Morris tribune., 1881-08-18
RECORD OF CRJnIE.

| 1t is reported that Parker, the Adirondack
guide, who was shot while resisting arrest, is
dead.
Charles W. Curry killed Nathan Prettyman
at st. Louis because he would not let Curry
have his daughter.
is under bonds for attempting to blackmail
Mrs. Frank Crosby, niece of Alexander
Mitchell
The New York grand jury have indicted
Elizabeth Coleman for murder in the first de-
gree, for shooting George Coles, at Harry Min
er's theater.
At Fredonia, Kansas. party attacked the
Jail with view of lynching an alleged murder
er, but was driven of with the loss of one of
| their number.
Samuel Miller of Williamsport, Pa, has
been arrested charged with the murder of his
father by poison, for the purpose of obtaining
! the amount for whice his life was insured.
At Martinique, on the 18th of July, mob OF
several thousand negroes attacked the house of
the leading physicion, and severely wounded
him, robbed the mayor and committed other
depredatioEs.
Parker Adirondac, the guide who committed
bank of Long lake, N. Y, SATURDAY. He resist
ed arrest, and the constables shot him through
the breast His recovery is doubtful
The little town of Sctuste, r. l., is all tore
up over the destruction of house and barn
belonging to DR.. William Bowen, temperance
agltator of that section, through the agency of
an Internal machine.
Mrs. frankie Smith Crocker, the slick talker
from Milwaukee, who supported the fraudu-
lent claim of Mrs. Harris 10 the authorship
of Rutege in St Paul, is in the tolls of the red
eyed law in the Cream City on charge of
blackmail.
Two gendarmes from Italy, who have arrived
in Now York for the purpose of identifying the
bandit Esposito, went to Ludlow street Jail
and without hesitation picked out the
prisoner from line of twenty-four others in
which he was placed.
The Williams brother who was reported as
arrested at New Ulm on the ignoble charge of
stealing set of harnesses, proves to be one
s. L. King, a hard citizen whose resemblance
to the hunted outlaws was largely in the fevered
imagination of the public mind.
Edward Northrnp, prominent attorney
shot and killed Joseph O'Donnell, clerk for
lumber firm, in the Crawford house at Elliot
vile, n. Y. Northrup surrendered himself to
the authorities after the shooting. The affair
has created great eXcitementin the village ow-
ing to the high standing of both parties
SUNDAY morning last the firm of J. W. Wal
colt 4 Co., brokers of New York, informed the
police that one of their clerks who had been
left to close business the day previous, had alb
sconoea WIN StO,OOo worm or STOCKS and Sc
curities, and S :, 1000 of checks. The abscond-
ing clerk is A. D. Wheelock, age twenty-five
unmarried. He took steamer and has gone
abroad
G. H. Long and c. A. Howard, president and
treasurer of the Alliance Insurance company at
Boston, were arrested and admitted in So, 900
bail each on The charge of embezzement The
Alliance company, after suspendiug operations
about .wo years ago, reorganized and proceed
ed to reinsure former risks and bid for new
business. The insurance commissioner ap-
piled for an injunction to restrain the company
from transacting business on the ground of in
solvency. An investigation of the books by an
expert showed deficiency of S11 900 within
six months. Hence the arrests.