The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1880-03-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK
CRIMES AMP CRIMINALS

On the morning Of March II, Martin
Powers, of Chicago, shot his wife probably
atally, and then shot himself causing instant
death.
The tanatical Mahommcdans, at Con-
stantinople, are making great efforts to pre-
vent the execution of the assassin of the Rus
sian, Col. Corneroff.
At Chaska. Pa, on the night of March
IL, Richard Neildo, prisoner in the Delaware
county jail, attempted to escape, and in doing
so broke gas pipe and was suffocated by es-
Gaping gas.
On the night of March 16, at senatobia,
MISS, Calvin Roberts, colored, was shot by the
city marshal while placing distractions on
the crack Of the Mississippi & Tennessee rail
road. He will recover.
A Bismarck D. T. Tribune special
from Miles, City says, William Reese was ia.
tally shot BY DR.. Leberher, on the night of
March 49, Cause, jealousy over a sporting
woman. Reese will die. Leberher is in jail.
Parson, known as the Avon murderer,
was hung in Rochester, N. Y, March 10, on
conviction of numbering Mr.. Whitney. BE went
to his doom waiting and proclaiming h.s in
nocence, and charging the crime on Mrs.
Whitney.
Clarence Davis, the bigamlst who ap-
ports Of America, having one or two also in
Canada, was held to bail in Chicago, March
II. by the police judge in $4,000 bonds to ap-
pear before the criminal court
Homer Wellington, rich young mer-
chant of Boston, enjoying an income of $780,
900 year, is in Jail charged with an attempt
to poison his wife and two young children
The youngest child died.-Cause, his infarua-
ton for dashing grass widow.
At st. Louis, Mo-, at late hour on the
night Of March 1stha young man named Cam
Keeps saloon, with bowie knife, severing a
couple of arteries in his head, from which he
died in few minuted. The assault is said to
have been unprovoked aud cold blooded Cor
was arrested. ....
John Gnbley Chicago lawyer charg-
by juror with attempting to bride him, was
found guilty Of simony, March 20, and senten-
ced to sixty days imprisonment, and so start
ling were tho facts as to bribery developed on
the trial that his case and conviction, with
oilers, was recommended to the attention of
the grand jury.
One hundred masked men rode boldly
up to the county Jail in Winchester, ILL., at
one o'clock on the morning of March II, bat
tered in the door, disarmed the guards and
jailor, and with revolvers in hand compelled
them TO give up the keys. They then opened
the cell OF Joseph j. Fields and despatched
him with a number Of pistol shots. He had
murdered James Pudget on the 25th of last
February.
For some weeks there has been trouble
among the coal miners at Rapids City on &C.
count of some strikers wishing to return to
work. Mystic warnings with skull and cross
bones, and signed Mollie Mcguire, have been
distributed among those who were presumed
to be weakening. Wednesday night March II,
Taylor Williams was shot through the heart
in his own house. Two suspected men have
been arrested and are held for inquest More
trouble threatened.
The Maine legislative committee to
inquire into the conduct of Elk Gov Garcelon
and council, made their report March IS. The
eport states that Garcelon, while evincing a
willingness to disclose everything, was infirm
in his memery, and failed to give satisfactory
reason for his course. When the eviden ce
was laid before him, he ceased longer to de-
fend the counting ont, and passionately de-
clared his own innocence and declared that a
Judas among the council has done the vii
lainy.