Workmen's advocate. (New Haven, Conn.) 1883-1891, 1889-10-05

| Noo,uuu, has Deell sentenced To nVt
years imprisonment in the Riverside
Pententiary.
Sidney Weir, the young Englishman
on trial at Harrisburg, Penn, for the
shooting of Henry Miller and Frederick
Kinder at Lykens, Penn, last May, has
been convicted of murder in the first
| degree.
John Frieze, of Baltimore, Jealous
lover of George Stone, shot her three
times. and her death is likely to follow.
Miss Stone is nineteen years old.
Patrick Darnody, who shot his
brother some tine ago, broke the nose
and fractured the skull of his neighbor,
Rafferty,. The latter, in fit of drunken
ness, had lnsulted and kicked Mrs. Dar-
mody.
There is war in Africa, N. Y. be-
tween the white aud colored members
OF street corner clubs, and it has become
dangerous to travel along Bleecker
street, where pistol shots are freely ex-
changed between gangs of toughs.
A batch of bogus medical colleges
have been unearthed in Boston. They
fiourshed under such names as the Uni
versity of Cincinnati, the Montreal Medi-
cal College, the Trenton Medical College,
the New York Medical College, the
University of New Hampshire, the Trim
ity University of Vermont, ETC., and
sold diplomas of the finest of sheepskin
to their ignorant victims at prices
ranging from $50 to $500
Five babes abandoned by their moth
ers came into the hands of the police
during the past forty. eight hours, and
were sent to the nursery ON Randalrs
Island.
A remarkable story of police persecu-
ton appeared in the Herald of last
Tuesday. A poor woman, who had
been robbed of her little all by two pick.
pockets, was asked by the policeman
who arrested them to withdraw her
complaint. AS she would not do it her
son was arrested for burglary and sent
to the Reformatory. She was from that
moment steadily prosecuted by the po-
lice and their friends, and was finally
evicted by her landlord, although she
owed no rent, was respectable, and had
lived for eighteen years in the same ten
ement without having a complaint made
against her.
Lizzie Gerlach was found dying at
Batligate, near Bedford Park, with a
bottle of carbolic acid beside her. She
was resident of Staten Island, beauti-
full and young, and unable to bear her
shame. She expired a few moments
only after her discovery.
Elizabeth Daroty, widow with three
children, was put out to starve and die
at 1926 East 74th street by her landlord,
George Steinmuller, in whose employ
her husband died by being thrown
from ladder few months ago. An
officer took her for shelter to the station
house, where the police made her COM
Portable and started collection for her.
The Faith Cure" apostles can boast
of another victim. Augusta Olsen, aged
2S, died of typhoid fever. She had two
doctors, but positively refused to take
any medicine.
Italian laborers have been swindled
by Banker De Leonardis, of Al Park
Row, who has run away with $4,000
belonging to 300 of them.
Brddstreefs reports 1870 failures in the
United States during the week against
$50 in the corresponding week of last
year.
John H. Quinn, who murdered his
wife at Alton, Pa, committed suicide
in the Jail by hanging himself with
sheet.
Officer Dolan, who last May effected
the ruin of Katie Hogan In the office of
city marshal in East Fifty-seventh
street under promise of marriage and
threats of bodily injury, was at last dis
missed from the force.
Two Wards Island Insane Asylum
guards, who were charged by saloon
keeper with drugging and robbing him,
were finally discharged upon the state
ment of the saloon keeper that "he had
made a mistake"
Prominent ladies of Chicago have
formed an association and hired law
yer TO prosecute the gamblers of that
city.
The dead body of an infant was found
in the woods near Plymouth, n. Ii. 1t
was the baby of a 14-year-old girl, who,
two years before, had been taken from
Boston orphan asylum by a farmer
named Hill, aged 80. Hill, she says,
was the father of the child, and buried
it alive.
Patrolman Velton, of the Fifth Pre-
cinct, was stripped of his shield by
Superintendent Murray for having alb
Quoted two young girls from New Jersey.
He then was taken to the Tombs Police
Court, where Justice McMann, upon the
statement of the girls that they had ae-
r,aniad tho nalLcnn,n., Ill