Daily globe., 1883-06-16
A RIVER FALLS SCANDAL.


RIVER FALLS, Wis. June 15.-Dr. j. f.
johnson is physician who enjoys large
practice. Mrs. Johnson, it is alleged,
became intimate with a good looking
young clerk named Ole Andersen. The
other evening DR.. j. gave his wife to un-
derstand he would be away from home
every night, but instead of leaving town,
he kept watch, and at midnight, armed
with his revolver, crept to the window of
his home and saw enough, he says, to JUS
tify him IN shooting Anderson on the
spot This he would
certainly have done had
not his pistol refused to act after the first
shot, which missed the mark. Opening the
window the doctor sprang into the room.
and using his pistol for a weapon dubbed
Anderson over the head, knocking him
down and, as he believed, breaking his jaw.
Escaping from the hands of the husband,
Anderson fled barefooted, minus coat. hat
and vest, to the store, where he replenished
his wardrobe and left for the country. The
next morning Mrs. ]. attempted to get a
warrant against the doctor for assault, but
her cause was not clear enough to satisfy
the justice and it was not granted. Prob
ably the case will end with a divorce suit
at the term of court which commences next
week at Ellsworth.
a DEGENERATE COUNT.
Special Telegram to the Globe.
ST. LOUIS, June 15.-Count Adolph Won
Derdannenberg, a handsome and dis
tinguished looking young German noble
man, whose card says he was formerly Il
second lieutenant of the Ninth Hanoverian
Dragons, was brought here from Chicago
yesterday morning by st. Louis detec-
tive who had secured his extradition on a
requisition charging him with the larceny
of a theodOlite from Father Mayer, presi-
dent of st. Louis university. Won Derdan-
nenberg came here last December, and was
at once taken by the hand by ex-Mayor
Overstalz, Mr.. Breckeler, DR.. Emil Pree-
torius, editor of the IVesHiche Post, Police
Commissioner Lutz, and other social and
official prominent German citizens,
who, when he confessed an impecunious
condition, got him the position of secre-
tary of the body which was engaged in
making collection through the city and
state for the benefit of the German suffer
ers. He lost this position through uncon-
querable eagerness to ascertain the nature
Of the contents of a letter sent by sympa-
thetic Germans to the president of the
charitable body. After that misfortune
crowded upon him, and in an evil moment
he obtained from Father Mayer, on the
strength of letters given him by DR.. Pree-
torius and Police Commissioner Lutz, a
theodolite which he explained he wished to
use in connection with a surveying party
in which he had gained employment
This was untrue, however, and as soon as
he got the theodolite be raised S. upon it
and fled to Chicago, where, after many
hardships, he succeeded in obtaining a
situation in Hibbard, Spencer & Cos
wholesale hardware establishment. where
he was working as porter for Sc week
when arrested. He acknowledges his guilt
and begs forgiveness, claiming he will right
his evil doings as soon as he gets long
delayed remittance from Germany. His
friends here stoutly maintain that he is a
veritable count, and the chances are that
they Will unite in measures looking to his
release after they are convinced he is really
repentant. He was at one time engaged to
the daughter of a prominent brewer, but
the match was broken off after he fed to
CHICAGO.