New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1888-11-28
Mans Wicked Doings.

Taylor Smith, well known sporting
character, was killed at Springfield, Mo. by
Margaret Miller, his mistress in trivial
dispute. Taylor and the woman were dis
cussing laundry bill, when she seized an
AK and split his head open. He lived long
enough to make an ante-mortem statement.
George Faebei, me mber Of the board Q
trade comm tilted suicide So shooting himself
at Chicago, 1t is understood that he lost
about $4,000 in the September wheat
corner, and dependency, growing out OF the
loss is supposed to have been the cause oil
the act.
Judge Black of Fort Benton, Montana,
sentenced Charles Gordon to be hanged an.
IL. Gordon murdered j. A. Lavalle at
Choteau July II last. No provocation eS-
listed save all insult known only to Gordon.
The evidence showed that the llurder was
cold FLOODED and deliberate as it was COM
mitted hours after the alleged insult, and
not in the heat of passion.
Frank Vernon, aged fourteen, was ar
raigned on the charge of forgery A cigar
dealer charged that he obtained S. from him
on forged order. Vernon is a precocious
youth who ran away from home at Chicago
to follow horse racing He came to New
York. where he dev eloped into a regular
sport
Murderer Brown, alias Murphy, was taken
to a place of safety from Moorhead, MINI.
to avoid being lynched. Rumors were afoat
to the effect that friends of the murdered
policeman, Poull would lead mob and
lynch Brown The sheriff removed the pris-
oner, and thus foiled the would-be lynchers.
His trial will occur at the January term of
the district court Judge Mills presiding.
The government secret service at Buffalo,
n T. has for the past few days been closing
in around a gang of counterfeiters, who have
been making dollars and half-dollars of a
| kind that was almost impossible to detect,
and of which large quantities have been
| circulated in Erie, Warren, Oil City and
| arrest. esquire" Richardson, one of the
men. who, it is alledged, attended to the
| m anufacture of the money, was brought to
Buffalo. Richardson is fully sixty years old,
| 1t is thought he will squeal on the whole party.
That somebody with the evil intention OF
committing arson has been at work in ST.
Peter has been made evident. In one Of the
vacant basement rooms of the Gustavus
| Adolphus college it was discovered that a
map had been placed in a small closet and
| set on fire, but the effort failed for lack Of
/ air. Next night the room was examined
/ again, and it was found that straw had been
! set on fire in the closet and the plot had
failed as before. A close watch is now being
kept for the eyil-doer.
/ A murder occurred near the Montgomery
county line of Tennessee. DR.. j. q. Brake
heard n oise in the horse lot. He went tic
the stable, when man concealed behind 8
tree fired, and Brake reeled and started to
fall. Two more shots were fired into hit
body and then the assassin beat his head in
to a jelly. Next day George Tally gave him
j self saying that he was the murderer an6
that he killed Brake because the latter had Sc
duced his seventeen year-old daughter. Thu
girl is said to have borne an sunsavory repu
tation, and the doctor stood highin the com
munity.
i A burglar went through three safes il
adjoining buildings at Owatonna, Mimi
Both b. j . Meixner, wagon manufactures, AMI
i G. Iambari, gunsmith had left their safe
unlocked, there being nothing of value in eli
ther. No damage was done to either excep
that the iron money drawer OF Meixner's, be
ing locked was carried away. At Kubat 1
u @Slezak's saloon thesafe door was drilled ant
the lock was blown. out of the door, but th
bolts were not drawn and the money in tn
= safe was not obt aimed. They took a small
amount of change from the till and helpet
themselves to the fluids. 81
/ Piekpockets who had mingled with the i'm
mense throng, in one of the large Stat
street dry goods stores at Chicago raised tn
cry of fire. Immediately a panic ensued
In the rush the weaker ones We're knocket
down and trampled upon. One of the larg
windows of the store was broken out, through
which the crowd rushed into the street. scat
tering the goods in all directions. The fire
alarm was turned in and the department wal
soon on hand, but it was discovered tina
there was no fire in the building. The pres
ence OF the engines added to the confusion
Many of the lady clerks in the store fainte,