New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-10-30
The World of Criminals.

Judge j ohm A. Mcdonald of Kansas CITY
was arrested for assaulting reporter who
had written an article uncomp limentary to
one of the judges decisions. .
Ernst Il. Adams, bookkeeper in the office of
Henry V. Skinner, New York agent for the
Canadian Pacific railroad, is under arrest for
stealing $4,000 from his employer.
Thomas Woodman, of Jacksonville, III.
son-in-law OF MIS- Gov. Yates, attempted
suicide by taking a large dose OF laudanum,
and may die.
slgmend silverman, thirty two years old,
a son OF Jacob Silverman, the wealthy New
iorK SILK merchant, shot himself at his resi-
dence. 1t is probably case of suicide.
William Call, one of the men charged with
completely in the murder of Police Inspector
Martin at Gweedore, Ireland, in February
last, has been convinced of manslaughter.
During fight near Payne, Ohio, John
Biddle stabbed Andrew Fisher in the temple
produced a wound which caused Fishers
death. Biddle is under arrest.
James Pope. a Kansas City CATTLE man,
was killed with sling shot by Ralph Rays,
vagrant. Pope had woman, a friend of
Rays; arrested for disorderly conduct and
Rays assaulted him out of revenge.
William Howe, a young man residing at
Keokuk, Iowa, was shot and instantly killed
in the saloon of Paddy Cox in Burlington,
Iowa. Ed Cox son of the proprietor, did the
shooting. He claims it was accidental.
The Carson county (Wyo.) grand jury,
which has been Investigating the lynching of
Jim Averill and Ella Watson, adjourned IN
till the Oath inst. without returning indict-
| ments against those accused of the lynching,
and tits probable that no Indictments will be
found.
ID. u. Gregg, for many years private secre-
| tary of Gen Sheridan when the general had
his headquarters in Chicago, and for some
time department clerk at Washington and
later newspaper man at Omaha, was SEN
| fenced to the penitentiary at Kansas City
for five years for horse stealing
The Daily Press, ex-Lieut Gov. Fifield's
newspaper at Ashland, Wis, is made defend
ant in a libel suit for $4,000 dam ages
brought by Call & O'Keefe for Chief of Polio
O'Brien. The Press has been making seriou-
| charges against the officer, claiming that
prisoners were arrested and robbed
At Watertown, Wis, Louis Kelerman en-
tered the house of his father-in-law, William
Broede, and going to a room occupied by his
wife, from whom he has been separated for
month, shot her in the right temple inflict-
ing a wound which will prove fatal, the ball
| lodging at the base of the brain. kelernan
escaped and is still at large
1t is reported that an organized bands of
thieves have despoiled stock ranges in South
ern and Central Idaho of large number of
! cattle and horses. The depredations seem
to have commenced last May Recently five
men were arrested, but it is thought that
many are still engaged in thieving, and that
it is Systematically organized, and the stock
is evidently being sent to distant points for
disposal.
Three escaped prisoner, Durbin, Hannaway
and McDonough, who broke Jail in Fergus
county, Montana, were recaptured in the
Judith basin. They were caught by COWBOYS
| in deserted canyon and forced to surrender.
though several shots passed between the
1 horse thieves and the pursuers before they
would give up. They are again in jail in
| Lewistown.
A farmer named Joe Kibbe was found dead
in the granary of a man named Jerome Sharp,
living fifteen miles west of Creighton, Neb.
Kibbe and Sharp were neighbors- Kibbe had
been shot through the head and it is sup.
posed Sharp killed him. Sharp was the leader
of a vigilance committee which had been
| formed to stop the large amount OF st ealing
! which had been going on in theneighborhood
for quite while,
Barney Kennedy, the wife murderer, must
hang, unless the governor of Iowa interferes,
the supreme court having sustained the low.
er tribunal in refusingto grant a new trial
The crime for which Kennedy has been CON
demned to hang was the most brutal one on
record in Iowa. Mary Kennedy, his wife, was
found lying dead near Maquoketa creek, a
few miles above Dubuque and some distance
from Kennedy's home, April %, 1887. Her
! appearance indicted that she had been
butchered. She had disappeared few days
before. The evidence showed clearly to the
minds OF the jurymen that Kennedy waylaid
and killed his wife, and, as his children testi-
| fed, arrived home covered with blood