The Worthington advance., 1880-09-30
TElEGRAPA|C BREv|T|ES,

TElEGRAPn|C BREv|T|ES.
CRIME AND CRIMINAL RECORD.
) Joseph Platt, an Englishman hung
- himselfa at Hanover, Ohio. September ~.
James A. Grove, prominent citizen
aud merchant of Oak Creek, Wis, hnng him
selfon the afternoon Of Sept. 81
Two abortionists, DR.. Cream, and Mrs
Mock have been indicted in Chicago for mur.
der. There victim was Miss Faulkner.
At Chicago, Ill , Robert Burns was
sentenced, September ~, for II years to the
penitentiary for the murder of Frederick b.
honom.-
John G. Cahlli, late postmaster of Bur-
atainna. Mississippi has been arrested on a
charge Of opening registered letters, and 9TH
er violatione of the postal law.
The decayed body of H. H. Conant
was found In the woods near his house in CT.
oero ILL.,, on the evening OF September Is. He
Is supposed to have been killed by burglars.
Mrs. Melinda Bagley, wife of a prom
inent farmer IL miles from Dayton, Ohio,
hung herself Sept. 22. She had been deranged
for several days and had escaped from the
house.
On the night of Sept. 81, the prisoners
in the jail at Grenada, Miss, set fire to the
building which was entirely consumed All
the prisoners escaped. Two were quite badly
burned.
A telegram from Galway, Ireland re-
ports that Lord Mont Morris, small land
owner, on bad terms with his tenants, has
been found murdered near Bottinrob. He
had received six bullet wounds.
the announcement at Brattleboro.
Vermont, September ~, of the arrest of 7. NJ.
Waite, at Omaha, late president OF the First
National Bank at Brattleboro, caused great
excitement there. A son OF the cefaulter re-
marked, III father is brought back here, 9TH
ers will have to suffer for completely.
A September the % dispatch from
Denison. Texas. says, the Cheyenne Indians,
in Indian Territory, are manifesting great dis.
contend and growing dissrderly. A few days
ago band of about 800 with paint and we'll
mounted visited the agency near Fort Reno
river, and were very demonstrative and tn :eat-
entng, and slapped the agent in the face. An.
other party is reported to have gone through
the commissionary stores at Wyichta agency
recently. The cause of tine trouble il said to
he an insufflciency Of food.
Internal Revenue Agent Latham Hunts
Vile, Alabama, in u letter to the commits
shal Howlet reports under date OF the 18th
innt Hm1vn al, $h~tl
Elicit and Lowe attempted to arrest Joe Lit
tie for illegal distilling near the Georgia State
line, when Lowe was shot in three places by
Little and badly wounded. After Lowe was
disabled Elicit pursued Little to or near q
church, where Little was reinforced by armed
men from the church, when Elicit was CON-
PEELED to abandon further pursuit.
The St. Louis Republican special from
Plsttsburg, No., of September q. says while
Mrs. Winn. wife Of Benz. Winn, Esq, young
lady Of refinement and high social position,
was returning home on horseback from visit
to friends near Grayson yesterday, she was
siezed by man who wrapped her riding hab-
it tightly around her head, dragged her into
ravine near by and brutally ravished her. A
party Of neighbors Immediately started in
pursuit of the dend, overlook and hung him
on the spot. The ravisher proved to be q
muIlatto, . married man and laborer on
Winn's farm.
A Vincennes, Ind, special of Sept. 25,
says: Ed. Hogan, an employe of the Ohio
& Mississippi railroad. went to the bagnio Of
Jennie Herberts last night and found Doug
las Williams sitting in the lap Of Kate Ad-
ans, one of the inmates of the house. With
out uttering q word, he approached Will
Jams, dealt him terrible blow on the head
with large hickory stick, ,linfiicting injuries
from which Williams died this morning. Ho.
gan fed and has not yet been captured.
Williams is a nephew of Gov. Williams. and
his brutal and unprovoked murder has crea.
ted intense excitement in the country, and
should Hogan fall into the hands of the peo-
pie, he will be lynched. Kate is said to be
Hogan's girl, and the cause of the murder
was probably a sudden fit Of jealousy occa-
stoned BY finding Williams in such Intimate
relations with her.
The trail Of Mrs. Mary Van Kirk for
the poisoning Of her step-mother and brother,
terminated At Milwaukee Wisconsin on the
afternoon Of September "a and the jury re-.
ired to form verdict. Up to allate hour this
evening they have been unable to come to an
agreement, six being for conviction and six
for acquittal. 1t is mysterious case. Mrs.
Leahy and her son died from the effects of
taking arsenic. Mrs Van Kirk had cooked for
the deased and administered medicine almost
exclusively during their illness, but the pros
ecution have not been able to discover that
she ever procured any poison, although q
postmortem proved that they died from poi
soning 1t is charged that she put them out
Of the way to procure certain property which
came to her after their demise. The defense
is that the poison was either put in the medi.
cine accidently by the druggist or maliciously
by some person unknown. Milwaukee,, Sep
ember 24.-At II o'clock the jury turned a
verdict Of not guilty.
FOREIGN.
Advices from Bombay, British India
of September @, give the following details O.
land slip at Nsinital, Bengal, which resulted
in the death OF a number Of British officers
and soleiees and other persons: Rain bega1
falling heavily Friday, and poured steadily I'm
til Saturday afternoon, when the guagt
showed fall of twenty-five inches in fort,
hours. The effect Of such an enormous mast
Of water pouring down into the confined set
tlement. which was simply basin formed i,
circle of hills, can be imagined. All road
were cut to pieces. In the forenoon of satur
day 1t was rumored the Victoria hotel was il
dangerous state. The alarm was given t,
visitors in the h otel who took shelter else