The Penn's Grove record., 1889-04-20

Columbus from Philadelphia ahont
three weeks before she disappeared
Joseph Muse, 60 years of age, fell int
the canal at Cumberland, MARYLAND,
on tAc 18Th arid was drowned.
James Henry and Frederick
Douglass we're arrested in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, on the 10th, for attempting
to rob the State Bank. The two men
went into the bank when only two EN-
ployes were present. One covered the
employees with q revolver while the
other vaulted over the railing and
thrust about $4,000 on the teller's table
into a yaIise. At this moment a de-
posItor entered, and this forced the
uncoyering of the assistant cashier.
who rushed to the safe to get his re.
yolyer. The robber threw the vallse to
his accomplice, who dashed into the
Presidents room by mistake. He then
iumped through q window and fed.
Meanwhile the other man had also
ESCAPED. There was q wild rush. in
which three or four policemen Joined.
and finally the two robbers were
caught.
Alfred W llkinson, 81 years of AGE.
shot and fatally wounded Thomas Gal.
Iaqher, 10 years of age, In Wilkes
barre, Pa, IN the evening of the 10th.
The shooting was unprovoked, Mrs.
Caroline Bruckner was found dead In a
half. finished house near Chicago on the
morning of the 16;h. and by her side
was her daughter, aged II years, in a
diving condition. The mother had
taken rat poison and had also given her
daughter some. Charles Bruckner. the
husband, said that he had q dispute
with his wife as to the disposition to be
made of the child, who was very wild.
He wanted to send her to a reforma-
tory Institution, to which she strenu-
ously objected. He thinks this may
have been the cause of the fatal deed.
Frank Clarke, sole occupant OF +,
S, Clarke's banking Office, In London,
Ontario, was surprised on the afternoon
of the 10th, when one OF two men who
had entered the of1ce presented a pistol
at his head and demanded what funds
were on hand. He recovered himself
almost Immediately, however, and re-
piled that he would surrender nothing,
at the same time selling the strangers
pistol and turning the muzzle away
from himself. A struggle ensued, in
which all three engaged, and the noise
created so alarmed the robbers that
they fled.
Edward TildeD, President of the
Droyers' National Bank at the Union
Stock Yards, at Chicago, has been ar
rested on a charge by George Fleming,
an ex-school trustee, OF attempted
b, ibery. Fleming declares that on
April goth, 1886, Tilden offered Flem-
ing 5000 tor his vote and influence in
the school treasurership. Tilden denies
the charge and intimates that Flem-
mas action is for revenge, Tilden
having exerted himself at tie recent
election to defeat a brother Of Fleming.
"A verdict of not guilty has been
rendered IN the case Of Mrs. Frances
Carmichael, who was tried in Hlllsdale,
Michigan, for the murder Of her hus.
band. Carmichael died on January
18th, and on his death-bed declared
that his wife had poisoned him. Strych-
nine was subsequently found in his
stomach, but it was shown that he had
threatened to commit suicide, and the
Jury did not credit hisdying statement.
James Fields was fatally shot by his
wife at their home in Butler, Pa,
about 4 o'clock on the morning Of the
18th. Mrs. Fields was reading a book
and her husband ordered her to come
to bed. She refused to do so, when be
got up and struck her. She went to a
bureau drawer and took out a revol.
yer, telling him if he hit her again
she would shoot him. He then struck
her in the face, when she fired the re-
volver, mflicting q fatal wound. Be-
fore dying Fields made a sworn state
ment generating his wife, In which he
stated that she had fired In self-de-
fence. The C%ororner's Jury on the
18th rendered a verdict justifying the
shooting. John F. Ross, convicted in
Gloucester Court House. Virginia, OF
George Hughes, and sentenced
to five years. imprisonment, has been
granted a new trial on the ground that
one OF LIE JuIOIH uno cAPioooSu OIL
opinion on the case before he wa
sworn, and also on the ground oil
separation of the jury.
james Wilson and wife were taken
suddenly sick with symptoms of poison
ing in Maine City. Michigan. on the
evening of the 18th. and are still in 9
critical condition. On the morning Of
the 18th, Matilda, the 14-year old
daughter Of Mrs. Williams by a former
husband, admitted to the physician III
charge that she put q tablespoonful OF
rat poison in the tea of each. The
girl had cast her fortunes with a COW
boy combination and was brought there
against her will.
The Coroner's jury at Joliet, III
nois, which has been investigating the
Santa Fe railroad disaster, by which
three persons were killed and several
injured, has returned a verdict charg.
ing gross criminal carelessness against
Conductor Frederick Hughes and En-
gineer Frank Converse.