantly, and that without provocation. He
escaped the parties in pursuit.
DESPERATE SHOOTING.
New ORLEANS, Feb. 25.-S. Howell, general
southern passenger agent of the Piedmont Air
Line railway, was shot and instantly killed by
A. T. Wimberly, merchant of Coffeeville, Miss,
in an ARRAY on the corner of st. Charles and
Common streets. Ed. Howell, brother of de-
ceased, then shot Wimberly in the back. About
q dozen shots were fired. A bystander was also
wounded. Ed. Howell was arrested. Wimberly
was sent to the hospital. Physicians report he
will not live.