Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1881-01-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
RECORD OF CRIME

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John Ferguson, . liquor seller ct Detroit, was
The chief of police at Ansonia, Conn. Was
shot while attempting to arrest disordefiy
character known - Chep Smith.
Mrs. Dorcas Burchheld, . widnw living 1t
Francisco, seven miles east Of Princeton, Ind
shot and killed Thomas Burchdeld, her hrsth-
er-in-law.
Peter vanderhoof, enc. Of . gang who at-
tempted to wreck passenger train on the West
ern Central road last week has been arrested in
Fond du Lac.
Mrs. Esmer Foster, an inmate Of house Of
i'll, fame at Pittsbnrk, was shot and fatally
wounded by McHall, an insurance agent, who
claims to be her husband
Emil Hoya Of Milwaukee, imprisoned in the
Omaha jail for blackmail, committed suicide
Friday night by taking morphine, which his
physician had prescribed to relieve the pain
incident to heart disease.
A Mrs. Hester Of Robertson county, Tennes-
she alleges had conspired to ruin her reputa-
ton. She is but twenty-five years old, only
married year, and very handsome.
The examination of the accounts Of J. w.
Milne, clerk of the Pocasset National bank, at
Fall River, Mass reveals populations extending
over nine months, making the aggregate defal-
cation SO, 600. he is believed to have gone to
Canada
John Plankinton, the well known pork pack
or Of Milwaukee, has just made purchase Of
1O,863 bags, or ], 500, 600 pounds Of coffee,
costing 1856, 600, and paying cash for it
Since buying, coffee has advanced three-quar
tors of . cent per pound.
Thomas Babber, for killing his mistress and
her mother about year ago, and Joe Banks, 3
negro, for numbering his wife on the 28th Of
last March, were sentenced by Judge Laughlin,
toh oh -
on the 18th Of next February.
During disturbance in the hotel of P. T.
Griffin at Rockaway Beach one Malone At
tempted to stab the proprietor. The latter drew
q revolver and fred six times at Malone, who
fell MORALLY wounded. Griffin then seized q
gun and riddled Malone with buckshot
Cashier Berry Of the Bergen IN. J.) County
Bank, has retracted his plea Of not guilty to
eight indictments, charging him with embezzle-
ment from the Bergen County Savings Bank,
and entered plea Of non vult contendere, .
legal phrase, meaning he win make no defense
At New Alexandria, Ohio, DR.. Schooley and .
young dentist got into fight with Buckingham,
farmer, when Schooley drew arevolver and shot
Buckingham in the head. Henry then took Z
shovel and beat Schooley over the head in hor-
rible manner. It is said that both Buckingham
and Schooley will die.
During an alteration in Halifax county, w.,
between Marion Wimbish, : white boy aged
seventeen, and . negro boy, about the posses
sion Of an AZ, the negro attempted to assault
Wimbish with hoe, when the latter dealt him
q blow on the neck with the AZ, almost sever
ing the head from the body: The negro died in
ton minutes.
In Chicago on Christmas morning Miss Ada
Hidden, young lady Of Twenty-Five years, en-
acquaintances, living there with her brother,
Robert Hebden, assistant manager Of the Bank
of Montreal, suddenly went to drawer, took
from it pistol and without warning or expla-
nation fired shot into her heart and fell dead
on the carpet The evening previous she at
the guests. No cause is assigned for the act.