The national leader., 1889-04-20

ran away. severely injurlng the hired
man.
John Williams has been found
guilty of the murder of Henry Lee. III
Warren, Arkansas, and sentenced to
| 21 years. imprisonment. Williams
was one of a mob of white Caps"
who killed Lee in the presence OF his
family.
Lieutenant Towne. in charge of
the Salvation Army IN Newburg. New
York. while selling the War Cry on
the 18th, entered a grocery store, on
Broad way. A trap-door leading to the
cellar was open and Miss Towne
stepped into it. falling to the floor be-
low. She was picked up dead, her neck
having been broken. :The body of Mile.
Suzanne Fairweather, who disappeared
from Columbus. Ohio, IN November
last, was found on the 18th, in Alum
Greek, near that city. She arrived in
Columbus from Philadelphia about
three weeks before she disappeared.
Joseph Muse, 80 years of age, fell into
the canal au Cumberland, Maryland,
on the 18th and was drowned.
james Henry and Frederick
Douglass were 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 a revolver while the
other vaulted over the railing and
thrust about $4,000 on the teller's table
into valise. At this moment de-
pOsltor entered, and this forced the
uncoverlng of the assistant cashier,
who rushed to the safe to get his re.
volver. The robber threw the valise TO
his accomplice, who dashed into the
Presidents room by mistake. He then
jumped through q window and fed.
Meanwhile the other man had also
escaped. There was a wild rush, in
which three or four policemen joined,
and finally the two robbers were
caught.
ALFRED wilkinson. 81 years of age,
shot and fatally wounded Thomas Gal
laQher, 10 years of age, in Wilkes
barre, Pa, on the evening of the 10th.
The shooting was unprovoked. Mrs.
Caroline Bruckner was found dead in
half. finished house near Chicago on the
morning of the 10Th, and by her side
was her daughter, aged IL 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 a 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 F.
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 Office presented pistol
at his head and demanded what funds
we're on hand. He recovered himself
almost Immediately, however, and re-
piled that he would surrender nothing,
at the same time seizing the strangers
pistol and turning the muzzle away
from himself. A struggle ensued, in
which all three engaged, and the noise
created 80 alarmed the robbers that
they fed.
Edward Tilden, President of the
Drovers' National Bank at the Union
Stock Yards, at Chicago, has been ar
rested on charge by George Fleming,
an ex-school trustee, of attempted
bl ibery. Fleming declares that on
April goth, 1886, Tilden offered Flem-
ing $1,000 for his vote and influence in
the school treasurership. Tilden denies
the charge and intimates that Flem-
ina's action is for revenge, Tilden
having exerted himself at the recent
election to defeat brother of Fleming.
"A verdict of not guilty has been
rendered In the case Of Mrs. Frances
Carmichael, who was tried in Hillsdale,
Michigan, for the murder Of her hus-
band. Carmichael died on January
10Th, 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 his dying 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 book
and her husband ordered her to come
to bed. She refused to do so, when he
got up and struck her. She went to
bureau drawer and took out 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-
yolver, infictlng a fatal wound. Be-
fore dying Fields made sworn state
ment generating his wife. in which he
stated that she had fired in self-de-
fence. The Cororner's Jury on the
18th rendered a verdict justifying the
shooting. John F. Ross, convicted In
Gloucester Court House. Virginia. OF
b,lIjno Gaoroe Huphes and sentenced