New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-08-28
Criminal Doings,

War is being waged against the gamblers
at Saratoga and it looks as though every
form of gambling had to go. Many arrests
have been made.
AIRS. c. V. Woodward was found in an un-
conscious state at her home in Oshkosh, Wis
Wounds in her skull and face gave evidence
of attempted murder.
The town of Hampton, Iowa, was thrown
into quite state of excitement, by the dis
covery that the widow Kosanko had COM
mitted suicide by hanging over a screen
door with her feet resting upon the floor.
The cause, as vet, is unknown.
Patsy Kiey, the well known news agent on
the Wisconsin Central, running from
Chippewa Falls to st. Paul and Ashland, was
sentenced to one year at Waupun for steal
ing from patrons at the River side house.
His thefts extend over q long period. and he
was finally caught with a marked coin.
Quite sensation was caused at Milwaukee
by the filing of a suit for $4,000 damages
for breach of promise against George Hiles,
millionaire lumberman of that city. by
Miss Elizabeth Carter The plaintiff alleges
that under promise of marriage she had lived
with Mr.. Hies, who is married man with q
large family, for several years, and that he
had failed to keep good his agreement.
man who gave his name as Henry Schef-
fer, from Anoka, Mimi, attempted to rob a
stranger at Moorhead, MINI. He drew q
knife and demanded money. When about
accomplishing his purpose a team came up
and the highwayman fed. The two men in
the wagon pursued and overlook him. He
draw, hiS Enifn and would not no Tod
Chief Sullivan pursued and arrested him
He is said to be the same party who robbed
man in Fargo of $780,
Mat Nelson and friend named Miller
were stopped by highwayman three miles
south of Baldwin, Wis. They were driving
in buggy when the robber sprang from the
side Of the road caught the horse by the
head and ordered halt. One of the men in
the buggy had Winchester rifle which he
had just bought, but it was not loaded, and
while he was trying to load the gun the
other dealt the robber q blow across the
face with the whip. About that time he
caught sight of the rifle and fed, after firing
q shot at the men in the buggy
The wife of Attorney w. 81. Topper OF
Fresno, knocked at the door of her servant
girl, Elizabeth Werner, to ask her to bring in
breakfast. Receiving no response she opened
the door and saw on the bed the girl and
her lover, Andrus Olsen, clasped in each
other's arms The girl was dead and Olsen
died in a few minutes. On the tablenear was
found an empty bottle that had contained
poison. The most plausibln reason for the
supposed suicide 30 be. that the couple
desired h, be married. but their love affairs
were interfered with by another party who was
constant visitor to the house.
A bold attempt to assassinate Deputy
United States Marshal Sam Hughes took
place at WhItewil, Tenn. The deputy mar
shall had arrested John Upton for moon
shining, and had left him with an accompany
ing officer, and had gone further down the
mountain to arrest some of his colleagues,
when he suddenly ran upon two men with
shotguns. They told the officer to skip. and
upon his refusing to do SO, one of them. John
Hobs, fired at him at a space of thirty yards.
eight buckshot taking effect. The officer
pulled his revolver as the would-be assassin
ran off. but as it refused to work he could
not shoot. he was not fatally wounded.