New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-08-08
NEWS TN BRIEF.
Sinful Siftings.

The safe of C. 81. Bates store at Yankton,
D. T. was cracked and $500 stolen Mr..
Bates is city treasurer. and one-tfird of the
$500 was city money. There is no clue to the
thieves.
Miss Mamie Phillips. the 19-year-old
daughter of a highly respected family, resid-
ing in Allegheny City, Pa, was arrested,
charged with the theft OF 500 in money
from james Devine, a guest of her parents.
Miss Phillips finally admitted her guilt, and
was placed under arrest. Owing to the
prominence of the interested parties, the
affair has created a great sensation.
Two maiden ladies, Maria and Viretta
Reeves, living near Dayisville West Virginia
shot and killed one burglar and mortally
wounded and captured another. One of the
sisters saw man in her room, seized re-
volver and fred killing him. The other sis
ter sprang on the other burglar as he was
trying to escape through a window. He was
too late, as he fell to the ground with bullet
through his groin.
Deputy Sheriff Hayes, of Blacksoot, Idaho,
arrived at Bozeman and identified Alex
Woods, the negro recently arrested there,
as the nan who murdered his wife and was
sentenced to be hanged on July 20. At the
same time Williams was executed Woods
broke jail and escaped and has been at large
ever since. Hayes had the necessary reuuisi-.
back to Idaho. The hanging has been fixed
for Aug. II.
A fatal row occurred thirty miles south
west OF Neigh, Nebraska. a young man
Schmidt, his sister and two brothers named
Yanderschuck, were returning with several
Others from q wedding at Ewing, and got
into quarrel, which ended in a free fight.
Schmidt was fatally cut across the abdomen
bis sister was wounded in the arm One of
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and was twice stabbed in the back, while the
other brother was slightly cut with knife
and seriously cut on the head with club
After two days pursuit of the Indians
for whom warrants were out for the murder
GUS assault near Brainerd, Mimi, Sheriff
Spaulding and Capt. John George Morrison,
OF the White Earth agency policy, came up
on Bugi Buck and Wah Boo Cheek in q hid
ing place they had fed to in the wilderness,
some twelve miles from the BURBERRY camps
and twenty-five miles from Brainerd. Sew
eral times had the fugitives changed their
hiding place, and now felt SO secure that
they were indulging in nap outside a tepee
Leaving their horses long distance and fol-
lowing trail the officers crept up, and had
them under cover of their guns before they
could do anything.
W. c White, an attorney in Hector, Mimi
was shot and probably fatally wounded by
his brother-ln-laW, IL. III. Parker, who went
into Whites Office, and after few words he
threatened his life. White attempted to
leave the Office, when Parker drew revolver
and shot him in his right arm, the ball also
passing through the hand of Miss Emma
Raitz, who was standing near. Parker then
followed White into the postofice and shot
him through the hip. About month ago
Mrs. White died. 1t is supposed the shoot
ing grew out of Whites charges against his
wife, who was Parkers sister. Parker is a
young man about twenty-one or twenty-five
years of age. He lives somewhere in Wis
consin.
A horrible double tragedy has been I'M
earthed by the officers at Chicago. They
found the dead bodies of Henry Hush, a
retired saloonkeeper, and his wife on the
second floor of their residence. They were
past middle life, ard their domestic relations
seemed unusually pleasant. Supplies left at
the back door by the milkman lying I'M
touched first attracted attention, and finally
the police found an entrance. Mrs. Hush,
clad in a night dress, lay in an alcove of the
bedroom, in a pool of blood. In the next
room the body of Hush was suspended FROM
the transom. A butcher knife and a news
paper smeared with blood were lying near
Hush's body was also clad in night clothes,
showing that the couple had retired for the
night before the fatal deed was done. No
reason can be assigned for the tragedy.
There was no Indication Of struggle.