New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-12-25
Do1NGS OF THE WICKED.

Joseph Kracko Bohemian carpenter of
New York, became suddenly crazy and at
tempted to kill his family.
Jockey James Stone was resentenced in
Brooklyn to be hanged on Feb. Z for shoot
ing and killing Henry Miller, a bartender at
Coney island, in June, 1888.
Henry Armstrong, painter, was shot and
killed in San Francisco. Mrs. Sarah Connor,
his step-daughter and her husband Edward
COnnOr, were arrested for the crime.
Charles Selner, editor OF the Toledo Sunday
Herald and Times, was arrested on the
charge offorging notes and orders on adver-
Using men.
Alfred Smith of Hackensack, N. j., chal-
lenged Joseph Bahman to fight a duel The
trouble grew out of a statement by Bahman
that Smith had been criminally intimate
with another mans wife.
William Marquis, seventeen. year.old boy,
was arrested near Wabash, Ind, for causing
a fatal wreck on the Wabash road Oct. "a.
He tried to obtain ticket for silk handker-
chief, and failing, broke the switch lock.
George S. Gunther of ST. Louis was struck
on the head with a club in the hands Of his
fathers skull was fractured. and he died
shortly afterward.
Levarin Primeaux. of Vermillion parish,
La, whose brother was whipped by gang
regulators, met the captain of the band,
named Bourgne, and gave him a terrible
horsewhipping.
Frank Hargy, a Chicago travelling man,
was fatally wounded at Mount Sterling, KY,
by j. NJ. Ro binson, o travelling man ofLouis-
vile. The shooting was caused by Robinson
making fippant remark to Hargy's wife.
The mutlated remains of man have been
discovered in gulch halfa mile above Phil
ipsburg, Mont. The sight was a horrible
one, the left foot and ears being en- tirelv eat
en- off by animals 1t was afterwards identi-
fed as James D. Frasier, a former employee
of the Bi-Metallic company. He had acted
for some time as if demented and is sup
posed to have died in commissions.
Several months ago, Newton Summers, a
man aged IS, OF Lone Tree, Mo. married q
young girl aged II. The girl was engaged
to a young man named Charles Harland,
but her parents objected to him and COM
Summers was found lying in his house terri
bly, beaten, and his wife was gone. Summers
says that Harland and his wife beat and
robbed him, and then left together.
Five men wearing brakeman cotton jack
cts entered the express Office at Brownwood,
Texas, just after a west-bound passen ger
train had pulled out for San Angelo and ask
ed if an,express package for John johnson
came in. The night clerk informed them it
did not. They told him to look over his
way bills, whereupon he proceeded to put his
money in the safe, when they entered the of
fee at hiss back and knocked him in the head,
it is supposed with sandbag, where he lay
insensibIe on the floor until morning. The
robbers secured 81 900 in currency and left
no clue by which they could be tracked
Two young men named ohm Hall and John
Graham, aged nineteen and twent y-two years
respectively, were fatally wounded by Mar
Tin Phillips on Lopez island, Wash. Phillips
was married O few days ago at Port Town
send and left with his bride for his home. a
large crowd surrounded Phillips house and
began harassing the occupants with a
sscharivari." Phillips became enraged and
seizing dou ble-b arfeied shotgun he fred in
to the crowd. The shot took effect on Hall
and Graham. The weapon was loaded with
slugs end several of the shots passed clear
through Halls body. The surgeons say tho
young men cannot possibly live.
Henrg Wright, q well-to-do farmer, went to
Fletcher's store ut Big Manmelle Ark, and