New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-03-06
The Ways of the Wicked.

Hans P. Berg, q jewelerresiding at Kenyon,
Mimi, committed suicide by hanging himself
in his room with piece of Irvine. Despon-
dency over the loss OF his wife and child who
died recently, is said to have been the cause.
he was about forty-fve years OF age, and in
moderate circumstances.
Thomas Ryan, Brooklyn, n Y, found a
man in his rooms with Mrs. Ryan. and in a
rage seized the7woman and threw her out of
the secOnd-stOry window. She fell on the
pavement and her skull was fractured. She
will die. Ryan was drunk and had beaten his
wife before throwing her out of the window.
Curley Bedford was shot at Tower, Mimi,
by Billy Wilcott in the stomach The par
ties got into fight and Wilcott pulling a
gun, said: Look out. or will shoot" Cur
ley ran at him and Wilcott fred Curley fall
ing at once. Bad blood had existed between
the men, and, by all appearance, will result
fatally at Bedford.
Edward Colburn, travelling salesman,
twenty three years of age, shot and killed
his wife Lizzie at their home in Roxbury,
Mass. He then made an attempt which will
probably prove successful, to take his own
lie. He shot himself twice in the face, and
can live but a few hours at the most. The
motive is not known. The couple had been
married about a year.
A serious stabbing affair occurred at East
cry employe there stabbed Chrappill Gravell,
a farmer, in the region of the clavicle, the
knife penetrating through a coon coat, IN
side coat, vest and three shirts, and scrap
ing the bone. Gravel was also wounded in
the hand. The quarrel ensued from a dis
puted right OF way on the common thorough
fare. Kesser, alter committing the deed,
skipped across to his side of the Ruby and is
still at large The wounded man is in a dam
oerOuS condition
The house of Herman Umbefger, an aged
farmer living near Jennerst own, Somerset
county, Pa, was entered by two masked
men claiming they had search warrant tor
iewelry that had been stolen from q peddler
in the neighborhood short time ago. Mr..
Umberger innocently accompanied them
through the house, and when he was forced
to open trunk, containing $4,000, he
placed the money in his pocket. Then they
demanded him, at the points of the reyolvers
to hand it over. This he strenuously OBJ
jected to, when regular battle ensued, in
which they fred five shots into his body
killing him almost instantly. They took the
the murder, but was too old and feeble to be
of any assistance to her husband. The muir
derers are supposed to live in the community
Edward Artise shot Kittia Palmer on the
public streets and Within q few rods of he1
home at Aurora, ILL.,, infiicting fatal wound
Artise was rejected lover and had been re-
peatedly requested to refrain from paying
attention to Miss Palmer, but he persisted
in his addresses and the matter eliminated
in the shooting. Artise fled Immediately
after firing the shot, pursued by officers
after a three mile chase the murderer was
sighted, but he continued running and when
his pursuers were but ten rods behind him
shot himself through the heart, dropping
dead in his tracks. Both parties are colored
Miss Palmer is the only colored graduate o.
the high school and occupies prominent
twenty years OF age and had been restau.
rant waiter The mother of the murderer
and suicide has become temporarily insane
over the affair.