Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-29


htty-four years old, married and residing
at 1921 Wentworth avenue. about 6 o'clock
this morning cut his throat with razor.
causing instant death. He has been i'll for
some time, and, the doctor who attended
him frankly told him he could not live but
a day or two.
Dat few minutes after o'clock this
morning, Edward A. Larkin, a broom
maker living at e. East Illinois street,
went into his kitchen and shot himself in
his right temple, dying almost instantly.
SENTENCED TO HANG.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark, March 28.-Joe
Young, for outraging Mrs. Armous, in
Lanesport, has been sentenced to be
hanged May 25. Jerry BIalock. for
the murder of Thos. Blanchburg was
sentenced to be hanged at Jacksonport
May II.
THE HITES THOROUGHLY WRECKED.
LOUISVILLE, March 28.-A libel suit of
G. Hite and wife against the Courier
Journal for the publication of statements
relating to an alleged liaison between Mrs.
Hite and the late Jesse James, which has
been on trial for ten days, came to a con-
clusion this evening, the jury finding for
the defendant. The amount sued for was
$4,000. A series of questions were sub
mitted to the jury which were answered as
follows: Mrs. Hite had been in love with
and had a laison with Jesse James.
That she had deserted her
husband. That she had correspond
ed clandestinely with young man in the
neighborhood. That he Jessie James Hason
had cause disatfectlon IN the Hite family
That Mrs. Hite swore cut g warrant against
Wood Hite, her step son, charging him
with killing the negro Turner, because Hite
caught the negro carrying notes from Mrs.
Hite to a young man. That the pubiica-
ton in the Courier 0UrnGL was substan-
TALLY true. That it was not made with
malicious intent TO SANDER and iniure.
That there were rum ors in the neighborhood
affecting Mrs. Hites character. for
chastity and virtue, and that the defendant
had reason to believe them true. The case
has excited much attention, the court room
being daily crowded. The plaintiffs made
terrific fight through able attorneys, but
old Hite's admission Of his wife's infideli-
ty, made by him to Gov. Crittenden, of
Missouri, detailed by the latter from the
witness stand, clinched the strong proof of
the Courier-JournaJ already offered, and
the verdict creates no surprise among those
familiar with the facts.
Two more Gases OF $25, 900 each, brought
by the same parties against the Courier
Journal, viii probably never be heard from
again.
DEFAULTEE ARRESTED.
CHICAGO, March 28.-Asa F. Leopold,
treasurer of the town board of Crystal
Falls, Mich, charged with having left town
two weeks ago with $5, 900 of town funds,
and $1,000 short on an old account, was ar
rested in this City late last night.
ARRESTED FOR WIFE MURDER.
PHILADELPHIA, March 28.-John Snyder
was arrested this morning charged with
numbering his wife Alice. There were
three knife wounds IL her breast.
CONVICTED OF MURDER.
ELLIcoTT CITY, Nd, March 2S.-Jason
Williams, (coIored,) on trial for killing
Vim. Dansey, (cOlored,) was convicted OF
murder IN the first degree. The trial occu-
pied only few hours.
IN EDITOR H0RsEwHIPPED.
ST. LOUIS, March 29.-J. T. Peers, editor
of the Collensvllle, H., Herald, was pub
liciy hocsewhi pseG in that town yesterday
by Mrs. Henry Marshall, wife of the we'll
known business nan, for the publication
of an article watch reelected upon herself.
. her husband and mother. Peers was bad
ly marked about the face and neck by the
heavy rawhide vigorously applied by the
outraged lady.
OUT HIS THROAT.
N0RFoLK, March 2S.-Col. James Z. Cor
ley, agent for the Home Insurance COM
panJ, eut his throat at hotel in Hampton
this afternoon. tie was graduate of West
Point and held q commission ii the army
before the war, and was Gen. Lees quarter
master general ia The army Of Northern
Ylrglnia. and WAS prominent citizen OF
Norfolk. He was president of the local
civil service reform association. The IN
telligeHce greatly shocked the community.
SENT I'd TEE INSANE ASYLUM.
MONTPELIER. Vt. March 2S.-Mathews
McCanery, who killed his wife and mother
in-law, was found not guilty of murder
and has been sent to the asylum.
ACQUITTED.
LOUISVILLE, March 28.-Cope Snapp,
late clerk of Back Tax Collector Ferguson,
has been acquitted of the charge OF appro-
priating money belonging to the City to
his own Use. The defense showed By the
commemorative owl witnesses and the
books Of the Office that the money had snot
been misapprOpriated as charged. The
matter caused considerable sensation, as
the witness was one on whom the common
wealth de pended for conviction. A num-
Der Of other indictments remain to be
tried, TO be called in the april term, be-
ginning next Monday.
SHOT HERSELF AND INFANT.
GLENBEULAH, Wis, March Is Mrs.
James r. Sha0lsbotham, Of this place,
shot herself and infant child yesterday
about O'Clock pm. She used a twenty
two caliber revolver, and put two balls
through the child near the heart She
then put Il bullet through her own temple.
She died instantly, but the child lived
about an hour. She had been sick some
time, during witch she was frequently
thought to be out of her right mind.
DIsHEARTENED SUICIDE.