The Dickinson press., 1883-07-14

annum.
There was a cold wave all oyer the North
on Saturday and Sunday which was partic-
ularly grateful to suffering New Workers.
After a long controversy, Nelson G. ORA
per has been appointed temporary tea in
spector for the port of Chicago.
Litchtield, ILL.,, has put liquor licenses uI
from 5000 to $500.
THE CRIMINAL RECORD.
John Armory Knox, editor and part pro-
prietor Of a Texas newspaper. and ID. B..
Shehan, a sculptor, fought a duel in re-
tired spot some four miles from Hoboken,
N. Y, at about II o'clock on the 9Th inst.
Neither, it is certain was wounded. At IL
O'Clock Knox and his second were on the
ground-a swampy, barren field out OF sight
and hearing of any dwelling. The men
were placed twenty PAGES apart. At the
word "three" both fired, but without effect.
Knox declared himself satisfied, but She
han called for another shot. At the second
fire Knox felt his left arm twitch and found
that Shehan's bullet had passed through his
coat and shirt, slightly grazing his skin.
shook hands and the proceedings were
over.
Edward Whalen applied toItbe police of
Attleboro, Massachusetts for a nights
lodging, and admitted that he was an es-
capped convict from the state workhouse at
B~ridgewater, which burned the 9TH. He
said a negro, James Gilmore, who escaped
with him, set the fire. Gilmore was arres.
ted, and confessed. He said he had carried
matches a year to accomplish it. He
SkauoH cfropu nm fho uork;lok1r A,,n avid lie
abled the steam pump, and said he was glad
the place was in ashes. "When l 20, out
of this" said he, ~ will burn this town."
The third convict escaped toward Provi-
dence.
The military convicts who escaped from
prison at Fort Omaha (near Omaha) by
overpcwering the guard. were: James F.
Anderson, who enlisted at Fort Omaha;
Thomas Barber, enlisted at Philadelphia;
Alonzo Barden; enlisted at Cleveland;
Franklin Bratton, enlisted at Chicago; Will
liam Calhoun, enlisted at Fort Elliot, Tex;
Thomas Fitzgerald, enlisted at Boston; M.
Lindsay, enlisted at Baltimore; Henry Mar
tin, enlisted at Fort Mckinney, having re-
enlisted from Fort Custer; Edward J..
Murphy, enlisted at Washington; Frederick
Parkhurst, enlisted at Detroit; George Price,
enlisted at Albany, N. Y.
The jury in the case of George Grant col
ored, of Kansas City, returned a verdict Of
murder in the first degree. In April 1881,
he shot and killed Police Officer Jones, who
to arrest him for lhieving. A
mob the same night captured q colored
MAI named Harrington, mistaking him for
the murderer, and lynched him on the street.
Grant was afterward arrested, tried and con-
victed of murder. The court granted a new
trial on q technical error, and the second
trial is now.concluded.
At Mount Sterling, XIV, a negro named
Dick Biggers, who on the Sd attempted to
rape a servant of r. G. Anderson, was taken
from Jail OF the 7th and was about to be
hung. to a railroad bridge when Marshal
net bandits, appeared, and in a short speech
.pursuaded the crowd to let the negro be
taken back to Jail. The mob was mashed,
numbered over fifty.
Anthony Genyck, French squawman at
the Santee, Neb., committed suicide the 10Th
inst, during the absence of his family, who
returned the next morning and found him
dead, with a bullet hole in his head. He
had $1,000 under his pillow and was worth
$4,000.
Arthur ]. Blaney, charged with embezzl-
ing $40, OlO from the Massachusetts Loan g.
Trust company, Boston, plead guilty to emu
bezzlement but not guilty to forgery. He
will be sentenced on the first charge, and
tried on the second this week.
Halliard, ex-president and chief wrecker
of the Mechanics and Laborers' bank, Jersey
City, N. j., has been sentenced to eighteen
months in state prison; when judgment was
affirmed. He surrendered to the sheriff
and was taken to prison.
Private Andrew Harnahan, of Troop B,
Third cavalry, suicided at Fort Leavenworth
by shooting himself through the heart with
a revolver. He had been insane for some
time, and was to have started for the asylum
at Washington.
~. Il. Wilmarth, a young man who has
been operating u marriage insurance COM
pany and ostensible counterfeit money
agency and other fraudulent enterprises ut
Massellon, Ohio, was arrested by the post
office authorities.
Francis B. Webster of Cambridge, Mass.
arrested on a charge of swindling the Alta
Gold and Silver Mining company of New
Mexico. out of $50. 900, has been committed
in default of SIS, 900 bail.
William l.. Allen, publisher of the Even
ing Telegram and the Chicago World, has
been arrested in Chicago for blackmail. He
is charged with extorting $75 from Winship
& Co., lottery agents.
The Southern Minnesota Fair association
have issued a very neat premium list, in
which they offer $1,000 in premiums at the
coming fair in September.
For criticising the Tower city (Pa.) scaool
board. J. X. Nelson, editor of the Echo, was
horsewhipped by Mrs. McElwaine wife of
one of the directors.
]. r. sutlhin's safe, at Duluth, was
blown open, $40 taken and 500 damage
done the safe and building.
PERSONAL
Maj. Melbourne, the father of Blanche
Melbourne. said to be Mrs. Bush, of the
sartoris scandal, has received a telegram
from DR.. Stephens of st. Louis, in which
the latter denies ever having sanctioned
the use of his name in connection with the
scandal and sava no knouu ,otL;,n ob...