New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-04-24
Crimes and Criminals.

1t is understood that the liabilities of ohm
will reach 5000, 900 land that his family will
be leftvirtually penniless. 1t was also stated
that the elevator company had overdrawn,
but the shortage has since been made up.
1t is reported that a girl Of sixteen, named
Kelley, is missing from her home in the val.
ley near the Diamond ranch, Montana. She
is said to have LETT the house one night half
dressed and has not been seen or heard OF since.
A young man who had shown her some at
tention disappeared about the same time,
and the inference is that the pair have
eloped
A special from Emwood says Peter Nc
Golf was found lying dead across his wife's
grave at an early hour one morning. He
was very desrondent during her illness, and
said if she died he would kill himself When
found he was lying face downward on the
fresh earth of the grave, with his hands
clntched full OF dead grass. He had taken
poison.
A sensation was created at Quebec by
dispatch from St. Joseph Beauce to the eff
feet that the prisoners confined in the dis
trict jail there had revolted and, after beat.
ing and overpowering the guards, escaped
in body. Sergt. Harpe, OF the Provincial
police. who happened to be present. is re-
ported dangerously injured A forcel Of
Provincial police were at once dispatched to
endeavor to recapture the fugitives.
Bill Ryan, the Missouri train robber and
associate of Jesse James, was released from
the penitentiary of Missouri. He was SEN
fenced for twenty-five years for completely in
the Glendale train robbery on the Chicago &
Alton road in October, 1879, but Gov.
MOrehouse q short time before his retire
ment from office, committed his sentence to
seven and half years. Ryan has been
good prisoner.
Agentleman who has been stopping at the
Hotel Rchelieu, Chicago, since April 10 and
was registered as Sidney Walters, suicided
with morphine in his room last night The
hotel people have very little to say and there
seems to be considerable mystery about the
case. Mr.. Walters has spent money freely
and made many friends since arriving at the
hotel and there has been nothing in his be-
havior at any time to indicate an intention
of suicide.
! At West Farms, a farming hamlet five
miles from Westfeld Centre, Mass. Joseph
King, a wealthy, well known citizen seventy
eight years of age, was shot and killed by
Edgar King, his eldest son, and the house
fred and burned. Some time after shots
heard near by directed the assemb led neigh
bors to q spot twenty rods away, where the
murderer was lying in a pool of blood, hav-
1ia shot himself. The cause of the crime is
traceable to an unbalanced mind, caused by
5iss olute habits.
Peter S. Delerhouse and his younger son,
| Louis were shot and dangerously wounded
at New Iberid, La, by an unknown negro.
Louis was fixed upon first. The ball struck
him in the left cheek, ranged downward and
came out on the right side of the neck His
father was fired upon twice, one ball pene-
wounded man is most critical. After caring
for the wounded men, the people OF that
4 section succeeded in capturing the negro and
at once lynched him.
big fight is brewing between the Union
Pacific and Northern Picifc roads The re-
4 cent notice Of a reduction in passenger rates
to competitive territory in the far Northwest
was only straw indicating the direction OF
the trouble. About q year ago these com
i panies entered into compact dividing up the
i territory attracting Western Montana Idaho,
/ Oregon and Washington Territory, and both
i companies agreed to jointly guarantee per
cent on the stock of the Oregon Railway and
4 navigation company, which operates line
i of steamers III the Northwest. The Union
Pacific, it appears, got the worst of the trade.
James Fields was fatally shot by his wife,
at Butter, Pa. Mrs. Fields was reading a
book and her husband ordered her to- come
to bed. She had refused to do so. when he
/ got up and struck her. She went to a bureau
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