Morris tribune., 1880-06-24
THE LATEST NEWS.
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Grimes and Criminals.

The oil fire at Bradford, Pa, was set
on June 10. The loss of the Acme oil works
is $500,OO0.
j. Young, of Young's hotel, Delano,
Mimi, was drugged and robbed the other
evening, of $lS5 in money.
A murderer in Toronto, who was TO
have been hung June l6, was found dead in
his cell. 1t is thought he poisoned himself
On the 18th OF June, 1900 armed citl-
zens paraded the streets of Leadville, to con-
front the mob of disorderlY strikers. There
was no conflict
James Williams and wife, both color
ed, living near Lawrence, Ind, were found on
Saturday, June u, in their cabin-he dead,
with his head crushed in a shapeless mass,
and she unconscious with her skull crushed.
No clue to the murderers.
A white woman residing one mile
from Pine Bluff, Arkansas, was ravished and
afterwards murdered, June n, by two negroes
and two white men. Arrests have been made
and the vigorous action of Judge Lynch is
likely to be called into requisition.
Awoman who had taken lodgings at
the American House. in st. Paul, Mimi, with
an infant some three or four weeks old, dis
appeared on the nth OF June, leaving the in
FAINT asleep in her room. 1t is supposed to be
case of abandonment to cover up disgrace
The innocent waif has been sent to the Or
phan asylum.
Advices from Denver, Colorado, OF
June l3, states that the Leadville situation re-
mains unchanged excepting that the govern
or in response to a telegram signed by hun
dred LeadVille citizens of both political par
ties, sent telegram declaring martial law,
with Major Gen. D. ]. Cook in command. The
excitement is still intense and strong fears OF
violence are still entertained.
s. NJ. Waite, President of the First
National Bank of BrattleborO, Vermont has
absconded with lage amount OF the funds
of the bank. He had also committed several
large forgeries. Suits have been brought
against the directors by the stockholders. 1t
is believed many country banks will be
severely crippled through the operations of
the absconding bank president.
William Burns was hung at Warren,
Bradley county, Ark, on the 11th of June, for
the murder OF Edwards, in June, 1879, near
Monticello. He was convicted in Bradley
county on a change of venue. Both the men
(coloredJ were keeping company with col
ored woman named Dora Cook, and Burns be-
came jealous of Edwards, whose body was
found in Burns house with the skull crushed.
Burns was seen near the house shortly befol e..
When arrested he had blood on his clothes.
Both he and Dora were sentenced to death,
bnt the governor commuted the woman's SEN
tence to twenty-one years imprisonment,
there being doubt of her willing completely.
Burns showed great GOODNESS on the scattold,
and died protesting innocence. The drop fell
at noon, and he died of strangulation and
struggled fearfully, his breathing being heard
forty yards from the gallows for some time
after the drop fell.
There are many men into whose hands
it is not safe to place comparatively irrespon-
sible power over the infrm and defenceless,
and every days experience shows that men in
the exercise of such power, however high
their alleged personal standing, cannot be too
closely watched. Members of the Board Of
State Charities of Ohio, met at Columbus the
seat of the State Government, June II, to in
vestlgate the charges against Superintendent
Finstone aad the trustees of the Central luna
tic asylum. Afidavits were filed by Leonard
Bowes, formerly an attendant at the asylum
charging that tainted meat and improper food
was furnished to patients; that the matror
grossly neglected her duties; that money SEN
to patients was never accounted for; that the
State property was appropriated by the ma
tron; that patients were compelled to sleep OF
the floor for want of proper bedding; that al
abortion was performed on female patlen
by order of Superintendent Finstone; that DR.
Galley, an assistant physician held illicit in
tercourse with female patient, and Finston
allowed the record of the fact to be destroyed
DIR. Sparrow, late an assistant physician a
the hospital, filed an affidavit, charging tha
Capt. Bntler, one Of the trustees ofthe asylum
has been interested in contracting for asylum
supplies, and that Geo. NJ. Morgan, anothe
3 trustee has demanded and received special al
tention for his daughter. a patient in said in
stitution.