The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-02-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK
CRIMES AND CRIMINALS

CRIMES AND CRIMINALS
Louis Marlburg, aged 3S, of the firm
Of Marlburg Bros tobacco manufacturv Balti.
more Nd. killed himself Feb. H.
J.J. Oreilly. a well-known physician of
Louisville, Ky, cut his throat in Dallas. Tex
as. Feb II. Protracted dissipation tho
cause.
On the morning of Feb. 21, at Patter-
aon, N T., Harriet Hink, a widow aged thirty,
was found In her room, murdered, outraged
and robbed OF her gold watch and a sum of
money.
At st. Louis, Feb. II. William Hartley
or the murder of Martin Wylie, near Mexico,
NO., in January, 1879, was found guilty of
murder in the second degree by the jury and
was sentenced to sixty-o years in the peni
tentiary
A st. Petersburg correspondent an.
nounces that Baron Vonthelt, privy councillor
has committed suicide, his mind being affect
ed by the explosion in the palace General
Trepofi has been appointed military governor
OF the Winter palace, vice General Del Sale,
who has become paralyzed.
Reverend Edward Cowley, manager of
the Shepherds Fold In New York city, on trial
for the past eight days on the charge Of starv-
Ing and cruelty treating children, was on Feb.
IL, convicted. Cowley wept bitterly upon the
announcement OF the verdict Of the jury. He
was remanded to the Tombs and will be SEN
fenced Saturday.
Two dodgers in boarding house in
Boston, Mass had been found to be missing
eight days, when, on Feb. 81, the door to their
room was entered, and one Of them found
dead with bullet hole in his head. The sup
position is that he was killed in a quarrel by
his companion. Burglars tools we're found in
the room, and also precious stones stolen from
ajewclry store.
A Galveston, Texas, news special from
Jefferson, in that State, says that reliable in
formation from near Linden, Cass county
gives the following: Mrs. Clarke, a respect
able married lady, living in the Garry neigh
borhood, was yesterday brutally outraged,
then murdered. Three men were arrested.
One Of them confessed the crime. He was
horribly mutilatcd by the mob, his clothing
saturated with csll oil, and set on fire. and af-
terwards hanged. Intense excitement pre-.
walls
A dispatch, Feb. II, to the Ren ters'
Telegram company from st. Petersburg says
that there has been an abortive attempt made
to the imperial family by exploding mine in
the winter palace. Five soldiers were killed
and thirty.fve wounded. later dispatch
from st. Petersburg reports that the mine was
laid under the guard room of the winter pal
ace, which is Immediately under the dining
hall. Owing to accidental delay, the imperial
family had not entered the latter at the usual
time. The explosion made whole in the
door Of the dining hall ten feet long and six
wide.
A dispatch from Paris says Of the latest
attempt upon the life of the czar the palace
officials are evidently affiliated with the nihil
lists, for it is affirmed the czar daily found
ack-edged letter on his table, threatening he
should never see the twenty-f fifth an
niversary of his accension to the throne
unless he abolished his despotic system OF
government Though the officials were con-
tinually changed the letter was always fou nd
Several high officials have been placed under
survillance. 1t is rumored that lady OF high
rank has been arrested in St. Petersburg on
suspicion of being connected with the Winter
Palace conipiracy. It IS also said the car and
czarowitch had long interview Feb. 81.
Reports of the czars prospective abdication
are pronounced false
A daring highway robbery was COM
mitted on the afternoon OF Feb. 1S, on Main
street. in Louisville, Kentucky. Jas Thomp-
son, of the Pickett warehouse, drew from the
Second National Bank $4,000, placed the mon-
ey in his coat pocket and started for the ware
house. When at the corner of Seventh and
Hoin az tyv0 vubn fo?
tied against him in rough manner. He
turned round to see what was the matter,
when one of the men turned round and start
cd rapidly up the street. Thompson seized
hold Of the other man, who protested he was
a gentleman, and when Thompson released
his hold upon him, he also ran off, Thomp;;
son then discovered the package of $4,000 was
missing. At this hour of the day Main street
Is crowded, and it is strange that the parties
escaped so easily.