The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-03-13
The Criminal calendar.

The Criminal calendar.
A Connecticut county treasurer 46O, 600 short
has vamoosed.
Theodore Hoffman, the murderer of the ped
Ter, Marks; at White Plains, n. y, has been
sentenced to be hanged April IL
port, r. l., shot himself, but did not die, for a
pretty girl who refused him.
J. W. Hawkins, private secretary Of Nelson
Holland Of Buffalo, specialized in grain and
took $780, 900 of his employers money.
Four arrests have been made at Corning,
Ohio, for the lynching of Richard Hickey two
weeks ago, on charge of murder in the first
degree.
Benjamin Beatty of Easton, Pa, attempted
to chastise his seventeen-year old boy, Harry,
when the boy drew a revolver and shot his
father.
A duel with pistols was fought at Groville,
France, recently, between LIE Pelletier, jour-
naliet and Viartlot, violinist. Both were 60
verely wounded.
Belleville, ml) special: William Brown, a
negro aged thirty seven years, and his wife
and stepdaughter were lodged in jail charged
with most atrocious murder, which they con-
fessed.
Desire Boudoir, before the police court ut
Great Falls, N. H., pleaded guilty to the charge
Of killing Frederick Grant, for which crime his
(Boudoir' 81 father stands convicted. He will be
tried in September:
At Lake Providence, La, Noah jackson NEGRO,
was hanged on the eth, for the murder of his
fifteen year old wife on the eth of last July
The execution was witnessed by 1000 people,
Jealousy was the cause Of the crime
John ". Hawkins, United States lumber in
spector and private secretary of Nelson Hol-
land, Of Clark, Holland & Co., lumber dealers
OF Buffalo, is charged with tho embezzlement
OF moneys OF Holland aggresatins $4,000.
A man named Ben swistleton shot and killed
wo men, one named Horny Leeper Of Helena,
Mont, and a man named c: E. Rogers, nick
named Bill or Charley, at John humans. No
o. Van Wen treasurer of Huron county, Conn. ,
abscoundcd recently, and has not been heard
from since. His cash account is short s5OOOO
to 100000 His bondsmen are good for the
amount taken. 1t is thought he is in Canada.
Carrollton, Ohio, is excited over the discov-
cry thatthe county treasurers Office was robbed
some time ago of 81, 1000: that a detective sum-
moned from Chicago succeeded in replacing
employed him.
A shooting scrape occurred at Topeka, Kan,
among the colored population, in which
George Blackman was killed and Peter Blood
son MORALLY wounded. 1sah McClary is the
murderer. The two victims seem to have been
intimate with McClary's wife.
James l. Dougherty, mail agent of the At
Gibson, Topeka 4 Santa Fe company, shot and
seriously wounded Prof Nutting, music
teacher of Emporia, Kan. The affair created q
great sensation, and grew out of the we'll known
intimacy between Nutting and Doughrety's wife.
The Cashes, father and son, still defy arrest at
Cheraw, S. c. Old Cash intimater his intontion
to surrender, with his son, at time and place
selected by himself provided his trial takes place
in the United States court. Young Cash held
the appointment Of United States deputy mar
shall.
Tim Depew, while attending revival meet
ing at the Baptist church at Blenheim, Ont :,
was arrested by dectives from Hamilton and
Buffalo, N, Y, charged with robbery and tho
murder of q railway engineer at Hamilton and
a murder at Buffalo. He was taken to Hamil-
ton.
John McGinnis was hangedin the county pris-
on at Philadelphia, for the murder Of his moth
er-in-law Mrs. Mary Reed On the scaffold he
embraced and kissed the priest In the middle
of repetition of the sentence, 'Jesus, receive
my SOUL" the drop fell He seemed to die with
ont pain.
For some time trouble has existed between
Rev. B. NJ. O'Boylan of Corning, Ohio and A.
J. McDavitt, a druggist of that place, and who
also is a Catholic and has been member of o.
Boylon's church Sunday night mob of be-
tween forty and fifty men called at the store of
McDavitt, and took him three miles in the
country, where they exacted promises from him
that he would retract what he had said about
the priest. The leaders of the crowd have been
arrested and a warrant is out for Rev. OBoy-
Ian.
At Massillon, Ohio, Sarah Stark, aged four
teen, applied for the arrest of E. D. Farmer, r
Seisner, Charles Fogle and Charles Rite, for
rape. She alleges that while going home We'd
nesday night Farmer waylaid her in q lone spot
and forced her to accompany him to wagon
shed, where he ravished her. The other men
accused found them, drove Farmer off, and
each in turn twice ravished her, and then e.
capped. Farmer was arrested and put under
$500 bonds for hearing, but was afterward re-
leased from custody on bail, and fled The
mayor offers reward for his capture.
William Mcmillan, living near Huron, Ohio.
went home drunk aud abused his wife, who
threatened to call on neighbors for help. Nc
MILAN swore he would kill the first man who
came to the house. Presently George Thomp-
son, aged nineteen, appeared in the dooryard,
having an errsnd at the place and ignorant Of
the trouble there Mcmillan misrakinS him
for another person, shot and killed him. Then,
discovering his mistake and fearful of diseov-
cry, he tried to shoot himself, but only infiic-
ted triding flesh wound in a side. Mcmillan
was arrested and Jailed at Huron, and was
found dead in his CELL
Miscellaneous Hsvs Notes.
The Puget Sound rivers are clear of ice.
Boston gave $19.145 to the food sufferers.
Peach blossoms are seen in Southern Georgia
The population Of Winnipeg is claimed to be
106S&
Seattele is getting sitka trade away from San
Francisco.
New York took in So, $50 for liquor licenses
Last noontl,