Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-03-03
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES

United States Senator Hill, Of Georgia, Sued
for Eeduction-A Negro Fiend summarily
Disposed Of by South Carolina Lynchsrs
Fatally Burned at New York FIre-A
Couple Of Murders at Rawlins- MisceI-
laneous.
SUIT FOB SEDUCTION.
WARRINGTON, March 2.-Suit was entered in
the supreme court of this district to-day by
Jennie Rayn .ond, who charges Senator Hill, of
Georgia, W ). seduction, and claims damages
in the amount of $4,000.
MURDER Oh SUICIDE.
CINCINNATI. March 2.-The dead body of g.
W. Parker, a man of considerable property,
was found floating in the canal near the hospi-
tai this morning. His gold watch was miss
ing. No cause is known to induce him to
commit suicide, and it is thought he was
robbed and thrown into the canal. He was
seen at temperance meeting last night and
afterwards at barber shop. where he stopped
to pay a small bill. He>xas widower Is years
old. ~
NEGRO FIEND LYNCHED.
CHARLESTON, 8. c., March 2.-On Saturday
last a one-armed negro, Louis Kinder, out
rageously assaulted . white woman named
Bird, residing near Georges station, Calleton
county. Kinder was captured about 4 o'clock
Sunday morning by q white and black posse.
He was taken to the scene of the outrage and
identified by the woman. The posse, by vote,
decided not to lynch Kinder, who was then
placed in the guard house at Georges station.
On Monday morning he was started for Walter
boro Jail under a strong guard. On the way
the guard was overpowered by an armed force.
consisting largely of relatives Of the outraged
woman, and Kinder was conveyed to . secluded
spot in the woods. About 9 o'clock last night
he was again confronted by the woman and
again identified. He was then taken to the
woods and preparations were made to hang
him. At the last moment he acknowledged
the outrage, confessed to having outraged Q
colored woman in Newberry six years ago, also
to killing colored girl near Kingstree last
April, to four burglaries and innumerable
thefts. At 1890 he was hanged, and after fir
ing velley of pistol shots into the body, the
crowd quietly dispersed.
FOOD FOR RATE.
MILWAUKEE, March Fired Schultz, who
has been missing since Friday, was found
hanging in a shanty near the city limits. Tho
body was badly eaten by rats. Ill-health the
supposed cause of suicide.
IN THE PENITENTIARY.
New YORK, March 2.-Rev. Edward Cowley,
ex-manager of the late Shepherds Fold, was
taken to-day from the Tombs to the peniten-
t1ary. The reverend convi:t was at one time
chaplain to that institution.
ENGINEER FATALLY BURNED.
NEW YORK, March IA FIRE broke out this
morning in Farnham & Comstock's planning
mill at Seventh avenue and Twenty-ninth
street. In half an hour that building and the
adjoining factory of tho Domestic Sewing Ms
chine company were entirely consumed. Losses
estimated at SIS 600 on the planning mill stock
and $25, 600 on the building; on the sewing
machine property and building probably
$50, 900. Stewards carpet cleaning factory ad-
joining the sewing machine factory was flooded.
Losses entailed heavy. The wall paper factory,
a very large building abutting on the planning
mill, Twcnty-rinth street, and the houses on
the opposite side of Twenty ninth, were on fire
several times, but the flames were promptly
extinguished. The engineer of the. planning
mill, Ksrltz %. DeCarey, was dragged from the
engine room fatally burned.
MURDKRors AFFAIRS.
RAwL1Ns, w. T., March 2.-This town was,
this forenoon, the scene of two murderous af-
trays, resulting in the probable loss of two
lives. One case, man named Ed. Clarke, re-
turning home about 5 A. NJ, was shot and NOR
tally wounded Dy MS partner, John Lee, for
trifing offense, attempting to start fire. Lee
escaped and has not yet been arrested. The
wounded man will probably die before morn
ing. At q later hour a saloon-keeper named
Kruth was stabbed and instantly killed by q
teamster named Frank Harrington. The par
ties quarreled over bar bill. Harrins ton sur
rendered himself and il now in Jail.
HANaINas ANNOUNCED.
LOUISVILLE, Ky, March 2-The governor has
fixed April I'd as the day for the execution of
Charles Webster, colored, of outrage on little
Francis Otto, on the 18th of October, 1878; his
companion in crime, George Washington, hav-
ing been executed on the 21st of February,
1879. Anderson, the wife murderer, will be
hanged the same day.
FOUND DEAD IN HIS CELL.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, March 2.-For several
days past, George Woods, printer, aged about
26 years, has been on trial for the second time
for the murder Of Mrs. Mile Hobbs, in 1877.
He was convicted about two years ago, and
sentenced for life to the penitentiary, but OBJ
tanned q new trial. Last night, the jury, after
forty eight hours deliberatiOn, were unable to
agree, and -;.e discharged. Woods procured
morph; lie, aud took it during the night, and
was found dead in his cell.