River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1880-02-19
CRIME.

EDWARD REINHARDT who had been
denied new trial in New York
City, on charge of numbering his wife,
was sentenced Feb. IL to be hanged on
the End of April.
THE residence of Geo. II. Norman, on
Beacon street, was entered by thieves last
evening while the family was at dinner,
says a Boston telegram OF the 18th, and
robbed of bonds, checks, money and dia-
monds aggregating in value $4,000.
CAPT. ASHLEY Brown, a highly re-
spected citizen, and cashier in the Inter,
national revenue office at Dayton, Ohio,
has proved defaulter to the amount OF
several thousand dollars, probably not
less than $4,000, says a dispatch of the
10th inst.
ANDREW SMITH, twelve years treasurer
Of North Andover, Mass, and also for
sixteen wears postmaster of that place,
was arrested and placed in Jail on the
nth inst, he having confessed to a
heavy defalcation the amount of which
was not known.
On the afternoon of Feb. 10th, at Pc
ora, Ill, Jacob Frye, for seventeen years
dealer at the stock yards, Chicago, but
since last fall resident of Peoria, was
shot and instantly killed by Lou McKin-
ney, his son-in1aW. Mckinney had been
threatening to kill him for some time,
and meeting him on Main street,
in front of the mercantile library build.
ing, shot him dead.
LAST night, says a Westport, Conn,
telegram of the 18th inst, gang of
burglars first seized and locked up the
village watchman, and then proceeded
s1sar 20 of hn IN q
bank. The explosion aroused the vii
layers, but the robbers succeeded in
making off with $500 in cash. Had
the explosion not been so violent, the
thieves would have secured The whole
amount in the safe.
Mrs. BRowS, wife of the murdered
man at indianapolis, and upon whom
suspicion was at once fastened, has
made full confession, says dispatch
of the 18th The affair created intense
excitement: Mrs Brown says her
husband was killed 0y the man Wade,
with whom she had been too intimate.
Wade denies the story but the public
generally believe i.
AT Menasha, Wis, yesterday says
dispatch of the 18th, Jacob Henningsen
shot st his wife three times with a re-
feet. The third one struck a locket
which hung around her neck, the bullet
glancinC of. He then fired two shots
into his own body, but his wounds are
not fatal. Henningsen and wife came
to This city from Chicago about year
age, but shortly after quarreled, the wo-
man returning TO Chicago. She was in
dueed to return, coming back about six
weeks ago.
IN an alteration which took place last
evening, says Plymouth, Ind, special
Of the 18th, between Mrs Wood, q woman
of %, of whom no good is known, and
her grandson, the woman attempted TO
shoot the boy with shot gun, but was
frustrated by the father of the boy shoot
ING his mother-in-law with pistol, the
bali taking effect over the right eye.
The woman cannot recover. The father,
named Miner, who is considered a good,
honest citizen, has given himself up.
Mrs. Wood and her daughters family
have not agreed for some time. This
trouble grew out of some accusations
male by the boy.
A DISPATCH of Feb. 18th, from Hollister,
San Benito county, Cal, says the newspa-
per.war eliminated yesterday morning by
the fatal shooting of S. III. Brummett,
editor of the Enterprise, by G.. w. Carl
ton, editor of the telegraph. The morn
ings issue Of the Telegraph calls Brum NETT
a horse thief. At 10 O'clock Brummett
met Carlton on the count house steps, and
asked him why he published those lies
about him. Without speaking, Carlton
drew pistol and shot Brummett, the