New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-10-02
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The World OF Criminals.


johnson county, Kan. was murdered by an
unknown person in Kansas City. s.
Several mail bags containing mum Der OF
registered letters were stolen from the depot
at Salem, Ohio.
Fletcher Winant, member of a wealthy
New York shipping firm, committed suicide
by shooting. No cause assigned.
A farmer named Morgan has been murdered
and his father and terdangerously wound
ed at Rostrevor near Newry, Ireland. The
tragedy was the result of agrarian troubles.
Harry Fann, the young teller of the Mar
inc National Bank Of Pittsburg, who was
convicted of embezzling S35, 900, was sen
fenced to five years imprisonment.
At Wikesbarre Pa, verdict of acquittal
was rendered in the case of Officer David
Thomas, charged with the murder OF Thorn
as Smelling in Edwardsville, in June last
Rev. Charles Woodruff, pastor of the Unit
ed Brethren at Boylestown, Ind, has disap-
peared, as has also Mrs. Louisa Covett, the
pretty wife of a wealthy farmer. The wom-
an, before leaving, collected considerable
money due her husband.
At Mount Alton, sixteen miles from Brad
ford, Pa, John Quinn shot and killed his wife
with a Winchester rife The cause is said to
be unjust jealousy. Quinn claims that his
wife had been intimate with a man named
Brennan. After shooting his wife Quinn
started after Brennan, with the Winchester
on his shoulder, but was disarmed by Con-
stable Washburn, and taken to Smithport
and lodged in Jail.
At. Kinbrae, small town east of Fulda
Mimi, on the Milwaukee railway, a young
man named Sullivan was severely beaten by
one Berry. The latter and his two brothers
while intoxicated went to the school house.
where ball was in progress, and common
sced q quarrel with young Sullivan. Sullivan
and Berry soon came to blows. which ended
in Berry almost killing Sullivan. He is NOT
expected to live.
Chief Bell, OF the secret service, is advised
by Agent Shaw, of the ST. Louis district OF
the arrest at Solomon City, Kan, of A M.
Miskinim, 8 manufacturer of counterfeit
coin. Over $2,OO0in counterfeit gold was
silver coin was captured and oil the para
pherDalia for n manufacturing the same. Con-
siderable of this spurious coin has been put
i'll circulation in the Western section OF the
country recently, and this arrest will I'M
doubleday cut off the showers source of sup
ply
The confidence operators who swindled
Farmer Fred Gleia of streator, Ill, out of
$4,000 have been landed in jail. There is no
doubt that the two men are noted confidence
men, as they are wanted from Boston to
Missouri. The states attorney of Morgan
county, ILL.,, thinks they are the men who
swindled man in Grant county out of ST.
000 since the Glenn robbery and just before
their capture in Indiana, and that they are
u the same men who took in farmers a year
ago in the same county for 81. O0O It Is es-
TINA led that their operations have netted
them $6O. 900 during the present year
The coroner at Birmingh ham, A la, received
notice of the fifth murder in the county j.
T. Maxwell, a deputy sheriff, killed negro
woman at PraJt mines. The negroes became
very much enraged and threatened to lynch
Maxwell. and messenger was sent for men
to protect him. The sheriff sent out a large
posse, which will guard him against any